Just when you thought it just CAN’T get dumber…
“ Texas has the right to secede from the U.S. if its citizens decide to do so, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley argued on Wednesday -- a controversial view that contradicts centuries of established history and precedent.”
For those wondering, no. There is no provision for secession. Once you join you are stuck.
Like Katamari Damacy.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/nikki-haley-texas-secede-us-isnt/story?id=106837677
@feloneouscat: Texans have long held, and I do mean *long* held, that somehow in the state's agreement to become a part of the Union they retained the legal right (a la "treaty") to secede if and then they wanted to.
I shit you not.
As a Texan I’ve heard it said, but it’s not as old as many think it is. The only reason people THINK it is has more to do with current Texas Republicans saying it is.
I suspect if I really cared to look, I would find it’s not more than 20 years old.
@feloneouscat: I first heard it about twenty-five years ago in the DFW area, and I could kinda tell it was not as old as claimed, in part because when I asked for them to tell me where to look for it in official legalese they told me the US wouldn't allow it to be written but that it was in the spirit of it. And the dude was a white supremacist advocating for Texas being "a glorious white Republic once more". Most Texans I know are GOP or farther afield to the right, alas. Except in Austin.
@feloneouscat: I should have clarified "not few Texans" rather than the generalization. So I do stand corrected.