Poll of the Day > Texas GOP committee's "principles" are fucking yikes.

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Muscles posted...

You do know Illinois is trash and run by democrats right? Illinois is known for their shady politicians

this is true

but this time it just so happens that we don't have one. in fact, he has fixed literally everything the past 3 governors did to bleed the state dry. he's actually gone through on campaign promises, as well.

but oh no you got taxed an extra dollar

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It'll be even shorter for a lot of people if the Texas GOP get their way.

https://youtu.be/jg53WYCPCjI

Adam_Savage posted...

this is true

but this time it just so happens that we don't have one. in fact, he has fixed literally everything the past 3 governors did to bleed the state dry. he's actually gone through on campaign promises, as well.

but oh no you got taxed an extra dollar

I mean, this definitely doesn't make me want to go to Texas lol, fuck them

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i got all the most graphic images of STD's and whatever consequences they could think up imaginable.

scared me off of rice krispie treats for like a year.

My sex ed consisted of "don't have sex. but if you do have sex, make sure it's with a married catholic woman"

I'm not sure if I need to be married to her though, they didn't go over that.

My sex ed told me to wear a condom and get to town, otherwise you'll get an extremely crusty dick and/or a baby.

***actually, we got comprehensive percentages on birth control effectiveness as well (including condoms). That was good.

Zareth posted...

No sex education WHATSOEVER, what a great idea!

VampireCoyote posted...

It literally says that students in public schools MUST be taught that life begins at fertilization

"Okay now onto the sanctity of life. First and foremost life begins at fertilization."
"When's that?"
"Don't worry about it."

Liberals are the biggest group of idiots i've ever met, have spent 120 years failing at everything they do then turning around and blaming it on republicans, and continue to use dusted ass arguments that have been repeatedly blown out in every sphere for decades. They have no virtues or principles, they think they do but they are all wildly inconsistent and self-contradictory, and their ideology and practices have been behind the downfall of most major civilizations over the past few thousand years. so i'll take the GOP principles thanks.
t. degrees in political science and economics

Was looking at comments on youtube videos and it's flooded with people saying "Everyone right of center right is extreme when you've falled off the edge of the left" They're so completely lacking in self awareness.

Persona5GOAT posted...

Liberals are the biggest group of idiots i've ever met, have spent 120 years failing at everything they do then turning around and blaming it on republicans, and continue to use dusted ass arguments that have been repeatedly blown out in every sphere for decades. They have no virtues or principles, they think they do but they are all wildly inconsistent and self-contradictory, and their ideology and practices have been behind the downfall of most major civilizations over the past few thousand years. so i'll take the GOP principles thanks.
t. degrees in political science and economics

You wrote a lot, and for what? I've never seen you post here before and I have no clue what your thoughts are but you literally said nothing of substance. Entire statement sums up to "I like what they decided"

Persona5GOAT posted...

t. degrees in political science and economics

if you actually had those degrees you would not be a conservative lmao

BlackScythe0 posted...

It's funny how they always claim to love the constitution when almost everything they stand for is unconstitutional.

Republicans: The 2nd Amendment literally says I can own an assault rifle.

Also Republicans: Separation of church and state? The founding fathers didn't really mean that.

Persona5GOAT posted...

They have no virtues or principles, they think they do but they are all wildly inconsistent and self-contradictory,

You just described the average Republican

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/9/AAZslrAADXYh.jpg

The gop has been broken ever since evangelicals got their dirty claws into it.

like with most things in this country religion is the ultimate cause of the problem.

Persona5GOAT posted...

Liberals are the biggest group of idiots i've ever met, have spent 120 years failing at everything they do then turning around and blaming it on republicans, and continue to use dusted ass arguments that have been repeatedly blown out in every sphere for decades. They have no virtues or principles, they think they do but they are all wildly inconsistent and self-contradictory, and their ideology and practices have been behind the downfall of most major civilizations over the past few thousand years. so i'll take the GOP principles thanks.
t. degrees in political science and economics

"The democrats are kind of inconsistent in their positions, so I'm going to vote for the people that want to exterminate the gays."

What a dink.

If you think the libs wouldn't exterminate the gays or kill Joe Biden the moment they got the chance you're as naive as a child

Texas Independence: We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.

That's crazy that they actually put in there that they want to vote on secession.

At least they want to vote on it instead of forcing it on people.

I want to say let them Brexit and figure out how shitty it is but there's real people living there that don't deserve to struggle even more

I have to wonder how the rest of the country would respond to a Texan refugee crisis. On one hand, most of them would be white enough for the usual objectors to not mind. On the other hand, they generally wouldn't share much by way of political leanings with most of the usual objectors, so perhaps they'd mind after all.

A few other red states would probably try to go with them. Meaning texas would alone have to try and prop up those states economies, and that wouldn't work for very long before those states would be begging to come back.

All the boomers will be pretty sad when they don't have Healthcare or social security anymore. They love their socialist programs.

hockey7318 posted...

Texas Independence: We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.

That's crazy that they actually put in there that they want to vote on secession.

Why? Part of Democracy and Freedom to atleast ask the populace.

Not to mention, in my opinion, the world could definitely do with some larger countries falling a bit apart.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Why? Part of Democracy and Freedom to atleast ask the populace.

Not to mention, in my opinion, the world could definitely do with some larger countries falling a bit apart.

It's not crazy that they're asking to do it, it is crazy that they're seriously entertaining the idea of secession.

How is that crazy? Many countries have talk of that, countries much smaller than the US.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

How is that crazy? Many countries have talk of that, countries much smaller than the US.

It's crazy because there's zero positive benefit for that and only negative outcomes for the people who live there.

National Identities can be a reason why people might want to risk such a thing.

Also, separating from a country does not mean having to become entirely self reliant. The new country just needs to set up proper relations with other countries, including the one they seceded from.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

National Identities can be a reason why people might want to risk such a thing.

Also, separating from a country does not mean having to become entirely self reliant. The new country just needs to set up proper relations with other countries, including the one they seceded from.

Lmao there are social services they are provided by the federal government that their state would not be able to afford to take over.

What relationships can they build that would fix that? The US fed isn't going to pay citizens in a different country social security or give them Medicare.

Texas can't even afford to fix their own power grid. Or maybe they can but their politicians are so useless they won't. There's no part of that that will make a successful country.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

National Identities can be a reason why people might want to risk such a thing.

That's pretty much the only thing the GOP is banking on. There's no practical benefit in separatism for Texas, it's just a matter of identity politics.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Also, separating from a country does not mean having to become entirely self reliant. The new country just needs to set up proper relations with other countries, including the one they seceded from.

As an independent country, Texas' only neighbours would be the US (with whom their relationship would be pretty substantially soured by the whole secession thing) and Mexico (with whom Texas doesn't exactly have the best relationship now). They do at least have enough coast to potentially trade with other countries (their primary product being oil), which is an asset, but they'd still have to be pretty self-reliant for quite a while before establishing useful relationships.

That's also assuming anyone else would want to trade with them, since policies like these put them politically in line with Saudi Arabia and similar Middle Eastern theocracies, all of whom generally already have plenty of oil and are also not white enough for this new Texas to want to associate with them.

adjl posted...

That's also assuming anyone else would want to trade with them, since policies like these put them politically in line with Saudi Arabia and similar Middle Eastern theocracies, all of whom generally already have plenty of oil and are also not white enough for this new Texas to want to associate with them.

If it is about oil, EU right now sounds obvious.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Also, separating from a country does not mean having to become entirely self reliant. The new country just needs to set up proper relations with other countries, including the one they seceded from.

If it is about oil, EU right now sounds obvious.

States have no legal avenue for secession in the US. If Texas wanted to successfully secede, their only "realistic" avenue is war.

Do you seriously expect the EU to support an illegitimate country that started a civil war in the US? And the US setting up proper relations with them?

You know, there's a part of me that almost wants them to try waging a war of secession, just for the sake of stamping out the worst sort of people Texas has to offer as the war fails miserably. That would, of course, result in thousands of innocent lives being lost, though (on both sides, since as much as I'd like to believe that everyone that would fight for secession is the sort of evil slime that stands behind the principles the GOP is espousing, others have more legitimate reasons to fight), and it's not really worth that. War just isn't a good thing.

Have they expressed any opinions on TLJ

adjl posted...

You know, there's a part of me that almost wants them to try waging a war of secession, just for the sake of stamping out the worst sort of people Texas has to offer as the war fails miserably. That would, of course, result in thousands of innocent lives being lost, though (on both sides, since as much as I'd like to believe that everyone that would fight for secession is the sort of evil slime that stands behind the principles the GOP is espousing, others have more legitimate reasons to fight), and it's not really worth that. War just isn't a good thing.

I have that daydream too but it falls apart at the same place.

I want for every conservative to get kicked in the crotch

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

Have they expressed any opinions on TLJ

I bet they liked the casino scene because it showed hard-working entrepreneurs finding success despite the radical left trying to undermine it.

sveksii posted...

Do you seriously expect the EU to support an illegitimate country that started a civil war in the US? And the US setting up proper relations with them?

A lot of the World supports countries seceding. The rest of the US can also chose to just not go to war. If Texas were to declare independence, and the US were to declare war on them for that, the US would be the one that started the war, not Texas.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

A lot of the World supports countries seceding. The rest of the US can also chose to just not go to war. If Texas were to declare independence, and the US were to declare war on them for that, the US would be the one that started the war, not Texas.

It would be more complicated than that given that there is no right to secede in the constitution and we established it's not a right states have.

BlackScythe0 posted...

It would be more complicated than that given that there is no right to secede in the constitution and we established it's not a right states have.

That seems contradictory to the constant American cries of "FREEDOM".

Nichtcrawler X posted...

The rest of the US can also chose to just not go to war.

The US doesn't exactly have the best track record for not going to war in countries that have significant oil reserves.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

If Texas were to declare independence, and the US were to declare war on them for that, the US would be the one that started the war, not Texas.

Not the way the constitution is written. Declaring secession from the US is declaring war on the US. The US could then choose to immediately surrender instead of fighting in said war (after waiting 10 turns), but that's not a particularly likely outcome. Texas is of non-negligible economic value, especially the urban areas (which are mostly blue and would likely want to stay in the Union anyway), so there's little incentive to let it go uncontested.

Of course, this is all kind of a moot point. By popular vote (which is what would dictate the outcome of a referendum), I believe Texas is actually a blue state, so I wouldn't expect the vote to secede to succeed.

This is an issue that was resolved with the civil war. States do not have the right to secede.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

That seems contradictory to the constant American cries of "FREEDOM".

Letting authoritarians who in part want to secede so they can torture/kill gay people is contradictory to freedom?

"Freedom to not be part of the US", sounds like a very nice freedom to have to me. What they do with that freedom is their choice. If they decide to do something inherently wrong with that freedom, that would just damage their credibility as an independent country.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Letting authoritarians who in part want to secede so they can torture/kill gay people is contradictory to freedom?

Technically anything outside of pure anarchy is contradictory to "freedom" isn't it?

Nichtcrawler X posted...

"Freedom to not be part of the US", sounds like a very nice freedom to have to me. What they do with that freedom is their choice. If they decide to do something inherently wrong with that freedom, that would just damage their credibility as an independent country.

They don't have that freedom as a state per the Constitution.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

"Freedom to not be part of the US", sounds like a very nice freedom to have to me. What they do with that freedom is their choice. If they decide to do something inherently wrong with that freedom, that would just damage their credibility as an independent country.

That doesn't sound like a nice freedom. Having a group of radicalized lunatics stealing productive land and forming a third world nation on your borders sounds pretty fucking awful.

Bruh what if TX seceded and then Mexico invades them to get their land back.

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Truly a cursed time line lmao