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[–] [email protected] 291 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If Trump loses the 2024 election because Texas temporarily secedes, taking its 38 Republican electoral votes with it, I might die from the schadenfreude.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

1.Just give Texas back to Mexico.

2.Reverse UNO

3.White Republicans are now the immigrants on the wrong side of the border

4.Enjoy some queso

[–] [email protected] 105 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mexico 2 days later: Amigo, please take these fuck faces back

[–] Corkyskog 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or cartel runs in and they have a lucrative cash for drugs trade, that they mostly funnel into other states for profit not seeing the irony in any if it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

probably quadrupling the length of border with Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the issue with that is that cartels like being paid for their products as much as any business- legitimate or otherwise. Texas won't be able to pay when we remove them from the US banking system. there's not enough cash to go around, and they'll probably have to mint their own currency.

Which... the Cartel won't be dumb enough to do business in... which means they'll have to do business in stuff like gold or whatever else.

[–] Corkyskog 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the cartels already have better guns than most texans, so, yeah.

[–] Corkyskog 1 points 10 months ago

I mean as of like a year or so ago they were reporting that they still paid 3-4x per AR type variants and 2-3x most handguns and like 5x the price of a 1911 presidente chambered in 38 super. There definitely still is a market.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tesla becoming a mexican business lmao

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

👌chef’s kiss

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Americans who move to other countries always call themselves expats since immigrants are “those other people”.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

All the morons screaming about colonization aboard are already packing their bags to leave Texas right? RIGHT? California too, if they're anything but sjw Jack offs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't had an orgasm since 2017, but I think that would do it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Their last orgasm obviously.