Meanwhile, Texas

[Svartalf]

will not a Bishop so something about that obstreperous abbott?

[Sean Hayden]

If we're doing Abbott jokes:

[Hermit]

If we're doing Abbott jokes:

This Abbott was a real life joke.



One of the many gaffes by Tony Abbott, Australia's Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015.

Joke's on us, really. We elected him. He was so bad that his own party sacked him before he could finish his second year as prime minister.

[JimC]

Poisoned by his catholic faith...

[Tero]

Can you gay marry in Texas? Just wondering.

https://www.kios.org/2022-03-25/texas-a ... -state-law

[Tero]

It was really some party
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/20/politics ... index.html

[Svartalf]

OK, can this lead anywhere, beside the possibility of TX losing federal funding?

[Tero]

No more crappy fencing against Mexico. Build their own stinking wall. Or....just give every man, woman and child an AR-15?

[Tero]

Good plan. We wll keep our national parks, though.
NPR
"Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto," the platform stated.

Deeper in the document, the GOP delegates urge state lawmakers to put a referendum on the agenda for the 2023 election, "for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/11062299 ... &fs=e&s=cl

[JimC]

When the tanks roll down from the North, we'll see what those cowboys are made of...

[Svartalf]

Good plan. We wll keep our national parks, though.
NPR
"Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto," the platform stated.

Deeper in the document, the GOP delegates urge state lawmakers to put a referendum on the agenda for the 2023 election, "for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/11062299 ... &fs=e&s=cl

You remember that this clause has been regarded as null and void since 1865, right?

[Tero]

"So, if the rights of the people of the United States as recognized by the Constitution, are not secured to them by the Government, and the people of any State have no other means to redress their grievances except by separating themselves from their oppressors, it is their undoubted natural right to do so."
https://www.historians.org/teaching-and ... lly-secede
They are sovereign! It does not work for a conspiracy theorist alone in his bunker. But maybe 15 million Texans?

[Sean Hayden]

To them war is romance.

[Brian Peacock]

War is romance.
Vengeance is love.

[laklak]

Taco Bell is food.