Modern Day Secessionists

[RVInit]

If they want to be able to vote for Trump again Texas needs to remain a US state.

He could be president of Texas, though.

I would be OK with that if it weren't for the good people that live in Texas. I wonder if he would advocate building a wall on the northern and southern border of Texas, you know, to prevent Texans from being able to attack the real USA border?

[raison de arizona]

[Foggy]

Good plan.

[Uninformed]

They must be as stupid as they appear to be.

[Suranis]

I read today that most Canadians would welcome unification with the USA, but they don't think the US Americans could take being the 13th State.

[Sam the Centipede]

Surely after unification New South Canada would become the 11th Province or, less generously, 4th Territory?

Or absorb southern North America into (Greater) Quebec and require all subjects (remember Canada is under a monarchy!) to learn French.

[Foggy]

Just for the record, JJ didn't get the words quite right either.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America ...

[Atticus Finch]

I read today that most Canadians would welcome unification with the USA, but they don't think the US Americans could take being the 13th State.

Mexico can take back Texas if it wants it we can thrown in the former Confederate states as a bonus including West Virginia.

[Foggy]

West By Gawd Virginia was not a rebel state.

[AndyinPA]

Not then, but today?

[AndyinPA]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... itia-group

A retired police chief and self-described Reagan Republican with decades of public service, Leonard Moty checked all the boxes to represent his community in one of California’s most conservative counties.

But on Tuesday, voters ousted Moty, handing control of the Shasta county board of supervisors to a group aligned with local militia members. The election followed nearly two years of threats and increasing hostility toward the longtime supervisor and his moderate colleagues in response to pandemic health restrictions.

While it’s not yet clear who will replace Moty, the two candidates in the lead attended a celebration on Tuesday with members of an area militia group, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The recall is a win for the ultra-conservative movement in Shasta county, which has fought against moderate Republican officials and sought to gain a foothold in local government in this rural part of northern California.

It also highlights a phenomenon that extends far beyond the region, as experts warn the pandemic and eroding trust in US institutions has fueled extremism in local politics and hostility against officials that could reshape governments from school boards to county supervisors to Congress.

“I think it’s going to be a change in our politics. I think we’re going to shift more to the alt-right side of things,” Moty said on Wednesday. “I really thought my community would step up to the plate and they didn’t and that’s very discouraging.”

The county is part of the State of Jefferson movement, hoping to secede from California.