WACO — Standing in front of a massive state flag on Saturday, Claver Kamau-Imani outlined his utopian vision of a Nation of Texas that he believes is just on the horizon.
No taxes or Faucis, no speed zones or toll roads. No liberals, no gun laws. No windmills, no poor people. A separate currency, stock market and gold depository. “Complete control of our own immigration policy.” World-class college football, a farewell to regulators. And unthinkable, unimaginable wealth.
“We are going to be so rich,” he chanted. “We’re gonna be rich. We are gonna be rich. We. Are. Going. To Be. Rich! … As soon as we declare independence, we’re going to be wealthy. I personally believe that our personal GDP will double in five to seven years.”
“The independence of Texas is good for humanity as a whole,” he added to cheers.
Kamau-Imani, a Houston-based preacher, was among 100 or so people who spent the weekend at the Waco Convention Center for the first conference of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which since 2005 has advocated for the Lone Star State to break away from the United States — a “TEXIT,” as they call it.
Supporters of the movement said they are more energized and optimistic than ever about the prospect of an independent Texas, and pointed to appearances or support from current and former lawmakers — including state Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, who spoke at the event — as evidence that their movement is far from fringe. The get-together also came as TEXIT supporters celebrated what they believe is crucial momentum: Days before the meeting, the Texas Nationalist Movement announced that it was more than halfway to the roughly 100,000 signatures needed to put a non-binding secession referendum on the Texas Republican primary ballot.
Yes please secede. Texas has enough electoral votes that if it split off, the modern republican party would never win again.
Like always, the equilibrium will just adjust around a different center. It would definitely be a big shift to the left without the largest red state.
If he’s a preacher why hasn’t his church had his tax exempt status removed. All federal perks or aid to him or his church need to be taken away
Ok, but next january or february when the snow wipes out their electrical system, we won’t be sending any linemen from the United States to help patch things up.
I’d trade Texas for Puerto Rico any day.
Also… Oh, your colleges aren’t in the US? No, you don’t get to play with us. You can’t have it both ways, shitheads.
No Liberals? Do they plan to sell Austin?
I imagine they’re planning to purge Austin.
This would be such a shit show. Democratic states outside of Texas would be all for this, because the right would loose a ton of representatives.
Moreover, all the big centers of commerce in Texas would push back hard. Austin, Dallas, etc. The big cities that make the money are all blue.
Texas currently has 38 seats, Republicans outnumber Democrats 25-13. If Texas had already seceded than Hakeem Jeffries would be the Speaker right now.
Texas state government received $39.5 billion in grants from the Federal government. I’m sure that would put a dent in their infrastructure maintenance for the state. Source: https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2017/november/federal-funding.php
Ok. Bye.
So anyway …
46% of the voting population of Texas voted for Biden in 2020.
Wonder how long it would survive without US support? Probably less than a year. Mexico could reclaim their land after that.
Please do! Without their 40 electoral votes we won’t see a Republican in the White House for generations.
If they succeed well they will accomplish is getting their ass whooped while being invaded by the us, you’d think the last civil war would be a tipoff that you can’t succeed.
There is only one proper response to this:
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-population-majority-latino-census-bureau-update/
Texas has been majority white since at least the mid 1800s, but Hispanics have been expected to overtake the majority for some time. Now, new data shows that happened at some time in 2022.
The U.S. Census Bureau updated its official population estimates, and the numbers confirm Latinos have officially made up the largest share of the state’s population since at least last July.
Lloyd Potter, state demographer of Texas and director of the Texas Demographic Center, said Hispanic Texans made up 40.2% of the state’s population last summer, edging out non-Hispanic white Texans, who made up 39.8%.
“When we look at demographic and population change, there’s what we refer to as components of population change,” Potter said. “The three major components are births, deaths and net migration. So when we look at and when we compare population change between the non-Hispanic white population and the Hispanic population, the dynamics of those elements are different.”
For example, Hispanics tend to have higher birth rates than the non-Hispanic white population, Potter said.
These fools are severely underestimating how much value comes with being part of the US. There’s are just too many advantages being in a strong economic union like the United States. Its cities especially would have their population leaving in droves. Of course, none of these prosperity gospel preachers are going to have Texas go anywhere. The South already tried that once, and it didn’t turn out so well for them did it?
They deserve everything that’s coming to them. Best of luck in your endeavors.
Bye bye! Don’t let the missing welfare transfer hit you on the way out. It’ll save the other states tons.
But what’s wrong with windmills??
Insufficiently destructive of the environment.
