Can Texas Really Secede From The Union - National Divorce?
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William T Sherman *laughing* in Tom Cruise meme
No but we do have freedom sooo...
I am going to divorce the United States because it's as communist as it gets. I'm going to the Republic of Russia
Can you do a reaction video on the 2002 movie: "Interstate 60?! 😮"
Yes. I think that any who don’t respect this country, who distorts and hates its legacy should leave and never return. You can take the unlawful immigrants (invaders) with them.
You cannot just say "who's currency is tied to the price of cookie dough" and move on. I'm gonna need a whole episode on that. 😂
If the cookie dough rises, does that cause inflation? THE TRUTH MUST OUT!
Yeah this issue needs more legal eagle insight
Commenting for visibility and complete solidarity. We need answers.
I have to respect the cookie dough standard. It is more real than any cryptocurrency.
So Family guy did it?
I admire the discipline and professionalism it took to go the entire 18-minute video without once saying the word "Texit."
It was there though once
@@kuroneko334not said
You make RUclips a better place.
The magic of editing. Kappa
He made an air bud joke before saying texit
What a champ
9:31 to be fair "x cannot be sued without its consent, and it has not consented" is kind of a really terrifying legal sentence
And yet, that's the reason why the US doesn't recognize the ICC court in The Hague. According to the US, neither the USA nor its citizens can be sued by The Hague because Washington simply doesn't agree to. Of course the ICC can still sue them and condemn them, but the USA won't cooperate, and won't send their war criminals. The only thing is they can't set foot outside of american territories else they would risk being arrested.
Yeah I saw that and said wtf is that nonsense everyone should be equally subject to the law
I'm far from a legal scholar but I think it's because the ability to sue someone is a legal provision and the US government is the highest authority of US law since the US hasn't submitted itself to international law agreements. So if as a hypothetical, some outside country wanted to sue the US, and the US was like "nah", who's gonna make the US go through the process? What power is going to drag the US into international court?
Meet a *real* Sovereign.
A nation can say 'I do not consent' and it'll actually have effect.
Somewhere, Elon Musk just climaxed.
To quote Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw: "Short answer, no. Long answer, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
I was not expecting to see a Zero Punctuation reference in the comment section of this video... 🤣
Neither was I but it's perfection
I understood this video as a yes. It just requires a lot of lost lives.
Just because paper work says you can’t do it, doesn’t mean a bunch of people with guns can!
@@calvinhoward3808a lot is a very large understatement. Civil wars are meat grinders.
"America doesn't have to swear allegiance to the crown, because we're dope and we do dope things," is not something I ever had on my Legal Eagle bingo card.
😂
😂😂😂
It’s also entirely false judging by how deferential and reverential presidents are towards the British monarch on their mandatory visits to the UK
Legal Eagle quoting Dave Chappelle quoting Kanye West
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated And of course some MAGAt comes in here with their noise, not knowing what diplomatic respect and courtesy between heads of state looks like.
Now, I'm not a lawyer, but there is a flaw in the Air Bud ruling. There may not be any rule saying a dog can't play basketball. But there is a rule saying that the only ones who can play in the team must be students at the school. Since Buddy wasn't a student at the school, he couldn't play on the basketball team, regardless of his species.
Is there a rule saying a dog can't be a student at the school?
@@meepmeep1313 doesn't matter. He wasn't a student at the school.
@@JohnathanGross do you have evidence to support the non-student status of the dog?
There’s no law against dogs being students at a school, they would immediately enroll him and win the game
@@SorryBones most schools have a minimum GPA in order to play sports.
Furthermore, there are other legal documents they require in order to enroll a student.
Lastly, isn’t that dog like 47 years old in dog years?
I really hate that so much of what ends up on the public school curriculum is messed with by politicians and the most extreme members of the PTA crowd.
I went to public school in California during the 60s when California was a red state. We learned that the Founding Fathers were infallible mighty men of God. This conservative narrative will never end. Sad!
And messed up by academics and scientists.
We were taught in school that all Pacifc Islanders came from Asia, even though their own history says they came from South America, as well as Thor Hyredahl proving this to be fact in 1947.
@@taitsmith8521the thing with science is, it is meant to be disproven. The scientific way is not to find the truth, rather eliminate every other possibility until you have something left that cannot be easily disproven
Doesn’t mean it is the truth, but doesn’t mean it is wrong either.
The theory of relativity for example, was but a hypothesis, now made into a theory, because all the evidence and all the millions attempts to disprove it, have failed.
Doesn’t mean it cannot be disproven one day. But if it is there will be a new theory, describing the groundworks of relativity even better
Best example is that relativity is incomplete, as we still can’t link the quantum realm with the relative one with our current understanding.
@@taitsmith8521I kind of assumed it was a mix, like they came from multiple places.
As a Maine Native living not far from the Canadian Border i find the idea of Maine doing that both hilarious and awesome despite realistically impossible.
This channel started as genuine advice for law students, then transitioned into reviewing pop culture depictions of the law, and is now consistently explaining how the entire United States government effectively exists, one exciting time
Knowledge is power, and Legal Eagle is empowering the public!
No it turned into a socialistic propaganda machine.
I love that this channel made me realize that, as a Brazilian, it's not only my country's government that is a joke.
I've always had an interest in legal proceedings but felt like I was too dumb to understand it. Legal Eagle breaks things down to a level where even an idiot like me can understand. I've learned a lot over the years.
This channel has really just been explaining how utterly stupid and failed the republiQan party is.
The “Let’s at least stay together until the kids are out of the house” was so good he had to do it twice
lol, editing mistakes happen to even the best of us.
They call 'em two-take Devin!
@@mulin-kd6ttis that a translation error bro LOL
In most cases I'd agree, though I have a friend who's parents did that and it just made life miserable for everyone involved. Have several other friends who's parents got divorced before the kids moved out, some it was for the better, some for the worse, it really depends on the situation.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. How embarrassing to say it twice!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. How embarrassing to say it twice!
props to the commitment to cosplay by the president of molossia. he goes hard.
Was not expecting a Molossia reference today! Wow. That brings back some interesting memories from the 2010s.
Strawman. The USA is not a sovereign nation. A sovereign nation, is a free, sovereign and independent state. And the American Revolution established the States as 13 "free, sovereign and independent states;" with the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other things that independent states may of right do. So that's 13 sovereign nations, in an international Confederation; and 12 of them seceded by their own power c. 1787.
That was like a sleeper activation for those of us that watched the Nostalgia Critic!
I was today years old when I learned as a foreigner that when Texas was deporting migrants to Martha's Vineyard, they weren't actually deporting them to Martha Steward's personal property.
Hahahahaha!
I thought this too once upon a time before I googled what Martha’s Vineyard was. Lol.
Yooo this comment had me crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅😂😂🎉
I LOL’d at this
A very big reason that a national divorce would not work is because most states are actually purple. The only reason the states are labled red or blue is because the Congessional districts are highly gerimandered. Each state that cecedes would have a fight on their hands from within.
@@MrYotosun Sure, you keep thinking that stereotype. It'll work out great
@@burningsnow9870I agree with him.
Those are the ones that go around with small armies because the people love them so much.
And we already have the historical precedent to prove the point, in the run up to the Civil War we already had the brutal fighting in Bloody Kansas and the secession of West Virginia from Virginia owing to their hardline abolitionist sentiment.
And it would be violent. A lot of red states are only that due to how the districts are set up. A lot of red states have a ton of blue voters. And Blue states have quite a number of red voters. And despite what some on the right think, many on the left are armed, trained, and fit. No one should be wanting this.
then all the democrats that flooded texas in the last few years can go back to cali good riddance
From the Texas v. White decision, "The Union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the Colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred principles, similar interests, and geographical relations. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these, the Union was solemnly declared to "be perpetual." And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country, the Constitution was ordained "to form a more perfect Union." It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?"
Just one problem: the USA was ALWAYS a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. A sovereign nation, is a free, sovereign and independent state. And the American Revolution established the States as 13 "free, sovereign and independent states;" with the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other things that independent states may of right do. So that's 13 sovereign nations, in an international Confederation; and 12 of them seceded by their own power c. 1787. So yeah.
Riiiight. If enough people feel differently, then no government is perpetual or indisoluable. Consider Lincolns own words in 1848 on the occasion of Texas seceeding from Mexico...words that should have haunted his conscience 13 years later.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,---a most sacred right---a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the teritory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution."
My position is to remind my American friends about the last US civil war and the huge casualties on both sides. Politicians who spread panic and intolerance will certainly not send their sons to the front lines.
Congress would NEVER authorize a Declaration of War against Texas. And the US would lose their international standing if the attacked a peaceful state for simply holding an election and deciding to leave the union. The European Union didn't attack the UK after Brexit.
I mean Biden won't even send his son to jail, so you're right
Independence is always purchased in blood
@@jacobpeters5458 Biden's lost almost all of his children. I'm not even a big fan of the guy, but it's cruel when his family is invoked. Especially after that little stunt involving his baby granddaughter a few months ago.
I'd say "Have a heart," but frankly I don't care.
The biggest takeaway from this video is that if a dog is born in the United States and lives to be 35 years old, we could have a dog as President.
And doubt for a second he wouldnt win
Are we talking 35 human years or …
This comment has me howling ohmygod
Just one more reason science needs to get on expanding dog life spans
You've done worse. Actually, it would make for a great election: The Reliable Labrador vs the Orderly and Intelligent German Shepherd, with an Intellectual Poodle as the third candidate.
This is something that Texas keeps bringing up, and it always ends up going nowhere. Several years ago I did an analysis of "what would happen if Texas left?" for a popular blog. Succinctly put: Nothing good for Texas. There is this myth that these secessionists have that nothing happens when they leave. They don't count on the military bases closing, the loss of federal grants and aid to their universities, that they'll need to get passports to travel to any state, and that all their businesses will have to deal with being "foreign suppliers" with all that entails. That's just the start of the things that happen. The economic and social damage they'll experience will be very bad, along with the reality that ... we might not want them back.
So basically, a Texit would go exactly the same way as the European version recently did.
So Second Brexit.
Don’t forget the complete and total collapse of their economy as the American dollar will suddenly lose its value to them as a foreign currency.
Well put. We're talking about the state that almost froze to death and desperately needed FEMA to bail them out of an epic mess of their own making. Seceding would work out great... just not for Texas.
@@maggie6152... "Well yes, we've had one Brexit, but what about Second Brexit?"
15:56 Never thought I'd see a Mean Girls reference from this channel 😂
Because he has no legal facts. The USA is not a sovereign nation. A sovereign nation, is a free, sovereign and independent state. And the American Revolution established the States as 13 "free, sovereign and independent states;" with the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other things that independent states may of right do. So that's 13 sovereign nations, in an international Confederation; and 12 of them seceded by their own power c. 1787.
@@SovereignStatesmansir, we are not a confederacy, we don't use the articles of confederation anymore. We use the constitution. The states are not completely independent and sovereign.
The mistake at the end caught me off guard, you guys are always perfect
“Not legal advice: Don’t commit treason” this had me rolling laughing.
Right... especially coming from the citizen of a country that exists because of treason.
@@peterhoulihan9766 It's not treason if you win, though the chances of that are practically non-existent. Couldn't even do it when it was multiple states working together in the 19th century, with the surveillance and weapons tech the federal government has now, it'd be even harder!
@peterhoulihan9766 not treason if you win
Better Call Saul
"Dibs on the nukes," caught my attention. Yeah, succession would be messy to say the least. MTG isn't a scholar.
I grew up in the Texas public school system decades ago. In _Texas history classes_ , they drilled into our heads that Texas was special due to how they negotiated their entrance to the Union with that mentioned "prenup/anullment" clause - obviously not what they called it but same idea. So I'm not surprised how many think it is a viable possibility.
It's really wild how they just lied like that, and that people keep believing it. Like you can read the documents for yourself, they're very clear. They *do* pre-approve Texas for dividing itself into smaller states if it wants, which is unique and notable(and can also be a state pride thing if they want it too, "we chose to stay together!" type thing), but nothing about secession. California was *also* a nation, albeit for a short period, and Vermont was actually an independent republic for a number of years.
Texas schools have a "Texas History" class?
@@connorthompson66we do, and its a mandatory part of the curriculum
@@connorthompson66 Not surprised they do. Texas has always been egotistical.
@@connorthompson66 they did back in the late 80's. Eighth grade as I recall. Remember the Alamo and all that...
4:30 that's why I love this channel. That cookie dough bit was ABSOLUTELY SAVAGE ! 😹😹😹😹😹
That Mean Girl reference LOL Also, just reminds me of that one old Family Guy episode.
Hail petoria
"Those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it." and "Aw, shit, here we go again..." are what I take from this issue.
Or the Lakota saying "Everything the world does, it does in circles".
"History doesn't repeat, but it sure likes to rhyme."
C I V I L - W A R. Biden is allowing legal colonization of America
"Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it."
"those who fail to learn history correctly are simply doomed"
One of my favourite things is still than when Texas was talking about secession and had a petition signing about that, Austin had a petition to secede from Texas 🤣
That's a real issue with the modern secession too. As someone who's seen a few county breakdowns from previous elections, I can say even in the reddest states cities are democratic beacons, just like in the bluest states the countryside is a conservative stronghold.
I was wondering about that.
Austin secedes, requests membership back in the union.
The ROT (so fitting) threatens Austin on all sides.
The union threatens the ROT from most sides, and from within, as well as from the air, space, and sea.
Result: Either ROT migrates to Mexico and loses everything, or ROT surrenders, rejoins union, and is forced to connect to the national electric grid.
They only lose (from their POV).
As they should if they want to.
We won't be hypocritical about this as you are implying we would.
@@TheSkyheart5 You've got a very good point. I live in NY, and I think the state's a prime example.
I am personally very pro-2nd Amendment. That's the only "Conservative" opinion I have. Shame the pro-2nd party is also anti-women's rights... But, I digress.
However, that gun stance is not a common opinion where the population density's high. NYC of course being the example. However, the further up north you go here, the more you **need** a firearm. I'll give you one reason; bears. This state is much bigger than people think, and the wilderness goes on, and on, and on... But that wilderness is still dangerous.
As a person who lives in austin, thats my wet dream
Tying the value of your currency to the price of cookie dough? Dude...I'm sold! 🙂
SalmonellaCoin
"You can not sue me because I did not give you permission to sue me." 🤣 I think I'll try that one if I get sued.
This will work if you have the army standing behind you menacingly as you say it.
He's just talking out his Legal Beagle arse. The USA is not a nation. A nation, is a free, sovereign and independent state. And the American Revolution established the States as 13 "free, sovereign and independent states;" with the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other things that independent states may of right do. So that's 13 sovereign nations, in an international Confederation; and 12 of them seceded by their own power c. 1787.
@@SovereignStatesman I like how you clearly signal nothing you say will be worth listening to by including 'sovereign' in your username, very thoughtful.
I'll sue you.
@@Uncle_Jacob Nice Hat.🤠
"The right of states to secede, or rather the lack thereof of, may not have been mentioned in the Constitution, but it was decided definitively on the battlefield at Appotamax." -one of my grad school professors.
As your professor surely served in a war as well, I assume?
@@kalo6661 no - but if you want to, go ahead and keep defending a state's 'right' to secede and I'm sure the rest of the US will bring that war to your doorstep. Secession is not an option.
@@adamk.7177 Ya make it like the United States is a group of domestic abusers keeping victims in line with threats and violence
@@adamk.7177 de-facto independence without secession, however, is another story.
Technically it was decided on the battlefield before Appomattox. The courthouse is just where it was admitted to for the record.
One would think that "don't commit treason" would merit being actual legal advice.
I think the issue here is, the people clamoring for this don't want to be law abiding citizens if they can't get their violent fantasies enacted.
The point is he cannot give you legal advice because lawyers cannot give you any illusion of being your attorney. The client essentially starts the client attorney relationship whenever they believe it to be a relationship. It's one of the most protected things in America. So he has to ensure we are under no illusion he is guiding us as our attorney. It can open up a huge can of worms.
@@x-xPhobia But at the same time, don't commit treason. Lol
It is only treason if you loose
the right has never been the side looting.@@MrYotosun
im a little confused why states do not have the option of leaving if they want to. America isnt a dictatorship or a kingdom. Why shouldnt states be allowed to leave through a vote?
i think most importantly it has to do with the coordination to fight future wars and such stuff. the possibilities it opens for corruption and selling land to the enemy must be also concerning. but in a free country there should also be "the free choice to be corrupt". like doing whatever drugs you want. as stupid as that is (or sounds) just from my pure speculation. money vs security and corruption vs freedom are the conflicts of our era imo
@@allemagneproducer But you are talking about freedom within the country. The idea that states dont get a choice about being in the union seems insane. Like say UK there they can vote to leave which scotland tried.
The thing about Molossia is that the land it is on is a little bit into the grey area on a funny little mishap of map charting💀
"We can't fix roads to save our lives but we're confident we can exist without literally anyone else!"
Entire stated defeated by a single snow storm.
They also forget a lot of these states are super dependent on federal aid to operate. And a majority of that financial support is generated by metropolitan areas often from more liberal or moderate-left states like Illinois, New York, and California. Thats not to ignore Texas and Florida's economics.
They probably have the same mindset as Brexiters. Completely naive about the consequences of what would happen long term.
@@NiteshadeX2 Literally. a snow shower knocks their pathetic excuse of a power grid out. They'll be crying the blues the second something happens.
Mexican Cartels:
"I call dibs."
"No, I call dibs."
Sometimes I wish they would leave, but then I'm afraid of what would happen to everyone stranded in those states.
We're afraid too, don't worry
I'm stranded in Idaho, a national divorce would be a huge problem for me.
As someone in one of those states, we’re also afraid of what would happen to us in that event.
United we stand
they could just move
I like how Texas has a cow boy hat in there state drawing lol
It wasnt legal for the 13 colonies to declare independence from the crown. They did it anyway.
Right, and they had to fight a war to do so. They didn't just declare independence and everything was hunky dory
@@griffin123122 Yup.
@@griffin123122 so I find it a moot point when eagle, it will always be illegal to revolt, thats the point, you have to break the law of the current government to make a new one
The issue is that unlike the left the right is the reason there are like 120 guns per 100 people or something like that 😂….
@@shawnhiggins1005 No that's not because of the right, thats because of the founding fathers. The right just respects our constitution more so than the left and is actually willing to keep the 2nd amendment.
Not the US, but in a 1933 referendum Western Australia voted to secede from Australia with 68% of voters in favour of the motion, but the British Government ruled the referendum invalid so it all went nowhere.
Westminster bout to drop a sequel to that in Scotland
People against succession typically boycott referendums like that, so I’m wondering what the actual numbers would have been
@@thedapperdolphin1590 In a democratic procedure, not voting in an attempt to get what you want is beyond me.
@@thedapperdolphin1590 Australia's been a country that's had compulsory voting since the twenties, and I'm pretty sure that applies to referendums.
Not that that would stop people from simply not voting and paying the fine, or putting a blank voting slip in the box.
@@robertskitch Yes it does apply to referendums. However, the recent referendum had a total number of... 15.9(ish) million votes in a country of 25 million...
They want to leave the US while they have oil deposits? That's awfully brave and stupid.
Certainly a bold move, Cotton.
The US doesn't need their oil. But they'll need out lithium, cobalt and nickel.
😅😂
Mexico can retake Texas as a territory again.
davidt3563
"Come get'cha sum! 😤💥🤯☠️"
good discussion!
There are similar desires in Quebec in Canada but the long term effects would likely be similar. Both economies would take a massive hit and a domino effect would crumple both countries as states and provinces would leave and form new trade agreements. (Likely eventually forming the creation of smaller nations such as Texas with neighboring states or Alberta purchasing or forming better relations with BC and Saskatchewan until new larger nations form.)
Fun fact about Molossia: every April 15 they send foreign aid payments to the United States
(April 15th is US tax day)
That’s a pretty funny way to hide one is paying „tribute“ to a neighboring superpower ;)
@@Swiss_femboyDunno man, paying tribute sounds like they were a part of a colony, or "territory" of the United States
@@darnit1944 Because they are a modern colony
Okay, that is pretty clever lol
It's important to note that a lot of the red/blue divide has a lot to do with rural vs urban cultural values. Basically, in general cities tend to be more liberal than rural farming communities. Not a hard and fast rule, obviously, but you can't "divorce" red America and blue America because both those groups are honestly spread out all over the country instead of being a monolith located in one specific area with no variation or disagreement.
Yeah, take New York for example. A lot of people would think it’s going to be on the blue side if this “national divorce” goes through, right? What about upstate New York, which is pretty firmly red? Or what about cities like Dallas, that are pockets of blue in red states? The map would end up looking like America has a bunch of sores all over it lol
The assumption that all the states as they exist now would remain the same after an national divorce is false. I keep seeing arguments that seem to think all this will happen in a vacuum. No original thought at all.
Id say they also rely on each other for survival
@@saddesklunch2544 As an example, Michgan is viewed as a "blue" state by some, but its internal politics have been dominated by the Republican Party for 90% of the Republican Party's existence. Life in Michigan is life under the rule of the Republican Party and has been since before the Civil War. That's the truth of things. But for some weird reason, people think we're run by Democrats.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 I don't suppose that may be due to Republican gerrymandering could it?
partying like its 1861. i had to pause it...friggin hilarious
What would the legal implications be if someone killed a Vampire with a dozen witnesses? Would it be considered murder?
“It’s what we lawyer types would call treason”
Made me snort out my coffee
Lawyers don't know what treason is.
I wonder if British lawyers called Wasgington a traitor....
@@martinricardo4503you don’t know what treason is 😂
@@LarryDaLobstah "Stupid lawyers, thinking they know they law" 🤣
@@isan_pr4505he literally was. like it or not, George Washington (and everyone else in the colonies) had a commitment to the crown that they broke. It's why using the word "traitor" negatively is always a dumb idea.
If we think US/Mexico immigration is ugly, imagine what immigration might be between seceded states. Human ties can be a messy affair.
Yeah all secession would do is just push any southern border issues north. A whole bunch of illegal Texans trying to flee into the US would be sweet irony
Except most of these new “immigrants” don’t have ANY ties to or within the US.
Actually many of them do indeed have ties here. To the land that feeds them.....@@JeepCherokeeful
@@TypeOneg very true
@@JeepCherokeeful they are fleeing and immigrating to the US because our drug demands destroyed their countries.
Hey thanks for the video
Hi! Love the quasi-historical format. If you ever had a second of break from all the recent shenanigans, maybe you could analyse John Brown's statement in terms of him referencing the basis of the USA democracy, how his talking points work?
Cheers
"Sometimes people are only textualists when it's convenient" LOL truer words have never been spoken
The entire concept of "originalism" is simply. "I magically know what the founding fathers wanted, and it just so happens to be exactly what I want!
@@jameswilliamson3210 Compared to all of the people that want to act like the meaning and intention of well established words somehow mean something else now? You act like the founding fathers and their contemporaries weren't highly educated men that led well documented lives.
@@ShaggyRogers1could you give an example?
Oh, you can't? What a pity.
I would quibble over the use of "Sometimes" in that sentence. I have yet to meet or even hear about a genuine textualist in all situations.
Like California
The bureaucratic nightmare was one of the first things that came to mind. The second was, how dangerous it could be. The third was how the rest of the world would view us, and I think that ship may have already sailed. They already can't trust us and can't rely on us, and generally think we're nuts.
Well you already have tourists coming to the US to "see it before it crumbles"
@@janewayofchaos3255 yikes, really? I'd like to learn more about that. I like to think the USA will survive this year and the next. A lunatic fringe will try to overthrow the government again, but I hope they fail again.
Also a Janeway fan. Nice name. ☺✌🖖
As someone from Brexit land:
You are right about the bureaucratic nightmare
Dangerous? - can't comment
The rest of the world - yes, has the ship sailed? well not completely.
Actually, through the years of the Biden presidency i have found new respect and even admiration for the US. Now it all hinges on the 2024 election. If you flush the idiots out of both chambers and keep them away from Penn Avenue, we're good.
@@antonnurwald5700 If you find out how to flush out idiots, can you please let us know.
Damn, that was a smooth ad transition.
I say if Texas wants to leave the Union, I say "Don't let the door hit you on your butt on the way out."
But then TX will take majority of the military, oil and money with it. It literally has the 8th biggest economy in the world. The U.S. needs Texas more than Texas needs the U.S.
It practically runs like its own country already and the federal government doesn’t do anything. Texas takes Supreme Court rulings and wipes its butt with them. Has its own pledge of allegiance that they say BEFORE the U.S. one, allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the American flag, has its own grid, etc. Why does America allow this? Because it’s too scared to poke the bear too hard. Texas is the bear 🤷🏽♀️
I feel like "don't commit treason" is actually pretty sound legal advice under any and all circumstances, and dispensing such advice would be pretty safe without a hashtag lol
Who said anything about treason
Yeah, not treasonous just illegal
@@GallowayJesse Didn't watch the video, did you?
@@GallowayJesse Going to war against the government is treason, something you would have known if you watched the video.
@@GallowayJesse Secession is treasonous.
As a Texan from a military family, I can say the military would be a major stumbling block if they ever tried seceding. The soldiers stationed in Texas aren't all from Texas, and while some might want to make it their home like my family did, I highly doubt many in the chain of command would even consider handing over one of the largest military bases in the continental US to a seceding state.
And also most of the funding of those bases are funded by the federal government. They will go bankrupt before they do
It’s funny how you can’t even tell from this WHICH base in Texas you’re talking about since several in the state got that bill.
@@voxbury Military bases within the United States are considered federal property and are subject to federal law. And all bases are funded by the federal government.
Ever heard of Ft. Sumpter? I assume it would be a similar situation
@@lukasg4807Wouldn't work like that at all man that's the thing. It's not the 19th century anymore
To add an example amongst the voluntary broken-up nations, Czechoslovakia split up into two countries in 1993 in complete peace and relatively smoothly...relatively to what it entails to split up. Where the common history of the country was dated to 1918 with the exception of WWII. So it is possible albeit this case was certainly more an exception then typical situation.
The Air Bud defense 😂😂😂
A few of the biggest problems with state succession is all of the businesses, federal jobs, and federal money that would suddenly just leave. It would be a very messy transition and it would drastically affect trade and the GDP of these states. In Texas, just to name a few, Boeing, Lockheed, L3, Northrop Grumman would all have to leave to continue their federal contracts not to mention all the military and federal jobs like NASA as well. The trade restrictions that do not exist on interstate trade would go into effect as well, as well as multinational companies who would leave and possibly sue the state for lost revenue. Look at Brexit, and it could get a lot worse before it got better.
Oil companies would stay behind & suck as much $$$ as they could out of their newly-minted regulatory free-for-all.
I think its hilarious you think those companies would leave... and not just drop their contracts with the United States and establish contracts in their home country... because that's *never* happened before...
It's also worth noting that the major cities in Texas are very blue, so there's the mess of having parts of the newly seceded nation refusing to go along with it. Heck, the first shots of the Civil War were fired at a federal garrison in Fort Sumter that refused to recognize South Carolina's secession.
If a federal government much richer than their "home" state still exists why the hell would they drop those contracts @@verdicaysen3042
All of those blue cities get their food, fuel, and other stuff from the red countryside. Read some real history. @@TheSkyheart5
As someone from Bavaria, Germany. Every Country has it's Texas, in fact in Europe pretty much every one of the 44 Countries has at least 1-3 Texas Places who want to secede.
Many because of historical Reasons, others just to use it as Pressure to their Countries Gouvernment but also a lot who basically only use it as a Meme nowadays.
Here in Bavaria we have a very very long History of being independent for 100s of Years but also having been part of different Countries, Kingdoms and Empires.
Nowadays it's more of a Meme, but there are still a lot of States in European Countries who take seceding seriously and even more so and for much better Reasons than Texas
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
I know this may come across a little weird to a German, but in English only things referring to actual names are capitalised. The word country, for example, isn't.
The French have Bretagne, Spanish have Catalonia, we have Texas.
"Bayern ist im Ausland" - Bavaria is outside the country - is a classic joke I have to hear from my friends on the regular since I moved to Bavaria from MV for studies and probably gonna stay. They don't consider me a german anymore *very sad face* but the meme is quite culturally relevant. Wonder how long it will take until something similar gets picked up in the US?
@@mostlymagical3220 Serbia has Kosovo.
This is 100% true. Hell, even places that might want to secede often have places within _them_ that would might want to/have historical grounds secede from the theoretical seceded country as well (Swabia from Bavaria, for example). Secession is a bit of a Russian nesting doll, in principle it could go on forever until every town is its own sovereign state.
The issue is more which geopolitical unit is most appropriate to exercise which level of political authority, which is a mostly subjective question.
Well... Maine was originally part of British Canada, but was ceded in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
I was taught we could secede in High School, class of 1969, few months before we landed on the moon. It kept students proud of the fact that our ancestors made a nation before we became a state. Mine came in 1830s tired of fighting wars year after year. Didn't tell us that Sam Houston arrived with a bunch of cotton growers that owned slaves. Young men in the hill country were forced to go with some confederate officers. A bunch escaped and almost made it to the Rio Grande. They were all shot. Parents had given their kids their best horses. In Dallas area the officers sold the horses and kept the money. The boys were on foot.
Just one problem: the USA is not a sovereign nation. A sovereign nation, is a free, sovereign and independent state. And the American Revolution established the States as 13 "free, sovereign and independent states;" with the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other things that independent states may of right do. So that's 13 sovereign nations, in an international Confederation; and 12 of them seceded by their own power c. 1787.
“[MTG] knows from experience what it means when someone decides they can’t stand you anymore and unceremoniously leaves you.”
I am relaxing under the entire oak tree that’s throwing off that much shade
I'm doing the opposite, I'm warming myself up on that total roast
Magic the Gathering knows what?
@@alsowinning7524 Magic: The Gathering really should be abbreviated as M:tG.
@@Mark_Agamotto1313_SmithIn fairness, Magic was here first.
@@leithcrowther6086 Oh, I agree, but it is Magic: the Gathering, not Magic the Gathering.
Let the senators have their own country where they can pimp out the taxpayers defensive military to the highest bidder. Oh wait, they already do.
What are you even talking about
@@conormcjannett5894 They are talking about how congress constantly writes the pentagon blank checks because nearly all senators are in the pocket of Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martian, and other defense contractors.
@@scottthewaterwarrior Im south american and always thought why american senators are so close to the military, this is so strange, usually the military communicate with senators through the executive goverment
in my country once a big general from an agency similar to pentagon tried to sechedule a meeting with a senator, it leaked and it was news nation wide, in fact it got so scandalous that a bunch of high ranking military are being "forcefully retired" after that because the president got spook out about it
@@rafaelcomfsemph It's usually not the generals that meet with the senators, it's the lobbyists from the defense contractors who both donate huge sums of money to the senators. What would be considered bribery in just about any other country is completely legal here because "free speech" cause a couple decades ago the courts decided money = speech.
It goes far beyond the military too, a senator will own stock in a company, then pass a law that helps that company, thus increasing the stock value.
@@scottthewaterwarrior Yeah man! this is so strange, what american politics call "lobbying" in the majority of other constitutions is dispositioned as "passive corruption"
American politics are so strange, because your people is locked out of means to pratically reform the system without a new constitution
The thing is Texas seceding from the Union is possible because Texas joined the Union through the Treaty of Tyler. If the state can prove the Federal government is defying the peoples rights then the treat of Tyler becomes void and so does Texas’s Union with the US.
Can you do a follow-up on the Hawaiian independence movement? As far as I can remember, the overthrow of the legitimate government and annexation was declared to have been illegal, and therefore there might be a case to grant them independence.
5:30 Actually when I lived in Hawaii at the time of the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, secession of Hawaii from the union was repeatedly discussed. The governor even ordered the US flag not to be flown on state property for one week. It was simply not reported in the national media.
The annexation is definitely a hot topic here
The annexation of Hawaii was illegal and should be overturned, but the main island wouldn't be ruled by the natives it should be ruled by, but instead progressive white expats.
@@jonaton7910 Hawaii's annexation was illegal under international law since the native Hawaiians never relinquished their sovereignty to the Americans who illegally overthrew their government with the backing of the US. Hawaii is most likely the state to gain independence from the US.
@@BrainyThyme3869 I know. I'm from Hawaii
@@BrainyThyme3869 My god, by definition an annexation is unwanted. There was nothing illegal about the annexation of Hawaii, unethical sure, but the law doesn't care about ethics, a government itself is automatically unethical.
How would red and blue state separation even work? Because the major cities in red states are usually blue and the more rural areas in blue states are usually red.
Exactly. You can look at any political map and see that the separation is less blue states vs. red states, but actually urban areas vs. rural areas.
Visiting rural California from rural North Carolina was less different than expected XD
Well, can you say "Vast, incalculably horrendous acts of ethnic cleansing and years if not decades of terrorism and reprisals, repeated at every level like an ever-widening fractal of horror across an entire continent"? Because that's... probably how it'd pan out. See: Syria.
I've said for a long time, that Philadelphia and Pittsburgh should be made "free ports".
@@Elektrokardiogramm The blue cities can have their 5-minute cities, shortages of everything, confiscated legal guns and rampant crime
You have a video error at the end of the video in which you recorded the same text twice, likely to remove one, but both identical statements are in the video.
Based on quick read, it appears the Republic of Texas applied to be annexed to USA. They were not part of the original 13 that created the country. As such, a territory that is independant and seeks to become member of a country would have more standing to request to cancel the treaty that annexed it into USA.
More importantly, various humans rights on self determination and democracy would basically forced the USA to accept a proper democratic vote by a state to secede. I am in Québec and we have bene though this before twice. And the Federal government even passed a referendum law to set standards for it to be recognized as valid. (I think 60% instead of 50.00001% of votes for instance).
Texit (instead of Brexit) would take years of negotiations on splittig of national debt, veterans pensions/benefits, and negotiations on sharing services such as Post Office, Amtrak and Texas inheritig military facilities within its territory.
The United States would have to end its addiction to oil since most of it would be imported and you'd see laws on energy efficiency and move off oil pass very quickly so it would reduce purchase of oil from Texas. On the other hand political pressuer in USA to preserve suppy of oil might mean the USA would cave in to all of Texas' demands and Texas would become richer.
> As such, a territory that is independant and seeks to become member of a country would have more standing to request to cancel the treaty that annexed it into USA.
No. The Joint Resolution (not a treaty; Texas actually was going to be annexed by a treaty first, but it didn't pass Congress) specifically pointed that Texas (and, actually, any other state) is admitted on the equal footing that all other states; they do not have special rights other states aren't privy for.
When there's a Democrat president, there's talk of Texas seceding. When there's a Republican president, there's talk of California seceding. Just seems to be a part of the political cycle.
During the Democrat premiership Republicans try to show how awesome Texas is and vice versa Democrats try to show how awesome California is.
@@wotermelon_ yeah the only way to make it in politics these days, it seems, is to make grand sweeping gestures that rile up your followers and inspire loyalty. Anyone loyal to a political figure doesn't deserve the skin they inhabit. Give me skin.
Yeah because those 2 states are where the country's biggest sore losers live 🤣
@@Beefnhammer Or because that is a narrative that gets clicks...
@@iambicpentakill That too
as a canadian, i'm always so baffled by our neighbors. thank you so much for the entertainment! "texas is once again partying like it's 1861" is now my favorite quote.
Texas seems to be our Quebec or Alberta. Always threatening to leave but never actually doing so.
Fun Fact! Nova Scotia declined an invitation to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Uncle Billy and Daddy Grant: “How many times do we need to teach you this lesson?”
Godspeed through Texas!@@drbuckley1
As an American I enjoy watching the PM of Canada strip it's people of rights. I really enjoyed watching the government seize private funds in order to "punish" the trucker protest. Say what you will about the Republic of Texas, at least we didn't elect a Substitute teacher/Ski instructor to lead us because he has nice hair. We also have a saying, "At least I'm not Canadian".
Seneca Nebraska is a town that voted to become unincorporated. In May 2014, the residents voted 17-16 for disincorporation, and the village was dissolved by the Thomas County Board at the end of June 2014. The population is 50.
And?
@@SuperGibbs13 if you have to ask, you'll never know.
Great video. Covered most bases (including the nukes) & was incredibly even handed.
I was so impressed that I subscribed...for the.... second time. Because apparently I was unsubscribed after having subscribed long long ago.
Haley being on record saying states should be able to secede is mind blowing. The former governor of S. Carolina (the state who fired the first shots during their treasonous attempt to break this country because they wanted slavery and when they couldn't legislate a solution, they tried to break this nation by committing insurrection and outright treason. I guess it's hard to learn anything when the answer is always some function of banning books.
Every Dixie boy needs to learn to mind their Uncle Sam again
What do you consider "banning books", and which states aren't engaging in that activity?
I mean it SHOULD be legal to peacefully seced, any union should have such a thing.
But someone going live on air and say that its legal I'd beyond stupid.
@@jek4837your response alone proves the point above…try reading the news and educating yourself…
I know the states without private arms would definitely lose to states that do have private ownership. California is trying to make the most common arm illegal so I doubt they can defend themselves that well.
During the Civil War, there was a fairly clear line between the parties. Now it's more of an urban versus rural break. Even within a State trying to secede, there would be tremendous opposition.
Correct in a way. The growing tide of industrialization. Slavery was caught up in that. But basically, it's one side saying, our way is the best way and everybody should get on board. In a way it's fascism. And both sides can be fascist. A fear of losing control. Won't compromise. Then, drawing battle lines. It's unfounded hysteria really. Paranoia.
And not even that. I live in a rural area, but as a young adult with a lot of exposure to the internet, I and many other people like me don't fit the usual stereotype for rural people, on top of normal older people who already didn't fit it very well themselves. For every 10 people that go off grid, half are conervative and half are liberal (by the most basic definitions, anyways)
@@johnjay9404 The civil war was not a both sides situation. The south seceded because they were terrified Lincoln was going to free the slaves... Even though for Lincoln keeping the nation together was his top priority. He wasn't going to do shit about the slaves. Even then I don't think you know what fascism is. It's not something you can just apply like a label and have it make sense.
Now? If Texas attempted to secede they'd have a hell of a time convincing their Urban areas to go along with it. They're already in a constant fued with the five biggest ones. It won't happen.
Nuance here is that during the Civil War there were many pro-union enclaves in the seceding states essentially along the Apalachains. In fact most of northern AL was opposed to secession. Likewise there were areas that remained in the Union that had strong sentiment for the Confederacy as well.
So liberals would want to live in city-states like Singapore, right? There is no reason a liberal would oppose breaking up they country, because they would prefer to live in the country of New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago.
The word "legal" seems to be key here. After all, the secession of the original 13 colonies from Great Britain wasn't legal either, though it was successful. The Declaration of Independence includes this... "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.” So maybe the idea of "legal" is actually juxtaposed against "right".
Forget all that. The USA is not a sovereign nation. A sovereign nation, is a free, sovereign and independent state. And the American Revolution established the States as 13 "free, sovereign and independent states;" with the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other things that independent states may of right do. So that's 13 sovereign nations, in an international Confederation; and 12 of them seceded by their own power c. 1787.
@@SovereignStatesman🤡
Just because its not legal doesn't mean they wont do it, whens the last time someone did something that wasn't "legal" just because they wanted to.. hm.. oh yeah all of human history.
I feel like stating "don't commit treason" is the only time I think you can say that you are officially giving free legal advice and not face blowback lol
Not that I think Texas has any chance of a successful secession, but it is silly to appeal to law in the case of a pending secession or revolutionary crisis. As though if only Jefferson, Marat, or Lenin had read their local laws they wouldn't have committed treason and attempted to revolt!
Unless you give it to Biden. Then all the brown coats come swarming at you to deny the clear and abundant evidence.
it's good advice, unfortunately two "sides" can't follow it at once
Not treason when it's written in the constitution.
@@jamesholcombe435 “one nation, indivisible…” 🤨
As a brit I can confirm what Devon says about secession. Our government pushed to leave the EU and now we're a wasteland of debt, failing infrastructure and poverty.
And this is why we're both a Constitutional Republic AND a Representative Democracy. The kneejerk, populist actions of 1 generation cannot be allowed to wreck the struggles and achievements of the past ones nor take away the bedrock of future generations.
Which is why we proved in 1865 secession and balkanization isn't a thing we do.
So why not let them leave, wait for a while and then buy them back cheap?
In fairness we were well on the way to being a wasteland of debt and failing infrastructure before Brexit. Brexit has definitely been an accelerant, but a lot of our issues result from over a decade of Tory mismanagement. Which swings back round to that Brexit was their mismanagement as well.
At least you Brits and others in the UK and EU in general aren't terribly likely to come under the very possible rule of a wannabe dictator like Trump, as we are here in the States.
So…just like EU?
I’ve heard about California, not seceding, but changing into 2 or possibly 3 separate states. That was many years ago when the rolling blackouts were in the news, almost nightly.
As an Arkansan, the idea of a Texas secession makes me wince. Most of the big shopping and entertainment - and most importantly, mental health services - in my area is located in Texarkana, a town that is literally on the border line. There is literally a street running down the middle. What do they want, a border wall on State Line Avenue? People just have no idea what they are talking about.
as a person from Texas, I can confirm I was told Texas was allowed to secede and become a sovereign nation all the way through K-12 school. I didn't find out it wasnt true until I took a Fed Gov class when I moved to California.
Feelings are considered facts in Texas
@@mikegrindstaff *california
@@macngeeseyt6029 *Texas.
Texas doesn't exist without the United States.
Hamilton was a huge federalist, despite Abbot trying to claim him as a states right's wonk. your local politicians are lying to you.
Trusting a Californian education is like trusting your drug dealer.
It was a term set forth by Texas when they joined the union, and like everything else, the union didn't recognize it and didn't care. But Texas was serious as hell.
They cant handle a snowstorm and their police force is too scared to fight shooters.
Man, straight for the jugular, no chill
as a texan, your completely right. Texas seperated from the union would crash in on its own stupidity.
Don’t worry, the governor knows as much as he can stands for the people.
I hate that you’re right
@@BlackVulpesfound the one sane Texan
"stay calm and do nothing"
famous last words
Props to Scalia for actually answering lol. Or at least an intern who cared more than any of the others.
It was a shockingly wholesome letter by lawyer standards. I kinda love it.
His answer is loaded with personal bias and wrong, but it is an answer.
The real answer is "only if the states that attempt to leave are strong enough to back it up"
@@InfernosReaper how did you come to that conclusion after an entire video basically corroborating the written opinion...
@@InfernosReaper that is a war not what was being asked. Currently no state would be able to. Not just because the US could steam roll them but because many of the citizens in the state would be up in arms
@@InfernosReaper I mean, if you write a letter to the highest court of the land asking "can I do X?", there is an unstated assumption you are asking them "can I legally do X?" or more explicitly "can I do X without having to face negative consequences from US law enforcement and/or military?"
Given that you implicitly acknowledge that any state or group of states would have to "back up" their threats of secession with military force, you seem to understand that no, you cannot legally secede from the United States of America (without congressional approval at least).
If I learnt anything from Brexit, leaving a union on a whim because "I don't like this" is gonna basically end up like the Texas power grid in winter.
And that ties into what I find extra frustrating in all this. republicans in the US are utterly dependent on having their plans and policies blocked. They have a whole bunch of stuff that really gets their base excited but leaders privately dread implementation because the appeal depends on handwaving consequences.
Take for instance the 'not enforcing the border laws' thing going on now. The GoP depends on those laws not being enforced, if they were the humanitarian consequences would be horrific and the backlash would be extreme. So they drum up outrage over the law not being followed but need Biden to ignore it.
It's not even remotely similar. The EU, contrary to what many Americans seemingly think, is not one state, is not a federation; It's a very, very loose collection of individual states that retain their sovereignty and have their own separate legal personalities unlike individual US states
For chrissakes the EU doesn't even have its own common army to defend "itself" (although the same could be said for many, if not most, individual EU member states)
Also, the majority of the citizens of the UK voted on their own the leave the EU. That's democracy, baby
@@vikt "That's democracy, baby"
What happened to "We're a Republic, not a democracy!"?
@@Revan2908 1. It's a tremendously stupid saying. The US is a republic in that it has a president as the head of state, and is a democracy because the citizens of the US have active and passive suffrage (to vote people into office and to run for office). It's both
2. I was referring to the UK when I said that, not the US, so I don't see why you replied that; although I can certainly guess with precision as to what you were aiming at
3. I'm neither a US nor a UK citizen and have no dog in this fight
@@vikt The majority of the UK citizens voted on leaving the EU because they were lied to and manipulated. Not unlike what's happening here with the Russian/GOP propaganda. So I think OP's comparison is apt here.
That being said, OP's original point stands: "... leaving a union on a whim because "I don't like this" is gonna basically end up like the Texas power grid in winter".
Definitely research the convention of states. It's actually growing in popularity in Minnesota. I personally think the state I live in would prosper being independent. Realistically I have no control over the government so I don't let it stress me out.
there's no way on earth that sample is genuinely representative on that 'one fifth want to secede' stat
I’m POSITIVE that the people talking about secession would be MORE THAN HAPPY to allow communities within their borders to also decide whether to secede from their state.
And of course they wouldn't be hypocrites and use extreme military force to subjugate non-conformists
As a secessionist, we'd be ok with it.
@@burningsnow9870 Oh my! Are you suggesting that racist people might be hypocrites? Oh deary me, what is the world coming to?
@davidfortier6976 I know right? It's not like something like this would also cause smaller political factions to violently oppose the central state power. I mean what is this? A prelude to a warring states period?
Republic of Austin? Republic of South Texas? Yea, Texans aren't thinking this through, but nothing new there.
I appreciate you putting that whole thing where you show the documents that explicitly point out that the Civil War was over slavery. That is actually the first time I had seen that it was written down like that.
Seriously?
Yeah American public education does a terrible job of explaining the civil war. I went to school in Illinois, which is in no way a part of the deep south where you would expect civil war reimagining to be rampant, and I was taught straight up that the civil war was not just about slavery. At no point did we go over the documents where the rebel states specifically said all this slavery and racially motivated stuff.
@@daverappConservatives have gone WAY out of their way to try and cover up their history. When they throw that “states rights” BS, be sure to follow up with “states rights to do what?” Don’t let them gaslight you with their history and reality-bending garbage.
@@daverapp Even up north, we're not exactly taught much. We're given "North good, South bad." And well, when it's boiled down to slavery; yes of course that's correct... But I wish that there was more in-depth education then.
Trust me, we needed it. I grew up in the Xbox 360 era.
@@daverapp i agree if it was all about slavery how come jesus lincoln himself didnt free the slaves at Gettysburg address until 20 months after the war began and the north were getting the shit kicked out of them at that time it was to tank the southern economy lincoln didnt care about the slaves if he had lived he had planned to send them all back to africa because they werent smart enough to adapt to a free life his words lincoln was the only president whom lead the country into a civil war dont understand the praise and greatness that is given to him
Uh oh. Cyberpunk 2077 is slowly looking more realistic every year.
Legality isn't going to determine secession, it's the USG's logistical military crisis and legitimacy crisis that will determine that.
Much like "The Chewbacca defense", I say "The airbud argument" should be a phrase circulated in legal circles.
Listening to this as a Czech is funny. After mutual agreement, we broke up with Slovakia 30 years ago, and it feels like we shook hands and went for a beer. No federation, no problem 😂
Yeah, but y'all are smart, sane people
It was a truly amazing success. I had some friends originally from Czechoslovakia so was aware of the situation when it happened. It was shocking because of the lack of violence.
One of few cases in history when things were handled the way it should be handled.
And as a Russian I can tell you that you wouldn't like it if the US shook hands and went for beers
Much smaller than the US
*_"Legal Eagle:_*_ We're dope & we do dope things"_
So, this *has to be* a merchtag. Mugs, T-shirts, the works. 1% cut for the bone? 😉
Every state and county should have a right to self determination
I visited Molossia this past summer and it was so much fun!
But even Kevin Baugh knows deep down he cannot really secede and does pay his US income taxes (although he calls it “foreign aid”)
I encourage everyone to visit! You will have fun!
Haha, "foreign aid". When Devon said the currency was tied to cookie dough I knew he sounded like an alright guy.
Is Mollossia's major industry tourism?
He's living his dream and seems to be all in fun. He's about as serious as a bowl of cookie dough. lol
Yeah, it's pretty obvious that Molossia is functionally a tourist attraction and that even he knows it 😂 I like it, it's a fun concept. I'd like to visit someday.
Also calling taxes "foreign aid" is hilarious 💀 Who does he pay for his utilities? Or does he have his own micro-grid?
Sounds like he has the same energy as Norton I., Emperor of the United States.
I’m starting to believe the legality of secession isn’t going to stop this from happening.
It's very legal and very much happening
@@GallowayJesse it isn't legal at all, SCOTUS has stated repeatedly that there is NO legal right to secede
@@serraramayfield9230 wrong
@@GallowayJesse proof?
Texas has already seceded by refusing to follow the supreme court
Well. "A house divided can not stand"
Don’t need a constitutional provision to secede. Texas just needs to send a letter. See, the declaration of independence.
How did that work out for Texas last time they tried it?
@@Anvilman didn’t say it would work out. Just commenting that it can be done. We have a natural right to throw off a tyrannical government. I’m not even saying we’re to the point of needing to secede.