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TexasTowelie

(116,747 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 06:45 AM Jun 2022

Texas GOP Website Crashes After Push for Vote to Secede From U.S.

The party's state convention over the weekend was muddled with several incidents, including a right-wing activist berating Representative Dan Crenshaw as well as backlash over banning a group of gay Republicans from setting up a booth at the convention.

But parts of their policy platform have drawn significant attention—and criticism. The party voted on measures that, if passed, would urge state lawmakers to secede from the United States and support a complete abortion ban.

On Monday, as reports over the controversial policy positions spread across social media, the state party's website appeared to be down. Links to the website only yielded a page that read: "Error establishing a database connection," rather than the website itself. The website was also down for at least part of the weekend, as well.

The state party had not issued an official statement on the outage, and Newsweek reached out to the party's press office for comment Monday afternoon.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gop-website-crashes-after-push-for-vote-to-secede-from-u-s/ar-AAYG3j4

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randr

(12,479 posts)
4. I recall an old chant when Americans express displeasure with our Government
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 06:59 AM
Jun 2022

If you don't love it, leave it.
More applicable in the present.

thomski64

(573 posts)
6. It's well established that States .
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 07:11 AM
Jun 2022

....can not secede from the Union.
I believe that was during President
Lincoln's administration. However,
there doesn't seem to be precedent
as to weather a State could be expelled,
or, perhaps better, sold to Mexico.

Maraya1969

(22,997 posts)
8. I thought that is what they did. The slave states all wrote letters saying they were
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 07:43 AM
Jun 2022

seceding because they needed their slaves for their economy. I read them years ago.

Perhaps this was some informal thing????? Or that they changed things after the civil war

SWBTATTReg

(24,085 posts)
7. I heard from the grapevine from some of my friends that they tried signing on too, to have
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 07:14 AM
Jun 2022

TX secede from the US (to help the process along, basically saying, good, leave), they were unable to do so (because I guess DB (Data Base issues)), but the thought was a good one. But I do have good friends in TX, I'd hate to see them go to be honest w/ you.

Zambero

(9,761 posts)
9. Texas GOP craps the bed
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 07:43 AM
Jun 2022

Then pushes for a vote to unplug its washing machine. Then again, the state's electric grid would eventually do the same.

OrlandoDem2

(2,270 posts)
10. On a side note, I'm fine if Texas secedes. Good riddance. Texas DUers will need to move and you're
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 07:45 AM
Jun 2022

welcome in the other 49 states. Leave the Texas GOP to live in and run their own failed state.

dixiechiken1

(2,113 posts)
11. Buh-bye.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 08:23 AM
Jun 2022

Oh, and when Mexico comes to take their land back, don't come crying to us. You're on your own.

Good luuuuuucccckkkk!

Jade Fox

(10,030 posts)
13. The idea that a bunch of MAGA nuts could run a country is laughable...
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 09:42 AM
Jun 2022

Not funny, but definitely laughable.

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