Ted Cruz Talks About Joe Rogan Being 'President' Of Texas If State Secedes From U.S.

[left-of-center2012]

In a startling address to constituents, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently talked about controversial COVID-19 conspiracist Joe Rogan becoming the “president” of Texas if the state secedes from the union.

“I’m not there yet,” Cruz told an audience last month at Texas A&M University about Texas seceding from the United States — popularly known as “Texit.” But “if there comes a point where it’s hopeless, then I think
we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil,” he said to loud applause.

Asked if he would also take Rogan, a Texan, Cruz responded:
“Joe Rogan, he might be president of Texas!”

When Cruz was asked by a member of the audience about the possibility of seceding, he said he “understood the sentiment.” But he added that he wasn’t ready for it — yet.

“Look, if the Democrats end the filibuster ... if they pack the Supreme Court, if they make D.C. a state, if they federalize elections and massively expand voter fraud,” which doesn’t exist, “it may become hopeless,” Cruz said. “We’re not there yet.”

Cruz planned to speak last month at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, but the event was moved off campus because organizers refused to comply with the university’s policy requiring masks, WKOW-TV reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-talks-joe-rogan-045915044.html

[traitorsgalore]

1. It would be fantastic if Texas got the hell out of the United States

If I was the president I'd kick them out, I wouldn't wait for them to secede, LOL.

[Hekate]

43. #1 Lotta good people still in Texas, like Beto O'Rourke. #2 The President can't do that...

For gods’ sake.

[cstanleytech]

2. Anyone want to inform the moron that it would also cost Texas a shit town more for things

like food? After all California would not be under control of Texas and its one of the biggest ports for importing a bunch of stuff from overseas cheaply.

[FreepFryer]

3. This is very very good news. He lists the very things he fears Democrats accomplish most.

Let’s get on that agenda he recited, it’s the anti fascism to do list.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Cruz should annex Cancun

Then he could live there and still be a 'Texan'.

[lagomorph777]

39. President of Cancun;

he's already President of his own fan club.

[Woodswalker]

5. I really think we're doomed

[Demsrule86]

36. I doubt we are doomed...seriously just stop with the doom and gloom. Let's work on

getting important stuff done.

[Relaxed Nightman]

6. It'd be Deserved

Joe Rogan and Texas, a marriage made in Ego.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Texas is off to a great start: they have their own electricity grid.

I hope we can bring all the military bodies from Ft Sam Houston cemetary and other places back to the U.S.

Great thinking, Ted. As usual.

[ashredux]

15. Yep...and it FAILED last winter...assholes ...people actually died from the cold

[DFW]

8. Well, this is off to a good start

5.25 million of us voted for Biden/Harris, but WE need to be kicked out of the union.

OK, but only if every state who had LESS votes for Biden/Harris gets kicked out as well.

As for Ted Cruz-you-lose, we sing this:

[Bettie]

24. No, not kicked out

but there are a bunch of nut jobs who want to pull you out.

Here in Iowa, we have the same nut jobs and stupid people, our senators are just as unhinged, but slightly less out in public about it.

I just wish there was a place we could put them to try out their gun totin' libertarian homeland where they could do their thing far away from the rest of us.

[tclambert]

45. I think some people did try out a "gun totin' libertarian homeland" called Somalia.

[Bettie]

46. We could send them there

but that would probably be an insult to the people of Somalia.

But, they could learn what a nation without a functioning government is like.

[ashredux]

9. Pandering to the way lowest of the nuts....dangerous political theater

One minute of reality thinking tells one it is absurd….

[Auggie]

12. +1,000,000

[EndlessWire]

10. What a nut job

How did this guy get elected?

They're going to take NASA and the military? Ah, noooo...it's nice to see him so dedicated to the United States. Still talking about seceding. Anything to stir the pot of unrest that the Repubs can use against the Government. They should be careful, lest Mexico decides to invade the country of Texas. Yep, there's a lot to consider.

This was just a giant punk on the University audience.

[rpannier]

11. Hate to break it to you Ted

You don't get NASA or the military bases

[Takket]

13. They don't get two senators anymore either

[GoCubsGo]

18. Or, the USPS, FAA air traffic controllers, VA hospitals and clinics,

or any of the hundreds of other federal operations. Whenever these morons start blathering about secession, they always assume the federal government is just going to hand over all their property, facilities and employees to them. They are so fucking deluded and stupid, it isn't funny.

[phylny]

19. This right here!

He’s an idiot.

[NCjack]

22. Cruz knows Texas doesn't have the money to pay for NASA or the military.

But, stirring a pot of shit with his arms really excites him.

[AJT]

29. Texas won't have money at all. They would have no currency

and all federal money would be frozen.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. They Can Take The Buildings & Land

But, where's the money coming from to fund all those jobs?
Unsurprisingly, Cruz didn't think this through.
They secede, then unemployment goes up to 12%.
Great plan!

[Afrocat]

14. I simply don't get the insane thinking of some of these states that want to go about seceding.

We have open fucking sedition from world class fucking morons and we keep going on like its business as usual. I'm tired of these people and wish they would up and go away. Do they know where they get a nice chunk of their budgets? Where all their goods arrive/leave from? Who's subsidizing the crops they farm? I'm at the point where I say go, I'm sick of dirt, rocks and crazy people making life insane for the rest of us. I'm sure the non insane areas of the the rest of the country will take in those that don't want to live in the United Confederacy of Loony Tunes.

[geardaddy]

38. +1

I right there with you!

[underpants]

16. "...and Ted Cruz picks a fight with...Big Bird" Mika on Morning Joe

Haven’t looked up the story but I laughed out loud at the way she said it.

[marble falls]

17. Sphincter says "What"? No, seriously, the sphincter said what?

[GoCubsGo]

20. A secessionist proposal from John Fugelsang

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Works for me.

[myohmy2]

21. how much...

...does texas throw into the federal coffers each year?

...how much do we piss away on texas each year?

...if the former is less than the latter then hasta la vista...

...I would probably need a passport to visit my daughter but that's a small price to pay...

...I never liked her much anyway...

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Actually, Texas Is Not A Taker State

They aren't a huge donor state though.
But, their balance of payments to the federal government is actually net positive, by a little.
That said, if the federal money used by the state government were to evaporate, there'd be a 16% hole in the budget.
The net positive balance would only close 60% of that gap, so they'd still have a 6.4% budget hole.
That does NOT include the impact of reduced commercial traffic through the state that is likely when customs, immigration, and tariffs (which they would need) result in some rerouting through Oklahoma.
He's promoting an economic disaster for his own state, despite that net positive balance.

[Bengus81]

23. Oh PLEASE do it Cancun Cruz. Then OUR Government shuts down ALL your International airports

And we barricade or BULLDOZE......Interstate 10/20/30/35/37

People will be left driving around on roads like you see in Cast Away.



GO FOR IT Ted!!!

[NickB79]

25. The Taliban found out how worthless US equipment is without resupply

Good luck fixing your Abrams tank or your F-18 when the US government cuts you off.

And enjoy the roadblocks and checkpoints on all interstates on your border.

[bluecollar2]

26. To be fair...

It was Texas A&M

[malaise]

27. Does this fool know that he won't be in the Senate if they secede?

[GemDigger]

28. No sir, that is not how it works.

You LOSE the military because it is a US military and you will not be part of the US. That means you lose @ 15 military bases and their families. Can you hear the the federal funds of the US leaving Texas? Cha chink gone.

NASA as well belongs to the US. Can you hear that money leaving Texas? Cha chink gone.

You take the oil and I can guarantee that we, the US, will never buy any Texas oil. Can you hear the money leaving Texas? Cha chink gone

Water? When you run out (and you will someday) that we would share the water of the US with secessionists? Fuck off and die on that one. Can you hear your people dying?

Can you picture the border wall going up around Texas? I doubt there will be any state that would welcome any Texans that agree with a secession so we would build the bestest, biggest, most beautiful unclimbable wall you can imagine.

Hey Ted, fuck off and choke on your spit while you sleep.

[dalton99a]

33. Fucker will go back to Canada when things get rough

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

41. Speaking of water....

Could they build a dam on the Rio Grande if Texas secedes?

[GemDigger]

42. I doubt they could do that because other states downstream and Mexico also benefit from it.

They shoulda thunk before they used all the ground water for their oil drilling.

On a serious note it wouldn't matter much with all the waterways/reservoirs drying up.

[CrackityJones75]

32. How texas with all their Texan bravado

How Texas with all their Texan bravado came to love a shit heel Canadian is beyond me.

[edhopper]

34. NASA HQ is in DC

you just have one of the command centers, that can be moved. You would probably lose Sapce X too.
You don't own the Army and most servicemen will not stay in your shit hole State.
And the oil is Private, unless you intend to become a Socialist State.
You won't take shit, you dumbass mother fucker.

[Mr. Sparkle]

35. Here , take all my money!

Go.

[Septua]

37. And who would make the decision...

..to secede? Cruz, Abbot and Gohmert? I'd like to see a statewide TX poll on pro-secession sentiment. Yet another example of the minority wanting to rule the majority. What do you call that? Fascism, right?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Carnival Cruz is sad

[Hekate]

44. Senator Hagfish continues with his widening trail of slime

[NowISeetheLight]

47. Well lets see...

The Texas share of the military budget is about $125b a year. Take that out of the Texas economy. Then the US could pull a "Trump" and slap tariffs on all the products all these Texas companies make and want to ship to the other 49 states (Texas is the largest exporting state in the US). Currently Texas gets back about $.88 for every $1.00 in federal tax money they pay, but that's mostly due to the businesses. I'm sure they'll be happy to provide more tax dollars to support themselves. As for healthcare, I'm sure all the elderly in Texas will do fine without Social Security and Medicare. In a 2019 study I read (cbpp.org) it noted that Texas had the third highest number of seniors lifted above the poverty line from 2016-2018 (1,052,000 seniors). Don't forget education too. How are you going to pay for all those schools without the federal contribution?

It's a couple years old but I found a nice breakdown of the Texas budget. According to this in 2014 the state received $38b in federal aid which constituted 31% of its general revenues. They'll have to make that up themselves.

I think Texas would finally need an income tax? I'm sure all those "freedom loving Republican" folks would love that.

Yeah... I'm sure Texas would be just fine.