WY GOP Chair Floats Secession From Union. That Might Not Be Such A Great Idea.
By: Cristina Cabrera (TPM)
Do these people have the slightest idea what they're talking about?
Do they care?
Sound bites for the Q crowd...
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A herd of wild bison graze in Hayden Valley at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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During former Trump strategist Steve Bannon's podcast last Friday, Wyoming GOP Chair Frank Eathorne signaled approval of a Texas Republican lawmaker's push for the Lone Star State to secede from the Union in a "Texit."
"Many of these Western states have the ability to be self-reliant, and we're keeping eyes on Texas too, and their consideration of possible secession," Eathorne told Bannon. "They have a different state constitution than we do as far as wording, but it's something we're all paying attention to."
The party leader told the Star-Tribune that the subject came up in a "brief conversation" with the Texas GOP but it "won't come up again unless the grass roots brings it up."
A Republican state legislator, Rep. Landon Brown (R), panned Eathorne's "pathetic" suggestion and called for the chair's resignation in a blunt tweet on Tuesday.
"Floating the idea of secession as a party plank or statement is contradictory to my stance as a Republican," Brown stated. "This idea is pathetic and ill advised - I am appalled that our chairman thinks he has this authority."
Ill advised indeed.
For starters, the U.S. federal government owns almost half of Wyoming's land.
Additionally, the Cowboy State depends heavily on Uncle Sam's pursestrings: Federal funds have accounted for 33.5 to 48 percent of the Cowboy State's revenue throughout the past two decades, according to the Star Tribune.
All that plus a paltry GDP of $40.4 billion makes any "Wyexit" a flatly terrible idea. If Wyoming were a country, its GDP would rank between Paraguay and Tunisia
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Any semi-aware citizen knows that secession is a very bad idea.
But hey! Apparently not our elected representatives...
LMAO, as far as i know he isnt elected to any position in the legislature .
He IS however elected by the state party as chairman for the party he represents, meaning HIS party owns him and his comments until censured, or removed or he resigns.
i saw this when it came out locally , and couldnt help but think to myself , that dude(dud) just went full retard.
Not being a member of his party , those i have been to the watering hole /bar that i know are , have pretty much just shaken their heads and said welcome to bizzaro world .
My opinion ? not the brightest lightbulb in the pack.
Bizarre at best.
No, not really once you get into real logistics of trade, water, border security etc. It would take years of negotiation and never work out in any one state's favor.
Sad and sick as such a thought is, it's timing is worse. There is all this mention of Lincoln, a new movie, slogans "Divided we stand," and also an old reality that Lincoln found himself in a "sticky" position with conservative states at the start of his first administration, after pleading for unity.
To be clear, I think this is sickness and I would not wish our, any, state to secede from this union. On the otherhand, we have Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. to aid in 'filling out' any number gaps.
This is just the butthurt of someone who is obviously obsessed with politics. There is no need for secession. It’s not as if Washington (under Democrats or Republicans) has been substantially holding back Wyoming. People get so wound up about elections, but they don’t pause to look around and consider how much that election will really impact them in their daily lives.