Yeah, I always wonder when people were bullshitting about Texas leaving the union how they expect they would factor in the National debt. Like sure you can leave if you if pay $100,000+ per person who lives in your state, and we remove all our assets and draw up trade deals that leave you with no ability to acquire anything. I mean hell, at least California could trade with Canada, Mexico, and the EU. Texas was anti Mexico, a far stretch from Canada but wouldn't be able to ship through the U.S. likely, and would get worse trade deals with the EU do to the policies they were fighting for.
They don't trust China, so their only possible ally would have been Russia, which the U.S. wouldn't allow Russia to be that close, or the best case scenario is Texas got the Cuba treatment, worse case would be hard to imagine.
There shouldn't be, but I also think there shouldn't be doctors between people and a lot of medication. I shouldn't need a prescription for flea/tick/worm medication for a pet, nor should I need a prescription to pick up amoxicillin. They shouldn't need to keep ID's and databases of when you pick up Mucinex D. If I get a soar throat, sinus pressure, and my ear starts hurting really bad once a year around the same time I usually know it's because I have allergies and don't take daily allergy pills. So every other year or so I have to go get a prescription for the same thing. They used to give me amoxicillin and a zpack. Aparently they were giving those out to much so now it's just Mucinex D I use. The LLMs will be a problem, but they are just another problem being thrown into a building that's already falling down.