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Just secede already: The obstructionists aren’t going anywhere. Maybe we should
Salon ^
| Oct. 20, 2013
| Chuck Thompson
Posted on 10/20/2013 10:35:52 AM PDT by steelhead_trout
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To: steelhead_trout
Geographically, we only need two states. LibState would be made up of the nation’s metropolitan areas and Right-State would be everywhere else. So be it we have islands.
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:56:37 AM PDT
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
To: central_va
Actually, separating the territory once known as “the United States of America” into distinct republics reflecting the political disposition of the majority within those districts, and following Congressional districts rather than state boundaries, would result in one nearly contiguous “red” electoral country, and a number of much smaller “blue” electoral republics, clustered on the East and West coasts, and part of the so-called “Rust Belt” surrounding the Great Lakes. There may also be some really isolated pockets in and around cities notorious for their ultra-progressive public universities or their history as the state capital, but their very isolation would soon result in their dissolution as a separate republic and reabsorption into the “red” country.
The “blue” republics would soon find, that without the flow of revenue and tribute from the surrounding “red” country, they sink into a real cesspool of despair and anarchy, much like Detroit already has become.
“America” has come to mean some very different things to any number of people, and today, there is little agreement as to just what constitutes “American ideals”.
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:56:50 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Men may not always be capable of evil, but they are always capable of incompetence.)
To: Timber Rattler
The Confederacy wasn’t racist, it was status quo. Lincoln was one of the biggest racist there ever was. Need I quote Lincoln on his plan to deport ALL blacks or how he thought the black man would always be the inferior?
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:57:21 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: steelhead_trout
They hate freedom and they aren’t changing.
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:57:38 AM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
To: central_va
They can have any state where they have a majority of counties.
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:57:47 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: central_va
Now that’s a good thought
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:58:46 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: steelhead_trout
I would be LOL at this nonsense if it were not so pervasive and pernicious. The ultra extremists have turned the language on its heads and are calling mainstream Americans all the things THEY are-extremist, scary, haters, name-callers, religious fanatics (their religion being progressivism).
Talk about projection!!! Their psychological projectiion is enough to cause physical projection.
vaudine
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:59:23 AM PDT
by
vaudine
To: steelhead_trout
More horse sh*t from Salon.
Yawn.
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:59:25 AM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: steelhead_trout
They are always soooo......superior. rofl
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posted on
10/20/2013 10:59:27 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: central_va
Actually a the 6 New England states should be merged into ONE state with 2 senators. They get 12 now!!!! Brilliant idea....we can call it "Libernetticut".
To: steelhead_trout
Thompson is too stupid to realize that many conservatives grew up as members of the left, and we know it from the inside. The New Left was rabidly anti-American, and those are the people who are now running the media and the Democratic Party. To cite just one example, it was Rev. Wright, Obama's "spiritual father," who casually spoke of AmeriKKKa and "our chickens coming home to roost" on 9/11. One more: Michelle Obama, the First Lady, said that her husband's election was the first time she ever felt proud to be an American.
As for secession, I clearly recall all the talk among libs that the Pacific Northwest should split off from America and become a separate country called Cascadia.
And then there was all the talk by libs when Bush was president about how they were going to leave the country, how he wasn't their president, and how ashamed they were of a country that elected people like him and Reagan, that we are a nation of morons, etc.
To: cripplecreek
Session to be taken seriously, some would argue it can never be taken seriously, has to be done state by state. A lot of northerners know that and know they would be “left behind” in Socialist Utopia. Sorry but move you asses South.
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:00:59 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: alloysteel
If I 95 and I 81 were shut down at the Virginia line, The blue zone would be in trouble
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:03:58 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: steelhead_trout
This guy (the author) has gone full retard, in public. Sheesh, trying to equate us with all the bad connotations of the Confederacy etc.
If any libtards want to secede they are more than welcome to take their liberal cesspools and go. Here's the thing though. There will be no monetary aide, in fact no aide of any kind coming from real America. There will be no immigration for you. Once you've decided to live in the progressive liberal paradise you create, you will be staying there. You will not be allowed to change your mind and immigrate back to real America, ever. We don't want your idiotic, unworkable ideas and ideals to pollute our political landscape ever again.
So, any libtards want to go live in someplace like that? I'm sure there are a few true believers out there. But most libtards, once they realize they won't be allowed to live off the successes and fruits of others' labor, lordly distributing it as they see fit...well, they back out fast.
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:04:05 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: First_Salute
It is indeed no accident that the red and blue state idea was deliberately flipped to eliminate the association between liberalism and communism. “Red” always indicated leftism.
To: central_va
That's not what I was saying at all. Yes, in the mid-19th century most white American were racist, even Lincoln, and I know all about his colonization plan.
The point here is that the libs are trying to convince low info voters that the southern Confederacy was the only racist element in America at that time, and that by associating the TEA Party movement with it, they are planting seeds in the backs of those voters minds that the TEA Party is in effect racist too, when it clearly is not.
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:04:13 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: steelhead_trout
“They won’t let us enslave them! Why are they so mean?!”
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:05:09 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: steelhead_trout
They can have fiat currency and the Fed; we’ll have PM based currency.
They can keep the welfare cases, bureaucrats, and government teachers; we’ll have productive citizens, rule of law, and home and private schools
They can have government granted rights; we’ll have natural rights.
They can have victim disarmament zones; we’ll have the right to defend ourselves with firearms.
It won’t take long to see which society will prosper.
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:05:32 AM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
To: vaudine
The food producers should simply starve them until all dead.
The land could be used.
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:06:45 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
To: steelhead_trout
We don't want to live in Ted Cruz's America. He doesn't like ours. Maybe a split really is inevitable and right"
Fair enough, Mr. Thompson. I prefer subtraction, so we're kicking you and yours out of the Union. Ya' all can come back in when you've learned to stand on your own hind legs, without sucking the life blood out of what few producers this nation has left. Also, you will have to swear allegiance to "one nation under God," without wincing, or crossing yer' fingers behind yer' back. Adios.
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posted on
10/20/2013 11:07:29 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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