Almost HALF Of Texas Republicans Want To Secede From Our Nation
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Look, at a certain point in negotiations you hit a brick wall. You’ve put what you think is a perfectly reasonable offer on the table, and yet the other side has stripped down to its underwear and is smearing the walls with fecal matter.
Almost half of Texas Republicans are in the brown stuff. And we need to just disengage from further interaction.
In a new survey by Research 2000 for the liberal Daily Kos blog, Texas voters were asked whether the Lone Star State would be better off as an “independent nation” or as part of the United States.
Overall, more than six in ten chose the latter option. (No big surprise there.) But, among Republicans, 48 percent said it would be better for Texas if the state was an independent nation — the same number who said they would prefer the state remain a part of the United States.
Just to reiterate: roughly half of all self-identified Texas Republicans in the Research 2000 poll said they would rather their state be an independent nation.
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“if it ain’t white, it ain’t right”-Texas Repubs
Republicans’ default position is treason.
In a related survey, roughly half of all self-identified preschoolers announced that they were taking their ball and going home because you’re a doodyhead.
And to them the rest of the nation should say, ‘Bye.’
Let the door hit ‘em where the Lord split ‘em! And please, take the Noise Machine with them.
Nice one, Spidey.
Nice . . No more big hats, no more Texas asshats, and more assets for us all. I’ll miss the barbecue though.
Secede and go where? Mexico? Or they just going to put up a huge fence around the entire state?
That first paragraph will come in handy when the discussion turns back to praising the virtues of diplomacy with Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and the NoKos.
That first paragraph will come in handy when the discussion turns back to praising the virtues of diplomacy with Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and the NoKos.
Hi, I’m SaveFarris and I have a grand total of four programmed answers to any question you might have. Just pull this string!
And I promise: My answers won’t have anything to do with what you asked!
Hey, remember when the Right made fun of liberals whose knee-jerk reaction to the Bush re(*)election was that it was time to move to Canada? Well, this is a million billion times funnier.
They WILL take the Cowboys with them, right?
What fun it will be to let them go. I can’t wait to laugh in their faces when they apply to the US for foreign aid.
Maybe we could save money on flags and such by just replacing them with DC, so we keep an even 50 states?
The US is keeping Texas.
Though Republicans who want to leave the US are welcome to renounce their American citizenship and move out of the United States anytime they’d like.
Perhaps they could follow Republican Cheney‘s old corporation KBR-Halliburton and move to Dubai.
Meanwhile, perhaps the Republican Party should explain why so many Republicans have no loyalty to the United States of America.
Said it before, I’ll say it again:
“Texas… it’s like the national laboratory for bad government.”
Ah, dear Molly Ivins, how we miss thee…
P.S.:
That being the case, it really would be a shame to lose all access to really good Texas BBQ. Would there be a way for us to keep Austin, if the rest of the state secedes? It would be kinda like West Berlin for most of the Cold War. Although unfortunately my favorite BBQ, “The Salt Lick” in Dripping Springs would probably be part of the First Texican Republic of Jesus, hopefully we could hang on to “County Line” within the Austin city limits.
Let them have it. Seriously. Then we can watch them turn into the biggest pile of crap banana republic in the western hemisphere. Soon the Mexican government will be talking about a wall to keep the Texans out.
Then watch them apply for foreign aid.
QUOTE:
“Meanwhile, perhaps the Republican Party should explain why so many Republicans have no loyalty to the United States of America.”
Yes. Every time a Republican with some kind of official position says he wants to secede, I intend to at least send him an email asking this exact question. I’ve had my loyalty to this country questioned for the past eight years and I think it’s time turn the tables.
It blows my mind what a bunch of whiney babies we had running the show until 3 months ago. It’s like a bunch of two-year-olds having a tantrum because nobody will buy them a new toy to replace the one they broke.
For all the yapping about secession, it should be emphasized that they most certainly did try that once, and how did that work out for you, conservatives?
Would you guys really care? Let’em go then. I certainly wouldn’t care if Cali seceded.
Sorry, Rheinhard, even BBQ’s not immune:
“Smitty’s began around 1900 as Kreuz Market, a German butcher shop that sold fresh meat during the week and smoked whatever was left over on the weekend. The Kreuz name endured even after Edgar “Smitty” Schmidt bought the business, in 1948. It was still in use in 1999, when a dust-up among the late Edgar’s three children caused his son Rick to take the Kreuz name to a new building down the road. Fortunately, daughter Nina Schmidt Sells and her son, John Fullilove, kept the fires burning and reopened under the current name.”
I never thought I would have occasion to say this, but I concur with Yo. I’d feel a bit safer if it were an island, but one can’t have everything.
“It’s like a bunch of two-year-olds having a tantrum”
Republican philosophy in brief:
“ME! ME! ME! MINE! MINE! MINE! NO! NO! NO!”
Yo mama, don’t worry Cali has no intention of seceding. We will continue to take our hard-earned tax dollars and fritter them away on crappy Southern states, perhaps like your own…
You guys in Cali fritter them away on a lot more than that. That’s why you’re taxed to death and people are leaving that state. It’s a dump.
yo mama, I am guessing you come from a worthy state like Alabama…
Definitely *not* a southern boy. But keep guessing.
Yo Mama: Definitely *not* a southern boy. But keep guessing.
W. Virginia?
Can I guess? I guess…who cares. California’s problems stem from proposition 13, a misguided (wait for it) Republican initiative that starved communities of needed municipal funds, piling the burden on the state.
Just pull this string!
“There’s a snake in my boot!”
And now, we have this crazy son of a bitch bastard who thinks TX can split itself up into five states, each with two rock-ribbed GOP senators in the Capitol.
Please. Just leave the country. Found your own fucking nation and try to run it according to contemporary conservative “principles”. You WILL fail, and when you try to come back to the USA, we’ll either laugh at you or spit on you.
Actually, there seems to be an exception in the Constitution that would allow TX to subdivide itself. (See the comments in the above Kos link.)
Still, it’s a sign of GOP desperation.
Randy Brown: “And now, we have this crazy son of a bitch bastard who thinks TX can split itself up into five states, each with two rock-ribbed GOP senators in the Capitol.”
If they did divide themselves up, the Democrats would be able to win at least two of those substates, unless they gerrymandered the whole state, which would be funny as hell.
In reality, the south would be safely Democratic. While the Austin area, the coast, and Dallas areas would be swing states. Only the northern rural area would be safe Republican.
The Democrats could conceivably walk away with 6 of the 10 Senators and most of the EC votes. Sure, they would have to spend a lot of money to do that, but the Republicans would have to spend just as much to defend.
You can make all the jokes you want, but the old union is collapsing like Humpty Dumpty, and ain’t nobody going to be able to put it back together again.
Yo Mama, where did you and so many other people get this idea that people are leaving California? I hear this all over the place, but it’s just not true. On the contrary, 10% of the people in the nation live here now because it’s the best and most prosperous state, with the highest standard of living (by far) and more are coming every day. They project 20 million more people just by the middle of the century. And z_adura is right. The only reason you don’t want us to secede is so you can continue to take our money. And we’re fed up with that. Bail out your own darn banks, and pay for your own darn welfare!!!
I’m from Delaware. I’m strongly hoping that various states show signs of secession. Those who are blindly nationalistic and pro USA, I can only say that things are building awfully similarly to Germany in the 1930′s. Any of you who like this country; that’s fine. But just think: “what are the liberties I have and how safe are they?”; “This wealth I have, how is it possible to have it while having immense national debt? How safe is my wealth?”
If you like the present state of the USA and are OK with being beneath the powerful thumb of our state machine, or perhaps cannot or have not recognize the machinations of the power of this state, than you will surely respond with antagonistic slogans. However, if you want to cast your ideals into the vision of the USA as it should and ought to be, than perhaps you’ll see that it is time for action.
Sincerely,
Individual demanding true liberty.