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TDale313

(7,820 posts)
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:07 PM Dec 2020

Are these dumbasses actually gonna try and secede?

I mean, part of feels, fuck it, let ‘em... give safe harbor to any citizens who want to stay in the US and be done with it.

On the other hand, do we really want neighbor states run by delusional fascists that are likely to be failed states within a few years if not months?

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Are these dumbasses actually gonna try and secede? (Original Post) TDale313 Dec 2020 OP
Let em go. SlogginThroughIt Dec 2020 #1
On behalf of the blue city of St. Louis, we request to be annexed GumboYaYa Dec 2020 #2
As a long standing citizen of Illinois...please join us!! Thekaspervote Dec 2020 #5
The United States of Welfare. gibraltar72 Dec 2020 #3
exactly nt Alpeduez21 Dec 2020 #11
No. Drunken Irishman Dec 2020 #4
I agree with your last paragraph, and it would be failed fascist states with their hand out Thekaspervote Dec 2020 #6
They can't have it. They don't like they can leave. Saboburns Dec 2020 #7
Secession Is A Settled Matter ProfessorGAC Dec 2020 #8
If they try they need to suffer the consequences. LiberalFighter Dec 2020 #9
Post removed Post removed Dec 2020 #10
Wait, you want to destroy parts of this country? cwydro Dec 2020 #15
Secession? That's something I haven't heard about thecrow Dec 2020 #12
It will only be a matter of time before they start warring with the liberal state Fullduplexxx Dec 2020 #13
Couldn't resist... 2naSalit Dec 2020 #14
A new country? imanamerican63 Dec 2020 #16
What dumbasses are you referring to? sarisataka Dec 2020 #17
The "new California". Are out protesting most weekends cally Dec 2020 #18
 

SlogginThroughIt

(1,977 posts)
1. Let em go.
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:10 PM
Dec 2020

Seriously they are mostly poor fucking taker states and while there are great people that live there too, the majority keep voting for lunacy. Let them go.

Thekaspervote

(32,803 posts)
6. I agree with your last paragraph, and it would be failed fascist states with their hand out
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:18 PM
Dec 2020

On the other hand...without FL and TX the repukes would NEVER win another election!! p

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
7. They can't have it. They don't like they can leave.
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:19 PM
Dec 2020

Fuck them. This America, my country, your country.

THEY CAN'T HAVE IT.

If they don't like it....LEAVE. They get none of my country.

FUCK THEM. They get nothing.

ProfessorGAC

(65,227 posts)
8. Secession Is A Settled Matter
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:20 PM
Dec 2020

And the originalists have no leg to stand on, as the framers did not include an exit mechanism.
It is sedition to secede.
It would also be usurpation of federal government property & assets if interstates, military bases, or federal buildings are involved. Crime on top of crime.
Military action would be justified and it would be over when the first battalion arrived.
There will be secession. Just empty threats.
Besides, the no money or foreign policy infrastructure would leave them destitute in a couple years at most. (As a poster above mentioned about taker states.)

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cwydro

(51,308 posts)
15. Wait, you want to destroy parts of this country?
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 07:07 PM
Dec 2020

You do know there are blue pockets in all those states, right?

Want to be sure I understand you here...you want to burn and destroy the property belonging to other citizens based on their political party? Kill the people, livestock, pets and children too?

Do tell.

sarisataka

(18,792 posts)
17. What dumbasses are you referring to?
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 07:18 PM
Dec 2020

There has been more than a few ideas put forth to split the country or for some states to secede.

cally

(21,597 posts)
18. The "new California". Are out protesting most weekends
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 07:22 PM
Dec 2020

Just a few of them at a time but rampant anti Gavin on NEXTDOOR

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