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(57,081 posts)Wounded Bear
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(57,081 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)KS Toronado
(17,231 posts)digging up dirt on Hunter Biden
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(57,081 posts)Freddie
(9,265 posts)Isn't this just great, AOC came to Texas to give away somebody else's money. Oh yeah, that's what Democrats do.
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Posted by a RWNJ friend from Texas. Unreal. I was inclined to help til I saw this. Let them secede and solve all their problems on their own.
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)one of the people who didn't actually lose power or water.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Wouldn't even have to change the stars on the flag.
calimary
(81,240 posts)Texas doesnt ever seem to want to be part of things, anyway.
soldierant
(6,857 posts)would join Texas and could be replaced with DC and the Virgin Islands. Stacey Plaskett would n=make a fine Senator.
efhmc
(14,725 posts)Here are the stats: 5,259,126 (46.5% of Texans voted for Biden and 4,045,632 voted for Beto. If you want to help us make a change try helping not discriminating.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Oldem
(833 posts)to her campaign to help Texans--by people all over the country. The implication in the quotation is that she gave away taxpayer money. The donors are taxpayers, alright, but that's where the similarity ends.
I'd like to know if the guy--or people--who are spreading this slur took any of that money.
I'm with the suggestion to cut TX loose--cede it to Mexico, and see how Texans like that--and grant statehood to PR--DC, too, while we're at it. TX wants to secede? OK, secede it with extreme prejudice.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)Has no problem taking money from the Federal government, my tax dollars?
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Talk about socialism - he gets a great pension and healthcare - yes, he earned it - but people hoping to get the same by working and paying taxes is SOCIALISM!!
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)The big problem with secession/partition is that there are large numbers of people in the 'Red' states who don't share the political, religious, or cultural values of the people 'in control' in those states along with POC and LBGTQ folks. Then there are those people with 'Red' state values in the 'Blue' states, though their situation would not approach in any fashion that of people with Blue state values in a Red state.
Secession/partition - call it what you will - throws a lot people 'under the bus', in a very awful way. Some people have ties to the area where they live: familial, business, sentimental, etc. Huge sacrifices are involved.
It's easy to say 'People can migrate', but it takes a lot to completely pull up your roots, get rid of everything, and start in a new place. Enormous numbers of people really don't have the resources, physically, financially, or psychologically, to do that.
I've moved countries three times - once to the UK in 1970, back to the US in 1980, and finally to France in 2018. Even wanting to move causes major stress and upset. Some folks never get over it.
Splitting the US up would end up causing far more harm than can be imagined. Think North and South Korea, India and Pakistan, Bosnia, Armenia, the first American Civil War, etc, etc, ad infinitum.
There would disputes over borders, water rights, licensing of products, etc, etc. And the 'Law of Unintended Consequences' would apply in ways that at this stage are not even being considered.
The US needs to be fixed. And there are mechanisms to fix it. It's just that at the moment those mechanisms need some serious adjusting. And there are a lot of people who have a vested interest in seeing that those adjustments aren't made.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)Gimme a "T"!
Harker
(14,016 posts)Or a 'T' for Thelma? That woman made a fool out of me.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)No, wait, not missing, just in Cancun. Had to go there because they have electricity and internets, so he can do senator stuff.
Harker
(14,016 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)How many do you need?
calimary
(81,240 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)... ' but you need two for 'cattle'"
Ted: all hat, no cattle.
h2ebits
(644 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)Give them credit.
Roc2020
(1,616 posts)while they are down. Come to think of it. the Democrats logo is a Donkey
WilliamPlanke
(51 posts)It would go a long way towards normal behavior and common courtesy if a high ranking Texas GOP leader stood up and thanked AOC for helping to collect the donations.
Jay25
(417 posts)Their constituents are only worth the vote needed to get them into office, other than than they are a non factor.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)And say nice things about their benefactor. I'm sure I heard that somewhere.
erronis
(15,241 posts)Same as some churches.
area51
(11,908 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)ironflange
(7,781 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I meant every word of it. My beloved Texas is in shambles, and her help is appreciated.
calimary
(81,240 posts)ananda
(28,859 posts)Our Dems are fantastic!