Ammon Bundy is running for governor of the New Idahoregon White homeland...

[Generic Other]

https://hillreporter.com/five-oregon-counties-vote-to-secede-and-create-greater-idaho-101712

On Tuesday, voters in five rural counties in eastern Oregon urged county officials to begin to promote border relocation and joining Idaho. The counties — Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker, and Lake — join Jefferson and Union counties, whose voters applied to join Idaho last year, in their planned secession to what is being called “Greater Idaho.”

The group, Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho, is behind the effort. In addition to rural eastern Oregon, the planned Greater Idaho would also encompass large swathes of northeastern California.

Supporters of the idea say rural Oregon voters are dominated by liberal urban areas such as Portland, and would rather join conservative Idaho. Last year, a drive “to seek refuge from the blue states” was stalled after petitioners seeking signatures to place the item on the ballot said COVID-19 stopped their efforts. While Joe Biden defeated former Donald Trump statewide in last fall’s election, the five counties heavily favored Trump.

“This election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon. If Oregon really believes in liberal values such as self-determination, the Legislature won’t hold our counties captive against our will,” Mike McCarter, lead petitioner, said. Last year McCarter said that the movement was a “peaceful revolution” and that the vote would be a crucial decision between rural and urban areas.

The chances of those counties joining Idaho are slim, as any such change in the state’s boundaries would require ratification by the Oregon Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats. From there Oregon and Idaho would have to sign a formal agreement, which will then have to be ratified by the U.S. Congress.

Like the Berlin Wall only around PDX and Seattle. Are these people injecting bleach in their brains?

[roamer65]

1. They are free to sell their property in Oregon and move to Idaho.

Otherwise, they should just STFU in the absence of a statewide referendum on the issue.

[Generic Other]

2. The Malheur Rebellion emboldened them

This has been their wet dream since remnants of the Confederacy began to arrive here pushing their Manifest Destiny handcarts in the 1860s.

Small wonder I dream of giving the Pacific Northwest back to Canada? Greater Greater British Columbia.

Also known as Lower British Columbia with Universal Healthcare.

[GulfCoast66]

19. Right. The second they pointed guns at officers the should have shot the fuckers.

What person of color gets to point a firearm at an officer of the law and live.

[Solly Mack]

3. "self-determination" means you pack up and move from Oregon to Idaho, dumbass.

You're not a country, or even a state - and your local right-wing extremism doesn't make you the government of anything either.

As individuals, self-determination means you can control your own life. Your life - not the state, not the country, not even the county.

So, move to Idaho.

Self-determine your ass and your belongings right over the state line.

[Generic Other]

6. You recall Fluffy Unicorn stealing the Federal truck to shop at Malheur Safeway?

Also known as Blue Tarp Guy? These nitwits do not believe in boundaries. All state and Federal land is theirs according to their manifesto.

I am OK with giving them the Hanford Reservation. If the clean it up PRONTO!

[Solly Mack]

7. Yeah, I remember. They'd just mutate and survive, somehow. They are not exactly that far removed

from prebiotic soup.

[Generic Other]

13. Bigfoot Bundy kills the Humboldt Pot industry

[Solly Mack]

16. Bundy's buddies wouldn't be able to resist hunting him down in the form of Bigfoot Bundy.

They'd lament it after while toasting his memory with beer and sobbing. Then blame it on liberals.

I think the pot is safe.

[Celerity]

4. 'rural Oregon voters are dominated by liberal urban areas'

Remove Oregon from the sentence and flip, and you then have the increasingly broken political reality writ large that is emanating from a deeply flawed US constitution.


liberal urban areas are dominated by rural voters

[Generic Other]

8. Except this is so

Senate:
Democratic (18)
Republican (11)
Independent (1)

House:
Democratic (37)
Republican (23)

[Celerity]

9. was talking about the US as a whole

Remove Oregon from the sentence and flip, and you then have the increasingly broken political reality writ large that is emanating from a deeply flawed US constitution.

[badhair77]

5. And yet we can't have statehood for DC.

[Celerity]

12. Manchin doesn't want to lose his kingmaker stool

Manchin says he doesn’t support D.C. statehood bill, dealing advocates a major blow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/manchin-dc-statehood-amendment/2021/04/30/39fab2ae-a9dd-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html

[AZ8theist]

10. Who can blame them????

..with all of those black people and antifa types RIOTING in rural eastern Oregon!!!!!!

[brewens]

11. I'm in Lewiston. Sounds like we'd be saddled with more low income rural areas with poor

tax bases, because of people that hate taxes. Not to worry. We'll just beg for more blue state tax dollars.

[Generic Other]

14. You need to move north of the Mason Dixon Line

That's 5 miles west of I-5 north of the Columbia! Near Seattle.

[brewens]

25. We used to be the Democratic party bastion in Idaho. We elected Walt Minnick D-ID

in 2008. Then the dumbshit voted against the ACA and campaigned on that. I almost didn't vote for him again! WTF did he think would happen? Republicans weren't going to say, "he's a pretty good guy, lets just let the democrats keep that seat." He might as well have just switched parties.

[LiberalFighter]

29. That is pretty much what Donnelly in Indiana did except went with other Republican issues.

[AZ8theist]

15. CLEAR EVIDENSE OF BLM AND ANTIFA RIOT IN EASTERN OREGON

[Generic Other]

17. No black sheep there!

Maybe a MAGAhyde or two!

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. I hear the theme from "Exodus" in the background.

By the way, the lyrics ( "This land is mine..." ) were written by none other than Pat Boone.

("I did not know that," said my friend in his best Johnny Carson voice. "Who is Pat Boone?" said my grandchildren in their best "humor the old fart" voice.)

[Generic Other]

22. Pat Boone!

He was no Woody Guthrie, I guess.

[Mr.Bill]

20. This is like the State of Jefferson, but without

the two exra republican Senators that would create. Brilliant!

[Generic Other]

24. Might as well claim the whole Louisiana Purchase

for A new state called Doggerland or Anglo-Saxon Place.

[Takket]

21. not prosecuting and jailing these seditionists when we had the chance was a travesty in the history

of American jurisprudence.

and that plague of the error haunts us still.

[Generic Other]

23. I agree...they trashed Malheur as a rehearsal for the Capitol

And spent less time in jail than a porch pirate following an Amazon truck.

[jalan48]

26. I agree. Who was responsible for making this happen?

[Generic Other]

27. Sadly it was an Oregon jury that acquitted

Sick.

[Wounded Bear]

28. Why stop there? I'm sure there are a few counties in WA that are equally deranged...

[LiberalFighter]

30. They don't mentioned Redding County in California even though shown in the map.

[BluesRunTheGame]

31. Call it Cheeseburger & Fries

Idaho’s famous for spuds, there’s a huge cheese factory in Jerome, ID and there’s plenty of welfare ranchers to raise the beef. Tasty but not much to base an economy on.

Call Ammon “Governor Fries with that”.