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One more story from crazy television (Original Post) geefloyd46 Nov 2012 OP
let em do it and if they do heaven05 Nov 2012 #1
If they left the Union all of that would automatically stop. GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 #2
storm clouds on the horizon??? heaven05 Nov 2012 #3
Well if that is going to happen I hope we all have a chance to move to the state we call home. southernyankeebelle Nov 2012 #5
Someone should tell them their taxes will be going up! AAO Nov 2012 #13
And it only takes 25,000 signatures. Every state has at least that many nut teabagger. AAO Nov 2012 #14
In whose coutroom? Don't tell me the 'baggers would go to an international court? AAO Nov 2012 #18
GreenStormCloud, I've got to hand it to you! AAO Nov 2012 #19
No legal argument can be made for Social Security Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #27
A-freakin'-MEN! maddiemom Nov 2012 #29
I say let'em go! clydefrand Nov 2012 #4
you posted all 11 minutes of this pseudo intellectual? Ned_Devine Nov 2012 #6
yeah, could only handle a few seconds here and there of his insanity. painful! best part is near Divine Discontent Nov 2012 #11
I heard that the TX Gov already kissed them off. AAO Nov 2012 #16
Yep. Gov. Perry is running out of time to take back his wink Gabby Hayes Nov 2012 #22
stupid sore-losing trash southmost Nov 2012 #7
These petition to secede folks seem to be poor loosers, but drynberg Nov 2012 #8
that loon in the video thinks just because they color a state RED that the state govt is seceding Divine Discontent Nov 2012 #10
Mr. Green seems to be making a Birthday Wish. His wish seems to be the removal of himself from DhhD Nov 2012 #9
They dude is a bit illogical to say the least AAO Nov 2012 #12
I know someone that talks like this,...he hasn't been with a woman since 1991. Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2012 #15
Now that is rich! AAO Nov 2012 #17
He also claims he had a near death experience and saw the Virgin Mary... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2012 #21
This guy is a dumbass. A few thousand losers signing online petitions as a tantrum isn't a Civil War Bucky Nov 2012 #20
Are you sure it will take two weeks? GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 #28
Wow! It's like watching a young Dr. Peter Beter Gabby Hayes Nov 2012 #23
On the White House web.... GTurck Nov 2012 #24
Made it to min. 2.5. Mc Mike Nov 2012 #25
It is a sneaky plot to kill Obama by making him die laughing. GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 #26
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
1. let em do it and if they do
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:04 PM
Nov 2012

cut off all federal help, social security, medicare/aid, any thing coming from taxpayer money.

GreenStormCloud

(12,072 posts)
2. If they left the Union all of that would automatically stop.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:15 PM
Nov 2012

They would be a separate country. A legal argument could be made for SS, but all else would stop.

BTW - That petition site is up to 47 states now. Obviously that includes some deep blue states.

 

AAO

(3,300 posts)
14. And it only takes 25,000 signatures. Every state has at least that many nut teabagger.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:21 PM
Nov 2012

I'll vouch for Wisconsin!

 

AAO

(3,300 posts)
19. GreenStormCloud, I've got to hand it to you!
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:35 PM
Nov 2012

I just realized I posted 3 times on three separate ideas to your one thread. Now 4.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
27. No legal argument can be made for Social Security
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:01 AM
Nov 2012

It is not a savings account or an annuity. The money paid into SS goes to pay for the benefits for current retirees....there are no refunds.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
29. A-freakin'-MEN!
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:32 AM
Nov 2012

I'm beginning to think we should have let them go the first time. Unfair to all the sane people in those states, though. And the Social Security thing would be a mess.

clydefrand

(4,325 posts)
4. I say let'em go!
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:28 PM
Nov 2012

However I think too many people in all of the states want to remain citizines of the USA. I wouldn't mind if the south wants to move...except I'm in the south. I don't think it will ever become this way. It's just another dumb thing to put online.

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)
11. yeah, could only handle a few seconds here and there of his insanity. painful! best part is near
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:04 PM
Nov 2012

the end, where he shows a map with a bunch of states filled in with red, implying the state gov't is actually saying they will secede from the USA, when it is just some of his fellow traitors who are being sore losers because America chose Pres. Obama again.

he's a stooge, at the top of the graphic at 7:50 it says, "state in res have applied/requested withdrawal from the United States after the Nov 6th election..."

 

AAO

(3,300 posts)
16. I heard that the TX Gov already kissed them off.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:26 PM
Nov 2012

If they can't get Texas, they're pretty much screwn. I don't care if they get 1million signatures from TX. That would only be 4 percent of the population. And they're all nuts. If this thing gets out of control they will alienate many more millions in TX.

Gabby Hayes

(289 posts)
22. Yep. Gov. Perry is running out of time to take back his wink
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 05:26 AM
Nov 2012

Gov. Perry thought he was being clever with those ambiguous remarks on secession a couple of years ago. Now he is having to eat those words just as his political career enters a gray area. Meanwhile, this secession stuff was dead on arrival in Texas because it would hit Big Business in the pocketbook. This last election also strongly suggests the nation has gotten bored with one-trick Tea Baggers.

southmost

(759 posts)
7. stupid sore-losing trash
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:39 PM
Nov 2012

the micro-minority who want to seceed should move to some deserted island where they can play out Lord of the Flies

drynberg

(1,648 posts)
8. These petition to secede folks seem to be poor loosers, but
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:40 PM
Nov 2012

Does a group of 25000 speak for tens of millions of Texans? Do they know that if the leave, they would be no longer Americans nor even have a chance to regain their citizenship. These are serious decisions that have consequences beyond their own generation...is this what Texas really wants???

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)
10. that loon in the video thinks just because they color a state RED that the state govt is seceding
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:55 PM
Nov 2012

instead of it just being 25000 loony toon anti-American warmongers who are angry that they can't control women, and blacks, and latinos, and gays, and the presidency!

then he rambles about how the south will win a civil war (yeah, talk about nuts, this guy has violence on his mind, clearly) when he fails to realize that Florida went for Obama, and in many southern states, Democrats are a near majority, and that he only is speaking for his like-minded cuckoo bigots who want to fight the gov't! Also, he says Dems don't have guns - I know plenty that have several, and regardless, does the loon in the video think if they start fighting the gov't that they stand a chance? God, help us with these traitors like the guy in the video.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
9. Mr. Green seems to be making a Birthday Wish. His wish seems to be the removal of himself from
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:50 PM
Nov 2012

his responsibility of citizenship. Personally, I think that Mr. Green should design a written document for the removal of his citizenship in the US and seek a Work Visa or Vacation Visa in the State of Texas.

 

AAO

(3,300 posts)
12. They dude is a bit illogical to say the least
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:18 PM
Nov 2012

You better get a gun, or when the government takes away our guns, you'll be the only one without one? (or something to that affect). at 4:20 - that's when I had enough.

The only thing he said that was accurate that Barack Obama was 'pushing the rats to leave the nest". at 2:41

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
21. He also claims he had a near death experience and saw the Virgin Mary...
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 12:29 AM
Nov 2012

I asked him if he changed her handle.

Bucky

(54,041 posts)
20. This guy is a dumbass. A few thousand losers signing online petitions as a tantrum isn't a Civil War
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:41 PM
Nov 2012

This is totally unserious. It'll all blow over in a couple of weeks.

GTurck

(826 posts)
24. On the White House web....
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:07 AM
Nov 2012

site there are over 20 secession petitions including New York, Illinois, California, Ohio, Virginia. These are silly and shallow people who have no conception of what seceding means or would do. Somehow they think money will still be the U.S. dollar; that they will get their benefits but not have to pay for them, etc.
We live in Texas but we are Americans first and have no desire to NOT be part of the country of our birth. Further, Texas has a population of over 25 million and that 25,000 is probably the total number who want to secede. I see a problem of numbers with that so please don't paint Texas as the only state with weirdos with small brains all states have them and they are not afraid to show their stupidity.

GreenStormCloud

(12,072 posts)
26. It is a sneaky plot to kill Obama by making him die laughing.
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:57 AM
Nov 2012

At 25K signatures he has promised an answer. Will Obama be able to catch his breath between all the laughs?

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