Yee Haw! It’s a Civil War Re-Inactment. For Real.
As of Saturday November 10, 2012, citizens from 15 States have petitioned the Obama Administration for withdrawal from the United States of America in order to create its own government.
States following this action include: Louisiana, Texas, Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon and New York. These States have requested that the Obama Administration grant a peaceful withdrawal from the United States.
I give it two weeks before Georgia declares war on Alabama. I’m assuming the guys in Colorado were stoned and wanted to charge a toll to get to the weed, right? And one more question: How will we even know when Montana leaves?
And for your petition signing pleasure, check out what TexasEllen found. You just gotta sign this.
Thanks to Sharon for the first heads up on this.
History:
“The Republican Party has made its nominations this year at the dictation of those who, we all know, always place money ahead of human progress.”
F.D.Roosevelt (18 July 1940)
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/franklin-d-roosevelt-letter-declining-1940-democratic-party-nomination
1What! No South Carolina?
I’ll bet every one of these old coots used to espouse: “America – Love it or leave it.”
2Well, that petition is a roaring success! As I posted on Harold’s blog just now, let them leave! But the land stays here! (Totally stolen from a FB friend…)
3Done. I hope the folks in the White House get a huge laugh out of this.
4Wait? What?
New York & New Jersey are on that list, but not Arizona?
Have I entered the Twilight Zone?
5What bothers me is the 15 states who want to secede have to get 25,000 signatures each.
6I say we find the site of the petitions and sign them too, just to help them reach their goals!!
Didn’t most of those states just vote to reelect President Obama?
7LynnN, no, only five voted to re-elect Obama: Florida, NJ, Colorado, Oregon and NY. The other 10 went to Romney.
8Let them secede. Many of these are welfare states; wonder how long they’ll survive on their own.
9I can’t sign the petition. I’ve always believed we should look out for the shortsighted, clueless, buck naked crazy and people who choose secession, instead of doing us all a favor and l leaving the country on their own.
10The whole thing, including the comments, sound like a SNL skit.
11Quite frankly I cannot get not upset about losing Mississippi, Georgia, either Dakota, blah, blah, blah. However, I will fight to the end about losing New Jersey. I spent my summers at the thier shore during college, their governor is our new BFF, AND, Asbury Park is home to the Pinball Hall of Fame. At JJ’s Salon we have been schooled in having proper priorities.
12Possilble names for this new North American nation?
1. 土地的茶袋
2. Disjointed States of America
3. Sáček čaje Země
4. Ziemi Torebki Herbaty
5. États-Unis de Thé
6. República de Bolsa de Té
7. Vingen-mutter Land
8. ウィング ナットの共和国
9. Republik von Dorf-Idioten
10. Conroe*
*the folks in the Montgmery County town of the same name might put up a fight about this one.
13Up to ten whole votes when I looked. My favorite comment was someone asking if those in other states can vote for Texas to secede.
14Maybe we should trot on over to those petition sites, and give the secessionists a hand!
15They have to get 25,000 signatures in order to file, and we wouldn’t want them to come up short!
The “petition” with 10 signatures, which looks like an SNL skit, is a riff on the real petition. To find the real petition you need to click the first link “let us pray.”
16Those of us, who prefer to stay in the E.S.A.(The Enlightened States of America) will be happy to see them go.
17169 signatures from New York. In Republican terms that’s a mandate. I guess you should give it to ’em Barack, the people have spoken.
18Hey, wait just a dadgum minute … I’m in Colorado and I haven’t heard about any of this crap!! And the marijuana deal is still pretty much up in the air here … maybe someone can have an ounce to enjoy and then again … maybe they can’t! Gov. Hickenlooper said no one should be popping open the Doritos or the Gold Fish just yet … hmmm … wonder how HE knows about the snacky stuff! LOL Maybe they can grow for medicinal use and then again … maybe they can’t! Good grief, I think they are all stoned because no one seems to be able to wrap their brains around anything … and, yes, we did vote Barack Obama back in … HOORAY … much to the discomfort and consternation of the multitude of Repukes in this state!
19Every time I hear this nonsense I wonder what currency they plan on using. For Texas, the Peso is the obvious choice but Georgia and Aladama could try to become part of the Eurozone because there are precious few people in both states combined who understand that the Euro is a currency used in Europe which is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
And if they try to use dollars, it’s no big deal to slap a tariff on everything they try to export and an export fee on dollars so they have to pay double to get a buck to pay someone with.
20I object to fruit loops from my state who would perpetrate such an indignity in the name of Texas. Good grief. Get a life. If you don’t like being an American, MOVE OUT! Leave it for the rest of us who like it here.
21The general is always entertaining. I read his blog regularly, usually in the same session as this one. I encourage everyone to visit Jesus’ General at least once.
22I agree with SusanF. If like it here they can leave. I suggest a spot about 500 miles south Of Argentina!!!
23I think Texas just got its 25,000 signatures today. Means the feds will have to respond.
24I’m going to get my passport in order. Next thing I know, I may need a passport to visit Louisiana.
What a bunch of loonies !
The secessionists have not thought things through (not unexpected, all things considered.) They’re blind ignorant politically, economically, and militarily…and the ones who think they want an armed conflict are…even stupider.
It would be in their best interest to deport them to Somalia, a land with no organized government and no effective legal system, so they could do whatever they damned well pleased until they were lynched…and no American blood would be shed, because they wanted to bug out anyway.
But no. I’m not signing any petitions to help them on their way, because they DO intend to take the territory, and they are not taking my piece of Texas away from me, or the United States. I don’t think it’s funny. It makes me mad as an entire anthill of fire ants that somebody stirred with a stick that these ungrateful, ignorant, arrogant twits are willing to risk the nation that nurtured them for their entire lives, and their fellow-citizens who don’t agree with them, just because they didn’t get what they wanted.
(Past the schadenfreude and into the rage…how DARE they threaten to break up the nation because their guy lost the election! They can get out NOW before I’m moved to deal with them as they richly deserve.)
25The thing that irritates me about this Texas Secede business is that a majority of citizens in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston voted to elect President Obama.
Perhaps we could Gerrymander the state to create our own state and let the insane Texans have West Texas and The Piney Woods. That way we can rid ourselves of Louie Gohmert!
26What is all this secession talk really all about? It’s a rabble of angry, ungrateful nincompoops who are in a state of disbelief that a man of color was reelected for a second term as the occupant of their White House. If they don’t like it they should just grow-up and exercise their vote in 2016 instead of acting like a bunch of 5-year olds who want to take all their marbles home after losing at the game. For Pete’s sake, get a life will y’all.
27I only had one major interaction with a republican male before the election, and he very much figuratively “flipped the checkers board and declared he had won”–and then avoided me for the rest of my stay…so very childish…I am very worried about this violent, repressed, no interest in working it out, my way or the highway male (I’m sure there are women too I just havent seen any in person)–some touting a second amendment solution, as if violence in itself IS the answer. I said to my beloved recently that the thing we forget is that American settlers for the most part were people that didn’t fit in (go West if you failed to fit in in the East) and came here to be alone, and that self-reliant loner (who built it all by himself-bull-pucky) and we barely tolerate each other, the Wops, Spics, Irish need not apply, dumb Polacks, any other awful names and attitudes that are just under the surface–those other girls are whores, I need this abortion because I have too many mouths to feed, all of the bigotry summed up right in those words, “otherizing” people until, like the Jews in WWII, they could be killed and burned because they weren’t really people…
28The most enlightened of us act out of enlightened self interest–if only my child can get a job, my child will be the workhorse for many, legalizing drugs will stop the drug lords–stuff like that–the worst war this country ever fought was about succession. And those wounds still have not healed, and are in some places just under the skin, and the stupidity is rampant, like a women who was saying the stupid we should be armed conversation (after the movie theater shooting in Denver) and I asked if she really believed that, did she really want to live in a war zone, with people standing their ground and road rage carried into the grocery store…
She prissyed around and said how RUDE it was to interrupt a private conversation–which it was, but armed at the doctors office, the whole concept is so dangerous–only the outlaws and sheriffs had holstered guns, regular farm people had shotguns for hunting, not handguns for human killing
Our home is paid for, I like where I live in NY, so heck no, I won’t go, it’ll break my shoulder but I can fire a gun–and I’m a pacifist usually…so this is real, root survival stuff, send them but keep the land, maybe Alcatraz could be a “Lord of the Flies” island fantasy for all the violent ones, they could be Real Men and stand at the top bellowing challenges to the other nutcases…
Not funny, and hilarious, all at the same time!