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1 hour ago, Demongyz said:

It would turn to civil war when all the red parts around the large cities want to join with the red states and the blue cities realize they can't feed themselves or produce power and so on.  Would get nasty pretty quick.

 

We really just need the Federal Gov do what they are supposed to and get out of the way.  Let the states do what they do.

nope.  other way around.  blue areas currently support red areas.  blue voting districts account for 75% of state and local taxes and 73% of federal tax.

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42 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

nope.  other way around.  blue areas currently support red areas.  blue voting districts account for 75% of state and local taxes and 73% of federal tax.

Yes, with taxes.

 

Too bad red areas have all the resources.  Cant make all that white collar money without power, water, food, gas etc.

 

Oh yeah, guns.

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1 minute ago, Demongyz said:

Yes, with taxes.

 

Too bad red areas have all the resources.  Cant make all that white collar money without power, water, food, gas etc.

 

Oh yeah, guns.

So you're saying the red states would refuse to sell products to the blue?  How are they going to make up for all the lost "income" from social programs like welfare, food stamps and medicaid?  it will be difficult for them to wean from the gov't teets.

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19 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

So you're saying the red states would refuse to sell products to the blue?  How are they going to make up for all the lost "income" from social programs like welfare, food stamps and medicaid?  it will be difficult for them to wean from the gov't teets.

It's war, starve them out, pick up the pieces.

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Anyone supporting the dissolution of the United States is a traitor and should be treated as such.

 

We may have our disagreements but the moment you start seeing your fellow Americans as the enemy is the moment you’ve betrayed the values this country was founded upon. 

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5 hours ago, ChiGoose said:

Anyone supporting the dissolution of the United States is a traitor and should be treated as such.

 

We may have our disagreements but the moment you start seeing your fellow Americans as the enemy is the moment you’ve betrayed the values this country was founded upon. 

i wonder what percent of the current US population believes armed revolt is appropriate now.  my guess would be at least 5-10%.  any wonder Justice is worried about the bad guys knowing where the cameras are in the capitol.  For the record, I'm being facetious re separation of states.  It is treasonous.  Just pointing out the economic consequences of the idea the evil congresswomen advanced.

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5 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

^^^^^^^^^ per unnamed sources in the daily beast^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

 


^^^^^^^^ always prepared to clean up a MAGA mess^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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2 hours ago, redtail hawk said:

not sure about MTG but the other one is almost certainly XX

MTG would be for sure, she towed the line on the House Leader vote whereas Bobert didn't.

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I've always seen the "national divorce" sort of talk as a mechanism for right-of-center Americans to vent frustration both at the current state of government AND the current state of the Republican party. That they see separation from the country as a more plausible route to government representation than overthrowing GOPe leadership.

 

We're already seeing some trends toward decentralization in Florida, Texas, Arizona. States accelerating towards that rather than open war seems far more likely. The question is whether the federal government wishes to attempt state leadership overthrow or perhaps kill people in some fruitless attempt to stop it. 

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8 hours ago, LeviF said:

I've always seen the "national divorce" sort of talk as a mechanism for right-of-center Americans to vent frustration both at the current state of government AND the current state of the Republican party. That they see separation from the country as a more plausible route to government representation than overthrowing GOPe leadership.

 

We're already seeing some trends toward decentralization in Florida, Texas, Arizona. States accelerating towards that rather than open war seems far more likely. The question is whether the federal government wishes to attempt state leadership overthrow or perhaps kill people in some fruitless attempt to stop it. 

in other words, they can't pick a team.  Not sure they're gonna find one they agree with on the state level.  If it doesn't pander to them at the expense of everyone else, it's no good.

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