After losing election, 15 States form petitions to secede

[LadyDeac03]

The Confederacy of Takers

A large number of patriotic Americans, mostly from states won by Mitt Romney last week, have petitioned the White House to let them secede. They should be careful about what they wish for. It would be excellent financial news for those of us left behind if Obama were to grant a number of the rebel states their wish “to withdraw from the United States and create [their] own NEW government” (the petitions emphasize “new” by capitalizing it).

Red states receive, on average, far more from the federal government in expenditures than they pay in taxes. The balance is the opposite in blue states. The secession petitions, therefore, give the opportunity to create what would be, in a fiscal sense, a far more perfect union.

Among those states with large numbers of petitioners asking out: Louisiana (more than 28,000 signatures at midday Tuesday), which gets about $1.45 in federal largess for every $1 it pays in taxes; Alabama (more than 20,000 signatures), which takes $1.71 for every $1 it puts in; South Carolina (26,000), which takes $1.38 for its dollar; and Missouri (22,000), which takes $1.29 for its dollar.

 

[OldGoldBeard]

There were many reasons that the Civil War happened. Slavery was one of those reasons; but it wasn't THE reason that the Civil War was fought.

Best (read: only) way to argue this is to say that slavery was the primary cause of secession, but that the war itself was about restoring the Union vs. independence.

 

[MBDeac08]

Secession to form a confederacy of dunces.

 

[LadyDeac03]

City of Austin files counter petition to secede from Texas

 

[avalon]

City of Austin files counter petition to secede from Texas

Oh good, we definitely want to keep Austin. It'll be a little island state, like having our own little Lesotho.

 

[RJKarl]

More like Singapore or Hong Kong

 

[DeacHawk]

http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/11/14/article/secession_seriously

A California man, according to his online profile, started a petition to strip the citizenship rights of anyone who signs a secession petition.

It was created Monday and had nearly 9,500 signatures by Wednesday afternoon.

A petition to “have President Obama do the Hokey Pokey ... in this time of despair” showed up on Wednesday.

“As a show of bipartisanship, President Obama should lead with his right foot,” the petition states. “After all, that’s what it’s all about.”

 

[deacvision7]

People are absolutely fucking mental

 

[JamesSokolove]

I was checking the Mitt Romney facebook page because it is great entertainment. Anyways on there was a petition going around for a recount of the election. With all the crazy theories that there is no way Obama could have won fairly, voter suppression by the deomcrats (lol), etc... It had over 35,000 signatures last I checked. Its ridiculous thats 35,000 people want to waste time and money because they don't like the outcome of something. Oh only 61,939,115 people disagree with you not a big discrepancy at all.

You lost GET OVER IT

 

[JamesSokolove]

Also can't skip over this:

Quote Originally Posted by bobknightfan View Post
There is nothing surprising at all to me about why the Republicans are taking these two losses to Obama so hard. The Republican Party has always felt, deep down, that it is superior in several ways....morally, with their religiosity, and financially, as they have more overall wealthy supporters. I call it kind of a "CEO-mindset" party. They really look down on Democrats as not being their equals...and, therefore, feel that compromising with these people is somehow beneath them. So, since they obtained some power, they had no inclination to compromise it with the other party. Now they are losing that power.....and they would have lost it eight years ago if not for the 9/11 attacks.....they are in a quandry, and are lashing out with all these bitter, desperate attacks....because they became drunk with the power that came to them, really, due to that tragic attack on 9/11.

In 2000, after some degree of Clinton-fatigue, the Republicans were able to gain power and take control of government....though just barely, and under the most dubious of circumstances. And look how they immediately reacted to their newly found, but narrowly-held power: With total arrogance. However....and this can never be emphasized enough....the Republicans could never have risen to the levels of power that they obtained after that without one critical event: The 9/11 attack. Try to deny it if you wish, but the 9/11 attack was the most beneficial thing that has happened to the Republican Party in my lifetime. 9/11 was absolutely critical to everything the Republicans have done in the last 10 years. It was a watershed event in the rise of the Republican Party, short-lived though it is going to be. It enabled them to pursue all of their goals, while using political pressure to shame any potential adversaries to those goals into submission with charges of lack of patriotism against anyone who dared stand up against them.....just like the gameplan that Hermann Goering had laid out in Germany. I'm sure that all of you know the quote....and it is true. Bush/Cheney & the Republicans followed it to a tee.