Posted on 12/30/2021 7:39:58 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene renewed calls for a “national divorce” between red and blue states, arguing that Americans who move to conservative states from California and New York should have a “cooling off” period before being allowed to vote.
...“All possible in a National Divorce scenario,” Greene wrote. “After Democrat voters and big donors ruin a state like California, you would think it wise to stop them from doing it to another great state like Florida. Brainwashed people that move from CA and NY really need a cooling off period.”
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Let the states divorce and enact some legitimate laws, across the board.
Things will get real uncomfortable for the folks in those Blue, Urban areas. They’ll start to migrate to where they’re comfortable. No different than when blacks migrated north to places like Chicago and Detroit for the jobs.
It’s either that or they’ll become a little more Conservative with each passing day.
As I’m seeing it and living it right now, the biggest issue is not necessarily the liberals moving because they want to. They’re moving with their jobs. And the Red State Governors and legislatures are rolling out the red carpets and, literally, giving away the farm to attract liberal companies to move.
They promise all sorts of jobs, many that never come to fruition or the jobs go to the liberals that move with the companies. In Georgia, Kemp and the rest are selling this state out, just like Perry and Abbott, did and continue to do in Texas.
Two recent events in Georgia(possibly 3):
1. A massive development along the 316 corridor. They promise 1000s of jobs and 100k more people. If anyone is familiar with that area, they’ll agree that there’s no place for all of that development. The infrastructure cannot handle it. They’re turning this place into another lousy area like up north, where it’ll be nothing but concrete, traffic for days and high taxes.......Best part about this one - the locals and the community organizers said they didn’t know anything about it and had no input. A guy that was in on the deal stated, “we kept the planning a secret so we could get the land cheaper”. There you go. A handful of government stooges kept something secret and in turn, screwed over their constituents.
2. Rivian Plant in the Social Circle area. 2000 acres. Rivian says it’ll add 7500 jobs. Not one person in the area knew anything about it. No input from the local residents who are told to just sit in the corner and eat the sh*t sandwich they’re being served. Only reason Rivian is on the block is because Amazon bought a bunch of their electric vans. Their electric SUVs and PickUps, which haven’t built yet, are going to start at $75,000. Affordable, ain’t they. Toss in the fact that the Chinese control about 80% or more of the lithium needed for the batteries and they’re going to start building their own cars with Musk. And, given that most car manufacturing is done with robots, I’m curious to where the 7500 jobs are going to come from. Yet again, though, this was all a big surprise to us locals.
One more....for anyone familiar with Walton County/Monroe. Beautiful county. Farms. And nice, old school city/town square. A nice new development of some decent shops going up, out of the way. Try driving up/down, Highway 11 from 0800 to about 1900 hours. Good luck. And to think, the county government has approved 3000 residential building permits. Did the citizens have any say in that? NOPE. The roads and infrastructure are not designed for that. I cannot even fathom the costs associated with fixing that mess. So, to the citizens of Walton County, you get more homes, HIGHER TAXES, MORE CONGESTION, NEED MORE COPS & FIREMAN, MORE SCHOOLS. All because your elected officials can’t say, NO.
Sounds better.
10 year, unless they can prove that they’ve voted Republican consistently...history has shown that the Left will use that year to bring even more of their ilk and show up, en masse to destroy everything.
I see this ‘divorce’ proposed all the time, but do YOU have an actual PLAN, Mrs. Greene? Does ANYONE have an actual plan???
If this happened, God willing, the Blue Urban areas would soon find themselves on a tiny island. A state like Virginia would, more or less, disappear. Same for most ‘Blue States’, with the exception of maybe, Delaware & Rhode Island. And most of those folks are Democrats and can’t even tell you why other than being in a union.
IF TEXAS secedes, that will be the first step in the national divorce...other states will join Texas.
Yes. It did. It also voted for Hillary, Obama (x2), Kerry, Gore and Clinton (x2).
Oh and to head off any nonsense, Lehigh County doesn’t use Dominion machines either.
Right, isn’t there a push to have most of the eastern part of Oregon secede and become Idaho?
If there was a National Divorce, eastern Washington and Oregon could also divorce Portland, Salem, Olympia, Beaverton, & Seattle.
The liberal coastal areas will get real lonely, real quick.
Boy do I agree with that!!
“You forgot the part about throwing dog poop on her shoes afterwards.”
As is tradition.
I’d rather see a one-nation, two-system solution where city dwellers get to have their socialist worker’s paradise and the rural folks get to have Constitutional liberties.
Then let’s see how long it takes to collapse the cities.
Mississippi, North Dakota, Kansas, West Virginia and Louisiana are “liberal craphole states?”
I still say we should take all of those tiny Northeastern States like Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware and consolidate them all into one State.
I so agree with all you said!
We have a couple of strong groups that have formed to stand up against the tyranny taking over. Timberunity has built a strong force and are fighting hard. The other is Oregon Push Back. There are many standing up and more joining by the day. But so hard to beat the cheat!
Thank you to those that have compassion for the red in the blue. Keep in mind, the many reds moving, or joining up, into your red states, can help you as well.
I do like the idea of showing your party affiliation, and a probation period before being allowed to vote, in order to move into a red state or county. I can’t blame any for wanting to keep their red zones, deeply red!
The Atlanta Metro area....Columbus/Muscogee County...Augusta...Savannah.
And as I stated earlier, Kemp and Duncan are doing everything they can to flip this state Blue.
Duncan, quietly and without anyone noticing, is doing his level best to make Georgia the, Tech Capital of the East. In the image of Silicon Valley, Seattle and Austin. Not a whole lot of input from the folks on that one.
Kemp,like Rick Perry in Texas before him, is selling out the state to Hollywood with an $800,000,000/yr tax break, non-union Right To Work laws and, literally, giving away the farms to anyone willing to pour a foundation and promise 1000s of jobs that usually go to the folks that move with the company, and to the developers that cannot wait to slam 400 cookie cutter houses-built by illegals-on a 100 acre parcel of land. The infrastructure fixes will come later, at taxpayer expense. The same taxpayers that had no say in anything.
Georgia is blue now. People just don’t understand demographics. The onslaught of migration from other states doesn’t help ‘red’ areas in the long run. Texas, Georgia and the rest get ‘bluer’ everyday.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to 1978....
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Sometimes I wish I could go back to 1948....
Mississippi is one of the few states that would do just fine. They've got great farmland with sea and river access. The reason Mississippi is consistently labeled the state with the highest per capita federal expenditures is because it has the highest percentage of blacks (40%) and most of them are on welfare. If you could cut off the democratic vote buying programs it would go from a "taker" state in terms of federal dollars to a "giver" state.
You have to look at the reasons why behind these charts the democrats love to throw around about giver and taker states. They love to point out that Mississippi is a red state and gets more federal dollars than it pays in taxes. The federal money primarily goes to welfare which is given to the 40% of the population who vote almost completely democrat. It's not the people voting red that the money is going to. Remember states don't get welfare, people do, and the people voting republican in Mississippi aren't the ones collecting all that federal money.
I don’t know. There are lots of Conservative folks in those states. Hell, Vermont is considered as Blue as it gets because of Bernie and Leahy. It’s a Constitutional Carry state. What makes it and the other states, BLUE, are the college towns, of which there are many. Too many.
And in the case of New Hampshire, its voting laws and voter registration laws are about as screwed up as they can get. And yet they don’t change them. But, go up there, away from the college towns and those folks are as Conservative as any you’ll meet.
I don’t think MCF meant to return to a condition where there is a pre-Constitutional issue divisive enough to give rise to a shooting civil war. As you know, that situation was unique to the situation of the 3/5 Compromise which inherently left open a non-negotiable national issue, especially with respect to the continuing expansion and addition of new territories and states to the Union.
Nowadays, there are no doubt, extremely hot issues, but, if left to individual states as they should be, there is no need for them to force a national conflagration.
What I still wonder about is, for example, blue states taking steps that would be utterly unacceptable to the red states in ways that directly impact the red. I think right now, the issue of sanctuary states and cities is such an issue: by openly inviting more invaders, they impose terrible financial, security and crime costs on all states. Of course, the correct answer is that those states and cities are in open violation of the Supremacy clause, defying the exclusive Federal jurisdiction over immigration. A concurrent fix would be to reassert Federal authority over issues they should control and leaving the rest to the States.
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