Posted on 04/16/2021 8:56:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There is no constitution.
States can and should do as they please.
Secession.
Nothing seems to be in their way.
Next goal: Puerto Rico, most likely. Another vagabond state.
Under this idiotic proposal, the District of Columbia would still get 3 electoral votes but nobody would be registered to vote there except the President and First Lady (if they make it their primary residence) and any homeless people who claim to be living among the national monuments.
If we still had a Constitution they would need an amendment.
Where is an alternative to return the same city area to Maryland, where it belongs?
There always seems to be a few designated Republicans who cross over and vote with the Democrats. I wonder who it will be this time.
They are out for permanent power, and they mean it. They do not care about the nation, Justice, Freedom, the ravages of authoritarianism, or anything else. They want a chokehold, forever, on the $20,000,000,000,000 we produce annually, so they can skim the top 30-70% off for themselves and their friends.
Romney (UT), always... and I think this time it's Collins (ME) or Murkowski's (AK) turn to join him now... but Lee (UT) and Lummis (WY) are waiting for theirs as well.
The desperate level these Democrats have been showing themselves to inhabit fully legitimizes the concept that they already stooped to cheating on massive scales
Cheating in other ways is completely consistent with it.
“...shall not be a state nor a portion of a state.”
Says it right there in the Constitution.
You know ....that document the demonrats like to use for toilet paper, the lying dirtbags.
“However, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) did not sign on to the bill. Both have also signaled they are opposed to eliminating the filibuster.”
Oh, well, I guess those “moderates” will hold the line. Lol
It's dead on arrival in the Senate, fortunately. In fact, there may only be 44 votes for it because there are only 44 sponsors. No more than 48, maximum.
Yep. So the Republic gets to live.
We’ll have the first Fake State.
What does it say on the flag of California? Wish that was true.
Candy-ass Sasse?
If D.C. gets in, you'll see Republicans boycott the election in 2022. There'll be discussions of secession in Florida and Texas. But I doubt D.C. will get in.
If Bidet won in a landslide, why are they acting as if they need to buy every vote they can get?
Lots of other problems pointed out in this article, including exactly what you were eluding to.
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/dc-statehood-not-without-constitutional-amendment
[Finally, the 23rd Amendment problem under the shrinkage plan becomes perhaps even more disturbing. Without a constitutional amendment repealing the 23rd Amendment, the literal handful of residents in the shrunken “District constituting the seat of government” would control their own three electoral votes. For those who depict statehood as a matter of “fair representation,” this is a little embarrassing.]
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