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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:22 PM
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Poll question: Should The Teabaggers And Freepers Be Allowed To Secede And Form A Nation Of Their Own?
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:24 PM
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1. As quickly as possible actually! We would then need borders to keep them out
Edited on Thu Apr-08-10 06:26 PM by LakeSamish706
of our country.

I honestly see a repeat of the civil war headed our way if something doesn't change, and soon.
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abelenkpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:29 PM
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9. Let them have the red states in the southeast
We won't have to build borders because they are so paranoid they'll build them themselves. :)

We may have to rescue our liberal friends though.

Just kidding. No they shouldn't be allowed to secede. but I'm willing to buy them tickets to that libertarian paradise Somalia. :evilgrin:
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MUAD_DIB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:41 PM
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17. Let them have nothing and like it.

We could always send them to Bikini Atoll. Sunny during the day, sunny during the night.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:25 PM
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2. Absolutely. They can have Texas and loozeeana.
And that fucking alabammey, too.

Get that fucking Boner out of washington.

Then, we nuke.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:26 PM
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5. I Was Thinking Alaska
We can tell them it's the largest state in the Union.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:29 PM
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8. I was thinking of the vast desert regions...
Edited on Thu Apr-08-10 06:30 PM by JuniperLea
And they can buy all their water from us, all their power, all their food, etc. I'm thinking twice the normal price is fair, don't you?

Edited to say... all the borders would be patrolled 24/7, and none of those damn illegals would be allowed into the USA! :D
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:30 PM
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11. Imagine What Sarah Palin's Cabinet Would Like
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Hansel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:51 PM
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30. And they will marvel at our wonderful capitalistic ways.
They would start loving us because we are screwing them. They seem to like that.
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Liberal Gramma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:25 PM
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3. An added benefit: the average IQ in the US would rise by about 50 points.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:26 PM
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4. I want to say yes but I fear for the gay people and atheists who would have to live in their Nation.
Edited on Thu Apr-08-10 06:27 PM by ZombieHorde
Racial minorities may not fair very well in many parts of their Nation as well. Some of them may eventually get the money to move, but they would then have to separate themselves from their loved ones and careers.
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Caliman73 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:27 PM
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6. No.
Teabaggers and Freepers can certainly leave the country if they wish, and I wish they would, but they have no right to claim any lands belonging to the United States. The issue of secession is addressed in the Constitution and was settled with the Civil War.
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Dr Morbius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:41 PM
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18. Ding ding. We have a winner.
We are speaking of people who cannot hold an argument and are deciding instead to pick up guns.

Can't tolerate this. Shouldn't tolerate this. Besides, having allowed them to secede, don't you think these people - especially these people - would quickly declare war against us?
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:54 PM
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32. Yep
Let them form a country in Antarctica if they want their own place.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 09:42 AM
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39. Exactly n/t
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:27 PM
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7. It is my fervent wish that they should be given their own slab of mud somewhere to call their own
So that they can turn on each other and wipe themselves from the face of the good Earth.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:30 PM
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10. Stupid, stupid question
What bullshit. What do you propose for the good people who live in the states you want to secede? Forcible relocation?

The batshit crazy is bad on BOTH sides of this whole Confederate History flap. BOTH sides. Wingnut right and moonbat left.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:34 PM
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Yeah maybe so, but the problem is it's not the Democrats that are causing
Edited on Thu Apr-08-10 06:37 PM by LakeSamish706
the teabagger BS or the succession threats to happen.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:34 PM
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14.  I Think The Question Is Part Tongue In Cheek
In order to foment an insurrection it would require the Freepers to leave their parents' basements and the Teabaggers to wean themselves from their oxygen tanks.
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Caretha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:31 PM
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12. Of course
Edited on Thu Apr-08-10 06:33 PM by Caretha
I choose the Moon or Mars. I'm a little hesitant to suggest the moon, since it is so close, but since they would have to gaze at our wonderful blue marble all the time, it might remind them that we only let them have oxygen at our pleasure.

Edited to add, I've been being visited by Heinlein lately in my dreams. ;)
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whatchamacallit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:32 PM
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13. Yes... Yes... Oh God Yes!!!
If only.
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TorchTheWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:35 PM
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15. on who's land?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:36 PM
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16. Sometimes it is difficult to take Du polls very seriously. nt
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Caretha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:43 PM
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20. Sometimes
it's nice not to take anything seriously. Seems my bp goes down, my giggle factor escalates...and hell, before you know it, I have a full belly laugh.
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dynasaw Donating Member (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:42 PM
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19. Great! More Resources
for the rest of us! Consider them a separate independent country. No more social security, medicare, educational funding for them.

We should enforce strict border patrols and consider them illegals if they try to sneak in and send them to Guantanamo without due process.:D

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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:43 PM
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21. If you lived around here you wouldn't ask that question
Because you would think they already had their own nation. And you were in it.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:46 PM
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26. My sincere Condolences to you! n/t
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LyndaG Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:45 PM
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22. Great Idea!
Then, all the US would have to do is pick a fight with them, conquer them, and then they'd have to do whatever we say!!!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:46 PM
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23. Please do ...
but seize their assets and $$$ ... I mean, aren't they denouncing the Govt? Thus, they must have no use for American dollars ... but, of course, they say they're so good at capitalism, they'd probably take over the world, financially ...

:eyes:
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:46 PM
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24. Mos' definitely
They can show the rest of us how to run a country without taxation. How long will ittake them to declare war on the U.S.?
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:46 PM
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25. Let them go. How many bus tickets is that?
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:48 PM
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27. Yes....And then an impenetrable barrier erected.
Just get the f**k out.
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:49 PM
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28. Only if they emigrate to an atoll in the Pacific. Then their "fantasy island" will be reality.
Imagine those idjits trying to govern themselves. Nothing socialist, of course!
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:50 PM
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29. Uh no.
Unless you're thinking we send them to the moon or something.

Sane people live all over this country - why should we cede any bit of it to the loonies?
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KatyaR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:53 PM
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31. Only if us liberals who live here now
can "immigrate" to another part of the country. I don't wanna be stuck here if that happens....
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grahamhgreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:56 PM
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33. Give them Texas.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:57 PM
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34. They can then apply for
Foreign Aid.
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:16 PM
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35. Yes. If they live underground.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:19 PM
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36. I went through eight fucking years of Dumbass running the show
These fuckers have to live with eight years of Obama fixing Dumbass's fuckups.
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Downtown Hound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:26 PM
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37. I sure as hell am not going to die to keep them in
Give 'em a big wasteland and let 'em do whatever the hell they want with it. Odds are, they won't last the year.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 09:41 AM
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38. "Yo, teabaggers. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!"
Bye!
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 09:42 AM
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40. Well correct me if I'm wrong but
that would make killing them in a war nice and legal, right?
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 09:45 AM
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41. Not as long as it's in the current borders of the US
If they want to leave the country and can find someone to take their nutty asses in, sure. They don't deserve one speck of land in this country to call their sovreign nation.

(And for those making comments to give them Texas, Alaska, the South, etc. you do a grave injustice to all the Democrats in those states/regions).
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