Political discussion thread

This is hilarious - and it has the necessary 25,000 signatures.   
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/deport-everyone-signed-petition-withdraw-their-state-united-states-america/dmQl1bXL

horsewithteeth11 wrote: Yeah, I can kill whoever I so choose, but I'll be damned if anyone else is allowed to after me! At least not with drones!

David, if you don't quit criticizing our wonderful president I'm going to have to assume you're a racist. 

dtguitarfan wrote: This is hilarious - and it has the necessary 25,000 signatures.    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/deport-everyone-signed-petition-withdraw-their-state-united-states-america/dmQl1bXL

I'm in a personally imposed moratorium in checking out new releases but other than that... 

Slartibartfast wrote: Finnforest wrote: horsewithteeth11 wrote: Yeah, I can kill whoever I so choose, but I'll be damned if anyone else is allowed to after me! At least not with drones! David, if you don't quit criticizing our wonderful president I'm going to have to assume you're a racist.  Plus you might want to keep an eye on the sky...

dtguitarfan wrote: This is hilarious - and it has the necessary 25,000 signatures.    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/deport-everyone-signed-petition-withdraw-their-state-united-states-america/dmQl1bXL

I'm surprised I didn't notice this earlier.

I eagerly await to see the response from the White House on this one as well. Although I'm expecting something along the lines of "everyone is entitled to free speech blah blah blah" which we've all heard a hundred times.

horsewithteeth11 wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: This is hilarious - and it has the necessary 25,000 signatures.    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/deport-everyone-signed-petition-withdraw-their-state-united-states-america/dmQl1bXL I'm surprised I didn't notice this earlier. I eagerly await to see the response from the White House on this one as well. Although I'm expecting something along the lines of "everyone is entitled to free speech blah blah blah" which we've all heard a hundred times.

Yeah, that's pretty freaking boring.  I'd like to see his response to the secessionists be simply an extension of the third digit of his right hand.  And to the anti-secessionists, his response should be "Hellz yeah!"

Thanks, Rob.  Thanksgiving was pretty good, but we had four sick cats over the weekend.  Some kind of kitty flu.  Otherwise, I enjoyed it.  Hope you had a good one too.

Actually, I don't have a problem against states leaving the union if it is done by referendum in the seceding state (and not just by a recalcitrant governor/legislature).  Obviously, there would be many issues to work out as well, debt, trade rights, mobility of citizens.  But, I think in this case it is just silly people p*ssed off because their candidate didn't win.  If every time those from the losing party started a secessionist movement, this country would have fallen apart before it even began.  I don't think these petitioners are deserving of a serious response.  

Thanks.  2 of them are back to almost 100% now, just a few sneezes here and there.  The other 2 are on the mend and should be fine in the next day or so.

Ah, the great thing about our Thanksgiving was: we didn't go anywhere.

I think some might, because they have a fundamental difference of opinion as to how government should act and even if I don't agree with it, I can respect the difference of opinion..  However, if that were the case, why wait until after the election to get a petition going.  It wasn't like Romney was going to fundamentally alter the way government does business, and so had that been the motivation of the petition signers, it wouldn't have mattered who won the Presidency.

Secession petitions were started during the Bush administration.