Friends, I have seen the future. It all just came to me in a flash. I know how this ends — or at least one scenario. We laugh ourselves to death. ERs become overrun with people who have injured themselves while falling over and holding their sides. The elderly are found dead in their beds, frozen in rigor mortis, in states of pointing at the TV set and laughing. Dear Gawd, things are going banana batshit today.
Remember Stew Peters? Whom I call Stew Pidd? He is calling for the red states to secede from the Union, in essence. By that I mean he’s demanding that all red states stop obeying judges, law enforcement, etc. This is pure sedition but then again, what can you expect when we’re adjudicating all the illegality from the Trump administration? Sedition is a normal part of the New Surreal, of course secession follows.
Far-right broadcaster Stew Peters reacted to Trump's latest indictment by demanding that Republican-controlled states immediately "cease all cooperation with the federal government" and treat the Biden administration as "an occupying force." https://t.co/lDJWfAqpvh pic.twitter.com/bedc8mJU7Q
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 16, 2023
Splendid idea. Say, Mr. Pidd Mr. Peters, do you use airlines by any chance? Or perhaps do you drive your car on an interstate highway? Just asking. Oh, and you may have noticed that just in the news this week there was a dreadful fire in Hawaii and an awful storm in North Carolina and places like that get federal disaster relief at those times. Are the red states going to just blow that off?
I think it’s a splendid idea if some of the red states decide to secede. Let’s take ruby red Wyoming, for example. How long are they going to last on their own resources alone? If they decide to stop trucking in food, produce, all that? Getting medical supplies, what have you, everything that their state does not produce but that they need in order to live — just like the rest of us?
I think it’s comical that what triggered this is the fact of the Georgia indictment and Georgia is a red state — well, yes, it does have those two Democratic senators, but for the most part Georgia is and has been a part of the Deep South for lo these many years, and a red state.
But apparently Georgians, at least those who are Americans first and Georgians second, put the rule of law above considerations of red or blue. And that is as it ought to be.
Rave on, Stewy. The day is young. Let us know when you’ve designed your own uniform and send us a photo of you wearing your sword and everything. Will you be on horseback, or in a jeep? How does this work? Hoards of MAGAs roaring across the plains in pickup trucks in some political version of Mad Max?
Stew Pidd sounds right.
These people always sound like babies that have thrown their toys out of the cot.
I’m thinking what this chowder-head stewy is asking ‘pube-led states to do is not necessarily a bad idea. Of course if the ‘pube-led states do what chowder-head tells them to do, the federal government must respond. ALL red states are takers when it comes to pork, funds, and the rest. Immediately upon taking the chowder-head path the feds need to remove every military base, government agency, and everything else provided to the takers. Going to leave the U.S. as it were? Fine. Do it without federal jobs, the military, the contracting jobs, S.S./Medicare/Medicaid/SSI, etc. Do it without any help from the feds when disaster strikes (take a real good f*cking look at Maui you dumb-ass magats–that’ll be you soon).
Let’s be brutally honest here-almost all the brains, the know-how, the creativity, the engineering, medicine, the teaching/learning sector-the vast majority of what makes us a 21st century nation is because of liberals knowing how important it is to learn, to contribute to society, all that stuff we learned in Civics class back in the day. Take a good look at the red states and once you remove all military installations, federal agencies, contractors working for the feds, and ALL that federal money (including, remember, SS, SSI, loans after disasters hit (and the help)) red states are going to be some of the worst shit-holes on the planet. Some of them are already there in fact.
Sorry man, I am sick to fucking death of republicans/cons/xtians f*cking up our country so let ’em all go. To hell if they want-they’re half way there anyway. These people are a drain on the U.S. so let them go take care of themselves. Oh, and let’s see how much of their current populations STAY in their little red republic. Nope, I’m not going to argue with chowder-head. I’m going to say “you go man. No, really, get out”.
Reality now? ‘pube-led red states know which side their bread is buttered on and I’m pretty f*cking sure they’d rather shoot themselves rather than live without federal largess.
Your last paragraph is great – sums it up well. Nice. The swizzle sticks are starting to show the shrill of their high balls, by agitating for a good political stir – only to be lampooned and laughed at.
That’s what I expect to see, MAGAs hanging out of pickups, racing across the plains. Throwing beer cans — but no Bud Light. Or, maybe nothing but Bud Light.
I confess I get a little smirk whenever this comes up for exactly the reasons well stated above. Unfortunately then I think about all the actual good people who by circumstance or emotional attachment continue to live in these states but due to gerrymandering and other bs constructs are under represented in the political arena. I just can’t feel good about throwing them under the bus. Call me a soft liberal (you wouldn’t be wrong) but there must be some other way to bring down the wrath of consequences on their totally ignorant fellow red staters without completely ruining the lives of these good folks.
There would be expenses to be sure when it came to relocating military installations in particular. And office space for federal workers and contractors they employ long-term. Expanding airport capabilities and so on. Still, I think in the end there’d be considerable savings AND we’d get a lot of good, and SMART people in the new America. Given that, a generous relocation package can be offered. In less than ten years almost all those red states that wanted out, to have their “real Mur-i-kuh” would be wanting back in. Quiet overtures at first of course. But I’d like to think our leaders in the new, DECENT America would say “Not so fast.” You’re going to have to stand in your statehouses and LOUDLY proclaim you’d screwed up. That you and your self-professed real f**king Americans realized how valuable the part of our country you so openly rejected was a good place, with good people and good VALUES after all. I happen to think we in blue America deserve that!
To see them beg.
But, if they were to do so, offer a real and sincere apology then yeah, let em back in. And not be dicks about it like those who ignored Lincoln’s plans for after the Civil War and f**ked up Reconstruction. Or those who made too big a deal for too long about rubbing Germany’s nose in the pile of sh*t after WWI. History has lessons to teach on this and one would have to hope we manage to strike the balance of obtaining apologies and contrition & combine it with a stern parental type “I’m going to make sure you’ve learned your lesson” but soon start helping build something good.
Well, if it would get these right-wing chowderheads to FINALLY understand what the Palestinian people have been fighting for over the past 50-plus years while the nutjobs have been blindly supporting Israel’s “occupying force in a conquered land” policy, I say Biden should treat them that way.
Start off by rounding up Stew Peters and charge him as an “enemy of the State” and, if Peters challenges it on “Constitutional grounds” for violating his “First Amendment rights,” the DOJ can simply use Peters’ own words: He obviously believes he’s living under the rule of “an occupying power in a conquered land” and, therefore, only has the rights that said power deems him worthy of. (Then, too, the Constitution does NOT protect a right to foment treason or sedition so *IF* Peters claims he’s still an American citizen, then his comment is seditious at the very least but if he claims to be under an “occupying power,” then he’s not a citizen and his comment could be a call for violence which, again, is not protected speech.)
I swear, I don’t know how Biden deals with these mental defectives (calling them “mental midgets” suggests they still have some mental capacity) without accepting their “challenge.” As I’ve written before, if I were Biden, I’d go on TV and let them have it: “You people say I’m a dictator and that I’ve got all this power to just round up my ‘enemies,’ well, congratulations, I accept your proclamation. Effective immediately, I am the Supreme Leader of the United States. Congress will be dissolved and the judiciary will be limited in the cases they may hear. All State governors and State legislators must proclaim their loyalty to the New Order or be removed, by force if necessary. Dissent is no longer allowed as the Constitution is now effectively rendered null and void. You people wanted a dictator, well, I’m now it. Live with the consequences of your wishes.”
Then, come back on the air about 15 minutes later with “Hey folks. I was just kidding earlier. God. Take a joke, will you? Peace out, y’all.” (Then, just for added fun, take a mic and drop it.)
I’ve seen this guy in action somewhere…oh yeah…he had a pair of wooden wings from ACME, standing on a high mesa. I recall he fell like a rock with a little poof at the bottom. I’m sorry, that was Wylie coyote. Nevermind.
“their minds are filled with big ideas, images, and distorted facts.” Bob Dylan from the song Idiot Wind