I’ve always thought the Texans must have been the most surprised by the Civil War.
They’d been in for just thirteen years, and decided, “Well, this was a bad idea. We’ll quit.”
I love all the people who are slavering at the thought of getting an “official response” from the White House. I’m like, guys, you know that even if you do get an official response, it’s going to consist of, “No,” right? It’s not like Obama’s going to come out and be like, “Oh man, you guys are totally right and now that you’re threatening to secede, I see that. We’re canceling Obamacare, effective immediately! Also Romney can be president after all. I was just fooling with ya.”
I just checked, and Texas has 77,000 signatures. That is a lot. That is quite nearly an entire 1% of the voters in the state. Do you think any of those other states has that great a percentage?
Reasons the U.S. needs Texas:
- Oil.
- Livestock.
- The third one, I can’t. Sorry. … Oops.
That’s like 77,000 Facebook clicks. Means nothing.
i think the states are ALL IN now
petitions . whitehouse . govpetitions
Yeah, I’ve heard the meme that Texas is somehow vital to the survival of the United States before. I’d like to see the government of Texas survive having to take care of things like a military, guarding their borders (north AND south) and so forth.
Without the United States Texas becomes a second rate oligarchy. Good luck with that.
Now the questions I have, and no I’m not going to pull up the petition to check; How many of those 77,000 votes are actually people from Texas? How do you know it isn’t a bunch of New York Liberals saying “Let’s help those morons out”?
Nobody tell her about the Petraeus thing.
For the record, though, there is no verification process for the petitions. To create an account all you have to do is enter your name and zip code, and then it looks like you can start and sign as many petitions as you want. It would take an enormous leap of faith to believe all the signatures and locations are genuine because that would run contrary to pretty much the entire history of the internet and all anonymous communication anywhere ever.
Some whackjob asked me about this petition today, like I thought it was some grand idea. I told him it was a bunch of stupid idiots doing what stupid idiots do. He muttered something about 1st Amendment and I told him that was a US privilege, better hope we didn’t secede. Then I told him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and think about the last time some states decided to secede. He left.
Who would have thought that Rick Perry would be the voice of reason among idiots?
The secessionists got their asses kicked?
Somehow I missed that international border when I drove from Georgia up to Michigan last month.
Yes, while you can’t sign any one petition more than once, you can sign multiple petitions. I signed both “deport them” counter-petitions. 
Given my general supposition that you can find at least 2% of any population batshit crazy enough to go along with ANY proposition, no matter how insane or improbable…
A couple of hundred thousand people (out of 320 MILLION people in the USA) signing petitions (assuming it’s not the same people signing multiple petitions, which I kinda assume it actually is) is fucking inconsequential in the relative scheme of things. As in “less than 0.1%”.
I do thanks to the power of Wikipedia and a calculator. Let’s see:
Texas: 85,000/7,965,384 = 1.1% of voters*
Louisiana: 30,000/1,993,199 = 1.5% of voters*
Delaware: 5,400/413,844 = 1.3% of voters*
*2012 Presidential Election in State
So Delaware actually has a higher percentage of voters signing the petition than Texas. I imagine there are more southern states that have higher rates but I’m lazy.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20121113_Disgruntled_voters_petition_for_their_states_to_secede.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Presidential_election_(United_States)#Projection_by_state
Still waiting to see it proven that everyone signing any given one of those is actually from that state.
So why are you guys so angered by it?
Chill out, you’re gonna bust something.
:dubious:
I’ve been giggling about this all day.
But does anything stop someone in Texas from signing the Delaware petition? My assumption is that a lot of supporters are signing every petition.
Who gives a shit? It’s just a hollow protest that will never amount to anything.
The US isn’t going to acquiesce, secession is agin’ the law. If a state gathers enough momentum to try, the US will whip 'em just like they did last time.
“One nation, under God, indivisible…” Learn it. Know it. Live it.
It’s ironic that most of the secessionist wackjobs are probably the same ones that get bent over not reciting the PoA every morning at school.
Heh. Most of those petitions only have less than 3,000 signatures.
And on the Minnesota page, exactly TWO of the recent signatures were people from Minnesota.
Yeah, some movement you got there. :rolleyes: