Texas has required number of signatures 25,000

[RidgeHunter]

You're right, instead of petitions, we'd be having riots in multiple urban locales...

Seriously? That reeks of unsubstantiated and unprovable FUD. I've yet to see any evidence of political outrage among minorities or urban residents on a level that would have fueled riots had the presidential election results been reversed. That's talk radio/borderline Prison Planet/Turner Diaries ********. Fabricated political tension that simply doesn't exist.

Someone might have yelled something stupid or broken something that made a good YouTube clip for the Drudge Report or Breitbart's ghost to pimp, but there wouldn't have been any damn large-scale riots in multiple urban centers. The people that disaffected weren't sitting at home with their last shred of hope tied to an incumbent president.

 

[aestus]

Looks like a part of Texas is already seceding from itself even before it becomes it's own republic...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...tate-texas-remain-part-united-states/TDD212hQ

 

[Glocktogo]

Seriously? That reeks of unsubstantiated and unprovable FUD. I've yet to see any evidence of political outrage among minorities or urban residents on a level that would have fueled riots had the presidential election results been reversed. That's talk radio/borderline Prison Planet/Turner Diaries ********. Fabricated political tension that simply doesn't exist.

Someone might have yelled something stupid or broken something that made a good YouTube clip for the Drudge Report or Breitbart's ghost to pimp, but there wouldn't have been any damn large-scale riots in multiple urban centers. The people that disaffected weren't sitting at home with their last shred of hope tied to an incumbent president.

I'm proud of you for having such blind faith in your fellow Americans. Sadly, I live in a place where reality resides. There's a dark current at work here. Just as I see a rise in disaffected groups such as Sovereign Citizens on the right, I also see complete chaos and societal breakdown on the left whenever there's a significant loss or disaster. It's no fantasy and it's certainly not a wishful thought on my part. This country is fragmenting at an exponential rate. It may not seem like it on the surface where the media dwells. You have to dig down beneath the social strata to find it. But it's there alright...

 

[ignerntbend]

Looks like a part of Texas is already seceding from itself even before it becomes it's own republic...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...tate-texas-remain-part-united-states/TDD212hQ

Pretty scary. Once they get enough corrupt cowboy kingdoms down there, we'll have to build a wall on OUR border. Mark my words.

 

[RidgeHunter]

Just as I see a rise in disaffected groups such as Sovereign Citizens on the right, I also see complete chaos and societal breakdown on the left whenever there's a significant loss or disaster.

I agree with the chaos and societal breakdown upon significant disaster. I disagree the that Obama losing would have met the criteria to fall in that category. The sun would rose to the same scene it did last Wednesday.

Extremists, right or left, aren't gonna be set off by presidential election results.

 

[Lurker66]

Pretty scary. Once they get enough corrupt cowboy kingdoms down there, we'll have to build a wall on OUR border. Mark my words.

As long as we get Texoma Lake, im good with that.

 

[Glocktogo]

I agree with the chaos and societal breakdown upon significant disaster. I disagree the that Obama losing would have met the criteria to fall in that category. The sun would rose to the same scene it did last Wednesday.

You keep telling yourself that. Apparently you haven't been watching things very closely.

 

[inactive]

As long as we get Texoma Lake, im good with that.

Maybe we'll have to send our governor down there with a revolver. Again.

 

[RidgeHunter]

You keep telling yourself that. Apparently you haven't been watching things very closely.

Well one of us is out of touch anyways.

Clearly neither of us can prove what would have happened last Wednesday had Romney won, so I don't think either of us should be as confident as we are. Personality flaw in us, prolly.

 

[rhodesbe]

And taking this path worked so well for the Balkans.