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[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 223 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't encouraging cession mean MTG is now encouraging active rebellion against the United States? And wouldn't that make her ineligible to hold office under the 14th amendment?

Let's get that lawsuit roll'in.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

You would think, but this is the second time she's suggested secession (admittedly she wasn't as blatant the first time) and nothing was done. I doubt anything will be done this time either. It wasn't even a major headline.

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[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

Voicing an opinion, especially a political one, is pretty heavily protected. I think there would need to be some other crime being committed (e.g. actually taking up arms).

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Good question No, if she only advocates for amending the constitution. Yes, if she tells people to take up arns

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[-] Chozo@kbin.social 127 points 1 year ago

Alternative title: Margarine Trailer Queen endorses treason.

[-] fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Margarine Failure Gangrene got a face like leathery treason.

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[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago

The Union should have scorched earth the South when it had the chance. Tear up their train tracks, block the harbors, nationalize all the farm lands, dissolve the rebel states borders into Federal Territories, hang all rebel political leaders and put all military officers above Lt. in front of the firing squad. Instead, you let them live and fester, even naming military bases, ships and tanks after them.

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

If we had done to the south after the civil war what the world did to Germany after world war 2, I firmly believe we would be in a much better place.

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[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago

Let's do a quick thought experiment and say there was an actual legal framework for states to leave the union. How do Republicans think that would go? Under no circumstances would any major city in the south go along with leaving. Republicans states are far more purple than elections would suggest due to voter suppression, election fraud, and gerrymandering. So in reality the confederate areas would just be poor rural areas. Add in the fact that the US holds the keys to all the military equipment and weapons, the confederate areas would turn into a lawless hell scape over night. And without nuclear weapons and no international agreements for defense, I'm sure Mexico and Cuba would love to reclaim some of their lost territory.

I can go on. But the main reason these idiots keep bringing this up is to suggest violence into getting their way. It's not even a viable option to even consider for them. The situation I made is a best case scenario for them to. If they tried to violently leave the union it would be couple million good old boys in trucks up against jets and tanks.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 86 points 1 year ago

And then blue states can stop funding red states and the red states will crumble even further.

Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That’s right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It’s too easy, asshole, they’re blue states. It’s not your money, assholes, it’s fucking our money.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140304131138/http://fuckthesouth.com/

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[-] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 71 points 1 year ago

The 14th amendment prohibits her from serving in congress. Period. Unequivocally. Are we going to start enforcing laws or not?

[-] SevFTW@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago

PaRtY oF LaW anD oRDeR

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

I might be in the minority, but I say let 'em go: provided they take a proportional amount of the US debt with them, and give back all the military assets that the rest of the country bought. They can re-staff all those military bases they named after Confederates on their own dime, while paying back debt and funding their own Social Security.

I bet once they actually get presented the budget for their ideas, all of a sudden they decide they like the Blue states (and their tax base) a lot more than they used to.

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I fully agree, fuck em. What do they contribute, cotton? I'm willing to pay higher prices for imported goods to get rid of those racist pricks once and for all.

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[-] Bwaz@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

Oh, wow. Texas, Missouri, Alabama, etc. become not our problem anymore? Gimme a petition to sign!

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

This woman needs to secede from my internet.

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Sounds like she should be removed from Congress.

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[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 48 points 1 year ago

The only reason I'm not an advocate for this is because this would mean abandoning LGBT people, minorities, and women in red states.

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[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

She's a traitor. Traitors get death penalty. --MGT

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago

Breaking News: MTG says controversial shit to stay in the news cycle.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Sure, but at what point do we say "this is treason" and do something about it?

[-] mriguy@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

We look at the definition of treason in the Constitution, conclude that unless we can prove she’s acting on behalf of a foreign power, it isn’t treason, call it sedition, which it clearly IS, and go from there.

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[-] darctones@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

America’s power is that we are one nation with access to two oceans and friendly neighbors. Our greatest threat is from within.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

--Abraham Lincoln

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[-] 2piradians@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

She should still be raving and slurring her words relatively harmlessly in some dive bar, but nooooooo...Georgia had to go and get her elected.

[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

Ahh. Another Republican advocating sedition.

Lock her up!

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

To be fair, we should have locked her up already for her actions on Jan 6th and her continued obstruction of justice.

No idea why we haven't.

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[-] elrik@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if she has no interest in preserving the strength of our union. I wonder who that really benefits...

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Cut off from the federal teat that they suck on, they wouldn't last a month.

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[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I wish she would secede from the planet.

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[-] PlatypusXray@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

Russian asset doing russian asset things

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

No, you traitorous shit hag, you can't. You already lost one war and one SCOTUS case saying so.

[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

yessss. do it. pleeeeease peel off some republican senate seats

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Is this not sedition?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Who cares what this dumbass wants? She should be getting asked why she was for the coup.

[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

She will say anything to stay in the news. Her big mouth, and the media's reporting on it, is the only way she remains relevant.

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[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Well since seceding from the union worked out so great the last time....

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

A statement like this should get you instantly booted out of Congress

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

She should consider fucking herself in the ass with a cactus.

[-] deft@ttrpg.network 23 points 1 year ago

"please do anything that helps my russian bosses!! im desperate!"

  • mtg
[-] galaxies_collide@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

PLEASE DO! And say goodbye to all your federal benefits. Good riddance.

[-] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She's right. Blue states should consider it. I don't think blue staters in these comments realize how close abortion is to being illegal nationwide.

"Roe v. Wade will never be overturned, that'll turn the country into a warzone!!"

"States will never actually ban abortion, that'll turn states into warzones!!"

Yet here we are.

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

You know, for claiming to be patriots they sure seem to hate the US.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

Stupid woman says stupid stuff, news at 11

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