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Link to tweet
Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman
Mississippi House Rep. Price Wallace: We need to succeed [sic] from the union and form our own country."
That tweet came in response to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' victory in the presidential race.
Rep. Price Wallace, a Republican member of the Mississippi House who represents Rankin and Simpson counties and ran for office unopposed in 2019, wrote back.
We need to succeed from the union and form our own country, Rep. Wallace wrote, misspelling secede.
Foster did not respond.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/6813/top-mississippi-republicans-fail-to-acknowledge-biden-victory-as-fitch-joins-trump-lawsuit/
msongs
(67,199 posts)pfitz59
(10,198 posts)Didn't end well for Mississippi.
Statistical
(19,264 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)JHB
(37,132 posts)...and any seceded areas would quickly become such.
I say "areas" because if secession were recognized, so would the right for portions of those states to secede from them and remain, as West Virginia did.
Mississippi could lose about a third of the state that way.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)Republicans claim they've had it with American socialism. Maybe they should return the tax dollars subsidizing them
Link: https://www.salon.com/2014/09/20/10_red_states_that_mooch_off_the_federal_government_partner/#:~:text=Yet%20the%20reality%20is%20that%20Mississippi%20is%20one,pays%2C%20it%20receives%20%243.07%20from%20the%20federal%20government.
Although they probably would return to slavery if they succeeded.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)Let all the southern states fuck off into their own country. Gonna hurt without that socialist blue state money
Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)No FEMA to help yall. That's an American socialist department. Ya'll better form your own FEMA
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moose65
(3,164 posts)Georgia and NC are on the verge of turning blue. There are 10 million people in each of those states, and theyre not all hopeless rednecks.
Besides, there are racist and gun-toting assholes everywhere.
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)You won't last 4 years this time. The fastest your comeuppance can arrive isn't "horse" anymore.
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)all hat and no cattle
(US, idiomatic) Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
Synonyms
all bark and no bite; all bluff and bluster; all booster, no payload; all crown, no filling; all foam, no beer; all hammer, no nail; all icing, no cake; all lime and salt, no tequila; all mouth and no trousers; all mouth and trousers; all shot, no powder; all sizzle and no steak; all talk; all talk and no action; all wax and no wick; all motion and no meat; all show, no go; all fur coat and no knickers
Seriously?
Price is priceless.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Without federal aide, the increased hurt in a state where so many people are hurting more than in any other state makes me want to cry.
coti
(4,612 posts)find a way to kick out 5 red states.
L.Pharmstrong
(152 posts)After winning the Civil War, he should have let Sherman burn the entire Confederacy to the ground and then said go be your own country. It would have instantly become a third-world shithole without support from the industrialized Northeast. Instead weve be locked in a Cold War with the Confederacy for the past 150 years.
Fullduplexxx
(7,818 posts)catbyte
(34,174 posts)It certainly will be a shithole country when they can no longer suck on the federal teat.
diane in sf
(3,904 posts)jalan48
(13,798 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Really want to try it again?
DFW
(54,057 posts)There are those in the USA who WOULD consider it a success if Mississippi would secede from the USA. I can understand why some white people in Mississippi would want to secede. For Mississippi to survive as a stand alone country, they would need to return to slave labor to keep their economy afloat. Even Elvis escaped to Memphis.
Earthshine2
(3,858 posts)knowing that others will put in the money and energy to hold it all together.
Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)Columbus AFB, Keesler AFB, Camp Shelby, the Mississippi Ordnance Plant, and the Stennis Space Center, for starters.
He need not worry, Blue States will be more than happy to take over their functions.
BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)SomedayKindaLove
(524 posts)Well even do it for the same 15M we received in 1803.
Then, instead of endlessly sending bail out money to those states, we could send relocation funds to liberal/Dem individuals in those areas to move to Texas and Florida, turning those state blue in the process.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Vinca
(50,170 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)See where it gets you. Hint: Nowhere. It will not succeed without all those Blue state tax dollar infusions.
Jeezus, what a bunch of goddamn sore losers.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)I am sure that when Biden is in office, if the need arises there will be a fine young general in the ranks who could carry the mantle of William Tecumseh Sherman.
apnu
(8,722 posts)He can pick any other country he likes and live there. Since hes so politically savvy, educated in liberty, and a good speller, he can engineer his republic elsewhere its needed and show us all how its done.