Some Texas freeper wants to cut off natural resources to the east and west coasts

[gauguin57]

Wants to "Go Galt" instead of secession. Oh dear. I think the election results gave someone a full-on breakdown.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2956857/posts

[Hekate]

1. Poor dear. California has lots and lots of oil.

[dchill]

2. OK! We'll save a LOT of the disproportionately...

large amounts of Federal funds that those red states get from the "coasties."

[phylny]

21. And food. n/t

[gcomeau]

3. Sure.

And the west and east coast can cut off the *massive* transfers of their tax dollars that are used to prop up the state budgets of all those broke red states and use them to... oh... buy resources from anywhere else. See who implodes. :-D

[quinnox]

4. "Go Galt" is an extremely lame name

At least they could come up with a cooler name for this nonsense.

[Zorro]

36. They can go Galt themselves

[Chunk]

5. They want to cut off their path to the SEA!!

[onestepforward]

18. LOL!

Welcome to DU!

[Downwinder]

6. If Texas doesn't need anybody else.

kick them out of the NFL.

[truebluegreen]

30. That would leave a mark! nt

[still_one]

7. Doesn't he know a lot of place other than Texas have natural resource?

[DCKit]

13. He gets his nooz from Faux and Rush, He doesn't know anything. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

8. And to communicate for our grand scheme, we'll use the internet whose backbone sits in

Silicon Val----urk

[Kennah]

9. This was priceless

dila813 wrote:

I would be willing to trade my skills and labor for farm eggs ... hunting permission etc..

It would be great if we could have one on the Internet.

Secret Agent Man wrote:

You can, it’s called craigslist. They have trading there, or even if they aren’t posted there you can always make a trade offer. Worstcase they say no thanks.

[Skidmore]

20. Kudos to Secret Agent Man for being so

restrained in his response. That was funny.

[Scootaloo]

10. What oh what shall we ever do without our critical supply of fatback and dessicated dirt?!

How am I going to clog my arteries while repotting my cactus now?!

[XemaSab]

11. They can cut off our peanut supply

We can cut off their fruit, vegetable, and tree nut supply.

I'm sure we'll get by, somehow.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. No Bibles for you! And Nuge CDs!!!

You guys still like CDs, right?

[pinboy3niner]

33. No more re-runs of Walker, Texas Deranger?

Oh noes! Say it ain't so!

[ohheckyeah]

40. Virginia has lots of peanuts so no problemo. n/t

[Raine]

14. COOL ... he can just do without my state of CA cause we can do without whatever he's got. nt

[Jim__]

15. I'm sure the coasts would just shrivel up and die without input from this genius.

[Confusious]

16. "Canada would also rather deal with common sense than with Washington"

Dream big, buddy, just don't let your fantasy life rule your real life. I feel you're going down that path.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Well, let's see,

CA is the largest agricultural state, we can produce our own oil and we have an 800 mile Pacific coast line. We have deserts, mountains and ocean. We have one of the most diverse economies and populations in the world. We're the 10th largest economy in the world.

I think we'll survive without Texas.

[jpak]

19. The Galt Idolaters can fry in the sun and clean up after their own hurricanes.

and we'll take our military bases back.

yup

[pampango]

22. Oh sure. Trade with 'foreign' California and New York is bad for Texas.

Go ahead! Wall Texas off from those 'foreigners' on the coasts. Do the rest of us get to stop 'immigration' from Texas when your new 'country' falls apart?

[RomneyLies]

23. Texas has no right to regulate interstate commerce

And multi-national corporations will NOT shut down trade because some Freeper idiot thinks it's right.

The guy who posted that shit is more delusional than the Birthers.

[baldguy]

24. This is a great idea!

I'm all for reducing the influence of Texas on the national stage. The rest of the country would be much better off.

[bluestate10]

42. The "Galt" Strategy can work to our favor.

We trade Tennessee and West Virginia and 200 billion in cash for Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. They can have all the red states, we keep Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, putting up defenses around Florida to keep their people out when they start to starve. This thing can be resolved without bloodshed as long as the "Galtis" agree to not crawl across our borders and food and civilization when they begin to starve. We can let them trade with China and Russia, Romney would love that and jump to be their President.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Out of his damn mind as are those who responded to his batshit crazy OP.

Total nutbars!

[hobbit709]

26. TX no longer produces that much oil.

40 million barrels per year is slightly over 2 days worth nationwide.
Idiots like that are proud of their willful ignorance.

[HappyMe]

27. What the.....

How is that not seceding? I think someone plays too many role playing games online, or something.

[Chellee]

34. My favorite part...

is how he's going to take over the military bases.

They're going to go to the bases, explain that they are taking over, and all the people stationed there will say, 'Oh. OK. Well, we'll just get out of your way then."

[Amonester]

43. hehehe

- "Wanna donut with your fries?"

- "Yeah! Go ahead. Make my day!"

- "Make my day... SIR!!"

- "wut?"

[HappyMe]

45. Yeah. For a second

I thought that I had read that wrong.
I can just imagine the welcome that they would give the freepers.

'We wanna take over. What's the CHeetos situation here?'
'Sir! Yes sir, that's treason! Follow the MPs!
'zotz!??'

[distantearlywarning]

28. Only if we get to cut off federal aid/welfare to the "taker" red states in the middle of the map!

[lunatica]

29. So Texas has all the natural resources now?

[Kennah]

31. Uh-oh. That means the Chinese will invade.

[ohheckyeah]

41. In all fairness they

do have the corner on the tumbleweed market.

[aletier_v]

32. "Yeah let’s barter instead of using currency. And let’s also live in caves and eat raw bison"

[yashoo]

38. HA. This is as good as time as any to say farewell to everyone's favorite 2012 election meme

[bluestate10]

35. Damn, those Freepers are stupid.

The below has about as much of a chance of success as a snowball has of lasting 1 second in Hell. The Freeper idiots actually think that Russia and China will vaporize blue states and let red states merrily carry out their "Galt" strategy. How fucking foolish, Russia and China would take the whole ball of wax and impale red staters on the tips of their bayonets.

"There is also another scenario, where other Nations like China or Russia, seeing what’s happening, will vaporize the coastal cities to end the war and neutralize the threat the Occupied US Government poses to their Countries. But that would come later. This is possible, but understand the goal and how to attain it."

To the credit of some people over there in Freeperville, they had the guts to call the plan foolish and an act of treason. The thing that get me is that red state Freepers that are calling for the "Galt" strategy think that we, being far more technologically sophisticated won't vaporize their asses. They think we can't get them one at a time and can't attack because we would kill democrats. They have no fucking idea of what we have in our labs. We can selectively wipe out cities of the red assholes and leave the blue citizens standing. They think they can starve us out or deny us energy. Haven't they heard of green energy and vertical farming? Their attempt to deny us energy will cause us to accelerate green energy implementation and vertical farming. We would be able to feed our side with minimal space taken up while we parch their land and bring out blue citizens from there to freedom and good living on our side.

I doubt that North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana or Canada would join those fools for one minute, in particular if they know what will happen to them if they do, and our side should make the consequences perfectly clear if nimrods try a "Galt" strategy, or any other act of treason for that matter.

[Monk06]

37. "If necessary, we can ask for military support (boots on the ground) from long time allies such

(sic )Canada, England, and Australia.

FReepers have the intellectual maturity of infants. Infants are lovable though. FReepers are just mean and stupid.

That this person would seriously think,

1) This cockamamy 'plan' would work.

2) That reasonable countries would support a civil war in the US by any party, let alone the political and religious extremists on FR.

3) That Canada, England and Australia would send troops to support the 'Allied States of America'


Unbelievable that someone that stupid has control over a keyboard.

[Tree-Hugger]

39. Where do I sign up?

Speaking as a meteorology nerd - a great deal of their Allied States make up Tornado Alley. Let's give them one Spring full of the typical tornado outbreaks. What will they do in the mass devastation that can occur as a result of these outbreaks when they have no access to FEMA and federal disaster relief. What - will they trade each other some farm eggs to get their homes rebuilt? What about the floods that occur there every few years? Gonna take care of all of that without disaster relief? Yeah, good luck with that.

P.S. - I am in Pennsylvania and I live within 15 minutes of at least 6 farms. They do realize that farming occurs in other states, correct? Besides, it's us liberal states who are most likely to use renewable energy resources. They can hump their oil pumps all they want.

[bluestate10]

44. It doubtful that the "Galt" loving Freepers travel outside of their small towns.

They have no idea that farming and energy production takes place in blue states. Freepers think that they can cut off stuff to us and we will shrivel up. We can simply stop sending our tax money to red states and use that money to implement more green energy production in our blue states. The "Galt" strategy may be a big win for our side. We get rid of ignorant moochers that are holding the country back, becoming free to develop the society that we know is best for us, the planet and economic sustainability.

[Caretha]

46. This FR post was just fascinating ....in a sic sorta way

Why this song kept repeating over & over in my brain, I'll never know



Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to
leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..


They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!

[bloomington-lib]

47. Their freepathon pledges haven't moved since the election :)