Disgruntled Mississippi lawmaker wants his state to secede. Fine with me. Bye!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald

Dear Price Wallace:

There was a time I would have reasoned with you. There was a time I might even have pleaded.

Back then, I’d have been shocked and appalled to see a Mississippi state lawmaker advocate secession from the Union as you did in a Twitter exchange with former state representative Robert Foster a few hours after the presidential election was called for Joe Biden. As reported by Ashton Pittman of the Mississippi Free Press, Foster was going on about how Republicans will eventually accept the results of the 2020 election, but Democrats would “riot and burn their own cities to the ground” rather than accept a GOP victory.

That’s when you chimed in. “We need to succeed (sic) from the union and form our own country,” you said.

You’ve since apologized, saying you would “never support” what you had just supported. You’ll forgive me if I’m not persuaded. Besides, in one sense, it doesn’t matter much if you secede by force of arms as your forebears tried, with such spectacular unsuccess, almost 160 years ago. A case can be made that, in withdrawing from the unspoken covenants that make America America — for instance, refusing to promptly accept unfavorable election results — you and your ideological kin have already split from this country.

To which I can only respond: Bye-bye. Agitate the gravel. See ya in the funny papers. As we used to say in my neighborhood, don’t let the doorknob hit’cha where the good Lord split’cha.

There was a time I would never have said that. But your party’s coarseness, its avoidance of reality, its intellectual incontinence, have hardened me. Navigating its nonstop nonsense, its situational morality and constant appeals to our lowest selves, has required me to be colder toward folks like you than ever before. I don’t mind telling you, I miss who I used to be.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/disgruntled-mississippi-lawmaker-wants-state-214019648.html

[ResistantAmerican17]

1. Whenever anyone tells me "the south's gonna do it again,"

I say “what, get the living shit beat out of you?” Fucking rednecks.

[Afromania]

2. Start your own country?

Dude needs to start with something reasonable like getting down to only 35% of their budget needing to be federally funded.

[Marcuse]

3. The Republic of Mississippi demands US foreign aid or the Russian Navy will have Biloxi privileges.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Take Alabama and Louisiana with you.

[SCantiGOP]

5. Careful

You’re messing with the SEC now.

[marie999]

6. We should change the Constitution.

Let any state that receives more federal funding than it sends to the federal government can secede.

[raccoon]

7. Price Wallace is in the MS House of Rep. nt