A National Divorce: The American Right's Secession Fantasy
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Beau of the Fifth Column has said it multiple times: "Republican politicians don't want to *represent* their constituents. They want to *rule* them."
He's right of course but he also did say he got convicted for evacuating refugees when the court records say he was a front man for a human trafficking scam where eastern European women were lured in under false pretenses, made to work for the highest bidder and had the costs of their residence deducted from their already small pay and kept from complaining by being made unknowingly complicit in visa fraud. The fact he hasn't admitted this means he may be not the most honest of political actors. Not saying he doesn't have valuable insight on a great many things but he may also be, you know, running from accountability for a wrong he has yet to make up for.
The constituents vote for them under the assumption they represent a shot at being in a ruling class if they do. Hey, who cares if you live in a dystopia so long as you can shoot your way to ruling others.
Could you post the link to the vid?
Beau is a gentleman
@@seekingabsolution1907 this is old news i have seen some of his videos been quite honest in what he did but I guess he needs to literally to apologise/confess to every commentator like yourself who brings this up. He literally acts as he says "don't punch down" and I am cool with that. Some laws are meant to be broken. Especially when they "other" people. Are you perfect never broke the law? Aren't you a good citizen then...
So basically, by calling it a national "divorce" instead of secession, she expects the red states should still receive some kind of federal alimony.
Literally this.
And if we're supposed to be shrinking the federal government, where will this alimony come from?
Yup. Exactly.
also a nice way to sidestep sedition charges .
I don't think she actually is capable of thinking very deeply about anything. If I were to guess, her language is motivated to maintain a political conflict that drives donations and fuels conservatives fear.
People in prison should be allowed to vote. If there are enough prisoners to change the results of an election, then you have too many prisoners.
Also bc as long as felons and prisoners cannot vote, there is political incentive to incriminate your opposition
Actually, the law against felons from voting was first established in the Jim Crow South by people who were just trying to prevent black people from voting.
Let's also not forget that MTG moved from her home in a swing district in the Atlanta suburbs to a deeply crimson district in mostly rural NW GA where the incumbent was retiring. Using her logic on a more localized level, she should not have been allowed to run or vote in that district.
I didn't know "magic the gathering" did that
But the logic isn't meant to be employed within a nation state. When she was discussing the plan with Charlie Kirk, Kirk expressed some dismay along the lines of there still wouldn't be trust and MTG then proposed that post-national divorce, the states could impose residency conditions on people moving in. BUT they would be immigrants at that point.
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Tap: Add one blue state to your mana pool.
She also shouldnt have claimed a homestead exemption for both mansions, but Good Ol Boys don't have to worry about silly things like laws
No, her logic is that that only people from blue areas (Democrats) should not be allowed to vote. Those from red areas (Republicans) would have no such restrictions.
She called it a divorce because her husband asked for one. So it's a word she knows. Hard to give her the credit of thinking she planned anything deeper than that.
Not unlike Donald Drumpf... when he heard a new word he would use it as much as possible.
@@notestine0221 atleast gotta give him credit for trying to learn past a 4th grade reading level
No, she really means it. I don't know what she and the rest of them are waiting for? Get the hell out of here already!
As an Irish man living in the UK, and EU citizen, take it from me, don’t underestimate how powerful for some people a really stupid idea can become!
Step 1: Dig 4m deep hole.
Step 2: Get into hole.
Step 3: Blame Europe for hole.
Step 4: ...profit?
Russian propaganda operations gave the USA Trump, and gave the UK Brexit. They weaken us any way they can think of.
as a lefty pro-ish EU person wtf has my country done? we keep fking every up constantly.
I know, huh? Gullible people, uninformed, they're everywhere! It's too bad so many innocent people pay the price for so much stupid! Regardless of country, etc, it's everywhere.
For some people, the really stupid ideas are the only ones they can process.
"Hypocrisy is their tradition, it's what tells them who they are". Couldn't have said it better myself.
My favorite thing about MTG's call for a "national divorce" is that in her long rant about how after the national divorce red states would do their thing and blue states would do theirs, she made a point of saying how, in RED states, children in schools would sing the national anthem and recite THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE!!!
You know... The thing we say about how we are loyal to our one, indivisible nation.
The woman currently actively calling to divide into more than one nation is also actively claiming that her ilk are the ones who care about the pledge to, you know... not do that.
well said, also funny how they dont like gov telling them what to do yet want to force people to strike a pose for a flag of false freedom
She, and those like her, are far more interested in those things as trappings of tribal loyalty and "patriotism" than what they are supposed to represent. Equally, she doesn't actually _want_ to secede, she just wants the votes of people who like the idea.
@@crystalbluepartain3434 For them, ritual is more important than substance. Kind of like their professed belief in the teachings of Jesus.
@@MyFiddlePlayerespecially like that.
With "One Nation under Thor"!
As a Brit, I'm curious: would those who have no representation under MTGs... "plan" still be subject to taxation?
I understand there was a bit of a kerfuffle over that, some time back.
I think they resolved that a long time back. Taxation without representation is only a problem if it's under a British king. Just as they resolved "I was only following orders" is only a problem if it was under the German Nazis. The US is very good at solving problems this way.
As an American, if I moved to the UK and worked there would I have to pay tax? Would I be allowed to vote initially? I'd have to become a citizen, correct? Let's say Scotland did leave the UK. Scottish people would still go to England and English people would still go to Scotland, would a person from Scotland post-independence be allowed to move to the UK and be allowed to vote at that point? That's be up to England of course, but ultimately England could treat with Scottish people as immigrants at that point, subject to taxation and potentially eligible for naturalization.
Ask Puerto Rico.
Oh, believe me, you don't have to vote here to pay taxes. They're as serious about no taxation without representation as they are about the rule of law, checks and balances, the separation of church and state, or a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. See, there's an important legal principle that is articulated particularly clearly in the discussion of the second amendment: in US law, if a sentence has punctuation in it, you get to ignore the words.
For a hundred-plus years after that kerfuffle you mention, women and persons of color had to pay taxes without being allowed to vote. And still today, people in DC, Puerto Rico, and the territories pay federal taxes without having a voting senator or representative in Congress; also people with felony convictions don't get to vote in most places. Back in the day, the people who screamed "no taxation without representation" understood it to mean that the local rich white guys weren't being consulted on how the money was being spent, and even then they didn't really object too strongly until they figured out how much of it was being used to fund the UK's wars abroad instead of being spent locally in the colonies for infrastructure, etc.
As a Texan, I know how terrified Republicans are to allow everyone to vote.
Since 2000, GOP has closed several dozen DMV offices and polling stations in rural and minority areas.
In cities like Houston, it is very difficult to get around without a car.
Our bus system can take an hour to get your 15 miles away to the closest DMV office or polling station.
Then they begin Voter ID laws in 2003.
In 2016, after voting at the school down the street from my house, I was told I was no longer able to vote there. I had to drive 10min away on the other side of the Beltway. Where buses don't go, causing a lot of people to walk to vote or just not vote.
Even in November, it can be, and usually is, still hot outside.
GOP has had control of Texas since 1995 and my state has only gone downhill.
People tell me to move. No, my family has been here since the late 1850s, I am not abandoning my state. I will fight to fix it and get GOP out of office.
Comedian, and all around smart guy, Steve Hofstetter, said that Texas really is a blue state. The only reason it isn't is because when the Republicans took power they gerrymandered the fuck out of us. Unless Democrats come out and vote and vote in full force Texas will remain a Red state; but the Republicans, as you mentioned, have put up so many barriers for minorities to vote.
Honestly, I think people coming from Blue states here to Texas are going to miss some of what they had in their Blue state and vote Blue. On the local and national news people moving to Texas from California are doing so because they can get a bigger house in Texas for the same amount of money they bought their smaller house, few are moving for political reasons alone.
I'm not leaving my state, I want to be here when Abbott and Costello getr thrown out of Austin. I'm not going to leave the state that - on my mothers side - has been here since Texas was a part of the Spanish Empire.
I hate to tell you this, but the way Texas is going, its looks like its going to be an authoritarian nightmare state long after you die!
Good luck to you. I hope rational thought and tolerance return to this country soon. Keep up the good fight.
I have read statements from Texans how it can be impossible and take years to register to vote as a Democrat. One guy mentioned how his application kept getting “lost” or it would get sent back due to some minor error. When he switched to Republican after two years of trying to register as a Democrat, his application was approved post haste. Funny how that works?
I really hope it gets better one day. I grew up there, and there's a lot to like aboot Texas. Unfortunately, if I stayed, I'd have been killed. As much as I hope that people are able to overcome the voter suppression and gerrymandering to make it a better place, I just... can't deal with the horrifyingly exponential rise of hate and violence. It just isn't safe there anymore, and I think the way they are turning people into refugees is going to have an increasing effect on voting in Texas comparable to the other pressures.
...even just having refugees at all is so upsetting. Also, like, you know that other states have weather that doesn't murder you, right? It's a nice cool 43 over here in Washington right now. Just sayin'.
In Canada Quebec considered separating and forming its own country a number of times, the closest it came was in the mid 1990’s. It proposed a ‘sovereignty association’ arrangement, which more or less was ‘we will do whatever we as, as any independent country can do, but we also want to keep getting all of the Federal money as any Province gets to do’. Let’s just say the rest of the country was not on board with this plan.
I should be clear though Quebec’s wanting to separate was and is much more akin to Scotland wanting to be an independent country than the south rising again.
I was living in Buffalo area during that time. I remember one of the procession advocates getting questioned about how Quebec would fare financially if they seceded, and they responded how they have all these deals with the United States. The interviewer pointed out that those treaties and trade deals were with Canada, not Quebec, and Quebec would have to negotiate their own deals. The look on the secessionist guy's face was priceless. 😁
One thing that got me was on the day of the vote, I was watching the coverage, and one guy I come out of voting and said Vive La France. We thought was hilarious, because France forgot about Quebec centuries ago
@@SiriusMined There were some big misunderstandings the general population had about what would happen to Quebec after it separated. I think not unlike the misunderstanding with Britain leaving the EU. Trade and debt were massive ones, so was defence and international travel.
@@SiriusMined Most people in France would think he said Vive La France badly with an American accent ... Quebec French is already quite a long way from French, and still diverging
Newfoundland I wager splits at some point due to climate change and new oil deposits. There will come a point where the planet will need us to not tap into that oil, but those that own the resources will want the reward for having them. Sort of like the Amazon.
We are witnessing not only the death of a political party, but an entire idealogy, a nostalgic heritage of privilege, hate, pride. When you decide to take your ball home with you it proves that not only are you losing, but there is no hope to come back. Growth, and change have defined America since her inception. And both are inevitable. The problem now is the growth of diversity, It's easy to claim all should be equal, when you are treated as superior. But once equality becomes real, or even just a possibility then you can see the obvious response from the right. Steve , there is only one Randy Rainbow, but there is also only one Steve Shives. We are lucky for both
It won't die. The underlying psychology that gives rise to this ideology will be with humanity for all of its existence, unless we can find a medical cure for malignant narcissism.
Eric Cartman: "well then screw you guys, I'm going home"
Also MTG: "screw you guys, I'm going home"
I've been feeling for a while now that the Republican party is pretty much doomed. I feel as though the Democrat party might absorb the center-conservatives, and in an election or two we may see a more progressive party split off from the Democrats, re-starting the two-party system.
They're dying.
Painfully, slowly.
That's just great.
But, they're determined to take as many of us with them as they can.
Living in Florida and watching the unmasked hatred that is being made into law daily, you'll forgive me for wishing they would just hurry up and be no more.
It's like a weird perverse version of Hanlon's razor:
Never attribute to evil genius that which can be better attributed to Marjorie Taylor Green.
I wonder what's next in this progression: GWB -> Trump -> MTG -> ... maybe Santos? But the real problem is the voters they still find. Remember, when Trump lost, he still got a record number of votes - it's just the Dems got an even better one. Barely. The problem with voter suppression is, *_it works._*
This man who says he doesn't like musicals chooses bits from my FAVORITE musical to do in this video. Bravo, Tevye. Bravo.
L’Chiam!! Fiddler On The Roof is a top 5 for me, too, hard to pick an absolute favorite of all time
He's just trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.
Speaking as a queer disabled person in a very very VERY capital-R Red state, no, fucking don't secede. Seriously.
Absolute agree! And what about the Many states that have red or blue state legislators and opposite party governors? My governor is a democrat, and I love him! And what about all the blue cities in the middle of red states? Do we get Austin?
Leave now. For your own safety. Like the number of Ukrainian women who left when Russia was terrorising them.
The problem with criticizing kooks like MTG is that none of her followers are ever going to see it.
As an Australian, I have to say; this is the weirdest Star Trek topic you've covered. #DS94EVA
Are you thinking of the same ep as me? The one where julian and sisko and jadzia goes back in time to 2020
This really made me laugh
Marjorie seems to forget that she's from a blue state.
Georgia went blue in the 2022 us senate and 2020 presidential races, but it looks like a red state from the perspective of the governor and the us house.
Can we agree to call it a purple state?
Voted Democrat in the last presidential election and has two Democratic US Senators, but majority of the House members plus the governor and state legislature are Republican. Georgia is technically a nice bright purple.
I would like her to be psychology evaluated. There are times when I question her grip on reality.
Gotta have some good gerrymandering to get a majority of Republican congressmen when the statewide population voted for a Democratic president and senators.
@@bcase5328 Only times?
"John Brown's Body is moldering in the grave...."
Californian in the bay area... Admittedly a small sample but most of the people I know who have moved or talked about moving to "red" states usually do so because of the either the high cost of living here, or due to a job opportunity. The ones who talk about the tyranny of cali always end up on the same barstool week after week.
If a million people left CA this year, that'd be an insane number and even if they did, that would mean the vast majority would still remain in CA, right? Here's the thing, in my lifetime the slow trickle from NY to FL (or other states in the region), and the result is that FL now has more people than NY. The demographic flow is relatively slow actually, not an earthquake.
Job opportunity? That doesn't make much sense. Texas? Sure, there's a lot of tech companies moving there. Cary NC? Sure. Most of the south has far inferior job offerings though, that's WHY their cost of living is dirt cheap, you get what you pay for. No culture, no education, no high wage jobs for most.
I'd rather pay out the ass then move back to Fl though. Funny enough blue states have more pathways for people without degrees to move up and get good jobs that treat them better.
Plus all Cali peeps are gonna do are displace the poor idiots. They're coming in with their masters degree and 300k a year salary, buying a cheap house like it's nothing. That raises all prices, businesses start to cater to the new population, and in a couple of decades, the trailer parks have had to go deeper south because they can't compete.
Rest in peace, Topol. He passed away 10 days after this came out.
Also, MJT just got a divorce: at the end of last year, from her husband.
I like to call it Diet Secession: All the Taste, None of the Actual Consequences.
I remember a few years ago a bunch of these type of folks in TX were screaming for TX to secede. And when it was pointed out the second largest source of revenue in the state of TX was money from the federal government, suddenly the screaming quieted to the normal level of bitching and complaining. MTG only skill seems to be running her mouth. Which is par for the party. But I always remind myself that politicians are, after all, temporary.
Let's not forget that part of the reason Texas joined the US was because the debt from their 9 years of independence would not stop piling up. In other words, they needed a bailout. Throw in the Mexican-American war, and you have effectively solidified Texas' place in the Union, whom without which, Texas would have ceased to exist.
So from the very beginning, Texas has only been able to exist because of the US. The fact that shortly after joining, they seceded and joined the Confederacy perfectly showcases the nonexistent memory and permanent (and I argue violent) hypocrisy of Texas.
I see I am not the only one who randomly references Fiddler On The Roof.
Fiddler gang rise up
It is amazing how right wing free market economics consistently leads to worse outcomes for the economy but there is still this idea that right wing parties are more responsible economic managers because they don't help the poor.
"Well you see, I could invest all this money in better healthcare, education and infrastructure for the state that'd massively increase revenues, *or* I could be *fiscally responsible* and give it to this guy who went to the same prep school as me, who has this cryptocurrency exchange that promises a 900% return on investment"
@@sunyavadin Well they can't invest in education, or the next generation of voters would be smart enough to not vote for them.
GOP: Let the Market decide!
Market: Decides [to attract as many customers as possible]
GOP: No, not like that.
Call them what they are; free market feudalists.
and how in a free market economy businesses and banks need bailing out?
What they should do is get rid of filibustering and gerrymandering, and do all voting by county, thus by state, the politician actually lives in. The corporate Rorshach test that makes up state voting districts is insane.
County borders can be changed. Personally, I'd prefer voting districts drawn up by one of the many programs people have written to create non-partisan districts, as long as the resulting districts are as equal-size and non-salamander as possible, and the program doesn't know anything about vote results or related variables - just a population map. And then voting places distributed along some universal rule, too. Or you could just drop FPTP and vote parties. _Party-list proportional representation is the single most common electoral system and is used by 80 countries, and involves voters voting for a list of candidates proposed by a party._
Cities and counties sometimes change. But not all that much. If there is a change it can fall under the vote of the public to approve or disapprove. No longer will we allow politicians to mandate voting districts. Woohoo!
They are all traitors and should be dealt with as such.
So executed? That's the punishment for treason. Leftists and their guillotines, got to love the hypocrisy.
Should've happened in the 60s
@@falconeshield***1860s. We were WAY too nice to them after the civil war. When radical reconstruction ended, jim crow began and didn't end for 100 years.
What MTG doesn’t seem to realize is that, although we are not divorced, as a nation, blue states are already paying alimony to red states by way of subsidies. Blue states account for a far greater percentage of the national GDP, and, in most cases, red states are mooching off of blue states tax dollars at the federal level. So, if she wants to separate red states and blue states, we can start with subsidies.
It's truly terrifying to imagine what would happen to the populations of those states if they were to secede from the US, when they're all the states with the highest net dependency upon federal money.
They're already third world countries. It would be 10x worse, think of the poorest countries in Africa and that'll be close.
Well, that's the thing. It's very tempting and emotionally satisfying to say, "Don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out." But what happens to the non-right-wing people who can't afford to flee to blue states? How oppressed and poor and marginalized will those poor people be? I can envision an almost apartheid oppression of the poor, the non-white, and the LGBTQI people. Almost a Republic of Gilead, with forced birth, etc.
Federal money paid for by the "blue" states they hate so much, no less.
@@clairenollet2389 That's the plan, which is terrifying.
@@StormsparkPegasus I wouldn't even compare them to Africa. Africa is collectively poorer than the West, because the West takes advantage of them. After "decolonization", the colonial powers made sure to leave behind economic and political infrastructure that would keep them perpetually poor and unstable (even funding/creating death squads to destroy stabilizing influences and movements), so that the global north could continue to extract resources for extremely cheap, in order to fund their lifestyles.
Secessionist Red States wouldn't be like Africa, because they would have done that to themselves, and willingly.
I love it so much when the UA-camrs I know and like reveal that they are also fans of other ones I like. Warm fuzzy feelings.
There will never be a national divorce. We are already sleeping in separate bedrooms and seeing other people.
Thanks for the Randy Rainbow shout-out. He helps us keep our sanity -- trying to directly emulate him, though, may drive us a bit batty.
There's actually a kind of hilarious secession scheme in Georgia, where some guy from New York is trying to get the richer/whiter third of Atlanta to split off and become its own city, but keep Atlanta's water and school systems (so really, it would be the same except with its own police force and a redundant City Hall run by him and his friends). The actual population of this area is ambivalent on the idea, and every bill on the subject in the state legislature (which would have to approve it) has been supported exclusively by legislators who do NOT live in the area (and are mostly from lightly populated rural areas like Greene). So they are so into secession that they support other people seceding whether they want to or not!
Let them do it. Look at the economies of "Blue" States next to "Red" States. Great video bud.
Had the same thought. The south isn't as well of economically right? I'm not from the U.S. so I don't really know
Ignoring California which is a bit of an odd case, as their unusual tax structure means their state revenue bounces like a space hopper.
@@floriangunzer6244 The South is on life support and if they seceded again, they'd soon become a failed state that just flatlines.
I live inside the border of that. I say bring it. MAKE us secede, cut the dead weight, and wait the generation or two to reclaim literal deadlands.
You're "Tradition" parody was absolutely über awesome! Well done, sir. Well done, indeed.
You. Are. Amazing. 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 Bravo!!!!!!!
My sister got a job in Georgia teaching college. Her previous work was in California. My parents moved with her. I lived in Washington DC.
Dad died. Mom had a heart attack and two strokes. I moved to Georgia to help my sister. I don't want to live here. I didn't want to give up my job. I loved the District. My question is: under Greens suggestion, would I get to vote? After all, I didn't leave because I didn't love the policies.
I thought MTG was proposing an American Brexit.
The real kicker is these are rhetorically red voters, leaving a blue state unhappy with blue policies... And she wants to take away their votes for 5 years. Literally shooting herself in the foot after 10 seconds of causal analysis
Someone handed Marjorie Taylor Greene a copy of the Constitution...She ate it.
like the idea of the original Brexiteers: Keep all the advantages but don't have the "disdantages". Didn't worked out quite the way they thought
Fascists gonna fash
Fasc... fasci... fashisonistas? :O
Leaving and going your own way is fascism now?
I could imagine a 3rd grader, who should really be in the first grade thinking this is a good idea .
MTG wants all the funding just nothing else.
When I was like 6 years old, I was having an argument with my parents and I threatened to run away from home.
My mother instantly went "Okay then, go ahead."
It is over thirty years later and I can still recall the bowel-clenching, blood-chilling, pants-wetting-inducing horror that gripped my idiot child self at the realization of "Holy shit what have I gotten myself into" followed by the immediate embarrassment at being called my bluff.
So today, I say to Empty G, "Okay then, go ahead."
So, at the age of 6, you were brighter than MTG. Umm ... not really a surprise.
Yeah, Margie is real ‘special.’ One thing that sets our nation apart from many others is that we figured out how to stay a single nation. Even her (MTG) divisiveness won’t divide us. She’s her own worst advocate.
She's a fascist. She wants to bring back slavery and execute everyone that doesn't agree.
I'm sure that's exactly what Kaiser Karl thought
She should be teaching Yoga or running a pool cleaning company, not in Congress. Real legal skill and political gumption is beyond her.
@@GPantazis There's a lot that went wrong (for some of it, "went wrong" is very euphemistic) in the history of Germany, but ever since Bismarck created a modern Germany in 1871, I'm not aware Germany ever had any real problems with one of the states trying to secede.
Only marginally related, Bismarck, an arch-conservative, also created the first modern welfare state - because he wanted to prevent revolutions. He may have been a conservative, but he wasn't stupid.
Perhaps I should add, there are some reports that he decided against trying to add Austria because he didn't want even more Catholic states in Germany. Whatever that's worth.
Vocal secessionists in Congress, that takes me back. Surprising in the 21st century but nostalgic nonetheless.
MTG isn't competent to be left in a room with sharp objects, let alone make law.
I dont believe you. We should test this theory.
As a former conservative, I’m glad that our universities teach more progressive ideas than old ideas. I’m thrilled that the internet has allowed good knowledge to spread all across the world, even if it is amid misinformation and/or often gets firewalled.
But you can’t stop the signal, for better or worse. I have much hope for mankind and future generations. As a former conservative, I would only ask for patience as this nation, at least, slowly gets dragged toward progress. I know and understand why young people want a revolution, they want a better world now. Just make sure you don’t engage in evil to rid the world of it. 🌎🌍🌏❤
We’ll get there. Because we have to.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Bobert, Jim Jordan. WTF happened to white people in America?!
His Morty was near perfecr
Omg! As a transgirl Trekkie I love both your channels and get a little geek happy when I see one comment on the others channel 😅
The idea of “Go ahead. fucking do it and see what happens” is my overall attitude towards this
Any and all voter suppression, even just as some random comment off the cuff, is a big red flag
Thank you!! I loved every word of this. I appreciate you posting it, as I enjoy your channel. Really excellent!
I’ve been binging your old Trek videos recently and loving your channel.
Steve, spittin mad bars at the end. Who says you're no Rainbow Randy? 🥰
MTG is from Georgia... A state with two Democratic senators, that voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and a state where Republicans only hold a slight majority of the legislature which has shrunk over the past decade. Absolute pinnacle of Republican values.
I agree with everything you have said. Makes me feel like I am in an echo chamber of my own mind. You state things so succinctly and bluntly. Many times I feel something is wrong but cant see all the reasons why. You lay it all out there. Thank you for that.
Your Randy Rainbow comment was awesome!
What about the purple states? States like Arizona are shifting and are not consistently one color.
Conservatives have a hard time with nonbinary thinking
States are more purple when it comes to the popular vote and not the electoral. There are a lot of Democrats who live in Texas, but their state is completely gerrymandered, and their electoral college hasn’t voted Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
You’re not Randy Rainbow, but he’s no Steve Shives. The internet is a richer place for having both of you. 0:19
I live in a red state right now (Tennessee, Nashville area). If our representatives actually suggest secession, I am out of here immediately and moving back up north where I came from.
I remember when Scottish politicians were pushing for independence from the UK a few years ago. Saying that North Sea oil and gas would fund them. When the UK Government asked how that would pay their share of the national debt. Depending on population size or seats in the House of Representatives. That’s between $13.5 and $16 trillion dollars. While the US military might be negotiated to be split as part of the separation. The new country could not be allowed nuclear weapons under many international treaties the US signed. I think many would think again at abandoning any claim to a world power at that.
Wow, that was a very Robert Picardo-esque singing at the end there, kudos!
I am still holding out hope that I will get my ancestoral home of Candyland back from those yankee carpetbaggers! It's about state's rights, not slavery!!! ;)
😂🤣😂🤣
Grew up around a lot of midwestern ranchers and farmers receiving massive amounts of subsidies and tax breaks who were convinced the federal government and city slickers were oppressing them, somehow. They never liked to talk about where taxes that paid their subsidies, disaster relief, etc. came from. It's the regional version of people on Social Security voting for the dismantling of Social Security.
You are animated and comically entertaining as well as informative about the madness of Republicans. 👍👍
Great content. The Last Jedi line got my subscription.
More singing! Yay!
Love how I got an ad for A24's new movie "Civil War" right before this. Whewww
Good luck MTG.. enjoy Kentucky, Alabama and Louisiana!
More of these please.
Wonderful summary
That song at the end, well done!
Awesome. Loved especially the song.
Remember, its not just, that its almost exclusively red states receiving more federal funds, than they pay. Its also all the other federal stuff. Military bases, federal departments, national parks etc etc etc with all the jobs, that come with them.
I dont remember the exact number, but when Lake in Arizona campaigned for governor saying, she wanted the federal government out of Arizona, that when all was counted from the military bases to social security checks, Arizona would lose about 2/3 of its economic basis. And that was just the economy.
All these empty vessels like Greene, Lake and Boebert do a lot of screaming but haven't got a clue what would actually happen if they got their way.
I'm all for the Federal Government no longer propping up these loser states. The Democrats with good educations will move out by choice, the RethugliKKans will die off, and in a generation or two we can repopulate the areas with people who don't marry their cousins.
LOL - nice impression of Randy Rainbow! ;)
The vibrato🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿lol minute4:25 yesss. I was just thinking that
Welp, that little diddy at the end will be stuck in my head for a while - and I'm okay with that. Suppression!
Hey Marge. Just so you know, as a lefty woke-scold who lives in a very conservative reliably Republican deep red state that just so happens to have an incredibly strong commitment to Public Education with a super strong teachers union, and who’ve lived under entrenched textbook Socialism in the form of universal publicly owned non-profit utilities for almost 100 years; I don’t think the red/blue separation will be nearly as simple as you think it will.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation.
Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed -
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing, or all the other..... Abraham Lincoln Ilinois Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln was elected president November 6th 1860. Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated March 4th 1861. South Carolina seceded December 20th 1860.
At 0430 a.m. April 12th 1861 the Confederacy attacked and fired upon United States Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston harbor.
It was not a war of northern aggression. It was not a war of states rights. It was a war for the unreasonable inhuman sociopathic demand that they, the southern slave masters, continue their practice of using humans as farm equipment for the wealth of Southern slavemasters.
Republicans are just as dishonest and delusional today as they were when the Confederate traitors started their war against America and democracy.
Republicans foundational ideologies are all lies meant to make the wealthy wealthier by taking and taking from normal people and contributing nothing to the society from which they only thieve.
Healthcare is a human right.
Education is a human right.
Living wages is a human right.
REPRESENTATIVE democracy is a human right.
Plunder and mass incarceration are crimes against humanity.
Nice job with the Fiddler on the Roof song reference.
Thank you I was going I know that song but what is it.
@@allanolley4874 it’s “Tradition” from the opening scene of the film.
@@randykoger4646 Yeah I figured that out when I read your Fidler on the Roof comment hence why I thanked you.
I appreciate the Fiddler on the Roof bit.
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Subbed for your Batman videos and now I discover you're also openly and proudly on the left, plus, you like The Last Jedi. What a wonderful surprise.
Stevie, I love that you didn't bother to define pareidolia. You rock so very much.
That said, you are right about another thing. You are not Randy Rainbow. I think it is the beard.
Fantastic video Steve. Loved the song parody at the end
You are spot on.
It's like a trophy wife's divorce with enormous alimony.
My impression is that "divorce" here means turning the USA into the CSA, not secession per se. I mean, insofar that MTG has given this any real thought.
Well said!
They don't want Succession... no, they want something worse:
The codification of Political Parties and their control over State Legislatures.
If you read the bill proposed by the likes of Greene it isn't about separating the United States into two different countries. It is about giving the two political parties the authority to create laws that prevent any other political party from openly operating within a State. While this illusion looks very similar, two parties controlling different chunks-o-land, the outcome of this plan will be far worse then having two independent countries....
Right under your video is ST:TAS The Master Race. You’re giving my UA-cam feed ideas, Steve. /s lol
“WE WANT A NATIONAL DIVORCE!”
“You have made me *sniffle* so….happy.”
At it again! My dude i love the political commentary
😂😂"im not Randy Rainbow"
Well both of you Cool AF in my book 👍
I was waiting for someone to sing that. I knew two of my great-grandparents into my thirties. They sometimes would tell us what their grandparents told them about a certain civil war they fight in/lived through. It did not go well.
Was that end song a parody of Fidler On The Roof? Anyway, great commentary!
Fiddler on the Roof is a very apt reference, given the group of people supporters of the Right tend to place as their biggest Boogeyman if you dig deep enough.
Hit the nail on the head as usual.
Keep the money, keep the power.
DAYUM Steve!
We need a ranking or stars for likes, more for the R Rainbow reference... even more for the showtune!!