Official 2012 Democrat Gloating/Republican Tears Thread

See, the mistake he made was in not qualifying his statement with a "no homo" at the start. Had he done that there would be no ambiguity about "fuck off blackadar".

One man's learned opinion on why Texas secession is plausible!

I love this point.

The legendary Texas Rangers!

And I'm sure that all of the people stationed at Fort Hood and Fort Bliss who aren't Texas natives and who have family back home in Montana or Illinois or Wisconsin or Georgia would be happy to take on the American military on behalf of secessionists.

Yes, burglars don't bother with Texas...
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_bur-crime-burglary

tl;dr
the per capita burglary rate in Texas is 1 in 119 - in communist California it's 1 in 152.

Except that the bases belong to the United States, as do all the Army assets there. If Texas secedes, those bases would likely remain as installations of the US Army similar to our other overseas bases in places like Germany and (formerly) Panama.

Texas also has a number of other logistical problems with secession. I mean, sure, they'll finally have nobody standing in their way when they want to legitimize the Minutemen and station them along their southern border with Mexico... but now they have a western, northern, and eastern border to protect as well. Brown people to the south, lib'ruls to the north - they're going to have to arm EVERYONE. I'm sure they have enough guns and ammo for that, of course. And of course they'll have a thriving international trade-based economy... oh wait, no. Buying anything from other nations would be taking jobs away from God-fearing Texans. So we're looking at (at least) 100+% tariffs on all trade goods, Plus they're going to start out in a MASSIVE deficit - I mean, you can't check out of a hotel without settling your bill, we certainly couldn't let Texas leave the U.S. without settling their portion of the national debt. Forget proportional equity - just write us a check for 2% of the debt... oh wait, no, you're going to want to go back to the gold standard, aren't you? All right, just deliver it to the Texas/Arkansas border and we'll have a few trucks pick it up and you'll get a receipt.

Now, there are going to be a lot of non-Texans that'll be sympathetic to the new government and probably will want in on that, so you'll need some semblance of an immigration department unless you want to deal with the "new illegals" from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Louisiana jumping the borders to try and find work in the new Texas economy. And you're going to have to deal with a lot of emigration as well (like, the entire city of Austin) so you'll need to deal with that as well.

It's a fun thought experiment - now I want to see some indie game developer actually design it as a sim game.

If this means we can put up a border fence all around Texas we may have a winner. Just think, in Arizona they'd have to check the birth certificates of everybody since you could have illegal Texans skulking about.

I assume you mean "northeast". The electoral map has a nice red stripe due north of Texas.

Not just Austin. 41% of Texans voted for Obama this year. 3.2 million people would want the hell out of there. The only reason we stick around is low housing costs, family connections, and the potential that we can flip Texas into a blue state in a decade or two.


You'd also have to deal with a complete collapse in the economy as it relates to immigrant laborers. I wish everyone the best of luck in rehiring for all those jobs. A lot of people seem to have it in their minds that illegals from south of the border do nothing stand in front of gas stations and hardware stores looking for landscaping and remodeling work. Crops will go unpicked, factory floors will go unmanned, kitchens and retail stores everywhere will go unstaffed, houses and roads will go unbuilt. Prices on everything would skyrocket thanks to the lack of availability of cheap labor.

I find it more likely that Texas would legislate in a permanent apartheid law to keep the cheap labour cheap and the mexicans from voting, all in one stroke.

In the eyes of a Texan, anyone not flying the Lone Star Republic flag is too liberal for Texas. You have to remember, this is a state whose people take a sick pride in gun ownership and the attitude that they can shoot and kill someone for stepping over an imaginary line. These are a people who adopt the most extreme attitudes of American exceptionalism - without actually being exceptional. #50 in population with a high school diploma. One out of every five Texans over 25 has not even graduated high school. In other words, 20% of the state cannot even prove they possess the basic knowledge possessed by a marmoset - and yet don't you dare take away their Second Amendment right-to-murder.

tl;dr version - FUCK TEXAS.

If ever anywhere on Earth needed a Chicxulub event, I can think of no better place that would be improved by such an occurrence.

You can shit on Texas all you like (I do all the time, and I live here) but trust me, you'll be glad they stuck around in relatively short order. If current demographic trends hold and the Republicans remain unable to shake their hatred of Latinos, the state will become a battleground state about a decade or so from now, and will turn solid blue not too long after that.

Now imagine the Republican party trying to win a national election without Texas, California, and New York.

Just picture it. The churning rapids of the Rio Grande fed for eternity by the endless tears of Republicans.

http://punditshaming.tumblr.com/

"But the most entertaining fall-out will be the recriminations of pollsters and polling generally in the wake of Romney’s 330+ electoral vote win next Tuesday." - Don Rasmussen

Nice.

Twelve predictions. Two correct.

Well ... two out of twelve ain't ... good.

The best part is the "Romney is going to BURY Obama with 100+ Electoral Votes AND the Popular Vote!!"
Followed by "Obama only squeaked by with 100+ Electoral Votes and the Popular Vote."

Yeah, that part amazes me. What, Obama's electoral votes only count for 3/5 of Romney's or something?

This is pretty standard. a 0.1% victory for a republican is a Mandate to do whatever they campaigned on. A blowout for a Dem is a conditional election that demands they be bipartisan and work with republicans.

Thankfully this is just a media narrative, and the only challenge is getting the Dems to understand that raising taxes on the rich? Totally fucking popular and fuck whatever Norquist says. Hell, raise taxes on the rich AND make election day a national holiday called "Fuck Grover Norquist Day" in the same bill.

I think one of the reasons for the GOP's "shock" is people like me didn't go around SCREAMING about how I'm going to vote for Obama.
My mind was made up long ago, but I didn't yell it every chance I got.

In the same way that we don't designate a "White History Month" because we already have 11 (arguably 12) of them on the calendar, in a more perfect Union we won't need to officially set a "Fuck Grover Norquist Day."

This fucking rules.

There are now petitions for secession from all 50 states. If all 50 states secede, they could form some sort of new country, perhaps a union of states. Don't know what it'd be called though.

Hawaii's request is legit, though. We were basically annexed at gunpoint.

The dude's entire article is awesome, but I think my favorite gem is this:

Thanks for that link, Jerri! That's epic.

Why does the Daily Caller give a shit about random internet petitions signed by a shockingly small percentage of the electorate?

Wait, I should know why that website is a journalistic joke. It'll come to me..

I say we go back to what our founding fathers really intended - the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. Having all the states just do their own thing worked quite well - it was practically a Libertarian utopia... and could be again!

I know some Republicans are very upset that Obama was reelected and all, but this is just getting stupid.

That is so not what going Galt means.

I'd prefer to read that news story over and over than to see this one ever repeated.

And yet, Ted Nugent somehow still roams free.

Apologies if this was linked to early but a FREEP True Believer Live Blogged the election night while watching MSNBC
Starts out all "OMG those CHIMPocrats look sick and defeated OMG they are so going to lose" and gloating but quickly...well...click :***********************************************)

Hey, Wayne Allyn Root! Didn't I vote for him once? Let's see... nope, in the 2008 Libertarian primary (back when I was still a Libertarian) I voted for Christine Smith over him.

Now, I don't remember who Christine Smith nor do I know what she's doing now, but hey at least she's not embarrassing herself on national TV. So I'm gonna say I made the right choice.

That bit about Romney being a "master organizer" is particularly sweet given what we now know about Project Orca.

Rigggggggggght.

That thread is just dumbfounding.

What the FUCKING FUCK. Ugh.

This is so glorious.

I'm always going to be impressed when I watch people who went into the election with the polling we had publicly available who were then shocked that they lost badly. That takes an amazingly reality proof bubble. That blog is what should have happened if Obama went in with his numbers and somehow lost to a 300+ Romney EV total. But going into the final day losing by every metric, and being absolutely stunned beyond words that you end up losing by every metric? What the hell, dudes.

edit: here, have some Romney:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/

You see, the President did a bunch of legislative shit to help the citizens, and those fuckers voted for him. That's why we lost. Because we didn't do anything legislatively to help people out.

I think he was accidentally tuned into a flu ward live feed "shaking, terrified" oh boy.

Love the "If these states don't vote for Romney they were NEVER swing states!!" rhetoric. Representational of the Neocon attitude in general.