This story has been floating around for a bit: Some right-wing gun nuts in Texas are convinced that a U.S. military training exercise this summer is going to be used as a cover by Obama to use the U.S. military to invade Texas.
Now, why the president of the U.S. would see the need to invade a U.S. state, even one with as many kooks as Texas has, hasn't been explained, except that everybody knows Obama wants to take our God-given guns away. Of course, a lot of these same types also want Texas to become an independent nation, so perhaps they have gotten their sequence of events confused.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/05/ch … nels.html/
Here are just a few of their wrong-headed assumptions about what is happening in the real world:
Gun Rights:
I love when I see Republicans showing off some image of a group of “good ol’ boys” holding shotguns and hunting rifles with some caption like “Want to take our guns? Good luck!” That or someone holding a handgun with a caption along the lines of “Liberals, come and take this!” Attention all Fox News Sheeple: Obama never said he wants to take your hunting rifles or handguns away. He said he wants universal background checks, a ban on high-capacity magazines and a ban on assault weapons (a ban that every Republican President in the last 30 years, including Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush has supported). So, when you share these pictures, acting as if you’re “getting at liberal ignorance,” all you’re really doing is spreading an image around the internet that showcases how you–and any other Republican who sees it and thinks “EXACTLY!”–don’t know a damn thing about which you’re speaking.
We’re Out to Preserve the Sanctity of Marriage :
Unless you want to make divorce illegal, don’t tell me about same-sex marriage “ruining the sanctity of marriage.”
Divorce did that long ago.
Marriage is a Sacred Bond Before God:
Alright you religious radicals, I’ll take you on too.
Let’s assume marriage is a “sacred bond before God”. First, that would eliminate any government involvement to define marriage. So your push for a government “ban” on same-sex marriage would be pointless. Second, there are millions of Christians who support same-sex marriage and many churches that marry gay couples. So isn’t that up to that particular congregation? Or do you feel your congregation should control all others? Which, if you feel your congregation should control all others (and rule every American), isn’t that a GIANT violation of the First Amendment, which gives Americans freedom of (or from) religion? Then if you feel your religion should control all others, and all Americans, you then support a theocracy and apparently oppose the United States and our Constitutionally protected freedoms. Because this country was largely founded to PREVENT, not strengthen, theocratic rule.
Same-sex Marriage overall:
Honestly, I’m exhausted with the same-sex marriage “debate.” There is no debate. Procreation is not a requirement for the right to marry, nor are those who procreate required to get married. “Homosexuality is a sin” comes from religion. The term “traditional marriage” is defined from religious text. Our country does not establish laws based on religion. Therefore your “arguments” are invalid. The end.
Republicans: The Party for Christian Values
ENOUGH! If you want to say you’re the party of “Christian values” and you worship Jesus Christ…
Start by helping the sick, the poor, the needy—not opposing programs that do while giving tax breaks to the wealthy who do not need them and do not create jobs with the money that they stash in off-shore or Swiss accounts.
Republicans are for Fiscal Responsibility: NOT
Not even close. There hasn’t been a Republican President that’s balanced the budget since Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served from 1953-1961. Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush all drastically increased our national debt.
I thought "I can't date a man who is dumb enough to believe that". And I didn't like him anymore after lol
:)