Are You Ready for the Civil War?

Now that Ted Cruz is obviously going to run a 2024 Presidential campaign by trying to out-Trump Trump or anyone else who thinks that being a fervent promoter of MAGA is the key to electoral success, I have begun thinking about what it would really mean if all those dumb states which always vote red would just get out, secede whatever you want to call it, and leave us alone.

Know what it would mean to mean to me? If those red states pulled out, stopped sending federal tax monies to D.C. and, by the way, stopped receiving federal dollars back in return, it would be a goddamn bonanza for me and for the residents of 18 other states which vote the blue ticket every couple of years.

Right now, there are eight states which contribute a lot more to the federal treasury than what they receive in return. Only one of these states — Nebraska — is a red state. The others are all blue, starting with New York, and then including New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, Colorado, and New Hampshire.

These are also the states, generally speaking, which will remain pro-choice regardless of what Clarence Thomas and the rest of those SCOTUS shits have to say. Residents of those states will still be able to marry another person of the same gender, they won’t have to worry about their kid having to say some prayer every morning in public school, they…