MTG wants to “divorce “ the red states from the blue states.

Can you imagine her standing in Red Square spouting her choice words?!?!?!? Putin would have her disappeared! Quickly!

Or she might accidentally fall out of a high window. That seems to be a pretty common occurrence in Russia.

Sorry Merge I think we all will face many more difficulties if things continue as they are...

Hey, but you would get MTG. She forgets she lives in a red state, or I think they would fight hardest..

And they think this is news?!?! The peas beat them to it!!

A so-called "national divorce" would work out poorly for red states, which a new analysis shows depend heavily on blue states.

MSNBC economic analyst Steve Rattner presented data on "Morning Joe" showing that states won by Donald Trump contribute far less to the federal budget than states won by President Biden, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and some other Republicans said should be separated from one another.

"The Trump states, virtually every single state except for Utah, don't ask me why Utah, got back more from Washington than it paid," Rattner said. "So it would not really work very well to their advantage to leave. In fact, the top states for getting a better deal from Washington are Kentucky, Mississippi and West Virginia."

Higher state-level poverty rates correlate with support for Republican candidates, Rattner said, while Democratic-leaning states tend to have higher income.

"You can see with your eye that the red states tend to be above the national average in poverty," Rattner said, while presenting a chart showing that correlation. "The blue states tend to be below the national average in poverty. Another way to look at it is if -- this is by counties but you get to the same place, on the right, how much of the [gross domestic product] is produced in these places -- red counties, 29 percent, blue counties, 71 percent. They're suffering more economically, and that does lead to the question of, how does that result in more money going to these states?"

Host Joe Scarborough was amazed by Rattner's finding that 71 percent of the GDP came from counties that voted for Biden in the 2020 election.

"This just underlines the fact that it would be devastating for there to be a divide, for those areas that voted for Donald Trump to want a, quote, you know, separation, a divorce from the United States," Scarborough said. "I mean, yeah, what do you think -- well, what other chart -- do you have any other charts we can move along to here?"

Poorer states pay less in federal taxes, Rattner said, and he presented additional charts that showed how much states got back in federal spending -- and those showed Trump states benefited disproportionally from the federal government and would suffer if they were cut off from that funding.

"They'd have huge economic deficits," Rattner said. "They wouldn't have money for their projects, they wouldn't have new bridges, they wouldn't have federal installations in their districts. They wouldn't have food stamps, they wouldn't have Medicaid to help cushion their residents against extreme poverty. It would be a really tough and stupid economic decision. Again, the whole irony of this is you've got Republicans who oppose kind of almost every kind of federal spending, who are the biggest beneficiaries of the federal spending that they oppose."

"Terrible idea for everybody in those red states," Rattner added.

www.rawstory.com/national-divorce/

47 percent of us are not electing them. Voter suppression efforts and gerrymandering mean that the GOP majority here is even smaller than it appears. But oh well. Those Democratic voters - many women and POC - are just acceptable collateral damage in your effort to stick it to the Trumpers, am I right?

Kinda like saying you deserve what’s coming to you via the Supreme Court because the US elected Trump and that red Senate majority.

 Um OK "red states"

OK, well, I'm not willing to concede defeat nor consign millions to misery under GOP rule. That's the cowardly and easy way out for people who lack a backbone. 

They have become the party of death.
-Cruel ways of Capitol punishment.
-Let the abused, disabled die saves money.
-Allow women to die/suffer carrying a dead or severely disabled fetus.
-Deny medical care by refusing expanded Medicaid.
-Cutting SNAP food benefits.
-birth those babies. They do not need medical care or food or housing or much else, just to be born..
-Refusing to address drug prices.
-drought, flooding, climate change, and the list goes on!!

Most recently the affects from a local train derailment from their cancelling regulations.


Pro birth, not pro life!

I think all this red/blue/divorce/custody stuff misses the point. I live in Indiana. In the 35yrs since I was eligible to vote I have never voted republican. I am held hostage to the republican majority in my state, even though I grew up in and now have returned to a democratic stronghold. It is ridiculous to paint everyone in red states as conservatives or crazies who elected these people like MTG and her ilk. There's no way to put them on their own island and liberate those of us who are reasonable and informed. The point though, that I haven't heard yet, is that they would not be happy ruling their own red states. These are not live and let live people. They will not be happy until they can impose their "values" on everyone. Otherwise, we would not see attacks on reproductive rights (don't like abortion? Don't have one.) or punishing those who cross state lines where abortion is legal. No, they want to codify their own hateful rhetoric for every state. No same sex marriage anywhere. Sanctuary states? Nope. It won't be good enough to sent immigrants to blue cities...sanctuary will be eliminated, anywhere. They don't want their own city-state to set the rules and live out their days. They want the power of the US behind their hate, for everyone.

She is absolutely delusional.

Your attitude is extremely dismissive of all of the Democrats who live in Texas. Same goes for my state, Ohio. Ohio used to be a blue state. Trump infected a majority of voters with his bullshit. But there are a LOT of Democrats who live here. We are simply outvoted.
Your casual dismissal of us is callous and thoughtless.

In one quote MTG said that blue states and Democratic voters were a threat to her way of life. I have to wonder what specific way of life she means. My assumptions are not flattering, but maybe she can further enlighten voters about how Democrats are a threat to her way of life and not the other way around.

She is affecting MY way of life. Attempting to take away MY free speech. My choice or not of religion. MY choice of health care. How and what I want MY children are taught in school. The air I breathe. The water I drink.

And the list goes on...