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marmar

(77,088 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:53 PM Feb 2012

Unhinged GOPers in Wyoming


Wyoming GOP Reps Planning for Collapse of the United States, Want to Buy an Aircraft Carrier


For those who agree with Ron Paul and friends that the US should withdraw from the world entirely (no foreign aid for you!) and the federal government should be pretty much dissolved in favor of allowing the 50 states to run their own affairs, here's a little preview of the sort of thing we might expect if they get their way:

On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for the total economic and political collapse of the United States. Per the bill, the panel would investigate things like food storage options and metals-based currencies, to be implemented in the event of a major catastrophe.

Then it goes three steps further. An amendment by GOP state rep. Kermit Brown*, calls on the task force to examine "Conditions under which the state of Wyoming should implement a draft, raise a standing army, marine corps, navy and air force and acquire strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier." As Miller explained to the Casper Star-Tribune, "Things happen quickly sometimes."
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The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/818480/wyoming_gop_reps_planning_for_collapse_of_the_united_states%2C_want_to_buy_an_aircraft_carrier/



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Unhinged GOPers in Wyoming (Original Post) marmar Feb 2012 OP
Well, sure The Blue Flower Feb 2012 #1
An aircraft carrier?? Major Hogwash Feb 2012 #2
My first thought too CatholicEdHead Feb 2012 #4
Stop it, Major. I just spit my chili all,over my keyboard. :>))) pangaia Feb 2012 #5
Do they have a pond large enough in Wyoming that an aircraft carrier could rotate in?? madinmaryland Feb 2012 #11
Apparently they scrapped the aircraft thing The Genealogist Feb 2012 #20
How about mind-ray deflecting helmets? bhikkhu Feb 2012 #27
At least something to keep the FBI and aliens from the planet Craldor from communicating The Genealogist Feb 2012 #28
damnable cindyperry2010 Feb 2012 #3
They'll have to lease a port in the Republic of Idaho to keep the carrier ready for action. Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #6
I have a bridge I could sell them so that they could get to their aircraft carrier. grantcart Feb 2012 #7
This is like Disaster Preppers on a large scale Renew Deal Feb 2012 #8
I guess they'll put an aircraft carrier in Laramie River anti-alec Feb 2012 #9
This sounds like the plot to... MarianJack Feb 2012 #10
exactly what I was thinking........ dhill926 Feb 2012 #12
It must be that great minds thing! MarianJack Feb 2012 #14
They could call their new carrier "The Situation" Swede Feb 2012 #13
I saw The Situation on television once DisgustipatedinCA Feb 2012 #17
Yeah, laugh all you want, you cynics. Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #15
Prettiest lake I ever saw Sedona Feb 2012 #16
Wow!!! Wellstone ruled Feb 2012 #18
SS Ship of fools. Historic NY Feb 2012 #19
Well, This Year's Trip To Yellowstone Will Be Spent Entirely Inside the Park we can do it Feb 2012 #21
This is what happens when anti-gubmint preppers get elected. kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #22
"...and an aircraft carrier." unkachuck Feb 2012 #23
Yeah the Aircraft Carrier and attendant battle group are a tad ove the top nadinbrzezinski Feb 2012 #24
They're Gonna Have To Be Really Really Small Aircraft... WillyT Feb 2012 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author unkachuck Feb 2012 #26
How else are you going to defend yourself? gratuitous Feb 2012 #29

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
20. Apparently they scrapped the aircraft thing
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:05 PM
Feb 2012

A friend just shared this article with me, the article says "Update II: The Wyoming Tribune Eagle's Trevor Brown reports that, as of Monday afternoon, the aircraft-carrier amendment has been scrapped. The rest of the bill to create a Doomsday task force is still alive."
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/should-wyoming-build-aircraft-carrier

bhikkhu

(10,722 posts)
27. How about mind-ray deflecting helmets?
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:22 PM
Feb 2012

Those guys need to work on their list - and there's money to be made in Wyoming!

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
28. At least something to keep the FBI and aliens from the planet Craldor from communicating
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:30 PM
Feb 2012

to Chosen Ones through the fillings in their teeth.

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
6. They'll have to lease a port in the Republic of Idaho to keep the carrier ready for action.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:07 PM
Feb 2012

Can't wait to see this budget that they'll need to support their military plans and their end-of-days scenario.

Renew Deal

(81,870 posts)
8. This is like Disaster Preppers on a large scale
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:10 PM
Feb 2012

What happens when a coronal mass ejection sets off EMP's which blow up nuclear plants that shift the ground and cause a super-volcano that melts the glaciers? A flood! And every single person living in Wyoming can fit on an aircraft carrier. Duh!

 

anti-alec

(420 posts)
9. I guess they'll put an aircraft carrier in Laramie River
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:10 PM
Feb 2012

but I'm not sure if it's wide enough to fit.

And it'll only defend parts of Wyoming.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
17. I saw The Situation on television once
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:10 PM
Feb 2012

As such, I think your name for the carrier is perfect.

I saw this moron on a celebrity roast of Donald Trump (was splitting a hotel in SF with a friend else I never would have seen such a thing). It was explained to me that this guy was a colleague of Snooki on The Jersey Shore.

Never have I seen such an idiot take the national stage (and I watch a lot of GOP debates, so that's saying something). I can curse with the best of them, but this guy seemed to use the word "fuck" as a substitute for a poor, poor vocabulary. Really and truly, I can't think of a time when I've been less impressed with a human being. So yes, I want to be on hand for the christening of the Wyomingbagger aircraft carrier, The USS Situation.

we can do it

(12,190 posts)
21. Well, This Year's Trip To Yellowstone Will Be Spent Entirely Inside the Park
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:11 PM
Feb 2012

I refuse to fund psychopaths....

 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
23. "...and an aircraft carrier."
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:18 PM
Feb 2012

....do you need a task force to go with your carrier?

....cash only, no credit kermie, and I hope you're being serious....our treasury could use a few extra bucks these days....

....this hasn't got anything to do with Noah and that flood thing?

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
24. Yeah the Aircraft Carrier and attendant battle group are a tad ove the top
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:19 PM
Feb 2012

but...

Read it in the full context of a possible real hot civil war... and think 1858...

And that is all I gotta say about this. No, they are NOT unhinged... this is a signal.

Oh and yes, I suspect that carrier group will take sail out of somebody's bathtub... since they do not have a deep water port, for real... But I would not laugh.

Response to marmar (Original post)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
29. How else are you going to defend yourself?
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:51 PM
Feb 2012

Laugh while you can, monkey boys. But guess who has the last laugh when THIS happens:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094077/

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