Louie Gohmert Sounds The Alarm About Possible Military Takeover Of Texas

This just keeps getting better. Louie has spoken.

I know we have a lot of Texas residents amongst are posters here. You guys seriously need to speak up and get this asshat out of your state. He's making you all look like imbeciles by association. Sorry.

Quote:"Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,’ ‘permissive,’ and ‘uncertain’ states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution."

It's a fricking war game!

Good grief.

Lol. Its just sad that we have so many ignorant people in this country.

I think the military would have been smarter to just draw random lines on a map than color code a specific state.

(05-05-2015 02:43 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Louie Gohmert Sounds The Alarm About Possible Military Takeover Of Texas

This just keeps getting better. Louie has spoken.

I know we have a lot of Texas residents amongst are posters here. You guys seriously need to speak up and get this asshat out of your state. He's making you all look like imbeciles by association. Sorry.

Quote:"Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,’ ‘permissive,’ and ‘uncertain’ states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution."

It's a fricking war game!

Good grief.

Gohmert is a moron.

Not saying it means anything, but I've been seeing lots of military vehicles on the back of 18 wheelers being transported west on I-20 towards Texas. I'm in NW Louisiana.

(05-05-2015 02:55 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Lol. Its just sad that we have so many ignorant people in this country.

It's even more sad that they keep getting elected.

One thing that we should draw from history: Never,ever be suspicious of your country's military and what they're doing. There is definitely no historical premise for any country's military to ever be used against its own people because that's never happened. You should shut up and look away. It's none of your business.

(05-05-2015 02:43 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Louie Gohmert Sounds The Alarm About Possible Military Takeover Of Texas

This just keeps getting better. Louie has spoken.

I know we have a lot of Texas residents amongst are posters here. You guys seriously need to speak up and get this asshat out of your state. He's making you all look like imbeciles by association. Sorry.

Quote:"Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,’ ‘permissive,’ and ‘uncertain’ states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution."

It's a fricking war game!

Good grief.

Good grief indeed.

Seems to me that your headline writers have an odd fascination with/Envy of Texas.

All your quote implies is that the government assigned words like 'hostile', 'permissive' and 'uncertain' to describe areas with republican majorities... and nothing at all to do with an actual invasion.

If the right had planned a similar war game and given the areas that leaned left 'enemy' names, you'd be miffed.

I think you guys have completely misrepresented what is being said... and probably intentionally so. This complaint is about essentially calling Republicans 'bad guys'. It's one thing when a political party does that, but it is something else when 'the government' does it. This is OUR military. Not Obama's or the Democrat's military.

Now there may be nothing at all to these accusations and probably isn't... but the ones looking stupid are the ones trying to imply things that so obviously weren't said.

(05-05-2015 03:47 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  One thing that we should draw from history: Never,ever be suspicious of your country's military and what they're doing. There is definitely no historical premise for any country's military to ever be used against its own people because that's never happened. You should shut up and look away. It's none of your business.

There isn't in America. There has never been a military coup in our history, nor do I think any reasonable person would believe there would be one.

(05-05-2015 04:17 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-05-2015 02:43 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Louie Gohmert Sounds The Alarm About Possible Military Takeover Of Texas

This just keeps getting better. Louie has spoken.

I know we have a lot of Texas residents amongst are posters here. You guys seriously need to speak up and get this asshat out of your state. He's making you all look like imbeciles by association. Sorry.

Quote:"Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,’ ‘permissive,’ and ‘uncertain’ states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution."

It's a fricking war game!

Good grief.

Good grief indeed.

Seems to me that your headline writers have an odd fascination with/Envy of Texas.

All your quote implies is that the government assigned words like 'hostile', 'permissive' and 'uncertain' to describe areas with republican majorities... and nothing at all to do with an actual invasion.

If the right had planned a similar war game and given the areas that leaned left 'enemy' names, you'd be miffed.

I think you guys have completely misrepresented what is being said... and probably intentionally so. This complaint is about essentially calling Republicans 'bad guys'. It's one thing when a political party does that, but it is something else when 'the government' does it. This is OUR military. Not Obama's or the Democrat's military.

Now there may be nothing at all to these accusations and probably isn't... but the ones looking stupid are the ones trying to imply things that so obviously weren't said.

It's a military exercise, of course they're going to be taking place in majority republican areas because rural and lightly populated areas tend to run Republican. They're not highlighting the headquarters of the Texas Republican Party for gods sake, and the exercise isn't a secret.

Does anybody here honestly believe that these exercises are a precursor / practice run for martial law?

If so, and you're a conservative how do you plan to deal with that?

By forwarding emails, clearly.

(05-05-2015 04:17 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-05-2015 02:43 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Louie Gohmert Sounds The Alarm About Possible Military Takeover Of Texas

This just keeps getting better. Louie has spoken.

I know we have a lot of Texas residents amongst are posters here. You guys seriously need to speak up and get this asshat out of your state. He's making you all look like imbeciles by association. Sorry.

Quote:"Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,’ ‘permissive,’ and ‘uncertain’ states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution."

It's a fricking war game!

Good grief.

Good grief indeed.

Seems to me that your headline writers have an odd fascination with/Envy of Texas.

All your quote implies is that the government assigned words like 'hostile', 'permissive' and 'uncertain' to describe areas with republican majorities... and nothing at all to do with an actual invasion.

If the right had planned a similar war game and given the areas that leaned left 'enemy' names, you'd be miffed.

I think you guys have completely misrepresented what is being said... and probably intentionally so. This complaint is about essentially calling Republicans 'bad guys'. It's one thing when a political party does that, but it is something else when 'the government' does it. This is OUR military. Not Obama's or the Democrat's military.

Now there may be nothing at all to these accusations and probably isn't... but the ones looking stupid are the ones trying to imply things that so obviously weren't said.

Lord in Heaven I think you're actually serious.

Right...we envy Texas.

I actually do envy Texas in a lot of ways. Strong economy, no state taxes... there's a lot of things to like about it. Paranoid residents aren't one of them though.

I hope the U.S. doesn't attack us.

Louie is right.

Obamer is gonna send the US army into Texas to turn us all into homersexical vegertarians that speak Spanish. And he's gonna git our guns too.

(05-05-2015 05:05 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  I actually do envy Texas in a lot of ways. Strong economy, no state taxes... there's a lot of things to like about it. Paranoid residents aren't one of them though.

Next year should be quite interesting...

You see Texas makes money off of Oil/Gas revenue. This year, they raided the 'rainy day fund' to make up the shortfall.

I guess they better hope that Oil hits 85 or higher...otherwise there's going to be a very ugly, Kansas style shortfall.

(05-05-2015 04:23 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  It's a military exercise, of course they're going to be taking place in majority republican areas because rural and lightly populated areas tend to run Republican. They're not highlighting the headquarters of the Texas Republican Party for gods sake, and the exercise isn't a secret.

What does that have to do with anything? If your point is that it's a petty complaint, okay... It's a petty complaint. He said he was appalled... he didn't say he was scared or taking up arms to stop it. He certainly didn't say that he was worried about a Military takeover as the headline says. He felt offended.

I can believe that he is making a mountain out of a mole hill without having to say that he is making the whole state look stupid for fearing a military takeover

I think the reality is that even within areas that 'tend' to run Republican, there are plenty of areas within them that run Democrat. That doesn't mean the comment is valid... merely that because we don't know what the map looks like or what the actual demographic data of the areas looks like, we really don't know. You're just sort of assuming that military area = Republican, but the reality is far more detailed than that.... especially in Texas

(05-05-2015 04:25 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Does anybody here honestly believe that these exercises are a precursor / practice run for martial law?

If so, and you're a conservative how do you plan to deal with that?

No. And neither does either of the people who have been quoted in these 'Oh Texas' threads. The only people who seem to think anyone seriously thinks this is the headline writers and those who only read the headlines.

Anybody who says yes is either simply stirring the pot or a crackpot.

Quote:What does that have to do with anything? If your point is that it's a petty complaint, okay... It's a petty complaint. He said he was appalled... he didn't say he was scared or taking up arms to stop it. He certainly didn't say that he was worried about a Military takeover as the headline says. He felt offended.

I can believe that he is making a mountain out of a mole hill without having to say that he is making the whole state look stupid for fearing a military takeover

I think the reality is that even within areas that 'tend' to run Republican, there are plenty of areas within them that run Democrat. That doesn't mean the comment is valid... merely that because we don't know what the map looks like or what the actual demographic data of the areas looks like, we really don't know. You're just sort of assuming that military area = Republican, but the reality is far more detailed than that.... especially in Texas

Is there a copy of the map available? Honest question, because if they did carve out democrat areas then I could see someone taking some sort of second look at it. That being said, I think anyone worrying about a military takeover is silly, especially an Obama led one. He's not exactly winning popularity contests in the military, nor does the military leadership tend to follow his ideology.

Louie is why I switching to the Democratic Party. I have nothing in common with him