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Posted: 8/12/2020 3:20:26 PM EDT
You find a magic button.  The button does one thing: instantly gets rid of the federal government and the union.

All federal employees are instantly unemployed.  

Each state becomes a country with sovereignty over whatever is in its borders including military equipment.  The citizens of each of these new countries will need to set up new governments as they see fit.

Free trade?  Freedom of movement?  Freedom of immigration?  You don't know what will happen with any of that because that will be set up by the new countries after you push the button.

Active duty military can choose to stay with their unit serving for the new country they are in or take an honorable discharge.  Either way when they are done, they get free plane ticket to the new country of their choice and no questions asked citizenship.  Any military assets or personnel stationed in foreign countries will be packed up and sent to whatever state the Feds would've sent them to pre breakup.

There are no other buttons or choices. This is the only button and you can push it or just leave everything as it is.  Do you?

Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:23:12 PM EDT
[#1]
Yes
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:24:04 PM EDT
[#2]
Probably not.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:24:48 PM EDT
[#3]
No.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:25:41 PM EDT
[#4]
in a heartbeat
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:26:14 PM EDT
[#5]
I can't not push buttons.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:26:42 PM EDT
[#6]
I do not press the button.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:27:21 PM EDT
[#7]
Texas=Yes
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:29:14 PM EDT
[#8]
So fucking fast I strain a finger tendon.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:29:15 PM EDT
[#9]
I'd do it.  Us free states would just invade and take over the liberal unarmed states.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:31:31 PM EDT
[#10]
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:32:11 PM EDT
[#11]
As long as we get a big beautiful wall, which we will.

So yep.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:33:05 PM EDT
[#12]
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:34:01 PM EDT
[#13]
Perhaps I’d remember that this country has powerful and malignant external enemies and I wouldn’t push the button.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:35:50 PM EDT
[#14]
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I figure I'd have my stuff packed already, hit the button, then make straight for Idaho.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:36:40 PM EDT
[#15]
You had me at "Do you push the button?"

I don't care what it does.  But I'm gonna find out.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:37:33 PM EDT
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Yeah, but it sure seems like our biggest threat comes from within and this would strip their power immediately. Let the liberal states wallow in their filth. If China attempts to invade I'm sure the states can create some kind of mutual defense treaty.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:37:52 PM EDT
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I'd argue our internal enemies are doing far more damage at this current time...
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:37:58 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:38:28 PM EDT
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We have powerful and malignant enemies inside the wire.

Button through the floor. Let's get this shit sorted.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:38:34 PM EDT
[#20]
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This.

We may be fucked up, but we ain't chiNa fucked up yet.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:39:05 PM EDT
[#21]
No.  I hold onto it, just in case.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:39:28 PM EDT
[#22]
Did Joe Biden approve this message or was it Kamala?



Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:39:32 PM EDT
[#23]
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No, the button is in your basement.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:39:50 PM EDT
[#24]
“No Snake, don’t do it. You’ll set us back to the Stone Age!”

Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:39:51 PM EDT
[#25]
In the south, its MASH a button...
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:39:53 PM EDT
[#26]
never pass up a chance to push someones button
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:40:20 PM EDT
[#27]
Hell no.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:40:34 PM EDT
[#28]
I push all the buttons motherfucker
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:41:00 PM EDT
[#29]
I like roads and electricity and water and food and gasoline.

I would not push the button.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:41:27 PM EDT
[#30]
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No, the button is in your basement.
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No, the button is in your basement.


Joke's on you, I don't have a basement. I hook button up to my Garmin GPS then leave the state and then press it. Noting Dk_prof's statement above, I steal a tank and an F18 on the way. (I'm pretty sure a tank can tow a plane right?)
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:41:41 PM EDT
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What happens to federal military assets that are in CONUS?  Do they just end up belonging to whatever state they happen to be in?  So California becomes a massive naval/nuclear power, as does Virginia?  Washington and Georgia become nuclear-armed powers, as well as all the states with nuclear missile silos?  Air Force planes end up belonging to the states in which the bases are?

That would certainly be interesting.  

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Those units stay in those states, but the personnel can chose to move to a new state with an honorable discharge.  Equipment stays.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:43:01 PM EDT
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Joe and Kamala want a one world government button, so no.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:43:08 PM EDT
[#33]
The loss of the dollar (and strength of new currency) would be the most substantial blow.  Tough question, but fuck it, let's party.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:43:14 PM EDT
[#34]
Smash repeatedly.

Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:44:10 PM EDT
[#35]
Alliances would be formed. I'd like to tender my availability to become the inaugural chairman of the Capitalist United National Territories' Association of Sovereign States.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:45:08 PM EDT
[#36]
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:49:14 PM EDT
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What if those units decide they don't want to stay?  How would the new "nation-state" make them?  Ask nicely?

I.e., the CO of some carrier group based in San Diego decides he wants to set up shop in Houston or somewhere other than California?

Hell, would silly commie states like California even want icky military stuff around?
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:50:17 PM EDT
[#38]
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Yes, I would repatriate to my ancestral homeland first and then I would wear my finger out pushing that button. Also, Illinois can have St. Louis.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:51:59 PM EDT
[#39]
We would be invaded by China overnight and/or nuked by Russia. So no
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:53:58 PM EDT
[#40]
I dunno, man.  Pushing the button kind of seems like an unintended-consequences type of scenario

Pharmaceutical production?  Interstate transportation of goods?  Oil?  What state has the infrastructure to truly stand on it's own?
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:54:27 PM EDT
[#41]
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize (Official Music Video)

LOL, music video is oddly appropriate, too
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:54:51 PM EDT
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What if those units decide they don't want to stay?  How would the new "nation-state" make them?  Ask nicely?

I.e., the CO of some carrier group based in San Diego decides he wants to set up shop in Houston or somewhere other than California?

Hell, would silly commie states like California even want icky military stuff around?
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Mount up and roll out.  Or sail out, in your example.

Silly Commie states like CA would soon find they had plenty of icky military stuff on their turf.   It'd just be PLA military stuff.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 3:56:20 PM EDT
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What if those units decide they don't want to stay?  How would the new "nation-state" make them?  Ask nicely?

I.e., the CO of some carrier group based in San Diego decides he wants to set up shop in Houston or somewhere other than California?

Hell, would silly commie states like California even want icky military stuff around?
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That's a risk you are going to have to take.  The CO and crew get told to go back to home port, whatever he does after that is up to him.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:01:06 PM EDT
[#44]
I get to keep the Big Red 1 and half of the county's food supply?  HELL YES!
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:02:19 PM EDT
[#45]
Hell yes, I'd push it with a full erection.

Probably would be better than what we'll have in 50 years.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:03:08 PM EDT
[#46]
I’d push it, right after verifying over the phone with my wife that everything got safely to Tennessee.

Would leave some weapons and ammo behind for the Michigan civil war or as it will be known in the future, the Stretchin Gretchen Insurrection
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:03:46 PM EDT
[#47]
Didnt even read it, just pushed the button.  If you ever need to test a button, Im your guy.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:05:36 PM EDT
[#48]
Lol no

The founders envisioned a need for a federal government. Maybe not the one we currently have, but one nonetheless.

Simply making that disappear doesn't fix anything.
Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:07:45 PM EDT
[#49]
Circling back around to hit the button again.

Link Posted: 8/12/2020 4:07:53 PM EDT
[#50]
If I could push the button and have the west coast and northeast leave the US?   Hell yeah id push it instantly.
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