The Bye Bye Bill

[lookin]

Lately, our Deporter-in-Chief has been floating the idea of revoking the citizenship of naturalized citizens who have criminal records or who made errors in their application paperwork.  It’s supposed to be a ‘civil denaturalization proceeding’ which means the targeted individual has no right to due process.  In effect, the President can say “I don’t like you and get out of the country!”

Well, this got me thinking about the small handful of people I don’t like and wondering if I could also tell them to get out of the country.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m still a believer in the democratic process and I’d be looking for a way to do it within the legal system.

So I’ve been thinking of asking my House representative to introduce what I’ll call the Bye Bye Bill, that would allow voters to decide who gets to stay and who is asked to leave.  I’m thinking of a regular ballot item that would allow every registered voter to list three people that (s)he would like to see leave the country.  And whoever gets named by 50% of the voters would have ninety days to wind up their affairs and head off to the country of their choice.  A newly formed Department of Deportation would provide the plane ticket and send an agent to wave goodbye.

          

It would be a pretty high bar for somebody to get fifty percent of all voters to kick him or her out of the country.  And that’s fine with me.  I like most of the people who are here now and it would take only a handful of public deportations to cheer me up and make America a place we could get back to enjoying again.

“But, lookin”, you say, “what if fifty percent of the voters decided you should leave the country?  How would you like that?”  And the short answer is, I wouldn’t.  If the Bye Bye Bill is passed, I’d do my level best to make sure I didn’t piss off half the people in the United States.  I’d try to be a little less divisive and not call anyone names or try to take away their health care.  It might be a stretch, but all I’d have to do is make sure I wasn’t one of the three worst people in the country.  Given our current crop of misfits and misanthropes, I'm willing to take my chances.

And how about you good folks?  Can you think of three people you'd like to see deported?  

[Suckrates]

3 hours ago, lookin said:

Lately, our Deporter-in-Chief has been floating the idea of revoking the citizenship of naturalized citizens who have criminal records or who made errors in their application paperwork.  It’s supposed to be a ‘civil denaturalization proceeding’ which means the targeted individual has no right to due process.  In effect, the President can say “I don’t like you and get out of the country!”

Well, this got me thinking about the small handful of people I don’t like and wondering if I could also tell them to get out of the country.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m still a believer in the democratic process and I’d be looking for a way to do it within the legal system.

So I’ve been thinking of asking my House representative to introduce what I’ll call the Bye Bye Bill, that would allow voters to decide who gets to stay and who is asked to leave.  I’m thinking of a regular ballot item that would allow every registered voter to list three people that (s)he would like to see leave the country.  And whoever gets named by 50% of the voters would have ninety days to wind up their affairs and head off to the country of their choice.  A newly formed Department of Deportation would provide the plane ticket and send an agent to wave goodbye.

          

It would be a pretty high bar for somebody to get fifty percent of all voters to kick him or her out of the country.  And that’s fine with me.  I like most of the people who are here now and it would take only a handful of public deportations to cheer me up and make America a place we could get back to enjoying again.

“But, lookin”, you say, “what if fifty percent of the voters decided you should leave the country?  How would you like that?”  And the short answer is, I wouldn’t.  If the Bye Bye Bill is passed, I’d do my level best to make sure I didn’t piss off half the people in the United States.  I’d try to be a little less divisive and not call anyone names or try to take away their health care.  It might be a stretch, but all I’d have to do is make sure I wasn’t one of the three worst people in the country.  Given our current crop of misfits and misanthropes, I'm willing to take my chances.

And how about you good folks?  Can you think of three people you'd like to see deported?  

Of course we all have people we'd like to be RID of,  but most sane people  just choose to ignore those people and "live their own lives"

It has become a perk and a pleasure of this Dictators reign to solely decide who gets the boot.   Any democratic process to decide ANYTHING is gone under Trump. 

Our ,lives have become unilateral Trump decisions. 

[lookin]

5 hours ago, Suckrates said:

Our ,lives have become unilateral Trump decisions. 

Naturally he'd be one of my three Bye Bye votes. 👋

[Pete1111]

Of these two, one would go for sure, but might need to send both.