It’s been a pretty good week for you if you like petitions.
Or if you detest Donald Trump. Or if you live in Texas but don’t want to be a part of the “union” anymore.
There’s a pretty strong petition making its way through the Internet, as petitions are wont to do, to get Donald Trump fired from his role with Macy’s.
Imagine that — firing Trump. Even Cher is on board with the idea.
“I’ll never go to Macy’s again! I didn’t know they sold Donald Trump’s line! If they don’t care that they sell products from a loudmouth racist cretin, who’d lie like ‘his rug’ to get some cheap press! I can’t believe Macy’s thinks he’s the right ‘man’ 2 represent their name!” she said, in a series of tweets, according to a San Francisco Gate blog.
The petition “aims to convince store chiefs to distance themselves from Trump over his recent criticism of newly re-elected President Barack Obama” and his “racially charged birther conspiracy.”
You mean to imply that Trump criticized Obama with very racist undertones? This is shocking and new information!
We would think that businesses who choose to work with him know what they’re getting themselves into. It’s kind of weird that a company as wholesome as Macy’s wouldn’t simply outright ignore the crazy things he says.
It probably pretends that he’s not as racist as he is because he makes it a lot of money. Cool. Good standards, America.
More than 350,000 people signed the petition so far. That’s less than the amount of people who want Texas to secede.
As of Tuesday morning, the petition had about 60,000 signatures. Texas is, surprisingly, only one of 30 states that filed secession petitions through the “We The People” program on the White House website.
Even though a Texas GOP official “called for an ‘amicable divorce’ from the United States last week,” according to the Huffington Post, it doesn’t look like the state will leave. Also, Gov. Rick Perry made it clear that he doesn’t support the idea, despite false rumors that claim he used to advocate for it.
For a petition to receive a response from the White House, it must get at least 20,000 signatures within 30 days. Texas and Louisiana met the quota, and Florida recently crossed it as well. Is that really what people want? To just leave the country to do what, exactly? Try to survive as individual countries, we suppose. It seems impossible that people are signing these petitions with real intent, because there is no way any one of these states would make it on its own.
Can you imagine what the United States of Florida would look like? A terrible wasteland of abandoned strip malls and tourist traps with some kind of animal as the president. Probably an alligator. Or Mickey Mouse. Or maybe Donald Trump would do it.
If so many people are unhappy with the ties Trump has within this country, then we should probably give him a small place to rule where he can be as racist as he pleases.
Someone start that petition.
