{"id":1834,"date":"2018-01-31T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2018-02-09T19:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:31:28","slug":"false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2018\/01\/31\/false-alarm","title":{"rendered":"False Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Everybody okay? No threat. Let&#8217;s just breathe. It&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s okay-<\/p>\n<p><b>FCC<\/b>: WTF Hawaii? You really fucked this up big time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-missiles-falsealarm\/hawaii-civil-defense-employee-mistook-drill-for-actual-missile-attack-idUSKBN1FJ27H\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reuters: Hawaii civil defense employee mistook drill for actual missile attack\" class=\"post\">Fix your shit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b><b><\/b>: ALRIGHT, THAT DOES IT! I have put up with this bullshit for too fucking long!<\/p>\n<p><b>Other 49 states<\/b>: !!!!!<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: You know what? I was happy as an independent country. Fuck you guys. I&#8217;m seceding.<\/p>\n<p><b>South Carolina<\/b>: Been there. Done it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: And what has being a part of the United States gotten us? Our native people and culture attacked and nearly decimated.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oklahoma<\/b>: Actually that makes you very much part of us.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: And, you know, forgive me for thinking an Asian country that doesn&#8217;t like the US very much might be wanting to bomb me because it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s happened- Oh wait, it&#8217;s happened before, December 7, 19-fucking-41, the day that lives in infamy! You all got through World War II mostly unscathed, but look at the bullshit I went through.<\/p>\n<p><b>California<\/b>: Oh, I had some bad things going on over here I&#8217;d like to forget.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Hawaii<\/b>: It was happening here, too. That&#8217;s what I get. You all come over here, overthrow our beloved Queen and annex us, and you force us to assimilate, and what do we get for our trouble? Surprise attack from above!<\/p>\n<p><b>New York<\/b>: I know all about that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: And you turned one of my beautiful islands, Kaho&#8217;olawe, into a bombing range and destroyed it. What the fuck was that about?<\/p>\n<p><b>New Mexico<\/b>: Yeah, that reminds me, I too had some bad things going on over here around World War II I&#8217;d like to forget.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: But we got statehood, so I guess problem solved right?<\/p>\n<p><b>Puerto Rico<\/b>: To be fair, it could be worse. *flicks nearby light switch on and off, nothing happens*<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: But now here&#8217;s the FCC giving us shit over our alert system. Well, get fucked, FCC! You Net Neutrality killing bastards with your stupid oversized Reese&#8217;s coffee mug.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pennsylvania<\/b>: *whistles innocently*<\/p>\n<p><b>Maryland<\/b>: I&#8217;m certainly sympathetic to your reasons for wanting to secede, Hawaii, though I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m totally on board.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kentucky<\/b>: I agree.<\/p>\n<p><b>Missouri<\/b>: Yeah, same here.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nevada<\/b>: I mean, a lot of us wound up part of the union for silly reasons.<\/p>\n<p><b>North Dakota<\/b>: And we certainly know all about watching indigenous lands getting damaged- Aw, damn it, the pipeline sprang a leak again! Hang on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Well, maybe you all want to keep putting up with it, but I&#8217;m out. I don&#8217;t need this shit anymore. I&#8217;m just going to be out here doing my own thing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Alabama<\/b>: Good for you! Just like us back in the day. We didn&#8217;t need no Abraham Lincoln to make us give up our slaves-<\/p>\n<p><b>Georgia<\/b>: Quiet, Alabama! Our official reason for secession was states&#8217; rights, not slavery.<\/p>\n<p><b>North Carolina<\/b>: Wait, is anyone still buying the states&#8217; rights excuse?<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: You see, that&#8217;s another thing. Look at the ass backward bullcrap some of you are still doing. You know, in the 2016 election, I was solidly blue. Every island went for Clinton. Which is more than I can say about any of you!<\/p>\n<p><b>Massachusetts<\/b>: Hey, I was solidly blue, too!<\/p>\n<p><b>Wisconsin<\/b>: But she didn&#8217;t visit me!<\/p>\n<p><b>Michigan<\/b>: Honestly, I&#8217;m so poisoned from my toxic drinking water I barely know what&#8217;s going on half the time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Alaska<\/b>: Sarah Palin endorsed him. What was I to do?<\/p>\n<p><b>Idaho<\/b>: I&#8217;m Idaho!<\/p>\n<p><b>Montana<\/b>: We just want the government to stay out of our business. Isn&#8217;t that what you want, Hawaii?<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Clearly not in the same way you do. The idea a lot of you have of a limited government looks a lot like white supremacy to me, and most of my population is non-white, so count me out.<\/p>\n<p><b>West Virginia<\/b>: But he&#8217;s going to give us back our coal jobs!<\/p>\n<p><b>Virginia<\/b>: Cram it, District 12.<\/p>\n<p><b>Florida<\/b>: Hey, if you go, does this mean Key West is the southernmost point in the country again?<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Yeah, sure, Florida. Have fun.<\/p>\n<p><b>Texas<\/b>: I know how you feel. I too was my own thing before joining the union, and I still have my unique culture that is NOT to be messed with! So what is it you&#8217;re going to do now?<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Back to what I was before, I guess. We&#8217;ll run things like our current state government, only independently. Or perhaps even reinstate our old constitutional monarchy. Either way, we return power to our people after such a long time of colonialism and occupation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oregon<\/b>: I know all about being occupied. I mean, it was a bird sanctuary, FFS!<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Okay then. I&#8217;ll go ahead and write up my Articles of Secession and present it when it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mississippi<\/b>: Don&#8217;t forget the part about your right to keep slaves.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: We don&#8217;t have slaves, Mississippi!<\/p>\n<p><b>Louisiana<\/b>: Wait, you don&#8217;t? What&#8217;s the point in seceding?<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Wow. Okay, yeah&#8230; I definitely need out.<\/p>\n<p><b>Illinois<\/b>: But you gave us Obama! He&#8217;s awesome, and so are you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Mahalo, Illinois! But this is for the best.<\/p>\n<p><b>New Jersey<\/b>: Surely we can still talk this over. Don&#8217;t do anything drastic. Want anybody whacked?<\/p>\n<p><b>Delaware<\/b>: Shut the fuck up, New Jersey. Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Connecticut<\/b>: Wait, that&#8217;s it. You gave us Obama and in 2016 were solidly blue. You clearly have a good sense of things, yet you fall victim to much of the nonsense. So, well, you&#8217;re right. You ought to secede. You have to look out for yourself. In fact, you&#8217;ll be terrific as a sovereign nation instead of just one of us states.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Uh, mahalo. But why do I get the feeling there&#8217;s a catch?<\/p>\n<p><b>Rhode Island<\/b>: No catch. Connecticut is right. It&#8217;s a great idea. After all you&#8217;ve been through, it&#8217;s only fair.<\/p>\n<p><b>Washington<\/b>: It&#8217;s cool. I&#8217;ll just be here with my tech and my rain, and you&#8217;ll reinstate your old monarchy. With your&#8230; reign.<\/p>\n<p><b>Colorado<\/b>: Make Honolulu a world capital and do your own thing and be awesome. We have faith in you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Okay, you all are definitely getting at something.<\/p>\n<p><b>Iowa<\/b>: Hey, we mean it. You&#8217;ve run yourself well before, until we came and ruined it, so no reason to believe you can&#8217;t do it again. We&#8217;re not going to interfere.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Out with it. What is it you do want?<\/p>\n<p><b>New Hampshire<\/b>: We don&#8217;t want to annex you. On the contrary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Other 49 states<\/b>: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Orange Thing<\/b>: &#8220;Grab &#8217;em by the pussy!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Orange Thing<\/b>: &#8220;There are fine people on both sides.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Orange Thing<\/b>: &#8220;Fake news!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Orange Thing<\/b>: &#8220;Those sons of bitches protesting our national anthem&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Orange Thing<\/b>: &#8220;Why do we keep getting immigrants from shithole countries?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Vermont<\/b>: &#8230;we want you to annex us.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hawaii<\/b>: Wait, what?<\/p>\n<p><b>Other 49 states<\/b>: TAKE US WITH YOU!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii: Everybody okay? No threat. Let&#8217;s just breathe. It&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s okay- FCC: WTF Hawaii? You really fucked this up big time. Fix your shit. Hawaii: &#8230; Hawaii: &#8230;.. Hawaii: ALRIGHT, THAT DOES IT! I have put up with this bullshit for too fucking long! Other 49 states: !!!!! Hawaii: You know what? 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