Lee: Abolish the interstate highway system or we'll have civil war

[Landslide Lyndon]

These people are nuts.

https://thinkprogress.org/mike-lee-civil-war-highways-86be306e06b9/

Lee warned of a brewing civil war, and claimed that the only way to avert violence would be to eradicate a long list of federal programs including “the interstate highway system,” funding for “K through 12 public education,” “federal higher education accreditation,” “early childhood education, the Department of Commerce,” “housing policy, workforce regulation,” and what Lee labeled the “huge glut of federally owned land.”

Lee, who also believes that federal child labor laws, Social Security, and Medicare are unconstitutional, claimed in his speech that America faces a stark choice — “federalism or violence.”

[Dr. Arch]

Um...

[darklordoftech]

Um...

[Joe Biden 2024]

Um...

[KingSweden]

There are many valid critiques of the interstate highway system, but “root cause of a potential civil war” is not one of them

[Esteemed Jimmy]

Um...

[Koharu]

Sounds like it's just that it's a federal program in general, since he wants to do away with pretty much every federal program ever, but... Seriously? All I can do is laugh because otherwise I'll cry.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

lmao what

[ON Progressive]

I laughed quite a bit at this.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Remember how this guy was like almost at the top of Trump's list to replace Kennedy?

[darklordoftech]

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Better idea: finish Reconstruction.

[ProudModerate2]

 

[Cashew]

Don't laugh, this is what many of them genuinely believe. Sure you can dismiss it as a hollow threat, but one of the things restraining them is the belief that the right time to act out their fantasies has not yet arrived.

[Anti-Bothsidesism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP94m5pwls

[MarkD]

I've known many people who maintain that the federal government is doing lots of things that are unconstitutional, and even that most people in the federal government don't bother with trying to read, understand, and obey the Constitution. But I've never heard anyone go so over-the-top as this -- to suggest that it's worth fighting a civil war over the issue. Some people just don't understand that we have different methods of interpreting the Constitution.

I wonder if Mike Lee will get an inter-party challenge over this, having said something that is so extreme.

[Virginiá]

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4613321/going-roads

lmbo been a while since I watched that train wreck

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Clearly he must be angry about all those inner city black neighborhoods destroyed by the freeways put through them.

[user12345]

Someone please primary this nutjob.

[Person Man]

The fact that he is being elected might be evidence that there really a silent mental health pandemic occurring in this country. Its worrisome but not worrisome enough for me to start listening to anti-vaxxers.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

This is only slightly dumber than Roscoe Barltett's claims student loans may led to a holocaust.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

I can't tell anymore if these Republicans are actually this stupid or if they are pandering to their stupid base.

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

Liberterianism like this is why I vote 80% democrat.

They want to turn this country into a third world crap hole and that is unacceptable.

[Crumpets]