it seems to us like it's already happened
Posted on 11/22/2016 6:41:55 AM PST by rktman
A group of left-wing Californians, frustrated with the recent election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, has filed an application to put a secession referendum — “Calexit” — on the 2018 ballot.
The East Bay Times reports that the group, called Yes California, intends to circumvent the U.S. Congress:
A “yes” vote would trigger a special election the following March in which residents would decide if “California should become a free, sovereign and independent country.”
Another “yes” vote would require the governor of the newly minted “Republic of California” to apply to the United Nations for membership.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It would be an import...with a 35% tariff.
So would we carve out Guantanamo exceptions like for the San Diego naval base and other US installations?
Can you even begin to imagine what their army would look like? Armed with bongs and d*ldoes?
it seems to us like it's already happened
Let the sissies and hippies try to enforce that
Can’t you just picture the newest conscript, dressed in pink. Shaking his (or is it “her) finger:
YOU JUST CANT DO THAT, YOU BAD BOY
I was just ready to post this, you beat me to the punch!
Wasn’t there a secession movement by the right, also? Divide the state in two. Liberals in the south, so they can live with, and take care of via their own tax money, all of the illegals. Conservatives to the north!
Hmmmm...so much for Michelle running as California senator from her new Rancho Mirage base. ;)
They get their water and power from the USA. Whatever we lose in positive net tax revenue, we can make up in selling them water and that dirty, dirty old fossil fuel power that the NIMBY’d right out of the state.
The irony of it all.
Californians that can’t stand California move on to infest other states and with their California values wind up Kalifornicating such states.
Mexicans that cannot stand Mexico do the same with California.
I say let them go. It’s already Mexifornia.
Monumental waste of time. The Feds own way too much land on the Golden State to simply give up.
And I guess all Nevada Hoover Dam power and the supplemental Texas supplied electricity will find a new market.
If you think there’s an exodus of productivity and businesses out of CA now, just wait until “Calexit” gathers some steam
Even the Latinos and Millennials will see the writing on the wall and GTHO
No way CA survives on its own. Will be a shell of its self
Illegals will vote in mass.
Yes and then they will vote not to join the Un but Mexico.
CA would have to get really good, really quickly, at desalination if they were an independent nation. That, and they'd have to keep their invaders with CA driver's licenses.
Downside is something a poster pointed out a few days ago. If CA were in charge of CA, it would be a mess. Who knows what horrific groups would end up controlling it,?
ALlow counties to decide and take Portland and Seattle with you.
Spit it in half first. Liberals in one half, conservatives in the other.
The Asians would bolt back home in a heartbeat
No way they’d want to be a part of such a fiasco
“Can’t wait to see what their army would look like.”
My guess is something like this ...
There will be no “independent” California. If it breaks from the U.S., Mexico gets first dibs on its future. Any idea of “independence” is folly.
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