Let California Go

American Thinker ^ | November 27, 2016 | Robert Oscar Lopez

[Gaffer]

You wish, cupcake.

[Bodega]

I heard the same thing in OR, WA, Colo, and Texas. CAlifornians truly believe they are entitled. They own you because you are not a Californian. And with that come the capacity to see us a underlings so they can take our clear and wondrously blue skies and besmirch those same cloudless, pristine areas with their inane BS. including deactivation of our gun laws.

[Reily]

Also couldn’t Helllary & crowd sticking her nose into this be one final shake down over her donor & “true believer” money tree before she rides off into the sunset?

[Dana1960]

I can’t remember I enjoyed reading a post as much as this one.

Thanks for putting it out there for us!

[ConsCA]

“During a text argument about the electoral college that I had with my commie brother who lives in CA last night: “Let me tell you, if California’s ends up dying of thirst and you end up asking me for help, I’ll FedEx you my piss.”

I meant it. If California tries to secede then I believe that it will end in civil war.”

Hopefully, you have stopped communicating with the commie brother forever. Sounds like he ain’t worth it.

CA won’t secede, logistically and legally the state wont be able to do it.

Even the California Constitution says the following “... “The State of California is an inseparable part of the United States of America, and the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land.”

[stillfree?]

And they don’t even try to assimilate.

[thecodont]

Best post of the thread.

[AZLiberty]

With the original declining in importance, the Americas need another Cuba.

Shall we have a California embargo?

[thecodont]

Defund the “sanctuary cities” and watch California turn around. Fast.

See those ants in your kitchen? Remove the leaky box of sugar from your cabinet, and watch the trickle of pests dwindle and disappear.

[AZLiberty]

Trump: We’re going to need a longer wall.

[zeestephen]

The huge Clinton lead in California is based entirely on ethnic voting.

In 2012, California white voters supported Romney over Obama by 53% to 45%.

80% of non-white voters supported Obama.

Also, allegations of massive voter fraud in California are absurd.

What would be the motive?

The governor is a Democrat, both U.S. Senators are Democrats, both houses of the state legislature have huge Democrat majorities, all the big city mayors are Democrats, and the U.S. Congressional delegation is 80% Democrat.

[alexander_busek]

[...] you also realize that having dual citizenship doesn’t prevent Americans from getting the highest security clearance? [...] but it turned out there were so many dual nationals working in the Bush WH, the idea was quietly shelved. I suspect in the Obama WH it was even worse. crazy but true.

More water to my mill!

I find dual citizenship abhorrent - and if CA were to secede, it would be all the more necessary to repeal / rescind it.

Regards,

[vooch]

I agree on your dual citizenship approach

but that is distinct from the YES California question

[alexander_busek]

I vacationed in CA, as an (almost) 20yo who'd cast his first Presidential vote (for the Gipper) the year before, in the summer of '81 with my mom and stepdad. She and I flew from Philly to Phoenix where he'd gone to in advance on business. After 2 nights in Scottsdale came a night at a Motel 6 in Yuma, 2 nights in SD that included the Zoo and a literal Tijuana taxi ride. Then, after a stop at San Juan Capistrano on the way up the 5 came three nights at my stepdad's lawyer nephew's condo in Santa Monica (3 blocks from the beach). We did Universal City and Disneyland. Then it was one night in Morro Bay, a drive up Route 1 to Carmel and a night there, and then 4 nights at the Sheraton Fisherman's Wharf before flying home.

Two questions:

1. Have you always kept such a detailed daily journal?

2. What color was the carpeting in that Motel 6 room?

Regards,

[RegulatorCountry]

Sometimes, your first trip to a special place is recalled decades later in almost photographic detail. I can do the same for my first trip to California, or to Ireland.

[alexander_busek]

I agree on your dual citizenship approach but that is distinct from the YES California question

No, for me those two questions would be inextricably linked.

I could perhaps warm to the secession of CA (not really, but for the sake of argument) - but only if dual citizenship were rescinded and single citzenship stringently enforced.

Regards,

[Deplorable American1776]

Please let them go...If we created a new state - Jefferson or Sequoia... I bet it would be a red state...

[American in Israel]

Vetting? Funny guy. Clean your own house first.

[sasportas]

Let California go? and Oregon and Washington should they follow suit?

Have we forgot the Navy bases on the west coast that we will lose? San Diego, Long Beach, Bremerton, NAS Whitbey Island. The Pacific is a big ocean. The Pacific and Atlantic have always been our first line of defense.

Pearl Harbor would be the only base we’d have.

[sasportas]

Not to mention the Marine Corp bases in Calif., San Diego, Miramar, Camp Pendelton, Twenty Nine Palms.