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Berkeley becomes first city to ‘divest’ from Trump’s border wall
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 17, 2017 | Natalie Orenstein

Posted on 03/18/2017 6:20:04 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Berkeley won’t have anything to do with the construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, for which $4.1 billion was allocated in the budget plan released by President Donald Trump Thursday.

This week the City Council voted to be the first city in the nation to “divest” from businesses involved in the construction of a border wall.

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That's not fair. There's nothing that Berkeley makes that we can boycott in return.
1 posted on 03/18/2017 6:20:04 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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America should “divest” itself of Berkeley.


2 posted on 03/18/2017 6:25:27 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Perhaps should round up all of the Illegal Aliens that they capture and release them at the door steps of the Berkeley City Hall...


3 posted on 03/18/2017 6:27:51 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: artichokegrower

Years of practice divesting against Israel. Let me tell you, the working class is about 42 moves behind on the chess board.


4 posted on 03/18/2017 6:30:56 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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Hmmmm. Do the words DUMB ASS come to mind? I kinda see their point. I mean who’s gonna clean the UC Berzerkly profs houses if we keep trespassers out. Which brings another thougth to mind. Do the comrades that live in Berzerkly leave their houses unlocked 24/7/365? Do they leave their prius’ unlocked with the key inside? Why not? Again-—— DUMBASSES!


5 posted on 03/18/2017 6:31:36 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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All states should be allowed to send their illegal alien invaders to Berkeley.


6 posted on 03/18/2017 6:33:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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Does this mean President Trump can now Divest all Federal Funds from California??


7 posted on 03/18/2017 6:34:23 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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I mean who’s gonna clean the UC Berzerkly profs houses

There is More Truth in that statement than most will realize. Currently there are at least 200,000 Illegal Aliens servicing the West Side of Los Angeles, America’s Liberals. Mainly in Cleaning and Maintenance.

When they go, their 40-50 Million Dollar Homes will require an Immediate doubling or Tripling of COST to maintain, Maybe More. The Slave Masters do NOT like that idea.


8 posted on 03/18/2017 6:38:34 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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How does a city have investments in the first place?

Pray America woke


9 posted on 03/18/2017 6:42:48 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: eyeamok

When it comes time for midterms, Trump and others need to get out there and talk about how democrats support people from other countries more than Americans and that they support all the crimes against Americans that come with it. Make them out to look like anti-American monsters. Hammer it in that they think high premiums and huge deductibles are fine because they don’t have to pay them being members of congress. They could really be turned into monsters if the Republicans would just do it.


10 posted on 03/18/2017 6:42:57 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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Keep on keeping on to chase businesses out of California.

Do any of those socialists ever get, "Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money?" Apparently not. They don't even look around the world to see their failing Utopian ideology. Venezuela is the most recent and all I hear from Sean Penn and Danny Glover and ilk is crickets.

Will say it again on these type threads, it's time to have a debate about free enterprise vs socialism in terms the dumbest college student can understand. It's time to discuss capitalism vs socialism in the simplest terms. Both sides of the political spectrum simply quote stats and bennies through rhetoric and platitudes to the LIVs. The LIVs need to understand the differences and what has worked in modern history.

11 posted on 03/18/2017 6:44:44 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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They make fags there. I boycott Berkely fags every chance I get!


12 posted on 03/18/2017 6:50:27 AM PDT by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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“That’s not fair. There’s nothing that Berkeley makes that we can boycott in return. “

Sure there is. Students. Not going to hire from schools that preach intolerance. And then pull any funding they get from the fed.


13 posted on 03/18/2017 6:50:56 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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Fine. We divest all taxpayer money going to Berkeley.


14 posted on 03/18/2017 6:54:15 AM PDT by ealgeone
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“Perhaps should round up all of the Illegal Aliens that they capture and release them at the door steps of the Berkeley City Hall...”

Areas that cannot afford to continue supporting illegals would be very wise to give away bus tickets to Berkeley.


15 posted on 03/18/2017 7:01:04 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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I doubt that those wall building businesses have much going on in Berkeley, anyway.

Furthermore, not all of those wall building businesses are American. Some Mexican wall builders are interested in building the wall, as well.

That would be ironic, wouldn’t it, if Berkeley refused to do business with a Mexican firm because it had helped to build the wall.

Personally, I think that relations with Mexico will improve in the long run if we can clamp down on the illegal immigration. For example, it will reduce the amount of suspicion we have when dealing with Mexican people because we’ll know that every Mexican we meet is here legally.


16 posted on 03/18/2017 7:05:49 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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That’s probably illegal....


17 posted on 03/18/2017 7:06:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: richardtavor

Fence off the People’s Park, if it still exists, and make it an ICE detention facility.


18 posted on 03/18/2017 7:07:52 AM PDT by ptsal
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Hot news you have been waiting for!! Oh, what a relief it is....

WASHINGTON (AP) - at 11:15am today President Trump disclosed that he has reached an agreement with Enrique Pena Nieto, President of Mexico, which provides for the immediate sale of a significant portion of the State of California to the country of Mexico. The agreement is being presented to the legislatures of both countries today for expedited approval. President Nieto announced that he has already introduced a bill to the Mexican Congress asking to change his country’s name to MexiCal.

The portion of California sold to Mexico extends from the coastline inland to, but not including , the Central Valley, and to just North of San Francisco. President Trump noted that this deal, which he claims “is his largest real estate deal ever” is a win-win for everyone involved. Mexico, being a quasi-socialist country, plans to seize and nationalize Apple, Inc. and other Silicon Valley corporations in order to pay the sales price of just over $31 trillion dollars (plus Mexico’s entire crop of avocados for the next 100 years) from Apple’s cash reserves and from low-interest loans to be provided by the Mexican drug cartels. The cartels have agreed to provide such low interest loans if they are allowed to move their cash out of Switzerland and the Cayman Islands back into Mexico tax free and if they are given amnesty.

President Trump will outline all of the benefits of this deal during a prime time address from the Oval Office later this evening, which will include using the proceeds received by the US from Mexico to:

1) Pay for the Wall (fulfilling yet another campaign promise), a wall which will now include the length of the new eastern border of MexiCal.
2) fund all the infrastructure spending in the remaining United States and
3) pay to relocate the 67 Republicans that currently reside in the portion of California sold to Mexico. All other current residents of that territory that are not already Mexican (approximately 50% of the population) will automatically become citizens of Mexico, with all of the benefits that entails. The millions of Californians who have been chanting “Not My President” since November 8, 2016, are expected to be euphoric.

President Trump also noted that Federal money saved from the reduction of California citizens and illegal aliens living on US social programs will allow those social programs to be cash positive in less than 3 years.

Other benefits President Trump intends to discuss during this evening’s prime time address include:

California will now be able to continue as a sanctuary state within MexiCal noting that there is much more room for the illegal aliens who will find the climate in the State of California more desirable than the climate in US cities such as NYC, Detroit or Chicago.

The elimination of the existing border between Mexico and California will allow
drugs to flow more freely between Mexico and the users in Hollywood.

Drug tunnel diggers at the Tijuana border will now be able to use their skills to dig tunnels under Los Angeles and San Francisco to help ease congestion in those cities and allow rioters to move about the nearby universities more freely.

The U.S. taxpayer will no longer be on the hook for any future disaster relief required once the next megaquake hits California. Moreover, California’s Central Valley farmers will again be allowed to have water and irrigate the world’s most productive farmland because Mexico has agreed to give permanent sanctuary to the 734 delta smelt that have been located.

The space in the Capitol and other DC buildings vacated by representatives of California will be fumigated and turned into “time-out rooms” for the press as well as Liberty Centers where US citizens can meet with their congressmen to discuss the pursuit of economic freedom.

Mexican President Nieto also said he considers the fact that a Disney park will now be located within his country an added bonus.

Nancy Pelosi released a statement stating that she looks forward to making the Mexican President’s life miserable and prefers the year round weather in Mexico City to that of DC. Her office has already announced a schedule of fund raising activities for what is believed to be an upcoming campaign to run for President of MexiCal. Part of her platform, according to sources inside her tent, will be the opening of MexiCal’s southern border to allow the downtrodden and deserving people of Central America to partake of the social benefits MexiCal has to offer. Her office notes that Mexico has a desperate need for abortion clinics and transgender-friendly bathrooms and that Mexico’s current health-care system needs to have more of the features of Obamacare. Al Sharpton commented during his show on MSNBC that Mexican President Nieto is a “hateful racist bigot” and that he and Maxine Waters were planning a march in Mexico City as soon as the deal was ratified.

The northern border of the new MexiCal was the subject of intense bargaining, President Trump said, in order to assure Congressional approval of the deal. Apparently the White House was concerned that certain members of congress may be unwilling to give up California’s wine country and determined that the northern border align with the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Mexican President Nieto stated he is thrilled with the deal and is looking forward to declaring Spanish the national language for his newly acquired territory and opening SSL (Spanish as a second language) schools throughout California.

White House representatives refused to confirm rumors that a similar deal was in the works for the sale of Northeastern states from NY through Maine, to Canada.

President Trump wrapped up his statement stating, “this deal is HUGE and will help Make America, albeit a little smaller, Great Again”.


19 posted on 03/18/2017 7:15:31 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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Build a mini-wall around Berserkeley and require passport and visa to come to America!


20 posted on 03/18/2017 7:16:00 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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