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Silicon Valley investors call for California to secede from the US after Trump win
The Guardian ^ | November 9, 2016

Posted on 12/21/2016 4:18:41 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

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To: Clintonfatigued
They're not going anywhere. They just want more power, they think they deserve it. Here's why Californians especially, detest the Electoral College,

There are now more registered voters in California than the population of 46 states

81 posted on 12/21/2016 6:09:59 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: morphing libertarian

I agree. that’s why I threw in the “weirdly carved” and “kinda sorta”. And adding in the federal lands as mentioned in a comment upthread would spice things up further.

The resultant boundary (if it ever happens) will probably resemble some of those crazy gerrymandered districts we’ve all scoffed at in the past.


82 posted on 12/21/2016 6:14:39 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Watching the leftists feeling their sadz makes me LOL ))))
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To: Hillbilly sage
but while they are screaming that those nasty Russians interfered in our elections, they open their first “Embassy” in Moscow.

Perhaps instead of seceding they could just immigrate to Russia.

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83 posted on 12/21/2016 6:15:36 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Succession has worked so well for Quebec, hasn’t it?


84 posted on 12/21/2016 6:17:34 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: oblomov

A good song. Holiday in Cambodia is fun, too. Too bad Jello Biafra is such a leftist.


85 posted on 12/21/2016 6:18:19 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Before they go, they should each pay their projected portion of the Federal Debt. And the US should retain all federal property. If they want to buy back the water retention structures constructed by the Federal Govt, I would be in favor of selling those structures at today’s value, not the cost of construction.


86 posted on 12/21/2016 6:19:58 PM PST by Iowa Granny (Clintion ruined a dress, but Obama ruined a Nation.)
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To: Brilliant

It’s a game of brinksmanship. I suspect the rest of the states would let them go, but on a county by county basis.


87 posted on 12/21/2016 6:21:49 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

1. Apologize to the Confederacy;
2. Repay all the damages done ($1 Trillion will do);
3. Go ahead.

Tomorrow the wrath of God will be unleashed on you. When we’re through, California will look like 1864 Atlanta.


88 posted on 12/21/2016 6:26:04 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: eyeamok

Not a bad idea and they might jump at it. Territories don’t pay Federal income tax: they pay taxes to the territory. So Cuckifornia can run its own affairs and we don’t have to worry about their electoral votes or looney tunes in Congress.


89 posted on 12/21/2016 6:26:47 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

It’s just a publicity stunt. Their strategy is doomed to fail and they know it. If they reallly wanted to leave then they would go the constitutional amendment route. But they don’t so they selected a route that can’t get them from a to b even if it succeeds.


90 posted on 12/21/2016 6:28:40 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Clintonfatigued

Bookmarking...


91 posted on 12/21/2016 7:01:29 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Clintonfatigued

The new administration needs to perform a study first thing on how much water will cost the country of Califonia


92 posted on 12/21/2016 7:22:11 PM PST by Figment
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To: Clintonfatigued

I live in CA and the only reason I have a problem with it is the 49 Star American Flag looks a little “off” to me.

That being said, I could get used to it. LOL

The caveat is that the new Country of CA had better buy my House using Gold Bullion before I relocate to a sane Country.


93 posted on 12/21/2016 7:50:05 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: tophat9000

Certainly, each county should vote on whether they want to leave the union - much as you mentioned, West Virginia. The resulting secession would probably only involve a narrow coastal strip from San Diego to SF. The rest of the state would form Jefferson and would inherit the two Senators and as many Representatives as their population would warrant.

What the Calexitors forget is that the Silicon Valley mega-taxpaying corporations are publicly-owned and their boards would move them to Texas or Florida to escape Cali’s high taxes, What is left of Cali would be a wildly overpopulated coastal strip that would be poor, hungry and out of water and power.

Yes, we would want them stripped of their citizenship so that they could not migrate back into the US and contaminate our political process with their Marxist views. We could thrive without Cali.


94 posted on 12/21/2016 9:06:46 PM PST by JennyTG43
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To: Clintonfatigued

I’m for it. Give those who still want to be part of the USA 1 year to manage their property/career plans and get across the border and then build a wall to keep the rest out.....


95 posted on 12/22/2016 2:52:12 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: SandyInSeattle

You’ll be an immigrant from California.


96 posted on 12/22/2016 10:12:56 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: butlerweave

That’s an excellent question. 30% of all Federal welfare recipients live in California.


97 posted on 12/22/2016 10:16:51 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Clintonfatigued
The guy supporting this was born in Iran. So, he's a naturalized citizen. That means he swore this oath:

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America

Has he violated his oath? The Constitution does not permit secession, we fought the most violent war in our history to ensure the States remained United.

98 posted on 12/22/2016 11:32:37 AM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: RFEngineer
There are a lot of us who aren't going to take to kindly to the US military invading CA I don't care who the President happens to be.. I don't care how much I disagree with CA politics and there strange culture. They get to go it alone if they want to.

So it has come down to this has it? The only thing keeping the US together is threats of invasion. The country is lost then. Go CA, Via con Dios.

99 posted on 12/22/2016 11:42:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MarMema

Secession and threats of secession are actually a healthy thing for a republic.


100 posted on 12/22/2016 11:43:47 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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