Posted on 02/05/2025 5:36:31 AM PST by MtnClimber
California can’t keep itself afloat even without a defense budget.
There’s no way Democrats nationally could support this.
If you back out California vote totals from recent elections, Trump would have won all three of his elections comfortably.
California leaving the union would have a profound political impact on the rest of the country. And the impact would not be something that liberals want to see.
The question of succession by states was seemingly decided 1861-65, by my reading of the history.
Blow a few dams, cut off the supply of the Colorado River and California would be drinking their own pee in weeks. No chance.
Canada is 10 provinces + 3 territories.
But you are right - it has approximately the population of California (40 MM for Canada and 39 MM for Cali)
As to Greenland, it is not “owned” by Denmark, but is a separate country under the Danish crown.
I think many of the legally migrated Mexican-Americans voted for Trump
Gee, imagine that. Democrats wanting to secede, again! Obviously, they don’t know their history. This was settled in 1865by Abraham Lincoln.
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I doubt they will be able to pull it off with California’s new Mesozoic landscaping. It would make more sense to turn California into a statewide Disney Mesozoic Theme Park.
That’s right. California’s water rights is setup as if it was a state of the union. Secede, and Trump will cutoff CA at the source. All they have to do is shut off the electricity.
Since California, at least the biggest cities, have already resigned from America, how can it possibly secede?
We learned yesterday that the as yet unburned portions of LA are in fact already Mexico, secession is a moot concept
Not a good idea to allow CA to secede. CA has major sea-ports that would then be under CA control. If you think imports are expensive now wait until CA has to make up their annual massive tax revenue shortfalls. Taxing port of entry commerce is low-hanging fruit.
While OR and WA have ports, they would have to expand greatly to match the flow of goods docking in CA. And the commie leadership in OR and WA will probably raise commerce taxes as well.
Besides for some reason it takes Congressional approval to secede - not gonna happen at least not until the left gets control of all three branches of gubmint.
Again, Texas vs White, 1869. https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-v-White
“Texas v. White, (1869), U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that the United States is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede.”
Wonder if some of the counties of certain states can secede and join other states as so many in East Cali-pornia, Oregon and Washington wish to do.
Too bad the 50 States cannot secede from Washington DC and establish a new Capital City. Criswell Predicts decades ago said the new Capital would be Wichita, Kansas. His prediction rate for accuracy is “0”.
No. The American People are not about to allow this valuable piece of real estate to slip away from them, but if the California Democrats want to secede individually from the USA and become citizens of some other country, the chute will joyfully be greased for them.
Gaza is being prepared for you. Looks like pallisades. Build back better.
If a majority of the California Legislature passed a resolution petitioning the US congress for independence -- and congress agreed -- it would be legal.
But the real subtext is they think we can't get along without them.
If CA secedes, the GOP would enjoy a 40 vote advantage in the House and a two seat gain in the Senate.
CA would lose all Fed funding, $143B per year. They are already running a deficit, and would go bankrupt in year one.
Most of CA’s electricity comes from other states.
Likely more than half of their tax base would leave.
Likely CA would try to reach out to China to be their sugar daddy, but China would do more taking than giving.
All that being said, they’re really insane and just might do it.
Let them secede. Then we can send in undercover ops to foment a revolution and put a puppet government of sane people in place.
How bout they all just leave? Let the conservatives stay but we go back in and rescue that beautiful state. It’s a wonderful place, but the liberals suck. They’re a blight on mankind. Get rid of them and we’ve got a chance.
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