[Trump20162020]

[t4texas]

They are also mental deficients in the sense they have poorly developed brain function and clearly are unable to fathom the consequences that their actions today will turn out to be tomorrow.

[dangus]

Weird... the article links to another article dated in JANUARY. I was thinking, “An increase of 12%? I saw 32% in January!”

[Fiji Hill]

Given how most of the world’s governments lean left nowadays, California would instantly gain considerable international support once it became independent. Dozens of embassies would open in Sacramento, and the United Nations, the European Union and other international organizations would offer diplomatic support and economic aid. California’s armed forces would soon be armed with weapons from China and maybe Russia.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Actually if they’re considering going, it should be a nationwide referendum - I’d sure vote “yes”....

[LouAvul]

Well, I’m definitely in favor of 1 in 3 kommiefornians getting the heck out of America. Preferably we could deport the fags, cross dressers, addicts, communists, wetbacks, and a few other categories. That list would probably add up to a third of the population.

[Mike Darancette]

Great opportunity for the inland counties to break away.

[paltz]

Most Americans living in Calif. would just abandon the state and disperse else where in the country.

[trebb]

One in three - gosh, by Dem standards, that’s a freakin’ mandate....

[Wpin]

They are welcome to leave, but the land and everything on it stays.

[Jim Noble]

Well, I (reluctantly) think that this would be in our best interest, as long as the newly independent State of California does not retain lands surrendered to the People of the United States by Mexico under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and never transferred by the People of the United States to the People of California.

I refer particularly to "Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings".