Posted on 02/09/2017 6:31:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Over sixty percent of California voters went for Hillary Clinton -- a margin of more than 4 million votes over Donald Trump.
Since Clinton's defeat, the state seems to have become unhinged over Trump's unexpected election.
"Calexit" supporters brag that they will have enough signatures to qualify for a ballot measure calling for California's secession from the United States.
Some California officials have talked of the state not remitting its legally obligated tax dollars to the federal government. They talk of expanding its sanctuary cities into an entire sanctuary state that would nullify federal immigration law.
Californians also now talk about the value of the old Confederate idea of "states' rights." They whine that their state gives far too much revenue to Washington and gets too little back.
Residents boast about how their cool culture has little in common with the rest of the U.S. Some Californians claim the state could easily go it alone, divorced from the United States.
Sound a bit familiar?
In December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union in furor over the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln did not receive 50 percent of the popular vote. He espoused values the state insisted did not reflect its own.
In eerie irony, liberal California is now mirror-imaging the arguments of reactionary South Carolina and other Southern states that vowed to go it alone in 1860 and 1861.
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Good pay your own debt
Ping
Well then we invade arrest all the major secessionists and impose a highly constitutional government on them.
California reminds me of kids threatening to run away from home every time they don’t their own way.
Where are Gene Robinson, Leonard Pitts and the rest of the all-race-all-the-time columnists who view any mention of states’ rights as the reimposition of slavery?
In other words surrender to Mexico, or Aztlan or whatever.
And the water-veined publicly educated imbeciles in the other 49 will likely let them do it.
At which point Hawaii will have news for us too.
This is not the kickass 1860’s. :(
How many of these votes were US Citizens?
May we start referring to “ The Breakaway Republic of California” ?
When do we start shelling the rebels?
The one crucial difference is that in 1860, the other states wanted the secessionists to stay in the Union..................
California goes independent, and it goes bankrupt at the same time. Try running a socialist nanny-state with an insolvent government and no printed US dollars or Fed.gov debt.
They will either become Venezuela within a year, or be forced to become the most conservative, Tea Party country in the world.
And the Ghost of General William Tecumseh Sherman turns a baleful eye towards Cailfornia, to begin another “March to the Sea”.. and make Compton Howl...
Wait.. Compton ALREADY howls... make that Oakland... err, Anaheim... No...
ANd I’d say they’re more “Soviet” than Confederate. :^)
She’s currently unemployed and looking for people to rule
Maybe California could invite her to be their Leader Dearest
Blockade Port of Long Beach.....................they will surrender..............
California is one of the few states to have been (briefly) independent prior to joining the Union.
No wait, isn’t that port owned by China?
Maybe California has a navy - the Chinese navy
Burn Hollywood to the ground, along with Malibu, Beverly Hills, Bel Aire, ............
Split California into 3 states. Before this gets out of hand.
The new state of Tierra de loones liberales would roughly comprise of north of LA to San Francisco and west of I-5.
If, somehow, california does exit the Union, then the Republicans may win every Presidency thereafter.
Without calif Trump wins the popular vote by over 1 million.
Nothing would be better for America than for California to leave and take its 55 electoral votes with it. We would probably never have another libtard President again without those 55 automatic elector votes for people like Hitlery.
Oh and, LOCK HER UP!
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