Posted on 06/29/2017 8:17:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Dear America,
I suppose I should wish you happy birthday. But I’m just not feeling it.
You and I, the United States and California, used to be close – “indivisible” was your word and “inseparable” was mine. Sure, we had differences – I’ve always been a little out there – but California was proudly part of America, and you tolerated our excesses.
Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis. But you are having an especially nasty meltdown. You’ve turned against everything you used to love: immigrants, trade, international alliances, voting rights, women’s rights, science, national parks, and treating people with respect.
But today, I look at you and feel like I’m an entirely different place, with different values, even different realities. Who is responsible for our problems?
It’s really not me. It’s you. While I’m the almond-producing state, you’re the one that has gone nuts.
These days, you’re constantly freaking out. And the government you installed in Washington – a government my voters opposed by historic margins – is trying to take away people’s health care, make it harder to vote, roll back environmental regulations, restart the failed drug war, and pick fights with our friends, like Mexico, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and South Korea.
Going forward, our relationship can’t be the same.
Now, I’m not going to march out the door and become my own country, like the #Calexit movement proposed. You are still my country, and I’m not surrendering you.
My people are just as American as yours. On July 4, I’ll still host barbecues and parades for tens of millions of your citizens. Back east of the Sierra, I hope your fireworks are bigger than ever, and that your people will stand extra close.
Maybe all the explosions will wake you the hell up.
Independently yours,
California
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FO Joe and the Excramento Bee
I have lived in California for 65 years and you don’t speak for any of the many conservative counties in your state except the handful around LA and SF.
Your fight is within your own state a$$hat
There is discussion about having CA and IL not send in the federal taxes collected in the state.
Not sure how that works, but they think they can balance the budget that way.
I remember the California that voted for Reagan twice and Deukmeijian (sp?) after. Even the fictional California of Perry Mason had its rough edges but wasn’t keen on indecency, perversion, baby-murder and illegal aliens.
“Who is responsible for our problems?”
Members of the Socialist Democrat Party.
The Clinton’s *SPIT*
Grifter/Loser Soon-To-Be-Felon Bernie Sanders
Barrack Hussein 0bama & Crew
Jimmy Carter
Governor Moonbeam
Abortionists
Any that have turned away from G-d
Need I go on?
In that case, California can pay for all of its own stuff, plus their share of the federal debt.
Cool! Stay out of our federal elections too! Bye-bye!
Another butt hurt #NeverTrumper whining because his side lost the election.
Man, this guy is a real retard.
The dementia is thick in California.
To CIB-173RDABN,
Well said! I salute you,sir.
"Duh, hey Archie, how are we gonna keep those punks outta Riverdale?"
20 years ago, the left didn’t believe the rhetoric but this bozo believes all the fundraising messages the democraps send him.
Still waiting on these assholes to secede!!!!
It was impossible to avoid the shots being fired. The South was put in an untenable situation, and even if they had avoided that one, Lincoln had another effort going to start the war in Pensacola.
Most people don't know this, but Lincoln had sent a war fleet of 8 ships to Charleston to attack the Confederate forces there. The reason the Confederates fired on Sumter was because the orders of those warships to "clear away all obstructions by force" was publicly known.
Yes, the Warships Lincoln sent had orders to attack, and the Confederates knew this. They thought Lincoln was going to hit them from the sea with those warships while the Garrison at Sumter attacked them with the cannons of the Fort.
But as I said, if Lincoln hadn't provoked a reaction at Sumter, he had already in place a task force to start the war in Pensacola.
One way or the other, Mr. Lincoln was going to get the war he badly needed.
When did health carte become a right? That I should pay for other people?
It should be harder to vote. If you make a positive contribution to our country, you have a say in how it should be run, if you are living on our charity, you should not be able to tell us to give you more.
The regulations being rolled back do not improve the environment, but do kill jobs.
He’s got two good eyes but he still can’t see.
FO = San Andreas FAULT OFF!
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