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Not The Onion: Gavin Newsom wants California to be its own nation-state in the Trump era
2019-02-15
[SFChronicle] Just five weeks into the job, Gov. Gavin Newsom has crystallized his vision of what California will look like in the Trump era: It won’t just be the hub of the resistance against the president; it will be its own nation-state.

But before Newsom can create a country-within-a-country, he had to defuse two multibillion-dollar grenades that his predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, left in his in-box: high-speed rail and the delta tunnels project. In proposing Tuesday to scale back both of Brown’s unpopular legacy projects, Newsom hopes he can preserve enough political capital to get his own legacy projects on the fast track.

If he can do that, he can lead California down its own path for as long as Trump is president. California must go it alone, because Trump’s portrait of America is "fundamentally at odds with California values," the governor said Tuesday in his first State of the State speech.

Newsom said the president has "described a country where inequality doesn’t seem to be a problem, where climate change doesn’t exist, and where the greatest threat we face comes from families seeking asylum."

So California, as the world’s fifth-largest economy, is going to be a counterweight, a West Coast enclave built on its own values and funded, in part, by an anticipated $21.6 billion surplus.

So while the White House is "laser-focused on destroying the Affordable Care Act," as Newsom said Tuesday, he proposes that California offer its own health-insurance subsidies to families earning up to $150,000. He wants to expand Medi-Cal coverage to all Californians, including undocumented immigrants, until they are 26.
The United States Constitution. Article III, section 3 reads as follows:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. [emphasis on topical legal premise added]. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

“The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted [sic]."

I lived in CA during "Fruit and Nuts." Great weather, laid-back lifestyles (for some, anyway) and South America wasn't using it as a magic ticket dispenser feeding the American Dream Nightmare. It's morphed into a place I cannot visit.
Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#10  In a long and rambling speech this morning, painfully obviously without the aid of a teleprompter, Trump announced that he will sign an emergency declaration to build a wall.

He rambles. He looks and sounds bedraggled and defeated in this speech. I'm afraid that Chuck and Nancy are wearing heavily on him. He talks about crime, drugs and gangs as if those are the only reasons to build the wall. He does not state the obvious which is the impact that illegal aliens from the Third World are having on our democracy. I suppose he can't talk about that without being accused of racism. Likewise, Chuck and Nancy can't say what the real reason is for their implacable opposition to the wall, which is that they need those Third World voters (and possibly the cartel graft as well).

So we have these two opposing parties talking past each other and it's no wonder a lot of citizens across the country don't understand what the real problem is.

Maybe you think I'm rambling here but my point is that Gavin Newsom is a product of this whole scheme the Democrats have to gain complete control over this country's political processes, to gain the absolute power they need to turn the United States into a socialist police state that would make Oceana look benign.

I've told you people before that California used to be a red state. We gave you leaders like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, two of your greatest presidents ever. Today, neither one of these good men could get elected to any state wide office in California. That's because illegal immigration has turned the state blue.

Newsom is a creep and a thief. I say thief because he wants to take money that citizens of this state pay in taxes and give it to people who should not be here instead of using it only for the good of the citizens who pay those taxes. That way he hopes to win the favor of those Third World types and gain their votes so he can perpetuate and enlarge on his power play.

My only hope is that somehow Trump can put a stop to Newsom's scheme but my hope is wearing thin. It might be too late.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-02-15 12:08  

#9  I hope he makes his move while Trump is still president because future presidents may not have the balls to send federal troops to arrest Newsom and put a stop to this insurrection.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-02-15 11:31  

#8  My sister lives in California. I'm always asked when I'm coming to visit. Can't say it outright, sis, but your state already made choices that are costing me too much. I'm not bringing any money in by flying there...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-15 11:27  

#7  Rebrand to Califuela?

Except wind power extraction "giant".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-02-15 10:15  

#6  Or we can declare them in a state of rebellion and cut off all the water, power, food and money the other states ship them.

The interior counties would be against the government in Sacramento furthering the loss and lack of food and water in the cities.

After a few months, the situation would resolve itself.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-02-15 09:27  

#5  Victor Davis Hanson wrote about this very topic back in 2003.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-15 07:23  

#4  Nothing stops you and your henchmen/women in Congress from submitting a Constitutional Amendment to make the separation legit. I suspect some flyover states would be more than happy to accommodate.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-15 07:03  

#3  As I understand it, most of their water and electricity comes from other states.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-15 00:58  

#2  California is engaging in rhetoric and action that would make John Calhoun's heart swell with pride for its open defiance of federal policy.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-02-15 00:43  

#1  Well, bye! Go be your own nation-state. No more federal money for you!
Posted by: SteveS   2019-02-15 00:26  

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