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2019-02-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Not The Onion: Gavin Newsom wants California to be its own nation-state in the Trump era

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2019-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Well, bye! Go be your own nation-state. No more federal money for you!

Posted by SteveS 2019-02-15 00:26|| 2019-02-15 00:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 00:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 00:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 07:03|| Front Page Top

Victor Davis Hanson wrote about this very topic back in 2003.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-15 07:23|| 2019-02-15 07:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Rebrand to Califuela?

Except wind power extraction "giant".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-15 10:15|| 2019-02-15 10:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 11:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-02-15 12:08|| Front Page Top

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