[Grumplestiltskin]

“America is chained to a corpse...”

Great line you wrote, there.

The only solution is to literally “cut the chains”, and “let California go free”.

Quebec wanted it in Canada — but Canada resisted.

If California wants that — don’t resist. Let ‘em go.

Actually, within 50 years, this is going to occur by default, anyway.

Can you say the words, “emerging Atzlan”?

I knew you could.

[Happy Rain]

The term “chained to a corpse” was first applied to the bungling Austria-Hungary empire being the primary ally (and burden) of Germany during WWI.Germany would be winning the war and then AH would do something dumb and the Germans would have to postpone victory in order to pull their sorry butts from the fire.

The same happened to Germany during WWII only this time it was a maladroit Italy that had to be rescued (bailed out) when they started battles they were too stupid to win.

WE have California.
They should go ahead and close Wash DC and make the entire state of CA into the new US Capital—the District of California—it's going to be a federal “protectorate” anyway.

Even the Feds can run the state better than THEY can--and that's saying something.