Posted on 03/11/2020 1:00:45 PM PDT by ransomnote
SACRAMENTO — 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.
A day or two after Trump created an Economic Advisory panel, AG Becerra created his. Looking at CA AG's webiste - Becerra continues to sue the US government while functioning as the head of a 20 state AG "coalition".
I do wonder how far Newsom and Becerra have taken/are taking this - and if Pence's "citizens of CA" is courtesy or a marker for underlying conflict.
Seeing the lawsuits of Becerra's "coalition", I can say that the tax payers are paying for both sides of the coalition's litigation, whether they want to or not. This tax payer funded litigation helps fuel Newsom's aspirations to nationhood and labors to slow down or impede President Trump's vision for our nation.
Hey, maybe Gavin could become President for Life in the new country of California.
So they will close the border with the United States?
Please no.
This plan might run into some problems though.
Since apparently sane California has launched a plan to secede from insane California.
So good luck to the former mayor of San Francisco with turning the whole state into a nightmare.
OK then, so what’s the downside?
If they break off to their own country - and take their electoral votes with them - there wouldn’t be another Democrat elected to the White House for decades!
Plus, a lot of the entertainment types that make their home in NYC would flee to their utopian dream state, diminishing the grip the Dems have held on NY State for the better part of my life.
“So good luck to the former mayor of San Francisco with turning the whole state into a nightmare”
That ship done sailed.
Good. A reason to send in the Marines.
Well, decent people living in CA do not want to be walled in CA and treated like indentured servants by those whom others elected but to whom they still pay taxes.
Giving ground to the enemy, particularly the 5th largest economy in the word with port(s) critical to shipping is a bad idea.
The whole idea of letting Dems scream until we give them a state is a bad precedent to set.
We would also have to build many more miles of border wall!
As soon as California was cut loose you could revolt against the progressive hub and rid yourselves of them. Then rejoin the a union.
That’s fine. Immediately halt all U.S. spending in California. Remove all military personnel and close bases, fire all federal employees in CA and close all the federal courts in CA. Remove all elected CA House members and senators from the U.S. Congress. Not one penny spent on CA.
Allow one year for CA residents to move out and still maintain their U.S. citizenship. See how fast the U.S. recovers and thrives and how fast the Nation of California collapses.
So begins the first secessionist movement since 1865.
I wonder if Newsom has enough ammunition and blood ?
Jefferson stays. I need my bass fishing and squirrel hunting.
California would need to secede and the last time some states tried that there was a war. This is a pie in the sky plan and I doubt it will get far.
The rest of the Country has a responsibility to the people living there; the Americans being treated unjustly.
Look how poorly Dems have done taking care of the territory they control. President Trump will get involved when the time comes. Many people would rather stay & fight for their homes & their way of life than let the state be lost to the left.
I salute the free territory of Jefferson.
“he proposes that California offer its own health-insurance subsidies to families earning up to $150,000.”
Pity those poor Californian families scrapping by on $120,000/year.
And then build gallows
No more Federal Funding. Discontinue any and all connection with the United State of America...including driver licenses, public schools, wellfare.. Pay off your debt..then go right ahead.
I think the CA surplus just went up in smoke with the stock market. They are hugely dependent on capital gains from stock sales.
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