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Steve Bannon warns California might secede from the US
Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 21, 2017 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 10/21/2017 7:45:13 AM PDT by smileyface

Steve Bannon warned Friday evening that California might pose a "problem" to the U.S. by attempting to secede.

Couching his statement on California's status as a "sanctuary state," Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, contended that California's Democrats and "the lords of Silicon Valley" would attempt to flee like states did in the run-up to the Civil War if the policy isn't turned around.

"You are a sanctuary state," he told a crowd in Anaheim at the California Republican Party convention. "If you do not roll this back, 10 or 15 years from now the folks in Silicon Valley and progressive Democrats are going to try to secede from the union."

The issue of secession was settled 150 years ago, Bannon contended, adding, "And it's going to be a ... problem here in California."

California became a "sanctuary state" earlier this month, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on that prevents law enforcement officers from "asking about immigration status during routine interactions," defying the Trump administration.

During his speech, Bannon touted "economic nationalism," contending that people who " "are working two jobs" "got screwed" while those profiting in Silicon Valley "think they get a special deal" by getting "all the benefits of a free society," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

He blamed China for gaming the system in favor of "Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood and Washington, D.C."

Bannon, who is back at Breitbart News as executive chairman, also condemned former President George W. Bush, who just one day prior delivered speech widely seen as an implicit rebuke of Trump.

"There has not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush's," Bannon said.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: balkanization; bannon; calexit; california; justdoit; secede; seeya; thirsty
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To: crusher2013

>>911 would have been the time to start enforcing our immigration laws.
Instead Bush attacked a country that had nothing to do with 911 and destabilized the middle east.
He also went petal to the metal on keeping the borders open. Not too long ago California was a moderate state, now it is deep blue. It really is Bush’s fault.
What a awful President he turned out to be
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I also remember hearing the report that he invited CAIR to their private behind the scenes tour of upgraded airport security measures.

He is every bit a traitor as Obama and Clinton.


61 posted on 10/21/2017 10:10:42 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: central_va

I think if Calif could just be depleted of illegals and brain damaged creatures, the remainder of the state’s citizens would not wish to secede, and the state could then be restored.


62 posted on 10/21/2017 10:13:02 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Kalamata

Electoral votes

CA has 55. TX 36, NY 29, SC 9


63 posted on 10/21/2017 10:14:20 AM PDT by stanne
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To: central_va

Import of illegals and other illegal actions it’s almost a lawless state as it is nothing gets better in California it’s Cook county west.


64 posted on 10/21/2017 10:14:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: central_va

I don’t think you’re view of my post is fair. I never said they can’t go. I did say that if they do, they surrender the rights and priveledges of being a part of the USA including freedom to come and go as they wish, freedom to leverage resources from adjoining states, federal funds, etc and that to get any of that back they need to negotiate treaties. I think they have a lot we who remain in the union would want, namely produce. So trade agreements can be worked out. However once they declare themselves a sovereign state I fully expect that they will have an open border policy and will be overrun with pretty much the whole population of Mexico. Indeed, I predict the result is that they would eventually merge with Mexico. Hence they should be on the other side of the wall.


65 posted on 10/21/2017 10:15:45 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: smileyface

Please, make it so.


66 posted on 10/21/2017 10:18:14 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: PJammers

Thanks for this info. I didn’t know what a busy little bee he has been. If he ever gets China and Russian financial backing to secede, things will be much more complicated than just waving goodbye.


67 posted on 10/21/2017 10:18:15 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: central_va; stanne

Thanks. I always seem to pull a blank when I see EV.


68 posted on 10/21/2017 10:19:09 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: smileyface

CA will never leave. It can’t afford to.


69 posted on 10/21/2017 10:20:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: All

Does this mean the 49ers will become the Las Vegas 69ers?


70 posted on 10/21/2017 10:22:05 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

NO! You cannot infiltrate a state with a foreign population illegally and then claim you have sovereignty. That’s called invasion and occupation. They have to go back.


71 posted on 10/21/2017 10:23:56 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Yes, also the Chargers will be the Salt Lake City Pledgers and the Raiders will become the Portland Hip Waders while the Rams will just go back to St Louis and keep their name.


72 posted on 10/21/2017 10:25:03 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: xzins

Yes but, do we have the belly to fight it again?


73 posted on 10/21/2017 10:26:39 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Reily
I prefer to deal with China where China is - in China, not at the Rockies!

Spot on. But I wouldn't mind seeing Kali "Reconstructed".

74 posted on 10/21/2017 10:27:32 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: know.your.why
The vast majority of Californians are sick of the three big-oil companies Tesoro, Vallero, and Chevron price gouging the consumer and having the government in their pockets....

Oh, please.

Believe it or not most (voting) Californians actually have a sensible deportment and think that California government and federal reps are idiots.

I don't believe it because most Californians keep voting for them.

75 posted on 10/21/2017 10:33:24 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Kalamata

Why? Because they are a drain on the rest of us.


76 posted on 10/21/2017 10:38:15 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

I’m thinking let’s get rid of the illegals and braindamaged, and keep the fertile land.


77 posted on 10/21/2017 10:43:30 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: smileyface

Good news. Declare an insurrection, seize Government buildings, declare the California legislature an illegal body, appoint a new Governor, full martial law and aggressive deportation action.

What’s not to love?


78 posted on 10/21/2017 10:44:35 AM PDT by Rebelbase (There are only two genders. The rest are mental disorders.)
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To: smileyface

Yay!


79 posted on 10/21/2017 10:49:41 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The "God Gene" is evolution's way of saying "Chaos Sucks!")
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To: LS
Sorry, Bannon simply wrong on this.

You understand Bannon well enough to know that he understands "cheese," right? This is "cheese."

FReegards!

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80 posted on 10/21/2017 11:28:07 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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