Since we now have a manifesto, we deserve our own thread.

CalExit Blue Book download page

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yescalifornia/pages/1/attachments/original/1475330254/Yes_California_Calexit_Book.pdf?1475330254

Your link goes to a jpg. Here is the PDF.

The oregon exit guys withdrew the initiative after the deadline so no one else could put one on the ballot because of death threats.

good luck guys

That was a dick move, preventing another group from putting up an initiative.

This article by Robert Reich  isn't about CalExit, but it is a pretty good description of why California would like for Trump to keep his tiny vulgar fingers to himself.

http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-california-trumpland-nemesis-524127

This article proposes a sort of virtual exit for all blue states.  It's extremely rose-tinted, but I think parts are already in progress.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america

God that author is insufferable

Yeah, he is.  And extremely optimistic.

Some of the things he proposes are already happening, though.  It will be interesting to see how easy or attractive the Republican administration makes it to do more.

 

This article proposes a sort of virtual exit for all blue states.  It's extremely rose-tinted, but I think parts are already in progress.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america

There's no escape clause to the constitution. Which suits me just fine. I can't imagine a red state fly-over nation unfettered from the relative sanity of the coasts. 

I can't imagine a red state fly-over nation unfettered from the relative sanity of the coasts.

You don't have to imagine it. Just take a look at the current adminstration and house of reps.

I can't imagine a red state fly-over nation unfettered from the relative sanity of the coasts.

You don't have to imagine it. Just take a look at the current adminstration and house of reps.

I politely decline your request.

Yeah, he is.  And extremely optimistic.

Some of the things he proposes are already happening, though.  It will be interesting to see how easy or attractive the Republican administration makes it to do more.

Nah. Cutting military spending will never happen while the us remains an empire.

I blame much of the current troubles on the leniency of the blue states. They can't run and hide from the shit storm they had a hand in making. The South once rose in armed rebellion, you might recall. It would have been entirely justifiable to hang each and every one of their traitorous governors, senators, judges and mayors from the nearest tree, make an example of such abhorrent behavior. Burn their cities, burden the previous slave holders with fair and due reparations. But no. We can't have justice. Let's welcome the traitors back into the fold with open arms. Let's turn a blind eye to their armed rebellion. Let's let their backwards ideologies influence policy for the next couple of hundred years. You didn't distribute justice when you had a chance. This is what you get.

And now Spode's avatar begins to make sense.

could just glass the entire planet and be done with it

I blame much of the current troubles on the leniency of the blue states. They can't run and hide from the shit storm they had a hand in making. The South once rose in armed rebellion, you might recall. It would have been entirely justifiable to hang each and every one of their traitorous governors, senators, judges and mayors from the nearest tree, make an example of such abhorrent behavior. Burn their cities, burden the previous slave holders with fair and due reparations. But no. We can't have justice. Let's welcome the traitors back into the fold with open arms. Let's turn a blind eye to their armed rebellion. Let's let their backwards ideologies influence policy for the next couple of hundred years. You didn't distribute justice when you had a chance. This is what you get.

could just glass the entire planet and be done with it

so much for the tolerant left!

my solution doesn't value nazi leftists over slave state rednecks

my solution doesn't value nazi leftists over slave state rednecks

And that's what's wrong with it. 

my solution doesn't value nazi leftists over slave state rednecks

Your solution also kills all the innocent animals and bugs and plants and critters.

Maybe they aren't so innocent.

Maybe they aren't so innocent.

Geese are assholes.

Maybe they aren't so innocent.

Geese are assholes.

Yes they really are.

my solution doesn't value nazi leftists over slave state rednecks

Your solution also kills all the innocent animals and bugs and plants and critters.

Fuck it. They're doomed anyway.

This article proposes a sort of virtual exit for all blue states.  It's extremely rose-tinted, but I think parts are already in progress.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america

Given, as he acknowledges, Trump voters already live in their own world of alternative facts, I can't see how making things worse for them would somehow make them see the error of their ways. It would just make them double down, like everything does. Anything bad is always somehow the fault of the liberals. How would any of this change that?

Nazi Germany is the popular metaphor, but I'm starting to think Trump's America may actually be more like North Korea. Red America will remain always and forever the greatest nation on the planet, even as they starve to death, praise Dear Leader!

This article proposes a sort of virtual exit for all blue states.  It's extremely rose-tinted, but I think parts are already in progress.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america

Given, as he acknowledges, Trump voters already live in their own world of alternative facts, I can't see how making things worse for them would somehow make them see the error of their ways. It would just make them double down, like everything does. Anything bad is always somehow the fault of the liberals. How would any of this change that?

Nazi Germany is the popular metaphor, but I'm starting to think Trump's America may actually be more like North Korea. Red America will remain always and forever the greatest nation on the planet, even as they starve to death, praise Dear Leader!

Yeah I think seeing the error of their ways part is exceptionally rose-tinted even for a liberal.

But, I think blue states playing states rights for all it's worth can help blue states preserve some of what the rest of the country is going to lose.