Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
Vaca vacunada :)
West Coast, hell yeah.
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I’m planning on not paying shit.
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Consider joining Denmark too!
California has 10x the GDP of Denmark btw
However Denmark has higher standards ie metric and universal healthcare being in use. Wouldn’t it be better to have more access to the European market?
California in the EU would be quite the mind bender, unless you’re referring to Denmark being an import vector.
The European Union is not solely confined to Europe check French Guiana, Cyprus, Canary Islands and Reunion.
Politically, I don’t see it happening in any of the 3 states tho.
Ah shit, here we go.
Now do this for every issue where the Feds are getting in the way.
Meanwhile Florida has started to form toddler death Voltron by announcing they’re removing all vaccination requirements from schools.
I fully expect there to be a southern collation of iron lungs soon.
New band name
Iron Lung Collator is taken.
I thought they meant Southern Coalition of Iron Lungs at first, but Toddler Death Voltron is better still.
The worst thing about Toddler Death Voltron is: it is sentient and wants to no longer exist but they refuse to let it die because it hasn’t been born yet.
Good luck writing THAT into your next screenplay MAGA Universe Doctor Strange
I think blue states should bring in all in-house solutions to cut the middleman White House out of it. States rights!
We did that with CARB and now the feds are trying to stop it after decades of other states signing on because it worked so well here in Cali.
At the very least they need to hire these doctors and scientists that RFK Jr. fired so their wisdom and knowledge don’t go to waste!
Maybe we should be our own country…
Please.
Cascadia Cascadia Cascadia! ! !
You get more national guard!
You all get more national guard!
Despite common belief, at least here I’m OR, we dems have A LOT of guns and ammo.
Im sure there are parks where they can pick up trash in California, too. Don’t worry.
American balkanisation when?
When the US falls apart I strongly suspect the nation of Cascadia to form from these states
Great, provided there is some version of the Nuremberg Trials for Silicon Valley techbro nazis.
They are welcome to fix their hearts or die.
The problem… or complication with this…
Is that basically every part of WA and OR east of the Cascades will … counter-seceede.
Go look up the Greater Idaho project.
There is, and has been for a while now, an effort to … have the eastern counties of WA and OR leave their respective states and join Idaho.
From a legal/constitutional perspective… this is completely unprecedented, as best I can tell this has never before happened in US history, states redrawing their own borders, via counties which largely actually have democratically voted to do so via popular referendums.
Northern/Eastern CA + Southern OR will possibly form into something like the old attempts at the proposed state of ‘Jackson’.
There is an absolutely huge political polarization within all these states between urban and rural areas, roughly also by which side of the Cascades you are on.
I’ve hastily cropped that image from this source:
https://brilliantmaps.com/county-1992-v-2024/
So… yeah… if the governors of WA OR and CA formally seceeded and formed Cascadia? Came ‘too close’ to functionally doing that?
Well the rightwingers have an arguably legit legal counter move for that (or so they will argue, the whole point is different sides do not agree) and then basically the West Coast explodes into functionally a civil war of some kind, probably involving both partisan and ‘official’ state forces, and federal forces, roughly breaking apart along the Cascades, but it could easily be way more chaotic than that, depending on what say, forces at JBLM and Kitsap, and other major West Coast bases decide to do, as well as major city/regional/state police.
Let me personally tell you that Eastern WA/OR and Idaho still very, very much remember Ruby Ridge, the militia movement never died, it just went dormant till Trump, and uh, skipping up to present day, is now basically being formally recruited into ICE… ICE now has more funding than the United States Marine Corps.
Fucking yeehaw is what I very much fear would happen if either side makes significant moves toward anything resembling actual secession.
How many people do you think live in Oregon?
The majority of Oregonians live in Portland metro area.
A similar stat can be found regarding Seattle metro, and Washington has more blue cities than OR.
So, for starters, I am describing people by where they live, not how many live where.
Yes, of course, many more people live in major urban areas than other wise.
But it is still true that by area, there are many areas in WA and OR that are very highly Republican… presumably you have noticed the dramatic cultural difference between two of such of those areas.
Again, go actually look into the Greater Idaho project, a lot of these people are very serious about … seceeding their counties from Dem dominant WA and OR state governments, to join ID’s Rep dominant government.
This is a concerted political campaign that has been going on for over a decade and has gotten quite a lot of popular support in those counties via county level referendums.
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Further… the other point I am making is that the red areas are often quite extreme in their affinity for firearms.
It… does not take too many armed terrorists, militia cells, patriots, whatever you want to call them, to effectively terrorize or act as an insurgency in an area… especially if the official police are generally amenable to your movement… cops tend to be right wing authoritarians.
If you have ever lived in Portland or Seattle, I am sure you have observed the regular flooding in of non locals, from environs, whenever some kind major sport event, or public event occurs, or even just generally during work hours, good times to go shopping or clubbing or w/e.
Now just imagine that including some domestic terrorists.
…
This almost certainly would not play out as simply as the red and blue areas just… becoming their own nation states and then raising their own formal militaries to do battle with each other, where the red areas would lose simply by having less people or less industrial base.
No, civil wars, balkanization, sectarian violence, insurgency, occupation… is way way way more complicated than that.
Maybe go read up on how that went/is going in Iraq and Afghanistan or Syria or Ukraine… for some recently case studies on how complicated this can get.
Oh no doubt. Any kind of secession would be resolved with a civil war, and the final borders might not be recognizable.
It’s a good way to keep out garbage ICE invasions from LA.
I did not have “Civil War over vaccines” on my apocalypse bingo card.
2025 has had a lot of unexpected surprises!
still 3+ months of surprise left. So tired, so very tired
It’s literally a life-or-death matter.
Yes, civil wars (or really any war) usually involves that sort of struggle. And also yes, vaccines save lives and are settled science.
With Florida ditching vaccine requirements it looks like the East Coast/West Coast feud is going to pick back up again.
Cali: West Siiiide
Florida: East S— cough cough weezeWest coast best coast
always has been, friend
As a cynical lifelong urbanite, I throw my lot in with NYC despite whatever might be going on politically.
Free Cascadia!
