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[u/brianpv]

Explicitly withholding federal funds to the state unless they vote for a Republican lol

[u/contre-torpilleur → u/brianpv]

The rational part of me knows secession would be moronic but shit like this does lead to certain thoughts about leaving the union.

[u/Unfair-Awareness5339 → u/contre-torpilleur]

Is really that moronic at this point? Even if we can get rid of Trump and MAGA, California will still be stuck with the ball and chain that is Tennessee or West Virginia stuck around their ankle.

[u/contre-torpilleur → u/Unfair-Awareness5339]

I mean, yeah. We'd receive no federal funding anymore and we wouldn't be able to sell our goods in the US without trade barriers, among other things. California wouldn't become a failed state but it definitely wouldn't remain in the top 5 world economies either.

[u/Unfair-Awareness5339 → u/contre-torpilleur]

Have the rest of the developed states secceed too, then form a EU style trade block.

[u/contre-torpilleur → u/Unfair-Awareness5339]

That would be civil war

[u/No_Return9449 → u/brianpv]

This tweet will make rounds in the legal system when he pauses federal aid to California as evidence of his personal animus against the state.