I like that: CalExit! Secede or quit giving the fed government any money until things change. We can give what we owe then. They treat us like garbage for no reason, but love our money!
I have been curious about what would happen if California got support from Canada, Mexico, or China in their efforts to secede and negotiate better trade deals with those countries.
Has any Californian signed this recently?? It's on the same # of signature, and they need a hëll of a lot more signatures before the deadline to make the cut. If Cali leaves the union, it might give precedence for other blue/liberal states to do the same.
It would be nice to not be beholden to the electoral college. I mean it's not like California has never had a Republican governor. But at least it's based on a popular vote and if they don't work out, ask Gray Davis what happens then.
A number of years ago, a long time online friend explained to me what the Electoral College was all about. As an Aussie, I was absolutely gob-smacked. To those of us outside of the USA this seems rather strange for 538 people deciding an election.
She imparted a lot more information aside from what's written at the Archives.
So I do understand why you mentioned what you did.
You can go further back to Watergate and find connections to today. That's where project 2025 and another objective (can't remember the name right at this minute) had their births.
*clicks fingers* Heritage Foundation ~ that was the org I was wanting to say.
The questions I was asking myself when I read about all that were ~ Why would people spend a lifetime setting something up just to insidiously interfere with the way someone else lives their life? What satisfaction do these people get from upsetting people that they do not know and will never know?
IMO those people have 💩 for 🧠 and are totally wasting their life!
I believe that’s a question on everybody’s mind…but I believe it lies in greed and power, and nothing to do with anyone else but with themselves… they simply do not care…they are ripping the hearts snd souls of people throughout the world. 😢☹️😞
Hope those strong words are not too late for our country - However they are WAY TOO LATE for the immigrants being disappeared off the streets, the families torn apart, the elderly & children & sick losing their healthcare, the federal employees who lost their jobs, the us government's destruction, the destruction of science, education & the environment, women's rights & the rule of law - its a little late. Glad to hear it - but our dems helped with the destruction by their need for decorum, their lazy governance & their quiet acceptance of money in politics. Going to be a while before any of this is made right - in the mean time excuse me while I call it like I see it.
It's so great to read this. But I explain this same stuff to some (few) of my republican friends, and they still dont think they have lost any rights. They are so clueless . It's hard to have any intelligent conversation with them.
To be honest, I don't even try anymore. They are not interested in facts – they are not interested in science – they are not interested in anything not happening in their own backyard. They lack critical thinking skills, and are hell bent on making someone pay & that someone is poor immigrants. They don't understand that corporate America and the wealthy have robbed them blind. They don't understand that leadership both democratic and Republican have allowed this to happen. I could go into a long soliloquy about how that occurred, but you probably already know. We've watched Democrats roll over time and time again, even in presidential elections just to keep the peace. And now here we are.
Actually, it's the corporations and the wealthy who are the freeloaders – they are the welfare Queens. And because of citizens United, Democrats have kept their mouth shut about this and it's coming back to haunt everyone. Magas know that they're not getting their fair share and they are right. And leadership in this country has sold them down the river and so they are lashing out at the weakest amongst us - immigrants. Their vote for Trump was a vote for hate, a vote for cruelty, a vote for racism, a vote for bigotry.
She is a giant piece of shit. Deputizing non trained personnel, IRS agents to lay traps for those who are hard working & paying their taxes - make no mistake this is nazi germany - every black & brown skin person will be hunted like animals. Why arent our democrat leadership suing her for civil fights violations or whatever they can find to stop this? All I hear is we're waiting for elections - ha ha ha - the trump regime has already past the rubicon & lawlessness is the norm - what elections? We will not be able to recognize our own country come election time. Extreme times call for extreme measures - time to act is now - not 2026. I'm not elected to lead - they are & they are screwing around with my country. Time to call out EVERY OLIGARCH who supported this vile regime & use their power because if we're going to allow money to run us into the ground then use it to stop the flow of dollars to their pockets. Call them out by name & stop aggrandizing the likes of bezos, musk, thier, zuckerberg, et.al, marching is not going to work unless it hits the oligarchs in the pocketbook so they will put pressure on this regime. SHUT OFF THE MONEY SPIGOT NOW!!
Thanks for your blatant truth! When Massachusetts voted, we think of the democratic foundation on which the nation was built, including ALL those within our borders and our allies outside our borders, and the sacrifice our men and women made to uphold our values. We accept the mistakes from the past, learning from them to build better. We recognize our humane ability and responsibility to assist other nations in need.
So well said. I would like everyone to go to Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Go do to the one printed on May 5, 2025. It will give you hope. We have former allies trying to help us and Lawmakers. Please read. It's really important to see what they are trying to do.
I've always said, blue 🔵 states should go on federal strike, don't pay into federal taxes. Now it's time to put that thought into action. We would witness the collapse of red state economies in real time. Most of us would be willing to pay extra in state tax, in place of what we were paying federally. Maga would certainly be okay with that, until they realize how fast their ship 🚢⚓ is sinking, while we are watching from dry land.🏝️
P.s. I'm sorry for the Dems that live in red states. You shouldn't have to suffer. None of us should have to suffer. Maga voted tRump in to 'make us suffer', they of course suffer right along with us (but won't admit it), and consider themselves martyred victims in the process.🙄🤦🏽♀️🙂↔️
When I retired I could no longer afford to live in California, after 50 years of being a resident. I made the choice to move to Mississippi for the lower cost of living and I'm doing well from a financial perspective. But I often wonder if I wouldn't be happier living homeless in California.😢
When I was younger I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hurricane Camille kind of soured my desire to live there again. I live a couple hours away from the Gulf coast now.
That sounds like you’re still close enough to enjoy the beaches in non- hurricane weather! A friend of mine with a daughter here in Oklahoma used to spend her summers in Taos, NM and winters on the Gulf Coast in Alabama. Spring and fall are lovely here, but it helps to have options.😎
Democrats are the party that builds, governs, and lifts people up…the GOP and MAGA are a party of wrecking balls, shameless greed, and moral bankruptcy. While we play by the rules, they rewrite them daily in permanent marker.
Enough….of the rhetoric
It's time to match their intensity with our integrity, their chaos with our conviction. Not by becoming them….but by finally unleashing the full force of truth they've been dodging for decades. The gloves aren't coming off …they're being replaced with iron. We will bury them in facts, drown them in turnout, and outfight them with the one weapon they'll never have: an actual moral compass.
Lets just DIVIDE the US now into BLUE/RED STATES and be over this crap. For the last 400 years the US has had slavery,a civil war, jim crow and many lives destroyed on both sides of this argument. No more texting, flying to make this or that argument, no more troops on borders, notta. Lets just go our separate ways and let REDS have all the above and more, such as hurricanes and tornadoes etc.
As Adam writes THE BLUE STATES ARE DONE: like Canada and Mark Carney are...done.
If you are in a red state such as me, prepare to move.
No more sending in returns or quarterly statements to IRS...
Now how do we force our Blue State leaders to get together and make this happen? I truly believe that if we don't save ourselves we'll all be living in a Christofascist oligarchy within months. We're not fighting back hard enough to stop it so seceding and forming our own country is the only way to survive. I'm not living in Gilead so it's seceed or flee for me.
I am a dual citizen of Australia & the US and my home state is blood-red Florida for which I grieve. Florida is extremely vulnerable to hurricanes and FEMA has pulled the fat out of the fire more times than I can count in my 73 years. But the blue states are right to remove access to the teat of endless blue dollars keeping red states from drowning. Reap/sow, it is time to let the deep red voters pay for their ignorance.
Were I the governor of a blue state, there'd be NO tax monies going to this fascist federal government. Now, if only Democrats would collectively grow a spine each and fight back against the MAGGATs in the Senate and Congress, we might survive 4 years of Trump. It's an uphill battle with a Supreme Court that is as backasswards and corrupt as can be (thinking here of Alito & Thomas in particular) excepting the liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan & Ketanji Brown Jackson, who do a mighty job of being reasonable and erudite.
California is my state and I’m so glad my governor, who I voted for multiple times, is standing up to this nonsense. I’m ready for CalExit ✌🏼
I like that: CalExit! Secede or quit giving the fed government any money until things change. We can give what we owe then. They treat us like garbage for no reason, but love our money!
You got that right
Calexit! If we became part of Canada we would have the second largest economy in the world.
I have been curious about what would happen if California got support from Canada, Mexico, or China in their efforts to secede and negotiate better trade deals with those countries.
I see no issue we (Canada) can do this.
I would LOVE this. Seriously. I WANT it! Could it really happen?
Maybe we could ask very nicely and politely?
Along with other blue states such as mine Massachusetts
And Maryland
And New York
As a lifelong New Yorker, I absolutely agree!
NYexit!
https://www.change.org/p/nyexit-ny-state-to-secede-from-the-union
All of New England and most of the East Coast would proudly succeed if they could.
CalExit.org tell everyone you know.
Has any Californian signed this recently?? It's on the same # of signature, and they need a hëll of a lot more signatures before the deadline to make the cut. If Cali leaves the union, it might give precedence for other blue/liberal states to do the same.
In this beautiful bill the 💙states need to create an amendment to allow each state to include a question for or against leaving the union. It’s time.
I wholeheartedly agree, but please stop call it the big beautiful. The bill is anything but beautiful.
The big Bloated Bill
The Big Billionaire Bill
The Big Asinine Bill
Whatever else
Agree 100%
The blue states give more than they get from the federal government. It’s time for that to change, even if that means secession.
Illinois here! Take us with you!
That would make a lot of sense because you’re so close to the border!
Me too. I want off this ride. I want to keep my friends and neighbors, not have them kidnapped by ICE
It would be nice to not be beholden to the electoral college. I mean it's not like California has never had a Republican governor. But at least it's based on a popular vote and if they don't work out, ask Gray Davis what happens then.
Adam Jaxn,
A number of years ago, a long time online friend explained to me what the Electoral College was all about. As an Aussie, I was absolutely gob-smacked. To those of us outside of the USA this seems rather strange for 538 people deciding an election.
She imparted a lot more information aside from what's written at the Archives.
So I do understand why you mentioned what you did.
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/history
Please don’t leave without your good friends from Washington State! 😀
Of course not! You’re almost part of Canada already, since you share a border!
Amen!!🙏
Fired Up - Ready to Go
The story behind the movement.
Understanding our powers from within..
https://youtu.be/QhWDFgRfi1Q?si=RGp7xEzUPD9FeKD2
Fired Up - Ready to Go
Obama
Just hours before Election Day, President Barack Obama rallies a crowd
in critical state New Hampshire by retelling a story from his campaign trail in 2008.
https://youtu.be/5AhRqg0ADbk?si=Sg5lelPHEQmx3tdZ
Thanks for the links.
I learned something new today.
☺️ One step at a time… thanks for refreshing my energy 🤩
YES!!
Time for “California first”!
If it works for the red states it should work for us!
Secession sounds right!! Pennxit
Oregon would like to join you!
Let’s make the entire West Coast the next province of Canada!! We could be the Pacific Province!
The complete authoritarianism Timeline: Trump’s 40-year Assault on American Democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/anchorlightpublications/p/the-complete-authoritarian-timeline?r=2nftwh&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for the link.
You can go further back to Watergate and find connections to today. That's where project 2025 and another objective (can't remember the name right at this minute) had their births.
The Heritage Foundation 1973 Conservative think tank..ties to Project 2025
If you go to my Substack page, Go to NOTES.. many links to Heritage foundation, Project 2025
Thanks for that. I will go and have a look.
*clicks fingers* Heritage Foundation ~ that was the org I was wanting to say.
The questions I was asking myself when I read about all that were ~ Why would people spend a lifetime setting something up just to insidiously interfere with the way someone else lives their life? What satisfaction do these people get from upsetting people that they do not know and will never know?
IMO those people have 💩 for 🧠 and are totally wasting their life!
I believe that’s a question on everybody’s mind…but I believe it lies in greed and power, and nothing to do with anyone else but with themselves… they simply do not care…they are ripping the hearts snd souls of people throughout the world. 😢☹️😞
I live in Colorado and proudly stand behind our AG and Governor who stand up against this corrupt administration/regime!
❤️
MN proud here. 💙 What’s next? Actions speak louder than words. Our blue Govenors & blue AG’s need to rally! Together. Publicly. The people are ready.
I agree people are past ready.
This. 💯
100% do it
It’s true. MAGA is at bottom simply a form of freeloading. They want all the benefits of our excellent institutions and policies, none of the burdens.
Hope those strong words are not too late for our country - However they are WAY TOO LATE for the immigrants being disappeared off the streets, the families torn apart, the elderly & children & sick losing their healthcare, the federal employees who lost their jobs, the us government's destruction, the destruction of science, education & the environment, women's rights & the rule of law - its a little late. Glad to hear it - but our dems helped with the destruction by their need for decorum, their lazy governance & their quiet acceptance of money in politics. Going to be a while before any of this is made right - in the mean time excuse me while I call it like I see it.
It's so great to read this. But I explain this same stuff to some (few) of my republican friends, and they still dont think they have lost any rights. They are so clueless . It's hard to have any intelligent conversation with them.
To be honest, I don't even try anymore. They are not interested in facts – they are not interested in science – they are not interested in anything not happening in their own backyard. They lack critical thinking skills, and are hell bent on making someone pay & that someone is poor immigrants. They don't understand that corporate America and the wealthy have robbed them blind. They don't understand that leadership both democratic and Republican have allowed this to happen. I could go into a long soliloquy about how that occurred, but you probably already know. We've watched Democrats roll over time and time again, even in presidential elections just to keep the peace. And now here we are.
They think that someone else will pay the price. Freeloaders.
Actually, it's the corporations and the wealthy who are the freeloaders – they are the welfare Queens. And because of citizens United, Democrats have kept their mouth shut about this and it's coming back to haunt everyone. Magas know that they're not getting their fair share and they are right. And leadership in this country has sold them down the river and so they are lashing out at the weakest amongst us - immigrants. Their vote for Trump was a vote for hate, a vote for cruelty, a vote for racism, a vote for bigotry.
I agree
TRUTH!
ICYMI: Secretary Noem Deputized State Department Officials as Immigration Officers
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/02/20/secretary-noem-deputized-state-department-officials-immigration-officers
She is a giant piece of shit. Deputizing non trained personnel, IRS agents to lay traps for those who are hard working & paying their taxes - make no mistake this is nazi germany - every black & brown skin person will be hunted like animals. Why arent our democrat leadership suing her for civil fights violations or whatever they can find to stop this? All I hear is we're waiting for elections - ha ha ha - the trump regime has already past the rubicon & lawlessness is the norm - what elections? We will not be able to recognize our own country come election time. Extreme times call for extreme measures - time to act is now - not 2026. I'm not elected to lead - they are & they are screwing around with my country. Time to call out EVERY OLIGARCH who supported this vile regime & use their power because if we're going to allow money to run us into the ground then use it to stop the flow of dollars to their pockets. Call them out by name & stop aggrandizing the likes of bezos, musk, thier, zuckerberg, et.al, marching is not going to work unless it hits the oligarchs in the pocketbook so they will put pressure on this regime. SHUT OFF THE MONEY SPIGOT NOW!!
My Substack : Notes
https://open.substack.com/pub/claritylwest?r=2nftwh&utm_medium=ios
My Substack : Notes
https://open.substack.com/pub/claritylwest?r=2nftwh&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for your blatant truth! When Massachusetts voted, we think of the democratic foundation on which the nation was built, including ALL those within our borders and our allies outside our borders, and the sacrifice our men and women made to uphold our values. We accept the mistakes from the past, learning from them to build better. We recognize our humane ability and responsibility to assist other nations in need.
Massachusetts here. So well written.
So well said. I would like everyone to go to Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Go do to the one printed on May 5, 2025. It will give you hope. We have former allies trying to help us and Lawmakers. Please read. It's really important to see what they are trying to do.
Done.
As a CA born, if there’s a Calexit I’ll move back! All blue states should really start pointing out this fact about how we are supporting them.
👍
I've always said, blue 🔵 states should go on federal strike, don't pay into federal taxes. Now it's time to put that thought into action. We would witness the collapse of red state economies in real time. Most of us would be willing to pay extra in state tax, in place of what we were paying federally. Maga would certainly be okay with that, until they realize how fast their ship 🚢⚓ is sinking, while we are watching from dry land.🏝️
P.s. I'm sorry for the Dems that live in red states. You shouldn't have to suffer. None of us should have to suffer. Maga voted tRump in to 'make us suffer', they of course suffer right along with us (but won't admit it), and consider themselves martyred victims in the process.🙄🤦🏽♀️🙂↔️
When I retired I could no longer afford to live in California, after 50 years of being a resident. I made the choice to move to Mississippi for the lower cost of living and I'm doing well from a financial perspective. But I often wonder if I wouldn't be happier living homeless in California.😢
Probably. Do you live on the coast, at least?!
When I was younger I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hurricane Camille kind of soured my desire to live there again. I live a couple hours away from the Gulf coast now.
That sounds like you’re still close enough to enjoy the beaches in non- hurricane weather! A friend of mine with a daughter here in Oklahoma used to spend her summers in Taos, NM and winters on the Gulf Coast in Alabama. Spring and fall are lovely here, but it helps to have options.😎
The era of polite resistance is over.
Democrats are the party that builds, governs, and lifts people up…the GOP and MAGA are a party of wrecking balls, shameless greed, and moral bankruptcy. While we play by the rules, they rewrite them daily in permanent marker.
Enough….of the rhetoric
It's time to match their intensity with our integrity, their chaos with our conviction. Not by becoming them….but by finally unleashing the full force of truth they've been dodging for decades. The gloves aren't coming off …they're being replaced with iron. We will bury them in facts, drown them in turnout, and outfight them with the one weapon they'll never have: an actual moral compass.
Oh I like that well said Clarity
Fired Up - Ready to Go
The story behind the movement.
Understanding our powers from within..
https://youtu.be/QhWDFgRfi1Q?si=RGp7xEzUPD9FeKD2
Fired Up - Ready to Go
Obama
Just hours before Election Day, President Barack Obama rallies a crowd
in critical state New Hampshire by retelling a story from his campaign trail in 2008.
https://youtu.be/5AhRqg0ADbk?si=Sg5lelPHEQmx3tdZ
My Substack : Notes
https://open.substack.com/pub/claritylwest?r=2nftwh&utm_medium=ios
😌 thank you
The complete authoritarian timeline: Trump‘s 40 year assault on American democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/anchorlightpublications/p/the-complete-authoritarian-timeline?r=2nftwh&utm_medium=ios
Thank you Adam. Governor Newsom is how more Dems should be standing up against the Orange Clown
Lets just DIVIDE the US now into BLUE/RED STATES and be over this crap. For the last 400 years the US has had slavery,a civil war, jim crow and many lives destroyed on both sides of this argument. No more texting, flying to make this or that argument, no more troops on borders, notta. Lets just go our separate ways and let REDS have all the above and more, such as hurricanes and tornadoes etc.
As Adam writes THE BLUE STATES ARE DONE: like Canada and Mark Carney are...done.
If you are in a red state such as me, prepare to move.
No more sending in returns or quarterly statements to IRS...
*****DONE, DONE****
Now how do we force our Blue State leaders to get together and make this happen? I truly believe that if we don't save ourselves we'll all be living in a Christofascist oligarchy within months. We're not fighting back hard enough to stop it so seceding and forming our own country is the only way to survive. I'm not living in Gilead so it's seceed or flee for me.
In my way of thinking SECEEDING is the same as DIVISION.
Play nice - S H I T , NO!
Fuck that shit. Not when your fucking with our healthcare and everything else that we need to survive. NO.
Gloves are off. You want to fuck around, bring it.
👍 you got that right
Facts
👍♥️👍
I am a dual citizen of Australia & the US and my home state is blood-red Florida for which I grieve. Florida is extremely vulnerable to hurricanes and FEMA has pulled the fat out of the fire more times than I can count in my 73 years. But the blue states are right to remove access to the teat of endless blue dollars keeping red states from drowning. Reap/sow, it is time to let the deep red voters pay for their ignorance.
Were I the governor of a blue state, there'd be NO tax monies going to this fascist federal government. Now, if only Democrats would collectively grow a spine each and fight back against the MAGGATs in the Senate and Congress, we might survive 4 years of Trump. It's an uphill battle with a Supreme Court that is as backasswards and corrupt as can be (thinking here of Alito & Thomas in particular) excepting the liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan & Ketanji Brown Jackson, who do a mighty job of being reasonable and erudite.