IIRC listening to NPR (ATC) last week the same thing is happening in Central TX as well. Wade Goodwyn or John Burnett was reporting IIRC.
Uh oh. Drumpf is gonna have to thread the needle here to not piss off his fan boy Duterte when he rips into the biased “Filipina” judge. And we know how well he does nuance.
This is yet another example of why who is president matters. The entire immigration enforcement apparatus of the Federal Government works for the POTUS. If this is a policy Trump likes – and clearly it is – this is a policy they will pursue. Likewise, the POTUS could order this to stop.
Who is the POTUS matters. This is exactly what the Dr. Jill Stein voters voted for. Own it.
Yeah, why is PotUS allowing these agents to target, among others, victims of domestic and sexual assault…oh.
@demyankee Duterte is a raging misogynist. He once lamented the fact he wasn’t first in line to rape an Australian missionary. I don’t think he’ll care, or if he does, it’ll be “nice one, bro!!!1!”
This is our Chief Justice and we are a major state. If he does that, there is going to be hell to pay.
Arrest them.
Jerry Brown should meet confrontation with confrontation Sessions has Nevada scared vis-a-vis newly legal marijuana and since we know Trump will use the Presidency to try and go after states that didn’t vote for him, we know a confrontation is coming any way. California’s marijuana industry will dwarf any other states by far, both in terms of consumption and production. This confrontation is coming. Brown could use this opportunity to show the President of Dumfuckistan who’s boss in CA.
California don’t need the United States. The United States needs California.
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Let’s not go there. We’re stronger together as one indivisible Union.
In my small Northern California town, the local School Board just made a declaration that there would be no cooperation with ICE. We are divided on some local issues, but not on this one.
OK- all you white people- outta the pool!
Bumper sticker logic.
Rome had to cut itself in two to survive. The smarter half survived, the dumber half did not. The smarter half would have gone down the drain with the dumber half if they had not.
This is an actual historical lesson.
The richer and more defensible half survived. They were by no means smarter, as evidenced by Justinian’s squandering of Anastasius’ ample reserves and destruction of the North African and Italian economies, and by the constant wrangling over the Henotikon and Monophysitism.
This is an actual historical lesson.
@coprophagoussmile I was thinking more along the straight nationalist line; but, of course you’re right. Duterte is the kind of guy Drumpf dreams of being.
Wrong. The Greek speakers of the Eastern half used diplomacy and espionage brilliantly while those in the West saw all problems as nails who’s only solution was a hammer. Sounds a lot like out own current divide.
Constantine V was tricked into revealing the names of all of his agents in the Bulgar lands.
Nikephoros I fell for an obvious ambush at Pliska.
Basil II forcibly annexed Armenia, thus alienating would-be allies in the Caucasus.
The Romans survived due to the strength of Anthemius’ walls. (Whoops, credited Marcian by mistake.)
California don’t need the United States
Yes we do. One reason California’s giant profit sources are so profitable is because we have tariff-free access to the world’s second-largest market – the U.S.A. Here’s what would happen immediately after our amicable divorce:
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President Trump would offer Apple, Google, Chevron, Facebook, Twitter, and every other substantial California company a tax incentive to relocate to the U.S. – anywhere they choose, just so long as they leave California.
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The U.S. declared war on Spain in 1989 for the purpose of acquiring territories that would enable it to dominating the Atlantic seaboard. We literally own Puerto Rico as a result of that aggression. This would happen to California as well. The U.S. military defense of the Pacific is predominately in California and Hawaii. The U.S. is not going to allow that military advantage to disappear. The inevitable occupation of California by the U.S. could occur in various ways. It could start as a friendly offer of a treaty to jointly defend California and the U.S. permanently maintaining a military presence here. Or it could be simply a straightforward invasion. However it happens, the fate of Puerto Rico is the future of an “independent” Nation of California.
Secession is a trap. Don’t fall for it.
…which he’d never have the resources to build had the East been burdened by it’s support of the West… He never could have done what he did for the East in the West…sorry no possibility. The only reason the East survived is it cut the cord.
Given how much the economy of the west coast supports the rest of the nation, yeah, military invasion would be pretty inevitable if secession happened. And the US military IS the strongest in the world.
Give my regards to King George.
Which is a function of geography, not intelligence as you initially argued.