Desert Hermit

The State of Jefferson would have started this process, but WWII got in the way. Except that was all predicated on being super racist.

I think if you get a legit Cal3 proposal, you might end up with a Cal4 where they pull from the six-state version where “Silicon Valley” is its own state shows up so that there can be some technopolis with custom laws and insane cost of living. Essentially, turning SFO into another Manhattan.

I would never move back to CA as it is, but if there was a breakup, I might actually go for it.

But it has to be something from the inside by a Russian, and he’s not naive to that fact.

Depends on if you’re a MAGA faithful or not. Because those are the folks that expect now that their votes mean nothing to him, to somehow still be important.

If Paul Krugman and Rashida Talib ever liked this idea as a workaround for GOP obstructionism, then there’s not a high likelihood of it happening once the new Congress is in office on Jan 3.