• @[email protected]
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    5 days ago

    I’m pretty convinced that inside of a year, Trump is going to try to use the DoJ and various other agencies to specifically target CA in a ton of fucked up ways, and that it might ultimately be a dynamic that sparks a serious movement to secede. Which would of course spark CW2 under Trump.

    This includes specifically targeting Newsom and trying to figure out a way to politically imprison him. This will be the American version of the Navalny/Putin conflict, which ended up with Navalny dying in a Siberian gulag.

    • @leadore
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      235 days ago

      He did fuck around with Blue states in his first term. For just one example, he withheld federal disaster aid from California after a 2018 wildfire. His aides had to convince him that republicans who supported him were also impacted by the disaster before he would approve the funds:

      “We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you."

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          94 days ago

          Yep. and halting COVID testing efforts at the beginning when they thought it was mostly going to hit just blue states.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 days ago

        Yeah but we have never done that to a sitting governor of a state that’s also the 5th largest economy in the world before, so that’d be a bit of a new bridge to cross

    • peopleproblems
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      255 days ago

      One thing we know about Trump though, is that he’s bad at math. The Magats want CW2 so bad, but they don’t understand anything beyond ‘guns and men’

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        34 days ago

        They forgot the butter side of that equation, which is to say I kinda doubt their logistics would be good enough to sustain a war. Worse case scenario ya get some lefty rednecks give em some horses and tell them to got wild on the infrastructure.