Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[tsubaki]

Water supply and natural resources wouldn't be an issue for them, as they just import it. The US wouldn't switch off the taps on California - they'd just trade for it, like the USA has traded for oil with the middle east and so on.

Independence doesn't mean being like a video game and collecting resources to survive.

Again though, I couldn't actually logically argue for it myself, but my point is that it could become so emotionally tempting as a result of a lunatic Trump administration that a state like California would feel they had no other choice. It'd be like abolishing guns out of the blue - Texas and the likes would be clamouring for the same thing, and if it did go to referendum they'd be highly tempted to secede on that sole basis alone.

What would they trade, though? If you take away all the things that are only there because it is currently part of the US (and which would inevitably go back into the US if they split), you are left with agriculture (which is entirely dependent on water from the US) and solar power.

They could certainly make a go of it on that basis, but the state would look radically different from what the people advocating secession would want to see, and the control that the US would be able to bring about would make independence a bit of a joke; they could just turn the water off.

The difference between Texas and them is that Texas actually could stand by itself; it still has big energy reserves (a third of the US crude reserves, according to wiki), an independently viable agriculture sector, domestic manufacturing that would be difficult to move elsewhere in the US and which has global significance, and it isn't that dependent on the rest of the US.

 

[TX Bill]

What would they trade, though? If you take away all the things that are only there because it is currently part of the US (and which would inevitably go back into the US if they split), you are left with agriculture (which is entirely dependent on water from the US) and solar power.

They could certainly make a go of it on that basis, but the state would look radically different from what the people advocating secession would want to see, and the control that the US would be able to bring about would make independence a bit of a joke; they could just turn the water off.

The difference between Texas and them is that Texas actually could stand by itself; it still has big energy reserves (a third of the US crude reserves, according to wiki), an independently viable agriculture sector, domestic manufacturing that would be difficult to move elsewhere in the US and which has global significance, and it isn't that dependent on the rest of the US.

All that and Texas already has a military that would rival most 1st world countries.

 

[TX Bill]

First order of business would be invade Arkansas.

 

[tsubaki]

First order of business would be invade Arkansas.

A buffer zone against the French?

 

[wm02]

First order of business would be invade Arkansas.

Whoa...


Pig sooie

 

[ilikecheese]

First order of business would be invade Arkansas.

@RAFUH @Hellerad @Hogwild

Whoa...


Pig sooie

Another college football joke before you ask.

 

[kithnou]

Busy man

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Yup. I also think that Hillary didn't learn anything from Sanders' appeal in the primary. He appealed to the declining middle class especially in the upper Midwest. When you look at the states that swung the election, Trump got a big percentage of those voters while Clinton only visited those states very close to the end.

How right you are she called all the Sanders supporters "Children of the Great Recession" and of course the Trump movement the "Deplorables".
She was so out of touch. She was found out in a big way. Obama will have to grant her immunity before he leaves office if not she will be prosecuted over numerous issues.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Seems he's neck deep in lobbyists. Great news for Americans

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Who gives a crap about the Electoral College? Who have they ever played? They're not even in the SEC.

Sounds like you lean Aggie over Longhorn.

 

[ilikecheese]

Seems he's neck deep in lobbyists. Great news for Americans

Now that Kellyanne Conway has been offered a job is his administration we can all rest easy.

 

[RAFUH]

First order of business would be invade Arkansas.

Oklahoma would seem to make more sense....much larger joint border, Big 12, etc...

 

[Boss_Blue]

His name translates in ancient Hebrew as 'Duck Flatulence.'

True story.

 

[Jib in lad]

 

[UpperLeftBlue]

assorted "exits" are a ridiculous pipe dream.

more autonomy for cities might make everyone happier though

Yeah, there isnt any precendent for exiting a union. Anywhere.