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Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: As Donald Trump's shock election victory reverberated around Silicon Valley late on Tuesday night, some high-profile technologists were already calling for California to secede from the United States. The broader west coast is a stronghold for the Democrats, and significantly more politically progressive and racially diverse than large swathes of central U.S. California is also the biggest economy in the U.S. and the sixth largest in the world with a gross state product of $2.496 trillion for 2015, according to the IMF. The campaign for independence -- variously dubbed Calexit, Califrexit and Caleavefornia -- has been regarded as a fringe movement. But support was revitalized by influential Uber investor and Hyperloop co-founder Shervin Pishevar, in a series of tweets announcing his plans to fund a "legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation" -- posted even before the full results were in. A few hours later, Hillary Clinton conceded the election to Trump, and Pishevar told CNBC that he was serious about Calexit. "It's the most patriotic thing I can do," he said, adding that the resulting nation would be called New California. "We can re-enter the union after California becomes a nation. As the sixth largest economy in the world, the economic engine of the nation and provider of a large percentage of the federal budget, California carries a lot of weight," he said. Pishevar was supported by others in Silicon Valley. Angel investor Jason Calacanis said that California succession would be simple in the wake of both Brexit and a Trump win. Evan Low, a Democrat serving in the California state assembly, said that he'd support the introduction of a bill to start the independence process. The proposal illustrates the technology industry's frustration with Trump over his repeated criticisms of Silicon Valley companies. Trump has said in the past that he would make Apple build computers in the U.S. He also thinks Amazon CEO "Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post to exert political power and avoid paying taxes, and claimed that Mark Zuckerberg's push for specialist immigration would actually decrease opportunities for American women and minorities." In July, 145 technology leaders wrote in an open letter about how "Trump would be a disaster for innovation."
Have you seen the California budget lately? No, CA does not give more than it receives. The state is in massive debt, has massive regulations, and businesses can't seem to leave the state fast enough. Just wait, massive approvals for hundreds of billions more in debt just got approved.
I thought quite a bit about this because I heard it this morning. Let CA secede, but they need to pay out all of the money they currently owe. They also need to come up with their own currency, infrastructure system and funding, and of course defense forces. Perhaps try to pay the rest of the US to do so for them, but good luck with that. A broke California with no defense will quickly become someone else' territory.
For the record, nearly 1/3rd of the state voted for Trump and Clinton only received 61% of the vote. I guess the rest of us have no worth or value to these same selfish idiots.
CA is suffering from the same poor loser syndrome as we have seen in other places. The answer is the same as we told them: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Let the liberals whine. They'll eventually get over themselves.
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That's an impressive list!
Why not make up more stuff like molest children (everyone hates that!) or abuse the elderly? I'm sure if you try hard enough you can make up a waayyy better list than that one.
Real quick question. If all of the poles and the Democrats were all firmly convinced that Hillary was going to win, why would they have done all that prep work?
A second question. How about some real data on your clearly fabricated list?
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