The novel and untested approach has been introduced by Democratic lawmakers in at least four states.
Democratic legislators mostly in blue states are attempting to fight back against Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold funding from their states with bills that aim to give the federal government a taste of its own medicine.
The novel and untested approach — so far introduced in Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin — would essentially allow states to withhold federal payments if lawmakers determine the federal government is delinquent in funding owed to them. Democrats in Washington state said they are in the process of drafting a similar measure.
These bills still have a long way to go before becoming law, and legal experts said they would face obstacles. But they mark the latest efforts by Democrats at the state level to counter what they say is a massive overreach by the Trump administration to cease providing federal funding for an array of programs that have helped states pay for health care, food assistance and environmental protections.
Secede. Whatever happens in the US after this administration, there is no repairing the damage that has been done without violence. There is no restoring the Constitution, no repairing the rule of law, no restoration of democracy, no restoring affordable living, no curbing the power of billionaire oligarchs, no path to freedom, liberty, or sanity.
Escape is the only option that has a chance at minimizing bloodshed. Individual escape by emigrating, but what countries would want American expats now? so many are following the US’c corrupt lead. Special privileges for the rich, slavery for the serfdom.
Collective escape via secession and the creation of new independent countries is the only sane path forward now. Alternatively annexation could work, but I don’t see Canada or Mexico going out of their way to save Americans, for reasons that should be obvious.
I guess a big difficulty in the way of secession could be that it was denied to Texas in the last 200 years. This attitude carries a certain momentum. That might hinder blue states from seceding as well. What do you think?
I’m sorry, but fuck Texas and it’s “denied secession.”
The American South plays victim every chance it can in its lost cause mythos and “look at how poor picked on we are” when they spent years pushing federal requirements like the Fugitive Slave Act on the non-slave states and got pissy when they couldn’t overtake the numbers of slave states over non-slave states so they wanted to take their ball and go home, but the North wouldn’t let them lea… no… wait… they fucking shot first. “War of northern aggression” indeed.
The mess we’re in is the culture that created the civil war originally can’t get over themselves and have mythologized themselves into the victims when they were the assholes causing the problem.
-Signed a southerner who is FUCKING sick of hearing how Texas never signed to rejoin the union every time he’s near at least three Texans.
ok sorry i’m not that familiar with US history, i was just pointing it out.
What about the current administration gives you the impression historical precedent matters anymore?
fair point that you’re making here.
So you don’t see Canada putting any effort into saving… California or the north east coast?
Let the red states have their trumpistan, I’ll lobby my new Canadian representative to veto aid packages all day long eh.
No. Canada is a small country and can’t actually absorb the millions of people that acquiring US states would entail. California alone has a population similar to that of all of Canada. The US West Coast, if it joined Canada, would suddenly represent the majority of the Canadian population. Canada could absorb a single low population state, like Alaska. But asking Canadians to absorb large chunks of the US is asking them to make existing Canadians a political minority in their own country. Is doesn’t make sense. The US West Coast can simply be its own independent country.
Lmao no and why would they? It’s not canada.
Canada is three mining companies in a trench coat.
It’s both not as liberal and not as nice as it has a reputation for being.
If Cascadia has a chance, it isn’t with Canada.
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