Former President Trump presented a dystopian image of California as a warning about what would happen to the nation if Kamala Harris is elected president.

Trump said if he were elected, he would stop sending California federal firefighting aid unless Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to repeatedly as “Newscum,” enacted his policy priorities on issues such as water and taxes.

I’ll note that the most fire-prone parts of California tend to be Republican-majority areas.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    911·
    2 months ago

    An ultimatum. Holding the entire state hostage…

    You know, like a Good Guy would do!

      • Stern@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 months ago

        In that case its not targeted at a specific state, just at ensuring all states hold the same standard wrt drunk driving.

        • TunaLobster@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 months ago

          That’s because California (like the majority of other states) assigns all of their EC votes to the winner of the popular vote within state. Only Nebraska and Maine split their delegates right now.

          The popular vote compact is not in effect yet. They don’t have the 270 votes needed to do it. The last sentence of the first paragraph in the Wikipedia article you linked to says so.

        • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          People don’t realize just how close presidential elections are. In CA during the last election 35 percent voted Trump. Clearly that’s a landslide win for Biden, but it still implies that even in the most liberal state in the US 6 million people voted for a facist.

  • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
    741·
    2 months ago

    He got impeached for doing this to Ukraine.

    Best of luck!

  • Wrench@lemmy.world
    54·
    2 months ago

    Ok. Why don’t we just stop sending you more tax money than we receive? We’ll just pay for shit ourselves and not pay federal taxes anymore.

    We’re cool with that.

    Your federal tax brackets are reaming us while our cost of living is way higher than the national median anyway.

      • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 months ago

        Here’s the issue: think about how happy you will be when TX leaves the union. The GOP feels the same about CA.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          5·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, except California could be a nationstate on its own without needing outside help and the same is not true of Texas. It’s closer to being true for Texas than it is for most red states, that is true, but Texas can’t even keep its power on. And that whole oil industry thing? Looking pretty temporary.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      7·
      2 months ago

      If there were another civil war coming up, sure, most of it would not be based on geography, but California, Oregon, and Washington would definitely stick together.

      And hopefully lose some of our righter-leaning populations to emigration.

      • Entropywins@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        West coast is the best coast…absolutely we would stick together, not even a question. All the right leaning folk talk about how great Idaho is. I imagine they’d all be refugees there.

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    511·
    2 months ago

    No worries, how about we stop paying our federal taxes? You good with that?

    Didn’t think so.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      It really wouldn’t, and he actually did this during his last term.

      Hell, he passed a tax cut mostly targeted at red states and just smirked.

      We really should try turnabout next time.