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This weekend comes word that two of the masterminds behind the United Kingdom’s ongoing divorce from the European Union, Nigel Farage and Arron Banks. The duo just returned from the United States, where they reportedly helped raise a million bucks for one of the Calexit campaigns floating around — a scheme that would split the state into two eastern and western regions.
Farage and Banks are known as the Bad Boys of Brexit, and for good reason. As the controversial leader of the UK Independence Party, or Ukip for short, the one-time broadcaster Farage stirred up the anti-immigration pot in England among the white British working class. Banks, who co-founded the Leave.EU group, angered many when he claimed that Britain’s UK membership is “like having a first class ticket on the Titanic.’’ He also got into hot water with his controversial move to commission a poll after the murder of British politician Jo Cox, asking respondents whether the crime would have an impact on public opinion.
Now the Bad Boys have brought their shtick to California, according to a report in the Daily Mail which says the pair are helping exit backers trying to pit the eastern, more rural side of California against the western ‘coastal elite’ liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The plan would be to create a Republican stronghold in the new state cleaved off California’s eastern flank, thus giving the GOP two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 presidential election.
Mercury News continues:
Meanwhile, a second Calexit campaign is underway. It’s called Yes California and it would see the state seceding from America entirely. If that initiative successfully finds a place on the ballot, a Yes vote would repeal clauses in the California Constitution stating “California is an inseparable part of the United States and that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ‘’ according to a statement from California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office said.
[Ed note: corrected typo in this story's last paragraph and expanded same to include the entire paragraph from which it was extracted. --martyb]
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:15AM (12 children)
You will care after the inland side expels its illegals into your half while your half offers them sanctuary. Ah, who are we kidding, not even the coastal side would keep their doors open for long after they realize they no longer need the minority vote to keep the Democrats in power.
This would leave the coastal part between a rock and a hard place - they would either have to admit to many of their own that they are not as tolerant as they let on, executing Trump-style immigration actions, or it will implode into a third-world country while all the Whites who made California prosperous in the first place flee to the inland side. As a bonus to other states, we would then have a containment zone for leftist hipster faggots settling on inland California's cheaper property (rather than Austin or Denver) and libertarianism rather than the soon-to-become favelas of the coastal area, properly kept in check by the militias.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:43AM (8 children)
Then who will pick the fruits and vegetables?
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:58AM (2 children)
The libertarians.
With the individual liberty and self-determination in mind, they'll do it gladly for the same wage as the illegal immigrants, for the good and prosperity of the EastCal.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:10AM (1 child)
I would love to see the libertarians and trump supporters get off their lazy unemployed asses and get out into those fields and start picking all that produce going to waste as they just had to go ahead and kick all the real farm workers out of the country. I hear they're paying > $20/hr right now and are scrambling to NOT lose their crops altogether because they can't find enough help. Some are talking of switching their crops to Almond trees that can be managed with 3 people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @09:44PM
Those would be the same almond trees that heroic farmers grow to Make It On Their Own (tm) while sucking up 1/2 of CAs water?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/14/alarm-almond-farmers-drain-california-dry [theguardian.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:13AM (2 children)
This myth has been debunked time and time again.
Americans are not only willing to do the menial jobs typically associated with unskilled illegals; they still make up the overwhelming majority of personnel in such jobs.
But that fact gets in the way of the idea of poor immigrants who do the jobs that Americans feel too entitled to take.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:28PM (1 child)
Americans are not only willing to do the menial jobs typically associated with unskilled illegals; they still make up the overwhelming majority of personnel in such jobs.
http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/meatpacking-industry-has-a-long-history-of-reliance-on-immigrant-laborer/ [greeleytribune.com]
You see, no one wants to do shit jobs for minimum wage especially under shit working conditions where you can lose an arm or all your fingers in a blink of an eye. And crony capitalism, like the one of Trump, is just going to make things worse. Instead of making sure working conditions, safety regulations are followed, and instead of fining employers for illegally hiring illegal aliens, what happens is the opposite because Murica Inc. needs their profits at all costs. So instead, they deport only few illegal migrants every so often to keep fear alive in these plants (so no one complains), don't fine companies for illegal hiring practices, tear down union laws that allow workers to actually organize. What do you expect? You end up with people you can most easily replace and kicked to the curb - undocumented workers.
Trump only cares about corp. profits, not individual prosperity. Heck, I don't think he cares to know that $30k/yr is a good, living wage for many people in America. For him if he can make $1 billion declaring bankruptcy and forcing 1000 workers on the street, it's a good day. He's proud of that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @09:48PM
Pfft.... $30k is barely a decent meal these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:46PM (1 child)
It's funny how democrats are all about a living wage in their urban cities, but still feel a need for dark-skinned slaves to pick crops. Republicans have been fighting this for a century and a half.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @09:54PM
God bless the Republicans for standing up for the lesser races. *waves Confederate flag of emancipation*
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:10PM (2 children)
I grew up in the West and spent a lot of time in California, but it was always on the coast or in the central valley. The coast was movie stars, techno-lords, and retired military, and the central valley was agrobusiness overlords who affect Republicanism because it aligns best with the plantations they run. Wasn't until this summer I spent significant time in the north and east of the Sierras. Those are two different worlds, the north feeling like Oregon and east of the Sierras like New Mexico, Arizona, or Colorado. Breaking California up into four states comprising those regions would work pretty well. It wouldn't change the political balance in the larger country much either, with the coast and north staying blue and the central and east going red.
Breaking California off into an entirely separate country would be much more tramautic to everyone than it would have been for the South to succeed before. California is a powerhouse across a lot of sectors so it could very well stand on its own. But it's so deeply tied into the rest of America that extricating itself from the whole would do a lot of damage for a long time. The people who voted for Brexit probably thought the divorce would be immediate, but they're probably going to find it's going to take at least as long to get untangled as it took to integrate before, and the same would be true for Calexit.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @09:07PM
It could stand on it's own for everything except military(the US would not leave its resources there), water, power generation, trade agreements, and on and on. If any one single state were to break off and be self sufficient it would more likely be Texas or Alaska.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @10:03PM
The people who voted for Brexit probably thought it was going to herald in a new era in Middle Earth where Frodo and Sam would bake cookies on Wednesdays and everyone would get together under the tree on the common to sing rousing choruses about WW1 until uncle Bilbo got sleepy and got carried home.