This was done earlier this year, The Institute & Faculty of Actuaries published a paper on the true risk climate has on the world economy. Insurance companies are most likely only starting to get this information and large payouts from the wildfire’s, the hurricanes and the flooding is most likely already pushing the companies to insolvency. You can of course move risk around with re-insurance and spun out independent insurance companies but the risk to overwhelming the entire system is becoming higher and higher each year. I wouldn’t be surprised if the specific account used for the CA wildfire payouts was empty and overdrawn and State Farm was caught off guard by that and had to do some serious amount of moving money around to fill it back up. Enough where it took a couple of days to come up with the cash, that in itself is really scary.

It’s both.

That’s not even going to come close to the water savings we need.

Sorry we need the water for staple crops and drinking, almonds are just too water intensive.

I know it does. But the act of stopping the flow of federal dollars to the federal coffers would in itself be seen as an act of rebellion. So if CA decides that it wants to do that, it better be ready to have the ability to back it up.

I view a peacful secession movement beginning with changes in our election system and legislative system to allow for a proportional representative state government, maybe eliminate the idea of a separate executive and place that within the legislature like in a parliamentary system. Then once we have organized ourselves politically we can work towards a separation from the Union. Or we can tell the Federal Gov to get fucked, take their money and shoot our way out. But I think we can agree that might be a bad idea.

Doing that would by definition make us independent. We would be seizing the Federal governments legally implemented Tax dollars.

But in all seriousness I am a leftist and I support CA independence because it is time. We are just too different then the East and the Mid-West, we have a different climate and a different relationship with our water and our land. That causes us to have a different body politic then them. I mean the only reason CA is part of the US is because the US invaded a sovereign country and took it, then to hold it engaged in a genocide of the native population. We never asked to join, we were forced. But that was the 19’th century and today is the 21’st century. We shouldn’t rejoin Mexico and become Mexican again, but we are definitely not “Americans”. What are we IDK, but I think we deserve an opportunity to ask that question.

Dude’s got nukes, that doesn’t tend to end well.

I agree that the Biden administration’s policies where not good enough to address the real issues facing working people in the country. They were pulling from the same neoliberal economic playbook that both parties have used and has been shown over and over again to increase inequality instead of decreasing inequality. Biden and Democratic leadership think we are still in the world economic situation of the 1990’s and refuse to believe otherwise.

However Trump on the other hand doesn’t even have a plan. He was correct in saying “The Economy sucks”, but had no other plan to fix the system besides “Drill Baby Drill” and “Let the Oligarchs decide how the economic system works”. Harris might have been an out of touch elite, oblivious to economic reality. But Trump is pain and destruction incarnate and will only cause more pain and destruction during his tenure.

The reality is the US Empire is dying and it can either go gracefully or with pain and anger while it takes the rest of the world with it.

I am not a conservative person and I support this. For many reasons but the primary one being actual political representation. Right now California has a population of about 40M yet we only have 2 votes in the national legislature. Why?

As a personal anecdote I have experienced what others in the US think of “Comiefornia” first hand. People from mostly the South and Midwest hate us. They don’t respect our rights or our values. They already don’t view us as part of the US anyways so fuck em.

Also just a reminder California never chose to join the US, we were conquered.

That’s always been the lie. That we have ever been United.

California is not Spain, it’s not Mexico, it’s not the U.S and it’s definitely not Canada. California is California.

It never works out.

Finally some quality entertainment.

The best way to fix the state government is to implement a rank choice system and a proportional representative legislative body. Let’s give everyone a seat at the table to fix this mess.

Dealership owners are already the worst kinds of scum. Dealership owners next to military bases are an extra level of lowlife.

Dodge Charger. Number one car for people either A) Too young to know better or B) Wanting to make the worst decisions in life.

Then what is necessary violence? When does the rhetoric of an candidate of a major party come to the point when you can call it fascist?

Calling a politician who

• Fetishes an imagined great past.
• Claims immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
• Get policy advice from individuals who call themselves christian nationalists and Neo-reactionaires.
• And has admitted to becoming a dictator on day 1 of his presidency.

a fucking fascist isn’t being too extreme. Its calling a spade a spade and a duck a duck.

Why not? A Fascist getting elected president of the most powerful military force on the planet seems like a reasonable time to start rioting.

Good, now get me off this planet.

They don’t call it Grand Teton National park for nothing.