11mo ago

Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom 'signs those papers'

www.latimes.com

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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An ultimatum. Holding the entire state hostage...
You know, like a Good Guy would do!
- TBF, the US government already does something similar with federal highway funding.
  
  In that case its not targeted at a specific state, just at ensuring all states hold the same standard wrt drunk driving.
- Only the best Jedi deal in absolutes...
  Right?
- And Californians will still vote for him 🤷‍♂️.
  
  https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020
  2020 California Electoral College vote. 55 for Biden/Harris. 0 for Trump/Pence.
  California is also part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which awards every electoral college vote to the winner of the popular vote.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
  
  Nice. Didn't remember that it was a clean sweep.
  
  He doesn't mean it, it's tough guy stuff! (/s)
- There are no consequences for Trump, ever
  
  I still hope to see him bankrupted (again) and dying in prison, or at least house arrest.
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.
- Right on!
  Tired of propping up the red welfare states!
  
  Here’s the issue: think about how happy you will be when TX leaves the union. The GOP feels the same about CA.
- 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.
  
  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.
No worries, how about we stop paying our federal taxes? You good with that?
Didn't think so.
- all the red states collapse without transfer from richer blue states
- 5th largest economy in the world
- Whyv would he care? He sure doesn't fuckin pay them.
So uh for real that’s the sort of shit could potentially start a civil war
- 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.
  
  Or a second “attempt” 😇
States rights people sure don't have much to say about this
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