Wait, wait, wait....if this is going to be a Dukes of Hazard thing, Cooter was an ally to the erstwhile heroes (confederate naval jack notwithstanding). That would make Putin Boss Hogg and Trump the inept Rosco P. Coltrane, so Vance would be the deputy, Enos (rhymes with penis).
AP - Today, the office of United States Vice President JD "Cooter" Vance announced plans for him to attend the annual Future White Supremacists of America summer picnic and ice cream social in Laurens, SC...
And get nuked in return, assuming weapons could be seized by California and employed. But you're right: I could see that egomaniac fucking us all over further by starting a nuclear conflict.
God, I want my family out of this country, but there's nowhere to go.
The war that would result would be like nothing any of us have ever experienced, except for our veterans, perhaps, though they would never have had to fight their own people before. The only people who would truly know ahead of time what to expect would be those who came to this country from war-torn regions that had experienced civil war.
California is powerful economically, but do they have the military might to withstand the hell that the US Army can unleash? If other states join them, it'll be utter chaos, and who knows how it ends, but that might turn the tide for the rebels as the military would likely fracture as many might follow their states to the exit.
Aside from utter dissolution of the Union, the only way I can see California standing up to the USA would be to have a nuclear deterrent available immediately upon independence, which would likely mean seizing as many federal nuclear weapons as they could. Whether the California National Guard would be up to that is beyond my ken.
I heard somewhere that the overhead costs for standard Medicare is around 4-5%. Medicare Advantage comes in around 15%, because of the need to turn a profit. It's very inefficient. The public option was always the best way to go, but we're stuck with this stupid narrative that private options will be more efficient. Like trickle-down economics, it's bullshit, and it needs to be exposed at every opportunity so that maybe folks will finally realize they've been hoodwinked.
Fantasy, I know, but I can still hope for truth and rational thinking to win the day.
It's like someone set it to make the stereotypical '80s movie. It has surprisingly good cinematography and a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
Like most '80s movies, it has some things that have not aged well culturally, so be warned. I don't think it's too egregious, but it's definitely of it's time.
Nah, man. Luigi was playing Minecraft with me.