This was really interesting. Thank you.

I just want some skateboarders to head this way man. And some death metal folks to show me new music.

I get it, I’m on your right coast counterpart in Boston. California is a top 10 economy globally in size, even measured against the likes of nations like France. So it objectively has the capital to do it.

But every time I hear this, it seems like its lost on them that you absolutely will not be allowed to leave peacefully, at least if its under this administration. That is certainly an option, but you guys would be a nation with 0 military on day 1 unless you tried to nationalize military assets and personnel already in the armed forces. Hell, they’d probably start with calling all military personnel choosing to defect deserters, which they can execute you for, and invade you on those grounds alone.

You guys can definitely leave, but if the US decides to stop ot by force, they’re either going to roll over you like the German blitzkrieg of Poland, or you’re going to descend into years of a brutally violent insurgency.

To be clear too - I’m absolutely on your side. New England has rumblings of trying to secede too, but we’d face the exact same problem as you guys (we’re also not nearly as much as a global economic powerhouse like California, so we’d also have further issues you guys would not).

This blew my mind not being AI. I sincerely do not remember this.

And because of the points you’re responding to, you very well may lose the right to do that.

It is confirming the long-held belief that there are two Americas.