California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.
Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The New California Republic
Newsom California Republic
God please no
Viva Alta California
soo when will California declare independence?
It’ll never happen, as nice as it sounds.
So I’m Canadian and we have separatists in, now 2 provinces.
Whether the latest is a conservative US psy-op, is up for debate. But that is probably part of it.
The Quebec separatists have been angry for the total of my lifetime and being from BC I’ve mostly ignored their plight of “different culture” but I never wanted to lose that chunk of the country and to me it’s part of the greater Canadian culture.
The Alberta “separatists” are different, they are more like traitors.
Citing stats like, “Alberta (oil and gas province, the “Texas” of Canada) contributes more in equalization payments to other Canadians provinces!”, which is true, as a total sum.
But the morons don’t understand that equalization payments are taken from federal taxes in a bracketed tax system, so it just means on average, Albertans are richer. The rich they cry that they’re not getting fair share…
Epitome of greed.
They believe because they were simply born there, moved there, that all the mineral and oil and gas profits belong to them. They’re even more idiotic to believe the producers will share these profits with them.
They’re not taking that away from our country, and it’s worth going to war over. I think California would end up falling into the same situation of belief, though reversed between conservative and left-of-conservative views.
They’d go to war over it. So bit of a dangerous play.A union with Oregon and Washington state would be nice too (us west coasters should work together)
along with the NYC as long as they get rid of thier rich GOP districts.
As a WA resident, I’d welcome that union.
Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington might team up with Central California and fuck it all up.
They can go go fuck off with Idaho, I won’t miss any of em.
soon it shall be a reconning for those doing the bidding of t r u m p
I feel like the USA may start to be disbanding
China recognized long ago that all states falter after around 250 years, and that renewal is a natural part of human institution.
The biggest mistake of the founding fathers was to assume the permanence of our institutions was okay since checks and balances were instituted. Really all they do is delay the time between cycles of corruption.
One of the founders thought we should draft a new constitution from scratch every few years and they created the ammendment system specifically so any part could be scrapped and remade in case there were problems. They clearly didn’t think it was perfect, just good enough for the time. They certainly didn’t expect us to slow down and stop with the ammendments, at least.
Unfortunately, balkanization may be our only option at this point.
After a century of coups and destabilisation efforts around the world, the empire will crumble from within (nothing new tbh). How poetic!
We need an East Rome West Rome split but its blue state vs red state. Each get their own President, pool Military powers
Or maybe nix the president position and just have the house and senate vote for everything like a council.
Or maybe a parliament with proper representation instead of this stupid system you’ve got going right now.
That’s realistically the only fix for gerrymandering. It’s a powerful weapon, and I don’t foresee the two parties honoring any agreement not to use it.
How does a parliament fix gerrymandering?
Ditch the senate and bump the house to like 1500 members imo.
Keep the Senate, bump the house to like 1500
It should be actually, if not for the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, based on the 1910 census.
At the time the average was 210,000 constituents per representative, now we’re over 770,000 per representative. And those are averages, some districts are much higher and lower.
Congress set the current limit, they can change it. It doesn’t require an amendment or anything complicated.
Yeah but why would they dilute their power?
The most obvious would be to prevent the exact situation we’re in now. But that would also require more than a handful of them to not be psycho/sociopaths.
Rename it to Global Response & Outbreak Alert Network. GROAN is a better acronym than GOARN.
It should be Global Outbreak Response Network.
Global Outbreak World Response Outreach Network, perhaps?
Is naming this after a Klingon, who famously as a culture talk about wanting to die a lot, appropriate?
Global Response & Outbreak Information Network has a nice ring to it.
