California Über Alles :: The Golden State's Trump Resistance

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Knave, Jan 27, 2017.

  1. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999


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    I threatened to start this thread, and now here it is!

    As you surely know, ever since Trump's election, California has been busy preparing itself to lead the Trump resistance. And it's not just that silly #CalExit stuff. No, there's serious action at every level of government out here.

    I wanted to have a place to post and discuss California's Trump resistance efforts, which are already well underway. I was reading lots of things on particulars that might have been worth posting about, but I didn't have a good background article to post as an opener. Then -- EUREKA -- I saw this:

    California v. Trump: The Fight Begins for Health Care, Immigration and the Future of America
    By Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek

    This long article lays pretty much everything out in admirably comprehensive fashion. They even dug up Joel Kotkin to get a quote accusing the Democrats in California of being Stalinist. (We'll see how long he believes that after we throw him in a reeducation camp!)

    It's hard to pick out just one quote from the article, and given its catalogical nature, the piece doesn't really lend itself to that sort of thing. But this conveys the overall spirit:
    There will be some interesting times ahead, and several California politicians will become national names. Not just the ones you know already like Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom. California's new Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, will be one to watch -- and perhaps also Kevin de Leon and Anthony Rendon, both leaders in the state legislature. For an enterprising California politician, the Trump resistance could even be a legitimate launching pad for a presidential run in 2020.

    I've been telling you jokers that California is the most important state in the union, but few of you have ever wanted to believe me. For the Trump resistance, however, it certainly is the most important of the 50 states.

    So like it or not, you're gonna be hearing about it!

    -- Viva La Resistance --
     
  2. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I was thinking when I saw this, that there should be a California flag with a different cartoony bear, and sure enough, someone already made one.

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    Of course, this one is my favorite:

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  3. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    This might be interesting for you guys.
     
  4. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    What's that, bruh?

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  5. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    I see what you did there
     
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  6. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    No need for him to be Modest...O, yes there is.
     
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  7. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    NY has promised resistance too.
     
  8. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Don't we have enough threads about califas already?
     
  9. Boloni86

    Boloni86 Member+

    Jun 7, 2000
    Baltimore
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Gibraltar
    Yeah, NY is interesting too with Cuomo, Di Blasio and Schneiderman ... And of course Schumer at the top of the Senate.

    If Democrats have any chance of winning the House in 2018, there needs to be a big wave in NY, picking up as much as 5 seats in that state alone.
     
  10. puttputtfc

    puttputtfc Member+

    Sep 7, 1999
    In 2017, California liberals will lead the state's rights movement. We live in strange times.
     
  11. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    California is here to save you from the Trumpy menace!
     
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  12. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Are you saying that it's time to go to the mattresses?

    I'm in! :ninja:
     
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  13. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    If you arrest the surviving Eagles and fine Dodgers fans $500 every time they leave a close game in the 7th inning, then I'll consider throwing in with California-stan.
     
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  14. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    How the surviving Eagles haven't been indicted by the ICC, I have no idea. :unsure:
     
  15. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    There can't be too many threads about California, because we are the specialest snowflake of a state.

    You clearly haven't ever been stuck in the Dodgers parking lot at the end of a game. But I can go with you on the Eagles thing - they should be handed over to the UN for crimes against humanity. (Or what rslfanboy just posted.)
     
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  16. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    I like this congressman ...

    Rep. Ted Lieu is trolling Donald Trump, and he hopes you're watching
    Plus, he's willing to swear on his Twitter account.
     
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  17. luftmensch

    luftmensch Member+

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    United States
    May 4, 2006
    Petaluma
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Repped for the Dodgers comment, haven't been to a game there since the 80's but remember that ordeal well.

    Though my favorite time I saw a game there I went with a friend, his dad, and his dad's friend. And after the game ended the two adults sat in their chairs for like an hour, while we went all over the stadium searching for money and stuff that had fallen out of people's pockets. At the time I thought they were waiting for traffic to die down, but at some point in my adult life I had an epiphany: They were ********ing shitfaced and waiting as long as possible to drive home. Good times....
     
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  18. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    New revelation:

    IT WAS BOTH!!!
     
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  19. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Have to think waaaay outside the box like Larry did:

    (NSFW)

     
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  20. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I did that at a Metrostars match. On top of the 8 beers or so I drank, on the way in I was handed a Blithering Idiot. I sank it in about 30 seconds. The match KO'd at 7:30Pm. I finally made my home around 11:00PM. I even dropped a cup full of Guinness that night.
     
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  21. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Why is everyone dissing the Eagles? I could understand if it were the Pittsburgh Stealers...but Philadelphia! They never hurt anyone. :coffee:
     
  22. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    Happy Chinese and California New Year!!! Que viva Donald Trump...bien lejos de nosotros!
     
  23. beerslinger23

    beerslinger23 Member+

    Jun 26, 2010
    #23 beerslinger23, Jan 28, 2017
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    Because Eagles fans hate Santa.

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  24. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Yeah...too bad they're not as loyal as the Browns fans! :coffee:

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  25. DoyleG

    DoyleG Member+

    CanPL
    Canada
    Jan 11, 2002
    YEG-->YYJ-->YWG-->YYB
    Club:
    FC Edmonton
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada

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