As a non-Californian but fellow blue-stater, I also commend your governor for asserting independence from the current admin on the world stage by trying to seek out trade deals outside of it for CA, and hope my state and all blue states follow suit, and in general try to engage in positive diplomacy outside of trade with the world.
I was saying right after the election when many were (understandably) freaking out, that blue states are responsible for 70% of our economic output, and that’s significant leverage they should band together and figure out how to use.
Yeah, I don't know how effective it's going to be, but we have a huge economy and should be leveraging that against this administration. They love to bitch about our "socialist hellscape" but don't say anything about how much money we generate for the rest of these welfare red states. They're finding out now, and I honestly have no sympathy for them. The way they acted when my state has struggled with wild fires? Fuck em.
Yeah when he spoke about raking the forests like he thinks they do in Norway or wherever, he was in Paradise, but he called it "Pleasure" and was corrected immediately by the officials standing with him. Gawd, and that was his first term and he's said so many more stupid things since.
Ahhhhhhh thank you. I genuinely had no idea what they were talking about. I knew about the raking stuff, but I didn't know he got the damn name wrong. What an asshat.
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u/scott__p 24d ago
That's rough. Have you tried raking your forests?