Do not say “secession” around the majority of Californians right now because they might well say, “Thank you! We thought you’d never offer,” and take themselves, and the 6th largest economy on Earth (if it were its own country) and tell the rest of the United States to stick it up their own giant sequoia. While they’re at it, they might invite Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia to form a seamless web of Pacific, from Kodiak Island to La Jolla.

It would make Ben Shapiro happy. We know that most Californians would prefer to have Shapiro a citizen of a separate country. The young man is embarrassing. In a democratic election (that’s a thing where people vote for the government they prefer, not a government Shapiro or Trump prefers), Newsom won easily. Shapiro must believe it will be hard to make California the new South Carolina with someone like Newsome and thus Shapiro thinks it’s time everyone go their separate ways:

If the basic notion of American government is that the federal government is going to make all the rules, and it’s just going to be a struggle for the power of the one ring, then this country is not going to last this way. It is just not. And maybe then the best hope for a lot of conservatives and maybe for a lot of liberals, depending on who’s in control of that federal government is a friendly separation. That is what that foresages [sic]. Not that California is the wave of the future, but that California and its polarization is the wave of the future.

California’s polarization? Go ask Liz Cheney about who is polarizing what, Ben. Shapiro went on to say:

Shapiro predicted that Newsom’s victory will prompt many Republicans to leave the state for places like Florida, Arizona, and Texas. “And maybe that’s what the California politicians want.”

Maybe that’s what a lot of Californians want, Ben.

Does Ben Shapiro believe that Republicans had some sort of right to win that election, no matter how easily they were trounced? Isn’t democracy premised upon people choosing who they…

Our fault. Shapiro, Trump, the MAGAs, democracy isn’t their thing. They prefer to choose leaders for everyone else. Do not tempt them, Ben. They will take the center of the world’s software industry and the nation’s largest agricultural state right out from under you. Ben will be shocked by how little money is left if California leaves.

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— Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) September 15, 2021

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