Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom 'signs those papers'

politics @lemmy.world – 321 points – 2 months ago

Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom 'signs those papers'

Trump said if he were elected, he would stop sending California federal firefighting aid unless Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to repeatedly as “Newscum,” enacted his policy priorities on issues such as water and taxes.

I'll note that the most fire-prone parts of California tend to be Republican-majority areas.

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An ultimatum. Holding the entire state hostage...

You know, like a Good Guy would do!

TBF, the US government already does something similar with federal highway funding.

In that case its not targeted at a specific state, just at ensuring all states hold the same standard wrt drunk driving.

Only the best Jedi deal in absolutes...

Right?

And Californians will still vote for him 🤷‍♂️.

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020

2020 California Electoral College vote. 55 for Biden/Harris. 0 for Trump/Pence.

California is also part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which awards every electoral college vote to the winner of the popular vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

That's because California (like the majority of other states) assigns all of their EC votes to the winner of the popular vote within state. Only Nebraska and Maine split their delegates right now.

The popular vote compact is not in effect yet. They don't have the 270 votes needed to do it. The last sentence of the first paragraph in the Wikipedia article you linked to says so.

People don’t realize just how close presidential elections are. In CA during the last election 35 percent voted Trump. Clearly that’s a landslide win for Biden, but it still implies that even in the most liberal state in the US 6 million people voted for a facist.

Nice. Didn't remember that it was a clean sweep.

He doesn't mean it, it's tough guy stuff! (/s)

He got impeached for doing this to Ukraine.

Best of luck!

There are no consequences for Trump, ever

I still hope to see him bankrupted (again) and dying in prison, or at least house arrest.

Ok. Why don't we just stop sending you more tax money than we receive? We'll just pay for shit ourselves and not pay federal taxes anymore.

We're cool with that.

Your federal tax brackets are reaming us while our cost of living is way higher than the national median anyway.

Right on!

Tired of propping up the red welfare states!

Here’s the issue: think about how happy you will be when TX leaves the union. The GOP feels the same about CA.

They'll do an about face real quick when they realize that more GOP voters live in CA than anywhere else. Gotta be able to get that campaign $$$

Yeah, except California could be a nationstate on its own without needing outside help and the same is not true of Texas. It's closer to being true for Texas than it is for most red states, that is true, but Texas can't even keep its power on. And that whole oil industry thing? Looking pretty temporary.

If there were another civil war coming up, sure, most of it would not be based on geography, but California, Oregon, and Washington would definitely stick together.

And hopefully lose some of our righter-leaning populations to emigration.

West coast is the best coast...absolutely we would stick together, not even a question. All the right leaning folk talk about how great Idaho is. I imagine they'd all be refugees there.