Add in Texas and you’ve got the start of a very bad movie
Good news. :)
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 hours ago
Just creating this division is proof RFK should resign. We knew he was an activaxxer and against science, but enforcing his personal opinion on the entire country is unforgivable. At-risk children, elderly, and others will die because of his bias…
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 hours ago
Isn’t Washington on the other side of america?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
There’s 2. Washington (State, west coast) and Washington DC (East coast, not a state)
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Jesus, you learn something every day
pyre@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
brown567@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
He’s just 16 preventable illnesses in a trenchcoat
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle’s Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don’t think so…
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
This is gold. I could see John Oliver or Jon Stewart saying this.
Republican Health Minister and sixteen-preventable-illnesses-in-a-trenchcoat, promising he’s a real boy, RFK Jr. said this week…
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Many people are saying there is something wrong with his mitochondria.
jve@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Well that can’t be good. That’s the power house of the cell!
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The deep dent in the side of his temple is the icing on the cake.
Sunshine@piefed.ca 20 hours ago
I think blue states should bring in all in-house solutions to cut the middleman White House out of it. States rights!
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
We did that with CARB and now the feds are trying to stop it after decades of other states signing on because it worked so well here in Cali.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
At the very least they need to hire these doctors and scientists that RFK Jr. fired so their wisdom and knowledge don’t go to waste!
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Cascadia babeee!
saltesc@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Oooh, the second US civil war may still be on but not in the way we first thought.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
There are indeed greater truth than hobby ideologies from billionaires.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
I imagine they might just be every other actual truth.
These people.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
They should probably just join back up with Old Mexico and take Colorado too so they are left out cold
Itd4n@ani.social 17 hours ago
As much as I would love Colorado to depart the insanity, it will never happen. A ton of the nuclear ICBMs are here and it’s not like Washington will give that up.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Throw in British Columbia and Alaska while you’re at it. Just take the entire west cost of North America.
And what should be the east coast, since if the international date line didn’t do that weird curve at the end of the Aleutians, Alaska would be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
If NM joined I’d move there in a heartbeat.
papertowels@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
NM is there in spirit!
figjam@midwest.social 20 hours ago
I did not have “Civil War over vaccines” on my apocalypse bingo card.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
It’s literally a life-or-death matter.
figjam@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Yes, civil wars (or really any war) usually involves that sort of struggle. And also yes, vaccines save lives and are settled science.
spinne@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
2025 has had a lot of unexpected surprises!
figjam@midwest.social 10 hours ago
still 3+ months of surprise left. So tired, so very tired
pennomi@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
When the US falls apart I strongly suspect the nation of Cascadia to form from these states
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
The problem… or complication with this…
Is that basically every part of WA and OR east of the Cascades will … counter-seceede.
Go look up the Greater Idaho project.
There is, and has been for a while now, an effort to … have the eastern counties of WA and OR leave their respective states and join Idaho.
From a legal/constitutional perspective… this is completely unprecedented, as best I can tell this has never before happened in US history, states redrawing their own borders, via counties which largely actually have democratically voted to do so via popular referendums.
Northern/Eastern CA will possibly form into something like the old attempts at the proposed state of ‘Jackson’.
There is an absolutely huge political polarization within all these states between urban and rural areas, roughly also by which side of the Cascades
I’ve hastily cropped that image from this source:
brilliantmaps.com/county-1992-v-2024/
So… yeah… if the governors of WA OR and CA formally seceeded and formed Cascadia? Came ‘too close’ to functionally doing that?
Well the rightwingers have an arguably legit legal counter move for that (or so they will argue, the whole point is different sides do not agree) and then basically the West Coast explodes into functionally a civil war of some kind, probably involving both partisan and ‘official’ state forces, and federal forces, roughly breaking apart along the Cascades, but it could easily be way more chaotic than that, depending on what say, forces at JBLM and Kitsap decide to do.
Let me personally tell you that Eastern WA/OR and Idaho still very, very much remember Ruby Ridge, the militia movement never died, it just went dormant till Trump, and uh, skipping up to present day, is now basically being formally recruited into ICE… ICE now has more funding than the United States Marine Corp.
Fucking yeehaw is what I very much fear would happen if either side makes significant moves toward anything resembling actual secession.
redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 hour ago
Jackson
Lincoln, Jefferson or Liberty not jackson
pennomi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Oh no doubt. Any kind of secession would be resolved with a civil war, and the final borders might not be recognizable.
ronigami@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
How many people do you think live in Oregon?
The majority of Oregonians live in Portland metro area.
A similar stat can be found regarding Seattle metro, and Washington has more blue cities than OR.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Great, provided there is some version of the Nuremberg Trials for Silicon Valley techbro nazis.
They are welcome to fix their hearts or die.
Sunshine@piefed.ca 20 hours ago
It’s a good way to keep out garbage ICE invasions from LA.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
When?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
but overall, this will hurt vaccine efficacy without a herd effect. I guess Tesla is making iron lungs now.
kandoh@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
The old saying of ‘a conservative would let donald trump shit in their mouth if it meant a liberal had to smell it’ can now be translated to ‘a conservative will kill every last child in a red state if it means a child from a blue state will get a cough’
lena@gregtech.eu 9 hours ago
I hope they secede from the Union
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Russia would love that.
lena@gregtech.eu 8 hours ago
Look mate, the USA is a fascist country. Might as well secede, while they still can.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
You’re talking as if russia hasn’t already infiltrated the US government and taken full control. right now the federal government is an illegitimate government acting as a puppet for the kremlin
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Isn’t that Cascadia?
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Usually, when people talk about Cascadia as a country, they include British Columbia.
rbos@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
God we have trouble enough with Toronto thinking it’s the centre of the world and ignoring BC. We’d have zero influence in Cascadia.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Technically, only a small section of California is part of the Cascadian region. But so is most of Idaho… And I think just about everybody would be happier if we made that trade.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
geographically cascadia excludes socal and includes BC. it’s a different climate, ecosystem, etc
k0e3@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
That guy always looks like he’s mid dump.
brem@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Yeah but the worms in his head are
Worms be poopin’, yo
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Mom: We have Lebanon at home…
smeenz@lemmy.nz 13 hours ago
I think a lighter blue or cyan at the top would make the tree more visible and better match the sky
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Say nothing more until you read this.
blinfabian@feddit.nl 15 hours ago
CASCADIA IS REALLLLLLLL!!!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Free Cascadia!
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
The next three Canadian provinces.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Why is it the westernmost states that are the most progressive?
“Progressive” being relative
fubarx@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Good first step. We can and should do more.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
We need to start withholding federal taxes.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Maybe we should be our own country…
Please.
nucleative@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
States have always been able to do these things.
Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well…
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Things can’t be better for Russia
gladflag@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
This looks scarily like a map from a dystopian movie. WSA - Western States of America.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They can hire all of the experts fleeing the RFK clownshow
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
With Florida ditching vaccine requirements it looks like the East Coast/West Coast feud is going to pick back up again.
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
I love how many of us are so down for Cascadia. How do we get this in a vote?
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Meanwhile Florida has started to form toddler death Voltron by announcing they’re removing all vaccination requirements from schools.
I fully expect there to be a southern collation of Iron Lungs soon.
brem@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
The worst thing about Toddler Death Voltron is: it is sentient and wants to no longer exist but they refuse to let it die because it hasn’t been born yet.
Good luck writing THAT into your next screenplay MAGA Universe Doctor Strange
jayemar@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
New band name
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Iron Lung Collator is taken.