What did RFK offer Trump to allow him become the head of NHS?
Good news. :)
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Ever get oral from a worm?
smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
I was thinking of something sounding a bit different
blackbrook@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Who else could offer more distraction?
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
did you miss the part where he pretended to be democrat in an attempt to split the vote?
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I love how many of us are so down for Cascadia. How do we get this in a vote?
thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Just declare Independence already, stop hyping up and not delivering
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Remember: 100 million people is optimal for these guys.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 8 months ago
A great reason to move to the West Coast!
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Come to Cali, we got weed, healthcare, cheap electronics and good high-speed uncensored internet.
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Free Cascadia!
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Niiiiiice!
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Time for the GOP to infringe on states rights again
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Mom: We have Lebanon at home…
smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 months 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 8 months ago
Say nothing more until you read this.
blinfabian@feddit.nl 8 months ago
CASCADIA IS REALLLLLLLL!!!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
gladflag@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This looks scarily like a map from a dystopian movie. WSA - Western States of America.
astronot@hexbear.net 8 months ago
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s pretty much the JPS from High Castle. Too hard to play offense in the Rockies, let them have their Neutral Zone.
DharmaCurious@startrek.website 8 months ago
Said it before and I’ll say it again: if Cascadia ever looks like it’s gonna become a thing I’ll drive myself there and be homeless rather than live in the US with a weakened and even more right wing Senate and house.
Atropos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hit me up if you come to Oregon, can crash on my couch :)
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Hey if you ever make it to Cali, I’m sure I can talk with some of my contacts to get you a place. Gotta look out for the disadvantaged after all :)
smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
And no west coast access to the sea…
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 8 months ago
If the West Coast breaks off, the Northeast will more or less be forced to.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
They should probably just join back up with Old Mexico and take Colorado too so they are left out cold
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Itd4n@ani.social 8 months 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.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
If NM joined I’d move there in a heartbeat.
papertowels@mander.xyz 8 months ago
NM is there in spirit!
figjam@midwest.social 8 months ago
I did not have “Civil War over vaccines” on my apocalypse bingo card.
spinne@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
2025 has had a lot of unexpected surprises!
figjam@midwest.social 8 months ago
still 3+ months of surprise left. So tired, so very tired
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s literally a life-or-death matter.
figjam@midwest.social 8 months ago
Yes, civil wars (or really any war) usually involves that sort of struggle. And also yes, vaccines save lives and are settled science.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Now do this for every issue where the Feds are getting in the way.
Sunshine@piefed.ca 8 months ago
I think blue states should bring in all in-house solutions to cut the middleman White House out of it. States rights!
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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!
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
considering how california alone is like 14% or whatever of the US GDP, i’d say they should just tell the federal government to suck eggs
Sunshine@piefed.ca 8 months ago
Consider joining Denmark too!
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
California has 10x the GDP of Denmark btw
Sunshine@piefed.ca 8 months ago
However Denmark has higher standards ie metric and universal healthcare being in use. Wouldn’t it be better to have more access to the European market?
pennomi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When the US falls apart I strongly suspect the nation of Cascadia to form from these states
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
When?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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 8 months ago
Jackson
Lincoln, Jefferson or Liberty not jackson
ronigami@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
pennomi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh no doubt. Any kind of secession would be resolved with a civil war, and the final borders might not be recognizable.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 8 months 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 8 months ago
It’s a good way to keep out garbage ICE invasions from LA.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
You get more national guard!
You all get more national guard!
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Despite common belief, at least here I’m OR, we dems have A LOT of guns and ammo.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Im sure there are parks where they can pick up trash in California, too. Don’t worry.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
With Florida ditching vaccine requirements it looks like the East Coast/West Coast feud is going to pick back up again.
taiyang@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cali: West Siiiide
Florida: East S— cough cough weezeSkullgrid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a cynical lifelong urbanite, I throw my lot in with NYC despite whatever might be going on politically.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 8 months ago
West coast best coast
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
always has been, friend
hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Maybe we should be our own country…
Please.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cascadia Cascadia Cascadia! ! !
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Isn’t that Cascadia?
ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 months ago
American balkanisation when?
Zonefive@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Shame Nevada turned more purple than blue last year else we could have joined them.
saltesc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oooh, the second US civil war may still be on but not in the way we first thought.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
We need to start withholding federal taxes.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m planning on not paying shit.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’ve already stopped. Fuck 'em.