Is there a way for the Republic of California to set up independent trade policies using a state import/export bank? - ยฟExiste alguna manera de que la Repรบblica de California establezca polรญticas comerciales independientes mediante un banco de importaciรณn y exportaciรณn?
Well-meaning, straight white cis male friend: โItโs all smoke and mirrors to scare people while billionaires loot the treasury.โ
Actually, there will be smoke because there will be actual fires where real people will get burned and even killed. The theft is real, but so is the harm and cruelty.
Kern County is a MAGA stronghold in California that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy represented. They did the fu-ing around. Here comes the finding out part.
@Npars01 I do not own a car by choice but maintain a driver's license. The insistence that someone needed to have their own car before applying for a stationary job never made sense nor seemed fair.
My whole life I have seen advertisements for desk jobs that required people to have driver's licenses, use of a vehicle, and insurance, even when there was no driving involved in the job at all.
Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is a huge victory for people who use transit and cycling for their mobility. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/28/new-in-2025-protecting-more-workers/
We donโt have to pretend and act like Donald Trump didnโt attempt a coup, wasnโt found liable for fraud and sexual assault, and wasnโt convicted of 34 felonies just because of his job title.
No election erases or changes that or who he is. I will never trust ANY decision he ever makes is office.
I just donโt buy that 49.9% of Americans voters who picked the Presidential candidate who had attempted a coup and had been adjudicated for sexual assault because they were concerned about โpricesโ.
The reasons for voting for authoritarianism were darker and more nefarious than โthe economyโ.
Donโt be surprised if this coming Musk vs. Trump battle doesnโt end with a 25th Amendment attempt against Trump to install Vance as part of a Project 2025 coup โ just as we warned before the election.
Things are just coming to a head sooner than I expected.
One of the reasons California is the 4th largest economy in the world is that we are an immigration friendly state, part of a giant single market and customs union, and we like โexpertiseโ.
Immigrants who are feeling threatened in red states should come fill job openings in #California.
Conservative news pundits don't think we are showing enough "grace and compassion" for the murdered rich white male CEO of a for-profit insurance corporation that makes its fortune denying life-saving medical care to desperate people.
That same multi-billion corporation is only offering a $10K reward, the shareholders practically stepped over the dead body on the way to their meeting, and continued on with their business model.
I think pundits are confused about who has a lack of compassion.
NOW is the perfect time to talk about our health care non-system and no longer having it based on corporate greed denying life-saving treatments for profit.
The ACA was a start toward universal health care but it is not complete, and Medicare โAdvantageโ is a disaster.
In 2005 a Bush Republican trifecta tried to dismantle Social Security by privatizing it.
The media asked โArenโt Democrats going to negotiate with them?โ
Nancy Pelosi responded, โIs NEVER good for you?โ
Voters repudiated Republicans in โ06.
Voters repudiated Republican trifecta attempts to bring back pre-existing medical conditions in โ18.
Just walk away from Republican proposals on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA. Let them hang themselves on their own overreaching again.
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