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minus-squareWoodScientistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 day ago“But it’s not legal!” Have you learned nothing the past three months? Laws are what we make of them. A state seceding is a simple process: The state passes an act to allow it. The sitting president endorses the idea and agrees to let them go peacefully. That’s it. The United States Constitution itself was illegally written, an exercise in simple willful power. State secession works the same way.
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoMeh. If everyone in California pitched in $1 and we straight up bribed him $35 million, I’m pretty sure he’d go off screaming about what a great idea it is and MAGA would eat it up.
“But it’s not legal!”
Have you learned nothing the past three months? Laws are what we make of them.
A state seceding is a simple process:
The state passes an act to allow it.
The sitting president endorses the idea and agrees to let them go peacefully.
That’s it. The United States Constitution itself was illegally written, an exercise in simple willful power. State secession works the same way.
Part 2 is the hard part though
Meh. If everyone in California pitched in $1 and we straight up bribed him $35 million, I’m pretty sure he’d go off screaming about what a great idea it is and MAGA would eat it up.