Not Trinidad, but schadenfreude

More Trini posts coming. But right now, behold the failure of the Calexit nonsense.

And as California resident (but not native, as he will angrily point out) Will Baird (hat tip!) pointed out, you cannot help but relish the way the organizers’ obvious ties to Moscow brought the whole thing down. I don’t blame the Russian government: why not throw a hail Mary against an apparently-vulnerable opponent? But this was all too stupid for words on the part of anyone who took it seriously.

As opposed to transferring membership from the United States to the Dominion (:p) of Canada. That, well, that does not involve the creation of any new countries, to which I am opposed, and that I could get behind. It’d be more like annexing Canada than joining it, anyway. The entire northeast could follow, and what would there be to not like? Although I would be sad should New York and Pennsylvania wind up in different countries.

(Says the man who joined the U.S. Army out in order to be a human hostage to U.S. foreign policy, as then-2LT JKR pointed out in far pithier language.)

Comments

[JKR]

The last sentence of the linked article is classic:

In its analysis of the proposal, the Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office concluded that California nationhood would involve “major economic and budgetary impacts for state and local governments.”