re: #533 plansbandc

I don’t see combover being at all strategic about California seceding. I see him launching a tactical nuke right in the middle of the state. I absolutely believe he is unstable enough to do it.

I genuinely hope California and other states aren’t foolish enough to try seceding. But when combover starts the huge deportations and his people go in to crush the pot economy, who knows?

I can only see two ways of secession happening:

The first, which is highly unlikely and possibly unconstitutional, would be Congress granting a state the right to leave. I believe there’s Supreme Court precedent that says there’s no inherent right to leave the Union.

The second would be after a constitutional convention was called and a state had to ratify a new constitution. I could see a scenario in which there’s enough agreement that the current system doesn’t work and we need to replace it, where some states decide to make the choices in ratification votes something like: stay in the old system; join the new system; go our own way. I don’t think a constitutional convention is going to happen - there has never really been a credible threat of one being called, and if it did start to arise, the Congressional GOP would impeach Trump as fast as possible to shut down the talk.