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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.
Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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The New California Republic
Newsom California Republic
Gross
God please no
I feel like the USA may start to be disbanding
Unfortunately, balkanization may be our only option at this point.
China recognized long ago that all states falter after around 250 years, and that renewal is a natural part of human institution.
The biggest mistake of the founding fathers was to assume the permanence of our institutions was okay since checks and balances were instituted. Really all they do is delay the time between cycles of corruption.
One of the founders thought we should draft a new constitution from scratch every few years and they created the ammendment system specifically so any part could be scrapped and remade in case there were problems. They clearly didn’t think it was perfect, just good enough for the time. They certainly didn’t expect us to slow down and stop with the ammendments, at least.
I think the flaw there is in assuming that the corruption would first come from the corruption of the law. Thing is they did create a good system to protect the law, but they didn’t realize that’s only just kicking the ball down the road where then its the institutions which corrupt first.
We need an East Rome West Rome split but its blue state vs red state. Each get their own President, pool Military powers
The trouble with that is the blue states would be the coasts, and the red states down the middle…
Or maybe nix the president position and just have the house and senate vote for everything like a council.
Or maybe a parliament with proper representation instead of this stupid system you’ve got going right now.
That’s realistically the only fix for gerrymandering. It’s a powerful weapon, and I don’t foresee the two parties honoring any agreement not to use it.
How does a parliament fix gerrymandering?
I think they’re saying to get rid of it. No one would complain.
Ditch the senate and bump the house to like 1500 members imo.
Keep the Senate, bump the house to like 1500
It should be actually, if not for the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, based on the 1910 census.
At the time the average was 210,000 constituents per representative, now we’re over 770,000 per representative. And those are averages, some districts are much higher and lower.
Congress set the current limit, they can change it. It doesn’t require an amendment or anything complicated.
Yeah but why would they dilute their power?
The most obvious would be to prevent the exact situation we’re in now. But that would also require more than a handful of them to not be psycho/sociopaths.
After a century of coups and destabilisation efforts around the world, the empire will crumble from within (nothing new tbh). How poetic!
Rename it to Global Response & Outbreak Alert Network. GROAN is a better acronym than GOARN.
Global Response & Outbreak Information Network has a nice ring to it.
Global Outbreak Outreach Network, aka GOON
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It should be Global Outbreak Response Network.
Global Outbreak World Response Outreach Network, perhaps?
Is naming this after a Klingon, who famously as a culture talk about wanting to die a lot, appropriate?
Why did the US want to leave WHO in the first place? Is there anything to gain from leaving?
Less funding “woke” organizations, means more money for the billionaires.
The current administration is dismantling all of the global things the US has been a part of under the guise of the US being “ripped off” and it’s actively making shit worse.
Feels intentional to me but I don’t know the end goal.
Praxis. Thiel and other oligarchs want to divvy up the United States into fiefdoms, where they personally set laws and have the king’s right to your family’s bedrooms.
Such is the times, that I am not sure if this is an exaggeration. 😒
rfk jr is quite obsessed with “infections for all”
Just break up already. The divorce was evident long ago, I wish you both could see it. You can’t coexist because you want different things. You want to live in different worlds. Move on already.
Trump would never let it happen, the GOP would never let it happen, the US military is so powerful it is improbable it’d actually happen successfully.
The US divorcing itself is the best thing that could happen right now. It won’t be pretty, but neither is staying with a domestic abuser.
The best outcome is purging the scum
No civil war era niceties either
Viva Alta California
Sweet. Come on New York, do it next. If Trump won’t protect us, our state can.
The mayor might
Imagine traveling back in time to the 80’s and telling people that one day Donald Trump would start the dissolution of The United States.
thats the time when the russians have been funneling money through him.
Time for the entire west coast to align with Canada and Mexico and expel the MAGATs from our states
Please bilaterally secede already, California
Man i would love to see california take their GDP from the USA (and all the other blue states/cities for that matter) and see how MAGA erupts. Stream it live and i’ll go get popcorn.
That would be unequivocally bad.
Why?
Balkanize
Is this not exactly what the republican party has been asking for for the last 40 years? States choosing laws and not federal?
Only in matters where they can’t get a federal majority
Only applied when it’s their rights. Otherwise they’ll pull some mental gymnastics like the AI bros pulled for AI deregulation.
Republicans were never really about states rights. They were only about THEIR rights.
And vehemently against a bunch of you rights.
It depends on which Republicans, I suppose.
Many seem to argue about states rights in regards to the Civil War, wherein the southern states wanted rights to enter northern states and force them to obey the southern State’s laws…
To me, enforcing laws across state lines seems far more Federalist than State isolationist.
And I would argue many claiming “States Rights” today want their states rules to be enacted in other states as well, e.g. the push to federally ban abortions
