Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.

“We’re going to make a couple of tweaks,” Trump said of his “one big beautiful bill” during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. “I mean, we don’t want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don’t know what they’re doing.”

“We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let’s say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let’s say Gavin ‘Newscum,’ who’s done a horrible job in California.”

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    I think the blue states should cut all the funding they provide for the government.

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      balkanization of the united states plays right into putin’s best interests. how about we just stack conservative bodies until this country stops being so fucking stupid?

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        It’s too late for that. Everyone is finding the exit for the USD as the reserve currency. That loss of soft power alone is seismic.

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            Nope, it is. There is no reason anyone should trust the USD as a reserve currency. Even if Trump is impeached, Vance is impeached, and everyone down the line of succession is impeached until you get someone who isn’t MAGA, it’s still too late. It’d just be highlighting how unstable the US political system has become. Nobody wants to keep their reserve money in a system like that.

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        California secession / Calexit would be beautiful. That is how I know it would never happen, even as rest of the US collapses into Gilead.

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            Here is the CalExit website. We got 210,000+ signatures through there, probably a bit more through other means. Hopefully Californians would do the right thing and reach the petition’s requirement. California should R&D the possibility of secession sooner, rather than have many surprises if later forced into a crisis.

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              If this were to ever happen in my mind it makes the most sense for Oregon and Washington to come with… Though that’s probably too much to ask

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            I love it. “Here’s a petition to betray the country. Any separatists come forward and put your name on this list.”

            It will save sooooo much time.

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                trump already betrayed the country.

                That means it’s time to separate the country from Trump.

                Far past the time, actually, but it’s never a bad time to get started.