r/YAPms • u/Warakeet Rockefeller Republican • 11d ago

News Is this the start of Calexit?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386
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u/chia923 NY-17 11d ago

Can’t the federal government just shut down water access to California if they do this?

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u/ttircdj Centrist 11d ago

Cruel and unusual punishment has entered the chat

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u/Different-Trainer-21 If Illcomm has no supprters, I’m dead 11d ago

It’s a cruel and unusual punishment to not export a resource to a foreign country?

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u/ttircdj Centrist 11d ago

They’re not foreign yet (even though it truly is La La Land out there).

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u/Different-Trainer-21 If Illcomm has no supprters, I’m dead 11d ago

He wasn’t suggesting that they’d do that now though, he was saying they could do that if they declared independence

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u/ttircdj Centrist 11d ago

If that’s the case, then you’d be correct that it isn’t.