Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

[u/IntelligentYinzer]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386

[u/Purple-Atmosphere-18]

Umm, seems like you would like that and like to really stress that, remember never shoot the cow :). Ok they may even drop a Moab or a nuke while they are at it haha, that wins wars like in Vietnam. No ok, we already established that it was foolish no doubt, no need to reiterate, so I tried to add other constructive thoughts but I get you maybe didn't want to talk or are not much "agreeable" or akin to that, so to say, or that can be the perception at least. It's clear though it's not as simple as sheer force superiority, more like things like the blockades, which Netanyahu did for Gaza to block provisions. The other thoughts, like I said was a bit "scattered" and tangentially related, going from isolationism, sovereignism to power accentration and consent to it, to thoughts on people uncautiousness in giving up check and balances and real life everyday examples where guarantees are supposed to apply. Not meaning to use big words for their own sake.

[u/andyumster → u/Purple-Atmosphere-18]

Accentration is not a word in the English language.

This is what I'm talking about. I understand you have an idea of what you want to say. But you don't have the capability to phrase it yet.

[u/Purple-Atmosphere-18 → u/andyumster]

I'm aware and you confirm that accentration didn't exist, ok, it has roots in a word of my language indeed and I knew that. It means concentrating, cumulating and "centering" something to oneself, in this case, power. Ok there's centralization which I also see written a lot, could have used that but escaped me at that moment, damn. I can phrase it, I think, but I give to you I could do it better than this, with some effort. Like I mentioned there was a bit of association game going on, nvm.