U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly discussed the idea of foreign powers taking out California’s most populated cities while delivering a speech at a Republican rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo in Grand Island, Nebraska Monday evening.

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    Maybe California could become Canadas 11th Province? Free healthcare and free society where ICE would be imprisoned for being criminals!

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    To paraphrase something I saw online: it’s not that he encouraged Iran to bomb California but Trump could bomb California and blame Iran for it.

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      Everything is projection, he posited many times that Obama would bomb Iran just in time to rile up war hawk votes. They’ve literally written down their entire fascist plan and people keep treating it all as separate fuckup news stories

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    So the west coast alliance anytime now? If the west coast becomes independent the US loses more than 50% of its economic power

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            Cascadia would take California in. If Alberta wants to separate from Canada then we will let them and we can extend an invitation to Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana so that we can connect to greater Canada avoiding Alberta.

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      The military would have to be significantly weakened for that. Plus, a plurality of law enforcement and military stationed here would have to be on our side. I don’t see that happening.

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        The military would have to be significantly weakened for that.

        Significantly weakend like as if the US military was being destabilized by an unhinged President purging the officer corps and losing a conflict with Iran? Asking for a friend

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    Isn’t it illegal to incite violence against the citizens of the USA? Especially by the “potus”? In the normal run-by-the-US Constitution world, wouldn’t that be considered treason?

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    First of all, California has already been declared an Iranian province as a result of Straight of Trump declaration.

    California should consider rejecting US membership in protest of this… without necessarily accepting Iran’s invitation.

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    Is he aware that San Diego is home to the largest population of active duty military than any other city? And don’t most military vote Republican?

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    I don’t know what’s worse, three fact he said it or that people cheered when he said it.

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    Iran literally can’t hit the US mainland yet. That’s the sole reason for them constantly getting attacked in the first place - preferable while already in some sort of negotiations.

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    I mean on the one hand, I have some good friends in San Diego, but on the other hand there are a lot of naval assets there…

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    Obvious propaganda is obvious.

    This is a distraction ploy, this is what his job is. Look elsewhere to see what his cabinet and the GOP are trying to get you to look away from.

    Nobody is immune to propaganda, but we can become aware of it.

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        It’s great for distracting from the dismantling of everything here at home. People have a lot to say about Iran, and little to nothing about how over a million americans just lost their healthcare and are being left for dead with no other options, while also banning an unprecedented amount of books and other actions to further gut and restructure public education to be even more of a processing machine for jobs that still require meat to be done. Also, all of our food kills you now and AI tech bros just purchased our last chance at a future.

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      Obvious propaganda is like a Nigerian prince email. It’s only for the people who want to fall for it. I was just talking to racist grandma who would be happy with the idea that Iran bombs California.

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        Turns out that a lot of people want to fall for it, sadly, not just the old folks and conservatives. Plenty here gobble it up every chance they get.

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    You just know they talked about this with him. Like a false flag operation type deal. Just like with his assassination attempts.

    He just cannot keep his mouth shut about these things hoping he will be thought of as the smart one when it turns out to actually happen!!