Creating Gigi and Bella Hadid should be enough to get you into ANY party — especially a Victoria’s Secret after-party — yet their dad still got shut down in Paris Wednesday night. If Mohamed Hadid was on cloud nine after seeing his daughters…
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Calexit: California to Secede From U.S., Become its Own Nation?!
Some residents of California want to secede from the U.S. following the jarring 2016 election results that gave Donald J. Trump the presidency.
As such, the awesomely titled and hashtagged #Calexit movement has been born … but does it stand even a remote chance of success?
The outlandish idea of secession doesn’t seem so crazy anymore to some Golden State residents, given who won the popular vote.
Trump won the Electoral College decisively, and thus the White House, but Hillary Clinton actually got more votes, 64,874,143-62,516,883.
In California, she won a staggering 61 percent, and her margin of 7,362,490-3,916,209 accounts for all of her national "win" and then some.
When Trump says that he didn"t compete in California and therefore the popular vote is meaningless … he"s not making a terrible point.
Both sides played by the same rules and he won (despite Jill Stein"s recount and Trump"s outrageous claim that millions voted illegally).
Still … of the Californians who voted to award their 55 Electoral Votes, nearly two out of three picked Clinton instead of our 45th President-Elect.
So yeah, there"s secession talk. But how realistic is it?
Not very. Ripe with financial, political and financial hurdles, #Calexit would first face an expensive and arduous state initiative process.
Which, even if it succeeded, would then require persuading two-thirds of Congress to relinquish the state in order to actually happen.
In short, it"s not going to.
Darry Sragow, a Democratic strategist who teaches election law at the University of Southern California, called it “an inconceivable thought.”
Even if the state voted for it, “I cannot envision a circumstance under which the rest of the country would even think about this for a nanosecond.”
Just the same, a group of grass-roots group of secessionists, calling themselves Yes California, last week proposed a 2018 ballot measure.
If the group can get the signatures and navigate the red tape, it will ask Golden State residents if California should be its own country.
For more details on how they justify such a move, beyond simple opposition to Trump, and the obstacles the movement faces, watch:
Charlamagne -- Do Black Penises Matter to Tomi Lahren? That"s What I Wanted to Ask (VIDEO)
Charlamagne Tha God was locked and loaded for an interview with Tomi Lahren Thursday — until the plug was pulled — and he had the question that would unlock Tomi’s true feelings toward blacks. Tomi’s camp tells us her interview with “The…
Tomi Lahren: Roasted to a Crisp By Trevor Noah on The Daily Show
Going back to the early days of Jon Stewart"s tenure on The Daily Show, the Comedy Central series has served as a venue for open dialogue between the preternaturally witty host and his usually short-tempered conservative counterparts.
Trevor Noah"s time on the show hasn"t resulted in quite as many instantly viral debates, but the comic"s half-hour interview with shrill Confederate-flag-come-to-life Tomi Lahren resulted in one of the most amusing discourses in TDS history last night.
If you"re unfamiliar with her work, Lahren is a 24-year-old pundit created in Roger Ailes" angry blonde laboratory.
We assume she"s not yet able to pass a Turing test, as instead of making millions railing against Obummer and Killary on Fox News, Lahren is desperately struggling to make a name for herself on The Blaze, which is apparently a cable network.
Lahren went toe-to-toe with Noah on last night"s TDS, and she malfunctioned so badly we assume she"ll be headed back to the workshop for Westworld-style reprogramming.
"For someone who"s not racist, you have to spend a lot of time saying you"re not racist," Noah aptly pointed out at the outset of the interview.
Lahren"s internal volume knob instantly went from 11 to 17, as she loudly declared that she "doesn"t see color," which is basically the rallying cry of people who have loudly and publicly declared that taco trucks are un-American.
She went on to prattle on about "militant actions" from Black Lives Matter supporters and otherwise brand the movement as a violent terrorist organization because it dares to speak out against the murder of black men by increasingly militarized police forces.
Noah not only held his own, but called out Lahren"s hypocrisy at every turn.
("I"m a Millennial; I don"t like labels," Lahren hilariously argued at one point, literally using a label to justify her hatred of labels.)
The whole thing is worth a cringe-watch and ought to be enough to at least temporarily quiet Noah"s critics and remind Lahren"s critics that they were so, so right from the start.
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