Republican Vote Against E.V. Mandate Felt Like an Attack on California, Democrats Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/trump-california-environment-gas-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.8vl9.YDjLSpxpCr9x
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simplejack@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 1y
โStates rightsโ
But not for blue states.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
๐ ๐จโ๐ ๐ซ ๐จโ๐
futatorius@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
California needs to join together with Washington and Oregon and break away from the US. It'll fast track the collapse of this shithole. Cali alone is what? 9th largest economy on earth? They'll be fine. Break and join BRICS. Other states will follow and the Clown Prince's 4th reich will have lost a not insignificant chunk of its tax money.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y
That's exactly what Russia has been pushing for.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The fucks Russia got to do with it?
Were you around for Bush's Global War On Peace? I've hated this country for more than half my life.
podperson@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Last I checked, CA was fourth, BUT we do participate in our federal govt and both give and receive from that arrangement, so hard to say that if CA was completely independent of that what the numbers would actually show.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Uneducated inbreds can't understand things. More breaking news at 11
AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 1y
Republicans hate my state. I welcome their hatred.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
It pretty explicitly was...
AmidFuror@fedia.io · -23 pts · 1y
Both sides are the same. They're beholden to their corporate masters who make them - checks notes - enforce higher mileage standards and the phase-out of internal combustion engines.