A Pope came from a Warsaw Pact country, and the Soviet Union "empire" disbanded.
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A Pope came from a Warsaw Pact country, and the Soviet Union "empire" disbanded.
The current Pope comes from Chicago.
I'll go to buy pop corns.
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The idea of the United States existing as its current set of 50 states forever is ludicrous. I'm wondering how it will balkanize..
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I guess some Irish bookmakers, without too much ado, are accepting bets on which state will be the first one to secede.
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People like to think that it is Texas, but I doubt that will be the case. While Texas is not one of the red states that gets more federal money than they pay, it is a state highly dependent on the defense industry and hosting many corporate HQs that will likely leave upon secession.
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California alone has a GDP comparable to that of the whole France, so I'd bet on West Coast.
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@Enema_Cowboy @GustavinoBevilacqua The red states are getting basically everything they want. It’ll be a blue state if anything.
California seems as likely as anything; it’s easy to imagine that Washington and Oregon (or half of Oregon—the eastern part of the state is much more right-wing). would go with them. But the federal government would not give up the naval and commercial ports on the west coast. There’d be another civil war.
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IIRC the tyrannical constitution of the Soviet Union had a clause allowing peripheral states to become independent.
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It will probably balkanize when Trump runs for a third term. This is unconstitutional, but so is having a sitting president impeached for Insurrection (it is like Treason, but you do it for yourself instead of others).
My guess? Groups of states will drop out during or shortly after the next presidential election. There will be some minor conflicts, and then Trump will rule over the remaining "red" states until he dies, then that will also fall apart.
