Funny enough, there's a CalExit movement too.
I doubt it would ever be allowed to go through though.
As for my two cents, it happened. Its over. The sun rose yesterday morning, it rose again this morning and will continue to rise for a great many more*. Trump was not the president I voted for, but he is the one the states chose** and so he is my president.
I won't lie, as a guy who works for directly for Uncle Sam under the DoD, I'm a tad worried about what exactly he's going to do to my job and such, what with his talks of hiring freezes and downsizing and likely a cutback on things like cost of living adjustments (small, but usually yearly raises to try keep up with inflation. They haven't, really), but its not worth freaking out about right now.
Same goes for the vast majority of "promises" he's made. I mean, c'mon, how many presidents have actually kept all of their campaign promises? Especially ones as ridiculous as he's made...
One thing's for sure, this is going to be a very interesting 4 years. Currently, I'm past the despondent stage and have begun to transition to something close to very, very cautiously optimistic. But, we'll see.
*Well, I certainly hope it does. If the world ends before the Star Wars movies get done, I'm going to be sorely disappointed.
**and despite popular belief, even though we all vote, it is the states that that choose. We more get to vote on what our state's votes will be. The USA is a republic, not a democracy. There's a difference. The reason it is like that is so that 3 or 4 relatively small portions of the USA (California. New England, NY, etc) don't completely overpower the entire rest of the nation in the presidential election.
Edited by Shotgun Willy, 10 November 2016 - 05:52 PM.
I hate my phone sometimes