#Westcoast Party

[itsmikeymedrano]

Bad Bunny: World’s Hottest Tour 🐰💔🌍🔥🏝 #BadBunny #WorldsHottestTour #Oakland #California #BayArea #WestCoast #ElConejoMalo #SanBenito #Boricua #PuertoRico #X100Pre #YHLQMDLG #ElUltimoTourDelMundo #UnVeranoSinTi #MoscowMule #MePortoBonito #UnRatito #Party #Tarot #ILikeIt #Vete #YoPerreoSola #Safaera #TitiMePregunto #Dakiti #Yonaguni #MeFuiDeVacaciones #DespuesDeLaPlaya #September #Fall https://www.instagram.com/p/Cihgsxwus_e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#badbunny #worldshottesttour #oakland #california #bayarea #westcoast #elconejomalo #sanbenito #boricua #puertorico #x100pre #yhlqmdlg #elultimotourdelmundo #unveranosinti #moscowmule #meportobonito #unratito #party #tarot #ilikeit #vete #yoperreosola #safaera #titimepregunto #dakiti #yonaguni #mefuidevacaciones #despuesdelaplaya #september #fall

[trapangeles]

Dj Cheeseburger x Chef Boy - Me Too (New Music)

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#Dj Cheeseburger #Chef Boy #Me Too #Rap #Westcoast #Party

[wwwdlabrie]

Congrats to @tooshort 1 of my favorite rappers #Oakland #HipHop pioneer & inspiration for a #WestCoast Nation " B!+($ " What's your favorite #TooShort song? Grab that new @mount_westmore Album This weekend Too Short was given his own street #Tooshortway #Tooshortstreet in #EastOakland my old hood. Near @fremonthighoakland where @realsway @icecube @soulbeattv & mayor @libbyschaaf spoke to youth as part of the ceremony... I, like Short went to #FremontHighSchool (Along w many other Rap, Education,Activist,Business,Film & Sports legends) Of course I went to #Fremont way after since I'm younger &grew up on Short music pretty much my whole life "Since the Foothill bus # 43" Ogs w/ 📻 bumping my fave song #Dopefiendbeat on Ac Transit Many in this era know him for his favorite word & Sex filled Club,Party hits but growing up in #TheTown we got the full #ShortDog experience w The Live Funk band, #DangerousCrew We saw & learned up close. He had lots of deep songs & spit raw rhymes about a special city that needed a voice & Narrarator. Short explained social issues of Northern Cali in times when Hip Hop was mostly New York voices. He did for the O what Nwa did for Compton. Geto Boys for Houston etc. He added a new dimension & perspective. Rapping about our neighborhoods & Doing videos w future Oakland stars and real live people from the streets as the extras. Most of all he #Dontstoprappin Short put alot of people on too (Directly & Indirectly) I cant even name them all,but even Alot of my Rap career,Oakland pride & national respect,rap energy & opportunities comes from this Raw blueprint.I had the privilege of opening up or sharing stage at so many of his shows from early in the local come up to big events in diff states. Theres a line on my 1st album "I remember Too Short #Freakytales back of bus, way before puff i seem to have a knack for this stuff" (DM name of song 4 FREE merch 🧢👕) I spit verse for @teacha_krsone & he took me tour. They were both on #JiveRecords So thank you 🌷⚘🌹 #DLabrie #LinkInBio #MrN #RonDavouxRecords #RDV #Icreate258 #BlowtheWhistle #Oaktown #Upallnight #TheDangerousCrew #MtWestmore #MountWestmore #GetinWhereyoufitin (at East Oakland, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmD614jS12L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#oakland #hiphop #westcoast #tooshort #tooshortway #tooshortstreet #eastoakland #fremonthighschool #fremont #dopefiendbeat #thetown #shortdog #dangerouscrew #dontstoprappin #freakytales #jiverecords #dlabrie #linkinbio #mrn #rondavouxrecords #rdv #icreate258 #blowthewhistle #oaktown #upallnight #thedangerouscrew #mtwestmore #mountwestmore #getinwhereyoufitin

[blackhouseltd]

@n8noface drops in on day one of the #Fresno Punk Swap meet on the 18th with @noconsentband @tvtragedy @dead_city_punx_ and more! Ask a punk for details.

HOMICIDE out now everywhere on LP/CD/CS/DIGI via Blackhouseinc.storenvy.com

BOUND TO LET YOU DOWN: The Remixes out now on LP/Digital via @eyeball_records

Go get em!

#hxc #hardcore #punk #punkrock #synthpunk #synth #rock #indie #party #california #westcoast #skate #usa #november #thrash #dbeat #vinyl #records #n8noface #deadcity #kontra #fest #weekend #diy #culture #swapmeet

#noisey #punk #music #blackhouse #metal #art #hiphop #rap #thrash #trap #fresno #swap meet #california #hxc #diy #skate #november #punk as fuck #synthwave #synthpunk #synth #usa #westcoast #n8noface #no consent #dead city #kontra

[chuckcreekmur]

Salute the #WestCoast! One of the biggest misconceptions is the #EastCoast don’t love the West. Shout out to @djquik - who was in rare form all the way to DJing the after party. To @edidono4l who is NJ but also #westwestyall. But I chopped it up with the legend himself @rodneyo100 and told him how I played #rodneyoandjoecooley for the kids in my art class I taught back in the day. Got to see @xzibit rock #paparazzi - just an incredible MC. And also @dazdillinger and @official_kurupt! It was all ridiculous and surreal. Salute #theDOC @c.d.o.c who brought it all together for a documentary on his inspirational life in and outside of #hiphop. My bro @blackarigold even came up with Doc in dallas. #boom Lastly, respect to @chadmkiser - we didn’t even take a flick. 🤦🏾‍♂️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce5C1QLMyyw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#westcoast #eastcoast #westwestyall #rodneyoandjoecooley #paparazzi #thedoc #hiphop #boom

[funky8corners]

Dilla - Jay Stay Paid (Nature Sounds - 2009)

James Dewitt Yancey, dit J Dilla, dit Jay Dee, a rejoint Jimi Hendrix et Tupac au firmament des artistes qui ont sorti la majorité de leurs albums à titre posthume. Travailleurs infatigables, ils ont laissé tellement de morceaux inédits qu'on en découvre encore. Si Tupac et Jimi Hendrix étaient déjà des superstars mythiques de leur vivant, l'exploitation intensive du catalogue de J Dilla est plus surprenante. Certes, l'homme bénéficiait d'une réputation de producteur hors pair, mais n'ayant jamais initié une carrière solo en tant qu'artiste, il restait surtout connu des spécialistes. Jay Dee était l'archétype du producteur préféré de ton producteur préféré.

Son aura a grandi après son décès, et plus d'une dizaine d'albums posthume sont déjà sortis, d'une qualité très variable. Jay Stay Paid fait parti des bons crus. Validé par la mère J Dilla, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, Jay Stay Paid a été supervisé et assemblé par Pete Rock, producteur préféré de J Dilla.

La grande force des productions de J Dilla est leur côté "sale", comme si elles avaient été improvisées vite fait à la MPC. Et pourtant, une écoute attentive permet de déceler des trésors d'inventivité. Les samples sont découpés au laser, les beats incroyablement inventifs, non linéaires, avec des cassures, sans cesse renouvelés au cours des morceaux. Sortant de la dictature ou de la facilité de la boucle, J Dilla fait de ses MPC des instruments de musique, donnant une incroyable chaleur et un côté vivant à ses productions. Il lui suffit ensuite d'ajouter quelques lignes de clavier au-dessus pour créer des morceaux irrésistibles et jamais entendus ailleurs. "I Told Yall" amène ainsi le son rap westcoast du côté de chez Carpenter tandis que le découpage tout en cassures de "King" donne envie de furieusement secouer la nuque.

Loin d'être uniquement instrumental, l'album bénéficie du renfort de quelques rappeurs de premier choix: Lil Fame, Phat Kat, Danny Brown, le regretté DOOM, et surtout Black Thought, qui bénéficie de l'énorme "Reality TV" et Havoc et Raekwon qui assurent sur "24K Rap".

#jdilla #jaydee #jaystaidpay #vinyl #hiphop #rap #producer

#Spotify

[thehook]

Where to Eat in Lower Hutt City in 2023

Lower Hutt is especially a fascinating city for food lovers located in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. In addition to several delicious food items, the city is popular among travelers for various outdoor activities such as mountain biking, hiking, recreational walking and fishing.

People visiting the city are pretty aware of its prevalent food culture. Food aficionados love to explore new restaurants. But visiting the right restaurant in Lower Hutt is somewhat special. Let's discuss it in detail.

It hosts guests with fine cuisine

The most common reason why people visit restaurants of their choice even though it involves lighting wallet is food. One can say it a great motivator. Everyone wants to have dishes conjured up by highly creative and energetic chefs. The restaurant with these trained experts brings the perfect food taste for its guests. Carrying the decade-old reputations in pride, the food center hosts each single visitor in an incredible manner.

The Restaurant Lower Hutt makes your events successful

Restaurants are the hot spots for people who wish to celebrate their special events like birthdays, anniversaries etc. Certain restaurants in the city are known to provide superb social settings and you could enjoy wonderful food and drinks amidst friends, family, and great ambiance.

It organizes formal and informal meetings

The Lower Hutt restaurant offers excellent arrangements for business as well as informal meetings. Young love birds consider the place to hang out. You can arrange a get together party with your friends and family members to chill out and enjoy great food. Certain features of the restaurant compel you to create reasons to visit the place again and again.

The best city restaurant keeps you out of the routine -- cooking

Preparing meals and dinners is like a daily routine for mothers and wives. However the best restaurant in the city helps you get out of the schedule. It not only relaxes your mind but also rejuvenates our taste buds. Following the same timetable on a regular basis is just boring work. Thanks to the restaurant that hosts guests with family type foods in a native way.

Its food variations woo seasoned travelers

Lower Hutt witnesses foreigners from different countries of the world throughout the year. A popular restaurant is one that satiates the varied food interests of visitors. That means one can have Italian, Indian, Chinese along with the local seafood at one place. Experienced travelers know the famous dishes of every type. Thus the restaurant cooks those so that they never return with a heavy heart.

Most Popular Dishes to Order

Definitely one becomes perplexed to see the delectable dishes placed on the restaurant menu. It's really a tough time! You can find a lot of dish types from starter to main to dessert. Whatever you order you can, but the most common here is seafood that no one wants to miss. In addition to taste and deliciousness, the health benefits of seafood are immense.

Let's discuss a few popular dishes in Lower Hutt restaurants.

Bar Munchies & Beginners

A number of dishes are waiting to surprise you at the Lower Hutt restaurant include Garlic Bread, Cheesy Garlic Bread, Golden Fried Prawns, Jalapeno & Cheese Poppers, Hook Chook Wings, Asian Style Beef Salad, Mussels, Fries With Aioli and to name a few.

Brunch

Some of the popular Brunch hosted at the restaurant are Vietnamese Style Mussels, Westcoast Whitebait Omelette, Hook Fish And Chips, The Cut- 200g, etc. Needless to say, once you taste them, you will miss the experience for rest of your life.

Mains

The mouth-watering mains are the reasons for the wide popularity of the city restaurant. Be it Pan Fried Fish, Nz Lamb Shank, Aged Angus Beef Sirloin, Smoked Seafood Chowder, Tuscan Salmon, Classic Pork Ribs, or Hook Pork Trio, you can feel eternity  at the time you take the first bite.

Desserts

Cheesecake, Warm Chocolate Brownie and Deconstructed Banoffee Pie are among the most famous desserts of the restaurant. The food served at the end is supposed to remind the guests to visit once again.  

Final Words

Food! Food! Food! Wherever you go in Lower Hutt. You can find restaurants, street food shops and mobile vans along the city road. However, visiting a restaurant is something special when it comes to both food and spending quality time. Chase your goal, enjoy the moment to the fullest.  

#Lower Hutt restaurants #restaurants in lower hutt

[alphabetsoup-blogposts]

"Speaker McCarthy"

figuratively speaking, is:

[Westcoast Turnaround]

aka Peaches, but it's also an anagram of:

Pay Check Smarter (SmarterPay, SmarterPayments, SmarterCoin...)

where a Check is a Biz.

I think that's the most accessible option, although there are many other viable anagrams, including:

Mary Checks at PER (eg Perth)

Cheap Smack—Terry (a person)

Hearts Pack—Mercy (eg Red Cross Mercy Service)

Crack, Meth? Yes—PAR (Paris)

My Crack's here—TPA/apt (airport or Tampa)

and

Peter has my Crack 🤷🏻‍♀️

As well as some less viable/ridiculous ones like:

Merk at Psych Care

Merk payers at CHC (Christchurch)

Meanwhile,

"Speaker Kevin McCarthy"

could be, oh I don't know...

Party Checks are Kevin M.

Private Check—Maersk—NY

Merk Packet—NY archives 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nieve Party Checks—Mark

Merk Party Check in Vase

or

Check? Ask RiverPayment.

and you can push me all you like on Truck Drivers but that, My Friend, is what it ought to be and that, therefore, is what it is.

#anagrams #everywhere

[djjamdpg]

BREAKING NEWS!!! Starting this Wednesday, the “West Coast Wednesday Mix” is in Full Motion!!! Join me & Beto Perez @CaliBurrito every Wednesday at 9pm (PST) on @Jamn957 FM 🏃💨🔥 #DJJAM #DJJAMDPG #THEOFFICIALDJOFTHEWEST #BETOPEREZ #THEWESTCOASTWEDNESDAYMIX #JAMN957FM #IHEARTRADIO #WESTCOAST #HIPHOP #RAP #R&B #RNB #LATINSOUL #DJVATICAN #HEAVYWEIGHTS #THEARTOFTHEMIX #SERATO #STEMMIXING #music #rap #salute #radio #dj #love #instagood #party #partymusic #newsong #oldschool

[hellpitofrandomscreeches]

Nobody:

Me: HELLO MY ESTEEMED AND EXALTED FRIENDS IT IS THAT SACRED TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN

I HOPE YOU TOO HAVE GONE TO THE POLLS AND MARKED IN WHICH EVIL LORD YOU WOULD PREFER TO INVADE OUR NEWS FEEDS FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS

Also known as Election Month, that biannual period where we decide whether the world will be fucked by a party of morally bankrupt proto-nazis or a party of centrist defenseless pushovers for another four years, hashtag you got this america god bless the USA ((insert image of obnoxious and overly saturated Stars and Stripes flag overlaid with the national anthem and a saluting emoji here))

Somehow elections in this country always manage to be a weird, progressively more and more extreme twilight zone event where the two (2) ruling parties in the US each shovel all the rotting, moldy cabbages they can find out of their local supermarket waste bins and proceed to hurl them at each other with catapults while telling their respective bases why not to vote for the other side. If you do vote outside party lines it will be Death and Misery and Jail upon you all for 1000 years, also all that cabbage costs roughly 15 billion dollars and the sane people of this nation cannot fathom why you would spend this much money on 17.5 metric tons of cabbage 

We’re an Extremely Normal and Mundane country, y’all (we just really like our expired cabbage)

Anyways, in the midst of this extremely bizarre cabbage war and certain probably-shouldn’t-be-politicians tantruming like four-year-old children who Cannot Have Another Cookie, one might expect that people would get fed-up with this and want to Leave. And to this, dear random reader on this hellsite, I would say you are absolutely correct; people threaten this every year and then never do it, it’s basically a tradition of the whole thing and if no-one threatens it we have to buy all the cabbage again at full retail price and repeat the election until someone does. This is annoying and expensive and the wild cabbage is already endangered, so we usually pay Canada instead to take down their immigration website for a day and pretend it crashed from traffic in order to save another month and approximately 14.5 billion tax dollars.

But every once in a while, someone Actually tables a serious effort to secede, and it is always one of Texas or California (and not the states that have feasible chances of leaving ((see: skipping to Canada)), like Alaska or maybe Vermont). Most recently is the notion of a pact between the four Westcoast states, California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii, into a hypothetical “Pacifica” that would secede from the US over differing government/social values and the frankly bizarre and terrifying disaster that was The Blonde Gibbering Buffoon, Dare We Speak His Name. This, on paper, has several benefits for the Coastal West, which is a wealthy agriculture, technology, and strategic hub with a very different vibe from any other part of the nation, and apparently, very incompatible politics. (We solve the Redding Problem by carving it out of the ground and flying it by jet to Ohio, the rest of the rural farmland gets to adapt or die sorry)

Some scenarios envision these four states as their own nation in a sometimes balkanized US, while others see them join up with Canada and tip the power scales towards our northern neighbour. Particularly, after what is just blatantly a narrowly avoided coup on The Gibbering Buffoon (Dare We Speak His Name)’s part at this point, and worries about fixed elections, a kangaroo SCOTUS, and the claws of Ron DeSantis encroaching upon the White House next cabbage fight, people on the coast Have Had Enough of This Shit and support for the idea is at least high enough for it to be mentioned here and there. So as a native born and bred Coastal Californian, I thought I’d weigh in on the idea.

It’s rubbish.

All of it.

Unless the entire United States balkanizes into a few separate regions and power decentralizes from Washington DC, it’s not happening. And here’s why.

When people say the “westcoast” wants to secede, what they actually mean is California wants to secede. And whenever someone brings California’s Secession, AKA #Calexit, in a nationwide context, what they really mean is that Coastal California wants to secede. But make no mistake, the different regions of California most certainly do not want to secede for the same reasons. If you talk to the people on the affluent, tourist-and-corporation-dominated coast, it’s because of whatever the fresh fuck is happening over in DC/Texas/Florida this time. But head on up to rural Fresno Valley, or the low-key, overlooked town of Redding in the north, and things quickly lean more conservative. That part of the state wants to separate because it feels it’s not getting a fair rap against the far more liberal and densely populated coast, and the LA - San Bernardino regions down south are water-starved and want to secede because they feel the state isn’t handling their resources properly. 

California is larger than most European countries, and we don’t have a government that can unite all of our differing factions. Could we divide the state into different regions with their own localized governments, along with a “head” council in Sacramento? Sure, but that requires a more balanced and competent government then we actually have right now (and won’t have as long as Our Shit and Useless Servant Gavin Newsom is in office and Definitely Not Running for President). If we seceded as a state just because of what people on the coast wanted, we’d better be able to put our money where our mouth is for all regions and not just the Bay Area, LA, Sacramento, and San Diego.

Similar problems crop up in the northern states too, where Washington’s main secession argument comes from the east of the state, which doesn’t like being tacked into the more liberal coast. Also Washington State hates Canada so much that there is a piece of land the US government has to cover its ass on because Washington won’t have its border getting Canada Cooties, so for all y’all thinking we’ll just join up with Canada No Problem (more on that later) you can drop that idea at Point Robert’s doorstep. 

An argument could be made that these states have a chance of seceding if, and only if, we can unite the different factions under one government rather than just taking The Parts We Want. If that happened, the chances of a successful Pacifigone go up. But more realistically, just from how California voting works, what probably happens is the coast votes to secede and drags everyone else with them, and there’s some kind of unrest because y’all know Redding and East Washington and 70% of Oregon aren’t going with us quietly. We’d have better chances just taking the coast and Hawaii in that scenario and letting the eastern halves stay.

But then that doesn’t work either. Because as it turns out, the coast, including Hawaii, is actually of strategic importance to the US. It’s the reason we have so many navy outposts and forts here, and why Hawaii, Middle of Nowhere, has a huge military base. If there is one part of the West the US government will never let go, it’s the California coast and Hawaiian Islands. At the very least, they would demand the military remain, but then what’s the point of leaving really because the next guy could just annex us and we wouldn’t have a say in the matter. We’d be Taiwan except Taiwan actually has a chance for independence.

That’s not even getting into the economic problems of #Calexit alone. The government would crash if we left because it’s completely reliant on funding from DC, and also Our Shit and Useless Servant Gavin Newsom likes to throw boatloads of money at whatever problems we have rather than, y’know, solving them. California in its current form is not sustainable as anything except an arm of the US, and if we left and somehow didn’t crash and burn, it would require the initiative to restructure our government from the ground up starting from before we signed the Exit Papers. Assuming we did that, we would then be cut off from our most valuable resource we don’t actually have: Water. There’s only four sustainable ways for us to get water, and two of them, trading with other nations and relying completely on desalination plants, aren’t tenable for 39 million people and a lot of agricultural land. That leaves us: taking the Colorado river by force, which is a recipe for disaster, or pumping water down from Washington and Oregon, which Politiks has blocked so far. 

Assuming we get that sorted, we then need to figure out how much of our agriculture and farmland we keep, which is important for our trading power and basically means we need to make those non-coast people out in the rural farmlands and the north very happy so they don’t hop over to the US when we split. Again, all of this would require that all three pacific states secede at the same time (Hawaii optional), and that all three or four pacific states coordinate to be one territory, and that every part of each state stays in and we can distribute our resources fairly and well enough to position ourselves to do economic battle with our pissed-off next door neighbor. Tall order.

And you can bet like when the UK did Brexit, Westcoasters will lose US cred and free movement throughout the US. Corporations will leave because we’re not part of the US anymore, weakening us and then causing more corporations to leave as a result of that. Say goodbye to Hollywood and the Silicon Valley. Also anything that needs to be imported will come with huge tariffs, because, y’know, our next door neighbour is pretty pissed off with us and isn’t going to play nice. So really, there’s no true way for California and the West to be autonomous on its own - it needs to have strong relations with somewhere in the vicinity. And while I see it reaching down into the Pacific region, I do have to wonder if gravitating towards China as an alliance wouldn’t upset the political map too much. (Read: Our very pissed off next door neighbour gets even more pissed off with us and throws a tantrum and invades and sentences us to Jail For 1000 Years) Likely we’d group up with Australia/NZ, Japan, Taiwan, pull Hawaii into our orbit, and so on, but the Pacific States+islands aren’t enough of a world power to contest both the US and China. 

So this is where poor, shackled-to-our-bullshit Canada gets dragged in. The west (read: The Coast) is more liberal than the rest of the US, so would also-liberal Canada like to take us? It does seem obvious. And the answer to that is, probably not??? I mean sure, they wouldn’t turn their nose up if they were offered The Silicon Valley, but it’s worth considering just on a practical basis that there are 38 million people in all of Canada. There are 39 million people in California alone. Washington and Oregon add an extra 10.9 millionish. Under no circumstances could Canada annex the West-coast unless some Extreme Gerrymandering went on - the Westcoast would annex Canada. Not to mention if they Fucked Up the merge, more than doubling their population without government money and infrastructure to support that would be a disaster. Culturally, it would also be a disaster; differing climates (and in California’s case, Mexican/Spanish influence highly outweighing anything Canadian) aside, these are still formerly American territories, and just because they seceded doesn’t mean they’ve lost that. Canada would need to ask itself if an American influence more significant than all the people in their territory was something they wanted to invite into their country. Canada would also need to ask if they wanted to risk potential Bad Blood with the US, which would not be happy if those states jumped ship, and would especially not be happy if they jumped ship to Canada. I think Canada would trade with us and relax the border, but ultimately not take us as provinces.

(Really, the only US territories that could realistically join Canada are the ones with geographical proximity, such as Alaska, Vermont, Maine, etc.; I’m not convinced they would want to extend too far south at all even if US opposition wasn’t a factor.)

But there’s still one final nail in the coffin that outweighs any of the logistics or potential benefits. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that yes; California, Washington, Oregon, and maybe Hawaii all seceded from the US, and this happened peacefully and without a military tantrum from USgov; that yes, they were able to unbork their governments, redistribute their resources, relocalize districts and power to make everyone happy and unified, and hold on to their economic, corporate, and farming leverage, and that they then formed strong trade alliances with the AUS/NZ/Pacific Islands region, Japan, perhaps China, the US, and Canada. Maybe to sweeten the pot, Canada actually does take us, and it somehow isn’t a disaster. In a vacuum, everything is perfect. But then, what’s happening in the US proper?? If the West leaves, you’ve pretty much just saddled whatever’s left of the Midwest+NYC area with Jesusland Racist Hell. 

That place will go to the (proto-nazi) dogs quick, because here’s the thing: The US can take the hit of not having the Westcoast anymore, and still be the world’s most powerful country. Except, now it doesn’t have the one serious balance check that the Democratic Party needs to have a chance. If the West seceded, in just a matter of two or four years the Republican Party would control everything. Y’know, those guys who look up to Victor Orban’s meticulous dismantling of Hungary’s democratic system as a role model so much they had him come speak in Texas. The ones who stacked and bought SCOTUS while simultaneously admitting to being a pure obstructionist party intent on making sure no-one does anything productive in the government if it’s not them. The ones who spout routine trans/homo/racial/xenophobic content constantly on mainstream news media. The ones who sponsored McConnel, and Trump, and DeSantis. The ones who willingly condone the suffering cutting our basic welfare programs would bring, and already condoned the suffering the abortion bans brought. The ones who can’t even hold themselves to the very lowest bar of decency and guarantee they wouldn’t just turn around and start helping Russia instead of Ukraine if given the keys to Congress. The ones who mostly stood by and stayed silent and even helped out when Trump was trying to dismantle our election system. Those guys. 

If the West secedes, there would be about two years at best before the rest of the US falls into the claws of someone like Trump or DeSantis and spirals into a mirror of Margaret Atwood’s Gilead. The GoP knows this. They would hold the door open for us and slam it on the way out. And at that point, given the US Proper’s obsession with the military, we could quickly expect another Anschluss - The West and Canada would become the Austria and France to the US’ Nazi Germany. 

The truth is that just like Canada is shackled to our bullshit, we’re shackled to DC just like the other Lower 45 are. Running away from our problems - the main reason we’d secede - isn’t going to make them better, it’ll just expedite them. So for better or worse, we’re all in this together. And knowing that it is we on the coasts who make the hope for a sane political majority going forward possible means we’re obligated to do at least one thing at minimum: stick around, and make our voices heard. (If we overthrow Our Shit and Useless Servant Gavin Newsom and install someone who will actually run the government properly, that’d be great too, but no fingers crossed on that one) 

There’s no good future in which the West leaves and the rest of the nation stays intact and able to inflict whatever damage it likes. But it’s also becoming clear there may be no good future for the nation in general if it continues on like it is. Part of me wonders if we’ll voluntarily balkanize into a few bigger regions in the future, or if we’ll separate by predominantly “red” or “blue” state. A US with a more european-union stance to its state boundaries and an emphasis on local governments could solve a lot of problems, and given the way things are trending after SCOTUS’ overturn of Roe, that’s the way we might drift. 

Or, y’know, we could start sawing. It hasn’t worked in Florida yet but we’ve got two times the people we might just pull it off

/endrant

#midterms #election #thisissomethingthatmighthappeniguessbutnotreally #calexit #shower thoughts #USpolitik

[itsmikeymedrano]

#Cheers to #31 (10th Anniversary of being 21) 🥳🎂🥃♊️ #HappyBirthday #ItsMyBirthday #Celebrate #Wine #Vino #GlassofWine #WineCountry #WineLover #WineTasting #Winery #California #WestCoast #Drinks #Party #Balloons #Cake #Gifts #Surprise #Friends #Reunion #Blessed #Grateful #Healthy #Thankful #June #Summer https://www.instagram.com/p/CeewoHTvKGX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[trapangeles]

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[wwwdlabrie]

#Fbf #FreeKafani with my bros @kafani & #JohnCoston @m1promo The good old days ! Not sure what exact club or city. All of us was always somewhere on the grind. Since #Babyfaceassassins always been big love for his movement. Both Straight outta #Oakland moving #FAST ! #LikeaNascar If you didnt know this who @saweetie (Who also from The Bay) song #FastMotion was remixing. #Kafanitheiceking has alot of huge national hits reppin #TheTown Terrible what happened to bro. I grew up near Sem City & the night of shooting i was driving down Seminary coming from my bday party in Downtown Oakland speeding, faded & nearly ran into the police barricades & hit a right so hard on Walnut i thought police was chasing me. I panicked & went all away around tryna get back to 60th & foothill. I knew it was something real bad. Cuz it happens too often & this my old hood. I know the danger level I told @shamakodonae i hope this not somebody i know. It had almost been me shot on that street many a night. Next day i wake up hungover & see its my bro #Kafani in critical condition 😢 💔 We Grew up Traumatized from gun violence in #EastOakland glad he pulled through. Salute #Iceking for staying strong through alot of rough situations while living your dreams & feeding your fam . Around the country we loosing too many too soon. Please Choose Life, Peace & Unity ☝🏿✊🏿 Love yall #DLabrie #LinkinBio #MrNETW3RK #RonDavouxRecords #RDV #IceKing #TheIceKing #FastlikeaNascar #Saweetie #BayArea #California #Westcoast #HipHop #Rap #Music #flashbackfridays #flashbackfriday (at Bay Area, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl-yHnuSaQF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[lastreetcars]

Repost from @secretsociety_sc • 🚨 LIVE PERFORMANCE BY @itsareignstorm Sept/25th ! Join us for Ventura County’s Modded Block Party (charity car show) ALL GENERAL ADMISSION IS FREE! We would love for you to come express your support for @industryhorror a 501c3 foundation helping people with disabilities. Don’t miss out on the Limbo Contest, Foot Races, Car Show Competition, and so much more *FIRST 50 cars registered get a goodie bag* 🤩 A collaboration between @redline_regime / @msmotorhead / @sscargroup ———————————————- Join our SECRET SOCIETY. #carculture #supercar #carmeet #carcommunity #charitygroup #socialclub #cargirl #carguy #carlife #venturacarshow #venturacarscene #westcoast #secretsociety #venturacalifornia https://www.instagram.com/p/CitiWC3rMdp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[successkeepsspittin]

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[bespokecurry]

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