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kpete

(72,904 posts) Thu Dec 15, 2016, 09:36 AM Dec 2016

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Jerry Brown: "If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite" [View all]

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Jerry Brown: "If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite" [View all] kpete Dec 2016 OP

Thank goodness I am in California, and f**k trump, and the assholes he rode in with still_one Dec 2016 #1

You're speaking for me, still_one spiderpig Dec 2016 #2

That is the problem spider. This was a generational event, and unless something very still_one Dec 2016 #5

The same conversation we had last night. BigDemVoter Dec 2016 #14

You know what they say, 'the crap always rises to the top' nolabels Dec 2016 #19

quite frankly, at the rate the apricot asshole is going, I am not sure we will last until niyad Dec 2016 #22

Amen to that. BigDemVoter Dec 2016 #13

I just moved from D.C. to California and think this is the place to be for awhile. Glimmer of Hope Dec 2016 #31

Brown could solicit donations from the other 49 states and easily fund a satellite. LonePirate Dec 2016 #3

Although nice thought, it would take billions yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #4

I didn't think they were that expensive. Lots of corporate entities seem to have launched them Dream Girl Dec 2016 #6

That's good to hear. I hope California can do this then. yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #10

We are strong and resourceful, and Jerry tends to do what he says he will. Silver Gaia Dec 2016 #16

I hope Trump tries this azureblue Dec 2016 #23

Yep, if drumpf can't make money from something or reap more power, it won't happen. lark Dec 2016 #7

It wouldn't take many billions to build it and use a private agency or the ESA to launch it. LonePirate Dec 2016 #12

Maybe we can utilize Elon Musk's spaceX to launch the satellite still_one Dec 2016 #9

Wish I was still in California! jimlup Dec 2016 #8

We all in this together, and we have to unite if for nothing else than to oppose trump's still_one Dec 2016 #11

I am moving to California as soon as they secede from what once the USA. Moostache Dec 2016 #15

You might want to get there a few days before so as not to be a "defector." n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author Raine Dec 2016 #29

That's my home! n/t California_Republic Dec 2016 #17

Turn off the satellites or repurpose them? colorado_ufo Dec 2016 #18

More power to Gov. Brown and the People of Ca randr Dec 2016 #20

The absolute ignorance of this fool (Trump), AND the lapdogs which he dae Dec 2016 #21

I love my governor n/t wryter2000 Dec 2016 #24

We are one of the world's aerospace centers. denbot Dec 2016 #25

Will you have a foreign legion? Will it take someone pushing seventy? n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #27

Dude, denbot Dec 2016 #28

When you secede I will be a tofu-eating Foreign Legionaire refugee from Florida in rzemanfl Dec 2016 #30

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