- Location
- California
Probably would be easier overall to get a digital copy of whatever book from the internet, amazon carries books on gunsmithing through their kindle service too.
A Golden Island To The West — California ISOT from 2018 to 1850
- Thread starter Instant Sunrise
- Start date
- Original 19th Century Supernatural
Zap Rowsdower
Ex-cultist vagrant
- Location
- Bright lights, big city
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Are their servers in CA?
- Location
- California
All 3 of Amazon's western half of the USA data servers are located in northern California.
- Location
- Charlotte
Forgot to post this after the latest update.
Boeing 797, in the liveries of the first downtime airlines.
And for those that want the template on its own, here it is:
Boeing 797, in the liveries of the first downtime airlines.
And for those that want the template on its own, here it is:
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ExNihilo
SPACE!
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Second pics brokenForgot to post this after the latest update.
Boeing 797, in the liveries of the first downtime airlines.
And for those that want the template on its own, here it is:
- Location
- Charlotte
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
literally any university library, with its research librarians and extensive collections of patent filings and precise technical drawings on paper or microfilm tho
FailLord
2050 lb bombs?
- Location
- very high up
That's what I ment with University Archives.
- Location
- California
while Archives will give them a big leg up, there's a reason why institutional knowledge and experience is so vital. There's been a number of cases where going back to archives lets teh people know that some step wasn't detailed enough, so a lot of work has to be done to figure it out.
And ignoring that, most technological developments are dependent on others--IE, having a book on gunsmithing may not help you until you can make the metal needed for it, and have reliable chemical processes for the powder, etc, etc.
The most complex you get, in fact, you may be hurting yourself by trying to copy the top of the pyrimid, instead of working on the base of the pyramid--those technological developments that underly the eventual end product.
Matsci
Grash itsh griah! Rwar arr rawrrawrarar!
Or you could go to the Gun Manufactures that exist in california, that have full tooling lines in California.
I know at least one exists right now in Paso Robles, CA. While they are planning to move to Wyoming, most of there production line for guns and ammo was still here Pre-ISOT.
LHB
Economics don't work like that!
- Location
- Glasgow, UK originally from California
@Instant Sunrise what's going to happen to Kaiser Permanente? Are they going to be nationalized into an ersatz NHS?
Instant Sunrise
Queen Shit of Liesville
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Pronouns
- her/she
Something like that yes. Remember that the UHC bill was put on the ballot and passed atbtge very beginning of the story.
Chapter 0 — The Road to CalExit (REVISED EDITION)
Instant Sunrise
Queen Shit of Liesville
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Pronouns
- her/she
—2016—
January 4th, 2016: Yes California founder Louis Marinelli is struck by a car while crossing the street in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He is taken to a hospital in critical condition, but passes away from his injuries shortly afterwards.
February 16th, 2016: The Sixth Street Bridge suffers a partial collapse over the LA River. The bridge had already been closed and was scheduled for demolition and rebuilding due to an Alkali-Silica reaction in the bridge's concrete.
May 26th, 2016: Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president.
May 27th, 2016: Venture Capitalist Shervin Pishevar joins the boards of directors for the California National Party and the Yes California campaign.
June 5th, 2016: The Associated Press decides to hold off on declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of the Democratic nomination until after the California primary to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
June 7th, 2016: Hillary Clinton wins the California Democratic Primary by 51.06% to Sanders' 48.04%. Hillary Clinton declared winner of Democratic Nomination.
July 22nd, 2016: Tim Kaine is announced as Clinton's running mate.
September 8th, 2016: At a campaign rally in Ohio, Trump says that he'd cut off California's water if they kept protecting undocumented immigrants.
October 27th, 2016: James Comey decides to hold off on releasing a letter about additional emails until after the election.
November 8th, 2016: Donald Trump wins the presidential election election with 276 electoral votes, but loses the popular vote by 3.2 million votes.
November 10th, 2016: James Comey sends the letter to the House Intelligence Committee about the investigation on additional emails that had been found and that after investigation, contained no additional evidence of crimes committed by Clinton. Republican commentators accuse Comey of withholding the information to try and help Clinton win the election.
December 10th, 2016: Yes California submits their independence initiative to the Secretary of State.
—2017—
January 3rd, 2017: Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell changes the vote threshold to close debate in the Senate, eliminating the filibuster.
January 15th, 2017: Yes California gets the official title and summary from the Secretary of State and gets the go ahead to start gathering signatures.
January 20th, 2017: Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president.
January 20th, 2017: During a J20 protest in Downtown Los Angeles, a Trump supporter named David Johnson drives a pickup truck into a crowd of protesters on Figueroa st., injuring six and killing one. Video footage of the attack showing a Texas license plate goes viral. (although though the driver lived in Palmdale and had only recently moved to California). Pres. Trump does not make a statement or acknowledge the attacks for several days, choosing instead to tweet about the crowd size of the inauguration and accusing the National Park Service of "fake news."
February 7th, 2017: Despite record-breaking rainfall and flooding, the Oroville Dam Spillway holds up and does not crack. However, later inspections of the spillway would show severe damage and would require repairs.
February 14th, 2017: Trump invited FBI Director James Comey to the White House to discuss the allegations of Russian interference in the election. Comey is subsequently terminated as FBI director.
February 18th, 2017: Trump signs an executive order opening California's waters to offshore drilling.
February 28th, 2017: USC Dornsife releases a poll showing that 10% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
March 8th, 2017: A right-wing militia from Asheville, North Carolina calling themselves the "proud boys" go door to door in the Mission District neighborhood of San Francisco with modified AR-15 rifles and demanding that Hispanic residents show proof of immigration status. The situation ends violently when the group starts exchanging gunfire with the SFPD for several minutes, killing 4 bystanders in the process. Residents streamed the incident on Facebook Live and Periscope, pleading for people to come and help them.
March 15th, 2017: A Trump supporter opens fire in a Los Angeles coffee shop, 13 people were wounded but fortunately nobody was killed. Investigations into the shooters online history shows that he was a believer in a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Jerry Brown were all members of a satanic pedophile ring, the conspiracy theory quickly gets dubbed "Coffeegate" by the media.
March 20th, 2017: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is introduced to Congress.
April 4th, 2017: Yes California announces that it has reached the 585,407 signature threshold to qualify for the ballot in 2018.
April 10th, 2017: Discord servers on the west coast shut down for 5 hours.
April 19th, 2017: Congress introduces the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
April 28, 2017: SB1, The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 is signed by Governor Brown into law. It raises the gas tax by $0.12 per gallon in order to fund the backlog of road maintenance. The bill is passed by a 54-26 party line vote in the Assembly and in the State Senate with 26 Democrats and 2 Republicans voting in favor of it, 10 Republicans and 1 Democrat voting against it, and a Democrat and a Republican abstaining from the vote. (Unlike OTL, Newman abstained and Berryhill voted yes)
May 10th, 2017: The Department of Justice indicts former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on 20 various counts, ranging from electoral fraud to mishandling of classified material. Legal scholars call the charges flimsy and don't believe they will hold up in court. Protests by liberal groups erupt across the country as people view this as a transparent attempt at political intimidation. The New York Times publishes an editorial saying that the United States was officially a banana republic now.
June 1st, 2017: Former San Diego City Councilmember and talk radio host Carl DeMaio files paperwork for a veto referendum against SB1 to appear on the June 2018 ballot.
June 7th, 2017: DeMaio receives the official title and summary for the veto referendum and his supporters along with signature gatherers funded by the National Republican Congressional Committee who see the referendum as a strategy to boost electoral turnout in congressional districts that had the potential to unseat longtime Republican incumbents.
June 18th, 2017: ABC News a poll showing that 22% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
July 16th, 2017: Sand to Snow National Monument and Giant Sequoia National Monument have their National Monument status stripped by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.
August 2nd, 2017: The veto referendum for SB1 receives enough signatures to be placed on the June 2018 ballot as Proposition 75.
October 2017: A series of wildfires devastates Northern California, leading to what would become the worst fire season on record. Trump refuses to sign a disaster declaration. Later investigation from CalFire shows that the largest fire in Napa was caused by poorly maintained power equipment owned and maintained by Pacific Gas and Electric.
October 2nd, 2017: SB562, The Healthy California Act, which would establish a single-payer healthcare system in California is passed by legislature. It will go before the voters next year in order to become law.
October 4th, 2017: A group of far right militia members from militant anti-immigration groups including the Minutemen, Oathkeepers, and 3 percenters attempt to march down Whittier Blvd. in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles while chanting slogans such as "build the wall!" They are met in the streets and vastly outnumbered by Antifa counter protestors and Black Bloc militants. The media coverage shows the anti-immigrant groups being pushed back by the black bloc, and many in the media draw parallels between these events and Britain's Battle of Cable Street.
October 5th, 2017: Jerry Brown signs SB-54, the California Values Act into law. The law would prohibit California Law Enforcement agencies from sharing information with ICE for non-violent offenders, as well as prohibiting LEOs from honoring ICE detainer requests.
October 9th, 2017: Trump signs an executive order suspending all federal law enforcement funding to California until SB-54 is repealed. Jeff Sessions files a lawsuit against California seeking to block the law and to force California law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE.
October 9th, 2017: FBI opens investigation into suspected Russian involvement in the 2016 elections.
October 10th, 2017: The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act makes it out of committee and is scheduled for a debate and vote on the House floor on November 5th.
October 13th, 2017: The Tax Freedom Act is passed by Congress and heads to President Trump's desk to sign.
The Tax Freedom Act as passed removes the state and local tax deductions, Wildfire losses are also not deductible unless in the event of a federally declared emergency, the tax credits for solar, wind and electric cars are removed.
October 17th: Congress introduces the American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
October 31st, 2017: A protest against a Milo Yiannopoulos speaking engagement at CSU Fullerton turns violent as an armed counter-protester named Peter Adams pulls out a concealed handgun and fires several shots into the crowd, hitting several people with glancing hits. Fullerton police arrest him and charge him on several counts, including unlawful possession of a firearm. Adams claimed that he felt threatened by the protestors when they surrounded him, and that he only fired warning shots into the ground.
November 1st, 2017: OC Weekly reveals that Adams had a CCW permit for Arizona but not one for California. This is quickly picked up by the rest of the media and used as a rallying cry against concealed carry reciprocity.
November 5th, 2017: The House of Representatives passes the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act with 225 votes.
November 15th, 2017: Dianne Feinstein announces that she will refuse to let the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act out of committee in the Senate.
November 18th, 2017: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito forces the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act out of committee on a party line vote.
November 20th, 2017: YouGov releases a poll showing that 41% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
November 22nd, 2017: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act is passed by the Senate 50-49, it goes to President Trump's desk for signing.
December 2017: An unusually late fire season devastates Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, along with additional wildfires in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties.
December 5th, 2017: California National Party candidate Wendy Carrillo wins the Assembly District 51 special election to fill now-congressman Jimmy Gomez's seat, giving the CNP their first seat in the state legislature. Carrillo had previously run in the 34th Congressional District special election to replace now-Attorney General Xavier Becerra as a Democrat, where she lost to Assemblymember Gomez. As the only member of the CNP in the state legislature, Carrillo announced that she would still caucus with the state Democrats.
December 18th, 2017: Congress fails to pass the World's Greatest Healthcare System Act that would rescind key portions of the Affordable Care Act.
—2018—
January 8th, 2018: Mitch McConnell reintroduces the AHCA to the Senate, with several provisions added in at the request of the House Freedom Caucus.
February 1st, 2018: Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announces his candidacy for US Senate on a platform of Medicare for All and resistance to Trump.
February 2nd, 2018: The KKK firebombs a Starbucks in downtown Seattle. 6 people were killed with 22 suffering severe burns. 4 people were charged with manslaughter and arson.
February 3rd, 2018: FBI raid on Trump Tower in New York City reveals new evidence that points towards Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
February 8th, 2018: Howl at the Moon nightclub in Charlotte NC gets bombed by right wing terrorists. Later investigations reveal possible backing from prominent Trump supporters.
February 9th, 2018: Opinion Research Council releases the results of a poll showing that 38% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
February 17th, 2018: David Johnson is convicted of Vehicular Manslaughter. Friends of the victims protest the light charges.
March 2nd, 2018: After being tailored behind closed doors and without public input, the AHCA passes the Senate 50-50, with Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote.
March 18th, 2018: Sessions v. Becerra: The Supreme Court upholds SB-54 as constitutional, and applies restrictions to ICE on the use of detainer requests to local & state law enforcement.
April 5th, 2018: Jeff Sessions announces a new "Zero Tolerance" policy for families crossing the border, beginning a controversial policy of separating children from their families, as well as a series of ICE dragnets in major cities.
April 6th, 2018: The House version of the AHCA is voted on and passes by a party line vote. Added to the house bill was a provision that would forbid Medicare or Medicaid funding from being used to fund a single-payer system. The bill is sent back to the senate to a conference committee.
April 17th, 2018: SB 827, nicknamed the YIMBY act, a proposed bill to make housing more affordable near transit stations by allowing for a process to allow exemptions from certain local zoning codes and parking minimums near transit routes is passed by the California Legislature. It includes several compromise provisions added at the behest of the Sierra Club and Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY), Public Housing In My Backyard (PHIMBY) groups to expand the supply of affordable housing and ease concerns about gentrification. The bill also includes a provision that partly repeals the Costa-Hawkins Act as a compromise with affordable housing advocates who had collected signatures to put a full repeal of Costa Hawkins on the November 2018 ballot.
April 25th, 2018: The AHCA emerges from the conference committee in its final form, with the anti-single-payer provisions intact.
May 5th, 2018: Both the house and senate pass the AHCA and send it to Trump to sign.
May 12th, 2018: The California Republican Party and Republican National Committee endorse Businessman and Perennial Candidate John Cox for Governor of California.
May 16th, 2018: Bucking the state and national GOP, Trump tweets his endorsement for Huntington Beach Assemblymember Travis Allen (R) in the race for Governor, splitting the Republican electorate between Allen and Cox.
June 5th, 2018: Gavin Newsom (D) and Antonio Villaraigosa (D) win the Gubernatorial primary election and will advance to the general election. Other statewide Democrat vs Democrat races include Kevin De Léon vs Ed Hernandez for Lieutenant Governor, and Dave Jones vs Dianne Feinstein for US Senator.
June 5th, 2018: A ballot referendum from the state legislature that would change the inverse condemnation rules for power utility companies whose equipment is found to be the cause of a wildfire is defeated 2:1 by voters.
June 5th, 2018: The ballot referendum for SB1 is approved by the voters 55-45, causing the law to be enacted.
June 14th, 2018: Public Policy Polling releases the results of a poll showing that 49% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
June 20th, 2018: American Airlines flight 477 explodes at the terminal at SJC after a battery fire. The explosion claimed the lives of 12 passengers and 8 ground crew. Investigation into the explosion revealed that the fire suppression system was sabotaged. This was most likely an attempt to eliminate former FBI Director James Comey, who was a passenger on the plane.
June 27th, 2018: Janus v AFSCME: The Supreme Court strikes a major blow to collective bargaining for public sector unions.
July-August 2018: A series of devastating wildfires hit California. Like the 2017 fires, Trump refuses to sign a disaster declaration. Also random, unexplained failures and malfunctions of electrical devices start happening all over California with a higher rate occurring near the borders of the state. Most failures and malfunctions were temporary, lasting from a few minutes to a few hours.
July 1st, 2018: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt revokes the Clean Air Act Waiver for California. Cars will no longer have to meet California's emission standards going forward, only the recently loosened federal standards.
July 7, 2018: A train carrying 27 cars, some loaded with fertilizer, derails in Milwaukee. The incident kills 30 people and injures 7.
July 9th, 2018: CARB files suit against the EPA over the revocation of the Clean Air Act Waiver.
July 12th, 2018: Riots break out after counter-protestors attack an anti-Trump rally in Charlotte. At least 3 people were killed when a truck plowed through the crowd of protestors.
July 15th, 2018: Ardrey Kell High School falls victim to two separate school shooters attacking at the same time. Both shot each other dead.
July 24th, 2018: In the middle of talks between Trump and automotive industry leaders, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne collapses in front of a large crowd. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead a day later.
July 27th, 2018: An unidentified individual wearing 19th century style clothing runs into the lobby of the San Diego Convention Center and convulses on the floor. First responders pronounce him dead on the scene. Found on said individual is 19th century currency that is in excellent condition.
July 27th, 2018: While bringing online their new Data Center in Barstow, Google servers temporarily shut down for 30 minutes. Cause is later determined to be an unexpected failure of switching equipment near the California-Oregon border.
August 1st, 2018: Trump's budget for the new year includes drastic reductions in discretionary spending in California, New York, and New Jersey. In addition, as the first budget after Medicaid had been converted to a block grant, California received a 30% reduction in medicaid spending compared to last year.
August 4th, 2018: A plot to bomb a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Phoenix is thwarted after an anonymous tip reveals the location of a 3 percenter safehouse in Phoenix.
August 12th 2018: Cell service shuts down for 2 hours, from 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM. Cause is undetermined.
August 15th, 2018: A Douglas C-54 with an engine on fire makes an emergency landing at LAX. The three crew and six passengers are taken to a hospital for treatment after the landing. The serial number of the aircraft matches one that went missing in 1964, and the nine people on board are also a match for the people on board the aircraft when it vanished.
September 13th, 2018: A Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation painted in an old Flying Tigers livery appears off the coast of California and is forced to land at SFO. The crew say they had no idea how they got to the coast of California as they had just left Guam after a refueling stop as part of a flight from Travis Air Force Base to Vietnam. The plane's serial number matched that of the plane that operated Flying Tigers Flight 739 which vanished completely on March 16th, 1962. All 107 people onboard match descriptions of the missing passengers and crew. Conspiracy theorists calling in to Coast to Coast start claiming the two missing planes showing up are part of some top secret government experiment and that more missing planes will show up.
September 15th, 2018: A fight breaks out on a flight when a Trump supporter tries to sexually assault a Hispanic single mother. The Trump supporter is beaten up, taken off of the plane, and arrested for sexual assault.
September 17th, 2018: FCC v Becerra: In a 5-4 split, Supreme Court rules unconstitutional the preemption clause of the FCC order repealing Net Neutrality, upholding California's statewide Net Neutrality bill SB 822.
September 20th, 2018: A Hammerskins plot to simultaneously attack multiple gay clubs and ethnic neighborhoods in California is leaked onto Reddit and 4chan by a hacker associated with Anonymous. All members involved with the plot(at least 1,000) were arrested. If the plot went through, it would be the single largest terror attack ever orchestrated.
September 28th, 2018: A combination of flooding and human error causes Tacoma, Washington to lose power for a week. Trump does not acknowledge this for three days, tweeting about how the coal industry needs to be saved instead.
September 30th, 2018: A track day at Laguna Seca is interrupted by a Porsche 550 Spyder suddenly manifests on the corkscrew, way causing a Porsche 911 to spin out onto the grass. The driver looks Identical to James Dean, who died when his Porsche 550(named "Little Bastard") crashed into another car.
October 1st, 2018: FCC Director Ajit Pai and EPA Chief Scott Pruitt resign over increasing controversy over allegations of corruption.
October 3rd, 2018: Los Angeles loses power for 3 hours. This coincides with a Tesla Model S suddenly starting and accelerating into a wall. No one was hurt in that incident.
October 7, 2018: The FBI releases evidence of Russian links to many right wing groups and the Trump Administration
October 10th, 2018: Right wing terrorists affiliated with Oathkeepers and 3 percenters open fire at a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. 20 people were killed and 30 more were injured. All terrorists were either killed or arrested. Ford and many others sue Oathkeepers and 3 percenters for 30 million dollars, one of the largest lawsuit payoffs in history. This causes both groups to disband after the arrest of many key leaders.
October 12th, 2018: General Motors CEO Mary Barra sues Alex Jones over verbal abuse directed at her children.
October 13th, 2018: A power surge cuts power to Primm Valley for 3 hours.
October 14th, 2018: According to ground crew at Vandenberg AFB, an unknown individual manifests right next to the starboard engine of Stargazer, an L-1011 Tristar owned by Orbital Sciences. The individual warns ground crew of issues in the hydraulics and the pylon the rocket was to be mounted on. Pre Flight Checks the next day reveals issues with the hydraulic systems and pylon. The plane was immediately grounded to fix these issues. The unknown figure bears resemblance to Don Repo, a flight engineer who died when another L-1011, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, crashed in 1972. This is the first reported sighting on Don Repo's 'ghost' since Eastern Air Lines removed all equipment salvaged from Flight 401 from its fleet of L-1011s in the late 1970s.
October 15th, 2018 - 9:35 PM: Security footage shows an unidentified male entering a Ralph's in Anaheim, shouting in an unidentifiable language, and then dashing into the break room before vanishing into thin air according to witnesses present that night. The male is not seen in the break room or in any other area in and around the store.
October 19th, 2018: Amid increasing controversy, Elon Musk is ousted as CEO of Tesla. He is replaced by Steve Ballmer as CEO. Musk retains his position as CEO of SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Neuralink.
October 23rd, 3018: A car bomb explodes at Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, killing 12 people. The bomber was revealed to have been a former 3 percenter militant taking revenge on Ford for causing the collapse of 3 percenters. The bomber was given a death sentence.
October 28th, 2018: Robert Bowers, a white supremacist, attacked Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in a shooting. 11 people were killed and 6 were injured. Trump failed to denounce the attackers, causing uproar in America.
October 29th, 2018 - Sarin Gas was detected at Kumoricon in Portland, Oregon. 20 people were found dead in the attack. The perpetrators were found to have had ties with both Trump and the Russian Government.
October 30th, 2018: A pair of Tu-95 bombers are spotted off the coast of California. The California Air National Guard intercepts the fleet.
October 31st, 2018: The sky changes colors to orange. This lasts until 11:59 pm. Strangely, this phenomenon was limited to the borders of California
November 1st, 2018: A plane later identified by witnesses as an old United Airlines DC-6 appears in the sky near the border near Fremont and Union City. It flew towards San Francisco Bay before turning east over western Newark. Over central Newark, it turned south-east and continued in that direction before turning north over Ohlone College in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont. The plane continued to fly north before crashing into Tolman Peak in southern Union City. Rescue crews race to the scene but fail to find any signs of wreckage.
November 3rd, 2018: A "pineapple express" atmospheric river condition brings 16 inches of rain to the northern parts of the state over a 72 hour period.
November 4th-6th 2018: A glitched fire sale on Amazon causes prices for every item to be reduced by 99.99% for West Coast users instead of 9.99% for the rest of the world. This glitch persists until the beginning of the Event.
November 4th 2018: A fire breaks out at Trump National Golf Club in Palos Verdes. President Trump is rumored to have been considering declaring said fire a federal emergency.
November 6th, 2018: California votes yes on the independence initiative 53-47. The rate of unexplained failures and malfunctions of electronic devices increases dramatically after the polls close.
November 6, 2018 - 8:00 PM: All flights going out of California experience malfunctions (mostly take off configuration alarms giving false alarms) forcing air traffic control to become creative in how to fit all aircraft at California airports that can't divert to out of state airports. These malfunctions last until the start of the Event.
November 6th, 2018 - 11:53 PM: The Event - California suddenly goes dark, and all contact is lost with the state.
November 7th, 2018: Aerial and satellite photography taken in the morning shows that most of the urbanization and construction in California vanished overnight. Geographical experts look at the aerial photographs and date it to around the mid 19th century.
January 4th, 2016: Yes California founder Louis Marinelli is struck by a car while crossing the street in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He is taken to a hospital in critical condition, but passes away from his injuries shortly afterwards.
February 16th, 2016: The Sixth Street Bridge suffers a partial collapse over the LA River. The bridge had already been closed and was scheduled for demolition and rebuilding due to an Alkali-Silica reaction in the bridge's concrete.
May 26th, 2016: Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president.
May 27th, 2016: Venture Capitalist Shervin Pishevar joins the boards of directors for the California National Party and the Yes California campaign.
June 5th, 2016: The Associated Press decides to hold off on declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of the Democratic nomination until after the California primary to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
June 7th, 2016: Hillary Clinton wins the California Democratic Primary by 51.06% to Sanders' 48.04%. Hillary Clinton declared winner of Democratic Nomination.
July 22nd, 2016: Tim Kaine is announced as Clinton's running mate.
September 8th, 2016: At a campaign rally in Ohio, Trump says that he'd cut off California's water if they kept protecting undocumented immigrants.
October 27th, 2016: James Comey decides to hold off on releasing a letter about additional emails until after the election.
November 8th, 2016: Donald Trump wins the presidential election election with 276 electoral votes, but loses the popular vote by 3.2 million votes.
November 10th, 2016: James Comey sends the letter to the House Intelligence Committee about the investigation on additional emails that had been found and that after investigation, contained no additional evidence of crimes committed by Clinton. Republican commentators accuse Comey of withholding the information to try and help Clinton win the election.
December 10th, 2016: Yes California submits their independence initiative to the Secretary of State.
—2017—
January 3rd, 2017: Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell changes the vote threshold to close debate in the Senate, eliminating the filibuster.
January 15th, 2017: Yes California gets the official title and summary from the Secretary of State and gets the go ahead to start gathering signatures.
January 20th, 2017: Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president.
January 20th, 2017: During a J20 protest in Downtown Los Angeles, a Trump supporter named David Johnson drives a pickup truck into a crowd of protesters on Figueroa st., injuring six and killing one. Video footage of the attack showing a Texas license plate goes viral. (although though the driver lived in Palmdale and had only recently moved to California). Pres. Trump does not make a statement or acknowledge the attacks for several days, choosing instead to tweet about the crowd size of the inauguration and accusing the National Park Service of "fake news."
February 7th, 2017: Despite record-breaking rainfall and flooding, the Oroville Dam Spillway holds up and does not crack. However, later inspections of the spillway would show severe damage and would require repairs.
February 14th, 2017: Trump invited FBI Director James Comey to the White House to discuss the allegations of Russian interference in the election. Comey is subsequently terminated as FBI director.
February 18th, 2017: Trump signs an executive order opening California's waters to offshore drilling.
February 28th, 2017: USC Dornsife releases a poll showing that 10% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
March 8th, 2017: A right-wing militia from Asheville, North Carolina calling themselves the "proud boys" go door to door in the Mission District neighborhood of San Francisco with modified AR-15 rifles and demanding that Hispanic residents show proof of immigration status. The situation ends violently when the group starts exchanging gunfire with the SFPD for several minutes, killing 4 bystanders in the process. Residents streamed the incident on Facebook Live and Periscope, pleading for people to come and help them.
March 15th, 2017: A Trump supporter opens fire in a Los Angeles coffee shop, 13 people were wounded but fortunately nobody was killed. Investigations into the shooters online history shows that he was a believer in a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Jerry Brown were all members of a satanic pedophile ring, the conspiracy theory quickly gets dubbed "Coffeegate" by the media.
March 20th, 2017: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is introduced to Congress.
April 4th, 2017: Yes California announces that it has reached the 585,407 signature threshold to qualify for the ballot in 2018.
April 10th, 2017: Discord servers on the west coast shut down for 5 hours.
April 19th, 2017: Congress introduces the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
April 28, 2017: SB1, The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 is signed by Governor Brown into law. It raises the gas tax by $0.12 per gallon in order to fund the backlog of road maintenance. The bill is passed by a 54-26 party line vote in the Assembly and in the State Senate with 26 Democrats and 2 Republicans voting in favor of it, 10 Republicans and 1 Democrat voting against it, and a Democrat and a Republican abstaining from the vote. (Unlike OTL, Newman abstained and Berryhill voted yes)
May 10th, 2017: The Department of Justice indicts former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on 20 various counts, ranging from electoral fraud to mishandling of classified material. Legal scholars call the charges flimsy and don't believe they will hold up in court. Protests by liberal groups erupt across the country as people view this as a transparent attempt at political intimidation. The New York Times publishes an editorial saying that the United States was officially a banana republic now.
June 1st, 2017: Former San Diego City Councilmember and talk radio host Carl DeMaio files paperwork for a veto referendum against SB1 to appear on the June 2018 ballot.
June 7th, 2017: DeMaio receives the official title and summary for the veto referendum and his supporters along with signature gatherers funded by the National Republican Congressional Committee who see the referendum as a strategy to boost electoral turnout in congressional districts that had the potential to unseat longtime Republican incumbents.
June 18th, 2017: ABC News a poll showing that 22% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
July 16th, 2017: Sand to Snow National Monument and Giant Sequoia National Monument have their National Monument status stripped by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.
August 2nd, 2017: The veto referendum for SB1 receives enough signatures to be placed on the June 2018 ballot as Proposition 75.
October 2017: A series of wildfires devastates Northern California, leading to what would become the worst fire season on record. Trump refuses to sign a disaster declaration. Later investigation from CalFire shows that the largest fire in Napa was caused by poorly maintained power equipment owned and maintained by Pacific Gas and Electric.
October 2nd, 2017: SB562, The Healthy California Act, which would establish a single-payer healthcare system in California is passed by legislature. It will go before the voters next year in order to become law.
October 4th, 2017: A group of far right militia members from militant anti-immigration groups including the Minutemen, Oathkeepers, and 3 percenters attempt to march down Whittier Blvd. in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles while chanting slogans such as "build the wall!" They are met in the streets and vastly outnumbered by Antifa counter protestors and Black Bloc militants. The media coverage shows the anti-immigrant groups being pushed back by the black bloc, and many in the media draw parallels between these events and Britain's Battle of Cable Street.
October 5th, 2017: Jerry Brown signs SB-54, the California Values Act into law. The law would prohibit California Law Enforcement agencies from sharing information with ICE for non-violent offenders, as well as prohibiting LEOs from honoring ICE detainer requests.
October 9th, 2017: Trump signs an executive order suspending all federal law enforcement funding to California until SB-54 is repealed. Jeff Sessions files a lawsuit against California seeking to block the law and to force California law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE.
October 9th, 2017: FBI opens investigation into suspected Russian involvement in the 2016 elections.
October 10th, 2017: The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act makes it out of committee and is scheduled for a debate and vote on the House floor on November 5th.
October 13th, 2017: The Tax Freedom Act is passed by Congress and heads to President Trump's desk to sign.
The Tax Freedom Act as passed removes the state and local tax deductions, Wildfire losses are also not deductible unless in the event of a federally declared emergency, the tax credits for solar, wind and electric cars are removed.
October 17th: Congress introduces the American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
October 31st, 2017: A protest against a Milo Yiannopoulos speaking engagement at CSU Fullerton turns violent as an armed counter-protester named Peter Adams pulls out a concealed handgun and fires several shots into the crowd, hitting several people with glancing hits. Fullerton police arrest him and charge him on several counts, including unlawful possession of a firearm. Adams claimed that he felt threatened by the protestors when they surrounded him, and that he only fired warning shots into the ground.
November 1st, 2017: OC Weekly reveals that Adams had a CCW permit for Arizona but not one for California. This is quickly picked up by the rest of the media and used as a rallying cry against concealed carry reciprocity.
November 5th, 2017: The House of Representatives passes the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act with 225 votes.
November 15th, 2017: Dianne Feinstein announces that she will refuse to let the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act out of committee in the Senate.
November 18th, 2017: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito forces the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act out of committee on a party line vote.
November 20th, 2017: YouGov releases a poll showing that 41% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
November 22nd, 2017: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act is passed by the Senate 50-49, it goes to President Trump's desk for signing.
December 2017: An unusually late fire season devastates Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, along with additional wildfires in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties.
December 5th, 2017: California National Party candidate Wendy Carrillo wins the Assembly District 51 special election to fill now-congressman Jimmy Gomez's seat, giving the CNP their first seat in the state legislature. Carrillo had previously run in the 34th Congressional District special election to replace now-Attorney General Xavier Becerra as a Democrat, where she lost to Assemblymember Gomez. As the only member of the CNP in the state legislature, Carrillo announced that she would still caucus with the state Democrats.
December 18th, 2017: Congress fails to pass the World's Greatest Healthcare System Act that would rescind key portions of the Affordable Care Act.
—2018—
January 8th, 2018: Mitch McConnell reintroduces the AHCA to the Senate, with several provisions added in at the request of the House Freedom Caucus.
February 1st, 2018: Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announces his candidacy for US Senate on a platform of Medicare for All and resistance to Trump.
February 2nd, 2018: The KKK firebombs a Starbucks in downtown Seattle. 6 people were killed with 22 suffering severe burns. 4 people were charged with manslaughter and arson.
February 3rd, 2018: FBI raid on Trump Tower in New York City reveals new evidence that points towards Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
February 8th, 2018: Howl at the Moon nightclub in Charlotte NC gets bombed by right wing terrorists. Later investigations reveal possible backing from prominent Trump supporters.
February 9th, 2018: Opinion Research Council releases the results of a poll showing that 38% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
February 17th, 2018: David Johnson is convicted of Vehicular Manslaughter. Friends of the victims protest the light charges.
March 2nd, 2018: After being tailored behind closed doors and without public input, the AHCA passes the Senate 50-50, with Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote.
March 18th, 2018: Sessions v. Becerra: The Supreme Court upholds SB-54 as constitutional, and applies restrictions to ICE on the use of detainer requests to local & state law enforcement.
April 5th, 2018: Jeff Sessions announces a new "Zero Tolerance" policy for families crossing the border, beginning a controversial policy of separating children from their families, as well as a series of ICE dragnets in major cities.
April 6th, 2018: The House version of the AHCA is voted on and passes by a party line vote. Added to the house bill was a provision that would forbid Medicare or Medicaid funding from being used to fund a single-payer system. The bill is sent back to the senate to a conference committee.
April 17th, 2018: SB 827, nicknamed the YIMBY act, a proposed bill to make housing more affordable near transit stations by allowing for a process to allow exemptions from certain local zoning codes and parking minimums near transit routes is passed by the California Legislature. It includes several compromise provisions added at the behest of the Sierra Club and Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY), Public Housing In My Backyard (PHIMBY) groups to expand the supply of affordable housing and ease concerns about gentrification. The bill also includes a provision that partly repeals the Costa-Hawkins Act as a compromise with affordable housing advocates who had collected signatures to put a full repeal of Costa Hawkins on the November 2018 ballot.
April 25th, 2018: The AHCA emerges from the conference committee in its final form, with the anti-single-payer provisions intact.
May 5th, 2018: Both the house and senate pass the AHCA and send it to Trump to sign.
May 12th, 2018: The California Republican Party and Republican National Committee endorse Businessman and Perennial Candidate John Cox for Governor of California.
May 16th, 2018: Bucking the state and national GOP, Trump tweets his endorsement for Huntington Beach Assemblymember Travis Allen (R) in the race for Governor, splitting the Republican electorate between Allen and Cox.
June 5th, 2018: Gavin Newsom (D) and Antonio Villaraigosa (D) win the Gubernatorial primary election and will advance to the general election. Other statewide Democrat vs Democrat races include Kevin De Léon vs Ed Hernandez for Lieutenant Governor, and Dave Jones vs Dianne Feinstein for US Senator.
June 5th, 2018: A ballot referendum from the state legislature that would change the inverse condemnation rules for power utility companies whose equipment is found to be the cause of a wildfire is defeated 2:1 by voters.
June 5th, 2018: The ballot referendum for SB1 is approved by the voters 55-45, causing the law to be enacted.
June 14th, 2018: Public Policy Polling releases the results of a poll showing that 49% of Californians support Independence from the United States.
June 20th, 2018: American Airlines flight 477 explodes at the terminal at SJC after a battery fire. The explosion claimed the lives of 12 passengers and 8 ground crew. Investigation into the explosion revealed that the fire suppression system was sabotaged. This was most likely an attempt to eliminate former FBI Director James Comey, who was a passenger on the plane.
June 27th, 2018: Janus v AFSCME: The Supreme Court strikes a major blow to collective bargaining for public sector unions.
July-August 2018: A series of devastating wildfires hit California. Like the 2017 fires, Trump refuses to sign a disaster declaration. Also random, unexplained failures and malfunctions of electrical devices start happening all over California with a higher rate occurring near the borders of the state. Most failures and malfunctions were temporary, lasting from a few minutes to a few hours.
July 1st, 2018: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt revokes the Clean Air Act Waiver for California. Cars will no longer have to meet California's emission standards going forward, only the recently loosened federal standards.
July 7, 2018: A train carrying 27 cars, some loaded with fertilizer, derails in Milwaukee. The incident kills 30 people and injures 7.
July 9th, 2018: CARB files suit against the EPA over the revocation of the Clean Air Act Waiver.
July 12th, 2018: Riots break out after counter-protestors attack an anti-Trump rally in Charlotte. At least 3 people were killed when a truck plowed through the crowd of protestors.
July 15th, 2018: Ardrey Kell High School falls victim to two separate school shooters attacking at the same time. Both shot each other dead.
July 24th, 2018: In the middle of talks between Trump and automotive industry leaders, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne collapses in front of a large crowd. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead a day later.
July 27th, 2018: An unidentified individual wearing 19th century style clothing runs into the lobby of the San Diego Convention Center and convulses on the floor. First responders pronounce him dead on the scene. Found on said individual is 19th century currency that is in excellent condition.
July 27th, 2018: While bringing online their new Data Center in Barstow, Google servers temporarily shut down for 30 minutes. Cause is later determined to be an unexpected failure of switching equipment near the California-Oregon border.
August 1st, 2018: Trump's budget for the new year includes drastic reductions in discretionary spending in California, New York, and New Jersey. In addition, as the first budget after Medicaid had been converted to a block grant, California received a 30% reduction in medicaid spending compared to last year.
August 4th, 2018: A plot to bomb a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Phoenix is thwarted after an anonymous tip reveals the location of a 3 percenter safehouse in Phoenix.
August 12th 2018: Cell service shuts down for 2 hours, from 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM. Cause is undetermined.
August 15th, 2018: A Douglas C-54 with an engine on fire makes an emergency landing at LAX. The three crew and six passengers are taken to a hospital for treatment after the landing. The serial number of the aircraft matches one that went missing in 1964, and the nine people on board are also a match for the people on board the aircraft when it vanished.
September 13th, 2018: A Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation painted in an old Flying Tigers livery appears off the coast of California and is forced to land at SFO. The crew say they had no idea how they got to the coast of California as they had just left Guam after a refueling stop as part of a flight from Travis Air Force Base to Vietnam. The plane's serial number matched that of the plane that operated Flying Tigers Flight 739 which vanished completely on March 16th, 1962. All 107 people onboard match descriptions of the missing passengers and crew. Conspiracy theorists calling in to Coast to Coast start claiming the two missing planes showing up are part of some top secret government experiment and that more missing planes will show up.
September 15th, 2018: A fight breaks out on a flight when a Trump supporter tries to sexually assault a Hispanic single mother. The Trump supporter is beaten up, taken off of the plane, and arrested for sexual assault.
September 17th, 2018: FCC v Becerra: In a 5-4 split, Supreme Court rules unconstitutional the preemption clause of the FCC order repealing Net Neutrality, upholding California's statewide Net Neutrality bill SB 822.
September 20th, 2018: A Hammerskins plot to simultaneously attack multiple gay clubs and ethnic neighborhoods in California is leaked onto Reddit and 4chan by a hacker associated with Anonymous. All members involved with the plot(at least 1,000) were arrested. If the plot went through, it would be the single largest terror attack ever orchestrated.
September 28th, 2018: A combination of flooding and human error causes Tacoma, Washington to lose power for a week. Trump does not acknowledge this for three days, tweeting about how the coal industry needs to be saved instead.
September 30th, 2018: A track day at Laguna Seca is interrupted by a Porsche 550 Spyder suddenly manifests on the corkscrew, way causing a Porsche 911 to spin out onto the grass. The driver looks Identical to James Dean, who died when his Porsche 550(named "Little Bastard") crashed into another car.
October 1st, 2018: FCC Director Ajit Pai and EPA Chief Scott Pruitt resign over increasing controversy over allegations of corruption.
October 3rd, 2018: Los Angeles loses power for 3 hours. This coincides with a Tesla Model S suddenly starting and accelerating into a wall. No one was hurt in that incident.
October 7, 2018: The FBI releases evidence of Russian links to many right wing groups and the Trump Administration
October 10th, 2018: Right wing terrorists affiliated with Oathkeepers and 3 percenters open fire at a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. 20 people were killed and 30 more were injured. All terrorists were either killed or arrested. Ford and many others sue Oathkeepers and 3 percenters for 30 million dollars, one of the largest lawsuit payoffs in history. This causes both groups to disband after the arrest of many key leaders.
October 12th, 2018: General Motors CEO Mary Barra sues Alex Jones over verbal abuse directed at her children.
October 13th, 2018: A power surge cuts power to Primm Valley for 3 hours.
October 14th, 2018: According to ground crew at Vandenberg AFB, an unknown individual manifests right next to the starboard engine of Stargazer, an L-1011 Tristar owned by Orbital Sciences. The individual warns ground crew of issues in the hydraulics and the pylon the rocket was to be mounted on. Pre Flight Checks the next day reveals issues with the hydraulic systems and pylon. The plane was immediately grounded to fix these issues. The unknown figure bears resemblance to Don Repo, a flight engineer who died when another L-1011, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, crashed in 1972. This is the first reported sighting on Don Repo's 'ghost' since Eastern Air Lines removed all equipment salvaged from Flight 401 from its fleet of L-1011s in the late 1970s.
October 15th, 2018 - 9:35 PM: Security footage shows an unidentified male entering a Ralph's in Anaheim, shouting in an unidentifiable language, and then dashing into the break room before vanishing into thin air according to witnesses present that night. The male is not seen in the break room or in any other area in and around the store.
October 19th, 2018: Amid increasing controversy, Elon Musk is ousted as CEO of Tesla. He is replaced by Steve Ballmer as CEO. Musk retains his position as CEO of SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Neuralink.
October 23rd, 3018: A car bomb explodes at Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, killing 12 people. The bomber was revealed to have been a former 3 percenter militant taking revenge on Ford for causing the collapse of 3 percenters. The bomber was given a death sentence.
October 28th, 2018: Robert Bowers, a white supremacist, attacked Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in a shooting. 11 people were killed and 6 were injured. Trump failed to denounce the attackers, causing uproar in America.
October 29th, 2018 - Sarin Gas was detected at Kumoricon in Portland, Oregon. 20 people were found dead in the attack. The perpetrators were found to have had ties with both Trump and the Russian Government.
October 30th, 2018: A pair of Tu-95 bombers are spotted off the coast of California. The California Air National Guard intercepts the fleet.
October 31st, 2018: The sky changes colors to orange. This lasts until 11:59 pm. Strangely, this phenomenon was limited to the borders of California
November 1st, 2018: A plane later identified by witnesses as an old United Airlines DC-6 appears in the sky near the border near Fremont and Union City. It flew towards San Francisco Bay before turning east over western Newark. Over central Newark, it turned south-east and continued in that direction before turning north over Ohlone College in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont. The plane continued to fly north before crashing into Tolman Peak in southern Union City. Rescue crews race to the scene but fail to find any signs of wreckage.
November 3rd, 2018: A "pineapple express" atmospheric river condition brings 16 inches of rain to the northern parts of the state over a 72 hour period.
November 4th-6th 2018: A glitched fire sale on Amazon causes prices for every item to be reduced by 99.99% for West Coast users instead of 9.99% for the rest of the world. This glitch persists until the beginning of the Event.
November 4th 2018: A fire breaks out at Trump National Golf Club in Palos Verdes. President Trump is rumored to have been considering declaring said fire a federal emergency.
November 6th, 2018: California votes yes on the independence initiative 53-47. The rate of unexplained failures and malfunctions of electronic devices increases dramatically after the polls close.
November 6, 2018 - 8:00 PM: All flights going out of California experience malfunctions (mostly take off configuration alarms giving false alarms) forcing air traffic control to become creative in how to fit all aircraft at California airports that can't divert to out of state airports. These malfunctions last until the start of the Event.
November 6th, 2018 - 11:53 PM: The Event - California suddenly goes dark, and all contact is lost with the state.
November 7th, 2018: Aerial and satellite photography taken in the morning shows that most of the urbanization and construction in California vanished overnight. Geographical experts look at the aerial photographs and date it to around the mid 19th century.
Katamariguy
Pessimist. Contrarian. Naysayer.
- Location
- Upstate NY
There's some Close Encounters of the Third Kind fuckery going on there.
- Location
- California
Some Life is Strange fuckery going on there. lol. Is Caulfield in California?
esseresse
R'lyth Power Make-up
- Location
- divorceville, state of depression
- Pronouns
- They/Her
I am about to say something that the Internet probably won't like:
Can we tone down the "Dastardly Trumblash" aspect. While I don't like some of thing the man says, in the words of the Duke "I didn't vote for him, but he's my president"
Can we tone down the "Dastardly Trumblash" aspect. While I don't like some of thing the man says, in the words of the Duke "I didn't vote for him, but he's my president"
pbluekan
Somethin's Fucky ...
- Location
- Trumpistan
I'm entirely behind this. I'm no fan of the man, but it's just fucking annoying to read. Oh no, 3 percenters and dastardly rightwingers is essentially what all of this looks like.
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ExNihilo
SPACE!
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Eh, if he wanted me to respect him, he shouldn't have put kids in concentration camps.
Instant Sunrise
Queen Shit of Liesville
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Pronouns
- her/she
It's for a reason. In-universe, it's because his win was far more of a surprise than OTL (no Comey letter before the election), it was seen as so much of a fluke that the republicans pushed a lot harder for what they wanted before people get over the shock.
Out of universe, I needed to justify the CalExit vote at the beginning of the story.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
Well, it's not really that surprising if you think about it. Shifting an entire state over a hundred and fifty years through time and space is bound to have side-effects.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You're kind of alone in thinking that, because the guy was undemocratically elected. By any measure of democratic values, Donald Trump is not my president. Of course, I have similar sentiments about the Senate (the institution where equal representation is given to arbitrarily-divided tracts of land, rather than people--and this legislative body is vastly more powerful than the one that actually (somewhat) proportionately represents the actual people in the country). But the President has the most power, and the institution that officially put him in power was designed to prevent a demagogue who is blatantly incapable and unacceptable for the job from taking office.
As for Trump not being that bad? He is. There was the time when Trump almost unilaterally pulled out of NAFTA when one of his secretaries killed the effort by just taking the document off his desk and throwing it in the trash. Trump being Trump, he promptly forgot about it.
Honestly, though, this timeline has some problems, notably that it shouldn't have such a high percentage of Californians being in favor of leaving the Union within just two years of Trump being elected. I can believe it happening after a Republican president gets elected in 2020, but before even a single election afterwards? Not really. Especially after the courts rule in favor of California multiple times in this new timeline, too.
I'd have the midterms going badly in 2018, with widespread reports of election fraud, abuse of power to disenfranchise voters (more than already happened IRL), and reports of election hacking that Republicans refuse to take seriously (and thus investigate). Leave the CalExit vote failing in the 2018 election--and have it succeed (narrowly) in the 1850s era election after being robbed on their rightful representation in Congress.
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