Latest MAGA Madness, Create New Nevada and New California, So That the Libs Can’t Screw the Rural Folk

It is truly a shame that Murfster and I have been laid low, relatively speaking, by our various afflictions, because there’s a wingnuttia movement sprouting up right here in our backyards, which is so worth getting involved with first hand. If my blood count wasn’t at a 9 and I wasn’t waiting to see the hematologist next week, I would absolutely drive out to Republican headquarters in Pahrump tonight and attend the meeting of the New Nevada State Movement, which is gearing up now that COVID-19 restrictions have loosened.

If you haven’t heard of these people they’ve been around since 2019 and their basic theory is that Clark County, being the main population center of the state, votes according to an “urban” mentality and that is disadvantageous to the “rural” folks. The solution to this problem is to amputate Sin City, make Clark County its own state and then the rest of the state will become New Nevada, Battle Born Again.

Nevada is called the Battle Born state because it achieved statehood during the Civil War and now it’s going to do it again, during this iteration of the Civil War. And born again has an evangelical wingnut resonance to it, so you see who we’re dealing with here.

There's a meeting tonight in Pahrump, NV, in Nye County (Trump, 69-29) to discuss forming a new state called New Nevada because Clark County has too much influence and hates liberty and should be severed from the state, as the Constitution allows. https://t.co/flxoeJ9urJ pic.twitter.com/D2YEk4KvKB

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) July 8, 2021

When simply looking at a political map of the state of Nevada, with the color red showing counties that generally vote Republican and blue representing areas where Democrats hold the majority, one might assume that the state as a whole votes “red” but this would be misleading. Though the sections of “blue” on such a map would be quite tiny in comparison to the vast swathes of “red”, they are the population centers of Nevada. Thus, these “blue” patches are the controlling factor when it comes to the local outcome of statewide and federal elections, and it is this very fact that birthed a push to create a whole new state of the union, New Nevada. […]

Gaylord-Thomas [one of the group’s leaders] explained that movement to form a new state got its start after she and her husband, who she describes as refugees from California, moved to the Silver State in search of greater freedom.

“When we found out that liberty was being short-changed in Nevada, because the people in Clark County comprise a large majority of the state population and they vote the way urban people vote, and rural Nevada gets stuck living how urban people want to live, we decided to form a new state, as outlined in the Constitution of the United States, Article 4, section 3,” she stated. “Rural Nevada deserves to have equal footing.”

In other words, somehow it’s not fair that the majority of the people rule, which is, pardon me for saying, what democracy boils down to. Right? They want the minority to rule the minority, and so they’re going to split off from the majority and do that. What’s that you say? What kind of a tax base are they going to have to pay for anything, when this is a one horse economy and that horse is called Las Vegas? Duhhh……

But there is a solution. Greater Idaho might take them in. They can live in their own private Idaho, roll on the ground like a wild potato.

Why don’t they just join Greater Idaho? https://t.co/NwnPuRa8jc

— Nick Christensen (@NickCPDX) July 8, 2021

Here’s some data on the Greater Idaho movement, started by conservatives held captive in a blue state.

We promote the idea of creating a greater (bigger & stronger) Idaho so that conservative counties can become a part of a red state. We started from rural Oregon, but our movement now includes progressives and conservatives of northwestern Oregon who welcome a new, smaller Oregon, as well as Idahoans, Californians, and Washingtonians.

We explain why moving the Idaho border is a win-win for each decision-making body on our homepage.

We believe we do have a chance to convince Oregon to let these counties go because getting rid of a group of counties that have the same average income as Idaho would be a great boost to the Oregon state budget. State lines have been moved many times before.

We need to unite our neighbors around the idea of moving the border so that we can convince state legislators to stop holding rural Oregon counties captive in a blue state.  Voters in two counties voted in favor of this idea in November. Five more voted 62% in favor in May 2021. But we need your help.

And of course there’s always Texas looking to secede from the union with regularity, just like the swallows returning to Capistrano. Every ten years or so that movement gets riled up again, and laughed down just as quickly.

This New Nevada movement is pure MAGA grievance. In fact, their website has a section devoted to grievances.

Failure to provide a republican form of government

Nevada is governed by a rebellious government which has destroyed representative government through insecure elections.

Failure to provide rational taxation

The Nevada government has created a financial hardship in this State through excessive and irrational taxation including the Commerce Tax.

Failure to protect Second Amendment rights

The Nevada government and the current governor have created a Constitutional violation by infringing upon the citizens’ right to keep and bear arms as provided in the 2^nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

What are your grievances?

What are my grievances? Well, I’ve been here nine months and there has been no ticker tape parade down Las Vegas Boulevard in my honor. I mean, what’s up with that?

Watch this video on both New Nevada and New California. If you think the other propositions are far fetched, Greater Idaho and New Nevada, they have a likelihood of success with comparison to how hopeless a fantasy New California is. The man speaking is Robert E. Thomas III, who founded the New Nevada movement along with his wife, and who filed a 13-page amicus brief seeking to overturn election results last December.

Strange breed of Republicans in this state, I can see that much.