Let's just say that I am in full support of a Calexit and, given the option, I would immediately institute it and then separate the landmass using strategically placed nuclear warheads in order to push the state a couple of feet towards the sea, if not into the sea outright, Atlantis-style. I feel that the union would be much better off, and the remaining Californians could continue subsisting on their almonds. I haven't quite worked out the question of nuclear fallout, but if we detonate at just the right time, we could probably steer the almond cloud away from the good states and towards the newly-liberated Republic of Ghouls.