r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/airemy_lin 1d ago

The stepping stones for American balkanization.

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u/kittenTakeover 1d ago

American balkanization is horrible idea for American's FYI.

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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 1d ago

For many, yes. Because California and the east coast bankroll them. However, for the east coast and California, it’s likely a smart move. I’d totally vote to go along with California if it were offered to the western and rocky states minus Utah.

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u/iPinch89 1d ago

Hey! Save me too!

-blue dude in UT

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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 1d ago

Only if you dispose of the cult.

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u/iPinch89 1d ago

Help me, Guilty-Shoulder, you're our only hope.

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u/btmoose 1d ago

It never ceases to amaze me how the Donner party went through the area in 1846 and showed what a stupid fucking idea it was to try to get to California that way because SLC has the Wasatch Mountains on one side and the Great Salt Lake Desert on the other. Going that way was the fuckup that cost so many of them their lives. 

Then a year later, the Mormons got there and Brigham Young declared it home sweet home because they’d been run out of everywhere else. 

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u/MasterChildhood437 1d ago

I mean, just the one dude can be refugeed, can't he? Not a cult if it's just him.

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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 1d ago

True, but that cult existing brings up images of Bioshock Infinite and Utah becoming a regional pain in the ass since their religion encompasses a fucked up sense of Americana with an extremely racist past