r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 20h 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/TinFoilBeanieTech 19h ago

States setting their own trade agreements is totally unconstitutional, but we haven't been following that for a while now anyway. I'm hoping the whole west coast can form it's own trade coalition.

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u/palmerama 19h ago

Now the plot of Civil War doesn’t seem so far fetched.

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u/Faux-Foe 19h ago

The biggest far fetched idea in there wasn’t the movie, it was which states were aligned with each other.

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u/say592 19h ago

Yeah, that was clearly done intentionally to make it less of a red state vs blue state thing.

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u/UncommitedOtter 19h ago

Which makes the movie incredibly stupid and just a journalist circlejerk

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u/DeltaViriginae 18h ago

You think? For me it had a fairly critical tone on war journalism.