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
92.0k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

6.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

19.8k

u/wankbollox 1d ago

If Texas can ignore the federal government and make its own immigration policy, then I guess California can make its own trade policy. Seems fair. 

6.8k

u/TinFoilBeanieTech 1d 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.

521

u/palmerama 1d ago

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

382

u/Faux-Foe 1d ago

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

62

u/say592 1d ago

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

-2

u/UncommitedOtter 1d ago

Which makes the movie incredibly stupid and just a journalist circlejerk

8

u/DeltaViriginae 1d ago

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