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/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. 

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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.

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u/palmerama 1d ago

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

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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.

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u/Emblazin 1d ago

That was by design so the right couldn't complain about being the bad guys.

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u/rainzer 1d ago

then they complained anyway cause they recognize the fascist president as Trump

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue I voted 1d ago

I mean, they were really big on The Boys until the Homelander parallels became clear to them.

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u/Vohdre Illinois 1d ago

Which should have been 5 minutes after Homelander was introduced

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u/animatroniczombie 1d ago

They're not the sharpest knives in the drawer

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u/ActOdd8937 1d ago

Heck, they aren't even the sharpest spoons!

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u/Silidistani 1d ago

Gah, beat me to it! 🫵🏼

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u/JTitch420 16h ago

You Don’t need knives when you got all the guns

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u/thefirecrest 18h ago

I broke up with a guy because he told me Homelander was his favorite character.

Homelander is also my favorite character in the show. But I could tell that we didn’t mean that in the same way. And the way he meant it but didn’t dare say aloud was a huge red flag lol.

(There were other red flags before that, but this one was the one that broke the camel’s back. I wish conservatives men wouldn’t try to pretend not to be conservatives to date liberal women.)

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u/Vohdre Illinois 16h ago

That's why any woman who lists themselves as moderate or non-political was always an immediate skip. We know who you are.

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u/ButterscotchHappy515 11h ago

THis is just like hecking star wars

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u/yungcdollaz 1d ago

I don't agree the president was supposed to be trump. he would've ordered a cheeseburger at the end

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u/deekaydubya 1d ago

no he would've left the nation at the first sign of trouble lol

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u/Imapatriothurrrdurrr California 1d ago

Berder*

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u/WalkingEars Georgia 1d ago

Well done with ketchup and no vegetables

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u/SCViper 1d ago

Nick Offerman wasn't wearing a diaper during filming so they couldn't have made that parallel.

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u/nigelfitz 1d ago

and nick is a good looking dude

nice hair, no obnoxious tan, nicely fitted suit