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/SomeMoistHousing 1d ago

I'm sure it was intentionally noncommital on left/right politics to be more broadly palatable, but I wish it had been honest and just made the bad guys be the bad guys

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u/rokerroker45 1d ago

I'm sure it was intentionally noncommital on left/right politics to be more broadly palatable

no, they were pretty clear on the bad guys being ultraright, they just didn't spell out which states those folks were repping

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u/BlisfullyStupid 1d ago

Civil War wasn’t really a movie about American politics though.

It never makes any real statement about either side, pretty sure they don’t even really explain why the secession happened. The whole movie was about journalism in the same vein Hurt Locker was about the dopamine kick the protagonist felt risking his life.

Making the movie “bipartisan” seems the correct approach when you look at it that way. The context of the civil war seems more like the pitch to intrigue you since the current political landscape is very receptive to it, but the most political statement it ever makes is the “what kind of American are you?”

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u/jcrestor Foreign 1d ago

It really wasn’t necessary.

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u/xflashbackxbrd 1d ago

Its most logical if you presume the fascist president is feuding with constitutionist military leadership, most of which are stationed in California and texas.

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u/machogrande2 1d ago

Whatever you do, do NOT watch the Red Dawn remake. And not just because it was a shit movie. They didn't want to piss off China(which would have been at least kinda plausible) so they went with the batshit insane idea of North Korea invading and holding territory in the US.

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u/RickToy 1d ago

Because thats not how it works. Basically no American citizen is ready to engage in a civl war, no matter what side they are on. Many of the "bad guys" would also be victims of different combatant groups fighting over territory. Many good guys might technically be in "enemy" territory and forced to participate in battle efforts, if just to keep food, water ready and available. Thats the best part of the movie, it shows the societal collapse that would happen, and how localized things would become.