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/ciel_lanila I voted 19h ago edited 17h ago

Just looked the raw GDP numbers in case anyone is curious. .

  • US with CA: $30.338 trillion
  • European Union (as a whole): $20.29 trillion
  • China: $19.535 trillion
  • Germany: $4.922 t
  • Japan: $4.390 t
  • India: $4.270 t
  • California: $4.1 t
  • UK: $3.731 t
  • Skipping a few
  • Russia: $2.197 t

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u/SweetAlyssumm 19h ago

We also have a bunch of military bases. We could almost actually do this.

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u/seaQueue 19h ago

We'd probably want to bring OR and WA along for the ride

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u/mr_oof 19h ago

Chuckles in Cascadia

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u/_illogical_ 19h ago

Shout-out to /r/cascadia

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u/mr_oof 18h ago

LA, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver- North America’s quirky, slightly sketchy queer uncles.

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u/_illogical_ 18h ago

You seem to have forgotten San Francisco

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u/mr_oof 18h ago

I said ‘slightly’ sketchy-queer. SF counts as ‘utterly.’

Compared to Victoria, Eugene and Sacramento, who fall high on the ‘quaint-nerdy’ index.

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u/SpottyNoonerism 16h ago

Noone ever remembers Astoria, OR - except the people who've been there. Falls between Eugene and Portland on the quirky index.

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u/_illogical_ 11h ago

Astoria out here, like "Heeeyyyy Yooouuu Guuuyyysss!!!"; then we just give you a Baby Ruth.

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u/Cosmosass 18h ago

Vancouver Island here. We are like the sketchy Vancouver Uncle's weird nephew. We make a good addition to Cascadia I promise

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u/starkeffect 17h ago

Quirkly, slightly sketchy queer uncles with great taste in music and craft beer.

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u/jah_bro_ney 16h ago

Can San Diego join the fruity uncs?

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u/spingus 16h ago

SD represent!

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 15h ago

San Francisco is America's wealthy dame of a great aunt, who can be kind of a bitch, but in a fabulous way.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/Snakebird11 18h ago

Time to ride

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u/heimdal77 18h ago

Is this based off the Ecotopia novel?

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u/Possible_Top4855 16h ago

Something something cascadia subduction zone

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 18h ago

I’m down for it. We already have a dope flag.

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u/Street-Dependent-647 16h ago

NCR becoming a part of actual US history was not on my bingo card, hope it doesn’t because a lot of other Fallout canon doesn’t sound fun IRL

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u/frustratedpolarbear 12h ago

Well the Great War started when the United States annexed Canada and the Chinese invaded Alaska so we're definitely on that timeline so far

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u/Assumeweknow 14h ago

California bear vs the Trump Elephant. Love it, honestly, I'd see Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Colorado Arizona joining the team. Utah would probably abstain from the effort but join the list because everyone else is, It really depends on what kind of constitution the western states come up with. It could put all those states on a completely different path to self determination and a lot more money could be made by doing the split. It would give Trump the fuel to build his dictatorship rebuild on eastern states.

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 10h ago

Cascadia is generally accepted to be the three coastal states to start, and then BC if they want to join.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_flag

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u/beamrider 18h ago

That would include joining up with British Columbia. Which is looking like a better and better deal each day.

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u/randypupjake California 16h ago

Or we could just neighbor British Columbia as a separate province

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u/HiiiTriiibe 18h ago

I feel like it’s probably time we turn that chuckle into a guffaw

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u/No-Lunch2960 18h ago

Im here for this.

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u/richf2001 17h ago

Worked for a company in Oregon the did emergency services stuff. Got to play with the tsunami sirens. They’re very into preparing for the full blown event. The answer is basically… nice knowing ya!

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u/FinancialAlbatross92 Canada 17h ago

Cadia....

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u/spingus 16h ago

Fuck Yeah!

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u/spingus 16h ago

Fuck Yeah!

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u/rexter2k5 11h ago

In this case, we'd be Pacifica, but I'm for it.

Hawaii and Alaska can come too.