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/Archer1407 1d ago

Trump is going to launch a trade war against California in the next few days.

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u/pm_me_ur_ParusMajors North Carolina 1d ago

Considering how much agriculture and manufacturing actually come out of California, this would have a substantial impact on the rest of the US. The California gdp is as much as in the top 5 gdp's in the world.

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u/ciel_lanila I voted 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/seaQueue 1d ago

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

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u/mr_oof 1d ago

Chuckles in Cascadia

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u/_illogical_ 1d ago

Shout-out to /r/cascadia

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u/mr_oof 1d ago

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

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u/_illogical_ 1d ago

You seem to have forgotten San Francisco

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u/mr_oof 1d 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 1d 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_ 1d ago

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

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u/Cosmosass 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/jah_bro_ney 1d ago

Can San Diego join the fruity uncs?

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u/spingus 1d ago

SD represent!

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 1d 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/Snakebird11 1d ago

Time to ride

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u/heimdal77 1d ago

Is this based off the Ecotopia novel?

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u/Possible_Top4855 1d ago

Something something cascadia subduction zone

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u/Old_Suggestions 3h ago

Omg lmfao. Take out the entire western seaboard? That would be something. But bro, I'd imagine the national guard out here the second they hear about it. Hell, they might bring out the big guns and consider this an existential threat to the nation. Civil War II anyone?

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 1d ago

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

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u/Street-Dependent-647 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 22h 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 1d 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 1d ago

Or we could just neighbor British Columbia as a separate province

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u/Reasonable_Plastic83 6h ago

I'm from Vancouver, BC and I approve!

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u/HiiiTriiibe 1d ago

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

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u/No-Lunch2960 1d ago

Im here for this.

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u/richf2001 1d 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 1d ago

Cadia....

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u/Air-Keytar 1d ago

Stands

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u/spingus 1d ago

Fuck Yeah!

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u/spingus 1d ago

Fuck Yeah!

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u/rexter2k5 1d ago

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

Hawaii and Alaska can come too.