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/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/actthafool 1d ago

So the movie Civil War although I doubt the help from Texas would come 😂

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u/WeirdJack49 1d ago

Honestly after over 10 years of this bullshit and us slowly drifting into the crazy dimension I wouldn't be surprised if Texas would actually switch sides and help CA for whatever reason. It wouldn't be the craziest thing that happened in the last couple of month.

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u/7figureipo California 1d ago

I'd be shocked. Texas is more likely to go it alone against the rest of the country than to ally with any blue state. They are deeply red there: full of racists and the most hateful, arrogant "we were our own country once" people you can imagine.

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u/Nero29gt 1d ago

I loved the movie and thought it was a unique way of handling Left vs Right. It was actually just large GDPs that could fund a civil war against an authoritarian president that had gone for a third term (sound familiar?).