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/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/Pherllerp New Jersey 1d ago

You'd be getting a lot more than OR and WA. If California goes, the Northeast goes with you.

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u/ordinaryseawomn 1d ago

As long as we call whatever’s left over Gillead….and we’re all on the correct side of the fence!

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u/LegendofDragoon 1d ago

I don't know that any of the Northeast governments have the balls to do this. I've been begging Maura for weeks at this point to do literally anything decisive. Instead when 100+ innocent 'collateral arrests ' happened in Boston, all we got from her was a tepid "I should have known you were coming."