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/frosty_the_blowman 1d ago

California I could see. It's Hard to imagine Texas seceding over Trump taking a third term. If the Republicans in Congress right now are any indication then they will welcome any unconstitutional moves so long as it benefits Trump/their "team".

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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 1d ago

A prior discussion about this, iirc, noted that Texas was chosen to make it less overtly political, but I haven't seen the movie.

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

The movie is fantastic btw. It's a love story to war journalism and an actual fantastic depiction of what civil war here would be like.

One of the few movies I've watched repeatedly.

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u/loneSTAR_06 1d ago

You’re one of the few people I’ve heard have as high opinion of that movie as I do. I love it, but basically everyone else I know hated it.

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u/Background_Home7092 1d ago

Many people went in hoping for a modern day GETTYSBURG or GLORY, instead they got more of an action/drama about war journalism.

I loved it, but I can see why many people didn't.

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u/kuldan5853 1d ago

I loved it too - but I'm not American. From the outside perspective, the movie seems much more realistic than many Americans want to admit to themselves.

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

It's incredibly realistic, especially the parts where certain parts of the country were just straight up ignoring it. Very underrated movie.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Canada 1d ago

As a Canadian, I loved it. It feels like it would bring up a lot of difficult emotions and cognitive dissonance for a lot of American viewers. It's not that they hate the movie - they don't like how it makes them feel.

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u/loneSTAR_06 1d ago

Fair point, but I think a lot of it is more because of how they marketed the movie, leading people to think it was about something different than it was.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Canada 1d ago

I'm hard pressed to understand how anyone could have misinterpreted the marketing. The trailers are pretty unambiguous.

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u/mu_zuh_dell 1d ago

I didn't like it becaue of the way the politics were portrayed. There were good parts, but that was in spite of the movie's "lore". I understand the idea of creating fantasy scenarios, but... the movie already plays on and is born out of fears Americans have, and those fears stem from real politics. So to keep the fear, but toss the politics... it made it seem like a cheap cop-out.

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u/Least-Prompt-212 1d ago

To me, the apoliticality was completely immersion breaking. The degree to which I was cognizant that the story being presented was written in a context where it was actively avoiding offending portions of its audience by not addressing the politics of the most political setting you could pick was just too much.

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

But the whole point of the movie was that the sides didn't matter, and barely any body even knew what the sides were. They were constantly asking what outfit the people were with that they end up interviewing and it's still a mess. I thought it was perfect.

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u/Xyllus 1d ago

agreed, best movie of the year

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u/rabton 1d ago

I took it on face value as "enemy of my enemy" and that all that really matters is the US was boned regardless of who was teaming up. Like after the events of the movie, Texas and Cali end up going after each other and the war gets worse.

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u/No-Advice-6040 1d ago

Cos everyone thought it would be about the war part when really that was merely the backdrop from talking about the journalism of it.