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/b34tn1k 1d ago

Every time those "fixed it" maps come out where it draws US states as part of Canada they always leave out CO and NM but include a couple of trump voting states. Due to that I've felt we should strike out on our own. We could control the flow of the Colorado River as leverage.

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u/Senior-Albatross New Mexico 1d ago

Eh, invade Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho and occupy them.

Those people will go full Talliban of course, but they have been trying to do that for decades anyway so we would just be fulfilling their dreams. Until they realize that ammo and gas are actually hard to find when you're an occupied territory. But let's not let their dreams be dreams.

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u/ArmyofRiverdancers 18h ago

Again. Issue is the military we have in our geographic area is NOT LOYAL to us. 

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u/ArmyofRiverdancers 18h ago

Californian here. Would like to observe that having Colorado Springs and the full Colorado river watershed are honestly too good for most dystopian scenarios to speculate on for secession planning.

Figs. CO have the NORAD HQ and Alternate Command posts in your area. NM has White Sands and Los Alamos. And The Colorado river states in between are ideal because SoCal agriculture is literally tied to that dam river like an umbilicus. 

It takes practically all the issues out except for the military presence, which is too mixed and indoctrinated to prevent a bloodbath.