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/TinFoilBeanieTech 1d ago

States setting their own trade agreements is totally unconstitutional, but we haven't been following that for a while now anyway. I'm hoping the whole west coast can form it's own trade coalition.

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u/palmerama 1d ago

Now the plot of Civil War doesn’t seem so far fetched.

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u/Faux-Foe 1d ago

The biggest far fetched idea in there wasn’t the movie, it was which states were aligned with each other.

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u/The_Autarch 1d ago

If a president seizes a third term after massacring a bunch of peaceful protestors, I think you'd see a lot of "loyal" state governments replaced with ones ready for war pretty quickly. Texas is huge and has plenty of people who aren't lunatics.

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u/medusa-crowley 1d ago

Right wingers were fully in support of protestors getting shot in 2020. They also fully believed AntiFa were burning farms in Oregon; they were out and armed and patrolling for us.

 All it takes is them being told our cause isn’t justified and that Trump is taking a third term to fight against a crazy leftist mob. We’ve seen this play out in miniature already.