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/tymtt 1d ago

I think this is the case, but he has a bunch of competing interests within his group. There's the technocrats like Peter Thiel that want a complete societal collapse, the investors that just want extreme market volatility they can profit from, and countries like Russia who want to diminish the influence the US has on the world. Trump is taking money from all of them, and I'm sure he doesn't even know his endgame

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u/StoneCypher 1d ago

I think there may be a number of new Republicans who just tried to be along for the ride and genuinely didn't realize how much of it wasn't bombastics

I'm hoping the bile rises in a few of their throats. It wouldn't take many

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u/geek_of_nature Australia 22h ago

Yeah I dont think he has any big plans, he's just an idiot. A cruel one that doesn't care about how it affects other people, but still an idiot. But it's the others who have aligned themselves to his popularity who are the ones to watch out for.