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/Archer1407 1d ago

Trump is going to launch a trade war against California in the next few days.

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u/pm_me_ur_ParusMajors North Carolina 1d ago

Considering how much agriculture and manufacturing actually come out of California, this would have a substantial impact on the rest of the US. The California gdp is as much as in the top 5 gdp's in the world.

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u/StoneCypher 1d ago

 this would have a substantial impact on the rest of the US. 

He wants to destroy the country, so

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u/JohnnySnark Florida 1d ago

Yep, destroy the country for Russia's benefit

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u/Virtual_Plantain_707 1d ago

Best investment they’ve ever made.

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u/ToughTalkingTurtle 1d ago

Is it true that he didn't place tariffs on Russia?

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u/Songshiquan0411 1d ago

Yes. His administration officials have tried the line of "we already sanction them, we don't really do any trade with Russia already". Okay I didn't know we did that much trade with Vanuatu but you still hit them with tariffs.

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u/bdone2012 1d ago

They put tariffs on the Heard and McDonald island. It’s near the South Pole and is just a bunch of penguins, no humans. I can’t believe I need to say this but putting tariffs on Russia makes more sense than putting them on a island full of penguins.

My guess is that the ChatGPT didn’t think about putting tariffs on Russia because of the sanctions and somehow it got confused with the Heard and McDonalds island.

There’s a strong theory that the whole thing was done using chatGPT because this is the exact plan you get when you ask how to implement tariffs from the us to other countries.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the

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u/bewildered_dismay California 1d ago

Here's the official Heard Island Government account on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/heardislandgov.bsky.social

:)

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u/backupbitches 1d ago

Holy fuck are they ever killing it

*krilling it

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u/squakmix 1d ago

This is gold, thanks

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u/Constant-Funny1817 1d ago

I started rolling in hysteria just at flippers up.

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u/-Smaug-- Canada 1d ago

That is magnificent

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 1d ago

Well that's delightful.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response.

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u/Far_Recommendation82 1d ago

I followed lol

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u/theyca11m3dav3 1d ago

This is hilarious! A bit of mirth on a very serious topic. Reminds me of a joke: Why do comedians never tell jokes about penguins?

Because they don’t fly.

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u/doesamulletmakeaman 1d ago

Omg thank you for this

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u/ninja_kitten_ 1d ago

OMG. I love it. Immediately followed!!

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u/CompetitionExternal5 1d ago

Russians have hacked the Tariff signal chat and swapped Russia for Heard and McDobald island. The Russian hacker was under the name of Not Jeff Goldberg, so nobody suspected foul play.

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u/bewildered_dismay California 23h ago

A fiendish plot!

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u/the_procrastinata 23h ago

Amazing, reminds me of a slightly more lighthearted version of Alt National Parks

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u/bewildered_dismay California 23h ago

That's a great account to follow, too!

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u/kismet098 1d ago

The level of cheekiness my day! Thanks for sharing!

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u/Chicken-Inspector 1d ago

I love it.

But I also hate it. Thanks 😂 have an upvote.

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u/ZapzillaGorilla Florida 23h ago

Lol flippers up

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u/LouQuacious 19h ago

I love Heard Island it’s my favorite island so glad it’s finally getting some attention: https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/s/EpTv4PaEXH

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u/GSpider78 13h ago

Just subbed to Bluesky for the HeardIslandGovt. Hilarious in a time when The Onion is struggling to be sarcastic enough 👏

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u/Ancient-Commercial75 8h ago

There might be a silver lining to these tariffs, I never knew about Heard Island before this stupidity. I hope all the attention they are getting now translates into research funding and conservation efforts.

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u/BigJSunshine California 1d ago

That is ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL

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u/062d 1d ago

Haha I love their response to this with "Why is Jupiter getting hit with the same percentage as us" and his board saying Narnia, Wikanda, Neverland, etc.

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u/nadacloo Wisconsin 1d ago

Hell, I may join Blue sky just to follow heard Island.

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u/schooliepro 23h ago

Thanks for that!

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u/Mystery_to_history 20h ago

Penguins are even funnier than we thought!

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u/Dull_Investigator806 20h ago

This was from an article on CNN about Heard and McDonald Islands

“Economic activity there essentially ended in 1877, when the trade in elephant seal oil was ended and the human population of sealers left the remote islands, which are located en route from Madagascar to Antarctica.”

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u/CloudTheWolf- 1d ago

Blue sky

Yeah not clicking that shit ass link