r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 20h 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/Songshiquan0411 19h 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 18h 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/againwiththisbs 18h ago

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.

Or more simply they just took out the allied countries when making the list.

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u/TiredEsq 18h ago

It makes me sick to hear Russia referred to as an allied country but I guess we really are there.

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u/MangoCats 16h ago

Don't forget North Korea...

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u/Purple-Revolution-88 13h ago

I hate those scum bags with a burning passion.

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u/Anxious_Technician41 16h ago

I'm old as fuck, well sort of. I remember drills in grammar school and ducking under desks. The USSR was the bad actor. I still get confused when I look on a map and I can't find Czechoslovakia.

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u/two4six0won 13h ago

My dad, too. I remember him explaining what McCarthyism was when I was in elementary. When Velveeta Voldemort won in '16, he said it was good because Russia would bomb us if Hillary won, and I remember thinking 'when the fuck did capitulating to Russia become a good thing????'

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u/rikkian 15h ago

Grammar school suggests UK, if so, you're now in good company with the USA, they have never been able to find anything on a map.

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u/Anxious_Technician41 10h ago

Jesus Christ, you and the guy below. Don't get it. I was referring to the fact that a country doesn't exist anymore just as a reference point. Obviously I can't find Czechoslovakia on a map anymore because it doesn't exist. I only use that country as a reference point because my father's side came from, well that country as it was.

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u/Anxious_Technician41 15h ago

Nah, the USA, the Czechoslovakia comment refers to the fact it no longer exists as it did when I was a kid.

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u/2xtc 10h ago edited 10h ago

I mean you're about 35 years too late for that. How do you feel when you hear about Namibia (independent since 1991), East Timor, South Sudan, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Moldova, Palau?

Kids born after most of these countries came into existence could legally be grandparents in my country (the UK) since you last paid attention to the world.

Not to mention the name changes of DRC, eSwatini, Côte d'Ivoire,Türkiye, North Macedonia etc. etc.

Sometimes being stuck in the past isn't helpful...

ETA: And if you're going all the way back to the days of the USSR there's at least another 20-30 countries that didn't exist when you were a kid, time and the world isn't waiting for you to catch up...

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 15h ago

The USAs only current allies are Russia, Turkey, and North Korea.

Trump started a petulant, pissy trade war with everyone else.