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/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/Timely-Hospital8746 1d ago

It's not just Russia. Many of the Silicon Valley tech bros (the ones you saw lined up behind him at his inauguration) have been talking about this for 10+ years. They want to tear down the federal government in order to replace it with a series of tech powered city states.

The remaining areas where they decide having a federal framework is effective (military, intelligence, things like that) are going to be privatized. Peter Thiel for example wants to gobble up more and more of the CIA functionality into his Palantir corporation.

Thiel in particular is insidious about this shit. He saw how much money can be made by sitting in the center of commerce and taking a little fee like he did with Paypal. Now he wants to sit at the center of the flow of public money (a gargantuan pile of money beyond any corps wildest dream) and take a little fee from *everything*.