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/wankbollox 1d ago

If Texas can ignore the federal government and make its own immigration policy, then I guess California can make its own trade policy. Seems fair. 

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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/Emblazin 1d ago

That was by design so the right couldn't complain about being the bad guys.

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u/rainzer 1d ago

then they complained anyway cause they recognize the fascist president as Trump

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue I voted 1d ago

I mean, they were really big on The Boys until the Homelander parallels became clear to them.

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u/Vohdre Illinois 1d ago

Which should have been 5 minutes after Homelander was introduced

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u/animatroniczombie 1d ago

They're not the sharpest knives in the drawer

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u/ActOdd8937 1d ago

Heck, they aren't even the sharpest spoons!

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u/Silidistani 1d ago

Gah, beat me to it! 🫵🏼

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u/JTitch420 15h ago

You Don’t need knives when you got all the guns