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/ibentmyworkie 1d ago

Bring in Washington and Oregon and get a corridor up the west coast. Let’s connect Canada and Mexico and the sane US states to create a powerhouse trading union

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 1d ago

We would immediately be at war with the militias in the Eastern parts of Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and with Idaho and likely the other surrounding states. That whole region relies heavily on access to the coast and port in Seattle, and to a lesser degree to the ports in CA and Oregon. 

Idaho has the farthest inland seaport in the US, a riverway where barges carry wheat and other agricultural goods to be shipped out of Seattle. It’s one of the most important grain-producing regions in the world. It’s also packed full of armed extremists.

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u/hardslowandsteady 1d ago

What is this??? Idaho??? "Seaport"??? Barges going down a river constitute a seaport??? Duluth or St Paul would both be way way way further and St Louis would still be further and represent far more productive land. The entire Great plains gets shipped down the Missouri and Mississippi. Fuck those "Christian" jihadist asshole militias and the bitch ass narratives.

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 1d ago

Lewiston, ID

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u/hardslowandsteady 1d ago

Duluth to the Atlantic is 2,300 miles. Duluth's port docks 1,000 foot freight and cargo ships that are ocean going. It's 460 miles from Lewiston to the Pacific and handles barges. Idaho is not any of the things you said it is. 62 million bushels of wheat. Fucking Iowa alone produces over 2 BILLION bushels of corn. And the vast majority of it goes down the Mississippi. That's over a thousand miles of river. Idaho is a joke

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 1d ago

Duluth is on Lake Superior, which makes the “inland” part debatable.

But yes, I checked and Lewiston is the farthest inland Pacific port.