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/pomonamike California 1d ago

It’s kinda crazy that we are a second-level political division when by ourselves we would be one of the economically biggest nations on the planet.

It really doesn’t make practical sense when we have to bend the knee to certain senators that were voted in by fewer people than live in say… Riverside.

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u/socialcommentary2000 New York 1d ago

There's 5 US states that have less population than the County I live in adjacent to NYC...and I'm not even in the highest population one in the area.

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u/pomonamike California 1d ago

Yeah I’m from Los Angeles County. There are 10 million people just in this county. It’s more populous than the vast majority of states. Hell, I live in Riverside County now and it has more people than a few states.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics California 1d ago

And Greater LA (the contiguous city spanning multiple counties) is 18.3M people. If greater LA were its own state it'd be the 5th largest by population.

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u/pomonamike California 1d ago

Yep! I try to explain this to people and they don’t get it. I had some friends from Alabama come visit and we went for a little drive from Santa Monica to Cabazon (they wanted to see the dinosaurs) and they were shocked that it’s just solid city for about 60 miles.