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/Purple-Revolution-88 1d ago

You're so wrong. There is no other customer anyway that even comes close to the volume of products the US buys. If we were selling to them, yeah, they could go elsewhere. But we are literally the main buyers of almost everything. If they wanted to cut us out, they would have to take a truly massive pay cut. Massive. It'd be like every business losing their best customers all at once.

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u/Moon_whisper 1d ago

USA just ordered first. Kind of like when you go to a restaurant. Unless you are there early or have a reservation, you are SOL. But the USA's stanfing reservation has been canceled...by the USA.

Best customer doesn't equal only customer. USA is the diva insta-influencer who thinks they are more important than they are. But like an insta-influencer, USA is going very quickly find they are not that special, not that good, not the status symbol they think they are, and kinda obsolete. Like Tesla.

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u/Purple-Revolution-88 1d ago

No, my friend. It's like if you lose your best, most reliable restaurant customer and all you have left is the next 10 customers who all have less money and always order less and cheaper food. If you sell stuff, anything, you ignore the biggest and richest customers at your own peril.

I do NOT agree with what Trump is doing in the slightest. I freaking despise him. But walking away from the biggest potential customer is not something most goods-providers are looking to do.

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u/Moon_whisper 1d ago

Keep telling yourself that. Whatever helps you believe your country will bounce back unaffected.

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u/Purple-Revolution-88 1d ago

You're not worried about me or us, you're just worried about yourself. You're here attacking the Americans who are actually on your side. If you alienate us, it really is over.

You have no concern for my country. You're just looking to preserve yourself.

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u/Moon_whisper 1d ago

Your country is beyond saving. It isn't just the current government, it is the mindset of the people who voted in that government and those who still agree with the stripping of human rights, the human trafficking, the murdering of democracy.

Nobody can save you from yourself. Nobody can save your country from itself. That is something your country needs to do internally.

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u/Front-Style1532 17h ago

We will take over Canada soon enough. 51st state

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u/Moon_whisper 15h ago

You will have a civil war with California trying to defect and bypass your federal government (tariffs, trying to make international deal that directly defy and oppose your government's federal decisions). Given that they are the first state to stand up, but won't be the last, your country has bigger internal issues to panic about.

Keep praising your fascist cheeto.

Your country actually thinks they are respected??? You need to be respectable in order to be respected.