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/Senior-Albatross New Mexico 1d ago

We can then just invade, liberate the red states, and make them territories without actual voting power. So we'll have a US again but with an updated constitution and better voters.

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u/whoibehmmm 1d ago

Liberate them? They vote for the policies that keep them in the stone age, it's what they want. They should just form their own dream coalition where they have God but no education, healthcare and technology and their blue voters can come to our side.

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u/bejeesus Mississippi 1d ago

I'm starting to think some of y'all aren't as progressive as you claim. Mississippi is almost 40% black almost none of whom vote for any of this nonsense. But fuck em because they're a minority. Fuck my gay sister and my trans cousin and me and my wife. All who voted for Harris but have been unfortunately enough to be born in a red state.

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u/whoibehmmm 22h ago

At what point do you say "Man, I think the life of my family and I would just be better elsewhere?" and make that move? Do you think that progressives are going to sweep in and flip these deep red states with hopes and prayers? Your state is controlled by people who want to keep things exactly the way they have been for the past hundred years and they will fight to keep it that way. Why do we always have to be the ones to extend that hand? They are a lost cause.

If you want to find a place where your gay sister and trans cousin would be and feel safer, then leave. Blue states will be much more accepting. But don't blame progressives. They are not holding you there at gunpoint.

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u/bejeesus Mississippi 10h ago

I make 18 an hour in the cheapest state I simply can't afford to move. Especially when my wife has cancer and we need to be near my family to help take care of our kid because Lord knows can't afford any childcare. This is the same argument conservative use, "if you don't like the country just move!"