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/airemy_lin 1d ago

The stepping stones for American balkanization.

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u/BeefistPrime 1d ago

you're right, but honestly, it's probably for the best. better than our lives being controlled by these morons. I'd let the the whole south go. Let them have their Christian Iran. Let them see what happens when the blue states stop subsidizing them and saving them from their worst desires.

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u/InSummaryOfWhatIAm 18h ago

In one way, hell yeah that sounds like the right idea. Then when the people/evangelicals in the red states actually form Y'all-Qaeda and start sending terrorist bombers over the state borders to wage holy war on the ungodly liberals, it kinda stops being fun.