California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs
California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs
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California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs
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See, this is the smart way to take performative action. Just go on TV and lie! Nobody will call you on it! You don't need to talk for 24 hours, or shit in a bucket, or anything!
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the shocking part is that the dems weren't even willing to do that
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- Gavin has no juice, he just wants to ride the line of "performatively defying Trump" and "pandering to transphobes" in the run up to 2028.
If a Republican governor was saying this about a Democrat president, I'd believe it. They will flagrantly break the law if they can get away with it. There's nothing Newsom can legally do to get around tariffs, he just wants a headline. And Democrats will always follow procedures if it means that the poor will get hurt.
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liberals without power and liberals making excuses for not upholding principles don't break laws. liberals pursuing their interests will, they do not have a fundamentally different ideology from republicans. there are powerful capital interests in california that would love to be immune from the tarriff regime. let the grusome gentleman cook
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Yeah as a California resident that hates Newsom with the burning heat of a thousand suns, I'll let him have this one cuz it would be funny.
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Maybe, but the article title is misleading. He never said he wanted to skirt tariffs, he said he wanted to expand with trading partners. That's vague liberal speak and that usually means "do nothing."
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newsom is surely lying but it'll be super funny when trump retaliates by selling california to china so that he can tariff california
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Please. Comrade Trump, make it so.
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Trump is gonna haul him to prison, and he’ll shit his pants and cry.
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idk about the headlines, but the article sounds more like he's trying to get California excluded from retaliatory tariffs.
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BALKANIZE LETS GOOOOO
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Generalissimo Newsom, my aliexpress orders yearn for freedom
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c'mon balkanize
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wtf i love states' rights now
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It's hilarious that he thinks any foreigner loves California enough to exclude them from retaliatory tariffs
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I think any foreign government would be ecstatic to undermine the current regime's dwindling legitimacy.
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I could see the EU libs trying to do some nitpicking in their tarrifs, exempting NY/CA. Nobody else on Earth sees enough of a distinction between the two parties to care
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I mean it's standard tactics to hit the base of the tariff doing party so most likely yes this may work in getting foreign governments who do TARGETED tariffs (given the ones they're subject to are across the board they may respond in the same way). In terms of applying pressure it is indeed pointless to hit California which didn't vote for Trump or this policy per se, it makes much more sense to apply pain to red states and red voters and red state companies and industries to make them squeal and their quality of life lower and their plants lay people off so they no longer think they're winning and begin to question this whole thing and to split the ranks of the group who's pushing through these things.
So yes this is both posturing to present himself as a "strong leader"(tm) who stood up to Trump when he runs in 2028 as well as to attempt to mitigate retaliation and direct it where possible elsewhere as well as of course just seeking trade deals and investment under the banner of trying to subvert tariffs.
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California? You mean the progressive, melting pot bastion with the world’s 4th largest economy?
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Remind me again which state just voted to continue legalized slavery through the prison system?
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Progressive state that made it legal to kill the homeless. So progressive!
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I liked it when the progressive state legislature didn't even bring a progressive single payer healthcare bill to a vote because they knew they would all have to publicly vote against it, progressively. That was very progressive.
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"progressive" state which elected Arnold Schwarzenegger, the same "progressive" state which hates the homeless and has unaffordable housing, the "progressive" state with a Governor who invites right-wingers on his podcast like Bannon and Kirk.
"4th largest economy" is also a stretch since most of it is in difficult to measure services sector.
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thinking the word progressive means anything, in the year of our LORD 2025. lol. lmao, even
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Everybody who does this self-aggrandisement with the word 'progressive' is deeply unserious.
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sure i do mean that
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California preparing for secession.
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Cool and all, but uhhh…..I better see California fucking apologize for all the shit the Silicon Valley did to the whole country.
As if one Wall Street was bad enough.
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Silicon Valley did shit to the whole world
Meta and its engineering of genocides via facebook
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I mean, if Texas is gonna take immigration into its own hands and ignore the feds, turnabout is fair play.
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states rights come and take them
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I think we could have a legit secession movement in California if there were an organized group that could become the government. Newscum ain't it
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Unfortunately, while California does have one of the strongest economies in the world, there is something that global trade can't address: Water.
Most of California's water comes from rivers that flow from out of state. It would be really easy to destroy a hypothetical independent California by disrupting water flow from the east.
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the boys will soon be talking about paladins, HIMARs, and howitzers at their next fantasy football gambling sessions
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Critical support to Gruesome Newscum's balkanization efforts.
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The biggest treatler state to avoid treatler tax
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Send in the tanks, Donny.
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Fuck yeah, you know what to do next newsom, secession from the union.
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My wish junk gonna be hitting clean
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