In a post on X, Newsom addressed the U.S.'s global trading partners, writing “California is here and ready to talk.”
It comes after a Fox News report revealed that Newsom is directing his state to pursue “strategic” relationships with countries announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., urging them to exclude California-made products from those taxes.
Texas couldn’t function as it’s own country lol.
They had a cold snap and it damn near destroyed their electric grid. None of the red states could stand on their own. They don’t have the funds to keep infrastructure running and have to siphon them off from the blue states.
Part of the reason Texas hasn’t seceded is because they know they couldn’t pull it off on their own. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Louisiana know if any of them decided to throw their lot in with Texas, they’d all end up being Texas’s vassal states.
Last I checked, Texas was literally the only red state that actually paid more into the federal government than it took out. The cold snap was just the usual idiocy, but it’s not like it couldn’t be handled, the state just stopped caring about weather proofing infrastructure.
And with the amount of natural resources and basically year round agriculture that happens in Texas, I have no doubt it could be self sufficient to some definition. I almost wish they would secede and tank the current electoral landscape. As long as I can move out first.
North Korea functions as a country. Its citizens aren’t very happy or healthy, but it functions.
North Korea is a border fort bot a real country
The people of north korea also are not armed to the teeth