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Summary
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) warned of uncertainty over Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, saying, “In the long run, we’re all dead,” and slammed blind loyalty to the policy.
While Kennedy didn’t vote against Trump’s emergency tariff powers—unlike four GOP senators—he criticized the lack of clarity on economic impacts.
Trump imposed a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, falsely claiming foreign nations will bear the cost.
Kennedy told Newsmax that predictions on the tariffs’ effects are unreliable, adding anyone claiming certainty is “lying” or “selling deep stupid.”
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Any military workers/veterans in here? When are you gonna uphold your sworn oath to the constitution?
A very highly placed officer would have to take the first step. Servicemen have no access to their weapons or ammunition, this goes double for anything heavier than a rifle. To gain access to any sort of weapons it would take a large conspiracy. Without proper organization and a supply chain even the most capable individual is just a lone crank.
A very highly placed officer would have to take the first step.
They too have sworn an oath, not only talking about infantry or gruntworkers. More and more that oath seems like a joke.
I’ve been screaming my head off against that asshole for ten years, and I can’t rally democrats to do anything more than play tambourine and sing kumbaya.
If they haven’t by now, and they haven’t, they aren’t going to.
There was that no kings act bill. Why not dig that back up?
“How dare they do this horrible thing that I voted for!”
What has to happend to cancel a political party? Like, officially?
Ignore the edgy teenagers.
IIRC most recently (as in, 100+ years ago)
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the anti-slavery movement
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the pure force of Teddy Roosevelt’s personality
There was also the “Southern strategy” where the Democratic and Republican party basically flipped due to racism.
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The People string up the leaders from the street, historically.
The People put the leaders to the guillotine, historically.
Really, the only difference is how much blood you want to see. Result’s pretty much the same.
Considering modern US history you could put them in high school, I guess?
We’re much more civilized and advanced as a society compared to those days. Surely we can make laser guillotines with a machine that can process the corpse into compostable material.
The short drop will do just fine.
Depends on your country. In countries with proportional representation you can vote for the party you like. If you’re voting tactically you’re down to the coalition you like.
E.g. here in Norway we get minority coalitions all the time. It’s fine. They have to (gasp) cooperate with others to get anywhere.
Guillotines mostly
Glad the senator sees it.
That’s my thinking here, like… Is he the first of many to realize they were wrong? Or will most of them just go down with the cult ship shouting praise the whole way?
They always express their concerns as soon as they have finished voting in favor.
He gives us lip service, but actions speak louder than words.
Foghorn Leghorn is worried?
“I mean, granted, I did absolutely no homework about tariffs, nor did I take what basically amounted to all of the economists warnings in consideration, but doggone it, I really thought this con-artist was on to something - and to that, I can’t help but feel a little misled. Is it really my responsibility to make the best decisions for my constituents? Accountability is for suckers and leaders.”
I did absolutely no homework about tariffs
Yep, it’s this bit that really got me:
While Kennedy didn’t vote against Trump’s emergency tariff powers he criticized the lack of clarity on economic impacts.
Understandable for some hillbilly gop voter to complain like that, but a senator? It’s his job to make informed decisions!
And what are the chances he knew, and didn’t vote against it regardless? Assuming Signalgate shows us the average intelligence of the current government, I’d say 50/50.
Only four Republican senators Wednesday — Rand Paul (Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Susan Collins (Maine)
This is a wild list of hold outs. Couple of BS "center"ists, the functional leader of the GOP for the last few decades and a batshit libertarian extremist. Fuck all 4 of em anyways, monsters every single one. But gawdamn what a collection.
mitch being the primary cause of this whole mess, hes just saving face for his lich self.
Live like a lemming, die like one, Trump trash.
“idiot votes for thing he is absolutely against”
like all conservatives, they lack the will or ability to think or act like autonomous human beings.
The political system is inherently set up for politicians to compromise for their self-interest — because money. For personal profit and/or to get re-elected. There was a decent New Yorker article I read on the matter a few years ago that suggested something along the lines that, even if a politician begins their career with the best intentions, the process of getting elected for higher and higher offices erodes those intentions. That’s even if they had any decent intentions to begin with, of course.
That’s what would happen if something like Career Politicians were allowed to take over the system…
Oh wait… That happened decades ago… 🤦♀️ 🙄
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Politicians need to leave their opinions at the door. Their job is to express the will and goals of the people they represent.
We need to vote more dead weight out.
Their job is to express the will and goals of the people they represent.
Citizens United has entered the chat
He’s a fucking liar.
If he voted for it, he isn’t against it.
they need mitch mcconnell to tell them what to do, unfortunately hes staying away like the snake he is from this mess. the true mastermind of the gop in the party was MITCH.
GOP isn’t dead enough. Put them up against the wall.
as long as putins machine works its way through the gop, white supremecist groups and right wing news sources, they wont be dead enough.
While Kennedy didn’t vote against Trump’s emergency tariff powers
Shut the fuck up then, Senator. Your vote matters. Your comments don’t.
One more dinosaur who thinks people should give a fuck about things other than his actual actions. Pure distraction.
News that I was forced to listen to in the break room at work said that the tariffs will be good for America and long as the country don’t put retaliatory tariffs that they just lay down and take them then Trump won’t add more. Seriously tired of our media bending the knee for trump and lying to thier listeners.
forced to listen to in the break room at work
What “news” was this, if you don’t mind me asking?
Totally agree that US media is a shell of what used to be journalism. Profits control all.
Our local channel 6 news. They’re right wing news.
Probably a Sinclair owned station. Their as bad or worse than Fox because their stealthier.
Nope locally owned. They love letting us know that. Just owmed by Trump loving people.
Came here to ask same question. I understand crazytown far right talk radio, but if this was something else, I’d be curious what it was.
Obviously it’s Fox
Or OAN, which is more crazy even against Fox
Watching Fox, were you?
Nope Channel 6 news in Tulsa.
Oh, won’t someone save me from my abusive self!
It must be nice to be dead and still able to live comfortably. Are they really worried about re-election? Who are their constituency going to vote for, a Democrat?
I was there for the “Republican Autopsy.” It wasn’t a death throe of the party at all. They reconfigured themselves in to a memetic virus of toxic masculinity and populism, built on a foundation of conspiracy-oriented magical thinkers and their fear of everything different from themselves. Republican voters don’t give a damn about reality, they vote like they do so they can live in and perpetuate a mad fantasy. They will never stop, it’s all they have.
Senator Kennedy can go fuck himself for enabling Trump for the last decade. I’m glad he can see the disaster that’s going to swallow him and his colleagues coming.
