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.”
I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the disappearing of citizens and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighboring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he’s giving Wall Street the jitters, so I’m not so sure about this guy any more.
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‘We’re All Dead’
Okay well hurry up about it.
Oh, wouldn’t that be nice.
shouldve convicted him the first 2 times he was impeached, but mitch mcconell has his money and left you all to your fate.
These idiots passed the CR, and knew it was going to happen lmao tf? is this
wasn’t concerned enough about President Donald Trump’s steep international tariffs to vote against them Wednesday
Then shut the fuck up and enjoy your vote.
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.
Watching Fox, were you?
Nope Channel 6 news in Tulsa.
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
Oh, won’t someone save me from my abusive self!
“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.
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.
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
Oh cheer up republicans! In 60 years there’ll be more idiots who might vote for you. Unless they ever ask any old person why they’re homeless.
In the long run, we’re all dead
Yeah, that’s the plan. But you guys could have predicted that because we all did.
In the long run, we’re all dead
Isn’t Foghorn Leghorn quoting Keynes here? Why, I thought Keynes [1] was right up there with Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky [2] in the pantheon of Bad Guys the cons don’t know a fucking thing about but constantly talk about.
[1] I’m still convinced a lot of racist dumbfucks thought that Keynesian had something to do with Kenyan, because Obama is Blah.
[2] I remember in the height of qons talking about “Alinsky style politics” I’d ask them to explain what they mean by that? Also, have they read Rules for Radicals? If so, what is so bad in there? What is the book about? I also asked them if the mere use of satire is “Alinsky style politics” does that mean Mark Twain had a time machine and he traveled into the future to get tips from Alinsky or something? Hilarity would ensue…
Didn’t they try to tie Hilary to Alinsky too? Ms. “Super predators” herself.
Again, fucking over working Americans isn’t the issue, working white Americans that voted for this btw, not about their own jobs.
What a misleading headline. The full quote from the article is:
“In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.”
So he’s not saying “we’re all dead [as a result of this action]” he’s just giving a shitty excuse for making foolish decisions.
He’s hedging his bets because he wants to get re-elected. And if you fall on the wrong side of this you are 100% going to get shit fucked in the next election cycle.
What has to happend to cancel a political party? Like, officially?
The People string up the leaders from the street, historically.
The People put the leaders to the guillotine, historically.
The short drop will do just fine.
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.
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?
Guillotines mostly
a scimitar serves the same purpose, or the gallows.
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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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.
There was that no kings act bill. Why not dig that back up?
