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.”
“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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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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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.
Exactly. It seems people really need it spelled out to them: he’s saying protectionism works in the long term but they’re old and will all be dead(a keynes quote “The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead”). He’s wrong though. Protectionism, which are essentially self sanctions, can develop an industry as much as not. Nothing’s a vacuum.
If only these Republicans “speaking out” against Trump decimating the economy were members of some kind of political body with the power to stop this executive overreach…
The problem is their aren’t enough of them willing to speak up so the few that might don’t wish to lose their power, so they remain quiet convincing themselves they are doing the right thing by “living to fight another day”.
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.
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?
The short drop will do just fine.
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.
These idiots passed the CR, and knew it was going to happen lmao tf? is this
shouldve convicted him the first 2 times he was impeached, but mitch mcconell has his money and left you all to your fate.
There was that no kings act bill. Why not dig that back up?
‘We’re All Dead’
Okay well hurry up about it.
Tired of false promises, man.
He’s pulling a McConnell (blocked impeachment consequences both times), have all the power to prevent it and do nothing, then complain when shit happens because of you to try to shift the blame.
Any military workers/veterans in here? When are you gonna uphold your sworn oath to the constitution?
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.
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.
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Why are you asking someone else to fix your problems for you?
they wont, until the economy collapses, and the federal government loses control.
How many times do we have to explain this, before it starts to make sense. Either you lose control of the military, and the military seizes power (not advantageous to you in this case)
or the entire society and government structure around it collapses, and it’s basically a free for all power grab because nobody has anything to lose.
In the long run, we’re all dead
Yeah, that’s the plan. But you guys could have predicted that because we all did.
“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.
good thing this is not the kennedy related to brainworms and his family.
There seems to be too many of those.
