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.”
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.
If only…
“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… 🤦♀️ 🙄
🤡 🖕 🖕
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There was that no kings act bill. Why not dig that back up?
Any military workers/veterans in here? When are you gonna uphold your sworn oath to the constitution?
If they haven’t by now, and they haven’t, they aren’t going to.
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.
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.
It always has been. The oath is about blind obedience not for actually protecting to constitution or the military would have said no to all of the illegal bombings that have happened.
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.
“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.
“How dare they do this horrible thing that I voted for!”
Foghorn Leghorn is worried?
Live like a lemming, die like one, Trump trash.
Glad the senator sees it.
He gives us lip service, but actions speak louder than words.
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.
they are know reminiscing they will end up like cheney and kazinger.
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.
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.
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.
Who are their constituency going to vote for, a Democrat?
honestly at this rate, probably.
