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John Kennedy is a shrewd little rat fuck piece of shit. Highly educated, despite his carefully curated backwater shit kicker persona. I dare say he’s a canary in the coal mine.
Don’t tease me with a good time
"In the long run we're all dead" is just a quote from John Maynard Keynes IIRC (Keynesian economics)
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.
I wish.
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.
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If only there was some way this could have been prevented
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.
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Lol at directly quoting Keynes.
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.
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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.
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Live like a lemming, die like one, Trump trash.
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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.
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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.
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“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.”
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"How dare they do this horrible thing that I voted for!"
Foghorn Leghorn is worried?
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.
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He gives us lip service, but actions speak louder than words.
What has to happend to cancel a political party? Like, officially?
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.
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.
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.
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"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.
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.
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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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There was that no kings act bill. Why not dig that back up?