Tuberville: “We built China - the American taxpayers. We built the Middle East. We built Europe. So now it’s time they help us build back our country after we’ve helped them so much, and that happens to be with tariffs.”
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US didn't send money to these countries. Nato spend money on their own defense. They taxed their billionaires! Something thr Uas refuses. US pays trillions to billionaires who didn't invest in America.
The big winners in these places the US built were the American over-wealthy owners of major corporations that built their factories and refineries in China and the Middle East. Tommy's a shill.
Only an idiot of Tuberville's magnitude thinks a world order built over decades to secure American economic dominance is somehow a systematic ripoff of America.
Now we will destroy that world order because the idiots are a majority and all Americans will suffer.
What a dunce! How is he even in Congress?! He must think he is smarter than his constituents, which is sad because they have to be really dumb to keep him in office. Americans will be paying the tariffs. He just doesn't understand anything math related. He sounds dumber every day!
What the hell is he talking about now? Geezus. And, just why do we need "building back"? Oh, because tfg's damned tariffs are going to destroy our economy? Or because Project 2025 is destroying our democracy?
I guess he forgot that we didn’t talk to China since 1949. Does he remember the communist take over.
It took Nixon to recognize China. Then it took a little longer for China to start taking American jobs.
Well when you’re that stupid it’s not surprising.
Does Tommy Tuberville seriously not know how old the U.S. is? "We built the Roman Empire, we built the Hall of Doom, we built this city on rock and roll!" This moron is so lost. Lord.
Tuberville is a moron, and that’s being kind. No understanding of tariffs.
If he’s so concerned with paying back, how about they pay back France for supporting them in the war of 1812?
Pull up those bootstraps Tubby! We wouldn’t need anything from anyone if you guys would get your greedy hands out of the taxpayers cookie jar and stop dismantling our government.
Oh fuqqing please. Countries with 100's of years of history were not "built" by us. And with our country acting like a bully in the sandbox, I don't blame them for uniting against us. Sucks to be us, for now.
it’s so amazing how they get elected. But you look at education scores in red states and it’s clear what’s happening. Then tuberville opens his mouth and confirms it
Whenever you think Republicans are not that smart and don't know what they are talking about. They say something like this and show you they are getting too much credit. Any other country on earth and these people would be laughed out of office. Here somehow they just talk louder.
These people are so painfully stupid. Tariffs don't collect tax dollars from other countries. How fucking dumb do you have to be to still be pushing this absolute bullshit?
The press needs to make this Clown tooberville talk more often. The more he speaks the dumber he sounds and looks what an idiot who votes for these bozos ??
This man couldn’t name the three co-equal branches of government. He’s not qualified to sit a middle-school social studies exam let alone sit in Senate.
Actually we did help build the Chinese electric auto sector. TESLA's huge Shanghai factory got tax breaks & special treatment by the Chinese government in exchange for the technology & manufacturing processes. Musk happily made that deal. Tesla sales in China down 49%. BYD just eclipsed Tesla.
I will give you that, but China was a LEADER even before we were a gleam in our Forefathers' eyes. Maybe if he used Modern Day China and Europe as Nixon did help in openingup China & our Marshall Plan did help to rebuild Europe after WWII, but I'm not sure if he'd known about either to be honest.
Thank you for saying this , I am sick of our media not immediately calling this out with a follow up question and just let it stand as a sound bite, and the dumb elections this is true
Until those who voted for Tuberville experience consequences sufficient to prompt their understanding, nothing will change with respect to Tuberville and those like him.
Dude needs to go listen to his colleague Sen. Booker. He might learn something, I hear they're talking about a lot of history on that there Senate floor.
We the Republican Party allowed manufacturing companies to move to China Taiwan Mexico because the companies wanted cheap labour so yes you helped them but you also allowed good paying jobs to leave the US and now you want to slap tariffs on all these companies .
Tuberville...Tuberville... Oh, yeah. He's the moron who blocked the confirmation of over 450 promotions of senior military officers from February to December 2023 over reimbursing travel costs for service members seeking abortions. What a hero!😝
Whether it was Lincoln or Mark Twain who originally said it, it still remains a great statement: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt".
Tommy Dumberville lecturing about history; he couldn't pick out China on a map. Some football coaches might be erudite, intelligent and wise, but Tommy ain't one of those. The MAGAs elect clowns to Congress.
Our family-owned business has seen the effects of tariffs during Trump 1.0. The cost is passed on until you can't pass it on any further. It ends with consumers. We have already received notices of cost increases from suppliers, and sell prices will be adjusted accordingly. Tariffs = taxes.
We add margin after tariffs. Have to for cash flow. We have no competitors. So the consumer has no choice. Now they will pay tariff tax, sales tax in most states and income tax. No way will a cut in income tax compensate. America will be so great! Or broke?
Yeah, Tiberville knows how to build back our country by refusing military promotions for 10 months for his unhinged revolt on abortion policy of military families.
What an ignor-anus.
Tariffs are a tax on American consumers.
We pay more for items from these countries. We pay, not other countries.
And to think this idiot is in congress.
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“In conclusion…”
Nobody gets the olive branch 😊
Now we will destroy that world order because the idiots are a majority and all Americans will suffer.
Treason by idiocy -- idiocracy.
Everything.
How do you even counter a GIANT WALL OF STUPIDITY like this?
He is absolutely the poster boy for WHITE, UGLY AMERICAN, PRIVILEGE!
China as a successful nation existed LONG before the USA
It took Nixon to recognize China. Then it took a little longer for China to start taking American jobs.
Well when you’re that stupid it’s not surprising.
What they don't know is that he's a f*cking imbecile.
We benefited from low prices.
If he’s so concerned with paying back, how about they pay back France for supporting them in the war of 1812?
Build back what?
'I have a master's from Syracuse University to hear this home-schooled southerner revise history'......
Maybe not, but it would be the best option.
be exhausted!
FFS, does he have a little tattoo on his hand reminding him to breathe?
Good Christ
Dumbass
A wee bit.
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The foreign countries that hold the most U.S. debt are Japan, China, the U.K., the Cayman Islands, and Luxembourg
This talking cabbage 🥬🥬
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Gaza Pyramids -- Trammell Crow developed it as part of an outlet mall.
Palace of Versailles -- Fred and Mary Anne Trump's summer home.
Nur die allerdümmsten Kälber wählen ihre Schlächter selber.
“Only the dumbest of all calves choose their own butchers themselves.”
And this hayseed thinks the entire world owes us gratitude? These people are absolutely insane.
Thank you for that.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
SHUT THE HELL UP !
But I will agree with him here Republicans who were looking for anti-union cheaper labor for sure built China -
Too many hits to the head Tubbsy?
China?
The Middle East?
We built them?
They were all thriving civilizations before any colonists set foot on the North American continent.
Tariffs are a tax on American consumers.
We pay more for items from these countries. We pay, not other countries.
And to think this idiot is in congress.