Because he lies about everything! If you are telling the truth then you are a very nasty person and guilty of treason with Trump. If he gets away with jailing judges and deporting citizens for any or no reason then how much longer before he does it to members of Congress/Senate?
Participate in the General Strike 5/1/25:
Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
Do you really think he will gain the votes needed to accomplish this, cause i tend to believe this is a smoke and mirror tactic.. a fake wind to feel a small victory that will go nowhere...
Im dead from holding my breath sooo long these days..
What an easy out for Trump- his mess erased, but a damaged economy remains.
Trump can blame Rand Paul and play the martyr and say “he tried”
It would’t surprise me at all if Trump is behind this scheme with some “deal” with Rand Paul.
Trump’s cornered now, know’s it, and this is his only way out.
Maybe I misread, but this string says RP is FOR free trade.
I have no idea because RP is second on the useless idiot list second only to Lindsey Graham.
Not anymore...and really never..id point to Bush 1's protectionism in favor of US steel producers..actually the old school GOP paid lip service to free trade....the new GOP just give Trump a rimjob at every opportunity
Libertarian...that means "i get to do whatever i want but no one else can"...or "big corporations can employ people in foreign countries for pennies a day to make billions"...right?
I’d say that it’s closer to having an affinity to (negative) “liberty” in a stark abstract sense, but not necessarily a great idea of how liberty is achieved in concrete practice.
But he won’t do anything will he? They all know he’s nuts and will burn it all down for him selfish pride and revenge. BUT THEY WON’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. They have no balls.
Anyone who thinks Rand Paul is the new “Luz Cheney: Hero of the Anti-Trump Resistance” needs to pay full attention to his record. He’s a P.O.S. and always will be.
Because even though the Dems had the votes, two of those votes (Whitehouse, and Mitch McConnell) were no-shows.
Now, explain to me how that happens...how Dems don't know enough about parliamentary procedure to be able to delay a vote long enough to get ONE of those guys to show up.
I would respect him if he had those votes for impeachment. Blocking tariffs is just about, his constituents and their future support for him. Not impressed.
Burbon lobby is really unhappy right now "Kentucky produces 95% of the world's supply of bourbon whiskey, and the number of barrels of bourbon being aged in Kentucky (more than 5.7 million). exceeds the state's population." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky
Really sad it isn't automatically happening as a response, but it would be nice if Congress would stop the president from destroying the economy on purpose.
Unfortunately the House has already voted to give Trump carte blanche on tariffs through at least the end of September, because Mike Johnson is a dyed-in-the-wool Christian nationalist who supports dictatorship.
Rand Paul also said many discouraging things about Trump during his run for President. A leopard will never change his spots. I'll be sipping Sweet Tea with his neighbor.
Texting don’t mean a thing. The collective they (both Republicans and Democrats) better do what they were elected and sent to DC to do on Wednesday which has always been to stand up and protect the best interests of this nation and ALL its people.
It’ll never get to the floor of the House (the Speaker wouldn’t let it) and it still wouldn’t be able to override a veto — but it’s amazing it got Rand Paul riled up enough to actually form a coalition.
Looks like Republicans are starting to separate from maga. It’s good to see there may still be Republicans who have yet to punch the dance card of the Nazi wing of the party.
Maybe they too prefer not to witness the suiting up the Oval Office in decorations resembling the kremlin. 😼
Cool, now they should impeach him since he has obviously committed treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors. He really went for the all square and they still won't do their jobs
Could this be a clever way for these unscrupulous republicans to give trump an out on his miserably failed tariff policies allowing him to save face 'cause as we know trump never admits he's wrong!
Uh, only in favor b/c the Canadian tariffs impact KY booze sales. That's why McConnell is also against. Collins and Murkowski represent border states also impacted. "Go Chump (unless it impacts MY votes)"
Do it! Although I don't expect our jaded trade partners are going to turn around their boycotts of us anytime soon. Trump's actions have hurt our relations long term, if not permanently.
I’m sorry @georgetakei.bsky.social
All of these politicians need to stop talking and start doing.
Children ripped from their parent’s arms. Innocent people carted off to who knows where. The grift. The endless lies. It must stop. You personally have experienced this in your lifetime.
To try to be fair to Paul, a man I detest, libertarians tend to be sniveling, hypocritical children ideologically who live in a self centered fantasy world. BUT, their ultra hands off philosophy does naturally clash with tariffs. So he’s being consistent and somehow sensible in this case.
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Also Trump: forget there are only 50 states
Math: You good, bro?
And people say BIDEN had dementia?
Nobody knows where the five brand new nations are.
Carthage
Bohemia
Sparta
Middle Earth
Mithril tariffs are brutal
Seriously, he's an evil Danny Kaye!
Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
And even if, Mikey J has built a rule to freeze it out.
Im dead from holding my breath sooo long these days..
How much more extreme can it get
Damn dude, have a little dignity
Trump can blame Rand Paul and play the martyr and say “he tried”
It would’t surprise me at all if Trump is behind this scheme with some “deal” with Rand Paul.
Trump’s cornered now, know’s it, and this is his only way out.
Tracers.
All steam will come out in the whistle.
I have no idea because RP is second on the useless idiot list second only to Lindsey Graham.
Actually realizing the “liberty” part of “libertarian” here…
There do exist “left libertarians”, BTW (not saying I’m one of them):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism
https://bsky.app/profile/normative.bsky.social
https://modelcitizen.substack.com/
https://www.niskanencenter.org/
Because even though the Dems had the votes, two of those votes (Whitehouse, and Mitch McConnell) were no-shows.
Now, explain to me how that happens...how Dems don't know enough about parliamentary procedure to be able to delay a vote long enough to get ONE of those guys to show up.
Now how many are brave enough to pass it and is there ANYONE in the House who'd do it. Or can they overcome the guaranteed veto?
What is the expiration date on a bad hairpiece, anyway?
Not removing him, shows their complicit in all of his actions
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/49
We'll take anyone at this point
In bizarro world I don't know anymore.
They disappear with every turn of the tide.
I guess today is the day for him to pretend he has a spine.
I hope there’s some hope.
Take back the congress as 47 doesn’t know what he’s doing!!!
Maybe they too prefer not to witness the suiting up the Oval Office in decorations resembling the kremlin. 😼
Libertarians are quite devoted to the Constitution. It’s a shame it’s so rare that we find it in the strangest of bedfellows!
Fuck this?
Is this some sort b.s. cooked up ‘plan’ to get the orange idiot out of this mess.
Stinks to high heaven.
Suitcases of money will be passed around before then
When Republicans become more afraid of the people than MAGA/Trump, the dam will break.
And be ready for Trump to ramp up atrocities like ICE raids.
Use that anger and turn it into action.
#Resist and #USProtest like mad.
"They" isn't the answer though.
We all need to understand we can't wait for Republicans to wake the hell up.
When we are tired of waiting for politicians to save us, the people rise up.
#USProtests
Tariffs = bigger than life government.
All of these politicians need to stop talking and start doing.
Children ripped from their parent’s arms. Innocent people carted off to who knows where. The grift. The endless lies. It must stop. You personally have experienced this in your lifetime.
Murkowski?
Collins?
McConnell?
THUNE? Or are you just another puppet wanting to move Lindsey Graham out of trump's GIGANTIC ASS so there's room for you?
BUT DON'T EXPECT ANYBODY TO BELIEVE YOU UNTIL IT'S BEEN DONE.
REPUBLICANS LIE and so do bargain-basement repub 'LIBERTARIANS.'