Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
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Make sure the deal not only favors you, but cripples your target; especially if he perceives being slighted in some manner.
He is not a "dealer", he's the worst kind of confidence man (an egotist with a grudge) on the prowl for the biggest mark
Pres felony is enjoying watching us suffer.
He loves it.
I remember a question on a high-school biology exam: "What do you call a parasite that kills its host?"
The answer was: "Unsuccessful"
Pretty much sums up my view of confidence artist we're stuck with.
#trumpcession
Fortunately I believe this is the first time it’s ever happened.
Everything is upside down.
Then Paul breaks.
Dude sounds exasperated explaining the most fundamental principle in econ.
Congrats, Mr Paul- this is what happens when you've privatized ed... 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Thanks!
More bizarro-world 😳
https://bit.ly/4g1gEtj
There are many, many many maga supporting the tariffs!
Are you saying they're morons?
Love the comment of this post, fit to the argumentative here.
😳😳😳
This is more surprising than anything else that has happened this year.
One could come up with a huge stack of bingo cards every day, wherein each event is only on one card 🤦♀️
Then we have the real evil masters behind the scenes that keep their true evil intentions hidden. But, rest assured we are all going to face unspeakable consequences.
If I sell my labor, because you can’t do the work, there was never an agreement to buy your product with my money.
The co. saves replace. cost & a savings on depreciation on taxes.
Paul needs a new argument
If US auto makers made smaller vehicles that would be suitable, then they’d likely be just as popular as others.
Can’t force folk to buy unsuitable vehicles that they couldn’t park anywhere tho. Is ludicrous.
I keep sending reports.
They send nothing back.
Maybe I should tariff them. 🧐
The world is truly upside down.
It Sums up spankies whole schtick right there
Spanky? 😂😂👏🏻
From 2017:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/for-me-to-win-you-have-to-lose
The fact people agree with this liar is beyond hysterical.
This is how propaganda works.
I saw the perfect protest sign not long ago: the only difference between Donald Trump and Jim Jones is that Trump will charge you for the Kool-Aid.
This mofo who has something to say *now*.
And being from Kentucky, yours is one of the states that will be serving as our “canaries in the coal mine.”
You should have stepped up sooner.
Oops! Sorry. I meant Ron Vara.
John Barron?
John Miller?
David Dennison?
Grossly incompetent birds of a feather kill millions together.
Corporations are going to be really really hurt by tariffs, therefore the GOP must show their concern (while still doing nothing) to prevent their donor class from blowing up their private cell phones.
What if we corporatized an AI?
Would it be able to file for patents and copyrights? Would it be eligible to vote?
The "we are being ripped off" makes 0 sense when you realize all the predatory practices were created by large multinationals who are largely from the US
Creepy🥴
& minor parties,
used to mostly sound sane.
For several years, we've seen increasing insanity from GOP, esp from extremes, which pres now represents.
It used to be mostly policy diffs. Im not a big fan of Rand Paul, but Im ok with anyone willing to return sanity to politics.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/elon-musk-steps-up-attacks-on-navarro-as-tesla-shares-slump-fourth-day.html
Rand could have spoken up when it mattered. Fuck him.
Admit nothing.
Deny everything.
Attack! Attack! Attack!
Claim Victory.
(Rinse, Repeat)
Read about it, sign the strike card, pass it on (on all your socials, word-of-mouth, everywhere!).
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😂
I must still be dreaming!!
Rand Paul!
But he sure as fuck is right on this
Trump in his acorn brain believes that if you have a "deficit", it means you're being "ripped off".
I have NO doubt that Putin has been whispering this in his ear for years--you need to add tariffs, that will help you.
IT WAS ON THE NOT SO BIG BOARD!!
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Trump;s policy is ruinous and is destroying the U.S. economy
and the living standards of all U.S citizens
Despite not being the largest population, the US is the WEALTHIEST nation on earth.
The problem is not the US being ripped off by smaller, poorer nations.
The problem (for the US) is not globalisation
The problem is DISTRIBUTION
of the immense wealth the US already has.
Never win/win