i do think there's probably something to this, and i think lutnik and bessent have catastrophically misjudged the character of the congressional republican majority. they're cowards and cultists, and all but a handful of them are already wearing the bomb vests. - ThreadSky

golikehellmachine.com • 4 days ago

i do think there's probably something to this, and i think lutnik and bessent have catastrophically misjudged the character of the congressional republican majority. they're cowards and cultists, and all but a handful of them are already wearing the bomb vests.

Reposted from Harry D’Amour

My theory is that Bessent and Lutnick know this is doomed to failure and they're just trying to put on the facade of having a plan while waiting for Congress to rescind Trump's emergency tariff powers, so that then they can go on Fox News and complain about how they had a great plan that was ruined.

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davidevanlovett.bsky.social•4 days ago

it's just peak 'things will be normal brain', these men haven't had to wipe their own asses as they've been babied by a healthy economy and active regulations and so they've been able to cheat and wheel & deal without consequences for years because they always were cleaned up after. No more, however

triplebassist.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is one place where I think Senate Rs and House Rs are notably different. I think you've got House Rs dead to rights, but the Senate has already seen notable movement on specific things that belie a number of them not wearing the vest Tommy Tubberville gave them

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•4 days ago

Aside from resigning, that’s a fairly rational ( though dumb, response) -make it *appear* that all is actually well! Not at all necessary for, cough, hum, informed and sophisticated investors to literally buy into this charade with hard $$$, that they’ll lose when this all collapses in a heap

wymancr.bsky.social•4 days ago

I actually think Plan A was to get token concessions from China they could sell to Trump as a big tough guy win. They weren't counting on Xi to tell them to get fucked with a chainsaw and now they're scrambling.

nutlick.bsky.social•2 days ago

What character?

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•4 days ago

My theory is that Republicans are hoping someone else will rid them of Trump. They’re too scared to stand up to him but aren’t helping anyone else get rid of him. There’s always the stories of the Republicans who don’t want to go public. They just need to grow spines.

golikehellmachine.com•4 days ago

like, i'm not dooming about it, necessarily, but i think the overwhelming majority of congressional republicans have decided that insider trading until they get voted out provides them with a lucrative enough financial future that it's worth the catastrophe

zachrabiroff.com•4 days ago

Even that might be ascribing too much of a plan: these are just a bunch of people who know that somebody needs to bite a bullet, but are damn sure it won't be them. A whole government trapped in a Nash Equilibrium who never took a political science class.

populuxe.bsky.social•4 days ago

☝️it’s all musical chairs & the strongest motivation is not to get left without one

populuxe.bsky.social•4 days ago

musical chairs on the titanic even

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is one of the reasons why that sort of thing is very bad!!

erichluepke.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think they figure they are going to get ostracized (and potentially harmed) if they lift a finger against Trump, and the insider trading stuff is just a bonus. But idk how avaricious they are - if you're greedy there are better lines of work than politics.

erichluepke.bsky.social•4 days ago

Personal greed is massively overrated as a motivator for politicians at the Federal level. Trump is one of a select few who actually went into it with the intention of extracting money from the state.

golikehellmachine.com•4 days ago

ordinarily, i would agree, but if you've got enough money to game the stock market, which the average congressperson does, you can get rich real quick

erichluepke.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hmmm, yeah the new cadre of Trump-worshippers in Congress were always opportunists at heart, so it makes sense they would be cashing in. Sometimes I forget that it's the party of Trump now, Paul Ryan et al. are long gone.

erichluepke.bsky.social•4 days ago

Who knew I'd be wishing for a return to the principles of Paul Fucking Ryan. It did not occur to me in 2014 how much further the party could fall.

harrydamour.bsky.social•4 days ago

These are incredibly stupid guys, though I have to admit that as the economy thoroughly tanks in America, I can't help but think that even these buffoons have their limits as their own bank accounts will get hit pretty hard. Even insider trading won't be able to make up for those losses.

mirthfulisles.bsky.social•4 days ago

If there's anything resembling pre Trump 2 prosperity and peace in our future, I'm going to resent going somewhere nice and realizing it was funded by this kind of insider trading. It's not quite the drag of 'this was literally built by slaves' but....

captainfart.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also, even if they had a modicum of patriotism, they’re clearly more scared of being killed by a Trump fan than anything he does to the economy

jamestiv.bsky.social•4 days ago

Frankly the "they're scared of physical harm" shit is just pathetic. The WA house GOP leader kicked an actual militia member out of his caucus and the most those little shits did was stink up his fb page and yell at him through the door to the gallery.

squeera.bsky.social•4 days ago

Was that Matt Shea who got kicked?

jamestiv.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes

squeera.bsky.social•4 days ago

Lmao

jaydeedouble.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well the thing is… state reps hardly get paid anything.

Once you get to federal rep or senator, you’ve got huge amounts of money at stake.

After that, what are modern Republicans qualified to do besides be a greeter at Walmart?

captainfart.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, they’re cowards. Murkowski comes to mind because she was caught speaking about it last week, but there’s a bunch of them

hugh-c-mcbride.bsky.social•4 days ago

If she's scared of being shot at, maybe she should quit her job and go become an elementary school teacher.

Oh, wait.

patrickrogers.bsky.social•4 days ago

Honestly, if you're afraid of being shot at, apparently Sheriff Deputy is good call.

coachdomin8.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep. Too many people forget that their oath to the Constitution only means shit when it's hard, when it endangers you (yes, even your life), and when it requires personal sacrifice. You're scared of the monsters you empowered for a decade? Good. Means you're finally doing the right thing.

dallasmarcella.bsky.social•4 days ago

JT Wilcox was the leader right?

rdangler.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah.

dallasmarcella.bsky.social•4 days ago

He seems like a good guy and is pretty good on environmental policy if I remember correctly.

blobrights.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think a lot of them have also been given private (and in some cases public) assurances that they essentially will never be voted out if they play ball

kenburnside.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because my cell number has a Wisconsin area code, I've been calling Moscow Mule Ron Johnson's office early in the morning to complain about these tariffs wrecking my business.

Sometimes, I get a poor suffering staffer.

robowieland.bsky.social•4 days ago

I have gotten a staffer once in years of yelling at RoJo and he seemed completely bored by my complaints.

kenburnside.bsky.social•4 days ago

It helps to call riiiight around 9 AM at one of the local offices, before someone makes the strategic decisions that all inbound calls go to full voicemail boxes.

katanaangel.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've been so absolutely pissed with the yellow bellies of the republican Congress, even when I try to yell at the old red reps I get pretzel-levels of twisting to try to err on Trump's positive side.

katanaangel.bsky.social•4 days ago

FUCKING DEB FISCHER WHO USED TO BE A TEACHER WAS TRYING TO WORM HER WAY AROUND HIM GETTING RID OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WITH "I think education should be handled locally" YOU ABSOLUTE BENT SPOON OF A WOMAN

katanaangel.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sorry that one still sticks in my craw

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