Rand Paul Fears Trump Tariffs Could Mean 1930s-Style Republican Wipeout: ‘We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years’

Republicans should be wiped out. Fools, monsters, and traitors. They've done incalculable damage to the world and all those who live here.

Every Republican that dies should be cause for celebration.

Good, and we should wipe out the Schumers Pelosis and Jeffries too. Maybe get rid of these goofy ass mega corps

"During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it."

We are here: attacking Canada, Greenland, Mexico (damaging our economy & theirs, and clearly our foreign relations) Trump also offered to cut defense spending if Russia does. It's all very obvious if you're not in the cult.

https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

A proto-Mitch McConnell being born

Of course that’s all he cares about. Fuck him, I hope he loses everything he holds dear.

I was wondering when he would pop his Rational Self-Interest head up. He's been uncharacteristically silent for a while, not performing his usual contrarian stunts for attention. He was smart enough to keep his head down for this insanity.

But when something threatens his money, he'll be there.

I have rarely more genuinely hoped for something in my life...

Don't threaten us with a good time, you POS russian hack. Can't believe I liked your dad at one point.

The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties

Hopefully the republicans can go the way of the whigs, the democratic party can become the conservative party they so desperately want to be, and we can create an actual party on the left.

Man if only he could like vote to get rid of them or something. too bad he's literally powerless and can't do a thing to stop this. /s

Don't worry Rand Paul, your masters control the news and social media so it won't happen. They'll just keep a majority of people in an illusionary dream world.

Should have thought of that before hitching up to a lunatic.

It's insane to think that the same two partys remain in control in the US. Yet they call it democracy.

• I'm referring to the voters, and their lack of action when their main party ha proven useless. The 'swing voters' never seem to swing between anything other than those two.

I might be excited if the Dems would do anything with their power.

Don't trust anyone whose name is Rand, first or last.

Or Paul for that matter, but that's an entirely different issue. Paul knows what he did.

Here's hoping we send a few of you to prison too.

Don't worry, democrats will make sure that doesn't happen.

…then f*cking impeach, you imbecile…

Both you and Mitch McConnell are the reason he's here

Don't threaten me with a good time!!!

Also, it's a wheel. The Cons ruin the economy, voters get mad and vote Democrat, Democrat fixes economy, voters don't like the spending even though it's improving everything so vote Con, the Cons ruin the economy, ect ect so on and so forth

Make it so.

Would it were so.

Touch that stove!

I guess I'm glad he thinks that elections will still matter.

I wish American Voters had memories longer than 4 years. But they don't.

They got pissed at Bush and the Republicans in 2006 for the war and in 2008 for crashing the economy.

And 2 years later in 2010 they voted in a red wave not seen since reconstruction.

Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government and 4 years later they gave him another chance. If Trump shot a crowd of people on 5th avenue the kids of the victims would vote for him 4 years later.

Notice that's their top concern. Not hurting Americans, not pissing off allies, not a recession, not handing off the title of World Superpower to China, but losing their jobs is their top concern.

Don't threaten me with a good time, Mr. Paul.

Nah. This won't be enough pain to really get people off their butt's in the US. We really like our confort.

We can only HOPE.

Truman’s campaign against the “Do Nothing” Republicans is not the cause, but it’s when these huge majorities for Democrats got cemented in place for decades:

Isolationism is not dead. Far from it. Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party. And that prospect is beginning to scare the voters--and it ought to scare them.

Now, we can always rely on the Republicans to help us in an election year, but we can't count on them to do the whole job for us. We have got to go out and do some of it ourselves, if we expect to win.

The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing. And we don't need to try it.

The record the Democratic Party has made in the last 20 years is the greatest political asset any party ever had in the history of the world. We would be foolish to throw it away. There is nothing our enemies would like better and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.

-Harry Truman, Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action, May 17, 1952

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/129/address-national-convention-banquet-americans-democratic-action

Sure is telling that his biggest worry is republicans losing power and not the sort of fucking depression that was the cause last time.

Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way

Also during those 60 years....recovering from the big depression, dust bowl and gaining human rights....

I've learned that Congress has the tariff power, but has delegated it to the president. Congress can take it back any time they want apparently.

What does he expect. Libertarianism is basically enacting the policies that led to the great depression. Trump is reacting in the way that made it worse, but you are the kerosene to his spark. Expect great depression when you get what you want.

I sometimes have this weird fantasy where Trump is an actual genius, and his plan all along was to destroy the Republican party. I imagine him sitting on the crapper with a McDouble in one hand and his phone in the other, trying to come up with the most insane tweets he can, getting frustrated that his plan is taking so long and thinking to himself "why are these people liking this shit? It's obviously bat shit crazy!"

Then I come back down to this Hellscape reality and sigh as I accept that the world is just full of stupid, greedy, selfish people, and Trump is an avatar for all the worst human impulses, and that tens of millions of people would gladly follow him off a cliff so long as they get to drag the rest of us over the edge with them.

I truly hate this place.

Noodle head mofo

He doesn't give a shit about the mass starvation, shantytowns, global economic depression, and rise of Nazism into the largest war in human history that left hundreds of millions dead. No, he's worried because his party wasn't in power.

Fuck yourself with the largest, sharpest cactus that exists on the planet, you slimy, snivelling pathetic excuse for a fucking human, Rand Paul.

Wouldn't that be nice.

Nicer would be the utter destruction of the Republican Party, followed by a split between the Corporate Democrats and Progressives into two parties.

Yep. It also got a democrat elected 4 terms as president. Tax rates climbed up to 95+ percent for millionaires.

I've stopped believing there is anything that will make people stop voting Republican

I really hope some of the non-MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate start to realize their careers might be over if they don't do something. People aren't going to forget. And once Trump is out of the picture, they don't have anybody else with an iota of whatever qualities make people listen/like/follow/adore him.

Rand Paul deserves to be wiped out with the rest of them.

Wiping out the Republicans? I don't see a downside with that.

These fucking traitors, we should ensure they worry about much more than losing their congressional majorities.

We thought that would happen after the first Trump term, but here we are.

Fingers crossed

Their plan is to not have fair elections anymore.

@Redditsux I hope he’s right.

I wish. Social media has poisoned minds so badly that I don't think there's any chance of that happening again.

But you'll do nothing to stop him.

From your lips to The Goddess' ears.

They deserve it.

And yet this simpering little weenie will still vote for every single thing that HitlerPig demands.

Here's hoping.

Rand Paul is a weakling, a poor excuse for a man, and a lowlife who deserves what the people want for him.

Hahaha oh well, next.

So… yeah. But at the same time, I’m not convinced we’re going to even have elections in 2028, much less elections that are actually free, open, and not largely orchestrated towards the success of The Party behind the scenes.

Republicans hurt the country and our reputation more than help it.

It’s bad enough the only way America can save face now is to stop this.

and we learned nothing

You mean an era of unprecedented social, economic and technological progress? THE HORROR!!!!

That's okay. Bigotry, ignorance, and a short memory in the general public will make sure they bounce back 4 to 8 years after being ousted nowadays.

Its what happens when you let the children try to lead. Bless their heaaarrrts.

Nah. I now have confidence his base is actually that dumb.

🤞🏻

Always putting country before party 🎉

Sure, if there's a depression.