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

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.

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.

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

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

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!!!

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

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

We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years.

I sure fucking hope so, you piece of shit.

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.

Fingers crossed

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.

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.

@Redditsux I hope he’s right.

Their plan is to not have fair elections anymore.

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

What will probably happen is a one or two term slump. What's different between then and now is the internet and social media, which fills most people's brains with a deluge of noise. In addition to the effects of misinformation daily telling people that the moon is the sun, most algorithms prioritize novelty, and nothing's more novel than the most stupidly wrong-headed take. We constantly hear the opinions of people who should be laughed out of the room! We sit and chuckle, but there's tens of millions of people who have poor media skills who it can actually influence.

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

But you'll do nothing to stop him.

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

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

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.

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

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

I used to be a swing voter before Trump, after this admin, I will never vote for a Republican again. Especially since most support him.

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

…then f*cking impeach, you imbecile…

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

Hopefully! The world would be a far better place. Globally and domestically.

Conservative policies just have their own heads up their asses sucking Trump's rich spoiled cock

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

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

I don't think they need to worry, the dems like losing a lot more.

That's how long it will take to rebuild US foreign policy, 60 years. I hope Rand is correct, fuck the GOP.

First time ever that I hope Rand Paul is correct. Don't threaten me with a good time Rand Paul!

Oh no!

.... Anyway.

Make it so.

I hope this leads into demolishing republican party and moving on from the clearly faulty two party nonsense of a system. You can't keep functioning if you're on the verge of becoming authoritarian regime with oligarchs.

A proto-Mitch McConnell being born

So they get power and do a bunch of shitty things. Then no one wants them in power anymore. Seems the country was doing quite well without them at the helm. Now....not so much.

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

It would be too soon, if we got rid of them and these Corpo Dems. We could remove citizens United and few other worthless pieces of legislation. That and stop this fucking election tampering in the name "stopping fraud" fucking clowns making voting a single day during the work week and these Red hatted goons cheer for this shit like the mouth breathing inbred ghouls they are because they hate everyone else is beyond annoying.

Really? I don't think your idiot voters will remember for longer than 5 years. And with an opposition like the Dems it'll be easy for you to get back into power. Don't overestimate the Americans. We all made that mistake once.

"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/

Touch that stove!

Don't threaten us with a good time...

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.

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

"Fuck the people this will harm, what about my political party!?

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

Good. Fucking good. Also fuck with Social Security while you are at it and secure your fucking grave permanently.

and we learned nothing

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.

So things aren't necessarily all bad.

From your mouth to Satan’s ears!

Inshallah

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

So, there is a silver lining?!

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.

Good. You nazi fucks deserve all the pain that comes to you.

Notice how he worries about HIS job... he couldn't care less about the harm to the country or the people

I hope we get rid of all these bastards once and for all. Their entire party and platform is and always has been a giant fucking sham that preys on the gullible.

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

We can only HOPE.

The optimist angle would be that Trump is secretely a Democrat agent, and that by crashing the stock market he just thinks it's over-valued and wants to return to 2018~ levels.

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

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

These MAGA will just move to their Republican overlords after Trump has died. The real hope would be a split GOP. MAGA/GOP and Dems.

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

Lets hope!

Sure, if there's a depression.

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

Noodle head mofo

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

Always putting country before party 🎉

Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way

We can only hope.

Hahaha oh well, next.

They deserve it.

From your lips to The Goddess' ears.

They might have to eschew morals and start gaslighting the populace to regain influence.

Wait...

Rand Paul is educated but not smart. But he's right here, and now there is nothing he or anyone can do about it. I do hope this is the beginning of the comeuppance the GOP so desperately, desperately needs.

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.

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

Would it were so.

And whoever that fuckung prick was on the show clearly still defends Trump and says he has the intuition? This dude bankrupted four casinos. Just die already

You put it all on orange and spun the wheel

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

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

Here's hoping.