Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time “we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years”
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/03/panic-over-tariffs-last-time-we-lost-the-and-the-senate-for-60-years/
Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time “we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years”
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/03/panic-over-tariffs-last-time-we-lost-the-and-the-senate-for-60-years/
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>Last time “we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years”
Don’t do that.
Don’t give me hope.
They should be afraid to show their faces. Spineless beta male cowards.
Oh no, Anyways…
I converted my 401k into cartons of cigarettes, canned food, and ammo so that I am prepared for the coming Trumpocalypse.
Kamala wanted to give small business owners start up funds. Is this better “Kamala had a bad campaign/Gaza people?
You deserve it.
60 years? It’s a start.
But we shouldn’t rest until the GOP (now in its final form) is dead, buried, ~~pissed on,~~ and forgotten.
Then do something. You can fix things — you just choose not to.
They wanted this.
They supported this.
They own this.
Here’s to another 60 🍻
> “When [President William McKinley], most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”
60 years of democrats making law and policy _could_ do the USA a lot of good. I rather hope that Rand is right here, may the GOP be fucked for many decades to come. Maybe that’s more important: keeping the nasty authoritarian party **out** of power for a few decades.
The only time in history Rand Paul has actually been more reasonable than 90% of his party
inshallah
Monkey Paw Choice:
You get the next FDR. But you get the next Great Depression too.
Good
I hope Republicans destroy their chances of ever being in power again for the rest of my life
I wish. However, the world is different now. There is now a large group of people being fed lies packaged as news. The only way these people will learn is if it gets so bad it affects them personally in a way that can’t be spun.
There’s a “this is gonna ruin the tour” energy coming out of this quote. They’re not exactly focusing on the real issue here. They worry about control, not how their constituents will make ends meet.
GOP = Greed Over People I guess…
That’s on brand when they only truly panic when it threatens their reelection prospects
Dumb greedy fraud Republican terrorist party
That has backed their orange bag of shit from day one ! Your failure is the only hope for America !
You mean **when America was great** you asshats? When we had the top marginal tax rate at 90% and it prevented billionaires – then we decided “Hey – let’s let Republicans do something for a time.”
And it’s been stock crashes, recessions, foreign useless wars and grift ever since.
Fucking vote to stop it you spineless cowards!
FYI. Those 60 years are also the time when the US was its most prosperous and the middle class thrived in a way like never before (or since).
Largest tax increase ever imposed on the American people entirely without a vote of congress. When does the stupidity end? Taxation without representation!
They can always vote to impeach him.
Good, you deserve it
Good. Have your little tariffs and your little authoritarian moment of control and my kids will get to reap the benefits of a 21st century New Deal that will shatter any hope for you to control anything ever again you feckless fucks. Their constant desire to whitewash and erase history has led them down a path that they have walked too many times. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Now all the left has to do is not fall into the same traps they did 50 years ago.
As someone with a lot of relatives in PA, so I see their posts (and their friend’s replies) on FB, I can tell you for a fact that they aren’t able to draw any correlation between Trump’s actions and the impact on the economy, etc. They are people who could literally see their house on fire with Trump standing there, gas can and torch in hand, and their brain will go to… Hunter Biden, Hillary’s emails, space lasers or some other shit.
Republicans are actively supporting everything, if they had spines they would have impeached him during his first term
I don’t think there’s anything that can pull the south or the mid-west away from the Republican Party at this point.
Yeah, it would be a real shame if the Republicans lost the house and senate for a few decades. Maybe other first world country things like universal healthcare would finally be a thing.
“yeah, that’s why we’re actively rigging the next election.” -The Trump Admin
Last time we got an FDR, we can only hope we get somebody like that in the executive.
May they lose it for 120 this time
That tells me a lot! They want to end voting to stay in power
Fuck you gop and trump enablers
Hope it’s 120 years this time. It will take that long to mitigate the damage he has done.
they just don’t fucking get it.
Here they are, worried over losing elections for a prolonged period, when they should be focusing on what’s going to happen to the country and the people within it.
This is why republicans are the problem. They’re only worried about the sport of competing for power.
Everything – tax cuts for the rich, corporate appeals, social wedge issues, etc – is motivated by “Okay, how do we win? Divide and conquer, and get big warchests from moneyed interests.” The thought of “How do we make the world a better place and promote the general welfare?” just isn’t there. It’s not in the backburner. It’s just not there at all
I love how Republicans are standing around panicking about Trump tariffs LIKE THERE’S NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT! You realize you are an equal branch of government with powers?! Trump can only enact these tariffs because he claimed an economic emergency upon taking office in January. Congress can revoke this erroneous emergency (and the tariffs that come with it) by simple majority of both houses of Congress. The Senate did this for the Canadian tariffs (with FOUR Republican votes) YESTERDAY. The problem is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson refuses to hold a vote in the House. These are not Trump tariffs. They are Republican tariffs!
Dear Republicans, look at the bright side, this means you will be back in power in 60 years. If there was justice in this universe, you’d be permanently banned as a party for treason.
Yeah…but the difference between “then” and “now” is that ***they*** weren’t so completely brainwashed.
Can’t really say the same for (at least half of) ***us.***
48 Republican Senators voted against a Senate Resolution ending Trump’s emergency declaration against Canada and terminating the Canadian tariffs last night
They’re not going to stop him.
So the “recipocral tariffs” are not that. The President just lied. They are not tit for tat tariffs. The US is imposing tariffs because of trade deficits. And in some cases, adding tariffs where there is a surplus. That is illegal, so go the Supreme Court. Put President in front of Congress for lying.
That might help.
You mean the most prosperous 60 years when the middle class was actually considered the most comfortable? Those years? My god!! Why would we ever want that again!?! /s
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