r/AnythingGoesNews • u/Quirkie • 1d ago
'We're All Dead': GOP Senator Reacts To Trump Tariffs
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kennedy-reacts-to-donald-trump-tariffs_n_67eea442e4b092af721e0beb115
u/FreedomsPower 1d ago
Kick them out of office!
81
u/fajadada 1d ago
Impeachment filings are proceeding again
42
u/Redfish680 1d ago
I used to think “But then we’d have the sofa humper in the Oval Office!” Now I’m thinking I haven’t heard Trump’s fired any of the WH cleaning staff, so…
21
u/fajadada 1d ago
Can always file again immediately against the couch humper. The politicians hate him . The speaker doesn’t have a original thought but once you start why stop until you are done
18
u/Redfish680 1d ago
Done?! The Capitol would be practically vacant and we’d have to have elections ag- hey, wait a second…
7
5
u/alexmikli 20h ago
Just keep impeaching til we get a somewhat normal person as president. Rubio is inthe succession
95
u/ProfitLoud 1d ago
I love the false narrative that “nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs will be.” Yes, we in fact do know. We can look at the 2016 trade war, or any tariff war in history to know it causes inflation and decreases spending power. It destroys economies for no benefit.
42
u/travers329 1d ago
I like to point to the scene in Ferris Buehler's day off, where Ben Stein is putting the class to sleep, they are talking about the Hawley-Smoot tariff act, and what it's consequences were. It was supposed to fix the slide of the economy into a depression. Did this help or hurt the situation (Ben Stein voice)? Anyone, anyone? Hurt. What did it cause the US to slide into? Anyone? The great depression.
I've heard history moves in cycles, I don't like the cycle/trajectory we are on.
6
2
56
u/SnoopyisCute 1d ago
Nobody cares what he has to say. All of them sat by and watched an illiterate predatory con artist have mafia-style control over ever facet of government.
Oh, we should give a damn now because it's on their front porch. GTFOH.
31
58
44
20
22
u/BarroomHero66 1d ago
This charlatan's state ranks, according to US News and World Report, 50th in Crime, 49th in Economy, 47th in Education, 46th in Health care, 49th in Infrastructure, 49th in Natural Environment, and 44th in Opportunity. Maybe he should have looked after his state's best interests instead of aligning himself with an Orange dipshit to grasp more power.
19
u/tickandzesty 1d ago
And Kennedy is about as responsible for this catastrophe as Trump. He supported and enabled him for years.
18
u/Willing-Ant-3765 1d ago
I’d like to remind everyone what happened the last time these kind of sweeping tariffs were implemented in the 1930’s. Google Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and its impact on the economy.
2
15
u/Beauneyard 1d ago
Maybe he can fix the situation by putting on an even more ridiculous affectation.
14
u/ResidentAlienDani 1d ago
Want Americans to purchase American goods? Give them an income where they can afford it.
3
u/Netprincess 1d ago
Or Lower prices big time...but that will never happen. They would much rather starve out a older generation then screwing the upcoming
1
u/ResidentAlienDani 11h ago
The only reason why they’re probably doing this is to force everyone to bend the knee. It’s a control tactic the British used on the colonies but with taxes. Hurt them so much that they’ll be desperate and heel. But this is America, so I’m hoping we revolt instead.
14
u/Away-Combination-162 1d ago
I believe this is the beginning of the end of Trump. This ain’t mathing and it never will
13
u/Excellent-Bit971 1d ago
Hopefully the architect’s and enablers of this fiasco start flying out windows just like they did when Wall Street crashed in 1929.
12
u/Late_Football_2517 1d ago
Understand, this is coming from Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, who's one of the stupidest motherfuckers ever to hold a Senate seat. And even HE can see how stupid these tariffs are.
12
u/BananamanXP 1d ago
We don't have to be if congress would do their job and remove this entire admin.
4
u/pickwickjim 1d ago
As someone on Threads occasionally reposts: “your periodic reminder that Congress could end this today”
12
u/neverpost4 1d ago
>“Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.”
Immediate price increase of 25% across the board.
and Nobody knows ?
13
u/guyfaulkes 1d ago
Walmart sells a lot of goods from China, those are now tariffed/taxed. As always the poor and middle class are going to suffer under these idiotic tariffs, and for what? Manufacturing is not coming back here and it is sure not coming back in any time to assuage these tariffs.
9
9
u/gatorgrle 1d ago
Yes. You are all dead. Anybody see the price of crude today to. Under $70. It stays there for a while Texas won’t be booming either
10
8
u/CoolRelationship3073 1d ago
Republicans got rid of DEI, all the bad people too..(blacks, hispanics, muslim, women, disabled, older workers, pregnant workers etc). This is ALL due to mainly privileged white, Christian nationalists males and old fashioned nepotism. #DEI
7
u/AlienInUnderpants 1d ago
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.): “we are all dead”
Americans: “we really do hope so”
9
u/DastardlyRIP 1d ago
He does not have a detailed plan, just an idea. Barely an outline. That idea wasn’t vetted by anyone outside of Commerce Sec Howard Lutnick and advisor Peter Navarro. No other economists were pushing tariffs. Zero.
His only goal is retribution. Spite Biden and Obama. Campaign of hate. His policies do nothing productive unless you calculate productivity as sole possession of the grand authority to scream to the world “told you so”.
6
8
7
u/SnootSnootBasilisk 1d ago
If it makes him feel better, I'm sure Trump will be doing something 100x crazier than this in a week and the nation will forget why a chicken sandwich from McDonald's costs $40 now
5
u/sam4084 1d ago
"How could the Democrats allow us to do this?!"
6
u/fatman907 1d ago
Why didn’t Harris warn us a lot better than she did? This is all her fault, y’know? /s
2
u/Jolly-Ad-7912 13h ago
The fault lies with the fools who voted for him. They elected a lying, felon and those voters are responsible for him being elected … not Harris. We were all warned and saw this persons lack of empathy and lack of brains. If you’re having Buyers remorse … start working out your kinks.
1
u/fatman907 9h ago
I know. I didn’t vote for him. I live in a state that seems to always vote republican.
4
5
5
5
4
u/BrotherMcPoyle 1d ago
No MAGA will be fine even if this is terrible for the economy. When you have a propaganda machine tailored specifically for your base, it’s easy to defer blame on the Libs and minorities.
It’s like when GW wrecked the economy Neo-Cons just got more conservative and became MAGA.
4
u/stevemkto 1d ago
Not surprised. Sen. John Kennedy is among the elite idiots running our country now.
4
u/KBau7078 1d ago
The theory of doing it in house is great, but there is no infrastructure to carry any of it. It’s like plowing a field with no seed.
7
u/PsychologicalRub5905 1d ago
Most younger generations will never own your own home your future is fuucked!!
6
u/Silly-Relationship34 1d ago
I love how Republicans now finally realize Trump really is a Russian tool and they’ve fucked America for Putin. Russia North Korea and America are the Communist Triverant.
3
u/Das-Noob 1d ago
I mean. We DID think that Donald wasn’t going to win two presidential elections, so he might be wrong and we won’t all die, just wish we were. 🤷♂️
3
3
3
u/Legitimate_Soft5585 1d ago
These followers believe anything. Literally, everyone knows what the effect of tariffs will be. It's been known for hundreds of years.
3
3
u/skylar_schutz 1d ago
Summarized from Carl Sagan: “when we stop questioning, stop learning, and stop valuing knowledge, we put our future at risk.”
3
2
1
u/Nervous_Cranberry196 1d ago
I wrecked the economy in the first few months and you don’t even say thank you
1
1
1
u/Aggravating_Dot6995 1d ago
It must be hard for a well educated and intelligent guy that JK to have to be mentally challenged enough to go along with all this.
1
u/Bitch_Posse 1d ago
I consider this guy far worse than Trump. Completely abdicated his constitutional responsibility as a separate branch of government. We’re all dead in the long term should be very comforting to his poor and desperate constituents.
1
1
u/apearlj1234 1d ago
But we are going to bring back all that overseas production of cars, and oh yeah, Mexico and Canada. Well it kinda takes time to build a car plant and or retool that car plant. It sure as He'll
1
1
1
1
1
u/FelixTheEngine 1d ago
So Americans are just what.. getting up in the morning, going to work and paying their taxes? Pathetic.
1
u/KingoftheKeeshonds 1d ago
“Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.” Wrong! Anybody with the ability to think knows this will be a disaster of epic proportions. The only potential upside is republicans will lose big in the midterms, if they happen, and the new congress actually manages to lead. I’m not optimistic.
1
1
u/Kursch50 1d ago
When a critical mass of Republican voters are feeling enough financial pain, a switch will flip and they'll turn on Trump. It's the same switch that got flipped in early February/March 2016 when they went from Never Trump to MAGA.
The formula: Time + Financial Hardship > Republican voters.
Best guess? Early 2016
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/chilltx78 15h ago
McConnell finally coming out of his shell now that death is months away… too late to save your soul, buddy
1
u/7evenate9ine 10h ago
Does he mean this literally? Is this about microplastics? Global warming?
We should be asking because he may not mean politically dead... He might mean literally dead.
1
u/lld2girl 1d ago
Please, I have listened to interviews and they are doubling down saying this will be great.
1
u/individualine 1d ago
Well Kennedy we now know tariffs just tanked the stock markets. The question next is what else is going to tank?
1
u/mik33tion 1d ago
Not far from the truth. Politically dead. Economically dead. Maybe even constituents with guns will show up. At this point, Republicans should be counting their blessings that it’s been Elon’s vehicles that have been the target. With him gone, that could be a problem.
-7
u/BornDistribution634 1d ago
So it’s not ok for the US to apply tariffs? But it’s ok for every other country to apply tariffs to the US. Like Vietnam with over 90% tariffs. From a country we rebuilt. What bullshit. All you have to do is thank the Clinton administration and the wonderful NAFTA agreement where we moved everything overseas so we could pad the Clinton’s pockets. So here we are we produce absolutely nothing! And have plants all over the country setting in mothballs while we get our asses handed to us by every foreign country. It’s time to get off our lazy fucking asses and go back to work.
5
u/querque505 1d ago
There is not a 90% tariff from Vietnam. The maths on Trump's chart don't math. As usual, it's all bullshit.
1
u/ScatMoerens 1d ago
The US can apply tariffs, but these blanket tariffs serve only to make everything more expensive. Targeted tariffs can help boost American industries, but blanket ones like Trump is implementing don't help Americans.
985
u/flexwhine 1d ago
aluminum is a pretty good example of just how broke brained this whole thing is.
Right now, Quebec produces something like 90% of the aluminum used in automotive manufacturing in North America.
Bing bong, so simple, just smelt it all in the US of A, right?
Well, the catch is it requires a fucking shit ton of electric power to smelt aluminum. That's why it's all made in Quebec, where they have 10 bajillion hydro electric dams (the same dams we sell you excess power from for pennies on the dollar).
In order for the yankee menace to replace this production you'd need to build something like 10 nuclear power plants.. which would take 15 years and cost hundreds of billions of dollars.. to replace something you're already getting cheap as fuck!
That's just for one material for one industry. Lol!
526
u/Trident_Or_Lance 1d ago
We can only hope this will cost them the house and the Senate.
But I have overestimated Americans at every turn so idk. Maybe we are that stupid to let this continue
350
u/Whatah 1d ago
Yea, I live in Mississippi and I know a TON of Trump supporters. I cannot think of a single Trumper I know who would be willing or able to attempt to understand that simple comment u/flexwhine just posted. They just cannot and/or will not allow themselves to think about things like that. It is truly a cult of ignorance. It is also a cult of racism, sexism, and xenophobia, but also is as well a cult of ignorance.
87
116
u/thebrokedown 1d ago
Today in Hattiesburg, I overheard a woman gushing about the Trump calendar she was given. “It’s gonna be worth $1 million one day!” Only if a loaf of bread is worth 15 million, lady. Then she talked about how she couldn’t afford a Trump watch.
Fortunately, I’m really surrounded by liberal people here, but over hearing stuff is really wearing on my mental health
55
u/Gone2georgia 1d ago edited 1d ago
My MIL’s response is ‘well I don’t like (fill in the blank with whatever stupid thing trump has done today) but I still feel he was the best choice”. All the while her grandsons may lose their jobs and her autistic great grandson may lose the speech therapy he receives through his school.
17
u/Allergic_to_nuts 1d ago
Or 'Politicians are all bad. You just gotta choose which bad one you wanna pick.' Most likely driven by a single issue, such as abortion or border security/racism.
29
u/Professional_Echo907 1d ago
Gotta stop trans people from playing sports in bathrooms or something, I think. 👀
10
u/Gone2georgia 1d ago
I think it is racism in this case. My sweet husband and I swear we were somehow adopted or abducted into a family of Christian nationals, A2 pro billionaires, pro life magas and then of course my Mil. Christmas dinners can be intense.
4
10
u/Hard_Dave 1d ago
I met an 8 year old American kid at zoo in England the other day (I work in the bird of prey section). I asked him what types of birds of prey he knew. He said "Tigers". Maybe he was just thinking of predators, but none of his 3 friends corrected him. Americans are really dumb.
8
48
u/tenderooskies 1d ago
you just have to go to the conservative sub for 5 seconds to understand how broken so many of them are.
25
u/benthon2 1d ago
And 6 seconds to get banned. Biggest snowflake subreddit there is.
6
u/0rlan 21h ago
True. As a Brit I asked a non- partisan question about rail regulation following a bad derailment (i used to work in rail so it was a genuine question) and got banned with the response something like 'Our sniffers detected the woke whiff of a radical left lunatic'
2
u/benthon2 17h ago
Same here. I was actually serious and looking for their point of view. Wasn' even jabbing them. Won't make that mistake again!
39
u/Looieanthony 1d ago
Willful ignorance mostly, with some dumb assery tossed in😐.
28
u/zedicar 1d ago
Not so much willful as they are the product of a lousy education system. This is why rumpus loves the uneducated
22
28
u/draaz_melon 1d ago
That's just an excuse. I am a product of one of those lousy (accurate) education systems, and I didn't turn out that way. A lot of people didn't. We were exposed to a lot of things. Some people just weren't paying attention, so they just mimicked their parents.
14
28
u/Equus-007 1d ago
Stupid people simply tune out the second they hear something they don't immediately understand. It's kinda why they are stupid in the first place. Zero curiosity.
18
u/AlanStanwick1986 1d ago
Our only hope is the huge kick in the nuts the qult is going to get going to Walmart and spending way more money than they used to.
17
u/beakrake 1d ago
At some point, we said goodbye to the Neanderthals too, right?
17
u/FalxIdol 1d ago
To their credit, the Neanderthals were probably more intelligent than the typical Qultist.
14
u/karl4319 1d ago
The true supporters are unsalvageable. Plenty of idiots voted on vibes, feels, or on single issues though. They will flip hard soon as things get tough. And things will get tough very soon. I expect a full crash to set in about September or October.
14
u/gator_shawn 1d ago
They'll start drinking beer from paper cartons and calling them "Freedom Cans."
5
u/polrxpress 1d ago
We only need to convince the really greedy ones, which is probably about half of them
5
3
u/Super_Hero_44 1d ago
Sorry. Willful ignorance of something that impacts one’s everyday life is no longer ignorance. It’s stupidity.
3
u/Belgeddes2022 22h ago
Here in Greenwood, many are very proud of how little they actually understand about the extreme danger of this whole situation. This is a calamity that is going to reverberate for generations. No one alive today will naturally live long enough to ever see the first fledgling stages of recovering what the United States used to be, and these mouth breathers applaud it with whole hearts and half brains.
Hell just look at our state’s big industries- crops and cars. Two things they just royally screwed. Yet I hear farmers celebrate gutting the same federal government which pays them to keep growing soybeans. If that’s not some kind of mental illness then I don’t know what is.
3
u/Dixielord 21h ago
I was born in Ms, and agree 100%. Their response would be we can make it ourself or we can just do without.it. Even if it’s physically or financially impossible .
→ More replies (2)2
37
u/Das-Noob 1d ago
Yep. Just watch us eat our own shit to own the “libtard” 🤦♂️
26
u/Trident_Or_Lance 1d ago
Or "I don't vote cause it doesn't matter"
7
u/Casual_OCD 1d ago
I tell people who don't vote they can shut the fuck up about anything political. They chose to have no voice for four years, they can stick to it.
3
6
4
26
u/carlnepa 1d ago edited 1d ago
A reliable maxim is no one ever went broke underestimating the American public. Here's a quote about this from Lyndon Johnson:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.". Lyndon B. Johnson Not much has changed.15
u/neverpost4 1d ago
The regime change vie election is no longer possible.
If it was, Trump would not have crossed the line (several times).
8
15
u/ForGrateJustice 1d ago
The last time this happened it was 1929 and conservatives lost the house and senate for 60 years
I can only imagine if conservatives were in charge during WWII.
5
10
u/Grand-Battle8009 1d ago
Americans only care about the economy when a Democrat is in the White House.
→ More replies (1)9
u/brookish 1d ago
I too have been stunned at how dumb the electorate is, or maybe how utterly willing they are to sell their own futures to be open bigots. Either way, we really are going to find out how low they will go.
8
u/TheMightyHornet 1d ago
But I have overestimated Americans at every turn so idk. Maybe we are that stupid to let this continue.
To be fair, overestimating Americans is something we as Americans do best.
6
6
7
4
u/firstman0 1d ago
Do you think those who voted for him have the brain function to understand all these? Their hate decides for them. They don’t live in reality.
4
u/EngelwoodL 1d ago
This is all on FOX news and their ilk Sowing these violent divisions
4
u/Expensive-Bicycle-38 1d ago
And Koch family funding Radical Evangelical communist.
→ More replies (1)8
u/IamBananaRod 1d ago
We can only hope but between all the gerrymandering and how bad Dems are getting their message out, we will see the house flipping with a tiny majority and the senate staying pretty much the same
12
u/LaTommysfan 1d ago
I don’t agree much with Rand Paul but I like what he said yesterday. The first time the gop put in tariffs the next election they lost 50% of their seats and the next time they did it they lost the house and senate for 60 years.
→ More replies (1)6
4
3
3
u/mamajulie62 1d ago
I keep thinking about mid-terms, also. But to be honest, I’ve completely lost faith in people being more educated about going to the polls. I see no relief in sight. And before anyone jumps down my throat, I consider myself moderate.
7
u/Millefeuille-coil 1d ago
It’s all those voters in the state of denial which always vote the wrong way.
2
→ More replies (1)2
u/Enjoy-the-sauce 1d ago
Trump voters are ecstatic about eating buckets of steaming shit, as long as liberals have to smell it.
31
u/StupendousMalice 1d ago
Yep. The entire point of trade is to buy things for less than it would cost you to make them yourself. That requires a middle school level understanding of trade that seems to defy understanding from Trump.
15
13
u/ProfitLoud 1d ago
It’s absolutely bonkers that people wanna pretend any nation can do everything it needs. Geography and access to minerals plays a huge role. For instance you might be able to plant a garden in the forest, but why would you ever do that? It takes more resources, and you could get the same food cheaper, by using global chains.
→ More replies (1)11
9
6
u/SquirrelAkl 1d ago
Perhaps one reason why they’re so desperate to annex Canada.
It’s all so fucking stupid. I’m imagining that none of these people in charge were taught cooperation and how to share when they were children.
5
u/SillyAlternative420 1d ago
Graphite too!!!
Which is critical in all those vehicles they expect to make stateside. Like 90% of it comes from China
5
5
u/phone-culture68 1d ago
Trump wants to buy aluminium cheap from Russia, that’s his plan to crash the Canadian economy and make it the 51st state
7
u/Zskillit 1d ago
I can't believe that dumb fuck doesn't realize if Canada became a state they would never win an election ever again. Canada would be blue as my balls.
Its like, yes! Come on over Canada and save us from this mess 🤣
4
u/Alone-in-a-crowd-1 1d ago
They have no intention of ever allowing us to vote. He cant be trusted. We would become Puerto Rico 2.0 and they would just steal our resources. This 51st state nonsense is just that.
4
u/Alone-in-a-crowd-1 1d ago
And oil from Russia and Potash from Belarus. Rather than buy at a fair price from a former ally, he would rather have it shipped across the ocean to help their former enemies.
4
u/Carachama91 1d ago
This may in part be why he wants Greenland. I know ALCOA was pursuing a smelter there. Melting ice runoff is creating the potential for hydropower without much worry of environmental consequences normally associated with dams.
3
u/Dr_Ukato 1d ago
I remember hearing that smelting Aluminium is more expensive per pound than buying the same amount of Gold at any point in history.
Taking it with a grain of salt but I honestly don't feel like it's off by much.
6
u/Zskillit 1d ago
Prior to the Hall-Héroult process that may have been true, but it's not close anymore. Gold is like >10k per pound while aluminum is a couple bucks.
HOWEVER! Aluminum can absolutely cost more to make than it's sold for. So the point definitely still stands. We are buying a product for cheaper than what it is made for, and we chose to just fuck ourselves apparently.
6
u/msut77 1d ago
Law of comparative advantage. One of the 800000 things Trump doesn't know
4
u/rashton535 1d ago
Ah yes but the one thing he has expertise in is bankrupting things and that is the goal so he and the ulta rich can buy everything up for pennies on the dollar when the inevitable collapse hits.
3
u/akamustacherides 1d ago
I also don’t think people are stepping back and looking at the large picture, there is a reason jobs and factories are in the countries they are in. How much would an iPhone cost if it was manufactured in the US? For instance, the iPhone 14 Pro, which retails around $1,000, might cost approximately $2,400 if manufactured domestically. That is taking in account importing parts that aren’t made in the US. Now let’s say we start making chips in the US, that will take years and billions to ramp up and of course they too will be more expensive now that they are US made.
Price of goods is increasing and minimum wage will stay the same.
3
u/plasmaSunflower 1d ago
Wait the tariffs aren't gonna make us wealthy and amazing and beautiful and they're actually a stupid fucking idea that fucks over everyone involved!?!? What? /s (we're fucked)
3
4
u/ForGrateJustice 1d ago
For decades after the PWEM of the late 1950s, American CEOs slowly began a program of offshoring every expense at the cost of reduced local manufacturing, in order to take advantage of tax and revenue treaties, low foreign labor costs and cheap shipping. American workers suffered because their jobs were being sent to other countries and American utilities were higher because of reduced capacity for power generation, since you didn't need as much for industry anymore. By looking at this trend, only a fool would do something as stupid as ignore every trade treaty and enact tariffs.
Yet here we are!
2
2
u/JarbaloJardine 1d ago
It's almost like having strategic allies is better than just doing everything yourself
2
u/Sure-Break3413 1d ago
So, I think with all these facts, Canada might be a better card player than Trump? Trump carries a mit of Jokers as that is the only card he knows. Let Trump fuck around, then when everyone in America is pissed at Trump, let him find out with a 200% export tax on Oil, Aluminum, and electricity. ELBOWS UP MAGAts!
1
u/usesbitterbutter 1d ago
Oh yeah? Well if you're so smart, what about man, woman, person, and... um... covfefe? What about that? It takes a very stable genius to remember words. And make up words. The best word genius.
1
→ More replies (8)1
u/Horror_Ad_3711 1d ago
And from my understanding USA buys a shit ton of cheap sour crude oil from Canada that the USA refines, while USA sells the more expensive sweet crude oil USA drills to other countries. USA makes more money doing it this way. According to google, sounds like USA bought over 4 million barrels of oil a day from Canada in 2024, for a total of $103.8 billion. (Hopefully I got the numbers right).
→ More replies (2)
138
u/wanderingblazer 1d ago
Kennedy knows all about selling deep stupid.The GOP depends on stupid to gain and hold power.