Summary

Sen. Mitch McConnell warns that Trump’s tariffs could cost the average Kentuckian up to $1,200 annually, raising consumer prices and harming industries reliant on global trade.

He argues that trade wars hurt working people most, citing past retaliatory tariffs on Kentucky products like bourbon.

While acknowledging the need to counter China’s unfair trade practices, McConnell urges cooperation with allies rather than broad protectionism.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Too late turtle fucker, you set the stupid ball in motion and stacked the courts. This is so far outside your control.

    He’s going to be dead in <5 years anyway, so why does he even bother keeping up this vague appearance of giving a shit?

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    McConnell and his fuckery with SCOTUS nominations alone is why things are so dire right now. The world would be a better place if he’d not ever been in it.

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      He is a true bred piece of diarrhea dipped turd.

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    Has Mitch been in a fucking coma? Did the fall provide him a moment of lucidness? The absolute GALL to try to separate himself from the exact scenario he enabled, after it happened!

    Glad you could wake up and smell the economic collapse McConnell. Democrats, economists, most people two brain cells to rub together predicted it, but too late now. Kentucky believed in you - you’ve failed your voters, your local businesses and the country. That’s YOUR legacy, you enabling piece of trash.

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      He didn’t enable it, he orchestrated it. His actions were instrumental in getting us here.

      Don’t minimize his involvement.

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        Definitely. I’m not great on the specifics, but I remember as far back as him blocking Supreme Court nominees under Obama because it was an election year, and then allowing Trump to do the same thing.

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    Well, good job, dumbass, because you enabled this “maga” nonsense.

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    This is something that was well understood prior to the election, by everyone including yourself Mitch.

    Your grave will be a public toilet.

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    Yeah no shit and you’ve been acting against our best interests for decades

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    wutcha gonna do about it, moscow mitch? oppose the ‘president’ at every turn? or fall to your knees and pucker up?

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      What’s that creaking noise? Oh, Mitch’s knees.

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    When the fuck did McConnell give a shit about the “little people”?

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    Mitch absolutely screwed us with the Supreme Court for much long after he’s dead.

    However, I think you really show where you stand on things when you don’t have to worry about being challenged in a primary.