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Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent. (www.cnn.com)

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Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

WTF?? The 2 f*cking assholes missed the most important vote of their entire senate careers. Either one of them could have stopped Trump's destruction of our economy with his illegal tariffs and gigantic tax increases just by showing up at their job. Now inflation is going to skyrocket, unemployment is going to skyrocket, the stock market will continue to crash, Traitorapist Trump is going to stick us all with gigantic tax increases, and a possible Great Depression II is around the corner, all because neither of these 2 people could be inconvenienced to show up and do their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

the ones who skipped it are republicans (read: fascists)
if you believe it was anything other than a completely intentional bit of political smokescreen, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Edit: fuckin.. Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…? What the fuck. I had missed that. Welp; this is America, and betrayal of principles is the new black nowadays

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The rotating villain strikes again! https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2023/05/05/the-democratic-party-is-untenable/

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a disgrace to miss the vote, but that's not the only way to neglect their Senate responsibilities. Don't forget to be that angry at every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Those three voted for the bill, but I'm sure there are ways they've betrayed us too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski.

Why are those three assholes getting a pass? At best, they seem to outwardly know what trump is doing is wrong, damaging, and unconstitutional, yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are those three assholes getting a pass?

I believe the "those three voted for the bill" part of the comment to which you're replying answers that. That bill was the one proposed to block the tariffs.

yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.

How so?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I thought they blocked with their republican counterparts.

They have done that in the past, acknowledged that what was happening was wrong, and then voting to allow it to happen. I'm not clearing them because they made one tiny stumble quietly in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rand Paul is a hard core classical libertarian. He will always vote for whatever creates less federal or presidential power. Doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans presenting the bill.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

They think they sent a message. They are too stupid to know that no one is home.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon/

Tell the useless fucking sack of shit Sheldon how you feel about him abandoning his post and choosing to support Nazis instead of his constituents.

[+] [email protected] -57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

I’m sorry. But don’t roll these back. The country voted for this. I’m willing to take the pain of the situation. So the stupid Trumpers will suffer. I have access to family farms that have the country’s fruit basket in my state. I’ll be able to survive because I can get to food easily. Sucks that others won’t be so lucky. But there is no reason to stop the tariffs. Let the hurt educate people.

Edit: I don’t give a fuck if this upsets people. Let the fucker burn. Burn baby burn! Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, I'm an asshole but you take the fucking cake.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are a decent number of left leaning people who I have heard express similar opinions, with the rationale that if Americans feel the collective economic pain they will be more likely to oust the fascists before fascism can completely take over the US.

Not saying I agree, but I have been finding this argument more often lately.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

At least you'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow. Let's start with your flawed philosophy. A lot of people who voted for Harris will get fucked by these tariffs too. If anything, Harris voters will likely get fucked even harder than the Trump voters. The trump voters are more likely to be rural and have the space and means to grow a garden with which to feed themselves. Urban voters - the ones most likely to vote for Harris - are unlikely to have the space or time for such a luxury. So again, while Trump voters will feel the burn too, they're far less likely to be hurt as badly as the Harris voters will. Yet, here you are, wanting to hurt people because Harris voters need to learn to not vote for Trump or something. What an unintelligent take.

As for your personality...

What a completely unempathetic piece of shit you appear to be. I hope you're disowned so you lose access to your fruit basket, you privileged asshole. Furthermore, I feel bad for anyone who's required to be around you; your very presence should be considered a form of domestic abuse. No one deserves to be cursed with your existence and I sincerely feel sorry for any friends or family members who have been forced to tolerate you out of a sense of kinship. They do not deserve to be forced to tolerate someone who displays such a sociopathic lack of empathy and willingness to sacrifice others for your own benefit.

I'm actually pissed off that people like you exist.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey. Sometimes you just have to let the kid burn his hand on the stove and they understand their mistake. I understand the hurt that will happen. But many people on the left decided it wasn’t worth voting to stop it. I voted against Trump in 3 elections. Have supported progressives at every turn. But for this shit show. I’m hunkering down and weathering the storm. I built up a nest egg just for this bs. I helped people plan for it. There’s just no stopping this psycho. Without starting a revolution. and I doubt anyone is ready for that fight. Or we would already be there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I voted for Harris. I'm a trans gal stuck in Texas who won't be going anywhere as the result of a lease and lack of money to just pick up and leave. The meds I need to function are expensive, and right now I'm going through withdrawals for one of them because I haven't had the time to find a new doctor to get more because Trump's America is already fucking people over and caused my psychiatrist's office to close down; which is part of the reason why I'm on a hair trigger right now. The other part of it is that I'm sick and disgusted by people like you. I cannot find the words to express the utter revulsion that I experience for someone like you. Just because you voted for Harris doesn't mean your disgusting, self-centered attitude isn't part of the reason why we're here in the first place.

I'm so fucking glad that you're gonna be safe and well fed in your pretty little ivory tower that you've built; but the rest of us are gonna be fucking miserable at best and the fact that you've supposedly helped a small group of people doesn't absolve you of your shitty, sociopathic desire to throw everyone else under the bus regardless of background or political views, just so that you can get back at the people who have wronged you. Just because you're "on the right side of history" by voting progressive doesn't mean you get to throw everyone who lacks the means to protect themselves under the bus.

"Yeah, well, I got mine, lmao"

Go fuck yourself, you miserable excuse for a questionably human being. I hope when Trump starts rounding up people wholesale, then you'll be one of the first to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So let me ask. What control do I have to change the inevitable tariffs? We lost the election and there’s no one to stop Trump. We can’t do anything to stop this. You had to take the time to prepare for it. I’m sorry about your situation. I’m ADHD and need my medication to function. Thats under attack from this administration and I’m expecting my pharmacy to tell me I’m no longer allowed to have access to my medication. But again. I’m just voicing my opinion. What do you think I can do to change any of this? I can’t do anything. I’ve voted. And I will vote next year. But besides that. I have no power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We lost the election and there’s no one to stop Trump. We can’t do anything to stop this.

Sheldon Whitehouse (D) could have stopped Trump's tariffs simply by showing up and doing his job, but he didn't. That's the whole point of this story.