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So Freepers, Rand reckons the GOP won't hold power for 60 years after this mess.....
1 posted on 04/06/2025 12:59:05 AM PDT by RandFan
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Rand reckons the GOP won't hold power for 60 years after this mess...

It's already a mess? Nice try, but the tariffs aren't even in effect yet.

One of the great lessons of the Ukraine War is that the United States needs to re-establish its industrial base, in favor of more overall production and less consumption. It's a matter of national survival.

Right now, if the US finds itself in a major war, the country would depend on Thailand and Vietnam to produce its ammunition and other stocks for that war.

It was easy to flip the switch in 1941 since the US was already an industrial giant.

2 posted on 04/06/2025 1:16:20 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Randy Paul,

Siding with a l the wrong people: McConell, Democrats, Washington Post , n


3 posted on 04/06/2025 1:19:23 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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Nope, don’t buy it. Talk to me when US tariffs are equal to or greater than China’s and the EU’s tariffs put upon the US’.


5 posted on 04/06/2025 1:26:51 AM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal. )
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This BS about should we really move the cheese it pissing me off. I figure we got three choices. We can either Fight, F$&k, or go for our Guns. We’ve already tried the get screwed with Biden, Obama etc. So now we fight. If that don’t work? Fall out, draw ammo. God, Guns, and Guts got us this far. Let’s see how they like that shit. IMO


6 posted on 04/06/2025 1:37:16 AM PDT by Equine1952
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So Freepers, Rand reckons the GOP won't hold power for 60 years after this mess.....

I don't think Rand Paul has a specific number in mind. He's only citing past historical events to suggest there might be a political price to pay.

7 posted on 04/06/2025 1:39:31 AM PDT by Angelino97
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Rand conveniently forgets the period from 1865 to 1900 when the U.S. had the highest tariffs in its history and its highest economic growth. Tariffs allowed the U.S. to transition from a primarily agricultural economy, decimated by 4 years of civil war, to the largest industrial economy on the planet. In addition Rand forgets the Republican Party controlled the federal government for most of that time.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 1:40:04 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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Rand needs to decide does he want a manufacturing base in America or not.


12 posted on 04/06/2025 1:51:59 AM PDT by Lod881019
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He has a point on top of his head.


14 posted on 04/06/2025 1:58:15 AM PDT by Farcesensitive (K is coming)
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Maybe Rand should shut up about this and let it succeed. He should Stickney Optometry.


17 posted on 04/06/2025 2:06:18 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14573081/trump-tariffs-americans-deliver-verdict-trade-poll.html

Tariff is very popular among union members, that’s why Trump’s number went up among Democrats.


19 posted on 04/06/2025 2:08:03 AM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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https://americafirstreport.com/trumps-popularity-rises-after-liberation-day/


24 posted on 04/06/2025 2:44:00 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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>> So Freepers, Rand reckons the GOP won’t hold power for 60 years after this mess.....

I could care less what that fickle liptard “reckons”.

Disloyal, ‘Rat-stroking POS.

FYRP


26 posted on 04/06/2025 2:48:45 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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America 2025 is not America from 1920’s and 30’s.

Back then the British empire was still a powerful European market. Things are vastly different. Post war Europe is not a thing either.

Analogies are bad here.


28 posted on 04/06/2025 3:12:07 AM PDT by Bayard
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The letter after the name means jack anymore.

The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.

A pol is either loyal to our republic or to Deep State.

Too many of the GOP is Deep State.

They can go the way of the dodo with my blessing.


29 posted on 04/06/2025 3:14:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Rand Paul has quickly gone from being a nuisance to becoming a McCain level GOPe destructive force. He can disagree on tariffs, but he now appears to be going out of his way to assist Deep State Democrats and cause destructive mischief for MAGA. He needs to stop. Immediately.


30 posted on 04/06/2025 3:20:11 AM PDT by Obadiah
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Keep outsourcing our vital industries or else, SUCKA!


31 posted on 04/06/2025 3:22:42 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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So rand supports the creation of the income tax to fund the federal government over the use of tariffs?


33 posted on 04/06/2025 3:25:38 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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It took me a while to understand the logic, or so I think I understand it. The idea of the tariffs is to do unto them as they do unto us. Meaning they are reciprocal. It appears we are already getting major manufacturers into the country.

Our system of foreign trade has been unfair for several decades. I never understood shipping all of our manufacturing to China, which in turn created unemployment in big cities, which in turn created a situation where the kids become gangsters that sell drugs to the elites. The same elites that got rid of manufacturing and are now gutting the US Treasury.

I can’t stand seeing “Made In China”.

The markets will straighten out, they always do.

All will not only be well, but better.


36 posted on 04/06/2025 3:41:45 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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Listen you globalist maggot, why don’t you pack your sh!t and git.


38 posted on 04/06/2025 3:47:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Anyone who takes the screen name of a politician is suspect in my book.


40 posted on 04/06/2025 3:49:28 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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