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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey Graham Says Americans Have to 'Accept the Pain' Caused by Trump's Trade War
Every Democrat and every Republican of note has said China cheats. The Democrats for years have been claiming that China should be stood up to. Now Trump is and weve just got to accept the pain that comes with standing up to China, Graham told CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday.
How do you get China to change without create something pain on them and us? I dont know, Graham mused.
How much pain should people of South Carolina be prepared for? Brennan asked.
Some, he responded. Consumer prices on commodities are going to go up. Were now at that part in the trade war where you feel price increases at Walmart. The president has backed off because hes worried about the Christmas shopping season. Id tell him Mr. President, listen, you have a lot more bullets than they do. The goal is to get them to change their behavior.'
Graham also acknowledged steel and aluminum tariffs are hurting his state a lot.
Steel and aluminum tariffs have hurt us a lot, Graham said. But the steel and aluminum business has a chance to come back. China produced more steel in one year than the entire world testimony consumed. Thats an unfair trade practice. They should be in the WTO [World Trade Organization] as a developed nation, not a developing nation.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/lindsey-graham-says-americans-have-to-accept-the-pain-caused-by-trumps-trade-war/
greatauntoftriplets
(175,760 posts)I bet that he's well cushioned against any "pain".
Freethinker65
(10,081 posts)He has always been a follower. Unfortunately for Lindsey, he went from following and parroting McCain to following and parroting Trump.
2naSalit
(86,872 posts)(fuck you, you fucking fucker).
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)for daily use, please and thank you. I was just going to say Fuck you Lindsey. I dont have to accept fuck all from you or anyone else, ever. How does that hack get any votes from anyone? Seriously?
2naSalit
(86,872 posts)You can use that and any other that might be similar! I stole it from someone else.
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)...in the form of Russian money laundering. Now, he expects everyone else to "feel the pain," while he enjoys his rubles.
Just another evil asswipe...
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)that he will NEVER get rid of the stink of Donald Trump.
Nor will the rest of the treasonous, pathetic, traitorous GOP political enablers, or the supporters of turdface.
The scent memory of this "culture" war is going to last generations.
So. Sad.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)None? Or less?
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)oasis
(49,433 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)Don't pee in my boots and tell me it's raining, Lindsey. Don't tell me people want the pain.
Nobody except Trump and the trade guy he bought on Amazon thought tariffs were a good idea. He sold this painted mule to his gullible base, and now everyone has to pay?! And so, now, Lindsey is selling the con, just as sure as he sold his soul.
He's up for reelection, so maybe he'll pay for his bullshit at the ballot box.