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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 10:33 PM Aug 2019

Lindsey 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 we’ve 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 don’t 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. We’re now at that part in the trade war where you feel price increases at Walmart. The president has backed off because he’s worried about the Christmas shopping season. I’d 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. That’s 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/

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Lindsey Graham Says Americans Have to 'Accept the Pain' Caused by Trump's Trade War (Original Post) CatWoman Aug 2019 OP
Fuck you, Lindsey. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2019 #1
No one cares what Lindsey says. No one ever did. Freethinker65 Aug 2019 #2
FYYFF!!! 2naSalit Aug 2019 #3
I'm going to borrow that acronym MontanaMama Aug 2019 #5
He cheats... 2naSalit Aug 2019 #8
Leningrad Lindsey already has his pain cushion... PandoraAwakened Aug 2019 #4
Leningrad Lindsey Graham will, unfortunately, have to get used to the fact not_the_one Aug 2019 #6
So, Sen. Graham, how much pain have you signed up for? gratuitous Aug 2019 #7
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it" struggle4progress Aug 2019 #9
Time for Lindsey G. to go. oasis Aug 2019 #10
The ads write themselves. Get to it, my fellow Democrats. John Fante Aug 2019 #11
Gah. Bleh. What an obsequious douche. Mersky Aug 2019 #12
Oh the pain inflicted whenever Lindsey speaks. What a raging asshole. NRaleighLiberal Aug 2019 #13

Freethinker65

(10,081 posts)
2. No one cares what Lindsey says. No one ever did.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 10:39 PM
Aug 2019

He has always been a follower. Unfortunately for Lindsey, he went from following and parroting McCain to following and parroting Trump.

MontanaMama

(23,364 posts)
5. I'm going to borrow that acronym
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 10:57 PM
Aug 2019

for daily use, please and thank you. I was just going to say “Fuck you Lindsey. I don’t have to accept fuck all from you or anyone else, ever.” How does that hack get any votes from anyone? Seriously?

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)
4. Leningrad Lindsey already has his pain cushion...
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 10:53 PM
Aug 2019

...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)
6. Leningrad Lindsey Graham will, unfortunately, have to get used to the fact
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 11:10 PM
Aug 2019

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.

Mersky

(4,986 posts)
12. Gah. Bleh. What an obsequious douche.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 11:41 PM
Aug 2019

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.

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