Graham Dismisses Harm Resulting From Trump’s China Trade War

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday shrugged off the current and predicted damage resulting from President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China.


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Where was Graham when he and McCain and W were starting wars to be fought on credit? I guess only farmers and Walmart customers should accept the pain. Fuck you, Lindsey.

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Eat shit, Graham. Your boy took us out of the TPP, which was a way to have leverage without doing a trade war. Your boy started an unwinnable trade war. This is not necessary pain. Your boy is crashing the world economy because he’s an imbecile. And you fucking well know it.

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Hopefully the GOP will do that in 2020.

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How much of that pain will Lindsey actually suffer? Not much would be my guess. Although, he does look like he’s in some pain in that picture.

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He’s just swimming in koolaid.

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When will Lindsey get off of his donald trump’s lazy ass and do his damn job???

What is it going to take??!!

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Graham ”we’ve just got to accept the pain”

We.

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“Now Trump is, and we’ve just got to to accept the pain…"

Usually, Lindsey has to pay for pain, but with Trump, he gets it free – and without the Gimp suit.

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We need to Lose Lindsey here in SC - Kentucky, you need to Ditch Mitch. Let’s do something positive for the country - oh yeah, don’t forget we need to Dump Trump.

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Hey Lindsey, how would you feel if it was your livelihood that was ruined by a trump tariff ?
But no, Lindsey makes $174,000 for his part time gig as a senator.
I had to look up what a gimp suit was. Now I need brain bleach.

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You may have to accept the pain of being blackmailed, Lindsey, or whatever it is that Trump has done to you. We shouldn’t have to accept the pain of your economic mistakes and malpractice or whatever it is you’ve signed off on with Trump.

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Exactly. Probably not many would mind short term pain if it meant long term gain, but this Administration has no strategy for this, nor even leverage since China has bought Trump and his family cheaply via trademarks.

The farmers, truckers, and others are being sacrificed not for America but for the Trump family. I think they’re beginning to get that.

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“The Democrats for years have been claiming that China should be stood up to,” Graham told “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan. “Now Trump is, and we’ve just got to to accept the pain that comes with standing up to China.”

“How do you get China to change without creating something pain on them and us? I don’t know,” he added.

im getting ready for a fantasy football draft and looking for his previous comments on a variety of foreign policy subjects interferes with that, so…

back to ‘Mahomes alternatives: starring a Gitmo loving Drew Brees’.

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Ewww. I’ve had to say that on two separate threads today.

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I think he knows it, which makes it worse. You don’t flip like a light switch and then claim you didn’t know what was happening until it was too late. He is either being blackmailed or seeing profit. Whatever it is if blackmail is a doozy and more.

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Boy, the Graham kompromat, when finally released, is going to be titillating…

Nauseating, enlightening, but titillating…

Especially that naughty weekend with Moscow Mitch…

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Drew Brees approves of Gitmo? More on that please.

(borderline o/t)

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It appears Felcher Belle really needs to cash in somewhere, somehow before his ass gets spanked (not in the way he prefers) and he’s booted from office.

If you can find a more studiously opaque queen that all the world can see, please let me know.

BTW, Lindz, that kompromat lasts a lifetime.

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