It's been a while since Rand Paul reared his ugly head in the news, but he's like the proverbial blind pig. He finds an acorn every once in while, and he found one that no one else is talking about, and I've been wondering this for a while.
Make no mistake. Rand Paul is a shit weasel. Always has been, always will be. He was in the Tea Party when that pack of clowns was around. He mentioned once that he would have challenged the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (when called on it, much like a weasel, he weaseled out of it). He made it his mission in life to kill the ACA. He has a serious plagiarism problem. He's typically buddies with Trump and was among the true believers who barked rabidly that the election in 2020 was stolen. So let's not label him one of the good guys just yet.
BUT! He had this to say about Trump's tariffs:
The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store
That right there is proof that he read The Art of the Deal by Tony Schwartz. I mean, Trump. Right. Anyway, Trump "states" in the book that in every deal there is a winner and a loser, and he will do everything in his power to not lose.
Which explains why he's pulling his pud over tariffs. TRUMP THINKS THERE MUST BE A WINNER OR A LOSER IN A TRADE DEAL. If you want to read Rand Paul explaining how trade works in the world, you can do so here. We are all adults, though, so I'm going to assume that we all know how trade works, and it's painfully clear that it doesn't work like Trump thinks.
Trump sent the stock exchange to Hell simply because he didn't pay attention in school.
Wait, did he mean "Make America Grate Again," instead? If so, he's doing a stellar job. Top shelf.
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