Lindsey Graham: America must 'accept the pain that comes with standing up to China'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that the “pain that comes with standing up to China” was a necessary aspect of the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing.

“Every Democrat and every Republican of note has said China cheats,” Graham, one of President Trump’s most vocal allies in the Senate, told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”

“The Democrats for years have been claiming that China should be stood up to. Now Trump is, and we just got to accept the pain that comes with standing up to China,” he added. “How do you get China to change without creating some pain on them and us? I don’t know.”

Asked if the ongoing conflict would place any burden on his own constituents, Graham responded, “Some,” adding, “Consumer prices on commodities are going to go up” as a result of tariffs on Chinese goods. However, he said, “until [the Chinese] feel the pain, they’re not going to stop. ... They never will until they feel a heavier price.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/458734-graham-america-must-accept-the-pain-that-comes-in-standing-up-to

Oh go fuck yourself Graham.

[rampartc]

1. working class americans, as usual, are called upon to "accept the pain"

meanwhile the "elite" continue their painless lives.

[Boomerproud]

12. Amen. Let's talk about that dear Lindsey.

Your supporters better start showing you some pain.

[malaise]

2. All capitalists cheat

end of story

[MiniMe]

3. What pain is being inflicted on them?

WE are paying the tariffs.

[C_U_L8R]

4. No one can say Trump has a plan

He’s just flinging poo on his twitter feed and causing market havoc. You’d have to be an idiot to support that strategy.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Are these workers aware of

their Senator's cavelier comments on their need take an economic hit for the sake of their pResidents foolish economic decisions?

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariff-south-carolina-plant-close-1061337

TRUMP TARIFFS' IMPACT: SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY TO LOSE JOBS AFTER TV MAKER ANNOUNCES PLANT CLOSURE

BY DANIELLE KOGAN ON 8/7/18 AT 1:33 PM EDT

President Donald Trump's tariffs have caused a TV-manufacturing company's plant to lay off 94 percent of its employees. It has scheduled the closing of its Winnsboro, South Carolina, plant for October.

Element Electronics sent a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce on Monday. The letter, which the state Department of Employment provided to Newsweek, said the reason for the layoff and closure was "the new tariffs that were recently and unexpectedly imposed on many goods imported from China, including the key television components used in our assembly operations in Winnsboro." Up to 126 of 134 full-time employees will be laid off after the company closes its plant on October 5....snip
more at link above

[Ilsa]

6. Uh, Lindsey, I think they already went thru that pain when

we encouraged US companies to move there and we started buying the bulk of our "stuff" from them. Sure, it was cheaper, but a lot jobs went away, permanently.

[mindem]

7. Well, drumph lovin lindsey

can blow it out his fascist ass.

[Takket]

8. pain? what pain?

drumpf says all that tariff money China pays goes right into our treasury to make the USA richer. Right?

x1 billion

[eShirl]

9. Let's accept the pain that comes with standing up to Trump.

[The Genealogist]

10. Lyin Lindsey won't be dealt any pain from it

He's got his. As do most of his pals. They all just want MORE, and they expect the vast majority to just sit back and take it without so much as a peep. The deplorable core will, of course, keep drinking that Trump Kool-Aid out of the big punchbowl, no matter how many turds Lindsey and Trump and the rest of them dump in it.

[Zambero]

11. Not exactly a Winston Churchillian proclamation

Perhaps an expectation of "Blood, Sweat, Turbulence & Trump" would be more in order.

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[smirkymonkey]

14. +1000

Little Lyin' Lindsey. What IS he hiding? I think we'd all like to know.

[Hekate]

17. That must have been a helluva golf game Lindsay had with Trump

We will probably always wonder what was said. That is, we all speculate -- but we'd like to know for sure.

Meanwhile, we hope Lindsay's prediction of doom for the GOP will come soon.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. There's probably a kompromat on Lindsey

[Hekate]

20. He certainly acts lke it, doesn't he?

[GoCubsGo]

15. As opposed to the pain we've endured from you and your ratfuck party, Lindsay?

I am one of many who are still feeling the pain you fucking assholes inflicted on us when Dumbya was in charge, and will likely never recover from it. Go fuck yourself, you self-loathing sack of shit.

[struggle4progress]

16. "America must accept the pain that comes from having a lunatic as President and from having

one of its two major political parties controlled by rightwing crack-pots"

[JustAnotherGen]

18. Yeah he can go

Fuck himself.