'Mucho Sad': Lindsey Graham tweets Trump's wall tax would 'drive up costs of Corona, tequila'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

ERIN CORBETT
26 JAN 2017 AT 19:02 ET

On Thursday, President Donald Trump proposed a tariff plan to pay for his border wall with Mexico. After Mexican President Pea Nieto insisted they would not pay for Trumps wall, the U.S. president said instead that he would slap a 20 percent tax on all imports from Mexico to pay for the wall.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham responded to that idea in a set of tweets, suggesting that a tax on imports would not be the wisest move. In his first tweet, the Senator [link:

Link to tweet

], Border security yes, tariffs no. Mexico is 3rd largest trading partner. Any tariff we can levy they can levy. Huge barrier to econ growth.

He then [link:

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up with], Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea. Mucho Sad.

The news comes one day after Trump signed an executive order to re-start construction of the wall.

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[tenorly]

1. MUY 'sad', in any case.

Jesus, didn't Little Lindsey pay ANY attention in High School Spanish class!

[DonViejo]

3. What's with the "Miss Lindsey" crap?

[tenorly]

4. Calma, calma.

Everyone calls him that. Either way, I edited the post per your request.

[Skittles]

9. everyone? First time I have seen that

[tenorly]

10. You should have more Southern friends.

As they say though, ain't nobody's business.

[Skittles]

19. I live the fucking south

I would not expect to see their sexist, homophobic crap here

[JTFrog]

39. I don't make friends with folks who use homophobic language. nt

[6000eliot]

13. I got a post blocked for that, and I'm gay!

[Liberalagogo]

20. I got alerted on

blocked and threatened with suspension for referencing this Lone Ranger joke:
http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2011/03/29/what-do-you-mean-we-paleface/

[HAB911]

27. delicates have itchy trigger fingers.........n/t

[yurbud]

38. If someone is a closet case in a party that gets mileage out of gay bashing...

they should be fair game.

But for some reason, That has been a controversial position on DU going back to the debate about who Jeff Gannon's White House client was.

[6000eliot]

40. Agreed. Don't see the reason for the controversy.

[HAB911]

28. Everyone calls him that..........n/t

[DonViejo]

29. Really? I don't and I know plenty of people that don't call the Senator

"Miss Lindsey;" it's homophobic.

[HAB911]

30. It's not homophobic

personally I think he is asexual, based on lifestyle, not that it matters either way. It certainly doesn't matter to me, I'm a true liberal's liberal.

lib·er·al
1. open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

But the fact remains, many people use the moniker for him.

[DonViejo]

31. It's homophobic.

I notice you've now changed your tune; you've gone from "everyone" calls him that to "many people use the moniker for him."

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).[1][2][3] It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear, and is often related to religious beliefs.[4][5]

Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual.[1][2] Recognized types of homophobia include institutionalized homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and internalized homophobia, experienced by people who have same-sex attractions, regardless of how they identify.

Negative attitudes toward identifiable LGBT groups have similar yet specific names: lesbophobia is the intersection of homophobia and sexism directed against lesbians, biphobia targets bisexuality and bisexual people, and transphobia targets transgender and transsexual people and gender variance or gender role nonconformity.[1][3][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia

[HAB911]

32. Stop wasting your time picking nits, we are not the enemy

concentrate on DJT, please. everyone/many/nits

[DonViejo]

34. You're the one wasting your time telling a gay man what is and isn't

homophobic. But, it's nice to see you backpedaling.

On edit:

Backpedaling by accusing me of wasting my time.

[HAB911]

35. Sigh...........n/t

[DonViejo]

36. Yawn.

[George II]

2. trump is a "bad hombre".

[tenorly]

5. Boom!

Thread winner.

[George II]

17. .

[murielm99]

15. One of the Hispanic Democrats

in my group of friends had t-shirts made that say "Bad Hombre." He sold them as fast as they could be printed.

[George II]

16. Between those and the "Nasty Woman" t-shirts, I'm sure millions could be sold.

I guess trump was right, he's going to improve the (t-shirt) economy

[murielm99]

18. My hangup with t-shirts is

that I won't buy them unless they have the union bug. I think he wanted these shirts out there fast, but I will talk to him.

[George II]

21. We never get any political material printed without it - no flyers, no lawn signs, no newspaper ads.

[harun]

37. ROFL

[bravenak]

6. Es muy triste; no es mucho sad

Funny though. That might be the thing that upsets Trumpers; jacking up the price of their alcohol will piss them off

[tenorly]

7. Exactomundo!

If I were the chairman of either of those two fine establishments, I'd consider opening a brewery in So. Cal. right about now.

[George II]

22. That, but they're not classy enough to drink Corona, and Old Milwaukee is "brewed" in the US.

[bravenak]

23. Ew, might as well just drink water

[George II]

24. Well, we know what trump's drink preference is, don't we?

[raccoon]

25. You're correct, but if Graham tweeted that, the vast majority

of people wouldn't get it.

[elleng]

8. Thought of that this evening, in Mexico Restaurant,

in Huntingtown, MD!

[yallerdawg]

11. That jackass in the White House is screwing me over now!

True story!

Two days ago, we went to our favorite new Mexican restaurant.

That evening, checking the account online, I'm seein' purchases in Veracruz, Mexico!

Called it in, card canceled, money held for 5-7 business days until new card arrives.

Thank you, Mr. Precedent!

[tenorly]

12. With Giuliani as Head of Cybersecurity, we can probably expect a lot more of that now.

A lot of people don't know that one of the reforms accomplished by Elizabeth Warren's CFPB, is a requirement that credit card companies fully staff fraud protection office.

Once Cheeto rescinds the CFPB, it'll be back to the old runaround.

[bluedigger]

14. Tequila was my first thought, too.

[Vinca]

26. Well, yuck, yuck, yuck.

I'll be bowled over with laughter when my next big appliance costs 20% more.

[dembotoz]

33. when lindsey seems rational we are in deep shit

[sarcasmo]

41. 45 no bueno

[dflprincess]

42. El es muy malo.