Bat Shit Crazy Rand Paul Drops The Mic Of Reason

[MayReasonRule]

“When McKinley, most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Rand Paul said. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

[kerouac2]

1. They now control the election process

So it's apples to oranges.

There are no consequences for these thugs anyway.

[MayReasonRule]

3. An Interesting Supposition... I'm Curious... What Do You Think Just Happened In Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election?

Did " "they" " control the Wisconsin's Supreme Court's Election outcome?

I do not see that " "they" " did.

What do you see?

[AllyCat]

13. State election. Not federal.

Soon, I fear even this will be gone.

[MayReasonRule]

20. Time Will Tell -- Your Fear Is Reason Based -- Allow Your Reason To Continue To Guide You

May reason always be our guide so that reason may rule.

It's gonna' be a long road ahead.

[MayReasonRule]

23. Time Will Tell -- Steel Your Resolve -- Embrace Those You Love

We can make it through.. .. together.

[ITAL]

25. Technically all elections are state elections

States run them after all. Even the Electoral College fits in with the idea as it's 50 (or 51 with Washington DC) state contests, administered and run by states.

[MadameButterfly]

19. Trump is demanding that states send him their voter rolls

He's working on it. States need to refuse. There are court challenges.
There is also a Democratic Governor in Wisconsin. We may start to see Red states become corrupt while Blue state elections remain fair.
Trump however will seek revenge on Blue states. They just went after Social Security contracts in Maine over some comments by the Governor about transgender in sports. What will he do to states that don't comply wiwth his wishes on elections?

Prepare for a battle ahead. Secure those voting machines. Keep voting accessible. Protect the voter rolls. and keep Elon far far away.

[sunnybrook]

38. Elon actually helped

Here in Wisconsin

[MadameButterfly]

45. He helped regarding publice opinion

or at least didn't hurt despite the money. But I'm worried about Starlink or his twenty-something hackers having anything to do with the vote counting.

[Ace Rothstein]

5. The election process is controlled by the States.

[AllyCat]

11. Right now.

[sunnybrook]

37. Did they control Wisconsin?

I live here and it seems like something good happened this week...

[superpatriotman]

2. My family cannot wait sixty years

Most families cannot wait sixty days.

This is going to suck hard.

[thesquanderer]

21. If we get 60 year control of House and Senate, then I think the tariffs will have been worth it! (n/t)

[sunnybrook]

39. We need FDR

Grandma used to tell me he saved this country.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. The Auto Industry here in MI

The Trump regime knows nothing, they have no idea how business works and how supply chains are managed.

JIT to them means Jesus I'm Tired. The tier 2 auto suppliers just had a bomb dropped on their factories. These are factories that are fast paced, rely on just in time delivery to hold costs down, and they work with tiny margins. They simply aren't set up to absorb a cost shock like this without laying people off. JIT means these tariffs effects are almost immediate.

My brother helps run one of the largest tool and die shops in the Midwest, they are a tier 2 auto supplier, means they supply to the tier 1s who supply to the OEMs. They're holding an emergency meeting this weekend, my brother thinks it's to tell 3rd shift they no longer have jobs. A deep recession is almost here.

[MayReasonRule]

7. Indeed. I Remember Reading About JIT In Fast Company Back In 1980...

In the 1980s, "Fast Company" magazine, along with other business publications, extensively covered the rise of "just-in-time" (JIT) manufacturing, a Japanese-developed system focused on minimizing inventory and waste by delivering materials only when needed.

In 1980, Fujio Cho (later President of Toyota Motor Corp.) presented at Ford's International Headquarters in Detroit, detailing Toyota's production system and the advantages of Just-In-Time (JIT) and the Toyota Production System (TPS), which was a key moment in introducing JIT to the US and other developed countries.

I see "their" goal as being destruction of all they can and acquiring what's left at fire sale prices.

There is nothing that "they" are planning that is beneficial for our nation's populace.

[multigraincracker]

8. I worked on that industry for 30 years.

I use to call it All Most In Time. That’s how
W it worked back then.

[MayReasonRule]

18. Laughing My Ass Off...

[Yonnie3]

28. JADTL

Just A Day Too Late was our acronym.

I recall an instance at the GE plant around 1980, where a shipment of memory chips came in a week earlier than scheduled. The receiving department returned them to the vendor as required by management. Memory chips were in very short supply and the vendor immediately resold them. One week later, production employees were give a temporary lack of work layoff.

Cue spot market replacement chips purchased at ten times the cost. Cue low yields in production. Cue massive field issues.

Just one story

[multigraincracker]

33. At our plant they built up seats in plant.

Then they thought they could have them built up across town in the proper order, delivering them in order. Just unload the trucks and install them. One day, somehow a truck passed the first one all the seats were installed in the wrong order. Blue cars had red seats. Expensive models had cheap seats. Made a lot of overtime changing them.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. Libertarians find all taxes (whether good or bad) to be an anathema.

And he just stumbled across a very bad tax.

It's a blind squirrel, broken clock type of moment.

[multigraincracker]

9. The truth is Taxes are the cost of civilization.

[MayReasonRule]

41. Indeed. Taxes Are The "Multi Grains" That "Make The Bread"

[GiqueCee]

14. This joke sums up Libertarians perfectly...

... A little boy tells his mother, "When I grow up, I'm gonna be a Libertarian!"
She replies, "Well, which is it going to be? You can't do both!"

Ba-dum-bum-bum.

[MayReasonRule]

17. Well Done!!

[yardwork]

22. Another one: A Libertarian is what animal?

Answer: A house cat. They both think they're fiercely independent and self-sufficient, while being wholly dependent on a system they neither appreciate nor understand.

[multigraincracker]

35. Ayn Rand died broke on welfare.

[GiqueCee]

42. That chain-smoking psycho bitch from Hell...

... HATED altruism and empathy, just like the Shithead of the Hour, Elon Musk.
My employers at the time were movers and shakers in the Boston "Objectivist" community, and strongly encouraged me to read her doorstop novels, that could have been entitled "Fountainhead Shrugged", so similar were the plots and characters. Her essays were disturbing, especially the one in which she expressed admiration for a child rapist and murderer. But the one that sealed my contempt for her was "The Virtue of Selfishness", a mercifully short book that plumbed new depths of malice and greed.
Shit. Now I have to go wash my brain after thinking about her.

[multigraincracker]

43. I traveled with a PhD that wrote a book about her.

My favorite story her was about her love life. She was all for open marriage. But when her partner and number two in her organization tried it, she went nuts and kicked him out.
In the end she changed her name back to original one and went on every government program available. Worlds greatest hypocrite.

[GiqueCee]

44. Alisa Rosenbaum...

... was a horrible person, and a 3rd-rate novelist. Yet there are still deluded souls that think the Sun shines out of her bony dead ass. Go figure.

[The Roux Comes First]

36. Good Analogies, But Even That Clock is Right Twice a Day

Far more frequently than any performance by yam-ass.

[Emile]

10. Rare day when I agree with Rand Paul.

[MayReasonRule]

16. I Spit Out My Coffee...

[angrychair]

12. I Hope So

We lost the House and the Senate for 60 years - Rand Paul

That would be a day, a week, a month, a 60 years, worth living for, now wouldn't it?

[LiberalArkie]

15. They always miss the reason Smoot-Hawley caused them to loose, they created the Great Depression.

[dalton99a]

24. +1

[niyad]

26. The world is truly weird when aqua buddha makes sense.

and look how his precious curlytop is thinning.

[Lovie777]

27. What?............

he mentioned "H I S T O R Y", is that "W O K E".

[Paladin]

29. Break's over, Rand Paul. Go back to fucking yourself. (nt)

[IronLionZion]

30. But retirees must be excited to lose their 401K and social security at the same time, right?

[MayReasonRule]

31. A Fire Sale For Oligarchs - This Is Rape, Pillage And Plunder

[JohnSJ]

32. This is one of the few times I hope his history lesson carries over to the republicans for the next 60 years in losses.

[blue-wave]

34. All so their

rich boy buddies can buy everything at fire sale prices and watch it all go up in price when the tariffs are rescinded in a few weeks/days. The problem is, with the economy already tottering, will enough economic damage be done that rescinding the tariffs won't matter and a depression begins. We'll see.

[Otterdaemmerung]

40. It's YOUR party, Rand.

FIX IT.