They Pissed Off Trump - Here's How You Can Too!
Thom Hartmann Program
[{'start': '0.160', 'end': '2.720', 'text': 'Donald Trump seems to be a little upset.'}, {'start': '2.720', 'end': '8.720', 'text': 'He’s got four Republican senators who are\xa0\njust not going along with everything he says:'}, {'start': '8.720', 'end': '15.280', 'text': 'Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Susan\xa0\nCollins, and Lisa Murkowski.'}, {'start': '15.280', 'end': '19.360', 'text': 'These four Republicans—Trump went after them at'}, {'start': '19.360', 'end': '28.560', 'text': '1:00 a.m. Eastern Time. He posted on\xa0\nhis Nazi-infested social media site:'}, {'start': '28.560', 'end': '33.040', 'text': '“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of\xa0\nMaine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul'}, {'start': '33.040', 'end': '39.120', 'text': 'of Kentucky will hopefully get on the Republican\xa0\nbandwagon for a change and fight the Democrats.”'}, {'start': '39.120', 'end': '40.640', 'text': 'Then he goes on a rant:'}, {'start': '41.440', 'end': '43.840', 'text': '“They’re playing with the lives of\xa0\nthe American people right into the'}, {'start': '43.840', 'end': '47.840', 'text': 'hands of radical left Democrats and drug cartels.”'}, {'start': '47.840', 'end': '51.840', 'text': 'Yeah, all right. The hyperbole is insane.'}, {'start': '52.480', 'end': '52.960', 'text': 'He continues:'}, {'start': '52.960', 'end': '56.000', 'text': '“To the people of the great states of\xa0\nKentucky, Alaska, and Maine—please contact'}, {'start': '56.000', 'end': '59.600', 'text': 'these senators and get them to finally\xa0\nadhere to Republican values and ideals.”'}, {'start': '59.600', 'end': '63.440', 'text': 'I don’t know—maybe we should be\xa0\ncalling McConnell, Murkowski,'}, {'start': '63.440', 'end': '70.720', 'text': 'Collins, and Paul and saying, “Please\xa0\ncontinue to oppose Donald Trump’s agenda.”'}, {'start': '70.720', 'end': '73.040', 'text': 'What do you think?'}, {'start': '73.040', 'end': '78.320', 'text': 'This rant is mostly about the fact that\xa0\nthese four senators have said they are'}, {'start': '78.320', 'end': '85.280', 'text': 'actually considering a resolution that\xa0\nwould end the state of emergency Trump'}, {'start': '85.280', 'end': '88.560', 'text': 'declared—an economic emergency\xa0\nthat allows him to impose tariffs.'}, {'start': '88.560', 'end': '97.440', 'text': 'Let me explain: Congress exclusively\xa0\nhas the right to establish tariffs and'}, {'start': '97.440', 'end': '101.040', 'text': 'to set what those tariffs are and\xa0\nwhen. When Congress sets tariffs,'}, {'start': '101.040', 'end': '105.120', 'text': 'they tend to work the way they’re supposed\xa0\nto—they bring manufacturing back home'}, {'start': '105.120', 'end': '109.440', 'text': 'because manufacturers know the tariffs\xa0\nwill be in place for quite some time.'}, {'start': '112.000', 'end': '117.680', 'text': 'On the other hand, there’s a loophole—a\xa0\nprovision in the law that says during a time'}, {'start': '117.680', 'end': '127.280', 'text': 'of emergency (originally written with the\xa0\nGreat Depression and World War II in mind),'}, {'start': '128.960', 'end': '132.560', 'text': 'the president can unilaterally declare tariffs.'}, {'start': '132.560', 'end': '136.640', 'text': 'So what did Trump do? When he came into office,\xa0\nhe declared a state of emergency—an economic'}, {'start': '136.640', 'end': '141.040', 'text': 'emergency. He said we were in a crisis, even\xa0\nthough there was no crisis. The economy was'}, {'start': '141.040', 'end': '145.440', 'text': 'doing better than it had in decades. We had lower\xa0\ninflation than since the 1960s, lower unemployment'}, {'start': '145.440', 'end': '154.320', 'text': 'than since the 1950s. We had the best four years\xa0\nof job growth and economic growth in U.S. history.'}, {'start': '158.800', 'end': '162.320', 'text': 'Between 1980 and today, Republican presidents'}, {'start': '163.520', 'end': '166.560', 'text': 'have produced zero net jobs in aggregate,\xa0\nwhile Democratic presidents have produced'}, {'start': '166.560', 'end': '170.400', 'text': 'over 50 million jobs—as Larry from Los\xa0\nAngeles pointed out in the last hour.'}, {'start': '172.400', 'end': '176.800', 'text': 'Things were going pretty well. But Trump declared\xa0\nthe state of emergency, which gave him the power'}, {'start': '176.800', 'end': '183.760', 'text': 'to impose tariffs. And he’s been doing it—putting\xa0\nthem on, taking them off, putting them on again.'}, {'start': '183.760', 'end': '190.640', 'text': 'There’s even been speculation that Trump’s sons—or\xa0\npeople in his circle—knew in advance when tariffs'}, {'start': '190.640', 'end': '203.280', 'text': 'would be imposed or lifted, short-selling car\xa0\nstocks before tariffs, then buying long positions'}, {'start': '203.280', 'end': '208.080', 'text': 'right before tariffs were lifted. Basically,\xa0\na pump-and-dump scheme—market manipulation.'}, {'start': '208.080', 'end': '212.560', 'text': 'Whatever’s going on, it’s craziness.\xa0\nIt’s hurting America. It’s hurting'}, {'start': '212.560', 'end': '217.120', 'text': 'American consumers. It’s driving\xa0\nup prices and producing inflation.'}, {'start': '217.120', 'end': '228.880', 'text': 'So now there’s this resolution in the Senate\xa0\ncoming up for a vote next Tuesday. It would'}, {'start': '229.520', 'end': '234.000', 'text': 'end the state of national emergency,\xa0\nmeaning Trump would no longer be able to'}, {'start': '234.000', 'end': '237.920', 'text': 'impose tariffs by presidential decree.\xa0\nHe’d have to go to Congress and ask.'}, {'start': '241.760', 'end': '248.320', 'text': 'While the resolution is largely being\xa0\npromoted by Democratic senators,'}, {'start': '248.960', 'end': '251.520', 'text': 'Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski,'}, {'start': '251.520', 'end': '256.960', 'text': 'and Susan Collins have all indicated to\xa0\nvarious news media that they may support it.'}, {'start': '256.960', 'end': '261.760', 'text': 'And that’s what’s got Trump’s panties in\xa0\na wad. That’s what he’s so upset about.'}, {'start': '261.760', 'end': '264.560', 'text': 'So keep an eye on this. It\xa0\ncould get real interesting.'}]