Hamilton said Congress should focus on clawing back Trump’s tariffs and ending the war with Iran.
Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, who flipped deep-red Kansas for Democrats, said Sunday that he hopes to prioritize lowering costs for his constituents in the next Congress and that he would be “deeply disappointed” to spend two years investigating members of the Trump administration.
“The bigger priority for me, and I think for most people in America, especially people living paycheck to paycheck, is ‘please help us with the cost of living,’” Hamilton told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Specifically, he said the new Congress should immediately focus on ending the war in Iran and “claw[ing] back tariffs policies.”
“If I spent the next two years — my first two years in the Senate — in investigations, I’d be deeply disappointed. I want to get to work helping the people in my state and helping the people across the country,” Hamilton said.
Fuck off with this naiive bullshit.
They need to focus on cost of living and improving the lives of the average American first and foremost.
Literally everything else is secondary and only possible if they do the first. This naiive we can do it all bullshit is why Democrats have repeatedly lost over the past several decades. It’s so fucking frustrating to watch people on the left learn literally zero lessons and keep pursuing secondary bullshit as if it’s a primary concern for anyone but themselves.
So fun fact, it would cost more money than the totality of all assets privately and publicly owned in the US to switch away from diesel overnight.
Also a fun fact, without export tariffs on domestic production of oil (which would cut off the US from the international oil trade) there is no possible way to lower the cost of living for the average American without removing Trump or completely neutering his ability to wage war. The Latter is much harder than the former.
Also a fun fact, unless the Iran war is stopped, there is no possible way to secure enough fertilizer to lower the cost of food in the US. Period. At all. There are no other sources of global fertilizer that could be secured.
Also a fun fact, without an executive branch that is willing to carry out the will of congress, nothing congress can do will ever have any effect. Meaning we need Trump and Trump related sycophants out of office before anything can be done for the cost of living or improving the lives of the average American.
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. When you’re bleeding out, stop the bleeding. Only then can you focus on healing. If you try to heal the damage done without stopping the cause of the damage you won’t get very far, chasing mess after mess.