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Bulwark Takes

Your Tax Dollars Are Funding the DUMBEST Bailout Ever!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller takes on the stupidest policy yet as Senate Majority Leader John Thune defends taking the revenue from tariffs to give to farmers who have been heavily affected by the tariffs themselves.

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0:00.0

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0:24.4

Press this morning. You don't see much of John Thune these days. You might not even realize.

0:28.7

He's actually the Senate majority leader. We were told, people said, people told me that John

0:34.3

Thune, you know, was a responsible Republican, an old school, traditional

0:39.5

Republican.

0:41.0

And it's a good sign that he's going to be a majority leader.

0:43.8

You know, you wouldn't want a crazy person there, like Mike Lee or Ted Cruz or something.

0:48.7

You want somebody with a steady hand on the tiller in case Trump goes a little nuts.

0:54.0

Well, we have a ghost hand on the tiller right now. There's no hand. John Thune isn't doing anything. He's doing whatever Donald Trump wants. Like, he might as well not exist. I mean, if, frankly, if, I'm probably not Mike Lee, but I don't know. like if cat turd or Candice Owens were in there

1:12.2

like at least Candace Owens so you wonder about Candace Owens at least she has an ethos like she's got some

1:16.6

views on things anti-Semitic views on some things not very pro-Israel views let's just say

1:23.1

and she's got some other crazy you you know, dick checking random world leaders.

1:29.3

But if Candace was in there as majority leader, she would at least at times be like,

1:32.8

no, Trump, I don't want to go along with this.

1:35.6

So at some ways, she would at least be an independent spirit checking Donald Trump's

1:40.6

excesses.

1:42.1

Not John Thune.

1:43.2

He's not checking anything.

1:45.2

He's just on board.

1:47.5

No matter how stupid the policy is, no matter how harmful, how cruel, how anti-rule

1:52.3

of law, anti-constitutional, how anti-conservative principles it is, John Thune is there.

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