righteous rant of the day, about the financial emergency, is by a republican.

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former congressman Charlie Dent, republican from Pennsylvania. transcript below. starting at 8:17 on video linked below

"What is so dispiriting about this whole situation is that it just seems the president has declared this, this preemptive trade war against our partners and allies. On what planet does anyone think that declaring a trade war with Canada and Mexico, our key North American partners, and with the European Union which invest heavily into the United states, why do we think we won't be hurt by this?

And then to accuse everybody in the world of being a bunch of rip off artists or stealing from us? When the farmer in Nebraska buys potash from Canada, they're doing it voluntarily and for a good reason. Then that farmer from Nebraska sells his corn to Mexicans who are buying it for good reason. Nobody's stealing from anybody here.

And the President keeps saying this. It's Crazy. Why are we fighting with the South Koreans and the Japanese and the Australians? We need these people. They've been good partners. And we are..we're just basically liberating ourselves from our allies, our partners and lower prices. So I just like, I just want to throw my hands in the air and say, this is so unnecessary and so self-destructive."