US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Sithis]

@King Dead

Correct, was me. Trump did take time off on his trips, but also paired them frequently with meetings with politicians both foreign and domestic.

It wasn't about flaunting wealth though. They were almost universally paired with golf trips which were calming, with light exercise, and most importantly away from the camera.

They existed as a time and place for Trump to drop his persona and have serious discussions in a mutually relaxing setting.

I have to wonder if there was also some thought given to preventing unnecessary leaks from a porous white house staff who were all looking for a new book deal or 15 minutes on CNN at the time. Trump wasn't even able to eat two scoops of ice cream without it getting microanalyzed and a lot of his day to day shit was either fabricated entirely or actually leaked from some staffer in the White House. At his resorts etc he could be more assertive with his security and just had to worry about SS or other tagalong elements leaking things as opposed to an entire waitstaff comprised of people who got their position by sucking Michelle Obama's dick

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

This man is obviously a forceful and persuasive orator. So, no worries, guys- he’s got this!
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Really living up to those green goals, huh? After all of that virtue signaling about cLimATe eMErGenCY, he now has to sheepishly beg the saudis to boost production.

They tried to do too much to shift away from fossil fuels too fast/prematurely, and are now learning that green energy cannot, in fact, pick up the load when our needs and consumption are what they are.

Begging the saudis to produce more oil is anathema to their climate change stances, yet is somehow still preferable to restarting Keystone. Yes, restarting Keystone would do nothing to resolve the crisis in the short term, but I think the optics are what gets to them. Restarting Keystone would be a *huge* mea culpa that they were wrong, considering the autistic reeeee’ing they did against it for years- a 180 would look unbearably embarrassing, considering that we’re the ones being inconvenienced. And, as we all know, politicians can never admit to being wrong. In all likelihood, they probably think that going to the saudis like this makes them look “proactive” and totally not desperate to avoid further humiliation (that would typically come from having to do an about-face re: Keystone).

Watch them throttle production for funsies.

I know it shouldn't be surprising how out of touch and callow the Biden administration is but it's still kind of shocking to see the response to apocalyptic economic calamity be "buy less and stop complaining peasant."

It would be out of touch if it weren't on purpose.

And these are the compassionate progressive guys? I don't think I've ever heard a Republican tell their constituents to shut up and that famine is a good thing, maybe I missed on idk.

The new compassion is telling people they're evil and selfish if they do anything in their self interest.

just saw premium gas at 6.09 in California

I heard that's downright cheap compared to LA.

Motherfucker is nailing all the frame-perfect skips too.

Motherfucker is sequence breaking too.

 

[teriyakiburns]

just had to worry about SS

By all accounts the secret service were the last place he had to worry about leaks. They're generally less prone to leaks in any case, but they were particularly loyal to Trump for some reason. Probably because he treated them like people instead of props.

 

[General Disarray]

We're not going back from WFH. There's no way, with all the money they put into our highly secure stations and the closure of one call center that's now only a training site.

Our buses have not raised fares, but the freeway flyer system is crippled and not in service due to staffing shortages. Can't imagine the worker impact. These are the higher-fared systems that run from Park and Ride locations expressly on the freeways to connect the inner city and downtown to suburban jobs.

Our stupid light rail that's been free since it's inception (yay, a traveling homeless shelter!) sponsored by a casino it doesn't even run to (stops just short) and the cabbies jack up your fares to get those 10 extra blocks to said casino. It shut down for a while with the coof I suppose, but I never use it and don't care that it's open again. And still free!

Our mayor just fucked off to be an ambassador to Luxembourg, conveniently.

 

[Gehenna]

By all accounts the secret service were the last place he had to worry about leaks. They're generally less prone to leaks in any case, but they were particularly loyal to Trump for some reason. Probably because he treated them like people instead of props.

He treated them exactly like how he had always treated his employees. They are not friends or buddies, what they are is valuable employees doing their job. They are to be treated as such. And any mistreatment is to be punished quickly and soundly.

Don Jr. got a public shaming decades back when he misstepped. So Trump has always applied that rule equally.

 

[Post Reply]

I drove through a McDonalds today and my eyes just about bugged out of my skull seeing the prices on the menu. If they think I'm going to pay $9 for some highschooler to slap a Big Mac together and stuff it in a bag, they will have to think again. Even sundaes are $3, more than a half gallon of ice cream at the grocery store (even with inflation). Fucking nuts. If Trump held his infamous McDonalds feast today, it would probably run him $100k.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Gas is over 4 Dollars here.

It was under 2 Dollars a Year and 3 Months ago.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Isn't Tim and Eric supposed to be funny in a ha-ha type of way? The SOTU was funny in a sad and embarrassing type of way.

Tom Goes To the Mayor (their first show) was experimental clip art/photo manipulation cringe and misery porn comedy (the plot being that Tom is a well meaning fool who keeps bringing ideas to make the town better to the Mayor only to have the Mayor, a stock psychopathic manchild cliche, find ways to pervert Tom's ideas to cause chaos for the evilulz and to do financial, personal, and social harm to Tom because the Mayor is evil).

Tim and Eric's sketch show meanwhile was a bunch of random bullshit humor bits propped up by their patron, Bob Odenkirk (who launched Tim and Eric's career as a spiteful "enshrine mediocrity to ensure that you don't have to destroy shrines because they are already mediocre and ruined as a result" fuck you to Hollywood due to a combination of the stuff that happened behind the scenes making "Run Ronnie Run" and Odenkirk's deep seeded jealousy towards longtime creative partner David Cross, who at the time was at the height of his success as a comedian and actor riding off the anti-Bush wave and his critically acclaimed gig on Arrested Development) giving Tim and Eric access to his address book of all of Odenkirk's Hollywood friends and Bob personally getting them to do appearances on Tim and Eric's sketch show.

Tim and Eric's show was horrible, but appealed to Adult Swim management who got to be starfuckers due to T&E having access to people like Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, and others who would do their show (on a side note, the only sketches from Tim and Eric's sketch show that managed to go viral were Will Forte's various characters with fucked up childhoods, along with the fact that Will sported a mustache in his various sketches, as Will wasn't allowed to have one while he was on SNL and Tim/Eric generally filming all of his sketches for each season during the summer, when he was on hiatus and was allowed to grow one).

Fans despised Tim and Eric, but between the star fucking and Tim and Eric's shows in general being cheaply made compared to the original animation shows, we were stuck with them for ages and they eventually started branching out towards other creators who gave us abominations like Children's Hospital and the 24 parody show with Rob Riggle and the chick who played Amy on Doctor Who.

The only ones that were actually funny were the news magazine parody shows, which included Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and 24 fame doing a parody of Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes and the show where Mark McGrath parodied Entertainment Tonight.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Tom Goes To the Mayor (their first show) was experimental clip art/photo manipulation cringe and misery porn comedy (the plot being that Tom is a well meaning fool who keeps bringing ideas to make the town better to the Mayor only to have the Mayor, a stock psychopathic manchild cliche, find ways to pervert Tom's ideas to cause chaos for the evilulz and to do financial, personal, and social harm to Tom because the Mayor is evil).

Tim and Eric's sketch show meanwhile was a bunch of random bullshit humor bits propped up by their patron, Bob Odenkirk (who launched Tim and Eric's career as a spiteful "enshrine mediocrity to ensure that you don't have to destroy shrines because they are already mediocre and ruined as a result" fuck you to Hollywood due to a combination of the stuff that happened behind the scenes making "Run Ronnie Run" and Odenkirk's deep seeded jealousy towards longtime creative partner David Cross, who at the time was at the height of his success as a comedian and actor riding off the anti-Bush wave and his critically acclaimed gig on Arrested Development) giving Tim and Eric access to his address book of all of Odenkirk's Hollywood friends and Bob personally getting them to do appearances on Tim and Eric's sketch show.

Tim and Eric's show was horrible, but appealed to Adult Swim management who got to be starfuckers due to T&E having access to people like Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, and others who would do their show (on a side note, the only sketches from Tim and Eric's sketch show that managed to go viral were Will Forte's various characters with fucked up childhoods, along with the fact that Will sported a mustache in his various sketches, as Will wasn't allowed to have one while he was on SNL and Tim/Eric filming all of his sketches during the summer, when he was on hiatus and was allowed to grow one.

Fans despised Tim and Eric, but between the star fucking and Tim and Eric's shows in general being cheaply made compared to the original animation shows, we were stuck with them for ages and they eventually started branching out towards other creators who gave us abominations like Children's Hospital and the 24 parody show with Rob Riggle and the chick who played Amy on Doctor Who.

The only ones that were actually funny were the news magazine parody shows, which included Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and 24 fame doing a parody of Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes and the show where Mark McGrath parodied Entertainment Tonight.

Really want a puzzle piece sticker for this

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Tom Goes To the Mayor (their first show) was experimental clip art/photo manipulation cringe and misery porn comedy (the plot being that Tom is a well meaning fool who keeps bringing ideas to make the town better to the Mayor only to have the Mayor, a stock psychopathic manchild cliche, find ways to pervert Tom's ideas to cause chaos for the evilulz and to do financial, personal, and social harm to Tom because the Mayor is evil).

Tim and Eric's sketch show meanwhile was a bunch of random bullshit humor bits propped up by their patron, Bob Odenkirk (who launched Tim and Eric's career as a spiteful "enshrine mediocrity to ensure that you don't have to destroy shrines because they are already mediocre and ruined as a result" fuck you to Hollywood due to a combination of the stuff that happened behind the scenes making "Run Ronnie Run" and Odenkirk's deep seeded jealousy towards longtime creative partner David Cross, who at the time was at the height of his success as a comedian and actor riding off the anti-Bush wave and his critically acclaimed gig on Arrested Development) giving Tim and Eric access to his address book of all of Odenkirk's Hollywood friends and Bob personally getting them to do appearances on Tim and Eric's sketch show.

Tim and Eric's show was horrible, but appealed to Adult Swim management who got to be starfuckers due to T&E having access to people like Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, and others who would do their show (on a side note, the only sketches from Tim and Eric's sketch show that managed to go viral were Will Forte's various characters with fucked up childhoods, along with the fact that Will sported a mustache in his various sketches, as Will wasn't allowed to have one while he was on SNL and Tim/Eric generally filming all of his sketches for each season during the summer, when he was on hiatus and was allowed to grow one).

Fans despised Tim and Eric, but between the star fucking and Tim and Eric's shows in general being cheaply made compared to the original animation shows, we were stuck with them for ages and they eventually started branching out towards other creators who gave us abominations like Children's Hospital and the 24 parody show with Rob Riggle and the chick who played Amy on Doctor Who.

The only ones that were actually funny were the news magazine parody shows, which included Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and 24 fame doing a parody of Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes and the show where Mark McGrath parodied Entertainment Tonight.

The only thing I can remember from Tim and Eric is their promo for their season 3 DVD that aired in between Family Guy and Robot Chicken when I was a young'in.

Spoiler: WARNING: MAY GIVE YOU CANCER

 

[Beavis]

Oh boy, just saw premium gas at 6.09 in California, screw me silly and call me Sally. Are we seriously going for a repeat of the 70s?

We’ll be lucky if it only gets as bad as the 70s

 

[northstar747]

this was the only funny thing on tim and eric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXUd4Fku2E

I will give them respect for being able to copy older industrial looking videos, mostly cause they would buy older video gear to copy that look.

But their shit was never funny

Its almost a type of anti humor.

Oh wait I m in the biden thread....yeah gas be high yo.

 

[Cuckoman]

We’ll be lucky if it only gets as bad as the 70s

Exactly.
I hope people owning gas stations have foresight to order new signs that can display two digits for the dollar price of gas. It looks so amateurish and cheap if they end up just taping a piece of paper with a '1' on it on their signs.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Exactly.
I hope people owning gas stations have foresight to order new signs that can display two digits for the dollar price of gas. It looks so amateurish and cheap if they end up just taping a piece of paper with a '1' on it on their signs.

The owners of those who have electronic marquee signs shouldn't have to worry, in theory.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Tom Goes To the Mayor (their first show) was experimental clip art/photo manipulation cringe and misery porn comedy (the plot being that Tom is a well meaning fool who keeps bringing ideas to make the town better to the Mayor only to have the Mayor, a stock psychopathic manchild cliche, find ways to pervert Tom's ideas to cause chaos for the evilulz and to do financial, personal, and social harm to Tom because the Mayor is evil).

Tim and Eric's sketch show meanwhile was a bunch of random bullshit humor bits propped up by their patron, Bob Odenkirk (who launched Tim and Eric's career as a spiteful "enshrine mediocrity to ensure that you don't have to destroy shrines because they are already mediocre and ruined as a result" fuck you to Hollywood due to a combination of the stuff that happened behind the scenes making "Run Ronnie Run" and Odenkirk's deep seeded jealousy towards longtime creative partner David Cross, who at the time was at the height of his success as a comedian and actor riding off the anti-Bush wave and his critically acclaimed gig on Arrested Development) giving Tim and Eric access to his address book of all of Odenkirk's Hollywood friends and Bob personally getting them to do appearances on Tim and Eric's sketch show.

Tim and Eric's show was horrible, but appealed to Adult Swim management who got to be starfuckers due to T&E having access to people like Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, and others who would do their show (on a side note, the only sketches from Tim and Eric's sketch show that managed to go viral were Will Forte's various characters with fucked up childhoods, along with the fact that Will sported a mustache in his various sketches, as Will wasn't allowed to have one while he was on SNL and Tim/Eric generally filming all of his sketches for each season during the summer, when he was on hiatus and was allowed to grow one).

Fans despised Tim and Eric, but between the star fucking and Tim and Eric's shows in general being cheaply made compared to the original animation shows, we were stuck with them for ages and they eventually started branching out towards other creators who gave us abominations like Children's Hospital and the 24 parody show with Rob Riggle and the chick who played Amy on Doctor Who.

The only ones that were actually funny were the news magazine parody shows, which included Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and 24 fame doing a parody of Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes and the show where Mark McGrath parodied Entertainment Tonight.

Thanks for this. I never understood what the fuck that shit was about other than Lowtax-style monkeycheese bullshit.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

I can't wait for gas prices to get so high that Amazon has to stop free shipping because they're eating too much loss on transport.

i can't imagine being a delivery driver in today's economy. it was sweet when gas was under $2 because that meant the hourly and delivery fee would cover it. but at $5 you won't be able to make it work.

 

[Cubanodun]

They're resorting to begging Venezuela for cheap crude oil now. Sure, even Fox will try to spin it as a 1000 IQ move to split Maduro's regime from Russia, but when we have the same administration begging Saudi Arabia to drill more, it's clear that he and his handlers are so shit-scared of getting scorned by some autistic vegan teenager that they'll source oil from literally anywhere else.

I love the environment. I moved to an area where we have to power-wash moss off of the sidewalk this time of year, it's so green. But damn do I fucking HATE the stranglehold environmentalists have over the Democrat party.

well i for one welcome back capitalism

 

[tehpope]

Tom Goes To the Mayor (their first show) was experimental clip art/photo manipulation cringe and misery porn comedy (the plot being that Tom is a well meaning fool who keeps bringing ideas to make the town better to the Mayor only to have the Mayor, a stock psychopathic manchild cliche, find ways to pervert Tom's ideas to cause chaos for the evilulz and to do financial, personal, and social harm to Tom because the Mayor is evil).

Tim and Eric's sketch show meanwhile was a bunch of random bullshit humor bits propped up by their patron, Bob Odenkirk (who launched Tim and Eric's career as a spiteful "enshrine mediocrity to ensure that you don't have to destroy shrines because they are already mediocre and ruined as a result" fuck you to Hollywood due to a combination of the stuff that happened behind the scenes making "Run Ronnie Run" and Odenkirk's deep seeded jealousy towards longtime creative partner David Cross, who at the time was at the height of his success as a comedian and actor riding off the anti-Bush wave and his critically acclaimed gig on Arrested Development) giving Tim and Eric access to his address book of all of Odenkirk's Hollywood friends and Bob personally getting them to do appearances on Tim and Eric's sketch show.

Tim and Eric's show was horrible, but appealed to Adult Swim management who got to be starfuckers due to T&E having access to people like Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, and others who would do their show (on a side note, the only sketches from Tim and Eric's sketch show that managed to go viral were Will Forte's various characters with fucked up childhoods, along with the fact that Will sported a mustache in his various sketches, as Will wasn't allowed to have one while he was on SNL and Tim/Eric generally filming all of his sketches for each season during the summer, when he was on hiatus and was allowed to grow one).

Fans despised Tim and Eric, but between the star fucking and Tim and Eric's shows in general being cheaply made compared to the original animation shows, we were stuck with them for ages and they eventually started branching out towards other creators who gave us abominations like Children's Hospital and the 24 parody show with Rob Riggle and the chick who played Amy on Doctor Who.

The only ones that were actually funny were the news magazine parody shows, which included Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and 24 fame doing a parody of Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes and the show where Mark McGrath parodied Entertainment Tonight.

So Odenkirk is the reason why MDE World Peace got cancelled. Wow.

The only good thing Tim and Eric have done is bring The Room to the masses by having Adult Swim show it on April Fools Day.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Oh boy, just saw premium gas at 6.09 in California, screw me silly and call me Sally. Are we seriously going for a repeat of the 70s?

It's so over.

 

[pwnest injun]

So Odenkirk is the reason why MDE World Peace got cancelled. Wow.

The only good thing Tim and Eric have done is bring The Room to the masses by having Adult Swim show it on April Fools Day.

Not directly. Odekirk just got Heidecker in the door. Sort of like Obama and Joe Biden, okay now that I think about it, fuck Bob Odekirk for that.