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

 

[Meat Target]

One thing that's struck me is how the age vs. approval curve has completely reversed from what it was under Obama. Is it because old people have fallen for Biden's barely-disguised centrist facade and aren't paying attention to the radical agenda his administration is pushing? Do they have some degree of sympathy or identification with his declining health? Maybe they hate their grandchildren and want to leave a hollowed-out wasteland as an inheritance? Who knows. I'd also like to see a breakdown of the younger voters and figure out how many of them are just mad that Biden isn't paying off their college debt.

Obama had the Handsome Young Chad energy going on. Biden is just another doddering old ballsack politician, and has so far been a shitty reboot of Carter and Dubya.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Obama had the Handsome Young Chad energy going on. Biden is just another doddering old ballsack politician, and has so far been a shitty reboot of Carter and Dubya.

Carter was genuinely affable, despite his screwups, and Dubya at least had the excuse of two of our major landmarks actually getting blown up by terrorists. Brandon has NOTHING going for him.

 

[Potatoherder]

So this confirms he thinks the swing back is happening. Be interesting to see what other big names come out and endorse republicans. Also be interesting to see who goes down with the ship.

https://nitter.42l.fr/elonmusk/status/1527843657214218246#m

 

[Gehenna]

So this confirms he thinks the swing back is happening. Be interesting to see what other big names come out and endorse republicans. Also be interesting to see who goes down with the ship.
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He and anyone who does politics as a living. Including the Democrats who now have gone all in and are hoping to just push a little bit harder on the pendulum to try to keep it in place. This will end badly.

 

[Randall Fragg]

They are going to make this planet uninhabitable aren't they?

That's always been The Plan for these sociopaths. Strip mine the biosphere and then rocket off into space/into the bunkers to leave all the peasants to die.

 

[Gehenna]

In other news, Pelosi was refused communion due to abortion. About fucking time.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

That's always been The Plan for these sociopaths. Strip mine the biosphere and then rocket off into space/into the bunkers to leave all the peasants to die.

Remember, when it comes to bunkers:

Over, around, under, or through.

You don't have to cut through the heavy duty door.

Most bunkers cheap-shot on the walls starting about 20 feet back.

Most bunker door frames cheap it on the framing material and the bolts.

And a good IR scanner can find the outbound vents. You know, for the generators. :-)

Read up on the problems with the British, German, French, and American fallout bunker systems and the silo bunker systems to see all kinds of weaknesses that can be handwaved around when you have stable power and it's mostly on standby.

They aren't as secure as these dipshits think they are.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Remember, when it comes to bunkers:

Over, around, under, or through.

You don't have to cut through the heavy duty door.

Most bunkers cheap-shot on the walls starting about 20 feet back.

Most bunker door frames cheap it on the framing material and the bolts.

And a good IR scanner can find the outbound vents. You know, for the generators. :-)

Read up on the problems with the British, German, French, and American fallout bunker systems and the silo bunker systems to see all kinds of weaknesses that can be handwaved around when you have stable power and it's mostly on standby.

They aren't as secure as these dipshits think they are.

Thank you, Johnny-sensei. I will remember your words as I kamikaze myself with forty pounds of explosives into George Clooney's bunker.

 

[XYZpdq]

Zack snyder version was better then the comics
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I understand how the punchline is supposed to be "some stupid comics shit like a giant squid because lol comics are stupid please buy my next comics" but yeah, the movie framing Doc made a lot more sense and really fuck all that pirate shit

 

[Sithis]

Thank you, Johnny-sensei. I will remember your words as I kamikaze myself with forty pounds of explosives into George Clooney's bunker.

Tbh there's no need to risk Wylie coyote-ing yourself. Thermite is very easy to make and very stable. A few pounds of that will melt through cast iron, steel, flesh, pretty much whatever you want it to. How you handle it from the giant smoldering hole in the metal wall is up to you but it at least prevents the same level of structural damage so you have a shiny new bunker on your Minecraft save, just patch up the hole.

 

[Screamer]

One thing that's struck me is how the age vs. approval curve has completely reversed from what it was under Obama. Is it because old people have fallen for Biden's barely-disguised centrist facade and aren't paying attention to the radical agenda his administration is pushing? Do they have some degree of sympathy or identification with his declining health? Maybe they hate their grandchildren and want to leave a hollowed-out wasteland as an inheritance? Who knows. I'd also like to see a breakdown of the younger voters and figure out how many of them are just mad that Biden isn't paying off their college debt.

A lot of people don't follow politics closely.

They were bombarded with Orange man is bad constantly. Then after the election when the media went silent on the Administration. They all went, "it's so good to not have to constantly hear about Trump and politics." Not realising they are being manipulated in a different way.

They probably still hear more about Trump than anything Biden or his administration is doing.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

A lot of people don't follow politics closely.

They were bombarded with Orange man is bad constantly. Then after the election when the media went silent on the Administration. They all went, "it's so good to not have to constantly hear about Trump and politics." Not realising they are being manipulated in a different way.

They probably still hear more about Trump than anything Biden or his administration is doing.

Yeah, the 65+ being the cable news demographic probably explains a lot of it. I also think that them being largely out of the workforce is a big part of it. Anyone who is working right now, regardless of their income or industry, is feeling the pain. The cost of commuting is way up, inflation is essentially acting as a workforce-wide pay cut, stock investments are getting killed, supply chain issues are still rampant which means a lot of businesses just can't even operate at their optimal capacity. About the only thing that hasn't happened yet are large-scale layoffs, but if things keep going this way, that might be next on the list. If you're retired, you're largely shielded from these issues, although even safe retirement portfolios have to be feeling the squeeze from the dip in bond prices.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Yeah, the 65+ being the cable news demographic probably explains a lot of it. I also think that them being largely out of the workforce is a big part of it. Anyone who is working right now, regardless of their income or industry, is feeling the pain. The cost of commuting is way up, inflation is essentially acting as a workforce-wide pay cut, stock investments are getting killed, supply chain issues are still rampant which means a lot of businesses just can't even operate at their optimal capacity. About the only thing that hasn't happened yet are large-scale layoffs, but if things keep going this way, that might be next on the list. If you're retired, you're largely shielded from these issues, although even safe retirement portfolios have to be feeling the squeeze from the dip in bond prices.

Quite possibly the most legit problem businesses have created long-term for themselves is making it so that people have to drive to get to work on time. Had they restricted their employment to proximity to living space decades ago (like 5 minutes from work by foot), people wouldn't be so eager for WFH.

Now? Their solution to switch to electric is pants-on-head retarded at solving this problem.

@Jet Fuel Johnny So that's what Hermann meant by the Withstandinator. It's meant to withstand a six megaton blast, no more, no less.

 

[Tinfoil]

The idea of faking an alien invasion always sounded silly to me since it's nearly impossible to make it convincing enough,

Don't be so sure. UAE was able to project a fake moon in the sky for a promotional stunt


But at the same time you wonder if the recent UFO releases from the US government is preparation for a larger reveal.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Don't be so sure. UAE was able to project a fake moon in the sky for a promotional stunt
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But at the same time you wonder if the recent UFO releases from the US government is preparation for a larger reveal.
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That's no hologram, the UAE built their own Death Star.

 

[ZMOT]

Why? Is it literally just because everything from their rent to their food is provided through welfare/section 8/food stamps/various social programs and since they never have to buy anything they don't notice the terrible economy and inflation?

jokes on them, no money for all those gibs in weimar america. there's a reason hard times make hard men, no one got time or energy to listen to "white guilt", pronouns or other stupid shit.

there's also a good chance the more shit everything becomes someone will call all that out very publicly. if you go down might as well go all out and call them all stupid to their face.

Still smells like a classless cash grab. As much as there are things to not like about Alan Moore, Watchmen was one of the few comics DC printed that was about artistic integrity instead of just commercialism. I couldn't think of anything more banal than, "Let's take Watchmen and do a Crisis on Infinite Earths type crossover with all our top selling characters!" Like holy shit that misses the point of Watchmen entirely. Might as well do Spiderman teams up with Preacher next to save President Biden or some other idiotic shit. Anyways, the leadership that decided this was a good idea ran DC Comics out of business so I have nothing to prove on that. lol

I think it's more down to everything now belonging to DC or marvel, and some beancounter going "hey, we own that, why not write a crossover to push our own stuff?". similar how wildstorm is now part of DC and it's universe now part of their multiverse.

Tbh there's no need to risk Wylie coyote-ing yourself. Thermite is very easy to make and very stable. A few pounds of that will melt through cast iron, steel, flesh, pretty much whatever you want it to. How you handle it from the giant smoldering hole in the metal wall is up to you but it at least prevents the same level of structural damage so you have a shiny new bunker on your Minecraft save, just patch up the hole.

why bother, in the worst case all you need is a dirty rag shoved into their ventilation. a bunker is like a middle-age castle without it's own well. if you know it's weak point (like fresh water, air, etc.) it's easy to crack that nut without much force.

 

[Garm]

This is actually true. The entire movie was priming everyone to be terrified of Doctor Manhattan in particular and Superheroes in general. Doc accepts that he will be a pariah to Humanity to unify it. That is more heroic than what happens in Moore's comic.

The "alien" in the comics also sent out psychic shockwaves that would bother "psychics" for years to come. Adrian was worried that humanity would eventually shrug its collective shoulders after everyone got desensitized to the alien invasion being used to justify all his remaking of society.

I didn't watch the movie because I figured they'd botched it but I'll go queue it up.

In other news, Pelosi was refused communion due to abortion. About fucking time.

I don't know if it would be better if she hissed at the priest for being ruining the charade or throwing her hands up in exasperation.

 

[MirrorNoir]

You bring up an interesting point. When did this whole meme of "the 1950s we're the worst time period ever" start? In previous media, it's been portrayed pretty positively.

There is no exact date, but it was starting to show up in the 1970s and 1980s; basically people in academia and the media started pushing the lie that America was a cesspool of repression, conformity and barely concealed anymore thanks to TV hotbed of racism and political persecution of anyone deemed a "communist" along with heaping helpings of crapping on the ideal 50s atomic family as a shrill shrieking lie. Basically trying to rewrite history to justify the Sexual Revolution/Hippie movement of the late 1960s.

By the 1990s, it was in full swing bashing the 1950s though it wasn't until around 1998 that you had films like Disturbing Behavior, The Truman Show, and Pleasantville mocking and perverting the 1950s "utopia".

But a lot of the push came from people in the entertainment business who grew up late stage boomers or early Gen X who grew up in broken homes and who held deep seeded resentment for the 1950s utopian vision, especially after conservatives coopted the concept and cynicism came into vogue to mock it and it's media representation the way we mock Reefer Madness.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

The idea of faking an alien invasion always sounded silly to me since it's nearly impossible to make it convincing enough, besides there aren't too many reasons as to why any true and honest alien species would invade Earth, if they want reasources they can find billions of asteroids or small rocky planets that have thousands of times more resources than Earth.
Unless they're space jihadis or like the Combine from Half-Life then they don't need any practical reason to invade and we'd be fucked.

That was always my problem with the end of Watchmen too.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

the movie framing Doc made a lot more sense and really fuck all that pirate shit

No it doesn't. Why would other countries join hands in peace because an American super weapon blew up New York? If anything, the CCCP and it's allies would nuke the shit out of America to try and take out Manhattan, and ramp up their own superhuman weapons program. At least with a (fake) alien attack, the Cold War looks stupid when all of humanity is in the firing line. The Snyder version just proves the Russian's were right to fear Jon.