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

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Lies. The last great American black man, Michael motherfuckin' Jordan, dropped out of the NBA to waste everyone's time playing baseball.
For that alone 94 gets sent with 92 & 95.

Spoiler: True, but counterpoint

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Spoiler: True, but counterpoint

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Another counter:

Spoiler

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Spoiler: True, but counterpoint

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Fuck, another thing that has declined since the 90s: Rap. When people like the aforementioned Nas, Biggie, and Tupac were the rule, and not the exception in a sea of "SLAT, SLAT, SLAT, SLAT" and "THEY TRYNA BE CRATE"

 

[CarlosDanger]

Lauren Boebert claims victory.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

i think the next step after Trump is desantis, the left are trying to make them fight to cause more division in the GOP but it seems both Trump and desantis have agreed to their roles, Trump makes a last stretch to try and win in 2024 and desantis runs after that inheriting Trumps support

yeah there's a clear path ahead of Trump in 24, Deathsantis in 28 after a stint as Secretary Of State or some shits

 

[rotten apple]

People are living paycheck to paycheck. People cannot afford GAS. People are struggling to FEED THEIR FAMILIES because of Biden-caused inflation, and the House and the Senate are worried about LEGALIZING GAY MARRIAGE, likely in retaliation just because Roe got overturned and they're "worried" about "turning back the clock".

I mean even a bunch of GOP members voted to keep gay marriage legal, too. I have ZERO doubt that the societal acceptance of homosexuality and the SCOTUS decision where gay marriage was made legal has led to things like troons, grooming, gay porn in school libraries, and child drag queens. I mean it's really time to remove "Slippery Slope" from the category of logical fallacies. To add insult to injury, the GOP is supposedly the right wing conservative party in the US. I'm a registered Republican IRL and have very Rightist views on things, but what exactly have the "conservatives" in American government "conserved" this past half century? Believe me, no one is more irritated with the GOP than Republican voters.

Absolutely unreal.

Democracy is just a platitude. It was never about people getting what they want. That enough people can be made to want cheap and quick societal changes over fundamental fixes is a clue to the nature of the beast. That is if you are in the position to get people to want something and you are the only person who can offer it to them then you rule them. It is further enhanced should the opposition have to shoot their own foot to provide the same.

As for the slippery slope, it is because as something becomes normalized it is no longer is effective at provoking the same reaction. So in essence they needed to find a new carrot and stick routine. Something more to get people to vote for and to provoke overreactions to punish. Which of course they only want going in one direction.

Republicans have a systemic herd of cats issues. They are at best "not democrat" and have little to align their interest other than what new cause is used to accost them. While democrats can utilize the media and education system to define what current and future battles will center around. It is also difficult to conserve anything when your peers are all too willing to snuff you with a pillow because of a "cringe" issue that is believed to prevent them from winning. Look to the first paragraph to define what is now cringe.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Welcome to like the 1990s after Bush directly lied about raising Taxes.

And lets not forget NAFTA and the joy brought in by that.

We've been getting fucked for a long time.

 

[The Last Stand]

Republicans have a systemic herd of cats issues. They are at best "not democrat" and have little to align their interest other than what new cause is used to accost them. While democrats can utilize the media and education system to define what current and future battles will center around. It is also difficult to conserve anything when your peers are all too willing to snuff you with a pillow because of a "cringe" issue that is believed to prevent them from winning. Look to the first paragraph to define what is now cringe.

If anything, they prove that being against the other guy is not good enough.

 

[Random Internet Person]

yeah there's a clear path ahead of Trump in 24, Deathsantis in 28 after a stint as Secretary Of State or some shits

Is any of that dependent on Trump winning?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Is any of that dependent on Trump winning?

well yeah there's obviously some rainbows there, but certainly no more than Desatan in 24

 

[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

Federal judge slammed on Twitter for striking down DeSantis' anti-woke legislation: 'Dumber than dirt'

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker was slammed on Twitter after he struck down Florida's anti-woke law by appearing to imitate liberal catchphrases.

www.foxnews.com

A federal judge struck down the Florida Stop Woke law

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida blasted the "Individual Freedom Act," originally called the "Stop WOKE" Act, calling it "positively dystopian."

"The law officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints," Walker wrote in a Thursday order. "Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy "academic freedom" so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian."

In his order, Walker also referred to teachers in classrooms as "priests of democracy" and warned that if they are not allowed to "shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness," appearing to imitate the Washington Post’s tagline popularized during the Trump administration.

The law was signed into law in April by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, in which the governor said the purpose of the bill was to stop the far-left woke agenda from taking over schools and places of employment.

The law aims to prohibit entities from imposing "a condition of employment, membership, certification, licensing, credentialing, or passing an examination" on anything that promotes the idea that members of one race, color, sex, or national origin are morally superior to any other; are inherently racist because of their race, color, sex, or national origin; that one's status as privileged or being an oppressor is dictated by such characteristics.

It's pretty typical of DeSantis' theatrics at this point. Everything he does gets overturned by a judge after he puts on a big show about how Florida is definitely saved this time.

I think the only reason "Don't Say Gay" is still around is because the State actually does indisputably have the authority to set school curriculum and that's a lesson ol' Blunderbuss needs to learn.

 

[derpherp2]

I must have REALLY underestimated the threat MAGA posed to Mitch’s Senate kingdom.

I mean even with all of this Pelosi got fucked over, so the dumb Bitch is right to be scared.
Also MAGA is the dregs of a lot of Old Internet shit, the non-redneck detachable part anyways.
And we all know how scared the boomers are of hackers on steroids. Or even just redneck boomers.

For all their power they're really easy to scare, just take a dump in their office.

"We've always been at war with TikTok."

Immediately after exploiting TikTok clout for zoomer votes.
Knowing zoomers they won't learn their fucking lesson though.

Also something something BTS.

 

[Ita Mori]

Interesting if true.
I can't see Muhammad and Abraham paying up though.

 

[quaawaa]

Federal judge slammed on Twitter for striking down DeSantis' anti-woke legislation: 'Dumber than dirt'

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker was slammed on Twitter after he struck down Florida's anti-woke law by appearing to imitate liberal catchphrases.

www.foxnews.com

A federal judge struck down the Florida Stop Woke law



It's pretty typical of DeSantis' theatrics at this point. Everything he does gets overturned by a judge after he puts on a big show about how Florida is definitely saved this time.

I think the only reason "Don't Say Gay" is still around is because the State actually does indisputably have the authority to set school curriculum and that's a lesson ol' Blunderbuss needs to learn.

If that law is unconstitutional then so is the entire Civil Rights Act. The judge is no Goldwater and this ruling is pure politics and emotion as shown by the judge quoting leftist orthodoxy.

I doubt that he’d rule in favor of an employer who forced all of their black employees to apologize for being criminals and making White employees feel unsafe, but that’s literally what he did here with the races and grievances swapped.

The Florida law also doesn’t compel speech, but rather it bans the compelling of speech. The key part is the “as a condition of…” phrase.

 

[CapricornusRex]

If anything, they prove that being against the other guy is not good enough.

In a normal situation it probably would be, but it's hard to be the other guy when the ones who rule have also had full control of the media telling the plebs how evil you are. There are people in this country who still believe Republicans are going to take away welfare and food stamps, even though I cannot remember the last time a Republican even mentioned either of those.

 

[Lodoss Warrior]

Guys, watch out for P2K (Page 2K). I hear it'll trigger a data-formatting overload in the Farms' internal clock and crash the entire website for good.

Prep up and archive any and all posts on this thread while you can.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

In general, the current Republicans are more comfortable being the opposition party than they are actually governing. It's a long-standing problem. The thing about being an opposition party is that it's harder to enforce party discipline and put forth a unified platform with concrete plans, because the only requirement for members of an opposition party is to be oppositional, so many of them choose stupid and counterproductive ways of expressing their opposition to Dem politicians and policies. Lots of them get sidetracked into wasting time and energy on partially or totally irrelevant cultural issues, when the truly important thing and the one things they should focus on is, first, seizing political power, and second, wielding that political power to reward their friends and punish their enemies. All else follows from those two things. Dems don't make that mistake, at least not to the same degree. They're all about rewarding their friends, and they're all about punishing their enemies. The closest Republicans come is tax cuts and subsidies to corporate donors and the Chamber of Commerce. Dems are very very comfortable wielding the apparatus of governmental against their political opponents. Republicans let themselves be bound by concerns of political norms and precedents and legality. The Dems don't acknowledge that any of those things are valid and binding if they get in the way of their pursuit of policies and power to their own benefit and their enemies' detriment.

TLDR, something something Prisoners' Dilemma. If the Republican party doesn't learn to start responding to Democratic power plays in like fashion, they're going to be doomed to always be the opposition as they dwindle into irrelevance and the Dems accelerate their plans to remake the landscape of America culturally, politically, legally, and economically and any and all objections they make are swept away or ignored. The current Republican party needs to die so that a political party comfortable with winning and governing can rise. The biggest problem with that is that both the Democratic and Republican parties would desperately try to smother any genuine right-wing party in the cradle. They're both invested in the two-party system and they're terrified of genuine populism and nationalism. And they're right to be, it threatens their political power and their economic dominance as well as threatens them on a personal level.

 

[ZMOT]

An easy-to-digest QRD on the loan forgiveness and why it's stupid.
Timestamped for most relevant bit but the whole video is worth a watch.

why is biden signaling white power?

 

[WonderWino]

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Interesting if true.
I can't see Muhammad and Abraham paying up though.

Doesn't sound constitutional. That would be the government literally telling a religious organization how it has to practice religion or cease to be legally considered one per the rights specifically granted to religions

IRS would end up provoking federal lawsuits real quick

 

[Random Internet Person]

Doesn't sound constitutional. That would be the government literally telling a religious organization how it has to practice religion or cease to be legally considered one per the rights specifically granted to religions

IRS would end up provoking federal lawsuits real quick

And now the Democrats move to get Clarence Thomas to death or early retirement. Just like Scalia.