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

 

[dustbuster]

I have to disagree with this. IDEs are a useful tool, but they can't make you an even remotely competent developer. They do a lot less than people seem to believe.

I fucking hate IDE's.
You get to spend ages setting them up that you could have spent coding.

 

[ShitLurker]

I have to disagree with this. IDEs are a useful tool, but they can't make you an even remotely competent developer. They do a lot less than people seem to believe.

Maybe I just have a very low opinion of myself, but delete Visual Studio from my work setup and force me to run a compiler manually every time I wish to compile and I'm pretty sure I'd be fucked. Add on top not having access to search engines and I'm doubly fucked. I can only imagine how somebody going into the profession now would be absolutely directionless if they did most of their work with the "AI" tools that are starting to come out of the woodwork to speed up code and test setups.

I mean, I know fuck all about memory management and have never needed it (and I'm sure if done "manually" it could be so much more efficient for your specific scenario), and if I had worked on shittier companies, I might not even be able to do proper SQL since Entity Framework lets you do DB interactions in a much comfier format, lets ignore how horribly inefficient it can be. There is a reason why it seems that so much stuff that was a given seems like a lost art, like proper file compression for example. The competency crisis is very real and it's extra visible in software development since it's so easy to work over abstractions.

I do consider myself "midwit" level when it comes to being a software dev, so take that as you will.

I fucking hate IDE's.
You get to spend ages setting them up that you could have spent coding.

Once set up, they are very convenient, but it's undeniable that you miss out on a lot of the picture if you aren't the type that wishes to know what happens inside the black box.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Don’t forget having Seth Rich murdered

I mean, that goes without saying. ClintonBodyCount exists for a reason

 

[mandatorylurk]

Loyalty Matters.

 

[John.Doe]

Granting this is not a good sign.

They should have let it do the standard route and come to them in time and the fact they want to tackle it now bodes problems.

The same court just a couple years ago ruled unanimously that Smith had acted unethically.

This circus has become an "inception" level recursive violation of civil rights at every level.
It's possible Thomas has finally swayed the center right establishmentarians on this.

We'll know soon enough, but a ruling in Smith's favor effectively places the executive in control of career DOJ bureaucrats rather than the elected president. They can puppet the white house with threats of post-term convictions.

Unfortunately its one of the two options, I don't think there is a middle ground. Either the President is immune from all prosecution from acts while in office (unless impeached and convicted) or he isn't, if the Supreme were to try to quibble and say immunity only applies to some acts then immunity doesn't functionally apply and the entire Presidency is crippled by the threat of long term prosecution. Questions about what acts are Presidential versus not Presidential are so fine and minute that investigations into a President's motives are improper, as Nixon v. Fitzgerald the SC said:

.....an inquiry into the President's motives could not be avoided under the kind of "functional" theory asserted both by respondent and the dissent. Inquiries of this kind could be highly intrusive.
Here, respondent argues that petitioner Nixon would have acted outside the outer perimeter of his duties by [doing something not allowed by law]
This construction would subject the President to trial on virtually every allegation that an action was unlawful, or was taken for a forbidden purpose. Adoption of this construction thus would deprive absolute immunity of its intended effect....

So this should be a relatively clear cut issue.

Now the problem is that most of the Supremes are combination of cowards, institutionalists, or find Trump disdainful. So you'd have to hope that they can see past their dislike of Trump and their desire to go to DC cocktail parties and rule in favor of immunity. On the other paw, the SC does have a relatively easy out that may short circuit some of their sense of responsibility and let them shift blame. That is the impeachments - Trump's team has a very powerful, simple argument; The Constitution says that unless impeached and convicted a President is not subject to criminal prosecution for acts while in office. If the Supreme Court agrees, it can solve a ton of problems for them in one fell swoop.

1) They can basically foist all the blame over to the past political party, by saying "They didn't impeach, so we can't do anything, do better next time!"
2) It gives an easy bright line rule that will forestall a lot of thorny legal issues and terrible questions later.
3) It would immediately dumpster all the ongoing criminal actions that are creating a circus-like and 'undignified' atmosphere which is harming the image of the court (and for their DC friends, ending the trials steals away some of Trump's free PR!).

Give me some rainbows, but it might be possible this can be a good sign. Or not, in that case, pray for deliverance from an age of evil.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/qGIIN

 

[tehpope]

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs demands $512M reimbursement from Biden in scathing letter accusing him of failure to secure southern border​

https://archive.li/QdtOh#comments

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12844867/Arizona-Katie-Hobbs-border-Lukeville-Biden.html

Here is the next one on the investigation block for FBI and DOJ lol

I wonder if the feds will spill the beans that Katie Hobbs' election wasn't above board. If they do, they'll have to note that federal elections are 100% true secure. Even though they use the same machines from the same companies for all elections.

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How long until they post the real inflation rate after the news cycle happens? Just like with the job reports month after month.

 

[The Nothingness]

Dumbass showed his power level.

A man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Vivek Ramaswamy and his supporters at an event on Monday, according to newly released court records.

The suspect, 30-year-old Tyler Anderson, was first reported to police by the Republican presidential hopeful’s staff last week after he allegedly responded to one of the campaign’s texts about an upcoming campaign event.

"We are grateful to law enforcement for their swiftness and professionalism in handling this matter and pray for the safety of all Americans," Ramaswamy campaign spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement shared with The Independent.

Mr Ramaswamy was not identified specifically in the complaint, but details match up with the event held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Monday morning. His campaign also confirmed he was the target of the threat.

Per ABC, Mr Anderson also allegedly referred to him in a response to a text invitation to the event, writing: "Great, another opportunity for me to blow [Ramaswamy's] brains out.”

"I'm going to kill everyone who attends and then f*** their corpses," a second message said, according to screenshots included in the complaint.

The text messages, which had been deleted, were found after law enforcement seized Mr Anderson’s phone during a search of his home on Saturday.

Ms McLaughlin’s statement continued: “We’re going to let the investigators do their work and figure out who this person is and what their motives might be.

“I will however say this: we constantly hear about January 6 and ‘violence’ and ‘extremism on the right’ from the media, but the same media goes silent when the target is a Republican. Deranged voices and left-wing cranks... continue to demonize Republicans and question our loyalty to the country.

“It’s no wonder that fanatics will take action. Whenever it’s some nut with alleged right-wing views, the media is quick to blame all conservatives for stoking violence.

“And yet the media never looks in the mirror and sees that they stoke hatred and violence by questioning our patriotism and motives and accusing us of undermining democracy.”

Mr Anderson also sent threatening messages to another candidate on Wednesday, the search of his phone found, according to the complaint. Part of those messages included “hope you have the stamina for a mass shooting!” ABC reported.

It is unclear who the second candidate was.

Mr Anderson was due to make his first appearance in federal court on Monday afternoon.

Asked by ABC News last week on the trail if he was concerned for his safety, Mr Ramaswamy, who says he will abolish the FBI among other federal agencies and fire at least half of all federal workers if elected, said, "I have not certainly brought that up as a concern."

When asked then if threats had been made on his life, Mr Ramaswamy told the outlet, "We don't take anything for granted, but I'm confident that the team around us and our family is on this journey together. And I'm praying for our family and our country."

https://www.the-independent.com/new...aswamy-arrest-assassination-gop-b2462269.html
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Memology 101 just posted an 18 minute video on the latest border issue in AZ. 95% 18-34 males. A lot from Africa.

Lock up the border. Line it with land mines. Have border patrol shoot to kill.
Why does America have to be the dumping ground for the world? Why can't we make these other countries better? Why does the CIA HAVE to turn them into shitholes?
I honestly feel like whoever decides to fix all this shit is gonna have to go to war with the Cartels since they make bank off of smuggling. I feel like its gonna be a dictator since most public official don't have the balls to truly fix shit.

Heh, I always said "Your grandchildren won't understand you or look nothing like you" as a way to make rightoids ree, but damn. They really will look nothing like y'all.
Silent Gen & Boomers sold America and their own kids for yearly vacations and cable TV.

 

[The Ugly One]

Unfortunately its one of the two options, I don't think there is a middle ground. Either the President is immune from all prosecution from acts while in office (unless impeached and convicted) or he isn't, if the Supreme were to try to quibble and say immunity only applies to some acts then immunity doesn't functionally apply and the entire Presidency is crippled by the threat of long term prosecution.

Not exactly. You're still assessing this as precedent in a system of rule of law. What we are actually observing is the Third Worldification of the American legal system, where what is lawful and what is not is solely a function of who you know. In Third World law, the text of the law, precedent, common law, etc, are irrelevant. What matters is solely who's friends with whom, who's greasing who's palm, etc. Anyone at J6 who thought that the kid gloves the feds wear when dealing with BLM/antifa set precedent found out the hard way that no, the feds can just throw you in solitary for a year, torture you, and deny you a trial.

Similarly, anyone in a red state who thinks "laches and standing" rulings on election fraud set any kind of precedent that will apply to them will find out the hard way that, should they pull the same kinds of stunts the left did in 2020, the courts will happily invalidate mountains of votes and send people to prison forever.

Or look at how Clinton and her staff can destroy evidence under subpoena, and nothing happens. Nobody goes to jail. Think Trump's people could have gotten away with the same?

We're devolving into a system of pure power & graft, where words mean nothing and laws are fake. Sure, the graft & backroom deals were there, but there's a reason they were called backroom deals. When you've reached the point that the corruption is open and brazen, people don't believe in the system any more. You want your average person to be a rule-follower, and we're probably going to lose that.

Why can't we make these other countries better?

They're full of niggers.

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

You really don't know these types. They were shocked, shocked, I say when some guy built a shotgun out of parts you can find at any Home Depot and blew away Shinzo Abe.

Back in the '70s and '80s, we called these "zip guns" and they were everywhere back in the bad old days in NYC. Half the time I got mugged in NYC back in the early 80s, it was usually by a Puerto Rican pointing a zip gun at me.

madmen and they can program with an IDE that does half the work for them competently enough, but anything that is out of the norm is an insurmountable barrier. Proper competence with computers is still the domain of turbo autists and yes, those autists are faster than ever thanks to all the extra tools speeding them up.

I'm in my 50s and it does shock me how inept modern youngsters are at tech but when I think about it, being Gen X, we're like the last generation where you actually had to have some IQ points to operate a computer before everything got "apple-ized" and made easier for the masses. I mean, in my teens I was already coding in Assembly on my Commodore 64. If I wanted to "mod" my computer, I had to have some degree of electrical engineering competence. I remember soldering a cable together that could give me 80 columns of text instead of the standard 40. I also remember soldering a second SID chip into my Commodore 64, and coding the drivers to make it work in Assembly so that my Commodore 64 could play music in stereo (six voices instead of the standard three!). These were all done by reading ASCII schematics downloaded from BBSes. I mean, for me, finding my way around a modern PC is a joke.

For a lot of kids today, "modding" your PC means adding a fan with colored lights. And now they can even get ChatGPT to code shit for them in C+, which is already a retard-level code language to begin with. I'm not really shocked when I send zipped attachments to younger people and they're flummoxed.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Heh, I always said "Your grandchildren won't understand you or look nothing like you" as a way to make rightoids ree, but damn. They really will look nothing like y'all.
Silent Gen & Boomers sold America and their own kids for yearly vacations and cable TV.

I like how people say Millennials, Zoomers, or Gen Alpha are the worst generation when Boomers started this shit.

 

[tehpope]

They're full of niggers.

I get that. But we can at least make an attempt instead of the CIA going "Nice stable country you got there. Would be a shame if someone came in and destablized it."

I'm not sure if they have this grand master plan decades in the making or if they're winging it. Probably the latter.

 

[Some Dumb Faggot]

How long until they post the real inflation rate after the news cycle happens? Just like with the job reports month after month.

That probably isn't too far off, but it's meaningless because the Government has never stopped the excessive money spending and the deficit is still absurdly high(It was 4 trillion this year). The Feds are already having issues selling bonds and tax revenue is likely to go down due to the consumer being tapped out. Then ontop of all that Moody is now condering lowering the US credit rating. Next year the Feds will have to print money to fund the Government which will cause the inflation rate to shoot rightback up.

 

[Qtinterval]

I don't think it can be overstated just how monumentally that could and probably would backfire on them, and quite rapidly. It could very well be the next Franz Ferdinand moment. And not even because Trump would suddenly be avenged by a MAGA army, even though with chaos that severe it would be on the table - at that point the message is sent that such a thing is an option again. They can't or at least shouldn't risk that sort of thinking even becoming widespread among their own followers because then the radicals among their own party might decide they aren't going far enough.
Repeating a JFK in the modern age would be like setting fire to the house to kill a mouse. Sure, you might kill the mouse, but the mouse might also run out through a hole in the wall while you trip and die in the chaos.

So in other words so fucking retarded, that's exactly what they're gonna do?

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Heh, I always said "Your grandchildren won't understand you or look nothing like you" as a way to make rightoids ree, but damn. They really will look nothing like y'all.
Silent Gen & Boomers sold America and their own kids for yearly vacations and cable TV.

It’s not quite right.

My grandfather was born at the end of the First World War, and after the second was done, in the late 40’s, he built a house on a couple hundred acres, raised three kids, his wife could stay at home to raise them, and he managed to save up and buy a cabin on the lake to take the kids every summer and go ice fishing in the winter. Him and my grandma went bear hunting in Alaska for a honeymoon. He worked in a factory.

My dad was the boomer who also worked in a factory, and while he was raising my siblings and I, we could barely keep a single rust bucket operating. Every time we went anywhere was like a scene out of a Steinbeck novel, where he’d have a jug of water for the radiator and we’d have to pull over and top it off because the engine was overheating.

The operative event was opening China for trade and beginning the destruction of American manufacturing

 

[Terrifik]

Something Something monkey paw with bidden over Trump.

 

[The Ugly One]

I get that. But we can at least make an attempt instead of the CIA going "Nice stable country you got there. Would be a shame if someone came in and destablized it."

The CIA's shit on countries here and there, but there are plenty of countries belching migrants at us that have made their own bed of lice and fleas, Venezuela being the most obvious. There's literally nothing we can do to make these countries places that are such pleasant places to live that they'll turn down the Biden administration's offer of a free phone, free housing, free medical care, free education, and a $5000 gift card.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Is it just me, or is there a notable uptick in IRL anger directed towards the establishment?
I’m a Zoomer, so I can’t speak from much experience, but I swear that in my little world people are genuinely getting more and more pissed every day.
2024 is going to be insane.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Venezuela

Our spooks mucked around plenty in Venezuela, which let to Chavez and then Maduro so that's the kind of self-inflicted wound @tehpope was referencing. A better example are the Haitians and sub-Saharan Africans strolling across the southern border every hour. Free phones, homes etc and 5000 USD is like winning lotto for these folks.