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

 

[Dick Mason]

A lot of folks not from the United States want Putler dead but also hate the United States itself lol.

A lot of [formerly-]European nations have an outdated uppity smugness when it comes to America. That used to work okay back when they were still somewhat sovereign, but now that many of them are worse in most ways thanks to demographic replacement rapidly overwhelming their tiny nations, it can no longer be pulled off. Maybe that is a testament to how much more effective propaganda is on tinier nations.

That is other than the British/Canadian healthcare superiority memes - that was never valid. Their healthcare was worst of worst even 20 years ago. They just have better PR to launder it, as the state pushes everything behind that farce. Remember the state trying to get them to bark like seals for the NHS during COVID? They tried that in America with the Tiktok dancing. The mockery from that still reverberates.

It's good to see you back you crazy bugger. Shit aint the same in the autistic thunder-dome without you.

Spoiler: jealous?

It's the election year to end all election years. Who can resist that lure?

I rarely hear that guy's name from boomer libs or progtards funny enough or even the blacks themselves.

He is basically considered a forgotten relic who just showed up because JFK got popped.

Many boomer libs believe that JFK would have ended segregation when I have read conflicting articles that most likely he would have been like Obama.

Great presentation, No substance.

Bill Moyers, LBJ's hatchetman, seemed intent on rehabilitating LBJ during the W Bush era. Then Trump arose and Moyers promptly lost his mind completely. It's funny how many liberal darlings became burnt-out raving lunatics due to the existence of Trump. At the time Bill Moyers was one of their upper shelf prestige journalists, like a serious version of Jon Stewart. He really was like a humorless Jon Stewart. Also, like Stewart, not as smart as he thought he was.

Last anyone heard from him he was shitting himself in a corner somewhere raving about 'muh trump russia'.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

I see a lot of hot takes for and against 'dual income no kid' or childfree. The reasons can be retarded like climate change but the biggest and most significant one is cost of living. People are not going to live in a hovel with kids just because some boomer thinks young people owe it to them to reproduce. If you are not going to pay me serious amounts of money to have kids, then forget it. Im not talking tax credits, I mean cash. Childcare costs are soaring and since almost every retarded corporation insists on office only, I would have to find someone to watch the kids which is impossible this days. If you do have kids, you have to either homeschool them or go private to avoid globohomo and either of those options cost time and money. I haven't even gotten into healthcare costs yet.

We live in an time where people get 12 month financing to go to fucking Disneyworld. I can barely afford to keep up with rent and contribute to my savings as is. I know too many acquaintances who did everything right in terms of education and are still a wagies at a store or in the service industry making less than $25/hour. These people did not get history degrees either, they got STEM or business related ones. Having kids would be a millstone around their necks for them.

If they think the military recruitment crisis is bad now, it will only get worse in 20-30 years. It would be funny if global conflict reduced because no county has a fighting-age population able to sustain long term war.

Its a millstone around your neck in middle age yes. But its your only shot in old age.

Anti natalists and Dinc fucks think my kids should have to take care of them when they get old. Either quite literally by doing stuff for them for money because they dont have kids to care for them or figuratively by trying to demand in their inevitable boomer larp they will do in 30 years that the younger generations take a greater tax burden to care for them.

The only real retirement plan is having kids and having a relationship with them.

 

[The Ugly One]

The way the Cartels are parallel to Visigoths leads me to think the US will just lose the Southwest in the same way as Western Rome was lost. So we'd still have global conflict, but the US will actually have to fight a real war that it can't walk away from.

Look at how the Mexico City government has already lost cartel territory. It still draws the line on the map and says, "this is ours," but the reality is the cartels, not the federal government, have effective jurisdiction. I expect Washington to insist that it's still in control of Arizona, New Mexico, southern California, etc for many decades after it is no longer safe for any federal agent to go there.

And really, this is just fine for the cartels. They don't want to fight wars. They want to move contraband and slaves. If the puffed-up suits in Washington and Mexico City want to pretend they're in charge but otherwise not interfere, that is quite all right with the cartels.

 

[Bugman's Burden]

Like you said - many of them have STEM degrees. Tons of people got degrees in fields like engineering, software development, complex mathematics, chemistry, physics, you name it - only for every fucking company in the US to decide "Yeah, we're not going to do our manufacturing here, we'll give it to a bunch of sweatshop workers in China, India, and Pakistan to do it."

This is why I can’t stand the Learn2STEM ideology that’s popular here and on other right-leaning spaces. You can easily get a STEM degree and not find a good job off of it.

The same is true of Learn2weld. Many of the trades don’t pay like people think they do. It’s just bootstraps doctrine re-branded and sold to people that hate liberals. But it doesn’t speak to the underlying problems of hyper-financialization and protectionism that benefits the oligarchs.

 

[Meat Target]

In the 1930s, military-age German men invading territory they lost from a past war was met with outrage. In the 2020s, military-age Mexican men invading territory they lost from a past war is met with silence. Why the different reactions?

Celebration Parallax and double standards.

 

[Still Exceptional]

No. 1 seems too intricate for the general idiots in the Army ranks.

You'd be surprised. An unsupervised grunt who wants you dead can be very dangerous depending on what his job is. An E4 who wants you dead can probably manage it and even get away with it.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Remember, if there's one last thing we can do to better the world as the great chimpout occurs, it's pouring cement down the fucking air ducts of these fuckers' bunkers. They genuinely think that the Muslim and Dindu Warlords they're semi-inadvertently raising up will respect the gated communities they're hiding in. Tyrone and Mohammad are going to be living in your 3rd backup mansion, Oprah, and there's fuck all you can do about it cause we'll be too busy trying to retake London and Portland to care about saving you.

First the elites' personal armies, servant castes and logistics suppliers need to be dealt. Otherwise those elites can and will hold out for a long while.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Remember, if there's one last thing we can do to better the world as the great chimpout occurs, it's pouring cement down the fucking air ducts of these fuckers' bunkers. They genuinely think that the Muslim and Dindu Warlords they're semi-inadvertently raising up will respect the gated communities they're hiding in. Tyrone and Mohammad are going to be living in your 3rd backup mansion, Oprah, and there's fuck all you can do about it cause we'll be too busy trying to retake London and Portland to care about saving you.

Might be hard to mix and transport cement, but fix-a-flat is a good and sticky toxic sprayfoam

 

[Meat Target]

Might be hard to mix and transport cement, but fix-a-flat is a good and sticky toxic sprayfoam

Future headline: "Why is the far-right buying FlexSeal in bulk?"

 

[SpergioLeonne]

LBJ: passed the 1965 immigration act forever dooming America to a brown majority, created the welfare state almost single handedly and sent tens of thousands of young American men to go die in Vietnam massive escalating the war of his presidency why exactly is this piece of shit so fondly looked back on?

Did anyone mention how he was fond of flashing his dick at people?

That is incredibly doubtful. The situations are not quite similar. A state could declare war on the cartel in their state and deputize whoever to deal with them. Depending on the pres the fed might sue but thanks to Texas states in the future might tell them to pound sand.

I suspect the number of Romans packing substantial ordinance was far lower than the number of Americans with an arsenal.

Colombia has thousands of military personnel going to Ukraine to be mercenaries because the pay is 4x what it is at home.

I think part of the massive immigration thing is due to us not being able to recruit and hoping to trade citizenship for service. The problem with that is you still want to vet who the fuck you’re taking on so hopefully one day we’ll stop having Chinese nationals with access to classified material

 

[HackerX]

This is why I can’t stand the Learn2STEM ideology that’s popular here and on other right-leaning spaces. You can easily get a STEM degree and not find a good job off of it.

The same is true of Learn2weld. Many of the trades don’t pay like people think they do. It’s just bootstraps doctrine re-branded and sold to people that hate liberals. But it doesn’t speak to the underlying problems of hyper-financialization and protectionism that benefits the oligarchs.

The issue with STEM is it became a buzzword to be marketed. Schools trotted out a million "STEM" programs that had no practical element whatsoever.

Cybersecurity was very noticable because that career track used to start after a few years of grunt work. (Network/System Admin, help desk, etc.) Now you have XYZ Cybersecurity program where a kid finishes and has never been "hands on keyboard". It's fucking awful.

Another good one was the attempt to rebrand STEM to STEAM (arts).

 

[6MillionCoofs]

These people did not get history degrees either, they got STEM or business related ones. Having kids would be a millstone around their necks for them.

Have you tried talking to your friends about saving money and not spending it all the second they get it?

It would be funny if global conflict reduced because no county has a fighting-age population able to sustain long term war.

Unironicalli that is likely to happen for a period

 

[Romulus augustulus]

That is incredibly doubtful. The situations are not quite similar. A state could declare war on the cartel in their state and deputize whoever to deal with them. Depending on the pres the fed might sue but thanks to Texas states in the future might tell them to pound sand.

I suspect the number of Romans packing substantial ordinance was far lower than the number of Americans with an arsenal.

and it should be mentioned that for the vast majority of romans little changed. The goths ruled like romans, dressed like romans, followed roman law and had lived within the empire for generations. The roman empire was explicitly multi-cultural from the beginning, and had not been exclusively ruled by romans from rome for about 200 years when the "fall" happened. Diocletian was a common illyrian soldier (think yugoslavian area).

so for the average roman citizen in italy not much changed. The emperor in the east even recognized Odoacer and Theodoric as ruling the west for the east.

A more gothic comparison would have been the confederates winning and taking over the US. the name changes but most everything else stays the same.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I'm not kidding when I say that this case has the potential to blow up every case Fani and her office has prosecuted ever since she was elected. You could see every defense attorney in Fulton county filing motions to overturn convictions, bar complaints, civil suits. Total anarchy and chaos in the legal systems of all of Georgia, all completely deserved and completely self inflicted.

If it starts looking like it's not going to get thrown out I think a viable tactic would be to start paying out $1,500-5000 retainers for everyone she/her office has ever convicted and start trying to get the cases thrown out with boilerplate motions. Think of how much damage and wasted time a million dollars could cause. You could grind Atlanta's criminal courts to a halt for years. If people start demanding speedy trials the court would basically have to just start letting them go

 

[Puff]

Another good one was the attempt to rebrand STEM to STEAM (arts).

I hate that shit. It always stank of the same inferiority complex as when they label band as a sport. Like they think band isn't worthy unless it's a sport and arts aren't unless they're lumped in with STEM.

 

[Seedling]

And really, this is just fine for the cartels. They don't want to fight wars. They want to move contraband and slaves. If the puffed-up suits in Washington and Mexico City want to pretend they're in charge but otherwise not interfere, that is quite all right with the cartels.

This is already how Mexico operates, the north is absolutely out of their control and the south is not exactly fighting for it.
Of course a narco coup will never happen because they know the second they actually attempt something like this they'll just give greenlight to the US army to march the troops down so its just better for them to pay off the politicians and let them pretend they are in charge

 

[Sekirodiealot]

@Terrifik you know now that i look at it, the way the January 6th protesters are being treated should be considered human rights violations

 

[AnotherPleb]

@Terrifik you know now that i look at it, the way the January 6th protesters are being treated should be considered human rights violations

And who's going to do something about it?

 

[Jaimas]

Future headline: "Why is the far-right buying FlexSeal in bulk?"

I SAWED THIS GLOBALIST IN HALF

 

[Sekirodiealot]

And who's going to do something about it?

Who COULD do anything?