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

 

[dustbuster]

many of the online right are in denial about quality of life in Russia.

I'd argue the opposite.
There are a lot of western leftists in denial about the decline of the United States, "Bidenflation" in general, and its connection to "green policy" gutting our local industry and making us dependent on rogue states.

EDIT: fuck me I can't type a sentence without input mushing.
I'm going to post in offtopic looking for mechanical keyboards

America can be better in some aspects than Russia

Navalny was one man.
There are dozens of dead due to J6 political persecution, thousands more in prison, and hundreds of lawyers having their ability to practice law impacted (meaning there is no right to an attorney in the USA anymore).
Putin didn't go after Navalny's lawyers like democrats do to GOP here.

A 12 pack of coca cola is crossing the $10 mark inland where I am, I wouldn't be surprised to see $12-14 when I visit family on the coast this year.

Groceries now cost $120 a week, per capita, in the cheapest parts of middle america.

In the space of just 24 months, everyone more than 120 miles off the coast suddenly had their cost of living jacked up to what was normal for the most expensive neighborhoods in California.

"But it's better than russia"
Tucker says otherwise, Null says otherwise, and I believe them both.

 

[SBG]

I'd argue the opposite.
There are a lot of western leftists in denial about the decline of the United States, "Bidenflation" in general, and its connection to "green policy" gutting our local industry and making us dependent on rogue states.

EDIT: fuck me I can't type a sentence without input mushing.
I'm going to post in offtopic looking for mechanical keyboards

Eh, both are true. Leftists will engage in a lot of mental gymnastics to say the US economy is ackshually great while at the same time we have people on the right exaggerating the quality of life in Russia.

The dishonesty is stupid on both sides.

 

[dustbuster]

right exaggerating the quality of life in Russia.

I have to ask, how many regions of the United States have you spent extended time in in the past 30 months?
I'm not talking vacations, I'm talking being there long enough to need to buy groceries and daily essentials.

I have 5 on my list.

The USA has been tenuous for decades, but Under Biden it has rapidly descended into "Freejack" levels of decay.
Every second storefront is empty, the prices of housing, food, and energy have doubled, wages have stagnated, the highest paying jobs have been utterly liquidated.
Every complaint about Russia can and does apply double to the united states, including political killings.

If anything the right understates the decline of quality of life in the United States.

In 2014 people used to post "detroit, then & now" drives.
Now nearly EVERY town in the US looks like one of those drives, and the major cities are too dangerous to take those drives, because carjackers will take your car, your smart phone, all of it.

 

[Michael Wade]

Man Stewart looks like shit. Time has not been kind to his nose and eyes.

The new York exodus is starting to shape up.

https://wltreport.com/2024/02/19/boycott-grows-kevin-oleary-goes-epic-rant-against/?utm_source=PTN&utm_medium=mixed&utm_campaign=PTN

Dude from shark tank explains that everyone in new York is shitting bricks because this more or less creates precedent for them to get fucked over. There's already business pullout from Westfield and a basic Google search shows companies from 2020 to 2023 are pulling out in doves. With or without the truckers this looks pretty bad.

 

[Betonhaus]

I wonder if Russian journalists will go visit American grocery stores to compare it to the visit decades ago. I hope they don't get shanked.

 

[dustbuster]

Dude from shark tank explains that everyone in new York is shitting bricks because this more or less creates precedent for them to get fucked over.

It's going to take months for the actual inversions to start.
Delaware absolutely fucked over Tesla and it will probably be a full fiscal quarter before they can vote to convert their incorporation to Nevada or Texas.

Expect the real impacts to hit NYS census of corporations around June to August this year.

The real fun starts once the appeals are upheld, at which point you can look at every rental unit in NYC in particular going condo.

 

[ShitLurker]

I’ll take brown trump vindaloo, and I also feel like DeSantis redeemed himself by endorsing trump after all

If Pence were to now endorse Trump would you consider him redeemed? Because DeSantis is Pence 2.0 waiting to happen. He's a spineless faggot that will jump when told to do it, he may be horrible at it and not enjoy it, but will do it.

I imagine they don't enjoy the consequences of all those things. The bitching rabble don't often think about how their politics will affect even themselves.

Obviously, for them it's always the mean ol rethuglicans and mayo ghouls why Chicago is a piece of shit even though it's been under Dem control longer than some traditional imperial dynasties.

I think a cool VP for Trump would be some like Alex Jones or Mike Flynn, someone who could prove to be much more of a nuisance and a total loose cannon ready to fuck shit up as a deadman switch. I am sure he can find someone who would be a absolute pest in case he got removed.

Alex Jones I think would be too unstable, but I'm all in on Mike Flynn, they fucked the man over and I can only presume he wants blood as badly as Trump. I don't want "conciliators", I want fucking pitbulls that look at the swamp like a basket of babies.

She's banking on Trump being disqualified or locked out by the RNC.

Ah yes, the DeSantis gambit, good luck with that poop nigger.

View attachment 5740782

https://archive.ph/Qi5iL

Supreme court cucking? Must be a day ending in y

https://archive.ph/YeVZq

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/022024zor_7647.pdf

View attachment 5740876

Whoa, double cucking! Mitch's poison pill of his Supreme Court judges strikes again. Easily the biggest fuck up Trump ever did.

I

It always shocks me how many people are totally fine with the president being a figurehead and the public having absolutely no idea who's making the decisions.

Pretty scary stuff

It's basically how the EU works and people fucking slurp it up for the most part.

Do you not understand why this is a complete and total abuse of the judicial system? Can you actually comprehend why we shouldn't be fining and persecuting somebody for calling into question a democratic process?

Let me explain it for you: Because then we cannot ever question the validity of a democratic process and it will inevitably become corrupted.

You are either willingly ignorant of that or just don't care.

Probably because it's against a guy he doesn't like it's all fine and will be a different show when it targets somebody he likes. Basically good ol fashioned "no bad tactcis, just bad targets".

Declining to hear cases is the Roberts Court's clever-silly way of avoiding issues where the libs are clearly acting lawlessly, but ruling against them will trigger a country-wide temper tantrum. He believes that by not ruling at all on such cases, he preserves the Court's legitimacy.

I dream of the day the right properly chimps out and in a way that eclipses all chimp outs and suddenly "being civil" goes out the fucking window.

And if Putler sent Navalny to the grave, it was based and I am tired of this bleeding heart double standard that it wasn't. Democrats here would have offed Trump by now, if they could and the reverse is true when Trump once had those comments about shooting someone on 6th avenue and getting away with it. In the early years of this nation's founding, is the famous story of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.

Again, it's all about the target. The double standards to everything is what constantly drives me insane and what makes me wish for a computer overlord. At least the fucking overlord would be consistent.

"But it's better than russia"
Tucker says otherwise, Null says otherwise, and I believe them both.

I can't speak for Russia, but can speak from other parts of Eurocuckistan and though prices have gone up, it's nowhere near as bad as the shit I'm reading about US supermarkets. The point of Tucket's segment isn't "RUSSIANS LIVE BETTER!" it's more that "Americans have lost so much quality of life in recent years yet Russians seem mostly to be the same as always".

 

[SBG]

I have to ask, how many regions of the United States have you spent extended time in in the past 30 months?
I'm not talking vacations, I'm talking being there long enough to need to buy groceries and daily essentials.

I have 5 on my list.

The USA has been tenuous for decades, but Under Biden it has rapidly descended into "Freejack" levels of decay.
Every second storefront is empty, the prices of housing, food, and energy have doubled, wages have stagnated, the highest paying jobs have been utterly liquidated.
Every complaint about Russia can and does apply double to the united states, including political killings.

If anything the right understates the decline of quality of life in the United States.

In 2014 people used to post "detroit, then & now" drives.
Now nearly EVERY town in the US looks like one of those drives, and the major cities are too dangerous to take those drives, because carjackers will take your car, your smart phone, all of it.

I suppose four? (For like brief periods)

I fully agree about the US having a deteriorating quality of life, it's just nowhere near third world tier (plus the deterioration has often been worse in other countries). And I've honestly had to do work in the third world so I'm not totally unaware of what it can look like.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

And if Putler sent Navalny to the grave, it was based and I am tired of this bleeding heart double standard that it wasn't. Democrats here would have offed Trump by now, if they could and the reverse is true when Trump once had those comments about shooting someone on 6th avenue and getting away with it. In the early years of this nation's founding, is the famous story of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.

When they put Trump in prison on all the nonsensical made up charges (and he WILL be in prison unless he wins this year, and he probably won't since the election is just as, if not more, rigged than 2020 and 2022), he'll be dead within a year or two and not a single one of these bleeding hearts will do anything but cheer. The US is an absolute third world shithole banana republic pretending it's a beacon of progress and democracy. At least Russia isn't full of crime, sodomy, and state-sponsered child mutilation. Our elite probably hate Russia so much because they're lazy fucks and still have to have a semblance plausible deniability when they use the government, courts, and police to harass political dissidents and rig elections. Fortunately they need less and less every day since half of America loves having the government put a boot on their face or blatantly violate 250 years of legal procedures.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Declining to hear cases is the Roberts Court's clever-silly way of avoiding issues where the libs are clearly acting lawlessly, but ruling against them will trigger a country-wide temper tantrum. He believes that by not ruling at all on such cases, he preserves the Court's legitimacy.

More like preserving the Court from term limits and packing.

I wonder how long they can possibly drag out deciding on the Trump case?

 

[AnotherPleb]

More like preserving the Court from term limits and packing.

The court's intentionally ineffectual on any issue that the DNC backs outside of gun control and abortion so it's already packed.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I'd want to see what the spread was for the punt on Powell, etc. Who decided which way.

The one that's always surprised me is Kavanaugh. If I'd had to put up with the nonsense he did at his confirmation, I'd decide against every liberal, every time, out of spite, and fuck the laws. Just to educate the dumb fuckers as to why blatantly pushing that line of shit was a bad idea. Yeah, I know, that's why I'm not a judge. But holy fuckballs, the left was so salty about not getting Garland on (despite the fact that he's a psychopath) they went out of their way to make the Kavanaugh nomination a huge shitshow.

 

[The Ugly One]

The court's intentionally ineffectual on any issue that the DNC backs outside of gun control and abortion so it's already packed.

Note that Roberts sided with the dissent on overturning Roe v Wade...I suspect he was surprised by Gorsuch & Kav.

Also, people should realize that when John Stewart says filthy subways, dangerous cities, and streets full of garbage are the price of freedom, he isn't joking. Liberals define freedom differently than conservatives. Freedom for them is the freedom of a nigger to piss on the subway, punch you in the back of the head, and steal your wallet.

 

[Gehenna]

Kavanaugh is, as far as I can tell, sticking to his guns come hell or high water. His judicial philosophy is loosely defined as a Conservative Constitutionalist. This is not Conservative as in the political affiliation but instead in the application of the court.. To make a long thing short, Kavanaugh holds that the constitution is the final arbiter of all decisions -but- that SCOTUS should be very reluctant to ever bring up a case because of its inherently undemocratic nature.

Normally, having one of these judges is actually a good thing for SCOTUS. A reminder to the rest that they hold awesome power that has never truly seen the consent of the people. The problem is that Gorsuch and to a lesser degree Barret also hold similar philosophies. So we are just seeing a stream of punting it off by refusing to see it rather than make needed decision. The reason we got ones like the repeal of Roe and Bruen is largely ironically because of this overlap of philosophy, as they were correcting prior massive overreaches of SCOTUS.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

Kavanaugh is, as far as I can tell, is sticking to his guns come hell or high water. His judicial philosophy is loosely defined as a Conservative Constitutionalist. This is not Conservative as in the political affiliation but instead in the application of the court.. To make a long thing short, Kavanaugh holds that the constitution is the final arbiter of all decisions -but- that SCOTUS should be very reluctant to ever bring up a case because of its inherently undemocratic nature.

Normally, having one of these judges is actually a good thing for SCOTUS. A reminder to the rest that they hold awesome power that has never truly seen the consent of the people. The problem is that Gorsuch and to a lesser degree Barret also hold similar philosophies. So we are just seeing a stream of punting it off by refusing to see it rather than make needed decision. The reason we got ones like the repeal of Roe and Bruen is largely ironically because of this overlap of philosophy, as they were correcting prior massive overreaches of SCOTUS.

I can understand limiting your own power, but they're allowing lawfare that is literally going to rip this country in half.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I can understand limiting your own power, but they're allowing lawfare that is literally going to rip this country in half.

B-but they stuck to their principles!

 

[Gehenna]

I can understand limiting your own power, but they're allowing lawfare that is literally going to rip this country in half.

Oh I entirely agree. There is exercising restraint with the court then their is abdicating one's duty. I understand why he is doing what he is doing, and even agree to an extent given the polarized situation, but feel he has taken it much too far. To me it looks like the circus around his inauguration has made him overly cautious.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Oh I entirely agree. There is exercising restraint with the court then their is abdicating one's duty. I understand why he is doing what he is doing, and even agree to an extent given the polarized situation, but feel he has taken it much too far. To me it looks like the circus around his inauguration has made him overly cautious.

It sure isn't helped with Roberts breathing down his neck to not shake the boat.

 

[dustbuster]

I can understand limiting your own power, but they're allowing lawfare that is literally going to rip this country in half.

If I were POTUS I'd be asking for articles of impeachment against roberts, kav, and ACB from the get-go.
Their failure to protect innocent victims from rank abuse of the bench over the past 3 years is enough of a record to do it, and I'd get every democrat waiting to do it.

 

[Gehenna]

It sure isn't helped with Roberts breathing down his neck to not shake the boat.

Or the continued threats and actions by the left. Though ironically all that gives me some level of hope. Conditional hope, but hope. If its fear for his safety making him be overly cautious then if Trump -does- get in and promises significant protection for SCOTUS then it might well make him more willing to take cases. You only really need one of the two between Kavanagh and Gorsuch to want to take a case to convince the other and Barret usually just comes along for the ride.

Of course, to throw some cold water on that burgeoning optimism, this also means it would be very likely that SCOTUS stays out of any election cases so the Uniparty will be unhindered judicially for their fraud.,