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

 

[mandatorylurk]

Just a normal fucky wucky oopsie that won't be remedied:





It seems the prosecution, after seeing how badly they've done, will have Michael Cohen on the stand Monday, and then will wrap up their case by the end of the week, 2-3 weeks earlier than planned. In an impartial world that would mean they ain't got shit but they will still be bailed out by the jury here.


I thought they (the people who know 2020 was stolen but don't want to accept it) would take a decade to admit 2020 was stolen, seems like they're going to say it as early as 2025. "But it happened and it's over bro, lets have amnesty like covid, bro."

DIE related, Thomas Jefferson University, a middle of the road small university, had some didn't earn it hire read the names of the graduates, and made simple western names seem like a mix of arab and piglatin. This is what you paid for, this is the future you deserve.

 

[Eugene Tooms]

DIE related, Thomas Jefferson University, a middle of the road small university, had some didn't earn it hire read the names of the graduates, and made simple western names seem like a mix of arab and piglatin. This is what you paid for, this is the future you deserve.

I had to look this one up.

Apparently they (only?) put the phonetic spelling on the speaker’s cards. If you’re unfamiliar, phonetic spelling can look something like Cyrillic to the unfamiliar English speaker.

Under normal circumstances, those with complex last names would laugh at the attempt and accept the mistake with grace. Now, because of some brain dead well-intention policy, everyone gets screwed.

Is this Equity? This is Equity.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

You can't walk your lion on the city steps here(might only be on sundays), I always wondered just how many people had lions back in the 1800s to need such a crazy law. I guess all it takes is one asshole and a lion.

It wasn't that long ago you couldn't buy beer or liquor or wine for that matter on a Sunday except in some restaurants that paid for a very expensive Sunday license. Probably not even 10 years ago

In Louisiana, if you own property you have the right to wear a sword. Maybe even an obligation, I don't remember. It's a remnant of the Napoleonic Code that much of Louisiana law is still based on and incorporates.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I thought they (the people who know 2020 was stolen but don't want to accept it) would take a decade to admit 2020 was stolen, seems like they're going to say it as early as 2025. "But it happened and it's over bro, lets have amnesty like covid, bro."

At this point given what we have seen from Covid I half expect them to admit the fraud very quietly but the cattle will keep parroting the original lie ad nauseum.

 

[Gondolindrim]

At this point given what we have seen from Covid I half expect them to admit the fraud very quietly but the cattle will keep parroting the original lie ad nauseum.

Wasn't even quiet really. The curtain went up on that performance multiple times but you were shouted down if you actually commented on it. Hell, when the CDC declared the pandemic over there were still (and are still) people saying that "That doesn't mean anything, wear a fucking mask"

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Hell, when the CDC declared the pandemic over there were still (and are still) people saying that "That doesn't mean anything, wear a fucking mask"

I still see people walk outside with masks on and masks hanging from the inside of their car.

The brainwash is real

 

[The Hardest R]

Wearing the mask is all about signaling your compliance. These are the type of people to clap last after Stalin’s speech ends and cried the hardest at Kim Jong-il’s death.

 

[ZMOT]

This sounds like something you'd see in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon

"is that an ice-cream cone in your backpocket or are you just trying to steal a horse?"

lol it's also a bad idea to walk around with ice cream cones in your back pocket. I always wondered why we needed laws like these. There's some pretty fucked up ones, here you could/can beat your wife on the court house steps on Sunday with a rod no thicker then your thumb. Or it mighta been your pinky I cant remember all the details of it but I've heard laws about beating your wife like that are fairly common old laws

the link has another one like those right below it

§ 662.08 ABANDONING REFRIGERATORS.

No person shall abandon or discard, in any place accessible to children, any refrigerator, ice box or ice chest, of a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more, having an attached lid or door which may be opened or fastened shut by means of an attached latch. No person shall, being the owner, lessee or manager of the place, knowingly permit the abandoned or discarded refrigerator, ice box or ice chest to remain there in such condition.

(Ord. 89-51, passed 11-28-1989)

this reads like a containment procedure for an SCP.

 

[clipartfan92]

US set to impose 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicle imports
Financial Times (archive.ph)
By Demetri Sevastopulo, James Politi, and Aime Willams
2024-05-10 22:14:41GMT

Spoiler

The Biden administration plans to raise tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles imports from 25 per cent to 100 per cent, as it intensifies efforts ahead of the US election to protect American industry.

The administration was expected to announce the move, and other tariffs on clean energy imports, on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the situation.

The sharp rise in the levies comes amid mounting concern that China could flood the US market with cheap EVs, threatening the American car industry. President Joe Biden has taken several actions in recent months to convince union members in swing states that he will protect jobs.

The Biden administration has for three years been reviewing the tariffs that then president Donald Trump put on imports from China as part of the trade war he launched in 2018. The new EV tariffs will be announced alongside the conclusion of the review, led by the US Trade Representative.

During a visit last month to Pennsylvania — a swing state in November’s election — Biden said he wanted the agency to triple tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminium. The USTR also recently opened an investigation into unfair practices in the Chinese shipbuilding industry following a petition from the United Steelworkers union.

But the decision to increase tariffs on EVs comes as the administration becomes particularly concerned that China is moving far ahead in the green industrial sector, including in the production of solar panels.

“The Biden administration is trying to get ahead of the curve and ensure that the US car industry does not suffer the same fate as the US solar industry, which was virtually decimated by unfairly traded Chinese imports,” said Wendy Cutler, a former trade official and vice-president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Cutler said Chinese carmakers had been prepared to swallow the cost of the existing tariffs in an effort to “cripple” their US competitors, but the higher tariffs would make that much harder.

“A quadrupling of this tariff rate, however, would more effectively shield US auto manufacturers from unfairly traded Chinese vehicles before they can gain a foothold in the US market,” Cutler said.

The Biden administration has poured billions of dollars into subsidies for EV and battery production in the US — an effort to spur investment in a domestic clean tech sector as part of a strategy to reindustrialise the rust-belt, slash carbon emissions and break dependence on Chinese supply chains.

In February, Biden also ordered an investigation into whether Chinese “connected vehicles” — a growing category of vehicles connected to the internet that includes EVs — posed a national security risk to the US.

The tariffs are the latest action by the administration that show how Biden is continuing to impose costs on China at the same time that Beijing and Washington pursue efforts to stabilise relations following a summit between the US president and Chinese President Xi Jinping last year.

News of the tariff increase comes after the US and China, the world’s two biggest emitters, said this week they would “intensify” co-operation on climate-related issues, including the rollout of green energy.

The decision to increase tariffs was first reported by Bloomberg.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

the link has another one like those right below it

§ 662.08 ABANDONING REFRIGERATORS.

No person shall abandon or discard, in any place accessible to children, any refrigerator, ice box or ice chest, of a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more, having an attached lid or door which may be opened or fastened shut by means of an attached latch. No person shall, being the owner, lessee or manager of the place, knowingly permit the abandoned or discarded refrigerator, ice box or ice chest to remain there in such condition.

(Ord. 89-51, passed 11-28-1989)

That one makes sense. Kids got trapped in abandoned fridges and suffocated all the time before they switched to magnetic locks. Still happens, three very young kids died in a freezer in Florida just a few years ago. People abandon them and kids play in them, and end up trapped inside. It's pretty common still, especially outside the US.

I think one of Stephen King's 80's books (probably IT) has a scene with a fridge filled with rotting dead child corpses.

Same sort of rules were made for car trunk doors, now they have to have inner pull handles to open them from inside.

 

[FlappyBat]

I still see people walk outside with masks on and masks hanging from the inside of their car.

The brainwash is real

I saw a motherfucker wear their mask inside their car they were driving by themself the other day.

Nothing more than an ideological fashion statement.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

I was at a suburban red-state public school event a few days ago and there was a Black family all masked up with the srs business n95s (lol black ones).

There was also a Fat family and the mom was wearing palestinian pattern, not a keffiyeh but like a silk scarf or something thinking she's flying under the radar and going to walk right down a mainstreet full of cornfed probable derek vineyards.

 

[MarMar049]

I was at a suburban red-state public school event a few days ago and there was a Black family all masked up with the srs business n95s (lol black ones).

There was also a Fat family and the mom was wearing palestinian pattern, not a keffiyeh but like a silk scarf or something thinking she's flying under the radar and going to walk right down a mainstreet full of cornfed probable derek vineyards.

It is weird how people are still absolutely mortified by covid, especially since it's endemic now.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

It is weird how people are still absolutely mortified by covid, especially since it's endemic now.

This was the first time in their life that most people were presented with a seemingly immediate looming threat on their life, and a LOT of people turned out to just not be able to mentally handle that, and clung to perceived solutions. Because while there are many, many, many things we're all told could kill us, or are killing us, they're also presented to the neurotic folks of the world as either easily avoided things like smokes, or things they were already well exposed to as a risk their entire life, like car crashes or cancers. The Coof meanwhile was a sudden, new shitshow on the block nobody knew how they should deal with, and the folks who couldn't handle it grabbed onto whatever perceived escape they could. Turning it endemic just solidified to them that they need to do this mask thing forever because its never going away now.

Honestly, if they weren't sold a theoretical magic 100% solution in masks and then vaccines, they woulda never went fucking weird in the first place because they'd just have to come to terms with it as a risk regardless. It was the lies to manipulate people into actions that really fucked them up at the end of the day.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

That one makes sense. Kids got trapped in abandoned fridges and suffocated all the time before they switched to magnetic locks. Still happens, three very young kids died in a freezer in Florida just a few years ago. People abandon them and kids play in them, and end up trapped inside. It's pretty common still, especially outside the US.

I think one of Stephen King's 80's books (probably IT) has a scene with a fridge filled with rotting dead child corpses.

80ies TV series Punky Brewster have a whole episode on this and CPR.

ors, now they have to have inner pull handles to open them from inside.

This was something that was done toward the late 90ies. As it took a large number of kidnappings done over the decades and high profile movies to get the government to lean on the auto manufacturers to add those pull handles.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

DIE related, Thomas Jefferson University, a middle of the road small university, had some didn't earn it hire read the names of the graduates, and made simple western names seem like a mix of arab and piglatin. This is what you paid for, this is the future you deserve.


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Holy shit, is the announcer Akrobeto's sister?

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

apparently horse thieves would stick a cone in their back pocket, untie the horse from the post and it would follow them down the street to a place where they could steal it all without them being seen physically taking the horse. it seems convoluted to me but apparently it happened at least once.

the punishment for Horse theft was death.

Ice cream cones weren't invented until the late 1890s. I guess it could still be true because cars really didn't fully replace horses until the 1930s in the south, but you'd think someone would have figured out the principle of it a lot earlier on with carrots or something and that would get banned first.

 

[Michael Wade]

Israel can just veto it. Or they can have one of their puppet states veto it for them.

I heard this actually circumnavigates normal veto procedure. Things could get spicy.

 

[not william stenchever]

but you'd think someone would have figured out the principle of it a lot earlier on with carrots or something and that would get banned first.

Politicians making new laws regarding specifically new things is a trend as old as legalism itself.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Ice cream cones weren't invented until the late 1890s. I guess it could still be true because cars really didn't fully replace horses until the 1930s in the south, but you'd think someone would have figured out the principle of it a lot earlier on with carrots or something and that would get banned first.

in the rural areas of Kentucky Horses and mules remained a large part of transportation well into the 1950s. my area was not fully electrified until 1980. My grandma (grad. 1960) went to high school in a one room school house. The backwoods south didn't leave the 19th century until the 20th was already half past.