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

 

[MirrorNoir]

The biggest whitepill about fraud is that Shapiro, Whitmer, and Newsom are not making political moves like its a done deal.

Or they know Kamala frauded in will be such a trainwreck that they want to stay far the fuck away.

For them to commit massive fraud they need either mercenaries who can hang that over them forever or true believers.

2020 with all its insanity was fertile ground for true believers willing to do the hard thing to save democracy. 2024 seems far less fertile ground with the Israel/Hamas split and everyone knowing they are signing up for more of the same. Its why they keep banging the 2025 drum to convince them its the end of everything again if they dont act. And they also know they are being watched much harder this time. Do they feel the same urgency when they can compare 4 years of Biden harris and 4 years of Trump? Remember too they fucking loved covid and getting to stay at home all day and moralfag.

Whitmer, Shapiro, and Newsom have every reason to see Kamala lose and lose big.

If she wins, then the earliest the can run would be 2036 since Kamala will run for reelection in 2028 and Walz will definitely demand an anointing in 2032 as Kamala's successor.

Kamala losing ensures 2028 will be the only way to clear a path for these fuckers.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

don't know the term but i'm assuming you mean like too much sugar during pregnancy? wouldn't that mean that autism should be so much more common within minority populations? also if true how would vegan or vegetarian pregnancies ever get autism. As for you talking about nutrition, wouldn't that also force you to concede that whites should be catching depression/bipolar/autism in rates that are a massive fraction compared to section 8 populations?

Interesting questions. I didn't actually know offhand as I've never bothered looking much into racial differences since most of the reading on health I've done has been related to my own health and health of my future children.

To start off, gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs during pregnancy and which typically resolves after (though not always). Although one sign is high blood sugar while fasting or after meals, the underlying cause is poor metabolic health generally, and insulin resistance more specifically.

A lot of attention is placed on blood sugar in diabetes, pregnancy related or not, but it's just a symptom of a poorly functioning metabolism. Gestational diabetes probably occurs in part because pregnancy makes you more vulnerable as pregnant women are naturally a little more insulin resistant at certain times during pregnancy. In this case a little insulin resistance is normal especially when you're trying to get fatter to support a fetus, but paired with bad diet or other issues might mean higher vulnerability to diabetes during pregnancy.

In terms of vegan and vegetarianism... I'm not sure what this has to do with a resistance to autism. Both vegans and vegetarians can both develop diabetes because veganism and vegetarianism doesn't inherently mean you're resistant to developing metabolic health issues. There are plenty of junk food vegans who eat oreos, and both groups who may still consume loads of sugar and highly processed foods. It's not an inherently healthy diet, ergo they may still develop insulin resistance and diabetes during pregnancy. In terms of skinny people, although the vast majority of obese people are metabolically ill, just because you're skinny doesn't mean you're metabolically healthy. Remember the 80-90% poor metabolic health rate in the US but overweight and obese rates aren't that high. It's not a complete overlapping circle.

Now, circling back to the minorities question. I did find this study which found that foreign born non-whites have higher rates of autism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067639/

Refer to table one and be sure to look at rates per 10,000 a bit to the right of the table.
You might say "But wait, I see way more autistic white kids!" but it seems like some of the symptoms may vary a bit by race and they are still minority populations. It's also worth noting there's differences in rates between foreign and US born ethnicities and autism rates at least according to this. Except in whites. Interestingly US born blacks have slightly lower rates than whites but foreign born have much higher rates. We'll circle back to this.

Then take a look at this study of rates of gestational diabetes in different ethnicities. Note that this doesn't separate by foreign born and US born and check out table 4 in the supplementary table.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2783070

Whites and blacks are similar (remember the slightly lower rate in US born blacks. But higher rate in foreign born blacks - and what the average of that might look like) but look at the higher rates. Vietnamese, and Filipino. This coincides with higher rates of autism in the first study where the highest rates were also seen in.... Filipinos, and Vietnamese. In the second they also mention Asian Indian but at first glance I don't see this in the autism table but two for two isn't bad.

In terms of poverty, I've prattled on enough, I think, but many in poverty do have severe metabolic health issues, and mental health issues, but it's tough to disentangle because you could argue they are in poverty because they have mental health issues, and they eat like shit (lots of processed foods here too) because they don't have money or education on how to shop on a budget.
But I think the above helps answer your main question. Race/ethnicity are linked to both gestational diabetes and autism rates, it appears.

So you ended up asking a question to test the link and sure enough it doesn't disprove the possible link (even if gestational diabetes isn't the only factor, just one with strong evidence as a contributing factor). Backseat science is fun.

Edit: Back on topic but man oh man am I actually excited for the Kamala and Trump debate. I expect it to be a shitshow but at least it will likely be an amusing shitshow.

 

[AnotherPleb]

The debate was very clearly supposed to go… fine. It not going well was instant crisis mode for the Dems.

That debate showed that Biden wasn't even fit to rule now and if he was on the ticket still it could have led to the biggest blowout since Reagan.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

You state this like these aren't just nonsense words.

• MPTP is a side effect chemical created if you make some drugs wrong. It gives you Parkensons. Forever.
• Bromo-DragonFLY is a technically legal hallucinogen that is legal because taking it is it's own punishment. Unlike most other drugs, there are no happy Bromo-DragonFly trips, it's apparently like going to hell itself and it's a time dissonant trip -- you'll be tripping balls for a few days but it will feel like years from your perspective. Oh, and it causes you to vomit blood and random body parts will become necrotic (i.e., parts of your body will start to rot days or weeks after you take it, and there's no treatment). And that's assuming a "safe" dosage, it gets rapidly less pleasant the more you take.
• EA-3167 is another hallucinogen, stupidly potent, very bad trip, and it lasts about two weeks... and that's just the start. It leaves you confused, amnesiac, and unable to speak or think clearly afterwards. After THAT wears off you get to deal with increased levels of "hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, and mania" for upwards of 6 months.

MPTP is a non-starter, you'd get some poor brown person crying in the media about how the ebil gubbmint laced his weed with shit that turned him into Michael J Fox -- gibs moneies pleeeez. The other two sound promising. DragonFLY literally sending people to hell for days (years from their POV) with most of them killing themselves afterwards and the ones that survived having the body parts the demons ripped off them during the trip rotting off their bodies later on would probably end the epidemic pretty damned quick.

 

[draggs]

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-harris-agree-mute-mics-sept-10-us-presidential-debate-trump-says-2024-08-27/

https://archive.ph/GG05Q

The Harris campaign and DNC shit themselves and have backed out (for the second time in a few days) on the rules they agreed to (twice now) for the ABC debate

Real clown show hours. Trump has changed his position zero times, debate on ABC September 10th with the same rules as the CNN debate vs Joe

Kumala agreed. Then she didn't. Then she did. Now she isn't again. All in like 72 hours

And then they just keep taunting Trump over it with zero self-awareness. This is r/politics running a major party presidential campaign

And still, and in perpetuity, you can never hate journalists enough. Trump said he preferred uninterrupted live mics but he had agreed to the same setup as the Joe debate and he was sticking with that. Reuters doesn't refer to that part of Trump's remarks to create the false impression that he has also backed out on the debate rules. He has not

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

I honestly don't think the military even could if they tried, the layout of the land is perfect for "bandit" type organizations. the Mayans and Aztecs were complaining about it thousands of years ago and it was where the Apache and commanche were hanging out. its like a mini-afghanistan, even trying to deal with the problem will just fuck you over.

Commanche were Texas, Apache were Arizona. If the US took over the area once, we can do it again. It also helps that it isn't a landlocked nation on the other side of the planet.

Dealing with the cartels in my opinion is simply a matter of better border security. Cartels are in the drug business for money. Limit the amount of drugs they can get in and you erode their profits. Eventually they'll get the message.

If she wins, then the earliest the can run would be 2036 since Kamala will run for reelection in 2028 and Walz will definitely demand an anointing in 2032 as Kamala's successor.

I don't think the united states can survive 16 straight years of uninterrupted democrat corruption and looting of the system. Hell, I'd be surprised if we made it to the end of Kamala's hypothetical first term without balkanization.

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

Liberal roommates started talking about politics again and I can't help but think they're basically jerking each other off mentally for believing in the same political ideals. There's no point to discussing politics if you're going to discuss them with someone who believes exactly the same things as you do. And why do people need to care about what you believe unless they ask you specifically? I don't go around saying "I believe that ice cream should be free" when nobody asks. Now that I think about it, you could probably expand this to "don't talk about anything stupid in public."

Frankly, there is no point discussing politics and you're going to discuss them who believes the opposite of what you believe. People like destiny want right wingers to be shot, what even is there to discuss with people who believe you're fundamentally evil?

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Liberal roommates started talking about politics again and I can't help but think they're basically jerking each other off mentally for believing in the same political ideals. There's no point to discussing politics if you're going to discuss them with someone who believes exactly the same things as you do. And why do people need to care about what you believe unless they ask you specifically? I don't go around saying "I believe that ice cream should be free" when nobody asks. Now that I think about it, you could probably expand this to "don't talk about anything stupid in public."

Need for validation aka virtue signalling. Sounds inseffurable

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Remember how Trump asked Kamala for three debates: 4th. 10th, and the 28th? Remember? Remember how Kamala cucked about the first one being the one with Joe? And now she can't even commit to one!

 

[Jade Philosophies]

She used to work for Nestle, likely got fired after her very unsuccessful political attempt. It’s pretty clear she was either using campaign funds, family money, or creative financing (read: sucking dicks) to LARP as a member of the Lizard People. Definitely a strange career arc for her.

I wouldn't call 47,931 votes "very unsuccessful", especially when she was running against (and beat 2 of) 7 other candidates, 6 of them established politicians (she only entered politics a year ago) and the winner got 157,116 votes, so not millions. (This was just the Republican Primary though.) I looked into her and as well as doing financial services she's a real estate investor, no doubt following one of her brothers, Maicoll, who was (is?) a real estate investor back when she was in college. He was also helping her with her campaign and interestingly worked for Tesla and had some kind of senior position at Gigafactory Texas, where the Cybertruck is made. Maybe there's an Elon Musk connection? The whole family seem to be successful. Here's an article from last year:
https://web.archive.org/web/2024052...m/interview/conversations-with-maicoll-gomez/

Today we’d like to introduce you to Maicoll Gomez.

Hi Maicoll, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, let’s briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today.
Our parents sacrificed their successful careers as lawyers and businessmen to bring my siblings and me to the US. When we started our education in the US, our love for swimming paved the way for us to become more resilient and hard-working to achieve our dreams of competing at the Olympics! Our family consists of my older brother Jonathan (now 27), myself (25), and our best and brightest sister, Valentina (now 24). We all swam together for many years with the same goal. Eventually, we all went to different Universities nationwide to continue our student-athlete careers. Ultimately, we all became NCAA Scholar All-America Division 1 swimmer, and our older brother, Jonathan, made it to the Olympics. Today, we are working on making the world better. Jonathan and I are Ivy League Master’s Students at Columbia University, while Valentina, having already obtained her MBA from Tulane University at the age of 22, announced she is running for Missouri Secretary of State. I have held many senior positions at Amazon, Bird, and the Tesla Gigafactory. I am excited to support my younger sister’s mission to become The Next Secretary of State.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
From learning English to leading multi-billion dollar corporations to now running for State Office, our lives have been full of challenges that, in due time, we overcome. Almost every day, we are told that we are “too young” to lead a department, a project, or a campaign, and to all those who have told us this, we have managed to respond to them by surpassing everyone’s expectations. We understand that in every new venture, we are the newcomers that “just got here.” After all, it hasn’t been that long since we learned English and graduated from college, but we always hope that when people see what we have accomplished in a short time, they will trust our work ethic and track record to bring that idea to light.

I appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I have held senior positions at Amazon, Bird, and the Tesla Gigafactory. Now, I will venture into helping my sister, Valentina Gomez, become the next Secretary of State. When you come from nothing and your parents are working overtime in a factory so you can study and achieve your dreams of buying your mother a house, and you get it done on September 13, 2018, it gives you a huge sense of confidence that nobody can take away! A key part that works for Valentina and me is that we work exceptionally well under high pressure! We knew the time was ticking when we started college, so we both graduated from our respective universities at 19 to help our parents financially. What sets us apart is that we know we have achieved some of our wildest dreams, such as having cars, houses, dogs, and successful careers, so now we know we can achieve way more! Nietzsche said, “I know of no greater life purpose than to perish in attempting the impossible.” For a 24-year-old Latina American and her faithful brother who have achieved everything they set their mind to, that is the following goal: Valentina Gomez, The Next Missouri Secretary of State.

Can you share something surprising about yourself?
Valentina and I are ambassadors for Atlantic Counter Trafficking (ACT). An organization led by former Special Operations personnel, military, and Law enforcement to help eradicate Human Trafficking across the United States and, hopefully, the world! Besides this, I have appeared on the news in Spain for having helped save the life of someone with a compound leg fracture after falling. I have also been on the side of life. I was unable to save the life of a navy shipman who drowned at the beach where I was playing soccer with a couple of friends.

Here's another article from 2019 where he talks about buying his family a house in 2018 (not where Valentina currently lives) and also mentions helping buy his parents a car.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/11/realestate/11hunt-gomez.html (Can't archive due to there being parts you have to click to read all of it that don't work in an archive.)

Faggot is a campaign slogan for her. It's almost like 4chan came to life and decided to run a campaign in a female body.

That's what many people said about Trump. We need as many based politicians as possible. (And I mean in every country, since I'm in the UK so "we" doesn't just mean USA.) Trump should just be the stepping stone and others need to step up to the next level.

Somebody’s gotta open a parenting thread on this website, Jesus Christ.

Nick Rekieta?

So Mark and Elon, owners of the two biggist social media platforms that were instramental in giving the Dems 2020 have come out and said they censored.

I can only assume this means Trump has been given the greenlight to be in office again?

Elon didn't buy Twitter until October 2022. He had nothing to do with it. In fact he literally bought Twitter to get rid of the censorship. (Although there's still a little.)

Girls in boy scouts, in theory, isn't actually that bad.

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I guess he's a DC guy. I was actually going to post that they're like the MAGA Avengers.

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Yup, I'm fucking radicalized. TND.

If Trump gets cheated out of the election again he should just declare himself the Undocumented President and create an Undocumented Government.

Dayum dis Kumala beeeotch is so incapable that she can't even handle being interviewed by Dana fuckin Bash solo, she has to have Walz there to help her out

That's like Stalin being interviewed by Pravda but he can't handle it without Molotov there lmao

What would he do? Serve drinks?

Something wild that got lost in all this was France refusing to certify the election results and macron not recognizing the new government because it's dangerous to France.

Between this and arresting the telegram guy He's going full dictator. I can't even find any articles or happenings on this.

To be fair, a literal commie government would be pretty dangerous to France.

As much as I oppose regime change ops, democracy clearly isn't working in Mexico and I'd be perfectly fine with some noncompromised military leader taking charge as long as they crush the cartels and don't make the citizens' lives enough hell that they try jumping the border.

Why not just declare the cartels terrorists and send the US military in to take them out? The Mexican government shouldn't complain and if they do and try to fight the US military, well, they've only got 250,000 troops, not that many military vehicles and no military aircraft, so how would that end?

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Dealing with the cartels in my opinion is simply a matter of better border security. Cartels are in the drug business for money. Limit the amount of drugs they can get in and you erode their profits. Eventually they'll get the message.

Cartels aren't a one trick pony. They have a lot of businesses and schemes both legal and illegal. Winning the drug war would take a big bite out of revenue, but they can adapt and continue being a dominating force in Mexico.

 

[Mr Bunny]

it'd have been nice to live in the era of American comfy instead of constantly bouncing from one politically driven crisis to the next.

The 70's & 80's while better in some areas wasn't exactly all sunshine and rainbows. The 70's had bombing campaigns. The real issue is a lack of culture that can endure political crisis'.

 

[AnotherPleb]

It might seem bad, but consider the benefits: no mean tweets.

Well, until this week.

Probably due to pure error instead of malice

You give them far more credit than I am willing to.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-harris-agree-mute-mics-sept-10-us-presidential-debate-trump-says-2024-08-27/

https://archive.ph/GG05Q

The Harris campaign and DNC shit themselves and have backed out (for the second time in a few days) on the rules they agreed to (twice now) for the ABC debate

Real clown show hours. Trump has changed his position zero times, debate on ABC September 10th with the same rules as the CNN debate vs Joe

Kumala agreed. Then she didn't. Then she did. Now she isn't again. All in like 72 hours

And then they just keep taunting Trump over it with zero self-awareness. This is r/politics running a major party presidential campaign

And still, and in perpetuity, you can never hate journalists enough. Trump said he preferred uninterrupted live mics but he had agreed to the same setup as the Joe debate and he was sticking with that. Reuters doesn't refer to that part of Trump's remarks to create the false impression that he has also backed out on the debate rules. He has not

Remember how Trump asked Kamala for three debates: 4th. 10th, and the 28th? Remember? Remember how Kamala cucked about the first one being the one with Joe? And now she can't even commit to one!

She's desperate to back out because this is the second time in her entire career where she's had to face an actual opponent on the national stage. You really think she's forgotten what happened when Tulsi torpedoed her presidential ambitions in 2020?

 

[VanyaMotorbike]

Cartels aren't a one trick pony. They have a lot of businesses and schemes both legal and illegal. Winning the drug war would take a big bite out of revenue, but they can adapt and continue being a dominating force in Mexico.

A big drop in drug revenue would mean they increase their extortion of the Mexican populace to compensate. Even while they're making their money on drugs they exploit and abuse local businesses. That would get significantly worse if you mess with their drug trafficking income.

It's always said, by people like El Mamito (One of the original Zetas) in his court trial, that the greatest expense for cartels is bribery. Even while making hundreds of millions, and with all their operating costs, most of their money gets spent on corrupting the authorities. While that income from drug trafficking is largely funnelled into the government it's obviously going to undermine efforts to solve the problem. Journalists like Anabel Hernandez have done an amazing job exposing the sheer amount of government/police/military support that enables the cartels

 

[Jade Philosophies]

I was thinking he could actually bring pictures but apparently Trump negotiated no notes now.

Has anyone edited deadpool and wolverine with Trump and rfk yet?

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Just watched a clip of RFK Jr saying that other (former) Democrats will endorse Trump. Was he talking about Tulsi, or is there anybody else that might join team MAGA?

The hope--and I do stress hope--is that actual centrists and other fence sitters follow their lead. Types that vote third party. While I agree that the Libertarians have been tapped, I doubt it extends further than that. Centrists at this point are incredibly cowardly if not closet Leftists. Their entire philosophy is to avoid trouble at all costs and will avoid MAGA even when it's in their best interests.

Dealing with the cartels in my opinion is simply a matter of better border security. Cartels are in the drug business for money. Limit the amount of drugs they can get in and you erode their profits. Eventually they'll get the message.

I'm not opposed to mining the entire border, but drug cartels are more than just suppliers that impose their product on desperate niggers; it's the normalization of drug use in general that creates the demand for drugs in the first place. Cartel drugs isn't just Fentanyl, but also marijuana grown in the desert of California. Growing and distributing unlicensed drugs is a misdemeanor in that state, so it's a safe place to build marijuana farms. The reason why there's still illegal weed floating around is because the government got greedy and made legal weed more expensive than illegal weed. And why is there a market in the first place? Because Boomers and Gen Xers and Libertarians love the Devil's Lettuce. Note that Singapore or Japan don't have this kind of problem because they punish customers harshly and thus, destroy the demand side of that market. That's just impossible in the US.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

So you ended up asking a question to test the link and sure enough it doesn't disprove the possible link (

. Beyond all the focus on the US also feels like a massive disapproval of your theory. Europeans shouldn't even know what autism is, if it's truly linked to diabetes. It should be as American as down syndrome to our European friends.

Are you ready going to say autism is absurdly rare on mainland Europe?

Then there's the fact that the state with the highest rate of autism is California. Tell me is California known for its citizens being unhealthy fucks, I have a hard time believing California is the state with the most diabetics or even prediabetics. Like when you think of the most unhealthy state in the US is it California by a country mile?

While I do feel you are very much on the right track. The track itself doesn't jive with what is known about diabetes country and state breakdowns, and that data should be much easier to find than racial breakdowns.

For instance Mexico is the fastest country on earth, yet at no point do we see them remotely being he leaders in autism.

 

[TroonFiringSquad]

If Kamala and Tampon Tim win I won't be that mad about it (aside from missing out on the schadenfreude) because it means he'll be gone from Minnesota and we will have another chance to flip the state red later. It's been a while since that happened though.

Don't people understand how much schadenfreude will be lost if Trump doesn't win? It's a tragedy. I don't even really want to think about it.

 

[Ensi]

As much as I oppose regime change ops, democracy clearly isn't working in Mexico and I'd be perfectly fine with some noncompromised military leader taking charge as long as they crush the cartels and don't make the citizens' lives enough hell that they try jumping the border.

Mexico would never agree to US intervention in their own country. That is like allowing African nations to intervening in the US against white supremacists. It's also unfortunate that the cartels may never go away since violent gangs is built in beaner DNA. As harsh as this sounds, the only solution to the cartels is systemically genocide the mexican people and replace it with your own people ala Isreal colonizing Palestine

 

[teriyakiburns]

if it's truly linked to diabetes

He didn't say it's linked to diabetes; he said it's linked to metabolic dysfunction, of which type 2 and gestational diabetes are common but not universal symptoms. You're the one shrinking it down to "diabetes causes autism".