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

 

[Cemetery Support]

Trump needs to bring Barron on a podcast

I think Barron is right to stay out of all this mess, and Trump is a good father to send him away during election season.

 

[John Badman]

I think Barron is right to stay out of all this mess, and Trump is a good father to send him away during election season.

It’ll be useful to show how normal Barron is compared to Kamala’s thot daughter and gay son.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

If the libs had been right about a bunch of the stuff they'd said, I'd be a liberal right now!

I think the biggest issue surrounding this is the sunken cost fallacy. Using the list of examples from @Diana Moon Glampers' post, so many things were touted and implemented as good ideas that would solve all our social problems only to fail miserably. Most people might realize at some point that sinking additional money and resources into something ineffective is a bad idea, cut bait/take their losses, and figure out something different that might work better. What we get instead is doubling down, more waste of resources, and the insistence that anyone opposed to such is somehow a bad person for pointing out the obvious - all because nobody wants to admit these ideas were tried without the expected success and it's now time to try something else.

Universal pre-K is a jobs program in disguise. Anyone with a house-sized building can hire a bunch of uncredentialed moms, buy some books, and throw up a sign "free pre-K program!" in the front lawn. They basically get paid to do daycare at above-average rates directly from the state, politicians get to pretend they're spending money on education, and busy parents get free daycare for a year. It's an "everybody wins" scam funded by taxpayers who don't know enough about the scam to object to it.

Universal Pre-K seems like one of those ideas that started off with good intentions (getting younger kids off to a good educational start) only to became politicized to the point the only people that benefit from the program are the ones making money off of it. It's unsurprising to see how many good ideas suffer a reverse Midas Touch once the politicians get their proverbial hands on them.

Banks got the mother of surcharges from the public after 2008. And we all know banks play with surcharges and billing dates to fuck over customers that are just trying to wrangle their meagar finances.

All that needs to be said about surcharges is that banks structure them so that they're a nice little revenue stream for them and they hate seeing that stream controlled by regulations.

Billing dates are ridiculous. I know someone who had a due date of X and made a payment on Day X only to have it deemed late because the payment actually had to be made on Day X minus one in order to be paid on time.

Adding to this point, there are so many obscure rules and regulations banks can hide behind to justify their fuckery. As an example, there's some sort of law that apparently allows the government to delay depositing the final social security check earned by a deceased spouse for up to six months. When asked, bank staff simply cite the law without further explanation and tell people to wait out the six months - never mind that seniors on a tight budget may need that money now to cover bills and daily expenses.

Sadly, though, the banks have enough influence and lobbyists to largely get what they want. When things go south, banking instutions use "We're too big to fail/shut down" to get little more than a slap on the wrist and a bailout by regulators and Congress.

Surprisingly, this worked better than trying to have a bunch of girlbosses scold people into compliance, like the Biden admin did in Niger. But it also means you don't try to push people around except when you're willing to really push them around.

If I recall, this is how Trump managed to get a dialog with Kim Jong Un. When the latter saber rattled at the US, Trump pushed back with his own saber rattling rhetoric. Kim Jong Un apparently felt it was better to have an in-personal talk with Trump than to fuck around and find out Trump meant business.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Kamala looking to do her own Piper Perri moment.

Pretty sure Kamala Harris blazed that trail before Piper Perri was born.

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This is one of the worst precedents in decades. Is this dude the second or third to be hauled in on this bullshit?

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

It’ll be useful to show how normal Barron is compared to Kamala’s thot daughter and gay son.

We shouldn't have to prove normality of children in politics one way or another. You have to get to hunter biden levels of obviously covered fuckup before I start to associate their bullshit with the actual candidate.

When in doubt, as always, Leave The Children Alone.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Pretty sure Kamala Harris blazed that trail before Piper Perri was born.


This is one of the worst precedents in decades. Is this dude the second or third to be hauled in on this bullshit?

Parents should be charged for negligence in gun security. This is 80% their fault.

 

[mlanguishi]

This is one of the worst precedents in decades. Is this dude the second or third to be hauled in on this bullshit?

I think 2nd after Crumbly. I'm not a fan of the idea arresting parents usually. Especially if they steal your weapon. But buying one for some kid after the FBI showed up checking on him? Well.. That's a bit like giving your car keys to your 14 year old that's obviously drunk. I'm about as pro-guns as it gets, but even I just can't agree with actually handing a weapon to a deranged kid like that. 2nd degree murder? Nope. But accessory I'd said is warranted to at least charge with.

 

[0713]

If you must have a long discussion on whether or not Musk has graduated college, please do so in Mass Debates, or here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/elon-reeve-musk.134949/

I'm pretty sure my post talking about Musk and Twitter/X role in political matters didn't have to be moved. There was barely a mention about Musk's personal character in there.

It's pretty relevant that people be reminded that Twitter's role in burying all the stuff about Covid "misinformation" and the Hunter laptop story had significant impact on the previous election and the Covid policies based on lies, that fucked people over.
And how now, under the new management that pushes true free speech, it's a big deal to help people find uncensored information, especially in an election year. Normies don't go to the farms, they go to Facebook and Twitter/X.

 

[Grug]

Parents should be charged for negligence in gun security. This is 80% their fault.

I'm curious, is "safely storing firearms" a legal requirement anywhere in the US?
I think Lockpicking lawyer mentioned once that gun stores (in some places) are required to sell a safe with every handgun or something, but it doesn't seem like people talk about it a lot.
By contrast in my country you're legally required to, IIRC, store firearms unloaded in a safe, either mounted into the house or weighing at least X kg, so it can't be removed easily.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I think Lockpicking lawyer mentioned once that gun stores (in some places) are required to sell a safe with every handgun or something, but it doesn't seem like people talk about it a lot.

idk about a safe but every gun I've ever bought included one of these



I assume it's a requirement in enough jurisdictions that it's easier to include the lock with every gun rather than try to make compliant skus like they do with the states that have capacity limits etc

At least a few states do have safe storage requirements, and a few more with safe storage requirements at least for households with children (by safe I mean secure, not a gunsafe, I don't know of any where a lock of some kind is insufficient)

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I'm curious, is "safely storing firearms" a legal requirement anywhere in the US?
I think Lockpicking lawyer mentioned once that gun stores (in some places) are required to sell a safe with every handgun or something, but it doesn't seem like people talk about it a lot.
By contrast in my country you're legally required to, IIRC, store firearms unloaded in a safe, either mounted into the house or weighing at least X kg, so it can't be removed easily.

Every new gun comes with a cable lock that's immediately tossed in the bin.

[Dude above beat me by a millisecond]

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

I am reading that his dad gifted him AR-15 for Christmas.

lol what.

 

[Aldeland]

If I recall, this is how Trump managed to get a dialog with Kim Jong Un. When the latter saber rattled at the US, Trump pushed back with his own saber rattling rhetoric. Kim Jong Un apparently felt it was better to have an in-personal talk with Trump than to fuck around and find out Trump meant business.

One of the previous times US truly "saber rattled" at Best Korea before trump was a hilarious incident over a tree trimming and both Koreas not really understanding the scope of what the US considers an "appropriate response."

Spoiler: Entertaining Video on Incident

Wikipedo Link for additional reading

 

[0713]

Forget the gun charges. His 14yo son was a tranny. Both parents should be hanged.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Why do all tech companies decide to incorporate in one of the most retarded states in the union? I'm glad X was found likely to succeed on a 1A appeal, but ideally they should have operated in a state that never would have passed a law like this.

William Shockley's aging mother needed help around the house. William went to help her. She lived in IIRC Mountain View.

He couldn't get Bell Labs to try silicon transistors, so he quit and formed his own company. All his engineers hated him, quit, and formed their own company. Silicon infrastructure was built there that exists nowhere else in the United States, and all because one asshole's mommy lived in a sleepy part of Northern California. That woman's existence and illness was responsible for tens of trillions of dollars in development that would, in less than a century, change every inhabitable square inch of land for a fifty mile radius around her home.

 

[Jade Philosophies]

Ahaha holy shiiiiittt you actually think Putin won't die in office in his 80s????

Goddamn dude

He already left his party, United Russia, and ran as an independent in 2018 (and again this year) with the support of United Russia. Notice that was in the middle of Trump's Presidency? I think Trump was probably helping Putin and first Poroshenko (who became President in 2014 shortly after the coup) then Zelensky when he was elected in 2019 negotiate some kind of deal and Putin wanted it to be the last thing he did before he left office. Remember that they impeached Trump for talking to Zelensky right after Zelensky was elected and asking him what was going on with Crowdstrike in Ukraine and asking him to reopen the investigation into Burisma and not immediately giving Ukraine all the money and weapons Poroshenko had wanted prior to Zelensky being elected? They were claiming it was the same "quid pro quo" as what Biden did when Vice President when he withheld $1 billion unless Poroshenko got rid of the prosecutor investigating Burisma. (So then why wasn't Biden impeached?) Which is obviously ridiculous and I don't think I need to point out why. But then Trump "lost" and the Biden administration no doubt just went back to taking control of Ukraine and antagonising Russia via ramping up the attacks on Donbas and pushing for Ukraine to join NATO which lead to the war and Putin couldn't really decide not to run again in a middle of a war, even though he had said previously that he hadn't decided whether or not he wanted to run again after the term limit law was changed. (And the term limit change wasn't proposed by Putin it was proposed by the ex-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who is a politician now. Then it was voted on by the the public in a referendum.)

 

[quaawaa]

William Shockley's aging mother needed help around the house. William went to help her. She lived in IIRC Mountain View.

He couldn't get Bell Labs to try silicon transistors, so he quit and formed his own company. All his engineers hated him, quit, and formed their own company. Silicon infrastructure was built there that exists nowhere else in the United States, and all because one asshole's mommy lived in a sleepy part of Northern California. That woman's existence and illness was responsible for tens of trillions of dollars in development that would, in less than a century, change every inhabitable square inch of land for a fifty mile radius around her home.

Also, California wasn't crazy until relatively recently. Back when Silicon Valley actually did stuff with silicon, California was a well-run state.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

By contrast in my country you're legally required to, IIRC, store firearms unloaded in a safe, either mounted into the house or weighing at least X kg, so it can't be removed easily.

Interesting.

Fuck your country.

 

[0713]

the Biden administration no doubt just went back to taking control of Ukraine and antagonising Russia via ramping up the attacks on Donbas and pushing for Ukraine to join NATO which lead to the war and Putin couldn't really decide not to run again in a middle of a war

Holy fuck
If someone ever thought the Left had a monopoly on mental impairment and reality bending, here's proof that the Right can compete toe to toe with them.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

I'm pretty sure my post talking about Musk and Twitter/X role in political matters didn't have to be moved. There was barely a mention about Musk's personal character in there.

It's pretty relevant that people be reminded that Twitter's role in burying all the stuff about Covid "misinformation" and the Hunter laptop story had significant impact on the previous election and the Covid policies based on lies, that fucked people over.
And how now, under the new management that pushes true free speech, it's a big deal to help people find uncensored information, especially in an election year. Normies don't go to the farms, they go to Facebook and Twitter/X.

Your comment was 5 paragraphs. Of them only 1 of them was related to US politics.

He already left his party, United Russia, and ran as an independent in 2018 (and again this year) with the support of United Russia. Notice that was in the middle of Trump's Presidency? I think Trump was probably helping Putin and first Poroshenko (who became President in 2014 shortly after the coup) then Zelensky when he was elected in 2019 negotiate some kind of deal and Putin wanted it to be the last thing he did before he left office. Remember that they impeached Trump for talking to Zelensky right after Zelensky was elected and asking him what was going on with Crowdstrike in Ukraine and asking him to reopen the investigation into Burisma and not immediately giving Ukraine all the money and weapons Poroshenko had wanted prior to Zelensky being elected? They were claiming it was the same "quid pro quo" as what Biden did when Vice President when he withheld $1 billion unless Poroshenko got rid of the prosecutor investigating Burisma. (So then why wasn't Biden impeached?) Which is obviously ridiculous and I don't think I need to point out why. But then Trump "lost" and the Biden administration no doubt just went back to taking control of Ukraine and antagonising Russia via ramping up the attacks on Donbas and pushing for Ukraine to join NATO which lead to the war and Putin couldn't really decide not to run again in a middle of a war, even though he had said previously that he hadn't decided whether or not he wanted to run again after the term limit law was changed. (And the term limit change wasn't proposed by Putin it was proposed by the ex-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who is a politician now. Then it was voted on by the the public in a referendum.)

My good man, have you heard of paragraphs, and maintaining coherent trains of thought? That aside, I realize that US involvement in Ukraine is part of US political apparatus, but this post seems more like a barely disguised attempt at Russian (not American) politics.