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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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I watched it when Vance was announced as VP. Extremely average movie, some good performances, but it's very cliche and nothing new.
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I find it fascinating that your idea of unity is a one-party state. But that aside I hope you understood what I was getting at halfway through typing this response.
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This video was the first thing to pop into my head
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Now that we had some time for the spin to kick in, here is a "subtle" one I spotted. We all know what the iconic faces were during the debate but CBS decided to flip it with Tim being smug and they clip JD mid talking to make him look slackjawed.
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MIC is roughly 16% of the US' annual budget. How much you want to cut it by, 25%? So 4% of the US' annual budget?
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I suggest winning three times over. I suggest letting policy speak for itself. A dictatorship has been tried in America and failed with FDR. I look not to the past but the future. One term Trump, two Vance. The democrats are a dying party with no heir. I don't think they could survive such a resurgent economy and young president with Vance.
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And risk upsetting Sam Hyde by stealing his kill? Are you insane?
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This is why:
Defense is only 13% of spending. ~80% of spending is welfare or interest.
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Can confirm that this is pretty standard.
What makes this particularly heinous and depressing, though, are the cameras. I would never let a close loved one in that condition be filmed like that or have a photo of them like that taken. Literally nobody wants to be remembered that way.
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To be fair, a mod was assmad enough back in the day to rename the oldest version of the thread to Biden Derangement Syndrome.
I know because I'm the guy who requested that the OP change it back to see what happened, and if memory serves I was told someone got mad at him for it.
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Do you want to tell everyone how big the US's annual budget is?
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What part of this is realistic though.
If one party remains in control for a decade I'd call that a decade of existence as a one-party state.
The Republicans are a dying party with no heir either. I will not vote for the jeet, the doe-eyed Yale graduate, nor any other establishment-connected politician - and I know I'm far from the only person who's voting Trump for Trump, not because he's a Republican or even necessarily because he's right-wing. Personally I more or less plan on returning to third-party or write-in votes.
This is the wall, the insurmountable problem that plants itself in every explanation of "how to fix the U.S.", there's always some extreme stretching of logic, probability, or both regardless of which coordinate on the political compass the answer comes from. Including any and all that I personally believe in, so don't take this as some kind of 'attack' or criticism I'm exempting myself from.
Nobody has any fucking answers and yet people get pissed at those who notice that.
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You're right that people like Walz should be opposed and no one should forget the fucked up shit him and others did during COVID. However, a lot of the overreaching police state stuff that Walz did in Minnesota was due to St. Floyd, not COVID - the famous video of National Guard soldiers shooting people with paintballs was over a riot curfew regarding Floyd, not COVID restrictions.
All I was saying was that I find Walz more palatable than Kamala and I liked that he was actually polite and respectful to Vance. I honestly wasn't expecting you to hit me with a collection of finest hits from Minneapolis.
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To the Victor goes the spoils. Why should the democrats share any of that? They want your children raped and killed and think it's funny. They deserve to fall.
I gave you a answer. It's how it would have to happen barring a miracle. You don't like the people heading it so it fails in your mind. I can't help you with that. The Vance I saw last night was the heir to everything Trump has built. He's young, sharp, but a little rough around the edges. Perfect for what is to come. If you wish to doom about it, fine. But you asked what it would take to fix the US. I told you. It's bitter medicine.
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SOCIAL SECURITY IS A PYRAMID SCHEME.
It is going to implode, If you are younger than 50 you probably aren't going to get the money you are paying into the system back.
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Politics is basically just like professional wrestling. Fake, in the sense that it's all set up and scripted. Which is why they hate Trump as he didn't want to follow the script and instead wanted to fight and win for real.
Did Trump ask JD Vance to be his Vice President in 2021 then?
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If I recall the proposed solutions to stop it from crumbling down are to either tax people more or raise the retirement age so that's nice.
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I've worked for the MIC before and it's usually a union shop with good pay and benefits, for all the problems of having a for-profit military industry it creates a lot of working class wealth in the US. You don't build a military by just lighting a giant pile of money on fire in an arcane ceremony, lmao
Something like a fighter jet requires thousands of man-hours to build and even more to maintain, to say nothing of the suppliers for the defense manufacturers. The last defense contractor I worked at, the mechanic payscale topped out at about $46/hr and you could attain that with just a high school diploma
If you spend taxpayer funds on weapons, you get a big pile of weapons to enforce our hegemony and a bunch of good-paying blue and white collar jobs that in turn supports the tax base
If you spend taxpayer funds on gibs, you get a crapshoot. Maybe it helps people, maybe it makes them complacent and dependent and doesn't solve the problems it targeted, maybe it does some mixture of the two. I'm not even arguing against some social programs, but the money spent on building and maintaining a large fighting force hardly just disappears into the aether. It pays companies and their workers to build tangible goods, and funds the fighting force which welds those weapons. That money ultimately goes back into the economy either as taxes, investments, or spent wages
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