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

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Trump going on Joe Rogan to praise William McKinley and say tariffs are more beautiful than love, was not on ANYONE'S bingo card.

Don't you mean William "Proto-Hitler" McKinley? Adolf definitely looked up to him (and even dedicated Mein Kampf to him), so it's unsurprising Trump would also admire his hero's hero!

Wasnt the jre interview meant for Harris? Did she back out last minute or something?

Rogan was going to do both candidates but Kamala backed out. The rumor is that because she wouldn't agree to the unscripted format that Rogan uses and wanted to have a pre-approved set of topics.

 

[FieldPiece]

A bit off topic, but "East Coast Boomer" is the perfect descriptor for my uncle. He had a literal shrine to Bruce Springsteen in his house. It was an entire room full of memorabilia he would retreat to in order ot bask in the glory of the The Boss.

We haven't talked in years (not out of disdain), but I wonder if when he saw this he wept. Were they tears of joy or pain in recognizing that one's living god was wrapped in flesh as weak and mortal as our own.

Worshipping Bruce Springsteen of all musicians is baffling to me. Worshipping musicians in general is weird but Bruce Springsteen is the most mid shit out there, it's like the people who love U2, I just don't get it. Hell I adore Ween and I still wouldn't buy any memorabilia of them, maybe a shirt or hat with Boognish on it but that's it. They're also partially responsible for SpongeBob and don't shove political bullshit in your face so they have that over most musicians I guess.

 

[HandsomeDan]

So what is the Democrats' solution over the problem of having too many celebrities stump for them, why have more B-list celebrities stump for them.
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That saddens me, I actually used to like to watch Whose Line is it Anyway...

 

[Quiet Guy]

You mean Universe as Kid Buu is the second most dangerous pink murder machine in fiction.

Who is the most dangerous?

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No wonder he keeps avoiding Assassinations, He got the Ope Ope Fruit.

I didn't know Trump could hold multiple devil fruits. He must be like Blackbeard. He gas both the Ope Ope no Mi and Hito Hito no Mi Model Nika.

 

[Nobunaga]

Allegedly her team wanted to approve all questions and topics beforehand.

I would understand if they were any other podcaster/show, but fucking manlet rogan just lets people talk about retarded shit while ocassionally talking about ayy's, weed, ufc or chimps and then just telling his pet nigger to pull up the first result on google every 40 minutes

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

That saddens me, I actually used to like to watch Whose Line is it Anyway...

I think it's important to be able to separate entertainment from the politics of its creators. Otherwise you go into the same insane purity spiral that shitlibs have for the last eight years where you disown all your friends and family and generally ruin your life over the rich guy who had a cameo in Home Alone.

 

[Catboy Ranch]

Wasnt the jre interview meant for Harris? Did she back out last minute or something?

He would not accept a condition to read off topics from a talksheet.

It would have been really funny if he decided to read it from paper and hold the paper up to the camera and put his readers on and read from the paper in monotone. No banter.

Like it's the question tank from SVU.

 

[Nuns with guns]

So what is the Democrats' solution over the problem of having too many celebrities stump for them, why have more B-list celebrities stump for them.
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They ran out of funds.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Kamablah set a record that only elites can set, shortest private jet flight. 3 Miles, mom's spaghetti:

WaPo cartoonist doing something stunning and brave, many snaps and jazz hands:



This one hit, took me a few seconds to compose myself:



edit: they're so desperate they're photoshopping Kamablah working at McDowell's

 

[0713]

JD Vance is on Tim Dillon right now

Tim Dillon is a retarded fag.
Love JD, but hard pass.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

Rogan was going to do both candidates but Kamala backed out. The rumor is that because she wouldn't agree to the unscripted format that Rogan uses and wanted to have a pre-approved set of topics.

The official explanation is scheduling errors—I believe Rogan briefly discusses it during his conversation with Trump. But the rumors suggest it was the lack of control over the discussion that turned off her team. Which explanation you believe is up to you.

It's truly a shame she refuses to do it. There's a lot of things about Harris as a person that are worth talking about. She comes from an immigrant mixed race background, spent her formative years growing up in Quebec, and then attended a HBCU in a far away state. Just from a basic human point of view, there's a story there that's far more interesting and compelling than the bullshit the DNC wrote for her.

Why doesn't she know French? How was growing up in Quebec for a half black girl? Why go to a black school when she obviously didn't have to? Was she trying to compensate or connect with a group that she didn't really grow up in? Why spend her political career in California? What was dealing with California politics like? What was dealing with SF politics like? What forces were at work that resulted in her not marrying or having kids? What is her actual religious outlook when she grew up with a Hindu mother and a Christian father? She spent some of her childhood in Africa—what was that like for the family? What was her family's reaction to her wanting to be a lawyer? Does she actually care about sports? What teams does she root for, and why? And, of course, drilling down into her actual political principles, beliefs, and plans.

None of that is available through the mainstream media and it's a shame for the voter that we can't actually know these things. I still wouldn't vote for her, but I'd like to know the information so I can properly evaluate her character.

 

[Nuns with guns]

I just can’t imagine Kamala on Joe Rogan. Even the Call Her Daddy girl looked so bored when she had Kamala. Let’s say Kamala agreed to basically just roll with it: what the fuck would she talk about? She would be laughing nervously and Joe would be on suicide watch. I don’t think that this woman can even carry a normal conversation for more than one minute.

 

[mlanguishi]

I'm taking some time away to watch a great RLM Best of the Worst, but then saw this. Epic trolling.

https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850181617433600222

(It's so nice to see conservatives have a major platform they can shitpost on like this and not get banned)

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Wait OMG Joe Rogan hosted Fear Factor???????

Only on that one episode of Chappelle's Show.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

The ERB rap has proven what has already been proven over and over, that they have exhausted absolutely everything negative to say about Trump. I even tried thinking of better lines for Kamala, stuff that hasn't been said before, and couldn't.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I know what it is and don't care.

Many such cases. Sad!

My point is that Milley does have a few legit medals. That one badge is an example.

I agree that medal inflation is a thing and it's shitty that combat veterans walk out after 4 years with a few participation ribbons and a destroyed body while career military desk jobbers get 8 Bronze Stars and 15 ARCOMs. It's horrible that there are military leaders who are nothing more than diversity hires (Levine) and globohomo hacks (Milley).

I feel like I've been pretty clear on this and if that's not enough for you, then so be it, but this topic should have died days ago and I'm tired of talking about it.

Wasnt the jre interview meant for Harris? Did she back out last minute or something?

Trump schlonged her. If Trump goes on Hot Ones before election day, I am fairly certain that the Internet will get turned off.

All this arguing over how to figure EV energy consumption is actually horseshit because Say's Law, which says supply creates its own demand, applies to energy. Electric cars have zero effect on global petroleum demand. The number of gallons of oil that do not get burned as a result of EV mandates is
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Look at Norway. It's one of the heaviest EV-using countries in Europe. Did it cut its oil production? No, it actually is seeking to increase its oil production. That oil is just shipped elsewhere to be burned, because oil is always useful to someone, somewhere. The climate doesn't care if you moved the oil over the border before you burned it.

The major issue with EVs is the energy required to extract the required materials, manufacture the parts, ship them around, and put it all together makes the net benefit of the vehicles a moot point. EVs are also around 1.5x heavier than ICEs and tear up the roads, which requires maintenance (energy expenditure) and EVs don't buy gas, so no gas tax income which is meant to upkeep the roads that EVs destroy much faster.

I'm all for renewable, but the current logistics of it are completely bass-ackwards. Not to mention that all of the recent attempts to mine while not polluting the environment through new technologies and land management failed (Talvivaara mine in Finland), and mining for strategic cobalt in Africa by EU companies fuels African wars.

We could get this stuff in Western countries, but environmentalists stop it. They don't stop it in poorer countries because their soldiers kill them - these things make serious money and the leaders of African, Asian, and Pacific Island countries want it.

Don't you mean William "Proto-Hitler" McKinley?

You might be thinking of Woodrow Wilson. He was the closest we got to fascism. FDR wasn't as much of a police state asshole as Wilson - people actually liked FDR.

 

[Clotso Coof]

Groups like Justice Democrats started going after succession candidates - the Dems who were intended to, when the time was right, replace some of the elder Arch-Liches in congress that had been there longer than many of this forum have been alive. Many of these candidates were some of the most ambitious and capable ones the DNC had, picked specifically to take over for party movers and shakers,

This is an underappreciated problem for the Democrats. While the GOP has JD Vance young talent in the wings, the Democrats tossed out their rising mainstream talent in favor of AOC style maniacs who can't get elected to the Senate or Presidency.

White liberal women really have a deep seething hatred for babies

I went to an upscale area of a shitlib city with a baby in a stroller. Every single black, hispanic and Asian woman smiled at the baby as they walked by. Most men, too.

Maybe half the white women ignored the baby, a quarter smiled and the remaining quarter actually glared at the baby. They gave a silent baby fucking death stares like they wanted to punch it. It was honestly scary and I never brought a baby into the "nice area" of this city again.

Grog sat down with that annoying NYT podcast host who Vance fucked up, and points out the obvious that PA is Trumpland, and you're being stupid to ignore it

He's right about "the intensity" of support for Trump. It's undeniable, and the Democrats have ignored it at their peril.

Maybe 15 percent of voters are rabid Trump supporters, but that's enough to be infectious in Republican heavy areas. If your neighbor Bob McNormal loves Trump, maybe Trump isn't Hitler after all?

The DNC put out a slurry of last minute events for Orlando

Are they trying to save a House seat, or is this just more pointless time wasting? Harris has been fucking around in red states while losing ground in crucial swing states.

 

[Nuns with guns]

I rewatched the Al Smith dinner clips from 2016 and 2024 and the difference is stark.

At first, they all took Trump as a joke. He cracked some funny jokes, especially a Melania one, but by the end he went on how corrupt Hilary is and completely roasted her. They were booing him.

In 2024, everybody is cheering for Trump. He’s got their attention and when he mentions he’s leading with Catholics, they all applaud and cheer.

I truly believe TDS is being cured, but the media doesn’t want you to know.

 

[Catboy Ranch]

Are they trying to save a House seat

Florida state house. Yep.

Florida is nearing the point where the Florida Dems will basically just shitpost while the Rs run it all.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

Trump schlongef her. If Trump goes on Hot Ones before election day, I am fairly certain that the Internet will get turned off.

He should go on talk tauh just to dab on the single catlady femcels.