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

 

[SchloppyI.T.Man]

That is actually what Trump used Bolton for before he fired him. Trump would bring Bolton along, he would get redder and angrier with each word with thst ridiculous white mustache, and the rep would start worrying Bolton would go to war right there with his fists.

Sadly Marico doesn't have that "IM GOING TO KILL YOU ALL" look Bolton does.

If it hasn't been reposted. I'd like to remind everyone Rubio threw a tremendous bitchfit in public trying to mock Trump in 2016

 

[Not Really Here]

The Sullivan case has key differences as to what's going with Alex Jones.

No, it doesn't. Sullivan is the standard applied to any public figure, regardless of their choice in becoming a public figure or not. It's why Zimmerman's suit against NBC was dismissed, the judge decided he was a public figure based on public notoriety alone.

The entire problem with Jones case, is the normal standards used for the last 50 years were thrown out the window just for him.

You're too ignorant, retarded, and black, to understand US law.

 

[Waifu Denier]

And I could be right about tariffs, but I also think there is somewhat of a pullback because more and more seem to understand that tariffs are a tax on Americans and won't fix shit, but again I support it because it is funny.

If you think tariffs are just a tax on Americans you've been listening to too much mainstream media, or mainstream economists like Krugman who preach the party line.
Tariffs were already recognized as an important tool of trade and economic development back to Alexander Hamilton and his Report on the Subject of Manufactures. Since then, even economic theories which have provided for the primacy of free trade since Ricardo have admitted that free trade has many possible deleterious effects, such as Heckscher–Ohlin and the implications on trade liberalization destroying sectors of the economy. This was even empirically studied as far back as 2013 with The China Syndrome by Autor, which found that the degree of import penetration by Chinese goods directly correlated with widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs, and even increases in most social ills such as suicide, drug addiction, etc.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

So, is it me, or are tariffs becoming a bit more toxic?
I know Trump has talked a lot about it, but I no longer see any clamoring for them.

Now, I still hope he implements them, but there does seem to be a pullback from them.

That's because everyone falls for the absolute midwit tier take that tariffs cause inflation. The problem is that our society is so economically illiterate, they're incapable of seeing how stupid that is. Nobody seems to understand how expensive overseas shipping is. Domestic manufacturing is so much better for everyone. You cannot be a nation relying solely on imports. It is completely impossible, even for a state thats the world's currency. It simply cannot be done. The idea the US can manufacture nothing is absolutely fucking ludicrous and can only be explained by a thinly veiled attempt to destroy the US. Tariffs will not impact you. Trump's aim is to lower taxes on you, and using tariffs to bolster revenue.

 

[Tanuki Mixed Nuts]

Elon plans to make a leaderboard of the dumbest examples of government spending:
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The DOGE needs a seal that looks not dogshit, please. Gimme something like the seal of the presidency. I know this dude just used Grok to generate it, so heres Bing AI's attempt.

I'm a big fan of the second from the left or the far right one.

 

[BigJoey41X]

It was one of his big talking points; he already has made it very clear with deportations, why not tariffs?

I'm not saying he should announce it, but he already talked about the other things he will do; why not tariffs?

Social Issues like immigration and gender war garbage are relatively easy points for conservatives to trash liberals on.

Tarriffs on every single import is a bit murkier, the era before WW2 was the last time tariff rates had been so high and we have been in a historic low since, and we don't really know how being this protectionist would affect a much more globally and economically interconnected United States this time, all we can do is hope is that the next administration would do something to compensate for the prices of consumer goods to stay down.

As much as dunking on trump supporters would be fun if prices gone up higher during his term, the bigger priority is my financial wellbeing.

 

[quaawaa]

The DOGE needs a seal that looks not dogshit, please. Gimme something like the seal of the presidency. I know this dude just used Grok to generate it, so heres Bing AI's attempt.
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I'm a big fan of the second from the left or the far right one.

At least Grok can spell.

 

[shekelshoah666]

Now I support Deportations as I think they are funny, but to Steelman them.

Deporting millions of people is, first of all, going to be a shit show of logistics, and then there is the issue of the jobs illegals perform that Americans do not want to do for the price.
Republican districts are more affected by this than many others, so there will be a pushback. However, I still support it as it is funny.

And I could be right about tariffs, but I also think there is somewhat of a pullback because more and more seem to understand that tariffs are a tax on Americans and won't fix shit, but again I support it because it is funny.

You remove criminals and the like + start removing benefits and you will see a lot of self deportation. You have illegals getting thousands a month + free room and board currently you cut that off and show you will deport and a lot will happen quick. The entire "jobs Americans won't do" is a long proven libtard talking point that is legit one of the more fucked up things you hear from MSM.

Tariffs are going to be used when we negotiate our trade deals with countries and we still have Trump era tariffs on certain goods right now that Biden even increased. We should not be running a negative trade deficit with any country and the fact that we have over 1 trillion deficit with the current admin is grounds for a coup.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

AP has called CA-27 for Democrats and CO-8 for Republicans. All the others are +3 or less, except for Alaska (+4) but it's not a majority yet and still 20% left to go. Ciscomani in AZ-6 still is holding on and increasing his lead a little bit. Only two are needed without flipping, with five in the lead.

It's a nail-biter, but I haven't seen much action other than the lead in CA-27 slip out of reach.

 

[The Saltening]

Trump saved my whole family from a house fire. He is not even in office and he is already saving lives. MAGA4EVER

 

[Betonhaus]

Honestly the Democrats really screwed the pooch with literally lying to their biggest donors. You don't fuck with the big money unless you are ready for the consequences.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Look, the thing about Vivek is that he's a Jeet striver, he will say all the things he thinks will get him the most power and prestige. If you let him anywhere near immigration he will do the needful, sell out America to India, and bring over unlimited worthless streetshitter biomass, because that's what they do. Do not for one second believe he is any different than any other currynigger just because he says the right things. That's how they get their foot in the door. Do Not Trust Jeets. Get that tattooed on the insides of your eyelids if you have to. Those worthless fucks are busy shitting in America's hat and the moment they're done with their plague of locust act on Canada and the rest of the Anglosphere they'll start here in America.

All y'all are worried about Africans and Jews, you should be worried about the 1.5 Billion subcontinental shit golems.

 

[FunPosting101]

Rubio has a lot to lose if he does a bad job and Trump fires him. He's giving up a cushy seat in the Senate for this. If he screws this up, his political career is over.

It's easy to keep Rubio on a pretty short leash here ... Just saying that to those who are afraid of him being a swamp rat.

It also wouldn't surprise me if Trump picked Rubio because of Rubio's long standing and consistent "tough on China" stance.

I think Rubio will be a good Secretary of State, I just would have preferred Gabbard, personally.

 

[The Saltening]

Look, the thing about Vivek is that he's a Jeet striver, he will say all the things he thinks will get him the most power and prestige. If you let him anywhere near immigration he will do the needful, sell out America to India, and bring over unlimited worthless streetshitter biomass, because that's what they do. Do not for one second believe he is any different than any other currynigger just because he says the right things. That's how they get their foot in the door. Do Not Trust Jeets. Get that tattooed on the insides of your eyelids if you have to. Those worthless fucks are busy shitting in America's hat and the moment they're done with their plague of locust act on Canada and the rest of the Anglosphere they'll start here in America.

All y'all are worried about Africans and Jews, you should be worried about the 1.5 Billion subcontinental shit golems.

Keep the jeets out of america. It is a good thing he is not appointed to immigration. I do not want more worthless curryniggers raping white women.

 

[The Last Stand]

I still think Kayleigh McEnany was the best press secretary I've ever seen. She's beautiful, witty, sharp, prepared, a dedicated mother, and takes no bullshit. She comes with a binder full of the press's hypocrisy, and you can tell she's about to drop a bomb when she flips it open as some NPC from MSNBC or CNN or whatever starts blabbering nonsense.

Yeah, okay. That's why Trump called her "milktoast" or some old man shit for some reason.

Personally, I think she's an airhead.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

As much as dunking on trump supporters would be fun if prices gone up higher during his term, the bigger priority is my financial wellbeing.

Trump's economic policies and positions make it virtually impossible for prices to see long term rises. I don't think you, or the majority of Americans for that matter, understand how much red tape and manufactured taxes there are in the US just to prevent manufacturing. Companies wouldn't be sending millions of dollars worth of wooden chairs to China just for some random chink sweatshop to screw the cushions in if it wasn't for a good reason. It's not because they have cheap labor. That's the midwit take. It's 2024 and I can have a cushion screwing machine designed and constructed. If it made sense, I'd never have to pay these chinks or the good ole boys in Burgerland. No, it's because there's tariffs and fines implemented into government legislation that costs me millions if I don't send these chairs overseas to have cushions screwed in. We wouldn't waste all this money if it didn't make sense. Yet, you have multiple alphabet agencies levying tariffs and fines like the fucking mafiosa to punish businesses that are American manufacturers. In addition, they're receiving benefits and tax breaks for pushing their businesses overseas.

That's why middle America is dead. Trump during his first term undid a lot of this red tape. Biden immediately put them all back. That's why his economy succeeded. America's Federal government is literally fining and taxing businesses into poverty. All you faggots huffing and puffing about tariffs need to remind yourselves of this.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

Tariffs will put be part of a negotiating position. He will make an example out of a couple of countries and goods categories to show hes not fucking around.

He will give waivers to countries that drop tariffs on the US (like France) or companies that make commitments to build factories in the US. He may take a shit on "US" companies that have moved all their stuff overseas except the headquarters.

Thats the stick.

The carrot will be slashed regulations and an attempt at tax benefits (but that requires congress).

Biggest flaw in the voiced plan is cheaper energy. He has to convince oil and energy companies to open new stuff despite the chance that Dems destroy all the work in 2029. Unless some miracle happens you cant open a nuclear plant by then and earliest new oil will be online is likely after the 26 mid terms.

Trump seems skittish on nuclear and i cant see him letting them go yolo on nuclear. Hope im wrong about that.

 

[BigJoey41X]

No, it doesn't. Sullivan is the standard applied to any public figure, regardless of their choice in becoming a public figure or not. It's why Zimmerman's suit against NBC was dismissed, the judge decided he was a public figure based on public notoriety alone.

The entire problem with Jones case, is the normal standards used for the last 50 years were thrown out the window just for him.

You're too ignorant, retarded, and black, to understand US law.

https://apnews.com/general-news-3347e342c924478980470288c01deaf3

"A Florida judge on Monday dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed by George Zimmerman against NBC and three reporters, saying the former neighborhood watch leader failed to show the network acted with malice."

I call bullshit on that personally, purposefully editing the 911 call has no other motive other than malice to wrongly frame a narrative around a controversial case, the most NBC did is fire two of the editors who did that and apologized for the mistake, but no, I didn't see anything about Zimmerman being a "public figure" as a reason to why the case was dismissed.

You're not wrong that the big news media networks tend to get away with much more than the little ones, must be better lawyers.

 

[UnKillFill]

If it hasn't been reposted. I'd like to remind everyone Rubio threw a tremendous bitchfit in public trying to mock Trump in 2016
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It is going to take a LOT to get me to start trusting that guy again. Even before Trump, he sold us out back in the Obama administration.

 

[Not Really Here]

You don't fuck with the big money unless you are ready for the consequences.

They criminally prosecuted a former US President, and extorted a sitting President out of his civil right to run for reelection, and you still think "Big Money" runs shit?
"Big Money" does whatever the fuck the party says, or it becomes nothing.

I can't believe people are still pushing the 1960's hippy dumbshit that the people in power demanding bribes, are under control of the people forced to pay the bribe.