US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[CharlesBarkley]

It's more that Elon is a target they've wanted for a while, DOGE probably scares them a bit and with Vivek out his position is weak, and this gives them something to keep the base revved up on while they figure out what the hell they're going to do.

Instead of wasting cash using bots on Reddit, they should just kick out troons and commies from the DNC silently and just hope the can do a platform next time on either saving the economy or revamping dying cities.

Like if democrats quit hiring corrupt niggers and managed to revitalize Detroit and Saint Louis? It would get the votes and a huge boost. Imagine blue leaders caring about their constituents and improving their home bases instead of trying to convince fat troons 24/7 online that republicans are le heckin’ Nazi or whatever.

 

[lol cow supreme]

Good find. We need more salt.

A very underused thread...

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/2025-u-s-president-donald-trump-inauguration-reactions.210090/

 

[WelperHelper99]

It's actually insane how Trump is signing hundreds of executive orders completely redrawing the political landscape in the US but the left is so distracted by Elon's autism they're not offering any pushback to what Trump is doing.

Redditors are fucking retarded.

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. I for one am glad the Redditors munch rocks.

 

[Onepumpplumpchump]

When is le orange man going to release the JFK files. Fuck all this noise man, that's the holy grail. I need to know.

Wouldn't be surprised if we get cucked out of getting that report again.

 

[Hitman One]

Wouldn't be surprised if we get cucked out of getting that report again.

I hate the CIA and George H. W. Bush so much it's unreal.

 

[Bucephalus]

Rubio just sworn in as SoS, he looks to Vance like he was pulled from a fire and given a second chance:

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This is the first time the secretary of state has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate since Colin Powell in 2001. Very nice to see.

 

[The Blue Morpho]

You do understand that keeping Trump is nothing but stalling for the inevitable downfall?
What do you think will happen when Trump's gone?
That's right. Back to good ol' status quo.

I'm always astonished to see how people naively celebrate something they have no control over. History has been set in motion for decades and the West has crossed its tipping point a while ago, demographically, ideologically, spiritually. Only thing that's keeping this sinking ship afloat is its economy that's been seriously undermined with the successive crisis and poor political decisions.

Enjoy the comfort of your delusion, it's only a matter of time for reality to catch up on you.
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The collapse of our evil empire is decades away, least of all because Trump is essentially a shot of adrenaline in its arm. I'm not delusional at all about what time it is and how fucked we are. But why doompost like a faggot when 1500 political prisoners have been freed? That's worth celebrating, no? Or, in your mind, maybe the only thing worth doing is stewing over how fucked we are on a long enough time-scale?

Actual insanity if you think that is in any way applicable to the modern political landscape. And nobody 'galvanized' when we were attacked first by China, followed by the government, followed by Groid rioters, with the 'ruling class'.

You're retarded if you don't think a highly publicized campaign of terror by the cartels wouldn't cause the American public to give Trump a blank check to kill them all with extreme prejudice.

If 9/11 were to happen today there'd be more dancing americans than dancing israelis. Take the glasses off.

Public opinion is not organic, its managed and cultivated. War fervor was manufactured for Ukraine in the space of a couple years, and that has nothing to do with the daily lives of Americans. You don't think Americans would be easy to prod into a war fervor if they were facing daily violence from cartel goons? Like honestly, you can't be this mentally buck-broken by a bunch of Aztec pagan nigger-savages hopped up on blow.

Is that your only consideration as to whether or not a war is worth it?

I think destroying the cartels is a worthwhile cause and in America's best interests. Mexico's too.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

You do understand that keeping Trump is nothing but stalling for the inevitable downfall?
What do you think will happen when Trump's gone?
That's right. Back to good ol' status quo.

I'm always astonished to see how people naively celebrate something they have no control over. History has been set in motion for decades and the West has crossed its tipping point a while ago, demographically, ideologically, spiritually. Only thing that's keeping this sinking ship afloat is its economy that's been seriously undermined with the successive crisis and poor political decisions.

Enjoy the comfort of your delusion, it's only a matter of time for reality to catch up on you.
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"Why wipe my ass today? It's going to just get dirty again tomorrow" type mindset.

 

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You will find subcultures that shout the idea of none conformity are the most conforming to their none conformity.

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It becomes a cesspit of scolding moralisers and gatekeepers who mostly desire order while claiming outwardly that there is no order. To bring the order under their control. If it was 200 years ago these types of people would be the religious extremists trying to ban Christmas for being too merry.

https://subhumans.bandcamp.com/track/powergames

A passing stranger dressed in black
With slogans painted on his back
Turned and stared and laughed and carried on
Another came and did the same
At first they made me feel ashamed
But then I realised what I had done

Without asking I had broke the rules
Without knowing, I had made them fools
By merely looking different
To those who knew the game
The unity was there to see
A mass of non-conformity
There's something wrong, or is it me?
But they all look just the same

 

[MirrorNoir]

It's really unfortunate how the punk movement has been taken over by conformists. It was always political, but the fact that "punks" go around trying to tell other people what to think, how to behave, and what to do is hilarious and sad. It's always been an individualist, do-what-you-want-so-long-as-you-do-it-yourself subculture.

Also, good morning, USPG! Can someone give me a summary of what the fuck happened? I was in the thread for the actual inauguration, but then I had to get back to work and I had a bunch of grass-touching after work for the rest of the day. I know Trump changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America (LOL) and pardoned a shitload of J6ers (has Null commented on this?), but what else? Did he end birthright citizenship? Isn't that constitutional (and thus going straight to the courts)?

Also, what is the deal with the Lakin Riley bill? What was that bill actually about and did Trump just jam it through or did Congress vote on it? I'm seeing some articles that Democrats are in a Schrodinger's Politician situation where they're angry they signed it (which makes Trump look good) but also angry they didn't sign it sooner (because they told their voters for years to shut up about illegals raping and killing their children, which has political consequences).

I cannot fucking believe how much has happened in the past less-than-24 hours and I need some bullet points. Don't make me parse through media articles, I beg of you.

Also, can someone send me videos of the dance? Someone here said the Marine that Vance danced with was so happy to do so, and Trump got some Space Force mamacita.

Punk started out as rebellion plus shock value and a rejection of prog rock/AOR/disco. Most of the early punk icons/hangers on who made up the second wave of punk rock indulged in Nazi imagery for shock value in particular.

This created a bit of a schism within the second and third wave of punk acts, as the punks who shit posted IRL as fake Nazis to shock granddad caused actual Nazis to get involved in the punk scene, as they took the aesthetic at face value, leading to those who dabbled in Nazi imagery (like Souxie Soux) to pull a delete fucking every or fucked out and became New Wave acts because they hated both the Nazis and anti-Nazis Chrissy Hynde, David Byrne).

Those that stayed became extreme moral fags and drove out anyone not left of Stalin from the scene and became humorless shits who gatekept the genre with endless left wing purity tests. This shrank the scene down in size and marginalized it, to the point that even Jello Biafra got pissed off at the never ending purity tests and was one of the reasons he dissolved Dead Kennedys since you couldn't shit post any more plus the crabs in a bucket mentality he helped foster via shitting on MTV

Ironically the rise of grunge and alt rock saw a new generation the 90s punk bands who were young and naive and greedy enough to go along with major labels wanting a punk revival with having to deal with actual humorless fundie liberal punks. They combined grunge lyrics with watered down punk music to create pop punk

 

[Step out of the car sir]

I wake up, go to work and at least three women with dyed hair are openly crying about pronouns and gender.
Life can be pretty good.

 

[StudMccool]

Boys, I woke up and its not all just a dream,

Its all real and while I slept MORE BASED SHIT HAPPENED

 

[babadook]

With that said, I will praise you for actually articulating your points. Most of the people in this thread rating me dumb are too stupid and servile to manage that.

Most people grow out of the "I WANT" phase when they're 6yo

 

[God's strongest milkman]

Your old man president shits his pants and takes Alzheimer's pills. My old man president does a grandpa dance to YMCA while swinging a sword.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

I think destroying the cartels is a worthwhile cause and in America's best interests. Mexico's too.

A real war against the Cartels would not only be just, but could save countless lives. It would be unironically good for the entire world if the US went full ham on them.

 

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Instead of wasting cash using bots on Reddit, they should just kick out troons and commies from the DNC silently and just hope the can do a platform next time on either saving the economy or revamping dying cities.

Like if democrats quit hiring corrupt niggers and managed to revitalize Detroit and Saint Louis? It would get the votes and a huge boost. Imagine blue leaders caring about their constituents and improving their home bases instead of trying to convince fat troons 24/7 online that republicans are le heckin’ Nazi or whatever.

They can't. The DNC gutted itself to be Obama's personal army and then re-gutted itself when Clinton stormed in and turned it into her personal election team. The base was replaced by the Justice Democrats, a rebranding of the DSA -- the American Communist Party. (Or at least, one of them.)

The DNC purging the commies from the DNC would result in them being thrown out into the political wilderness for years if not a decade or more as they tried to rebuild. But refusing to do so is going to result in them being pushed out into the wilderness as the Justice Dems / DSA make them unelectable. So they have a choice, make the hard decision to voluntarily go out into the wilderness and sneed, or ignore the problem and hope that the reckoning comes AFTER your boomer ass retires or that you can rig enough elections so it doesn't matter that you're unelectable.

Another thing to consider is the Woke/DSA types use the "flinch effect" -- get a pissed off black man to scream "RACIST" at a leftist, he will flinch and do whatever that black man asks -- to keep power, as this works especially well on leftists. But this abuse of empathy only works so often, until even the most brain dead leftist goes "wait a minute, I think this negro is just fucking with me." And what happens then? They tend to either check out completely (which is bad for the DNC) or they flip to being some of the most pissed off alt-righters ever (see also: GamerGate and the mass purging and redpilling of a lot of the 4chan Millennials and Zoomers).

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

Texas got snow, i sincerely thought it was gonna be the apocalyptic freezing rain we always get during these cold snaps.

But no, it's genuine snow.

Life is looking good

Wait for it to warm up a bit, melt and then freeze. We'll still get our ice.

 

[MirrorNoir]

It's actually insane how Trump is signing hundreds of executive orders completely redrawing the political landscape in the US but the left is so distracted by Elon's autism they're not offering any pushback to what Trump is doing.

Even the mainstream media is no longer pushing the Nazi salute nonsense anymore but leftists on twitter and reddit just can't stop screeching about it. I guess discussing the executive orders and their ramifications is too difficult for them. Easier to sperg endlessly about an autists overexcited arm gesture.

Redditors are fucking retarded.

I wonder how long Reddit and Wikipedia will last now that social media is bending the knee to Trump.

Maybe Thiel can find some slander suits to kill Wikipedia or Zuckerberg can create a replacement Reddit

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It's actually insane how Trump is signing hundreds of executive orders completely redrawing the political landscape in the US but the left is so distracted by Elon's autism they're not offering any pushback to what Trump is doing.

Even the mainstream media is no longer pushing the Nazi salute nonsense anymore but leftists on twitter and reddit just can't stop screeching about it. I guess discussing the executive orders and their ramifications is too difficult for them. Easier to sperg endlessly about an autists overexcited arm gesture.

Redditors are fucking retarded.

It's almost like the salute was a key-jangle to keep the childish retards occupied while the adults were back in the whitehouse. #redditspeak.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I can't wait for Trump to pardon the Silk Road guy.