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/

 

[Useful_Mistake]

I don't know why I am surprised, but please take into account that the thread is called "US Politics General 2" not "let's debate the Holocaust for the 1000th time this week"

Thanks.

 

[arabianprince]

The concept of privilege being racial wasn't being applied back then and this is about social status outside of skin colour.

absolute fucking bullshit

 

[just Reading a post]

I noticed a new cope.
"DEI was being dropped anyway, the CEOs always hated it"
Absolute coincidence i am sure. Would not have anything to do with all the massive flops and lost money combined with the Trump win, now CEOs have seen the light.
What is more funny is that Trump took the doomer talking points and wrote in a cut out that rebranding or renaming is not going to fly and they will still crack down on DEI/BRIDGE/ASSFAGGOTS.
Larry Fink BTFO

 

[TerminalTryHard]

These DIE advocates think like literal children, believing that renaming the thing they're not supposed to do is going to trick the adults.

No they think like academics, that they can rename and redefine anything they need to in order to get what they want. And why shouldn't they? It's been working for years at this point.

 

[Breadbassket]

Trump has some thoughts on FEMA.

Trump Attacks FEMA, Says States Should ‘Take Care Of Their Own Problems’​

President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that states should “take care of their own problems” rather than rely on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help them recover after natural disasters.

Trump spoke to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview following his inauguration and slate of executive actions to reshape the federal government. The president spoke about the wildfires in Los Angeles that have destroyed thousands of homes, saying the devastation and calls for federal support demonstrated issues with FEMA while musing about unspecified changes to the agency.

“I will say that Los Angeles has changed everything because a lot of money is going to be necessary for Los Angeles and a lot of people on the other side want that to happen,” Trump said. “FEMA has not done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working really well. We had hurricanes in Florida, we had Alabama, tornadoes. But unless you have certain types of leadership … it gets in the way.”

“And FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president went on.

Some top Republicans, Trump included, have said federal aid to California should come with strings attached, unleashing broadsides against local Democrats and the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom (D). It’s unclear, however, whether those plans would gain steam among the broader GOP, which holds just a thin majority in Congress.

Trump’s comments came while yet another massive wildfire was threatening homes in Los Angeles County. The fast-moving Hughes fire broke out on Wednesday morning, quickly growing to more than 9,000 acres.

About 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings due to the blaze.

Trump said he doesn’t believe California should get “anything” until local officials “let water flow” from the state’s northern regions to help fight the blazes. The remark is based on false claims, as Los Angeles does not rely on water from Northern California.

Trump is set to visit the state in the coming days to survey the wildfire damage.

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[3deadniggers]

No they think like academics, that they can rename and redefine anything they need to in order to get whatbthey want. And why shouldn't they? It's been working for years at this point.

DEI is already a rebranding that happened in the last year. It used to just be Diversity is our strength slogans and calls for Equality. It'll be the old argument of "I just want equal rights for women. Why do you oppose equal rights?" and then when you ask what equal rights for women means they will say "transwomen are women". It's the same word games they always play and they will try to mask it up as equal rights for women and such while twisting what a woman is or saying lesbian women aren't equal.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Good morning, USPG. The bitching, moaning, and pearl clutching continues: "Trump’s blizzard of orders gets pushback, questions from GOP lawmakers" (archive). These people cannot accept the fact that Trump made promises, is delivering on those promises, and the majority of Americans who voted him in are happy with the results. The only people I know who are genuinely upset about all of this are liberal elites, wannabe liberal elites, and literal bots spamming comments on social media.

If these schmucks think anyone's going to fight their little revolution for them, they've got another thing coming.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Article Link

Please include archives whenever possible

 

[Samuel Fuller]

She should be nicer to Doug gods greatest hype-man couldn't have carried her ass to the white house

I am now picturing Flava Flav as her hype man/vice president and laughing my ass off.

 

[The Nothingness]

Hannity tried to say the J6 pardons might not be a good look because muh violence and Trump called it bullshit because they were inhumanely treated.

"MMA-trained" Hannity loves to bring up the days America used violence to fight for independence or defeat bad German men, but when it comes to our corrupt government, Hannity tells his audience to bend over and take it in the ass.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Please include archives whenever possible

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but archive sites are sluggish as of late.

 

[mandatorylurk]

The media found their new fag bitch, Pam Hemphill, for refusing the pardon for being at Jan 6th.

The thing is, she clearly looks like she was a fed with her actions, a female Ray Epps.

 

[Nuns with guns]

You know the resistance is completely buckbroken when they’ve been reduced to a sassy fake woman bishop.

 

[YarrBlueballs]

Ross was also part of weapon smuggling and people trafficking

Ross was only ever charged, and convicted, with these charges: distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents, and conspiring to commit money laundering.

Where the fuck is the weapon smuggling, the human trafficking, or the murder for hire? It's not there, because it's all bullshit that the media and government colluded to pretend that the guy was worse than he was, same as calling Trump a "convicted rapist".

Is Ross a saint and bastion of innocence? Oh fuck no I severely doubt it, he no doubt has to do some bullshit to keep the Silk Road alive. Was he railroaded by the government on a bullshit investigation most likely because he refused to allow the 3-letter-agencies to set up honeypots? You bet your ass.
The government was willing to go after this guy for, supposedly, 6 overdoses. The government refused to touch the Cartels for thousands of deaths. Tell me,, what the fuck are we supposed to think about this situation aside from it being bullshit?

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Pot gets laced with fentanyl all the time, and a lot of shrooms get laced with DMT

That is an unemployment solution, as Denis Leary would say.

 

[TrinityReformed]

What the fuck is it about their brains that makes them this overly verbose?

I blame schools. They beat it into your head that writing assignments and lab reports need to reach a certain amount of words or pages. Hate it with a passion, I remember having to regurgitate what was already said multiple times, but reworded again and again until they were satisfied. It was annoying and mind numbing.

 

[Collections Agent]

What the fuck is it about their brains that makes them this overly verbose?

They are terrified of vague and generalist statements because they know someone from their own side will twist their words and make them into a bigot or Nazi.

They need to explain single sentences with full paragraphs cause of this.

The time tested example:
Normal person - "I like waffles"

Leftist brainrot- "I like waffles but that doesn't mean other breakfast meals aren't just as if not more delicious. Some people prefer pancakes and that's totally ok, there are even some people that like bacon and although as a steadfast vegan I would never approve of animal products in my own food I recognize they are a core staple in many POC and indigenous diets and I would never exercise my privilege to question their wonderful traditions."

 

[Breadbassket]

The Pope is not a fan of Trump's deportation plans.

Pope Francis calls Trump's deportation plan a 'disgrace'​

President Donald Trump has received criticism from Pope Francis as the 47th U.S. president is set to unleash his mass deportation plan.

The Holy Father weighed in on the anticipated operation, saying "if this is true, it is a disgrace." He added that it would impact the poor and the unfortunate, saying, "this won’t do. This is not the way to solve things. That’s not how things are resolved."

Francis' critiques came during an interview one day before Trump's formal swearing in to office. Afterward, he sent President Trump "cordial greetings" for his inauguration.

The Pope's remarks on the president's immigration plan prompted a strong reaction from Fox News contributor and theologian Jonathan Morris on FOX Business' "Varney & Co.," Tuesday.

"I think it's totally, totally out of line to be criticizing a policy from afar, unless you get into the weeds and the details," Morris said.

The former priest and resident theologian continued, explaining how politicians can address immigration according to the Christian and Catholic faith.

"According to Catholic and Christian ethics, politicians not only have a right, but a responsibility and obligation to control immigration levels at sustainable and safe levels."

Before taking office, the now-president campaigned on border security and said that he would set in motion large-scale operations. He declared a state of emergency at the border on his first day in office.

Trump's administration is said to already be eyeing immigration arrests of illegal migrants across the country, as top officials say they are ready to "take the handcuffs off" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"Of course, anybody has a right to leave one's country," Morris told host Stuart Varney. "But you don't always have a right to enter into another country, and you certainly don't have a right to do it illegally."

The former priest remarked on what he thought the Holy Father's meaning was, but believed the criticism was a misstep.

"So I think the pope, what he means is, 'Hey, let's be respectful of immigrants,' but giving blanket statements like ‘disgraceful,’ without getting into why it's ‘disgraceful,’ I think that's a mistake."

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[spiritofamermaid]

For the people over fish EO. As a fish person, I want to go "think about the fish." But those same people who say that, who have the power to help them, do not actually help them.

They do not work to prevent invasive species from displacing native species, whether that is fish (see Asian carp), plants (non-native trees, flowers, and grasses put there because it "looks nicer"), or even the water itself (how it has been shown that the political and upper classes ignore water restrictions during droughts).

As a result I am pro this EO.

Also it somehow became bold and I can't undo it, but I kind of like it since it makes it look cooler.

 

[3deadniggers]

Ross was only ever charged, and convicted, with these charges: distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents, and conspiring to commit money laundering.

Where the fuck is the weapon smuggling, the human trafficking, or the murder for hire? It's not there, because it's all bullshit that the media and government colluded to pretend that the guy was worse than he was, same as calling Trump a "convicted rapist".

Is Ross a saint and bastion of innocence? Oh fuck no I severely doubt it, he no doubt has to do some bullshit to keep the Silk Road alive. Was he railroaded by the government on a bullshit investigation most likely because he refused to allow the 3-letter-agencies to set up honeypots? You bet your ass.
The government was willing to go after this guy for, supposedly, 6 overdoses. The government refused to touch the Cartels for thousands of deaths. Tell me,, what the fuck are we supposed to think about this situation aside from it being bullshit?

Have you read the Silk road story and seen the evidence against him? Half his staff were feds by the time they arrested him. It was already a honeypot and once it went down they set up another honeypot with those feds running it.

Al Capone being charged with tax evasion doesn't stop him being a mafia boss. It's difficult to prove the hitman charges even with receipts from Ross's own admin account on silk road so why go after the harder case when you can put him in prison for running the drug side of things? And if the drug things fall through and you have a chance at going for the heavier charges after you can do that. It's not fair but that's how these things work. Ross was put in prison for being a major drug kingpin and considering the size of the website and the lack of vetting because it was all online it doesn't seem unreasonable to give him life in prison.