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
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[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

In a nuke war the US is the only one left standing, actually. Beat to shit, but alive.

Those new russian missiles.
Putin's proposed a challenge. Those missiles atracking any structure in the world, any government names the place, they defend it and he'll strike it with empty warheads like he used in The former Ukraine.
So far there's no proof they can be stopped so how would America win a war against them?
Genuinely curious. Would it be a win in terms of attrition?

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Oh no, I pissed off the amerimutts.

It's not about being pissed off, it's about recognizing that everything you think and say about America is coming from the words of someone who openly admits to destroying America.
Ergo every time you voice your street-shitter opinion, it's good to let others know your motives behind that opinion. Especially if you are voicing your poo opinion in a thread about America.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

Those new russian missiles.
Putin's proposed a challenge. Those missiles atracking any structure in the world, any government names the place, they defend it and he'll strike it with empty warheads like he used in The former Ukraine.
So far there's no proof they can be stopped so how would America win a war against them?
Genuinely curious. Would it be a win in terms of attrition?

Are you retarded?

 

[oh no its pipkun]

I’m traveling in Vietnam and I want to share something I read in a restaurant, and yes this will tie back into America.
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These people love their homeland, there’s memorials and museums everywhere, they all partake in large holidays and cultural events, and even if they, like my boyfriend who immigrated to America the right way and is very proud to be American, disagree with certain things in their homeland they are proud to be Vietnamese.
Compare that to how Americans have been told forever that we’re evil, we should be ashamed of our homeland, and we need to atone for all this shit. Complete opposite. And now I’ll tell you a story about my travels, and I think it’s important to illustrate my point about how Americans need to be proud to be Americans.
I went to visit one of my dad’s friends in a very small village in the Mekong Delta where they farm coconuts. The friend does a lot of charity work with his native wife, and we showed up and immediately the leader of the village sat us down for a meal he made himself and drinks. We were in a memorial building for the Southern Vietnamese who were in that village and died in the war, and were drinking beer and rice wine and eating delicious food and singing karaoke. Because that’s what you do in Vietnam, you are proud to be in a community that provides charity for the elderly and the less fortunate, you are proud to be a good host and feed your guests, are are proud of what your people can offer, and you are proud to have the opportunity to showcase your history.
We don’t have that sense of community in America anymore. It’s been beaten out of us and look around you. No one likes anyone else, we’re not hospitable to each other, we don’t have community, and we’re not proud of our history anymore. I hope one day that can change, and we can all be proud to be Americans again.
Don’t be meek, be proud that you are a fucking American and that America is your homeland.

i blame the ease of filing a lawsuit. its too easy to get sued for charitable shit. its hard to trust people to not get litigious if shit doesnt go perfectly.

 

[TrinityReformed]

Those new russian missiles.
Putin's proposed a challenge. Those missiles atracking any structure in the world, any government names the place, they defend it and he'll strike it with empty warheads like he used in The former Ukraine.
So far there's no proof they can be stopped so how would America win a war against them?
Genuinely curious. Would it be a win in terms of attrition?

Can the hypersonics carry the payload of a strategic nuclear warhead? And what would be the range if they could?

 

[John Badman]

So uhhhh when do you think this AI bubble will lead to a recession? I’m starting to think throwing all the money at a moonshot wasn’t a good idea considering I’ve heard Nvidia clients are already cancelling their GB200 rack orders because paying $25k for a $3k production cost is easier to do in house. Government spending just accelerated the expected pull back from next year into either February/March/April this year.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

It's not about being pissed off, it's about recognizing that everything you think and say about America is coming from the words of someone who openly admits to destroying America.
Ergo every time you voice your street-shitter opinion, it's good to let others know your motives behind that opinion. Especially if you are voicing your poo opinion in a thread about America.

The world will be a better place without the current American threat and I'm not a pajeer.

 

[Larry Trainor]

Can someone give a quick lowdown on why Pete Hegseth was a good add and why people (Libs) hated him for non-Murican lurkers?

 

[National Defense Advocate]

The world will be a better place without the current American threat and I'm not a pajeer.

"I'm not Indian, I just defend unchecked Indian immigration to the West, I'm totally white guis"

 

[Wafting Breeze]

Can someone give a quick lowdown on why Pete Hegseth was a good add and why people (Libs) hated him for non-Murican lurkers?

He's not a permanent Washington swamp creature and he's not a permanent Washington swamp creature.

 

[Nameless One]

The vast majority of government employees aren't people.

That's right, they are all tax leeches inseperable from welfare niggers like a different HHH said in Democracy The God That Failed.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Those new russian missiles.
Putin's proposed a challenge. Those missiles atracking any structure in the world, any government names the place, they defend it and he'll strike it with empty warheads like he used in The former Ukraine.
So far there's no proof they can be stopped so how would America win a war against them?
Genuinely curious. Would it be a win in terms of attrition?

Those missiles are just IRBMs.
Whether or not something like THAAD or Aegis (RIM-161 in particular) could knock them down remains to be seen, and likely never will (as the US isn't giving Ukraine the big stuff).
They also have very low "splash damage", meaning that unless you stick a nuclear warhead on it, you're basically paying MRBM/ICBM/IRBM prices and launch logistics for sub-TBM/cruise missile tier damage radius (especially as the slower TBMs and cruisers can actually disperse mass submunitions or thermobaric explosives, both of which affect a wider area).
You don't need to shoot down missiles, especially ones with iffy accuracy, as demonstrated by Oreshnik (though at least 4/12 MIRVs did manage to hit some kind of structures), especially if your intel is tight and you keep your stronger assets well-hidden and/or on-the-move.
The problem is, if you do stick a nuclear warhead on it, then you aren't getting any new capabilities that an ICBM can't already deliver and just opening yourself up to US nuclear retaliation (re: Mutually Assured Destruction/Mutually Assured Annihilation; a.k.a. mutual suicide).
So while Oreshnik is extremely effective for an MRBM/IRBM, and to the credit of the neo-soviets quite possibly the best MRBM/IRBM out there, it is still just an MRBM/IRBM and nothing the US can't handle.

Shit, they haven't even made any actual impact on the war in Ukraine, a country much smaller than US and without the intel, strategic depth, and air defense capabilities that the US has...

 

[Schpoots]

Total TSA death.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

Speaking of that, the next executive order Trump should get through is one recognizing both "black" and "white" as lowercase. Don't know why we started capitalizing colors all of a sudden.

The New York Times and AP updated their journalistic practices to force it. Then Google and Microsoft updated spellcheck to automatically capitalize it, in word processors, email, and web searches.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Lloyd Autism will always be remembered as fat and black

he was MIA for a few weeks after getting surgery. MIA in the literal sense that no one knew where he was during recovery.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Spoiler: Alright redneck, welcome to banworld.

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“Do you think I should quit my job”

You should turn yourself in so the process goes a lot more smoothly.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

Can the hypersonics carry the payload of a strategic nuclear warhead? And what would be the range if they could?

All ballistic missiles exceed hypersonic velocities.
All third worlders who tote about "hypersonics" fail to understand that "hypersonic missile" means "a missile that exceeds hypersonic velocities and is able to maneuver during hypersonic flight".

So uhhhh when do you think this AI bubble will lead to a recession?

Nah, but AI will replace 90% of people who commission porn drawings.
There are gonna be(and there are) loads of goonerdrawers who need a new job.
Or theyl just start making, hyperautistic porn that AI cant comprehend.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm not a pajeer.

Post hands.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Are you retarded?

No, we have different mothers. Back to the question I asked?

And thanks fanatical-pragmatist for actually answering it.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

You are also being petty and retarded by playing their game. Don't let journos influence our language.

No, I'd say I'm doing the exact opposite. I judge things on their own merits, as I see it, and what I do or don't do isn't lead around by contrarianism.

Those aren't ethnic groups, they're nationalities. They're also both explicitly multi-ethnic nationalities. To quote Cormac McCarthy, 'You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.'

White, black, yellow, red, brown these are all just physical descriptors - they're 'races'. Melanesians, Australian Aborigines, Bantu, Igbo, and San people are all black, yet several of them are completely unrelated ethnically. Pretending that they're ethnic groups plays into the retarded narrative that race doesn't exist both as a higher supra-ethnic clade and as a socio-cultural construct.

Race, nationality, ethnic group. Different words for the same shit. All pedantry.
Here's some other races: Asians. Middle Easterners. Latinos. Always capitalized. Here's some nationalities: Jews, Latvians, Japanese.
Europeans.

I understand how it was that "white" and "black" came into the English language, it was a sort of exaggerated description of a pale or a dark people, but somewhere along the line "white" and "black" - in this usage, not referring to the literal color or its allegorical use - came to be synonyms of European (ancestry) and African (ancestry) and in doing so, I think, it makes more sense to extend the same rules of grammar to it.

But you could argue why we need to capitalize groups of people and place names and junk like that anyways. Or why we don't capitalize every other Noun like People used to in the Old Days.

I'd kind of prefer it if Negro had never fallen out of fashion. It was a clear, crisp word that wasn't the same as distinguishing Black Americans as an ethnic group (I believe they just used it to mean African ancestry in general) but could have filled that role nicely. It wasn't offensive up until retards started crying it was offensive as a never-ending game of goalpost moving. White Americans don't really have an equivalent, probably because they were just generic default Americans.