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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[Fuck Bankers]

I know everyone's celebrating the SSRI callout, but this is playing directly into big pharma's hand. They've been moving away from SSRIs for a few years now and have started pushing ketamine as this new miracle cure for any and all neurological issues. This isn't some victory for us, this is them following the Big pharma playbook and it shows that they're all just puppets. The Dems are controlled opposition while RFK is being used to usher in this new era.

Unironically I think weed is way better for you than either SSRIs or ketamine. A lot of depression is caused by the hopelessness people have felt living in this country. Whether they know it or not. I hope RFK doesn't move toward ketamine before they move toward weed (with both THC and CBD).

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Why does this feel like a threat?

I would be so fucking happy if trump used the logic of covid to round up faggots under the (real) pretense of fighting aids. Covid already fucked with peoples rights, and aids is far more dangerous, and you could argue with bug chasers theres a malicious element.

 

[Miquella]

To do what, lose to Chinese open source software more? What are the Indians for now?

Inshallah brudda

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Id also add on that the ones who actually give a shit to be healthy and make an effort to, have to subsidize the morbidly,terminall obese/unhealthy. Its a different type of rage when you go to the store and pick out the few items of real food you consume, wait in line and see a bunch of EBT gibbers spending government provided money from your tax dollars spent on absolute poison. Sorry for the rambling.
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Whole Foods used to give you up to a 30% employee discount if you voluntarily took a physical to prove you weren’t dying of obesity

 

[Miquella]

Which in itself is a huge improvement. To know who is actually in your country, to have them pay taxes, to be able to kick out ones you don't want back to their own country and prevent them returning. And to be able to quality control. Do people think there are no good South Americans? Of course there are - loads. Fun people, easy going and smart. Lots of them stay in South America. As Trump said, "they're not sending their best". Why would they? There's a huge difference between a talented immigrant who wants to work and integrate and a country emptying its prisons and sending them North.

Few of us are hardline against all immigration in total. Cutting down on illegal immigration already has huge benefits and it is also the basis for being able to have rational immigration policies in the future. You can't do that with uncontrolled illegal immigration.

Yeah but you know that most people here are sheeple racists that actually just don't want brown ppl legal or not lol cos muricans do it better

 

[NoReturn]

Most of these are too easy, even for the obese to do.

I'd make it one plate on the major lifts and a 5 mile hike without stopping. You don't have to run, you just can't stop.

Reasonably easy enough for the fit, but a huge filter for the unhealthy.

I agree yours would result in higher-quality people, but I don't think 90% of congress nor the senate could pass what I said.

 

[JosephStalin]

Had an idea about government spending.

One big problem with governments, especially state and Federal, is that money is treated like an abstraction. The sums involved are so large that they don't seem real. What can you do with an abstraction? Anything you like.

I would like to see, at every level that spends taxpayer dollars, from the smallest town to Washington, a statement as part of the spending measure saying just how many taxpayers' taxes are required to fund the spending. For our purposes, taxpayers are both individual and corporate. The amount of taxes per taxpayer is just dividing the total taxes paid by the total number of taxpayers. We attach names and faces to the money, if you will. We make the money real instead of an abstraction.

A typical funding statement would read, "This spending requires the taxes paid by X number of taxpayers."

Would this cut spending? Tend to doubt it. But it definitely injects a badly-needed dose of reality to the process.

 

[autistic dog]

Ohhhh shit we're talking about SSRIs and shootings....in an open Senate hearing.

This is crazy, in a good way.

Behind the facade of "society" a secret war rages between skitzophenics and psychopaths. These are the only 2 groups who can see the patterns that control the system. One wants to exploit the people as cattle to serve their own sick pleasures. The other just wants the people to SEE THE TRUTH that is obvious to them and tell them they're not crazy.

In ancient times the latter was hailed as oracles, shamans, and respected elders. Over time they became shunned as witches and jews. In modern times hope was all but lost. Pushed to the fringes of society and demonized by false flag school shootings the psychopaths had all but won.

Oke day from the dark shadows of the internet a hero emerged that would tip the balance of humanities oldest war. Enter pepe the frog, autism, and the Egyptian god of chaos Keku.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Had an idea about government spending.

One big problem with governments, especially state and Federal, is that money is treated like an abstraction. The sums involved are so large that they don't seem real. What can you do with an abstraction? Anything you like.

I would like to see, at every level that spends taxpayer dollars, from the smallest town to Washington, a statement as part of the spending measure saying just how many taxpayers' taxes are required to fund the spending. For our purposes, taxpayers are both individual and corporate. The amount of taxes per taxpayer is just dividing the total taxes paid by the total number of taxpayers. We attach names and faces to the money, if you will. We make the money real instead of an abstraction.

A typical funding statement would read, "This spending requires the taxes paid by X number of taxpayers."

Would this cut spending? Tend to doubt it. But it definitely injects a badly-needed dose of reality to the process.

The problem is it’s the opposite of that because political dynasties are built on kickbacks.

The reason three letter agencies keep multiplying is for the power class to have jobs to pay their friends back with

 

[bort420]

I can actually believe the “1 in 4 Californian children is autistic” statement. I don’t believe that many kids are actually autistic, mind you, but I do believe that many are diagnosed with it. There are a lot of overbearing, generally anxious mothers here. It’s VERY trendy to get your kid on a 504 or IEP at school.

People here are very quick to jump into medical interventions for a generally functioning, albeit a little more sensitive or socially awkward, child that could otherwise be left alone. Somehow we have strayed from the understanding that a little boy who loves trains or a little girl who loves animal facts doesn’t require a visit to the pediatric psychologist.

an IEP or w/e allows you extra time on exams and other "aids" that effectively allow you to legally cheat for better grades

essentially the same as the Indians gaming the visa system

 

[Nihil Jung]

Little dose of cringe. I have a friend I’d really rather keep, and their frantic Facebook posts really shouldn’t fill me with as much mirth as they do. They keep sharing lists of the most based policies I’ve ever seen and breaking down why they are heckin evil and problematic.

Why does this feel like a threat?
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Also, the fuck man, don’t bring Gritty into this.
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We all have friends like this I am sure. The schadenfreude of timeline scrolling has been something else.

Also; the most pozzed antifa adjacent people I know have been using Gritty for memes and shit like this since his inception, i thought the pozz levels were a known thing.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

Complementary opinion piece on Melania Trump: KiwiFarms thread.

 

[Wherethereisawhip]

SO what this a scare tactic, a retreat, or a way to see if it would work before trying something new? Cause watching the people freak out was a good time but Republican have to understand that unless they cut off NGO they are funding the Dems to the tune of billions.

It might've been a bargaining chip to get RFK and Tulsi in given the timing. Show that you can freeze all the funding and then tell them it'll keep happening until they vote enough for the cabinet spots.

 

[Sammich]

We're witnessing Trump 2.0 reverting back to Trump 1.0 in real time. I expect Kushner to make his grand return at some point.

he's gonna reimport all the messicans and south americans. it's so over.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

he's gonna reimport all the messicans and south americans. it's so over.

Permanently trapped on the monorail hyper loop going in and out of america in a perpetual state of being deported and imported.

 

[draggs]

I expect Trump will sign a new, more detailed EO regarding federal grants in the next week or so

 

[bort420]

Is there a way to replace this gay hearing shit with a pushup competition or something? If he beats over 50 senators in a choice fitness competition, then he's in.

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any senator that can't do 10 pushups should be forcibly retired

 

[JosephStalin]

The problem is it’s the opposite of that because political dynasties are built on kickbacks.

The reason three letter agencies keep multiplying is for the power class to have jobs to pay their friends back with

But the three-letter agencies are funded by government spending bills. The statement would go on every single bill.

Don't agree about the jobs at three-letter agencies, having been stationed at one. Nearly all those jobs require high-level clearances, which not everyone can get. In some cases people are polygraphed before they can even get into the building to start work, from personal experience.

There are plenty of other places where friends can be put into their government sinecure.

 

[nelly98]

OMB M-25-13 is being rescinded.

https://www.cogr.edu/sites/default/files/OMB%20M-25-14.pdf

OMB M-25-13 was the one pausing $$$. Looks to have been a bit too broad.

Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Program

 

[Toolbox]

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they seem happy

Gaming circle jerk legitimately hates anyone who was anywhere to the right that might have not opposed Gamergate. They've been stuck fighting that culture war since it began and have not changed, it's mental. And don't forget it's been said several times users from their sub would brigade others with CSAM and then report to reddit mods/admins that those subs users were responsible to get the subs banned. I don't doubt that the mods were a part of this evil, degenerate shit, seeing 'people' like bardfinn.