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

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

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

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

What was it all for again?

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After what happened in Syria, America honestly kinda deserves another 9/11.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

After what happened in Syria, America honestly kinda deserves another 9/11.

You made this exact same post earlier today

 

[Niggernerd]

Since there's tariffs being placed against Mexico and Canada, lets see how it turns out.
I hope this does end up making the economy better. Even if right now, in the short term, things will get slightly more expensive.

I think I'll keep an eye on Canada. Their politicians said Canada would be decimated really bad by tariffs so I wanna see them suffah.

 

[Übertroon]

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This is the inbred product of British imperialism that vance slapped the shit out of. Poor guy looks like a pug that has trouble breathing and has bones made of glass.

I had the misfortune of having to suffer through his nasally voice because he was in a documentary about Caesar which was just two hours of "TRUMP IS CAESAR! CAESAR IS TRUMP! TRUMP IS CAESAR! CAESAR IS TRUMP!"

They fail to realize that Caesar is brilliant and badass, and Trump comes off looking better from the comparison.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Here's a question. Given Tulsi has emphasized her interest would be making sure whistleblowing avenues were easy to attain and well known within the intelligence community.
Why didn't Snowden go the legal route?
Is there some issue with how the process is done? Did he try to do it legally and got cockblocked?
Or did he skip straight to releasing it publicly with no safeguards? If so, why?
I haven't read much about what happened to fully understand the context here.

The "legal" route is the goverment is able to do damage control route. If you want to actually whistleblow to the masses you need to go straight to the public.

 

[Netizennameless]

I had the most surreal experience today. Traffic on the roads was down significantly during rush hour. Grocery shopping wasn't packed to the brim with spics toting around 9 children. There were no lines at the checkout. I had a random conversation with strangers at the store and it was pleasant. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I felt like I was in my own country again. It felt like America again.

 

[StudMccool]

this is stupid it makes me laugh they put her up with the bottom text they chose

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

GOddamn I am sick of fucking women's hysterical bullshit when it comes to politics.

Know a good way to win the war? Send all the female politicians to fight on the ground. Basic Training? AIT? What's that? Here's your rifle senator. Why, yes, it is an M1 Garand. Body armor? No, sorry, you go to war with the Army you have. Here's a hat.

 

[The Ugly One]

Extremely controlled. Very little emotion throughout the entire thing, which maybe has to do with her military background.

There was a moment when she said she was "very offended" by a comment about Russia but there was absolutely no emotion when the question was asked or when she answered.

The only time I saw actual emotion was when they asked about opening up information about government torture programs. She genuinely seemed caught off guard and surprised by it. It was so outside of her normal baseline it caught my attention immediately.

All that said, I don't know her pretty much at all. I'm much more partial to politicians who actually act like human beings (Vance, Bobby, Trump) even if I disagree with some takes.
They also all have giving an actual shit about the country and the people in it in common.
I don't get a similar immediate impression of that being the case from Tulsi, but this isn't necessarily the best avenue to gauge that aspect of her motivations and personality.

Vance and RFK both acted like alpha males, being in control but also somewhat dismissive, making it obvious to their attackers that they were aware of the facade. Women don't have it in them to act like that. When under immense pressure by disingenuous fucks, you will see the better women lawyers and other ladies in high position become absolutely stone-faced. Emotion is weakness. White was a bold choice, too. Loved her outfit.

 

[Nuns with guns]

So are Canada and Mexico just going to take the tariffs and pretend that they can tariff back the US? I wonder how long it'll take them to cuck like Petro did.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

So are Canada and Mexico just going to take the tariffs and pretend that they can tariff back the US? I wonder how long it'll take them to cuck like Petro did.

They have to convince their constituencies that they’re totally heckin valid countries

 

[ZMOT]

Frankly after hearing the responses between the ATC and the helicopter I can't blame them. They warned them, the helicopter confirmed they had a visual on the plane and somehow still failed to keep a safe distance. The issue and fault here is on the helicopter, they should not be flying in the direct path of where planes will clearly be coming in for landing and taking off at non-stop. Apparently this has been an issue in the past (close calls not collisions) and they should know by now that they absolutely should not be flying in that area.

things work until they break.
there's probably a term for it, but stuff like that is often a death by thousands cuts and coincidences stacking up. like the "it worked fine in the past" but suddenly there's two planes and unclear language.
it doesn't help that often immediately the blame game starts and there HAS to be someone culpable, even when it's the situation itself with a lot of factors involved. the bigger question people should ask in this case is "how did it get to this point?" and suddenly you have someone far more "guilty" than different people reacting poorly in the heat of the moment - that moment should've never happened in the first place.

or look at it this way, lot of times shit has to go haywire for things to change, you might consider it a necessary evil. more often than not people aren't that forward thinking, and if they are processes and policies and people less foward thinking religiously sticking to them smothers that right from the start.

Yeah it reminds me of the Elon thread where everyone is more focused on dunking on the man then actually chronicling him and doing analysis.

once a thread goes into it's "anti"-circlejerk, it's basically reddit and pretty much unsalvageable. there's a reason the ukraine thread was split, now compare those two.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Just remember that Trump pushed that retarded bump stock ban after the Las Vegas shooting. Trump may be doing his best to fix the country right now, but he is not the friend of the 2A.

Nobody's perfect. I'll settle for him having one bad benign stance now if it means everything else gets mopped up.

 

[MrJokerRager]

After what happened in Syria, America honestly kinda deserves another 9/11.

20 years in the desert, all to help the 9/11 hijackers have their own country.

And no Democrat and Republican will pay the price for it.

 

[LiquidKid]

Ok fuck it. I lost my rather expensive level about 3 months ago on a job site and have been annoyed about it ever since. Today I find it with my initials still written on in the pouch of some illegal spic roofer. I demand ICE use a roofing nailer to execute all spics found on construction sites. I will call ICE and fortnite dance as pablo gets deported and his children cry. If someone from the trump admin is reading this. Make a crane operators day and allow them to hang illegals from equipment.

If you think you hate spics from working in fast food you have yet to understand the burning loathing which will arise upon some worthless squatemalan spraying your tools with paint because they can't speak english. TOTAL SPIC DEATH.

Did you take it back and/or report the dude?

 

[Levitcus prime24]

You have to remember his first term.
Where Trump was such a Russian puppet and Putin's lapdog that Wikipedo editors even tried to list the US as a "puppet state"; but also Trump was an unchecked ignorant warmonger committing dangerous escaloootions leaving us on the brink of nuclear world war 3 every other week.
(both of these facts can be simultaneously true in the minds of his detractors)

God its almost as if trump realizes that will Russia may not be our friend we should still try and maintain somewhat positive relations with them. How dare that bastard.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

things work until they break.
there's probably a term for it, but stuff like that is often a death by thousands cuts and coincidences stacking up. like the "it worked fine in the past" but suddenly there's two planes and unclear language.
it doesn't help that often immediately the blame game starts and there HAS to be someone culpable, even when it's the situation itself with a lot of factors involved. the bigger question people should ask in this case is "how did it get to this point?" and suddenly you have someone far more "guilty" than different people reacting poorly in the heat of the moment - that moment should've never happened in the first place.

Air traffic controllers exist to be an executive function, so it’s not left to pilots to miscommunicate between themselves.

The helicopter was being stupid, yes. It’s flight path was annoying to look at, like they were literally going down the river to see all the sights, which is whatever until you’re crossing flight lanes.

The ATC exists to tell them to fuck off and stop the stupid shit, because they’re probably not paying attention to everything going on at the airport they’re just passing by when they’re checking out all the tourist traps and probably flirting with eachother

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

Vance and RFK both acted like alpha males, being in control but also somewhat dismissive, making it obvious to their attackers that they were aware of the facade. Women don't have it in them to act like that. When under immense pressure by disingenuous fucks, you will see the better women lawyers and other ladies in high position become absolutely stone-faced. Emotion is weakness. White was a bold choice, too. Loved her outfit.

I've watched Tulsi more than the average person and have seen her in different settings. She is one of the best picks for Director of National Security. Tulsi came into her confirmation hearing with confidence and not playing games about who she is, what laws stand for, and what she will do.

Surf Mommy has served in many different jobs in the Army and sat on intelligence committees when she was in Congress. Tulsi also has a degree in international business IIRC. Tulsi has seen first hand the corruption in the Democrat party when she had rank there and knows who some of the problems are within government.

 

[The Ugly One]

What if the Supreme Court struck everything down, the Democrats continued to push retarded shit until getting truly slaughtered in the midterms, and then a comfortable GOP-majority Congress passed a law called the "Stop Acting Like Tedious Yentas" (SALTY) Act which dismantled the ATF entirely and made it legal to do whatever you want with firearms so long as you aren't hurting anyone?

It would be great if the SCOTUS struck down the automatic weapons ban. Just pointing out FOPA did not just ban automatic weapons.

I think there are only about 15 people on the internet who understand how bills get through Congress.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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this is stupid it makes me laugh they put her up while the bottom text they chose

Oh thank god they're safe, i love Black Box