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Should be a wild four years.

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Members of the Trump Administration
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With all the talk about the new press secretary, I'd just like to remark that I'm so happy that the Trump White House dumped all the sign language interpreters for the screen space (like 50%!) that they were hogging, a hope that I've had for such a long time.
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Is that Gilbert Gottfried in a wig doing the gang signs?
 
Recently, a memo was sent by the Acting Counsel of the NLRB, (National Labor Relations Board). Seems quite alarmist to be honest
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>I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK.
All of this over returning to the goddamn office to do your job. You're only proving Trump right by continually screeching about this
 
She is fucking cooked, if she's waiting for some DNC honcho to bail her out she is more stupid then any nigger I ever met.

She took a shot at the king and missed. What did you think Trump was going to do if he won? Forget about it because he was busy being PotUS? Did you think the big wigs at the DNC would put their neck on the line to save your dumb black ass? Your use to the elites ended the second Trump won the election and you failed to stop him.
That's why you never give in to these faggots. They will never save you.

Any give a qrd on what Trump getting elected in 2016 felt like? (I wasn't that interested in politics back then) I heard the main difference between then and now is that it legit felt out of the blue. Like, no one expected Michigan and Pennsylvania to flip.
I never expected what happened. I voted for Trump as a literal joke. It was either him or Ye and I did strongly consider voting for Ye. I didn't think he'd win. President Clinton was a terrible and horrifying idea. I went to bed early and woke up with Trump winning. My ex gf told me at the time when I woke up and she was horrified. I laughed and laughed and had a big ol good kick out of it. She was pissed because not really TDS levels of pissed. We were both mostly indifferent.

Then I went online....And I saw all of my favorite YouTubers crying their mother fucking eyes out. I legit said "What the fuck? What is wrong with you fruits?". My subscription feed was literally nothing but videos titled like "So...That just happened", "Let's Talk", "So scared I'm shaking", some were compilations of seething. I didn't really care. The one that stuck with me most of all this was Lanipator of Team Four Star (Dragonball Z Abridged, does voice of Vegeta) who put out an unironic 30 minute long mental breakdown where he literally CRIES on camera for at least 10 minutes about how he's afraid for his family and people he loves. He's afraid people are going to die. It was the single most schizophrenic rant I've ever seen and all I could do was laugh at him and say "What a fucking faggot". Little did I know that was the tip of the iceberg.

Everyone, everywhere, was crying and seething all at once. I was just confused as to why anyone cared so much. It was like everyone I thought was at least semi-intelligent forgot the golden rule that "If the media is pissed, it's probably a good thing". Then the real cringe compilations came out and I had the time of my life laughing at the salt mines. The words "He hasn't even done anything yet", were completely lost on everyone. It was like a switch flipped in everyone's brains and they instantly showed how much their minds truly functioned. Sheep exposed themselves very fucking quickly.
 
>I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK.
All of this over returning to the goddamn office to do your job. You're only proving Trump right by continually screeching about this
i can't believe how much time seems to be spent in the government and corporations treating adults like children. she might as well have told everyone they're going to schedule out a nap time each day

America this is what you voted for
yeah it is, thanks for noticing
 
Thank you you beautiful man.
Good morning, USPG! I have two interesting articles from The Hill, the DC rag of repute.
  • "Late-night TV hosts double down on anti-Trump" (archive). The headline speaks for itself. Looks like the Democrats really don't know how to be normal and don't know how to not behave like radical psychos. I think that this is good for Republicans moving forward. The longer the Democrats fail to read the memo, the worse their political prospects.
  • "Flu map: These states are now at CDC’s highest activity level" (archive). More flu and vaccine propaganda. I find it incredible that any news organization would mention the words "flu" or "COVID." I also find it incredible that more politicians don't bring up how horrible that period of American history was.
This has been an article update from your favorite hunk of man, Hey Johnny Bravo.
And thank you to all of you wizened oldfags from a young newfag. I genuinely seem to get this info quickly and more concisely here than I do anywhere else. I appreciate all of you autists for that.
 
The next day for me was expected - I got thrown out of a band I was in for a few years because most of the band hated Trump and now that he won, they hated me. Best comment in the letter from the band throwing me out was from the drummer who told me, "By voting for Trump you're disrespecting my wife". I have no idea how he even made that assumption but I thought it was hilarious given that he slept with every single groupie on the planet and banged chicks after every gig, yet I was the one disrespecting his wife. It's so hard to take lefties seriously with anything. I got cancelled by all my broadway contacts and everyone stopped answering the phone when I called and I lost a lot of gigs. Lost a gazillion facebook friends over the next week lol. Fuck 'em all. I rebuilt my career connecting with musicians who were also Trump supporters who were also ostracised for supporting Trump.

Overall it was fantastic. Even with the loss of work and the abuse, if I could relive it, I'd do it all exactly the same again, except I'd go even harder on the Trump support! haha

I actually left the bar early because my friend who owned it asked me to split. He said it was starting to get ugly and some people at the bar were starting to mumble threats about assaulting me and all that and he wanted me to split before I got jumped. As always, lefties are pompous and arrogant in victory and petulant and violent in defeat. I didn't mind, I was in a great mood and I was in my car driving home listening to the radio when they pretty much started calling it for Trump and saying Hillary didn't want to concede.
This is why I fail to take leftists seriously, and treat them more as suffering from a neurological mental disorder
If the Civil War was about slavery, than why was the Corwin Amendment proposed? You know, the thing that would have made slavery constitutionally protected? What about The Tariff of Abominations? Or the fact that slavery was legal in many Union states during and after the Civil War. Anyone who believes that the Civil War was about slavery is a fucking rube.
It's easy to teach in history classes, tho. "Good guys vs Bad slavers" is the type of marvel movie slop that anyone can get behind, who cares about the nuances of the time period or all the lives lost in that horrific, barbaric war? The good guys won! We saved the niggers!
 
I hate to admit this, but for a brief time I supported Bernie. I did not have any bumper stickers, or merch, and did not call myself a Bernie bro. I was just naive about socialism and not paying that close attention to politics.
I remember distinctly when I changed my mind. He said he wanted to make America like Scandinavia and how great they are.
I have cousins in Scandinavia and had heard the good, the bad, and the ugly. Not the glossy sugarcoated version most people hear about.
A split second later I decided he was a retard and didn't know what he was talking about at all if he could say something like that with so much confidence. The spell was broken, and I began to scrutinize much closer, and pay more attention to the political scene in general, after which I shifted hard to Trump.
I even bought one of the white/gold MAGA hats, though I've never worn it. I just bought it because I thought it was funny.

Same shit with England. People don't realize that the British straight up lie to Americans about how much they love the NHS. It's a fucking disaster if you want anything done beyond the most routine of checkups or the worst of emergencies. If you have anything wrong that isn't deemed urgent, you will wait years.
 
This is when legacy media still had a modicum left of influence. So, they immediately went to work misrepresenting literally anything Trump said or did.

Though the press did ultimately misrepresent every single thing that Trump did, I must point something out: constant scrutiny by the media was a huge reason why some (ie myself and some others I know) voted for him despite having reservations about the man.

Hillary Clinton was running on a platform of continuing Barack Obama’s policies. The media was on an unrepentant “I’m With Her” bender, and this was at a time when she was publicly advocating for a no-fly zone in Syria, right after Obama got the USA involved in the civil war following Russian intervention that beat back American-funded rebel groups like the FSA.

If you don’t know why that’s such a huge problem, Joseph Dunford as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said flat-out that implementing a no-fly zone in Syria would mean getting into a war with both Russia *and* Syria. This was during the same time frame that Clinton was publicly proclaiming that a no-fly zone in Syria would save lives.

That entire incident, and the limited press coverage it received outside of CSPAN and motherfucking Russia Today, told me quite clearly that Hillary Clinton could quite literally spark WW3 and the press would either ignore it like they ignored Obama destroying Libya, *or* try to run defence by vindicating her.

Donald Trump’s first term was pretty fucking weird all things considered, and the lügenpresse levied tons of fallacious accusations against him. Having said that, they *did* audit his presidency from start to finish. Obama never got that kind of coverage throughout all 8 years of his administration, and in fact, the opposite was true when there were crickets chirping over how his intervention in Libya turned a repressed but prosperous military dictatorship into an anarchy-infested hellhole where black people get sold in open air space markets.

Considering the sheer volume of defence that the lügenpresse ran for Biden during his administration, it’s quite clear that they have a vested interest in keeping silent when their preferred ruler is in power. I don’t know how the rest of Trump’s second term will play out, but constant media coverage *is* a good thing.
 
You are a Kiwi, you are probably an asshole yoo
Probably? Take a look at my profile page sometime.
Thank you you beautiful man.

And thank you to all of you wizened oldfags from a young newfag. I genuinely seem to get this info quickly and more concisely here than I do anywhere else. I appreciate all of you autists for that.
I post more complete round-ups on the weekend when I have more free time. Most of the articles I post are of interest to me, but I'm glad to be of service.
 
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House Republicans are rolling out a new package of election security legislation this week, with GOP lawmakers already setting eyes on 2026. Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the bills this week, with four lawmakers co-sponsoring the entire package and various other members supporting specific pieces. The three pieces of legislation are a bill to prohibit noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C., from voting in local elections, a bill to block noncitizens from helping administer elections and a constitutional amendment to prevent noncitizens from voting. It is currently illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Though the law does not apply to state and local elections, there is currently no state in the U.S. that allows noncitizens to vote in statewide elections. Some areas, however, allow for noncitizens to vote in local-level elections – including Washington, D.C.
"Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, which is why protecting them from noncitizen influence is essential to our nation’s sovereignty and will ensure America has a flourishing democracy for decades to come," Pfluger told Fox News Digital. "These bills are three commonsense steps we can take to ensure noncitizens are not influencing our elections by voting in them or administering them. We must safeguard the integrity of our electoral system, and these bills will work to do just that."
It's more than RTO. Rightly or wrongly, employment is on the line.
EVEN BETTER.
 
Any give a qrd on what Trump getting elected in 2016 felt like? (I wasn't that interested in politics back then) I heard the main difference between then and now is that it legit felt out of the blue. Like, no one expected Michigan and Pennsylvania to flip.
I was 15 in high-school and my classmates were talking about it when I first gave the Hillary v Trump election thought and I decided that I would want Trump to win because it would be funny. I wasn't wrong, this rollercoaster is great!
 
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