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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Current members of the House of Representatives
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Current members of the US Supreme Court
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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

I really feel like Chesterton is very underrated, he reads like a prophet these days. And not just because I love the ideal of Distributionism. I also feel like making an "Either/Or" joke about Biden, but I'm drawing a blank on how to make it work. Which sounds like a very Biden thing.

Chesterton has some absolute bangers. Some of my favorite quotes of all time.

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

"The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything."

"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."

"Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

And one of the most applicable to our current libertine society:

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”​

 

[CatholicConfederate]

Lol the church did nothing at all beside forcing everyone to follow a bastardized version of their ancestral faith where instead of worshipping their gods they worship Jews. Even medieval goatfuckers invented more for humanity than the church did because goatfuckers realized those ancient texts had something to it. Christianity is just another side of the same coin as Islam, and would be just as bad if the average Christian IQ were 75-80...oh wait, see the Christian parts of Africa or the ghetto.

Tell me you don't know history without telling me you don't know history.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Do plane crashes usually result in stereotypical mushroom clouds?

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[Clobber3]

I really feel like Chesterton is very underrated, he reads like a prophet these days. And not just because I love the ideal of Distributionism. I also feel like making an "Either/Or" joke about Biden, but I'm drawing a blank on how to make it work. Which sounds like a very Biden thing.

I think he's got a decent following in the catholic and political philosophy nerds. Distributism is very fascinating, probably an ideal economic system on a smallish scale. Localism, diversified ownership, great ideas in theory. I think maybe one of the potential flaws would be in terms of efficiency, especially in a global economy like ours.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Y'all making me feel foolish over worrying about my 2-3 cans of beer a day habit. Haven't had any since the first of the month, but I'm not planning on never drinking again, and damn do I miss the stress relief and taste, even if it makes me less productive overall.

I started out drinking 2-3 beers a day. It sneaks up on you. Life has shitty moments and you're better off dealing with them head-on than using something as a crutch. Why do you think liberals and groypers are so over-emotional and doom all the time? Most of them are addicts with zero psychological resilience and poor emotional regulation.

 

[Observotron]

This video always terrified me for some reason, but the cameraman starting to back up will never not make me crack a smile.

 

[WelperHelper99]

What the fuck just happened in Philadelphia? I am hearing about a jet crash on the news

 

[moocow]

What the fuck is going on with air transport these days?

Either our DEI policies are catching up to us or we got troons doing an allaku ackbar to stick it to drumpf

You gotta admit that a plane falling out of the sky every other day is very poor optics. Let's hope the trend doesn't continue.

This isn't really anything out of the ordinary. There's a good number of accidents and crashes every month. We just don't hear about them all because they usually don't happen in the US.

 

[Velociraptor]

Trade goods like cotton and tobacco, the former having the cotton gin which was already displacing the need for slaves.
And again, you keep ignoring the slave states in the Union. Not to mention West Virginia which was readmitted into the Union as a slave state in 1863.

The cotton gin made slavery worse. Like, significantly worse. Eli Whitney intended for what you said to happen, but it absolutely did not happen, and we went from having less than 800,000 slaves in the US to having over 4,000,000 because of it.

I also didn't ignore states like Kentucky or West Virginia, but let me repeat it for you more clearly: The North did not go to war over slavery, but, from their perspective, to put down a rebellion led by a pro-slavery coalition. Just because the South seceded over their pro-slavery views does not mean that the North fought for abolition, at least not initially.

 

[Niggernerd]

Not good enough, pick up the pace or hire more agents.

Are you doing your part and staking out home depots?

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

This video always terrified me for some reason, but the cameraman starting to back up will never not make me crack a smile.

Probably because you know there are multiple gigantic MRAPS rolling around inside the plane, smashing up the crew and the bulkheads.

 

[like_shutup_&_drive_scoob]

Two deadly aircraft incidences involving the military or medical community within a few days of Trump publicly renouncing Troon policies???
Very scary coincidence.

 

[WelperHelper99]

ATTENTION: this poster is a mormon retard who wears magic underwear (temple garments). That is all.

That's a secret? Next you'll tell me I like anime.

 

[GR8 B8 M8 I R8 8/8]

I'm hearing about ""Trump removed plane safety"" around the Internet recently. I'm assuming it has to do with these sudden plane crashes. Am I to understand that he didn't do anything like that and instead, the usual suspects are blaming Trump for these crashes?
Because if pilots are deciding to kamikaze themselves into shit because they can't stand the orange man being president, then we really do need to reopen asylums and treat TDS as a dangerous mental illness.

 

[Cucurbita King]

Attention: We got another plane, apparently:
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Just fucking nosedives, it made me think it was a missile.

January isn't even over yet!

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

That makes LBJ sound too nice. LBJ was the sort to kick the mistress out and demand his wife make him breakfast after he made her sleep in the visitor bedroom.

The fucker literally stole an election for his senator seat. He knew a military medal would help his career so in WW2 he got a ride on a bomber doing a routine run over a Japan that was already nearly defeated and managed to brownose his way into a medal.

Telling people to read even the Wikipedia article about LBJ is a riot. Dude was an ass HOLE

 

[not william stenchever]

The cotton gin made slavery worse. Like, significantly worse. Eli Whitney intended for what you said to happen, but it absolutely did not happen, and we went from having less than 800,000 slaves in the US to having over 4,000,000 because of it.

When the production bottleneck of seed separation was solved with the cotton gin the next bottleneck to solve was getting more cotton to run through the cotton gins.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Slavery was not the cause of the war. Cope and seethe.

If it makes you sleep better. Just know the filthy DEMOCRAT traitors were put down like the dogs they were. Everything the Union did was justified against the radical left pro slavery coalition.

 

[LowlyPheasent]

I'm hearing about ""Trump removed plane safety"" around the Internet recently. I'm assuming it has to do with these sudden plane crashes. Am I to understand that he didn't do anything like that and instead, the usual suspects are blaming Trump for these crashes?
Because if pilots are deciding to kamikaze themselves into shit because they can't stand the orange man being president, then we really do need to reopen asylums and treat TDS as a dangerous mental illness.

It's just retards screaming.
The first was the fault of the helicopter pilots, they deviated from the normal flight path over the runway and were instead in front of it not the ATC.

Second is a private medical plane for ferrying patients elsewhere from out of Mexico and it nose dived into row homes over in Philly. What's wrong with that is TBD but I highly doubt it's anything to blame the ATC on either.

 

[merrybrandybuck]

No, the CIA released a statement a few days ago saying 'covid was "more likely” to have come from a lab than a natural reservoir like a bat or other animal at the wet market. The conclusion did not come from new evidence—merely a fresh look at existing data—and the agency has “low confidence” in the findings.'

Doing so 5 years after the facts and amidst rising tension between the US and China come across as weak and opportunistic to me, even if I agree with the statement.

Best source I have is APnews, couldn't find the raw declaration.

Low confidence because chinks don't let anyone on the premises yeah. Anything they don't have tangible physical evidence for is classified as "low confidence" even when the empirical evidence is high.