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Should be a wild four years.

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I mean, he did say he was going to do it like 150 times. Everyone agreed on it so, while we can't have a trebuchet on our border we can use the next best thing to speed things up.

I bet trannies are going to read the "internment camps" part and think it's for them, even though it was originally meant for actual Nazis.
 
This, like everything, depended on the size of your employer and their ability to leverage. I payed a shit ton more than this in the '90s.
I worked for a factory with about 100 people, but granted this was in New England, not California

It was a pretty standard insurance package for a factory worker. My company also double matched a 4% contribution to my 401(k) for a total of 12% of my pay
 
It's sad to see that. There was a forum I used to shitpost on 10 to 15+ years ago, I still visit from time to time. They were all right wing, loved Bush when I posted back when I was a Libtard. Now, they're all Libtards and hate Trump. One of them is a Troon now! I'm no longer a Libtard. It's bizarre!
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They saying the quite part out loud
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Also Bill Kristol was one of the war hawks who pushed for what happened in Iraq so his opinions on anything should be discarded forever.
 
Hi, I was alive and on employer sponsored healthcare prior to the ACA.

Premiums were $15/week, copays were 0 for regular office visits and I think $250 if you called an ambulance, and there were no deductibles
Insurance premiums have been rising past inflation long before Obama took office.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/study-highlights-links-between-health-costs-unemployment-and-morbidity/#:~:text=Rising Healthcare Costs,are the primary cost drivers. (archive)

The ACA may have worsened the issue of insurance overcharging but don't say that it wasn't a problem before Obama. Your anecdotal experience doesn't reflect the country.
 
Insurance premiums have been rising past inflation long before Obama took office.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/study-highlights-links-between-health-costs-unemployment-and-morbidity/#:~:text=Rising Healthcare Costs,are the primary cost drivers. (archive)

The ACA may have worsened the issue of insurance overcharging but don't say that it wasn't a problem before Obama.
I can easily say that Obama fucked it to death

I was really ok with $15/week, that’s much better than the $180/week I currently pay
 
if you can defend your own borders, secure and process your own resources and produce what you need then who cares what happens in some shithole in whogivesafuckistain.
Because we may not have the necessary resources and thus have to deal with other countries to obtain those resources. We are able to produce a resource like oil domestically, but the international price of oil still affects the price of oil purchased domestically.

If there is increasing instability in the world, that will affect our ability to export American goods as well as raise transportation costs. Economy slows down, people lose jobs, and society starts to break down.

We live in a complex world, which the US remains at the top because it is able to retain dominance through influence and stability of major, minor, and inconsequential nations.

Point me out one superpower in world history that did not influence countries within its sphere of influence to promote stability and prosperity within its own country.
 
Two weeks to shatter the myth of American weakness

The foundational principle of Biden and Obama policy was the US should be extremely deferential to the world, to the point of submissiveness at times. The Daddy and Son Bush and Clinton administrations also exhibited this trait, mostly on trade. Obama and Biden figured the US deserved some punishment, self inflicted or otherwise, because of their dogshit ideology. The Bushes and Clinton figured America would get vague, amorphous benefits arising from the world liking us more if we let them take advantage of us a little economically

Of course those countries pushed our deference and generosity past all reason, and that's why they have Trump to deal with now

The United States is the strongest country in the world in every way by far. When America acts like it, the world responds appropriately. When the American president says, jump!, and means it, the world asks, how high?, on the way up. When the American president acts like a little bitch, the world also responds appropriately
 
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The ACA may have worsened the issue of insurance overcharging but don't say that it wasn't a problem before Obama.
There was a loophole that the ACA tried to close - if it was all too much of a fuck, you could just choose not to play the game, and go uninsured.

They trot out tons of shit to try to make this seem to be the biggest evil ever, but for the average healthy young person, going without insurance was a huge, huge win.

Supposedly the ACA was going to make everything cheaper by forcing those to participate, but it never worked, and costs have gone insane, and there's not much of a way out (you can again forgo insurance without being ass-raped by the IRS but much fewer do now).
The foundational principle of Biden and Obama policy was the US should be extremely deferential to the world, to the point of submissiveness at times.
What people forget is there's a difference between being respectful and deferential, and being submissive.

You can get the exact same result and be polite about it - and arguably, after WWII we did things that way for specific reasons. (There's a decent argument that WW2 is because the world fucked Germany over so hard that Hitler was inevitable.) We provided much of the muscle/money behind things, but quietly, and let countries "save face" even if they didn't have the cash. Sometimes that involved us looking dumb, but we don't need to save face because we ARE the obvious rich powerhouse. But in the next 80 years, we stopped outwardly being the rich powerhouse and so it became harder and harder for the rest of the world to justify to their citizens why they would do everything the USA wanted.

Trump understands this, and this is part of the reason he did so well in Asia (not only with Japan loving him, but also the Koreas, and even China). It's "the deal", but on a country level - come in loud, demand everything, wave your dick around, get 80% of what you wanted and the other country's leader gets to tell everyone they tamed the dragon!
 
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10k Mexican troops is nothing and Trump is retarded for holding off the tariffs for that. Not only is there no reason to believe the Mexican military isn't full of/controlled by cartelniggers, but Mexico has had more than 10k soldiers at the border before this. Trump should've asked for way more. Hopefully he will actually go through with it next month
Yeah, there's no reason to believe them, which is why it's a pause. They are giving Mexico a month to prove they actually give a shit about stopping cartels and very likely, if the US finds there's been little reduction in those drugs coming over, they turn the tarifs back on and fuck them harder.
 
I think 'being mean' is cope to justify the ease at which they gave them up. I think most of them would've gladly kept them were it not for rising costs, mounting unrest, and American pressure to dismantle them. Some countries were quicker than most. Britain was probably first to acquiesce, giving up India and losing Africa piece by piece. France came next, but not before taking some hits on the chin in Vietnam. Following the Suez crisis America positioned itself to effectively manage European foreign policy. Which, to be fair, was a given considering they footed the bill to repair the continent for the most part. Fun but depressing fact: the US spent less money on Europe than the world has collectively in trying to un-fuck Africa from itself. Portugal of all countries was surprisingly curmudgeon about it, actually paying Portuguese lives to try and hold onto a few ports in India. They call the event 'The Invasion of Goa' whilst the Indians call it 'The Liberation of Goa'.
The Europeans didn't give up any of their "empires", the countries that had them just made fatal policy decisions that led to their demise. World War 1 and World War 2 destroyed a lot of them. The ones that had any holdings left did try to maintain them, it's just that for the most part they failed. The British tried to maintain control in parts of Africa, The French were kicked out of Algeria and Vietnam, The Dutch tried to hold onto Indonesia, The Belgians delayed leaving the Congo and the Portuguese didn't want to leave Angola or Mozambique but they ran into issues when their government got overthrown in a military coup. Both the United States and the USSR who were the dominant world powers during the Cold War had reasons to support decolonization and the countries of Europe lacked the means to maintain their old overseas territories in a changing world.
 
Do you think Trump, Homan, Hegseth, Noem, and the rest of Trump's people are going to naïvely trust narco controlled Mexico?

The 10k troops is the public announcement. We don't know if there were more terms behind closed doors (I would assume yes).

10k Mexican troops. 30k American troops. Why not both!?
I think there's also something to be said internal to Mexico of it forcing her to show strength and show there's strength with a group who's (ostensibly) _not_ the cartels.
That seems like the sort of thing that annoys the cartels.
 
Mexico is just too cucked to treat cartel animals like how they deserve to be treated. If you humanely arrest them, even if the people who arrested them are on your side, the cartel nigger will eventually escape with the help of corrupt politicians or police. Just cull them on sight to prevent this. There is no humane catch for the cartel plague.
Canada and Mexico are vassals of China at this point. Mexico decided to play ball with the US, at least a little bit right now, while Canada is digging in its feet. Either way, we'll stop them from helping China screw us.
 
Britain is irrelevant because it's not in the EU, true.


It's because they have no reason to antagonize you. YOU have no reason to antagonize them either, sans mental deficiencies that cloud your judgement. Mexico will inevitably look towards the two oceans and the promises they hold. You can fire a warning shot only once, you don't get a second chance.
You're a nigger faggot because America has no reason to antagonize country literally controlled by cartel members who send drugs rapists and crime to us, while sending thousands in immigrants and also beheading families on our side of the border. Yeah okay faggot.
 
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