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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Polyboros2 said:
My hope is that in a month, one or both will have done nothing, think at most they have to prostrate themselves again, and this time Trump says "Ok, well we are only going to give you another month reprieve, oh, but the tariffs are only going to go down to 10% instead of zero, and in a month I'll reevaluate if will raise or lower it."
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That'll either happen, or in the best case scenario: Trump slams them again with a 25% tariff for not keeping their end of the deal (or half-assing it).
 
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John Shedletsky said:
What an odd thing to say.
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Well cartels are kinda not terrorist organizations, are they? Unless you want to count the mafia and every other organized crime syndicate that buys politicians and intimidates jurors or whatnot. Do they have to call them that in order to shoot them or something? I'm all for the war on drugs getting a bit more literal, but it feels like grandstanding.
 
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TrinityReformed said:
No, we have rare earth materials here in the USA that can be mined instead of investing in a foreign country for production of a crucial resource.
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Certain materials are far, far more common and concentrated and therefore economically viable to mine in specific places.

The real world isn't Minecraft where resources are distributed equally anywhere you start digging.
 
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Catgirl Tyranid said:
There was is still a tumor in Christian thought that believed bringing about the apocalypse by fulfilling certain prophecies was a good thing. Which is abjectly retarded, let the apocalypse happen when it happens, trying to speed up God's plan is prideful folly.
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But "immanentizing the eschaton" is so fun to say.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Certain materials are far, far more common and concentrated and therefore economically viable to mine in specific places.

The real world isn't Minecraft where resources are distributed equally anywhere you start digging.
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You're saying it's more economically viable to rebuild a whole country that is right on the border of Russia and mine materials there instead of the deposits we have right here in America?
 
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Benefits for Us said:
It's federal money distributed to poor states. Most which are conservative and religious.
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And where does that federal money come from? How much of the money that gets taken out of the pockets of Americans ends up actually in the schools?
 
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Conan said:
I do not like our massive financial support of Israel. I do not like the ideological capture AIPAC has inflicted on our system. I do not like Israel's treatment of Christians.

But I know this, Israel is considered an ally of the United States by those in power regardless of party affiliation. If Israel support is a guarantee regardless of party then I can choose between someone like Trump who will do 75% of the same things I want or generic democrat who will do zero.

Choosing to cede political power to enemies over an issue that Americans cannot make an actual choice over (for the foreseeable future) is folly, unfortunately.
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The Israelis also kill the Muslims, so that's nice.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
Good, I welcome them to try. Will save everyone involved time and trouble if they just do a little bit of fedposting, they will either get shot or send into fuck-me-in-the-ass prison. This is political suicide, optics suicide and actual suicide, in other words the best kind.
I just hope we get to see some good old fashioned gore on display, been a while since I've seen a retard get his brains blown out. I also have my sincere doubts that this stock of soyboy leftists are anywhere near capable of using, let alone making pipe bombs properly. They're all talk, they raise one fist and they're going to be devoured alive and shat out by the same people who had to endure living hell from them for at least a decade. This isn't 2020, if the feds and DAs aren't playing ball, then heads are going to roll. Literally, if they have to, we can always get someone else to play ball. I don't think Punished Trump, who had a fucking bullet whizz by his head only a few months ago, is going to play fair or clean with these people anymore.
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Another thing that is different now is the oversocialization. The weather underground really did go underground and lived off the grid in a way that isn’t realistic anymore.

The Redditors most likely to be programmed to extremism will also not be able to stay offline and keep away from electronics- they aren’t far from Boomer Facebook fedposters. Think the volunteers in Ukraine that couldn’t resist the updoots and got geolocated/ obliterated by the Russians with ease.

Also I think the right is smarter now, and between defunding DEI and USAID and god knows what else- that ratline to academia may not be as easy as it used to be.
 
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Calandrino said:
Unless you want to count the mafia and every other organized crime syndicate that buys politicians and intimidates jurors or whatnot. Do they have to call them that in order to shoot them or something?
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Well, at least according to the Oxford dictionary, terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. And I think the cartel has done that to a T, if not even more-so in recent years regarding many Latin countries and ours as well. As for whether or not labeling them as a terrorist allows the U.S. army in particular to gun them down, I believe so. Because it allows us to either capture or kill members of these cartels without due process.
 
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