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

General Trump Banner.png

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/
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I don't know a ton about the debt's implications, but quick searching says that the U.S. paid 1 trillion dollars in payments to it's debt last year.
With that point alone, if you divide 1 trillion by the US population of ~350 million; you get around 3000. It's not perfect since not all of those 350 million pay taxes evenly (ex. children don't pay, richer might pay more), but in theory, at minimum, it's about 3000 dollars every year not being taken out of your paychecks.
That is about a 5% raise for the median income earner

Now if we were smart..we could just do a 2.5% raise for the median income..and have the government start putting money aside so that if something catastrophic does happen..it has a savings account to pull from before going into debt.
 
I am loving all the winning in general but I can't help but feel like a doomer re: fixing the corruption in the government, for a simple reason:

1) You'd have to be the biggest retard alive to assume Republican politicians are all innocent angels who never get up to reams of corrupt shit themselves, and yet
2) I don't see any Republican politicians freaking out about Trump and Elon's supposed deep diving.

Why would Republican politicians not be losing their minds too, unless they knew they weren't going to be held accountable? They would have to see the writing on the wall if there was any actual risk of their own shit getting exposed. I can't help fearing this is just one party seizing the other party's corrupt money trove for themselves instead of actually trying to fix things for good. Our tax dollars just get redistributed among Republican rich fucks via Republican backhanded methods instead of Democrat ones, meanwhile the middle and lower class continue to be screwed over as per usual.

I really want to believe there could be real change. (:_( Please tell me what I'm not seeing.
Oh, there has to be a couple internally freaking the fuck out. But getting off the trump train publicly now means being flattened under it's tracks. They are also likely going to have their blows softened in order to get the yes votes needed.
 
View attachment 6956973

"Not gonna lie, Kiwi bros, but the amount of people agreeing with the gay cat owner stuff is alarming. Are we Reddit 2.0?
I inherited cats through a series of retarded events I had no hand in and I say the same shit because people spew that, "those cats will eat you" line all the time. The two fuckers are pretty dumb so I figure they wouldn't figure it out anyway. They are cute though.
 
Like, fuck, you regarded faggot, where was there even room for republicans to compete in corruption metrics? WHERE would they have had the inside track, the TURF, to do corruption?
I hope you're right. This is the best case scenario I can think of, that the Republican party has already had its shit pushed in so thoroughly that they're willing to put up with Elon's transparency making it harder for any side to siphon money away as long as it means the Democrats can't walk all over them anymore.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pocket_Sand!
Having the national debt being at zero would be nice but to fix it properly would take a fair amount of time. Most would probably not like the methods that would be needed to rapidly reduce it from thirty-six trillion dollars.
I imagine whatever resources we could plunder from Greenland could help with the national debt. Call it brutal but taking Africa by force would help too. Chinas taking their resources, so we might as well do the same.
 
I inherited cats through a series of retarded events I had no hand in and I say the same shit because people spew that, "those cats will eat you" line all the time. The two fuckers are pretty dumb so I figure they wouldn't figure it out anyway. They are cute though.
It happens. I distinctly recall a story where an old woman fell and was being eaten by her cat before she had died. Can't find sauce though so maybe it never happened. btw for paywall at least for this site I was able to look at network tab under inspect element to manually block a few scripts that were throwing the paywall.
cot
 
I hope you're right. This is the best case scenario I can think of, that the Republican party has already had its shit pushed in so thoroughly that they're willing to put up with Elon's transparency making it harder for any side to siphon money away as long as it means the Democrats can't walk all over them anymore.
The GOP has had massive turnover since trump 1.0

Do you remember Paul Ryan?

The shitbags from the bush era are mostly gone, and the entire eight years of Obama was Dems telling republicans to go fuck themselves. They got pushed out of most avenues of shadiness back then, so watch for any Republican who was trying to brag about bipartisanship during the Obama admin. Those would be the ones who were allowed to feed at the trough

Also IMG_0702.jpeg
 
Eat a dick you fucking retard
chill, he made a legit point.

remember, you still got the romney and "losing with dignity"-types, they wouldn't do that if there wasn't something in there for them.
however there's a good chance whatever benefit they got is so small compared to the absolute XBOXHUEG shit the dems were pulling, it might fall through the cracks/get's overlooked (maybe on purposed).
 
chill, he made a legit point.

remember, you still got the romney and "losing with dignity"-types, they wouldn't do that if there wasn't something in there for them.
however there's a good chance whatever benefit they got is so small compared to the absolute XBOXHUEG shit the dems were pulling, it might fall through the cracks/get's overlooked (maybe on purposed).
My anger is righteous
 
Brother of the guy who wrote "the fault in our stars" and some other ya novels 2010s teen girls loved.
They used to be popular on youtube a decade ago too. Both Hank and John have their own channels. IIRC, they also founded VidCon, a youtube convention that happens down the street from Disneyland.
Hank also unsurprisingly is the same guy who defended Anita Sarkeesian during the whole Sargon debacle of 2017
 
Why would Republican politicians not be losing their minds too, unless they knew they weren't going to be held accountable? They would have to see the writing on the wall if there was any actual risk of their own shit getting exposed. I can't help fearing this is just one party seizing the other party's corrupt money trove for themselves instead of actually trying to fix things for good. Our tax dollars just get redistributed among Republican rich fucks via Republican backhanded methods instead of Democrat ones, meanwhile the middle and lower class continue to be screwed over as per usual.
Purity spiral. There used to be quite a few Republicans on the grift, but they either got outed as RINOs and voted out or were cut out by the Democrats and so have nothing to lose.
 
There's something about all the stopping of money going to useless things that is bothering me.

I've watched what happens often enough when a grifter gets busted lying to people to get donations.
They don't panic. They don't cry or spiral or otherwise fall apart.
They don't get scared or demoralized.
They get angry. Violently angry.
If you ever want to see someone go from normal, maybe even sweet, to viciously spitting rage at anyone and everyone, take away a liar's ill-gotten income.

I can't believe that all those who had been lining their pockets with government funds are okay with this.
I fear for the safety of the ones trying to staunch the flow of taxpayer funds into stupid shit.
Be safe out there.
 
Back