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/

 

[FatalTater]

I have only had one real hope from the moment Trump was elected again, and that is that WHEN the Burn Loot Murder brigade starts their shit again the country's leaders crush them into dust, showing no mercy to any of them, from the quiet ones handing out water to the loud ones smashing windows to the ones sitting back and funding the movement. (don't get comfortable, JackSepticEye)

There's a spot in my heart that is entirely cold and dead because of this filth and nothing would make me happier than for anyone trying to start up another "summer of love" like we had in 2020 to be wished into a cornfield.

America had better not go on fire again.
I live here and I've seen enough of that shit.

 

[tehpope]

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon...recast-400-million-state-department-contracts

Pro Quid Quo. I knew must wasn't helping Trump out of the goodness of his heart. I mainly thought t was for SpaceX. Didn't think Telsa was a part of the equation.

edit: we're only trading one set of corrupt assholes for another. So it goes.

 

[The Last Stand]

The National Socialist Movement isn't really relevant anymore relatively speaking so these guys seem to be its replacement in the Neo-Nazi sphere of far-right groups in the USA. To some it is all a big act but there is probably a handful of hardcore believers.

To get an idea of what to expect here is an image of the Blood Tribe and an image of the Goyim Defense League:
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Looks like a prison gang if that.

 

[David Floyd George]

-A non-citizen can only be allowed on US soil by invitation (Green Card, H1B, or Asylum)

Welp, there goes the tourism industry.

 

[mold]

I have only had one real hope from the moment Trump was elected again, and that is that WHEN the Burn Loot Murder brigade starts their shit again the country's leaders crush them into dust, showing no mercy to any of them, from the quiet ones handing out water to the loud ones smashing windows to the ones sitting back and funding the movement. (don't get comfortable, JackSepticEye)

There's a spot in my heart that is entirely cold and dead because of this filth and nothing would make me happier than for anyone trying to start up another "summer of love" like we had in 2020 to be wished into a cornfield.

America had better not go on fire again.
I live here and I've seen enough of that shit.

I love you potato man

 

[NSA Intern]

I feel like I'm being gaslit, less because people brush it under the rug and more that nobody ever seems to press on that fact. The guy spent his campaign talking about kids playing with his leg hair, but only at that exact moment he got swapped out was it clear he was going senile.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

America had better not go on fire again.
I live here and I've seen enough of that shit.

China virus blew its load, so, be on the lookout for a loose equivalent within the next 20 or so years. I give it 2039-2040.

 

[Toolbox]

"Armored Tesla" forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election, government document shows​

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-armored-tesla-forecast-400-million-state-department-contracts

This is something that just won't be great unless Tesla starts working more with SpaceX engineers, maybe they are already, but they also need armored vehicle talent, the cybertruck's panels are decent against smaller arms fire just due to them being stainless steel, beyond that they're shit and most of the vehicle is worse than most modern ones in a crash alone, it can't crunch, and the rest of it is just anemic in other ways. I don't see this being a failure at face if it becomes a hybrid rather than an EV, if it's an EV it's dead in the water.

 

[Hojicha]

The National Socialist Movement isn't really relevant anymore relatively speaking so these guys seem to be its replacement in the Neo-Nazi sphere of far-right groups in the USA. To some it is all a big act but there is probably a handful of hardcore believers.

To get an idea of what to expect here is an image of the Blood Tribe and an image of the Goyim Defense League:
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I'm not saying these guys are good people but oh man are they cuter than 80% of leftwing fellows

 

[unleashthefreak]

we are at 15, lets check the f-22

The US uses more than 10x the number of f35s than f22s, and f35s are individually used more often that an f22.
Consider that the the f16, which has a similar quantity to the f35 (+- a few hundred), with ~3x (<49 years vs <19 years), has well in excess of 500 bad accidents.
Even adjusting for time, and assuming that all f16s currently in use were instantly deployed 50 years ago, the f35 has crashed about an order of magnitude less. Obviously this is a meaningless and uninformed statistic, but even with it your claim is weak.

 

[northstar747]

Canada made Soylent Green real:
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south park did it better

 

[Mooner]

kiwifarms is, unironically and with 100% sincerity the most diverse place on the Internet.

Few pages late, but absolutely. That's definitely been my experience in real life, too. The people that the left love to label as "racist" are in fact just normal dudes.

 

[Clobber3]

Taibbi smacks the democrats upside their collective heads

Holy shit I’m going down a taibbi rabbit hole now, do you guys have any greatest hits re: his writing? I have only been aware of his twitter files stuff.

Relatedly: do any of you subscribe to the racket news paid Substack? Price seems low enough it doesn’t look insane compared to some others, and clearly this dude does serious work.

 

[The Ugly One]

Notice how all the entries get smaller over time? like they dont want to draw any attention or scrutiny to this issue, but I was worng, its not an even dozen its more than that

we are at 15, lets check the f-22

There are about 5x as many F-35s as F-22s. 15 out of 1000 planes crashing over 19 years vs 13 out of 186 planes crashing over 28 years means the F-22 has crashed at a rate about 3x higher than the F-35.

 

[X Prime]

There are about 5x as many F-35s as F-22s. 15 out of 1000 planes crashing over 19 years vs 13 out of 186 planes crashing over 28 years means the F-22 has crashed at a rate about 3x higher than the F-35.

To be fair, does it only cost 3x as much as an F-22?

 

[Toolbox]

There are about 5x as many F-35s as F-22s. 15 out of 1000 planes crashing over 19 years vs 13 out of 186 planes crashing over 28 years means the F-22 has crashed at a rate about 3x higher than the F-35.

That balances it out, sure, the comparison will only really be just when the f-35 reaches the f-22's current age, then looking back will show which was truly worse.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I will say you're over exaggerating a bit; it's been pretty nice here since, like, November for outdoor eating, at least during the day.

Sure, in the winter time it's not bad to eat outside unless it's a wet winter or you get some real bad cold snaps blowing in, and it hasn't been all that bad this winter. But that still doesn't change the fact that in the other six months of the year, eating outside isn't entirely pleasant. Chik-Fil-A is extremely popular, and those misters really don't do a damn thing gonna be real with you. These places should have options for both indoor-outdoor.

But also that location is just badly-placed to begin with and the traffic is horrendous even for the drive-thru. I always drive to the next closest Chik-Fil-A because traffic isn't shit there, and also you can eat indoors there. Seriously, fuck these tiny drive-in-only shops, they truly have no business being squeezed into plazas that were never designed for such traffic to begin with.

 

[northstar747]

Holy shit I’m going down a taibbi rabbit hole now, do you guys have any greatest hits re: his writing? I have only been aware of his twitter files stuff.

Relatedly: do any of you subscribe to the racket news paid Substack? Price seems low enough it doesn’t look insane compared to some others, and clearly this dude does serious work.

Tabbi wrote great stuff about the mortgage crisis, then get got involved with some guy that didnt work out. He thrives substack because he does real work.

Thats why elon let him have the twitter files to start with .

 

[StudMccool]

There are about 5x as many F-35s as F-22s. 15 out of 1000 planes crashing over 19 years vs 13 out of 186 planes crashing over 28 years means the F-22 has crashed at a rate about 3x higher than the F-35.

can you redo those calculations with those numbers and see if it still seems commensurate?

also alot of those "1000" arent ours but partner nations as they funded small but significant portions of the development of the program



see only 630, still less than 200 but shoudl affect the calculations significantly over 1000

 

[Seething Troon Collector]

The National Socialist Movement isn't really relevant anymore relatively speaking so these guys seem to be its replacement in the Neo-Nazi sphere of far-right groups in the USA. To some it is all a big act but there is probably a handful of hardcore believers.

To get an idea of what to expect here is an image of the Blood Tribe and a image of the Goyim Defense League:
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You will never convince me that 75% of the people in these photos are NOT feds.