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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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Here’s what we’ll do. We’ll declare “war” on you, maybe drop a few bombs on the most cucked cities, we’ll let them flee on ships and then we’ll torpedo them then we’ll sign an armistice in which you must gas all your libtards and corpos.

Dude, I live in Australia. Please. Please. Do it! (Do Sydney first pls).

 

[majob]

Credit to both Thune and Rubio, they really have fallen in line. Actually aside from McConnell, has any repub not?

Murkowski is out there still being a cunt but even she bent the knee a bit and voted for most of Trump's picks. I wasn't expecting that since she's safe until 2028 but she's still resisting Trump in other ways like trying to repeal his order to change Denali back to Mt. McKinley

 

[dick brain]

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https://x.com/teameffujoe/status/1890182171178258479

This is a very funny REEEEEEEE from what seems to be a school teacher.
>Rants in democrat
>Chad repub school kid:KYS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE I STOOD FOR U

>tfw you'll never make a soygoy so mad he starts to sound like Filthy Frank (because you're not a child so he won't raise his voice to you)

 

[thog]

Murkowski is out there still being a cunt but even she bent the knee a bit and voted for most of Trump's picks. I wasn't expecting that since she's safe until 2028 but she's still resisting Trump in other ways like trying to repeal his order to change Denali back to Mt. McKinley

Alaska got within a few thousand votes of repealing RCV, and she knows it's going to be back on the ballot every cycle until it's repealed, which means she might have to actually face a primary in 2028.

Basically, she can't go full John McCain because it just makes it more likely that the jungle primary is gone in 2026 and she gets jettisoned from the party in 2028. It's not 2010, she's not winning a write-in campaign anymore.

 

[The I Scream Man]

Alaska got within a few thousand votes of repealing RCV, and she knows it's going to be back on the ballot every cycle until it's repealed, which means she might have to actually face a primary in 2028.

Basically, she can't go full John McCain because it just makes it more likely that the jungle primary is gone in 2026 and she gets jettisoned from the party in 2028. It's not 2010, she's not winning a write-in campaign anymore.

Don't underestimate her popularity in the state, she has a broad appeal even with the number of people who perennially claim they're fed up with her

She's succeeded in harsher circumstances and there aren't any challengers that can touch her that I'm aware of, in 2022 she fended off Kelly Tshibaka (who had endorsements from Trump and a host of other party big shots, as well as tons of Outside money coming in)

Her victory was by a few thousand votes but that's a lot in Alaska, a lot of state elections are nailbiters like that

 

[NSA Intern]

A leftoid I keep an eye on reposted a Der Purrher video about how elon is bad. If anyone had any vanishing doubts about the status of Fuentes as on a fed leash, this’ll crush them

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

I always found this particular Soviet-era "whoops" to be especially egregious. (I wonder if the Resident Evil movie T-virus getting into the Umbrella biowarfare facility ventilation shaft was inspired by this real world event?)

There were more of those. There's a book called Biohazard by Ken Alibek - real name Kanatjan Alibekov, he was a Soviet scientist claiming to have worked on bioweapon research in the USSR who moved to the US as the USSR fell. It talks about the Sverdlovsk incident as well as a bunch of others. The veracity of those stories is questionable but it's a fun read. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/esmallpox/biohazard_alibek.pdf

Retards are vowing to start attacking Tesla cars because nazis or something.

https://archive.is/Ddek1

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Le Reddit armie has been doing that for weeks now, usually to Cybertrucks. https://www.reddit.com/r/MildlyVand...ve_action_of_a_mild_vandalization_of_a_tesla/ (archive)

 

[Blitzsneed]

J.D. Vance will hold a speech at the Munich Security Conference at 14:30 CET, 3 and a half hours from now. Here is the agenda.
Things I'd love to hear from Vance regarding the EU/G*rmany:

• Free speech is non-existent. "Hate speech" laws. That means, if you voice your opinion (that is "wrongthink" of course, usually concerning trannies) or even dare to criticize german politicians, you will get your door kicked in by the police. In some cases you are directly thrown into prison. Side note: There is no distinction between jail and prison.
• The sad state of affairs when it comes to the economy and the government is currently making things a lot worse.
• The obvious issue of the inner security of EU states. The thing (that is being the "car of peace") that happened just yesterday.
• von der Leyen's complete failure as a defense minister of G*rmany, cutting budgets left and right.

It probably won't happen, but there is still hope.

 

[Gehenna]

On the subject of why Trump hasn't gone after X department. The modus operandi is fairly obvious.

First, take things "slow" (by Trump second term heart attack pace standards), have DOGE focus on one thing at a time with smaller forces doing setup in other areas.
Second, do not do -anything- until the person in charge is a Trump appointee. This provides a ton of cover and prevents any fuckery.
Third, cut first, delete later. If you just kill a department it gets folded into whatever department is above it. The cuts, and ensuing legal battles, are I stead done first as well as any digging. This ensures it cannot be "lost" in the move and means any legal battles are done first.


The goal in the end is to defeat the Deep State in detail.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Remember, it's always easier to destroy than create. This is true even for bloated parasites pretending to be federal institutions.

All these grant programs, these federal agencies, these swamp creature dens? Recreating them won't be as easy as the next Democrat just waving a wand and EOing them back into existence. Budgets will need to be created and signed off on by Congress. People will need to be rehired or hired anew, which includes background checks, security clearances, etc -- and they might have moved on. Network connections will need to be spun up ("We're getting contraceptives going for gay Pandas in Japan, so we need to get a line of communication with one of our activists in Tokyo University... Wait what do you mean they left after we cut their USAID funding?"). Infrastructure will need to be created and updated.

I don't know if they've realized that yet, or if they think they'll just be able to flip a switch and restore these slush funds the second he's out. But in reality, the damage he's doing will probably take an entire Democratic administration's time effort and political capital to undo across 4 years -- or more! Worse if he keeps bragging about it publicly and the Republicans make damned sure to start raising holy hell if they start trying to "undo the anti-corruption measures we worked so hard on."

Regardless, their plans for whatever happening around 2030 are well and truly fucked now.

 

[Disc]

Remember, it's always easier to destroy than create. This is true even for bloated parasites pretending to be federal institutions.

All these grant programs, these federal agencies, these swamp creature dens? Recreating them won't be as easy as the next Democrat just waving a wand and EOing them back into existence. Budgets will need to be created and signed off on by Congress. People will need to be rehired or hired anew, which includes background checks, security clearances, etc -- and they might have moved on. Network connections will need to be spun up ("We're getting contraceptives going for gay Pandas in Japan, so we need to get a line of communication with one of our activists in Tokyo University... Wait what do you mean they left after we cut their USAID funding?"). Infrastructure will need to be created and updated.

I don't know if they've realized that yet, or if they think they'll just be able to flip a switch and restore these slush funds the second he's out. But in reality, the damage he's doing will probably take an entire Democratic administration's time effort and political capital to undo across 4 years -- or more! Worse if he keeps bragging about it publicly and the Republicans make damned sure to start raising holy hell if they start trying to "undo the anti-corruption measures we worked so hard on."

Regardless, their plans for whatever happening around 2030 are well and truly fucked now.

Not to mention that Trump's very act of doing this has created a fundamental uncertainty. You can no longer be assured that you're getting infinite money from the american taxpayer just because USAID has put you on the goodie list; the next Republican President will be cutting that spigot off if he needs to.

Do you want a job where the election in an entirely different country can decide your fate? I'm guessing for a lot of these people, the answer is no.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Ron Paul is the fucking man and I'm so happy he got to see the government get cut down a notch in his lifetime, it's just such a shame he was never allowed to do it himself much earlier like he wanted.

I'll never get over the Republicans fucking him over in the 2008 and 2012 elections, so they could back retards John McCain and Mitt Romney. I voted for Ron Paul in those elections regardless.

Ron Paul also didn't help himself when he snubbed off the NRA. Love them or hate them him doing that cost him a lot of support.

 

[AnotherPleb]

shocked there are no “law hat” people usually those guys are in full force when it comes to protests

The checks aren't cashing. What, you think a lawyer is ever going to work for free?

 

[General Disarray]

Before the day gets underway I wanted to do a quick correction from yesterday re: herbal supplements.
Because I cracked tf up over Jnco Bilboa. That sounds like the jeans Rocky would wear in the 90's lmao.

It's actually Ginkgo Biloba.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/ginkgo-biloba-benefits

Back to your regularly scheduled political shitposting. Thank you for your attention to this pressing matter.

 

[BullfrogBill]

Ron Paul also didn't help himself when he snubbed off the NRA. Love them or hate them him doing that cost him a lot of supsupport

If you're referring to Ron Paul criticizing NRA's idea of having armed guards in schools and daily searches of students into legislation, I still agree with Ron Paul that it's a retarded idea. Ron Paul has always advocated for people carrying guns though.

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

I believe a lot of the info related to the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy is originally in Italian? I saw a really good (subtitled) Italian documentary on it many many years ago. I remember it theorized the Keksburg UFO crash in 1965 was a Soviet space capsule that crashed on re-entry, and the "alien bodies" allegedly recovered from the crash were the remains of Soviet Cosmonauts. The American government allegedly covered up the crash, because they didn't want the general public to know how far along the Soviets were in their own space program.

The entire keksburg thing is nothing more than "trust me bro it happened". And when some proof was given (photos of a truck carrying saucerlike thing I believe?) it turned out the truck in picture did not enter service until the 80s.

A LOT of people were trying to get on the ufo bandwagon. Some still do.

 

[shekelshoah666]

Don't underestimate her popularity in the state, she has a broad appeal even with the number of people who perennially claim they're fed up with her

She's succeeded in harsher circumstances and there aren't any challengers that can touch her that I'm aware of, in 2022 she fended off Kelly Tshibaka (who had endorsements from Trump and a host of other party big shots, as well as tons of Outside money coming in)

Her victory was by a few thousand votes but that's a lot in Alaska, a lot of state elections are nailbiters like that

She lost in primaries before and only won cause of very questionable write in stuff + shady behind the scenes shit. When she won in 2010 it was the lowest vote share for a senator in 40 years and was effectively her working with uniparty + constant hit pieces on Miller.

It took $6.5 million and effectively deceiving the people of her state for her to win her last election. If she ran in a real election she would lose easily but they spent millions to keep that from happening. Reminder that the GOP pulled all funds from winnable races in other states
(probably have 5 more house seats right now and maybe another senate seat) to fund Alaska keeping RCV so she could win just to fuck with Trump if he won.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

If you're referring to Ron Paul criticizing NRA's idea of having armed guards in schools and daily searches of students into legislation, I still agree with Ron Paul that it's a retarded idea. Ron Paul has always advocated for people carrying guns though.

Nah, I meant him ignoring their candidate questionaire, refusing to speak at the expos, etc. etc.

Basically totally snubbing and ignoring them.

I was big into the NRA back in 2008 and it soured me on him pretty heavily.

 

[Fourier Spectrum]

I half wonder if the legal block on the buyout is the reason why they closed it so abruptly after that was overturned. No clue how long the window was planned to be open for beforehand but closing it after winning the right to keep going suggests there's a point being made that the Democrat lawfare fighting Trump is going to have consequences. There may have been some planning to take it who were stopped by the judge and now can't who've lost their jobs with nothing for it.

The offer was supposed to end last Thursday 2/6 at 11:59 PM and then got extended to this Monday 2/10, I think around the time of the hearing.

 

[The I Scream Man]

She lost in primaries before and only won cause of very questionable write in stuff + shady behind the scenes shit. When she won in 2010 it was the lowest vote share for a senator in 40 years and was effectively her working with uniparty + constant hit pieces on Miller.

It took $6.5 million and effectively deceiving the people of her state for her to win her last election. If she ran in a real election she would lose easily but they spent millions to keep that from happening. Reminder that the GOP pulled all funds from winnable races in other states
(probably have 5 more house seats right now and maybe another senate seat) to fund Alaska keeping RCV so she could win just to fuck with Trump if he won.

I honestly don't remember a lot about 2010, I do remember that Joe Miller was a very polarizing and pretty unpopular candidate in general (he's a nice guy in person but really laser focused on his issues, too much so if we're being honest)

For RCV, No On 2 was primarily supported by a group called Alaskans For Better Elections, whose primary donor was "Unite America", which is center-left at best

ETA: I'm curious to hear what you mean by "deceiving the people of her state", because that was what Tshibaka was doing moreso than Murkowski, everybody I knew across the spectrum knew that Kelly was a carpetbagger, Dunleavy brought her in under really questionable circumstances after John Quick proved too radioactive to handle. It was widely speculated that she was recommended by the national GOP as a replacement in preparation for a run at Murkowski and it was honestly really transparent once the records were made public