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

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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/

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

She's smart enough to realize that the plaintiffs are asking her to exercise power she not only does not have, she could never wield even in the hypothetical scenario that she would be allowed to try

That's a great point, and probably the answer.

When all is hopefully said and done, Judge Merchan and several other judges and DA's who committed lawfare against the Republicans are either going to be disbarred, in jail, or fucking sh0t for treason.

She probably sees where the wind is blowing, and her desire for self-preservation is probably just slightly stronger then her desire to use her power and connections to rig the system against her enemies.

 

[marvlouslie]

as someone who quite guiltily loves hot cheetos, I would love to see what non-GMO no-tartrazine hot cheetos would taste like.

A lot of these things wouldn't look the same due to a lot of the food dye used in them. They'd probably taste a little better too. A lot of the snacks out of EU countries don't look like the ones here because they've banned a lot of the cancer causing food dyes.

 

[quaawaa]

In case you have some sympathy for the Feds:

Source (Archive)

 

[The Ugly One]

whoa whoa WHOA

DC circuit judge Chutkan rules on DOGE's side? Against the 14 Blue State Coalition?

Did I hop realities again and not notice?

Quotes:

“The order you’re requesting is incredible broad,” U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said. “It would essentially bring government to a halt"

“We’re asking you to shut down a constitutional violation that we haven’t seen in this
country,” Kirschner said.

“You’re essentially asking me to shut down the government,” Chutkan said.
“I can’t give prophylactic TROs!” Chutkan eventually said.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...utkan/65-2e3d2d5f-f28e-4e9b-9739-23a58473d28a

WTF is going on...Chunky ruling against the Democratic Machine? How is that possible?

“As a result, he has transformed a minor position that was formerly responsible for managing government websites into a designated agent of chaos without limitation and in violation of the separation of powers.”

Which branch of government do they think the administrative state belongs to?

Glenn is cool as shit for a homosexual Brazilian.

He's an American Jew who moved to Brazil because he found a twink there he liked. His twink later died of some weird gastrointestinal disease.

 

[Breadbassket]

It all happened after a large percentage of the sellout crowd at a center in Canada loudly booed the U.S. anthem. A number of fans also booed every time a U.S. player was shown on video screens during pregame warmups.

Two more fights happened not long after the first one

Three total fights happened within the first nine seconds of the match.

 

[Disc]

OH SHIT GUYS, THERES A GENERAL STRIKE COMING!!!

https://generalstrikeus.com/

Comrades! Join with your fellow workers! Shut everything down until our demands are met!

When? Well… The date isn’t exactly set in stone yet…

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Once 11 million people sign the strike pledge, a date will be chosen though.

You can already feel the chill of fear going through the corridors of power and capital!

United, workers all around America will say loudly and proudly: “NOT A CENT SPENT, NOT A MINUTE OF OUR WORK UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET!”

Oh wait… What ARE the demands?

Are we striking for higher wages? A 35 hour work week? No wait, healthcare right?

Yeeees, kinda. You see the ACTUAL demands haven’t been made yet. First we need to get 11 million to sign up for a strike, and THEN we tell people what we’re going on strike for.
Makes sense? Yes.

And don’t worry comrade, you don’t need to worry about going on strike for something that you don’t support. You see there is a BROAD list of demands that has something for EVERYONE!

What demands? Well, in no order of importance:

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So roll out the red flags and start practicing the lyrics for The Internationale, everyone! We’re going to sing on the picket line for the General Strike!

ARRRIIISE YOU VIIIICTIIIMS OF OPRRrrEEEESSSION FOOR THE TYYYRAAANTS FEEEAR YOUR MIIIGHT!

You missed the funniest part:


WE'RE ALL THE WAY UP TO 2.26 PERCENT

 

[Hermann von Salsa]

This is hilarious given how quickly he got caught.
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https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1890877945104802036

https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/david-hogg-uses-dnc-platform-to-pump-own-leaders-we-deserve-pac/

This shit is the reason why I've stopped to given to any Charites that aren't from my church. These fucks pocket the money and nothing gets done.

 

[Farmer McColl]

Now that we're killing further production of the penny, we should fix the rest of the coinage.

Nickels cost about 14 cents each to make. Make them out of steel or something else cheap but sturdy.
Be rid of FDR on the dime and put the better Roosevelt on them- Teddy.
In 2021 the Mint started producing more JFK half dollars because reserves started running low. Swap in Andrew Jackson.

 

[not william stenchever]

She’s still whining at the Spaniards saying they need to apologize for civilizing (((them))) and this has really got under her skin.

The gall of this bitch to ask for Spain to apologize for the Spanish Inquisition. Spain took false conversions very seriously. And I guess she was also ordered by her cartel masters to bitch about the conquistadors too but that's neither here nor there.

 

[Charnel Ground]

A couple ice hockey players from the United States and Canada got into a fight with one another right after the game started.

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It all happened after a large percentage of the sellout crowd at a center in Canada loudly booed the U.S. anthem. A number of fans also booed every time a U.S. player was shown on video screens during pregame warmups.

LMAO this is some Slapshot (1977) shit. I still say this is the kind of energy we need on Capitol Hill. Unwritten rules for fist fighting. Once both gloves are off it's understood that this is a honorable fight over disagreements. Knowing the hockey player demographic I bet that Canadian player isn't even a Trudeau dick sucker he's just fighting for the honor of his country.

 

[StudMccool]

@Fatpacks

dont be shy baby girl, come say hi, dont just lurk by the doorstep

 

[Breadbassket]

Audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game

 

[moocow]

The best part is that the push for body cams came predominantly from libtards who wanted to catch the next Rodney King situation and incriminate police officers. Instead bodycams have helped exonerate many police officers and show the reality of how retarded and insufferable niggers are

Not only that, but it's caused them to reverse course a bit. I've heard liberals call body cams "racist" now.

Glenn is cool as shit for a homosexual Brazilian.

That asshole sat on evidence and slow-dripped it slowly enough that nobody really gave a shit after awhile. There's still plenty from the Snowden drop that he hasn't revealed to the public. Screw that guy.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game


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Alright. It's time to bomb Ontario.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

That asshole sat on evidence and slow-dripped it slowly enough that nobody really gave a shit after awhile. There's still plenty from the Snowden drop that he hasn't revealed to the public. Screw that guy

It wasn’t his call, he went over it with Snowden.

This is why it’s bullshit to call Snowden a traitor, because he didn’t dump all the documents he had, he went through them and made determinations about what would and wouldn’t be actually harmful to release.

What you’re shitting on Glenn for is not stabbing Snowden in the back

 

[The Ugly One]

I mean look at the god damn thing. The seat rests are literal Fasces.

The fasces is a core component of American iconography:

The people who designed that monument were not thinking in terms of Lincoln being a good politician who had some great ideas and manages the beaurocracy and military well. They thought of him as a conquering Emperor and that is what they depicted him as.

The fasces doesn't signify a conquering emperor. It signifies the strength of many bound together as one. It's especially appropriate on the Lincoln memorial because a core belief of the Union side as expressed by Lincoln was that America's strength came from the union formed by the 1783 Constitution, and a loose confederation of independent states would be easy pickings for the hungry empires of Europe.

The fasces fell out of favor after 1945 for obvious reasons, although the Germans didn't care for it, so we didn't tear it down at least.

 

[DickMain]

As Trump said "Keep Bobby away from the oil"

RFK and Trump knows he's there for the health and not the other stuff. They're both not total ideologues and know what is important and how to compromise. I think RFK cares the most about health and chronic disease, the other stuff is secondary and he won't have control over that.

To me, this speaks more to RFK and Trump's character more than anything else. Something this high profile within partisan politics is unheard of in my lifetime, at least I don't recall anything this big personally. RFK being willing to compromise to get the fucking job done is something beyond the ability of 99.9% of the left. They simply cannot do it.

 

[StudMccool]

Happy late valentines day kiwis <3

 

[mindlessobserver]

A couple ice hockey players from the United States and Canada got into a fight with one another right after the game started.

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It all happened after a large percentage of the sellout crowd at a center in Canada loudly booed the U.S. anthem. A number of fans also booed every time a U.S. player was shown on video screens during pregame warmups.

There is something poetic about the first shot being fired occurring on a hockey ring.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

They have done such a great job of isolating themselves for years that they have no idea how anyone outside their bubble thinks.

Most people can't conceive how bad the isolation and purity spiralling has become. They all bullied each other off of X, and now on Bluesky they're going after people who have Substacks, because Substack is a "Nazi platform." And you can't question anything. Even asking simple clarifying questions is shouted down as "sealioning" or "JAQing off" [Just Asking Questions] or "asking questions in bad faith."

And when you're criticized you're not allowed to defend yourself or play it off as banter the way you might among normal people. The only option is to hang your head and grovel if you want to stay in the group. People see others getting bullied and don't want to lose their friend groups, so they just shut up and never question.

And then there's the IRL isolation. Right after the election I joined a Redditor discord in the hopes of finding some amusing salt (didn't stay long, it was mostly depressing rather than funny). The server had a whole fucking separate channel dedicated solely to "family estrangement," i.e., just telling each other to cut off "fascist" family members, working out the logistics, congratulating each other for doing it. And these weren't groomers aiming to isolate and target kids (groomers might have been present, obviously, but it was mostly an older crowd). It's just a mainstream Reddit/leftist thing now.

Even beyond this, another large chunk is the early Millenial to Boomer gens. Most don’t use the internet past FaceBook and are completely within their own bubble of the 80s-00s as media has been locked in since 08. Weirdly, I think Synthcool, a hardcore lefty, put it best when he talked about the generation that still watches SNL and says it’s funny because they make fun of both sides. These people are completely lost in the modern world as they are stuck in a nonstop loop of Fox Republican news, CNN balanced news, MNSBC Liberal news, Stewart/Colbert/Kimmel/Bee/(insert late night host) is a genius who really points out the flaws of (2000s) Right-wing ideology.

I think we sometimes focus on the internet and woke too much. A good chunk of left wingers are completely isolated from even their own party as they have no idea what woke is and just think it is a dumb Fox News thing. The average X/Boomer doesn’t deal with Woketards and cannot comprehend people’s issues. As for dealing with Republicans, they are dealing with other Boomers who are equally clueless, just adding more fuel to the ego to epically own them with Late Night talking points.