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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[Mr. Manchester]

I didn't think the MSM could get much lower, but today proved me very, very wrong.

The all out defense of the German censorship regime by CBS is completely despicable. Completely abhorrent. Completely un-American.

For a while, I found the phrase, "You don't hate them enough" mildly insulting.

I hate Journos, I put a lot of effort into hating them, I look up pictures of the retards that write retard articles with misleading headlines and call them names by God! What do you mean it's not enough!?

But it really isn't. We have to do better. You really don't hate them enough.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

We should've nuked Germany too.

Letting the East German leadership into West Germany was a mistake.

 

[Harvey Danger]

https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federal-916e6819104f04f44c345b7dde4904d5 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/5aH4B

Of all the places where someone should have double checked the layoff list. Nuclear workers should have been the most carefully scrutinized, and the last ones laid off.

I've been enjoying Mr Musk's Wild Ride, but wild rides frequently cause damage they shouldn't.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

For my money Tucker Carlson has the best conservative interviews right now. I didn’t care for him when I was younger or even on Fox News. But his recent stuff I’ve found both entertaining and informative. Is there anything about him or his past (other than the bow tie incident) that I should know about?

The main issue I've seen, and this is just my personal opinion, is he tends to yes-man his interviewees.
This isn't to say that an interviewer should interrogate their guests, but some well delivered, courteous questions to verify what they're saying and get additional detail before moving on is helpful for the viewer to decide if they want to believe what's being said. Follow-up on basic facts during or after is also worth doing, and he often doesn't.

The one that highlighted this for me was his interview with Andrew Tate where Tate said it was all completely unjustified, he was not charged with sex trafficking (or something like that) and it was all bullshit.
During, Tucker went "wow I can't believe that that's so corrupt" etc as he always does.
I'm paraphrasing because I watched it a long time ago, but you get the idea.
In any case, what did I find after looking up information on the case later? Tate was lying out his ass, and Tucker didn't try to verify anything he said to see if it was actually true.

Which I consider the job of a journalist, even if it's just through building rapport and asking good questions that give them enough rope to hang themselves with (funnily enough, as much of a midwit as he is, Rogan is usually good at doing this unless it relates to aliens and then he becomes completely useless).

I still watch Tucker, but I keep it in mind while watching. Double check what his guests say before believing it. Because, as far as I've seen, Tucker won't if it supports his own biases.
I do overall find him generally likeable and funny regardless, and do appreciate his willingness to talk to people others won't.

Basically I take them as "Jovial, friendly conversations with a local conservative that show what story the person being interviewed wants to get across without much interruption", not fact finding missions or investigative journalism or anything more than that

 

[mold]

Imagine how fucking bleak it would be if instead of generic authoritarian world order fighting the bugs it was globohomo authoritarian world order responding to interstellar bugs eating people.

it's not bugs, but this is basically why the free world loses to the posthuman slave society in stirling's draka series

 

[Wash away the rain]

CBS: "Is posting an insult a crime?"
German prosectors: "Yes"
CBS: "Is it a crime to repost a lie?"
German prosecutors: "Yes"

Also Germany:
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This boils my fucking blood man, these Nazi (German derogatory) cunts have the gall to say free speech is dangerous but child porn needs to be decriminalized because it hurts the pedo feelings Jesus fucking christ maybe we nuked the wrong country.

 

[Barleys]

Yeah. $8 eggs are actually a good thing.

Perfectly healthy chickens were slaughtered for 0 reason and if said farmers didn't comply they were threatened with being shut down in the last few weeks of the biden admin

 

[mold]

Realistically, they have to go down to State level politics and focus on governing for at least four years. Avoid scandal, make sure emergency services are maintained instead of letting people like Newsom and Bass fuck everything up, encourage local market development.

I live in a blue state and well lol lmfao even

 

[BullfrogBill]

Today's homesteading tip: Instead of chickens, raise quail. They mature and start laying in 6-8 weeks. The eggs have a larger yolk to white ratio and are more nutritious. Quail require 1 square foot each compared to 2-3 for a chicken, have no desire to free range, and have a far nicer temperament.

"Okay, have you ever been around chickens? They are stupid, uncooperative, inconvenient, ill-tempered creatures. They get what they deserve. Fuck chickens."
- Mark Rippetoe

Mark Rippletoe should speak for himself, I love my chickens and think they are funny animals. They each have their own little personalities. I can't argue with raising quail over chickens though, seems like a preference thing that might suit others better for sure. Especially if you prefer quail eggs.

 

[indomitable snowman]

Hey man I just want to eat breakfast. Eggs were $6 under Biden.

and they were 45¢ under Trump 45.

 

[John Badman]

Perfectly healthy chickens were slaughtered for 0 reason and if said farmers didn't comply they were threatened with being shut down in the last few weeks of the biden admin

And look at what that did for the price of chicken meat. A return to normalcy.

 

[Left Ass Cheek]

There’s a reason that one should be as courteous as possible online, but especially places filled with autists. He’s not here anymore but there was a guy who would dox people for saying stuff like this because he was very good at it. Don’t tempt fate.

Iirc Zedkissed was banned (or reprimanded, at least) for doxing and antagonizing other users he didn't like way too often, so there's a limit to what Null and the jannies will put up with. Practicing basic opsec and staying out of DM chains or discords is key.

 

[autistic dog]

There’s a reason that one should be as courteous as possible online, but especially places filled with autists. He’s not here anymore but there was a guy who would dox people for saying stuff like this because he was very good at it. Don’t tempt fate.

The doxxman is still around he just hides in the shadows

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

He's from SF and heir to a frozen foods fortune. People now often identify wealth with an ability to resist corruption, but if it's a problem for you, know that he's rich as fuck and doesn't need to work; not that he gives off a particularly folksy image. Curtis Yarvin would be comfortable placing him on the board of directors of fascist CorpoMerica.

This shit brought me back. After HP, tons of YA novels and movies ripped off this concept (look up the plot to Divergent (2014) for an incredibly on the nose example), because it was tapping into a zeitgeist of finding oneself in an externally imposed identity, and a sort of controlled rebellion. Striving for the trappings of power while never grasping the real thing. Think: instead of forging a destiny for yourself and acting as agent, a prophesy prescribes you an adventure and you grapple with this fact psychologically as you go through the motions of fulfilling what fate and society have dictated for you. This was just sort of in the air I think and the writers picked up on it, but now there are adults who grew up reading that stuff.

None of this is my original ideas, all just half remembered from The Last Psychiatrist, a blogger whom you can read if you were looking to be diagnosed with narcissism, at great length. I believe he stopped writing it right around Current Year.

Is this why it has this weird stink to it? Like the whole setting feels like an on rails no real stakes themepark ride contained unto itself until it remembers near end "Stories have these things right?"

On second thought, I really do not want to unironically discuss harry potter for longer than a minute. I already feel the reddit account registering as it goes on.

 

[Gregis]

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250216/president-donald-j-trump-approves-emergency-declaration-kentucky

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zTJHB

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https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federal-916e6819104f04f44c345b7dde4904d5

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/5aH4B

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Now where's that autist who was whining about people talking about the weather in this thread?

 

[Levitcus prime24]

Seems like some White South Africans have been inspired by Trump as of late.

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They will call them nazis or white supremacist, but their insult mean nothing when they come from those who commit atrocities.

 

[Michael Jackson]

Unironically I do feel bad killing pests like Mice in my home. But they also don't belong in my home. Me feeling like its a shame for killing them is not a viable argument against me doing so. Had they stayed in the fields and forests outside my home, they would be alive. And I don't go out of my way to kill animals unnecessarily. But while I can feel bad for the mouse I kill in my kitchen, I will also not be deterred from doing so. The mouse in my kitchen is an invader. He takes food that is not his. He makes his home in places that are not his, and strips the product of my effort to build for himself an unearned place.

I can understand why he does so. It is natural. But what is also natural is the need for me to kill the mouse. Nature is not about what is fair. Nature is about what is Just. And what is mine is not for the mouse to steal or destroy. I have a moral duty to my home and family to kill the mouse. One that supersedes any right to life the mouse has. I cannot have my children's food be despoiled by his theft, or the diseases he carries be inflicted upon me and mine. Nor can I tolerate him gnawing at the very foundations of my home to bring it to ruin over time. Or worse, siring a massive progeny to multiply the calamity he brings ten fold.

I do feel bad that I had to kill the mouse. But I still killed the mouse.

They come every winter, and every winter I don't feel good about doing it, but sleep more soundly having done it for the reasons you mentioned.

 

[Clobber3]

For a while, I found the phrase, "You don't hate them enough" mildly insulting.

I hate Journos, I put a lot of effort into hating them, I look up pictures of the retards that write retard articles with misleading headlines and call them names by God! What do you mean it's not enough!?

But it really isn't. We have to do better. You really don't hate them enough.

I try to keep hate out of my heart. It's only gotten harder and harder the 2~ decades of news media.

I mean, like how do you reason with someone that believes this? I don't think I could? Whatever their political philosophy is is COMPLETELY upside down. Maybe it works for Germans, I suspect not considering the extent they've gone to politically quarantine AfD out of power...



Freedom of speech is so core to my political beliefs. It's a first principle, for sure. I don't know how anyone could not believe in its importance to a (classically) liberal, democratic, republican, capitalist, Christian society. I just don't get it. Is this just what happens when you are losing in the marketplace of ideas? Is this the only idea establishment leftists have? Really?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I have no idea what the practical explanation for American hospitals that offer circumcisions is, though. I suspect there is just no reasonable explanation that can be given regarding the efforts to export the practice to Africa of all places, either.

America is a weird melting pot of strange peoples, and there were HUGE crazes in the olden days, the only one that people usually hear about is prohibition.

But look up the history of Graham crackers, and such. Anti-mastabatory shit was proposed and pushed quite strongly, and one of them was circumcision (coupled with "hygiene" ideals) and it spread. And then "baby boy should be like his dad" kept the momentum going; you have to make a decision to cut (lol) the chain.

They still ask but it's performative now, 20-40 years ago the doctors were in on the "hygiene" angle.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Dave Rivera, aka Airbagged, Alyssa Mercante's number one elite right-hand simp and Antifa terrorist, wants China President Xi to nuke America with missiles because the US Army retweeted LibsOfTikTok that his favorite cuckoldry fetish DEI is dead.
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