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/

 

[Look--an Alien!]

here, have some more:
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This ancient fed nigger wants more time to *carefully* go through federal spending...

You had DECADES and did nothing. Cope and seethe feds

 

[Burnt Effigy]

EDIT: NOVA classification needs to be fixed. If I remember right it classified fucking ground beef as an ultraprocessed food. fuck off with that retarded bullshit.

Ground beef with additives would be NOVA 4, Just ground beef with nothing would be NOVA 3.

 

[The Mighty Banth]

The first peoples in north America were also globally among the last to develop agriculture and didn't have access to beasts of burden the same way the old world did
South Americans had llamas at least, but even so most everything to do with labor in the new world revolved entirely around human labor. Another big reason for their lack of development is the continent being isolated from the rest of the world, meaning much like sub-Saharan Africa ideas and technologies couldn't spread through trade or contact with other cultures.

Really for all talk of having a baller 'spawn point'

I know there's a lot of talk about wanting to ban junk food and soda from being able to be purchased on EBT. The problem with regulating what the peasant class can and can't do is that when does it stop? First they'll say you can't buy shit with EBT. Then they'll start regulating what you can and can't use Social Security funds for.

Look. I get the idea of wanting to make food and other shit healthy again, but shotgunning and going all militant about it is a good way to get the people (who were initially on your side) pissed off all over again. In the end, no one will do shit. You need to give people a choice. You can give them the information, it's up to them exercising their own free will over it. You can't just force someone into a new way of living and expect it to go well. See what happened with Prohibition?

They can still have cookies and other treats, they will just have to make them with the ingredients they can buy.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Prison guards are usually low paid people who live in the surrounding county/state and it's not viewed as a particularly desireable job. There are probably not enough to rotate regularly unless either pay is raised or standards are lowered.

Oof, the pay IS kinda shit.

This is an area where investment would yield dividends. Imagine if prisoners actually had to detox and prison wasn’t cool for them.

Fuck, imagine if we just went back to stigmatizing people who did time in prison instead of acting like it’s cool

 

[George Lucas]

With all these government closures there are going to be a lot of people out of work. That means deflation. Trump may be considering sending checks to people to curb that.

Very minor, not really relevant to anything but a little funny. Baki - Japanese manga - released a new chapter featuring Trump and Musk. It's kind of a running gag to have Yujiro threaten the president and have said president kiss his ring, since he is the strongest man in the world. The author did the same for Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden. Potentially Islamic content within.
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Early pioneers bullied the shit out of every big cat in North America. Outside of defending their cubs, mountain lions don't want to be within a mile of any human.

(Yes I know that's a panther, not a mountain lion.)

Mountain lions and panthers are the same animal.

 

[GunCar Gary]

You had DECADES and did nothing. Cope and seethe feds

life taught me the feds were incompetent, covid taught me they were malicious. fire as many of them as possible. gut every agency. no mercy

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

Honestly, I'm more tolerant of soda being prevented from being purchased on EBT, but "JUNK FOOD" is such a subjective term that could apply to literally anything. After all, someone could consider Bologna as "junk food".

I mean, I literally miss being eligible for food stamps by one fucking dollar per hour, so if I’m paying taxes and shit to fund people who make one fucking dollar an hour less than me, yeah, I’d ask that they at least go to the supermarket and get a reasonable value with my money instead of blowing it on toxic shit

The welfare system in the US is retarded, like many of the systems in the US government.

"Welfare Cliffs" are some of the most obvious retardation. Example:


Earning more money from a wage shouldn't result in having less money.

After DOGE is done auditing, there should be work done optimizing the incentive structures of government programs. The Democrats shouldn't be allowed to amass an army of welfare slaves. But, corporations shouldn't control people's lives either.

We need Behavioral Scientists/Psychologists to stop developing video game "Skinner boxes" and instead help motivate productive citizens. I know you could get niggers to "side-hussle" up a storm if given the right "rat maze" to hussle in.

But, there is always that big lurking problem of psychopaths building a parasitic cabal. Dealing with that is like trying to cure societal cancer.

One thing I know. Remaining positive and optimistic (not delusional) really does improve the odds of success. It was hard to imagine the second Trump administration would look like how it current is, but here we are.

 

[Sammich]

I know there's a lot of talk about wanting to ban junk food and soda from being able to be purchased on EBT. The problem with regulating what the peasant class can and can't do is that when does it stop? First they'll say you can't buy shit with EBT. Then they'll start regulating what you can and can't use Social Security funds for.

Look. I get the idea of wanting to make food and other shit healthy again, but shotgunning and going all militant about it is a good way to get the people (who were initially on your side) pissed off all over again. In the end, no one will do shit. You need to give people a choice. You can give them the information, it's up to them exercising their own free will over it. You can't just force someone into a new way of living and expect it to go well. See what happened with Prohibition?

I think like with most things a carrot and stick approach might be useful. Let's use sodas vs juice just as a generic example. You can still buy soda, but if you buy juice, it cost you half as much, or you get twice as much snap to buy it. Sure it would be unwieldy and take a bit to roll out, but that could still be done. Keep in mind as well, punishing products that use HFCS might be another way to fix it. The corn subsidies is part of that, BigAg is a thing, but slap a excise tax on it (think cigarettes or liquor)

This obesity shit needs to be fixed, it's out of control!

 

[LiquidKid]

News was saying the protections on mountian islands are so strong they would possibly let an interfering human die before they would shoot the lion

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Its safe, knocked out, wrapped up in a poncho in the back of a ford ranger.

It’s really unfortunate. They kill people’s dogs all the time.
But if there’s one good thing to come out of my state’s stupid protection of mountain lions, it’s that it gave us quite possibly the cheesiest music video of the 1980’s

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

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You guys remeber when I told you our Truman aircraft carrier got run into by a bulk carrier, we now have some images of the damage.

Ship nerds, you know how bad damage like this is? is this more or less superficial or will require more serious repair?

read that its the ships incinerator behind there

Hope your doing alright boss, I always love seeing you post <3

Send in Red Green with some ducktape and pvc pipes and he will fix it right up

 

[StudMccool]

I really really really love that these clowns continue to pontificate and lie for like 30 to 40 mins AT A TIME

WHO ON EARTH DO THEY THINK IS WATCHING THIS?

Ill tell you exactly how many, I searched for senate live, sometimes CSPAN will show it to, but only this fox channel is showing the broadcast.

Within that broadcast there are only 2.7 thousand weirdos like me actively making fun of them.

Id wager less than 1,000 left leaning people will EVER hear these comments or see these expensive taxpayer funded PowerPoint slides that needed to be printed out for some reason.

They arent being disseminated into tik toks, they arent being pumped artificially by bloggers and small creators, hell even their media apparatus is far to high strung to care about senator stump speeches.

its like a dream watching the dems try to resort to bush era politics while their base just sits around waiting for someone else to fix the problem, its better than I could have written it.

But keep going Mr, Murphy, one more poster will change 70% of Americas mind, you are almost there.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

local talk radio guy ranting about Lindsey Graham
"he's against Putin because he's a flaming GLOBALIST! he might be a flaming something else too, but..."

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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>congestion has dropped dramatically
because nobody wants to live in the city anymore, let alone commute to it, especially since you made it worse.
>broadway shows are selling out
>school buses are getting kids to class on time
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>foot traffic to local businesses are spiking
Yea and don't you think that's going to make busses and trains more like sardine cans than they were before you dumbass? Just ask the Japanese what that's like.

 

[Disaffected Coyote]

I didn't see it posted, but if I missed it I blame someone else.

Representative Eli Crane will be filling articles of impeachment Friday, for Judge Paul Engelmayer. He posted them on twitter before filing.

Spoiler: Articles of Impeachment

Tweet / Ghost Archive / Archive

 

[marvlouslie]

I think like with most things a carrot and stick approach might be useful. Let's use sodas vs juice just as a generic example. You can still buy soda, but if you buy juice, it cost you half as much, or you get twice as much snap to buy it. Sure it would be unwieldy and take a bit to roll out, but that could still be done. Keep in mind as well, punishing products that use HFCS might be another way to fix it. The corn subsidies is part of that, BigAg is a thing, but slap a excise tax on it (think cigarettes or liquor)

This obesity shit needs to be fixed, it's out of control!

The corn subsidies thing needs to definitely be looked at. Most everything contains some amount of corn syrup (which is horrible for anyone).

 

[Barry McKockner]

Not a Trumper, but....

1: You say that Elon's comment about giving every American 5000 dollars would not cause inflation and would not be a big deal, but republicans kept saying how the war in Ukraine was costing America to much money even though giving every American 5000 would cost more then America has spent on Ukraine the entire war.

Ukraine spending is always new spending they have to approve, they haven't swiped the card yet. Reallocating already borrowed money that's accruing interest doesn't borrow more. It's still a dumb idea, but there's a difference between new Ukraine spending and existing money.

2: How does America giving up on Ukraine benefit America ? ?Ukraine talked about a 500 billion dollar mineral deal meanwhile giving up would on America nothing and make all the previous money spent a waste.

Sunk cost fallacy. If I've already lost $200 at the casino, I don't keep spending the rest of my money hoping to hit a jackpot.

3: Be honest why do you hate European countries so much ? The majority of Americans are European and even if you are not as an American Europe is your spiritual motherland. If you want to be able to keep up with China at a time when China is making inroads with other countries for deals you can't alienate your base, if you want to support Israel (I don't know why you would but the majority of Trump voters do) then you shouldn't alienate Europe t a time when more and more are getting stick of Israel and recognizing Palestinian state

Because IDGAF about israel/Palestine or China. Why can't eurofags stop trying to influence us into being another authoritarian broke shithole like they are?

 

[StudMccool]

trump about to speak

 

[Endless Torment]

I fucking loved Russians until they invaded Ukraine. And even then, the problem was that they announced bff status with China right before they pulled the trigger.

And I get all the nuance. I know about Russian expansion in Georgia and other former Soviet states, and I know about US geopolitical “bearbaiting” and Soros funded faggotry..

It’s not that I blame them more than half, but I was sorely disappointed. The US intelligence community is fucking retarded for ever failing to weigh the cost benefit curve of alienating Russia until they went team China. It left us needing fucking India

I was fine with Putin doing what needed to be done in Russia and I always thought the American foreign policy of treating Russia and Putin as the devil was always retarded and we should have made diplomatic ties with him decades ago, but I'm not going to defend the invasion of Ukraine.
I also don't believe using the same words as Russian propaganda and favoring Russia in the concessions is good for our country, our allies, and only emboldens our enemies. The war needs to end, but not in such a way it makes all of eastern Europe not trust us.

 

[Pelican Bones]

giving every American 5000 would cost more then America has spent on Ukraine the entire war.

Hi, yes, hello. American tax payer here. That $5000 belongs to me and was taken by the gov't. It belongs to me, not people in foreign countries.

Hope this clears things up.

 

[lol cow supreme]

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In other news there is a dang lion on the loose in a California neighborhood

somehow im sure this is also trumps fault

edit, they hit it with a tranq dart and it fell asleep at bottom of this bush they cant get it out of

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LMAOOOO
"you sure its asleep jim?"

"pretty sure"

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What political affiliation was this lion? what policy decision lead to it running in a neighborhood? Is the lion a poll worker or campaigning for election? Yet again this is the US POLITICS GENERAL, not the US NEWS. I know its hard for you. But please, please try.