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/

 

[behindyourightnow]

Everyday I wonder how I didn't become a lefty faggot like many other weebs despite being a massive weeb when I was younger

How are the weebs dealing with how much the Japanese seem to like Trump? Like I'm not following approval ratings there or anything, but there seems to be at least widespread respect for the guy, and he definitely has at least a small dedicated Japanese fan base. Like that guy who draws Trump in traditional Japanese style:

 

[ovenmath]

Isn't Apple notorious for forcing people to upgrade their phones by pushing forced, you can't stop it from happy o matter howhard you try updates to older phone models that purposely do nothing but drain battery life faster and faster to kill battery life from a full charge so fast that you have no choice but to get the newest model phone just so it actually works?

i have an emergency iPhone 6s I am using and get 5 hours of battery life if the screen is never turned on. If I use the phone for any reason that goes down to 2 hours. If I use YouTube it goes down to 10 minutes

 

[majob]

I can believe HE believes that he doesn't hate America and thinks filling it with pajeets is "making it better".

That said, political coallitions are a bunch of spergs who think they know what's best being wrangled by their boss so they can work with a consensus. Vivek is an interesting case. The whole political movement was basically "America first", and he couldn't contain his pajeetness for two minutes before sperging out about H1B's. His vision and everyone else's vision are incompatible. He is either a retard who didn't realize or a malicious fuck who thought he could sneak it in.

I'm pretty sure, if left unchecked, a lot of people in MAGA could become a problem because their way of helping America could harm it badly but as long as there is constant and mutual wrangling, things will be ok. Allways root out snakes like Vivek though. I don't think he'll ever do well in Ohio, he killed his career and they'll play those clips of him hating Americans and wanting to replace them.

This is pretty much what I've been saying. Vivek in his mind doesn't hate America, his vision of greatness just differs greatly from the vast majority of us. And it should be obvious that MAGA quite honestly is only held together by their loyalty to Trump, his cabinet has Republicans, Democrats, and Independents so with any other president this coalition wouldn't exist, let alone work. A tight rope has to be walked and everyone has to see that their loyalty will be rewarded when the time comes

 

[Sneedenhagen Chew]

"Ukrainian lawmakers claimed Zelensky's bellows reverberated through the halls of Kyiv's presidential palace"

lmao

It must be so embarrassing being a Zelenski shill and having to pretend to believe this is real with a straight face.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

okay whats the name

Is it something like

"That time I got ran over by a truck and reborn as the holy maiden by a fairy, but also I m gay and struggle with leaving my room?"

"I'm in Love with the Villainess" because the faggot author put all their creative thought into explaining the only reason gays are bullied is because their bullies are secretly closeted trannies.
I wish was making that up.

 

[The Ugly One]

Correct. Apple specifically pairs parts to phones and disallows their "unauthorized" swapping while repairing broken parts. This leads to reduced or broken functionality of the device, which leads you to say fuck it and just buy a new one. Maybe you think real evil just doen't exist or something, but you're wrong. It does, and one of the forms it takes is denying you ownership over your own private property.

It's definitely not off topic to discuss right to repair in the politics thread because they shouldn't be allowed to do this. That battery degradation? What are you gonna do about that? Repair your device? Sorry, that battery you used is unauthorized. You actually don't have the right to do whatever you want with "your" device. This isn't a myth forced by consumerist cattle, it's a truth that gets routinely ignored by lawmakers because companies spend billions lobbying against it. Yes, you are basically forced to abandon the device you "own" and buy a new one in some situations.

Apple sells replacement batteries through their store, or you can buy cheap Chinese aftermarket batteries on Amazon that cost about 1/3 as much (and last about 1/2 as long). My MB Pro has one of the cheap aftermarket batteries in it right now. Wait, I just realized Apple somehow made me hallucinate buying a battery off Amazon, unscrewing my case, putting the battery in, and the computer working again, along with them using malware to make it look like the old battery died. You're right, true evil does exist in the world, and I was so naive.

 

[Sneedenhagen Chew]

1. It's essentially a tax refund for money saved, and I agree that may be somewhat inflationary. The thing is though, it's such an insignificant amount of money compared to bailouts and printing that its inflationary effect will be approximately %shit. I can throw that $5k in a suitable investment vehicle and it will far outstrip any fraction of a percentage point a couple hundred billion in tax refunds has.

It's actually crazy, the pro-money printer people actually think they're printing 5000 bucks for each American, and moreover that it would be bad to do so after decades of money printing. In reality, they're pillaging the coffers and giving it back to taxpayers. Anyone on the left complaining is at best profoundly stupid and should be ignored, and at worst maliciously lying and should be bullied and "made to feel unsafe" (disagreed with).

 

[Beavis]

i have an emergency iPhone 6s I am using and get 5 hours of battery life if the screen is never turned on. If I use the phone for any reason that goes down to 2 hours. If I use YouTube it goes down to 10 minutes

That’s a 10 year old phone and if it’s on the original battery I’m shocked it turns on at all.

 

[Coptakhenaten]

How are the weebs dealing with how much the Japanese seem to like Trump? Like I'm not following approval ratings there or anything, but there seems to be at least widespread respect for the guy, and he definitely has at least a small dedicated Japanese fan base. Like that guy who draws Trump in traditional Japanese style:

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In the weeb circles I'm around they love Trump. Weeb communities are either right wing pro-Trump or raging troon leftists.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

How are the weebs dealing with how much the Japanese seem to like Trump? Like I'm not following approval ratings there or anything, but there seems to be at least widespread respect for the guy, and he definitely has at least a small dedicated Japanese fan base. Like that guy who draws Trump in traditional Japanese style:

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Is that Pepe stabbing the dragon in the jaw with a spear? Please tell me that's Pepe.

It's actually crazy, the pro-money printer people actually think they're printing 5000 bucks for each American, and moreover that it would be bad to do so after decades of money printing. In reality, they're pillaging the coffers and giving it back to taxpayers. Anyone on the left complaining is at best profoundly stupid and should be ignored, and at worst maliciously lying and should be bullied and "made to feel unsafe" (disagreed with).

Makes me think. A better option than just giving everyone $5000, they should have a government interest bearing account it gets put into which they can watch grow over the years, and can be taken out at age 65. Wouldn't add up to a lot for older people, and they should already know how saving is a good thing, but some 22 year old shaniqua might watch as in 12 years her 5 became 10 etc, and at least a proportion of them might see the sense of not blowing every cent they get the moment it's in their hands.

I suppose that stops a spike in spending and hence money circulating, but it also stops any inflationary pressure.

That's kind of how old age pensions were supposed to work anyhow, and this could have a good effect in that regard as well. You hand most people $5000 and the first things they'
re going to do are buy some Korean made TVs, Chinese made rims for their cars, French fashion, or other things which have no real value to them or their lives.

 

[majob]

The year of our Lord, 2025, and there are people who still use Apple phones over Android

 

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How are the weebs dealing with how much the Japanese seem to like Trump? Like I'm not following approval ratings there or anything, but there seems to be at least widespread respect for the guy, and he definitely has at least a small dedicated Japanese fan base. Like that guy who draws Trump in traditional Japanese style:

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Much like how any based Black men or women are quickly silenced so middle class white women can be offended on their behalf, any Based Samurai that deviate from the "we LUUUUUUUUVE our safe and acceptable degeneracy uwu uwu uwu" template the left has for Japan are harassed into silence, given the uncle tom treatment, or they just pretend they're not really Japanese, they're from Seattle or something.

The last one being weaponized projection as there are like 5-6 Communists pretending to be Japanese who have been outed as being White (or lets be honest, Jewish) American dudes trying to convince the rest of the world that Japan AKSHUALLY hates Anime and loves Social Justice. One of them ("Unseen Japan") even conned the Red Cross in Japan into temporarily aborting an anime themed blood drive that was setting records because "Akshually we're VERY offended that this anime girl has breasts, don't you know it's Current Year and women don't have secondary female sex characteristics?!"

One recent and odd development is the "Hood Weeb" -- offensively black Anime fans that know absolutely fuck all about anime, but have "opinions" about how the hobby and fandom should be ran. It seems like a very odd thing to have started appearing fucking everywhere; current theories is it's a combination of the idiot Negros showing up in Japan to Nigger at Japanese people for TikTok clout + a specific jew sneaking into Japanese academia and trying to trick Japan into thinking they have a blood libel based on them secretly having an entire caste of Japanese-Black Samurais they intentionally removed from history books and were fundamental in pushing and maintaining the African Slave Trade (they were absolutely not, and infamously threw the Jesuits and Jews out of their country when they found out they supported slavery). Once outed, said Jew deleted fucking everything and fled the country.

The latter was good enough for Ubisoft, a woke as fuck dying French game studio of some renown, so they made the new Assassin's Creed: Shadows, about a Negro Samurai that never existed. Complete with watermelon and hip hop themed remixes of Japanese music in the trailer. Cuz wuz kangz and sheeeeeeet.

 

[The Ugly One]

In reality, they're pillaging the coffers and giving it back to taxpayers.

Our deficit is $1.8T now, so until you've cut $1.8T from the budget, any money spent by the government beyond the $4.9T it collects in taxes, whether on transgender job fairs in Bangladesh or Based & Redpilled Payments, is adding new money to the economy. There are 131 million households in America, so $5,000 to each household would be about $655 billion in spending. DOGE has cut around $55b so far, so $600b of that would be inflationary new money.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Honest take - I think to stand for President you have to be a full American. Imagine if a Chinese person were high in the Republicans there would be a hoohah. Jeets are devious fucks and swarm like locusts, I think I dislike them more than the Chinese honestly.

But practically though, how does this work?

Indian and Chinese descended Americans aren't "American" even if born here? OK, fine. But not even a 4th generation Chinese who's great-grandparents moved here to work on the railroad in 1880?

Is someone who was born here but their parents immigrated from Brazil able to run? Is that not OK, but it's OK if they immigrated from Poland? Or Russia? Or Norway or (((Israel)))?

Are blacks and Hispanics OK because their ancestors might have been here since the 1700s? What about a Feather Indian from The Rez. You don't get more ancestral American than that, but they could really hate America.

It's just another way of saying "Only WASPS should be able to run for President" but that ship has sailed. The only way you're going to get that rule is in a DOTR fantasy.

We have a mechanism for ensuring loyalty to America--you have to have been born here, and if your parents weren't and indoctrinate you into being a literal Manchurian Candidate who is a sleeper agent for the Old Country, then the voters have to vet you and suss it out.

 

[Wash away the rain]

Would Crenshaw be venom or big boss in how big a prick he is?

Big boss, big boss did all the worse things and ultimately died in shame after becoming a glow fag for life. Venom was loved by his subordinates earned their love, made hard choices and was loyal to a man who used him until his death.

 

[Sneedenhagen Chew]

It’s not but due process is a right and corporations get that right, too. In short, AP does have a right to know why its privileges have been revoked and what can be done to remedy that. And if that reason is vague, discriminatory, or otherwise illegal, then the White House can’t bar them for that reason.

Being allowed to sit in a room and listen to someone talk is not a human right. If I invite you into my home, or even my workplace, for a visit as a guest, and even allow it several times after, and then later on decide not to for any reason at all, you don't have a right to appeal that choice.

 

[God of Nothing]

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But practically though, how does this work?

Indian and Chinese descended Americans aren't "American" even if born here? OK, fine. But not even a 4th generation Chinese who's great-grandparents moved here to work on the railroad in 1880?

Is someone who was born here but their parents immigrated from Brazil able to run? Is that not OK, but it's OK if they immigrated from Poland? Or Russia? Or Norway or (((Israel)))?

Are blacks and Hispanics OK because their ancestors might have been here since the 1700s? What about a Feather Indian from The Rez. You don't get more ancestral American than that, but they could really hate America.

It's just another way of saying "Only WASPS should be able to run for President" but that ship has sailed. The only way you're going to get that rule is in a DOTR fantasy.

We have a mechanism for ensuring loyalty to America--you have to have been born here, and if your parents weren't and indoctrinate you into being a literal Manchurian Candidate who is a sleeper agent for the Old Country, then the voters have to vet you and suss it out.

someone is a true american if they speak perfect american english and don't hold dual citizenship or ever consider the interests of another country above this one

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

anyone mildly productive

I think I found why there's difficulties.

But yeah, just basic day-to-day shit like "picked up a napkin off the floor" "unjammed the printer" "helped whatshisface down the hall get his laptop going" that _should_ be part of being a functioning office team enough to get you at least halfway through before you get to having to dance around a nice way to say "monitored a conversation between terrorists"

Highly influential and popular Japanese pop singer GACKT has come out in support of Trump and adds that he wants Japan to have a strong leader like him.

https://x.com/GACKT/status/1893989724261679229

9/11 for annoying weeb girls, trannies and fag hags alike.

oh shit Trump got the 600 Year Old Vampire From Neptune demographic!

A self encrypting SSD can have its contents made useless via running the SATA easy erase command. It wipes the key. It's $50 more than a normal SSD. Think Samsung Evo Pro

I guess you could run around with a magnet if you want.

I've mentioned it before, but I've thrown a bulk eraser at a computer and it did exactly jack shit to wreck the thing.
If your plan hinges on "and then a magnet makes the bad data go away" get a different plan
maybe there's a trick to make it catch but it's definitely a lot more than "rub a bulk eraser running full blast on it"

 

[teriyakiburns]

I've mentioned it before, but I've thrown a bulk eraser at a computer and it did exactly jack shit to wreck the thing.
If your plan hinges on "and then a magnet makes the bad data go away" get a different plan

But TV said magnet make magic rock stop thinking.

 

[ovenmath]

That’s a 10 year old phone and if it’s on the original battery I’m shocked it turns on at all.

I put in a new battery in 2021 and very rarely used it until a month ago. It’s all OS changes.