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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Current members of the US Supreme Court
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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[CaddestSlown]

He does have a commanding presence.
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WE'RE GOING TO KILL YOU

 

[Looseleaf Paper]

I still don't think Trump will pass the tariffs tbh. I felt that the delay from a month ago was an obvious flake and he doesn't actually want to pass them and only wants to use them as bargaining chips. If they do get passed I wouldn't expect to last more than a month.

 

[TrinityReformed]

I do worry that tariffs will drive industry back to the US only for it to shut down because unaddressed union bullshit/regulation/etc makes it unprofitable. While the global race to the bottom for labor prices definitely contributed to driving industry out of the US, I do think a lot of it came from stuff that tariffs don't address.

Trump did also mention de-regulation, and tax incentives as the carrot to go along with the tariff stick.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Is there a known reason why? Or do they just want the diabetes to eat at our toes?

It's not intentional on the Fed's part, but it's the natural end point of corn subzides.

FDR put it in place to deal with the "Great Depression" like a retard, when in fact it was helping cause the dustbowl and fucked the market forces on it. He should have at most but a temporary help but of course making it a subside meant the votes were bought.

Since corn was now kept artificially cheap with the government keeping the producers up companies started looking into how to use it. Animal feed, human consumption, mash for fermentation and so on.

Then people discovered HFCS. Thanks to the artificially low price it was cheaper than sugar and it allowed for companies to squeeze extra flavor which our brains love (since sugar = energy for monkey brain) and so they start putting it into everything.

 

[John Badman]

Two months is sudden for the agricultural sector.

These city slickers don’t know you’re supposed to rotate crops. MAGAmutts will dry out the soil with corn to press into slop syrup. Fuck having to actually find buying consumers and meet production quotas to be a self sustaining business. Just like deal with it or something at least we owned the libs through starvation.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Learn patterns, dumb. That’s not a cyclical pattern that’s a double top.

Speculators hoping to skim off the productivity of actual useful people are big cause of America's systemic problems. I sincerely hope you lose everything.

 

[autistic dog]

So if you tariff it, how will you obtain cheap coffee for roasting?

You see with tariffs in place it's still fully legal to purchase everything you did before. You just have to pay a tax on importing those things from outside the country. To use the coffee for example the roaster would purchase 1 dollar worth of coffee then they would pay the seller 1 dollar and the US federal government 20 cents.

From there they would likely increase their price for a dollar worth of coffee somewhere between 15 and 25 cents depending on if they like trump.

After that the federal government can decide what to do with that extra 20 cents. They could for example use it to offset income taxes, pay down the national debt, or even bail out industries devastated by that tariff.

If it turns out Starbucks niggers were leveraged to hard that 20 cents breaks them all we could make the decision to simply give it back to them perhaps in a program that gives them a credit towards other cheaper sources of caffeine like white monsters.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

So if you tariff it, how will you obtain cheap coffee for roasting?

Why would we put tariffs on things we don’t grow? I don’t think you understand this subject well.

The point of a tariff isn’t that the world HAS to ship all of their shit to us so we might as well skim off the top, the point of a tariff is to normalize prices so you don’t kill off your own production. Obviously in dollars a Chinese factory worker makes like 1/10th of what an American does, so you charge them a tariff to sell their shit in your market or else it would cause economic calamity when all of your factories closed

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

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Tired of winning yet?

It's almost like hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cheap laborers were expelled from the country.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Please please please keep promoting this bitch, and we've got some ugly blonde congresswoman too now (I think she's from VA or CA or some gay place), or it's some ugly reality TV bitch. They can't even lip sync right.
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Scott Bessent calling out the media for acting "why economy so bad duh?" when it's been bad for 4 years.

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People taking that queen shit literally like the dictator for one day joke. And Scott's saying what we've all been saying: the econ been bad for 4 years. It's just that the media only wanna care now cause Trump's in office

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

the point of a tariff is to normalize prices so you don’t kill off your own production

You don't have the necessary production for this specific product and I don't want for my food to get even more expensive.

 

[Betonhaus]

If it's not the shitposting it's gonna be the shitposting about him.

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Fucking masterful piece of art. It's beautiful.

Between the stupid propeller hat and the couch fucking thing, his meme and shitpost stock value has a lot of potential. Someone to keep an eye on, especially so for the ladies envious of Usha Vance out there. Hubba hubba.

It's like he's one of the bros and they love teasing him but they still have each other's backs

 

[John Shedletsky]

Two months is sudden for the agricultural sector.

We'll have to see if (or when) Trump goes through with the reciprocal tariffs.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

It's almost like hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cheap laborers were expelled from the country.

Yes I'm sure Trump has already kicked out millions of illegals, and this is why the economy is imploding.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Tim wasn't just unsubstantial, he was an active detriment. Tim is so bad at public speaking he lost a 1v3 debate against Vance and had some of the worst gaffes in debate history.

What do you mean, he is friends with school shooters

 

[SpergioLeonne]

You don't have the necessary production for this specific product and I don't want for my food to get even more expensive.

Since we don’t grow coffee, we have no interest to protect, so we don’t charge tariffs on coffee

Why can’t you understand this?

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

We ROAST coffee in the US, we don’t GROW it, retard

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Hawaii is where we grow our covfefe. I usually buy Kona Coffee and Vietnamese coffee

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Yes I'm sure Trump has already kicked out millions of illegals, and this is why the economy is imploding.

Tell me you don't know how GDP works without saying you don't know how GDP works.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

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Tired of winning yet?

Doesn't surprise me. The "experts" kept insisting the economy was doing amazing under Biden when it obviously wasn't, and now that the pressure to lie is gone the reality is being exposed. It's not so much that the economy is crashing, it's that the fake numbers are exposed as fake.

I’ve heard that this was made worse by ethanol being advertised to replace gasoline, so farmers made a ton of corn to sell until it turned out that you can’t use ethanol very well, so America was stuck with a shitload of corn and farmers that bought all the equipment to grow and harvest it.

Not only is there a issue with using ethanol on cars that aren't specifically designed for it, corn is not very good for making ethanol due to the bad yield. Brazil for example gets away with it because we have a shitload of sugar cane which turns into ethanol much easier.

It also gets even worse once you take into account how much fertlizer is needed to get that corn. Fertlizers that normally need petroleum to be made.

The entire thing was one big meme scam by the green types. Biodiessel is much better (almost identical to regular diesel, runs perfectly on any regular diesel engine).

 

[NSA]

We ROAST coffee in the US, we don’t GROW it, retard

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-Hawaii: Known for its Kona coffee, grown on the Big Island, Hawaii is the most prominent coffee-producing state in the U.S. Other islands like Kauai also have significant coffee farms.

-Puerto Rico: This U.S. territory has a substantial number of coffee farms, primarily producing commercial-grade coffee.

-California: There are experimental and small-scale coffee farms in California, particularly in areas like Santa Barbara and Goleta.