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I've discovered something special, frens. A genderspecial, to be exact. A mushmouthed retard gay pro-palestine communist unironic-social-justice-warrior-in-2025 anime addict who has a channel reading democrat party policy documents and has videos with his 'Trans gothic gaymer/vtuber girl' tranny friends kvetching about how christianity is ruining their lives. An untapped goldmine :story:
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Depending on the grade of hide, yes, the material cost can easily soar over $600, and depending on the construction techniques used (particularly handstitched moc/split toes), labor costs can be staggering when only 2 or 3 people in a given factory can execute the design.

Shoes do not magically appear out of nowhere. You have to pay clickers to cut the hide, lastmakers to shape the last of the shoe (that determines the silhouette and fit), and that's before you even get to the people who actually put the raw materials together to make a functional end product. Many, many pairs of hands touch a single pair of shoes before it passes QC and leaves the factory, where logistics and retail take a part of the cut. When you add all their wages together, add the unavoidable overhead costs of operating under a traditional retail model, and add in the material costs, $600 is really not that crazy for a high quality, well made product.

Thing is, I’m fine paying a few hundred bucks for shoes (dunno about 600 bucks but still), but they have to be well-made and durable. So much garbage sold today is mass produced, flimsy crap that cost pennies to produce so people don’t mind repeat purchases and tossing them out at the first sign of breakdown. Raise prices, produce less and you cut down on waste!
 
I'd pay double for American high quality appliances. I'm sick of buying appliances that fall apart after a handful of years. My parents had an American fridge that went 30+ years.

My first washing machine I bought used and it finally died at almost 20 yrs old. My second was good-range quality (officially), but died around 4 yrs old. I've had to buy a new dishwasher every 4 to 5 years.

I had a Chinese made coffee maker itself on in the middle of the night. It almost burned the kitchen, but the fire alarm went off when it smoked badly enough.
Older appliances even encouraged repair, you were able to order replacement parts and there was repair manuals and diagrams available from the manufacturers.

I fucking DESPISE disposable culture.
 
I refuse to see Indian doctors. I prefer white male English-native doctors, though I will begrudgingly tolerate Asians if only because they're still competent, if not completely understandable when they speak. They don't get offended when you ask them to repeat themselves like the pajeets do, though.

And yes, I've walked out of clinics who try to pair me up with a 'jeet and refuse to swap out for a good doctor. I've always been honest in explaining why, and any time they've given me lip, I explain "it's my money, I decide who I see, not you." Dirty looks? Occasionally, but my health is more important than appearing virtuous.
I remember Dr Jeet was seeing the wife for initial meeting for what was expected to be a very big medical deal. We sat down at his desk, he turned to me, and asked "Mr XYZpdq, please tell me what your wife is having issues with".
Fortunately it turned out to not be very big medical deal because asking _me_ like she's an animal at the vet didn't fill me with confidence.
 
Because Canada has done jack shit to prevent the shipping of fentanyl across the border into the US.
and keep in mind this is the SAME FUCKING CANADA that could put the Hitler in Blackface Hitler when it came to the truckers, shutting down borders, bank accounts,, literally running down old ladies with horseback mounties
so there's no "whoops no leaf could manage this" bullshit to throw either
 
I like how the replies are all ‘clearly it was Trump who broke first’ when everybody who has ever worked to try and get Trump to do something has repeatedly said ‘just do what he wants’

It’s glaringly obvious Canada folded and Trump allowed the person that won’t be in power much longer to save face.
 
Thing is, I’m fine paying a few hundred bucks for shoes (dunno about 600 bucks but still), but they have to be well-made and durable. So much garbage sold today is mass produced, flimsy crap that cost pennies to produce so people don’t mind repeat purchases and tossing them out at the first sign of breakdown. Raise prices, produce less and you cut down on waste!
The point of this stuff is that it's supposed to be resoleable when the sole gives out and recraftable when the upper needs to be repaired. You're paying for something that has the option of being repaired when wear and tear inevitably takes its toll on it, and paying for it to be made by skilled, first world craftsmen. Neither of these things come cheap.
 
Depending on the grade of hide, yes, the material cost can easily soar over $600, and depending on the construction techniques used (particularly handstitched moc/split toes), labor costs can be staggering when only 2 or 3 people in a given factory can execute the design.

Shoes do not magically appear out of nowhere. You have to pay clickers to cut the hide, lastmakers to shape the last of the shoe (that determines the silhouette and fit), and that's before you even get to the people who actually put the raw materials together to make a functional end product. Many, many pairs of hands touch a single pair of shoes before it passes QC and leaves the factory, where logistics and retail take a part of the cut. When you add all their wages together, add the unavoidable overhead costs of operating under a traditional retail model, and add in the material costs, $600 is really not that crazy for a high quality, well made product.
People also don't understand why these things cost so much. Wanna know why? There are borderline zero operating commercial tanneries in the US left. I think the grand total is like 3. Guess what, same applies for commercial looms. The guys who founded Origin Maine who do all US made and US sourced clothes had to find one rotting away in an abandoned factory in Detroit somewhere and spend a fuckton of time figuring out how it works and how to fix/refurbish it. That is something that really needs to be addressed if we're gonna make shit again. Even if it requires something like the Army or a government contracted engineering firm designing a simple one anyone can copy for a small license.
 
Older appliances even encouraged repair, you were able to order replacement parts and there was repair manuals and diagrams available from the manufacturers.

I fucking DESPISE disposable culture.

Our first TV was a Magnavox console set, lasted from when I remember it the first time in the 60s to 1981. Our second was a Philips, that one from '81 to '97. After that it was a Sony Trinitron 27" I still regret getting rid of. But the number of flat screen TVs I've had since then is obscene. #1, weird red spot like you were holding a magnet to an old tube TV, gave it away. 2nd, screen just quit. 3rd, green line vertically down the right hand side, gave it to idiot nephew. 4th and 5th just quit working, no symptoms, just stopped turning on. Replaced the board in one, couldn't get any parts for the other one so had to toss it.
It's been bonkers. Went from one TV every 30 years to one every 3 years.
 
People also don't understand why these things cost so much. Wanna know why? There are borderline zero operating commercial tanneries in the US left. I think the grand total is like 3. Guess what, same applies for commercial looms. The guys who founded Origin Maine who do all US made and US sourced clothes had to find one rotting away in an abandoned factory in Detroit somewhere and spend a fuckton of time figuring out how it works and how to fix/refurbish it. That is something that really needs to be addressed if we're gonna make shit again. Even if it requires something like the Army or a government contracted engineering firm designing a simple one anyone can copy for a small license.
A ton of old manufacturing machinery is either destroyed/gone or shipped off to foreign countries. A great example of this is selvedge denim looms, which practically don't exist in the US anymore after the Japanese bought all of them.
 
I'm hearing rumors that part of the deal with Canada is that each Trump voter will get one Quebecois slave. Mental health will skyrocket as stress melts away. Had a bad day at work? No worries you've got the best punching bag in the world at home, a frenchman.
And you never have to deal with them begging you to stop as they speak gibberish
 
A ton of old manufacturing machinery is either destroyed/gone or shipped off to foreign countries. A great example of this is selvedge denim looms, which practically don't exist in the US anymore after the Japanese bought all of them.
Yep, and those jap jeans are top tier stuff with great service. BTW with all the talk of MITUSA stuff and people bitching about prices I recommend Roundhouse workwear, all made in the US and not really expensive at all for the quality. Hell they're maybe 10-20 bucks more than Walmart/Target shit.

Edit: I just realized they also offer stuff that is expressly made in the US and sewn in other countries and guess what? A whopping 10-20 bucks less. Should we really hollow out our entire countries manufacturing base to save an hours wage at Amazon when we buy jeans once or twice a year? I think actually it would be a brilliant idea to require all publically traded companies in the US to produce at least a portion of their product all in the US and label it as such in order to take advantage of any tax breaks at all. You can still hike up the price of the item to account reach the same profit margin as the offshored item but no more. People might look at it and realize "We seriously deindustrialized so we can spend 10 dollars less for a shittier pair of jeans that doesn't even help our country?"
 
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