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/

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

Trump is repealing social security taxes, as if the boomers didn't need yet another thing they got this to. The justification was that this was to help poor old people who can't work and are on a fixed income but the issue is that social security tax brackets were already structured in such a way that those people basically paid nothing anyways this only benefits wealth retirees on social security.

Social security is America's biggest source on spending and is bankrupting the country. At least with Military spending there is te benefit that things like treaties,arms sales and the better rtrade deals that come along with the increased presitage make it worth it. You can debate about that but there is the case to be made.

what does social security do for America as a country long term ?

Read this article about how boomer dominance has enabled low birth rates,mass migrartion and leftistm

https://keithwoods.pub/p/boomers-to-bust

 

[Not Based or Redpilled]

70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out?

Not quite - it'll still cost more to export or import regardless.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out?

The idea is it discourages foreign markets from interfering by making it costly to participate. The winner of a trade war is the country with the strongest independent economy because the foreign markets will move to domestic production to get around it.

 

[Ethereal Eye]

STEELWORKER CHAD WITH 7 CHILDREN

 

[Egregore]

Holding little popsicle signs that basically say "NU UH!" to objectively true and proven shit is the most pathetic thing I've seen the Dems do and that's saying a lot

Democrats very soon:

 

[Lammy]

70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out? Like if we had 25% tariffs on Canada and Canada had 25% on the US for example.

I think the different economy sizes create a difference.
25% of 10 million, versus 25% of 1 million.

 

[tehpope]

Man, I forget how someone who isn't using a teleprompter as a lifejacket looks like. Everytime Biden spoke in public with one, he had that deer in the headlights look.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Dood I was expecting announcement of fourth Reich. What the fuck dood

The real fourth reich are the friends we made along the way.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out? Like if we had 25% tariffs on Canada and Canada had 25% on the US for example.

Sure and then countries have to rely on their own capabilities. Give that one a big thunk

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

Can't say I'm impressed with the agriculture/farmer part of the speech. Kinda fumbling it and losing the thread, Don.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

IDK about y'all, whenever the camera pans over to the Democrat side with their dumb ass signs I can't help but think of this:

Democrats very soon:
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Great minds think alike it seems.

 

[Justice Tony]

Trump is definitely fucking her or she is on the verge of divorcing him.

 

[The Last Stand]

I like how Trump said that there'll be "disturbances" while he enacts some economic policies. Nice little warning that it'll get ugly before it'll get pretty. Time will tell of what happens.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

Oy vey! Shut it down!

 

[Can of Bread]

70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out? Like if we had 25% tariffs on Canada and Canada had 25% on the US for example.

Essentially yes, but the point of tariffs isn't actually to make money for the nation using them. It's to entice industry into building and manufacturing their products in said country. So when the US tariffs less than Canada, it entices people to moving their businesses to Canada, provided the resources and whatnot are there.
It's why everyone has been moving to China, apart from the cheaper labor. China tariffs a decent amount, but the US doesn't in return. So it's more economically viable to move your business to China and then just sell the product in the US.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Aw god, he's talking about the Take-it-down act.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

OY VEY! TAKE IT DOWN!

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

Also the Tarrifs are retarded, America's main economic asset was that the US dollar was valuable and this is because people want to sell things to America and other governments having faith in America.

Trump is destroying trust in America and the tarrifs a long with the general decline of the American economy mean that pretty soon people will just want to export less to the USA anyways taking away all of America's leverage.

America just doesn't produce much anymore and can't really because labor would be to expensive and there isn't enough people to pivot to making more stuff domestically. America has a like 5% unemployment rate there isn't a lot of fat to trim in regards to potential factory workers.

 

[JackoVerde]

Trump seems to sincerely love his hot Eastern european trophy wife
He just praised her in front of the whole country.

 

[Smokingpoop]

TRUMP IS MY LORD AND SAVIOR ALL HAIL TRUMP!!!