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/

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

Anti zionism is breaking containment

Candace Owens went on Theo Von and talked about the Jewish lobby

Ian Carrol went on Joe Rogan to talk about it

Andrew Tate went on the Nelk boys to talk about how you can't criticize Jews.


That and Trump's continued support of Israel as he abandons Ukraine and Israel cozies up to Russia.

 

[Fatpacks]

Andrew Tate went on the Nelk boys to talk about how you can't criticize Jews.

Wouldn't it be ironic if this is what ends up causing the Trump admin to actually give Tate the boot?

 

[FILTH Tourist]

I've shared this horrible "Black contemporary art" before but I'll share it again now:

What's wrong with this one? I am a layman when it comes to art but the guy is demonstrating skill, technique, and creativity by using primarily black, grey, and white to make a portrait that looks pretty good. Also the portrait and description demonstrates that the artist has a self depreciating sense of humor which I can respect.

 

[Schpoots]

Is it true that the reps removed the previous debanking protection so they can implement something better? It sounded like a cope at first but now Tim Scott is introducing the FIRM Act to curtail banking weaponization.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Andrew Tate went on the Nelk boys to talk about how you can't criticize Jews.

You mean Emory the penis inspector

 

[NSA Intern]

There’s no way in hell that Poles are blacker than Albanians

Triple the melanoid index

 

[mold]

The issue with a lot of Austrians is they are correct about the technical issues with tarrifs which are real, the issue is they are assuming an ideal world where everyone is allied and not going to stick to their ingroup preference damn everyone else.

I am a huge proponent of Austrian School and I see tarrifs in a mixed sense, not totally opposed, I understand there are negative maluses on it, but those maluses are worth less than the negatives totally free trade has. Free trade should only be for countries who respect you, and at this moment the only countries that respect us are like Japan and Taiwan? EU, Canada don't. China is an economic enemy so obviously not.

I actually think it's just an issue of quantifiablity. it's very, very easy to prove a case using numbers, it's easy to communicate to people, so what is discussed is what is easily quantifiable. this tends to restrict and restrict and restrict the area under discussion.

(there's also emotional factors at play; for example people resist putting a number on a mother's love and the value of a housewife but the result is the opposite of what people want)

people get big big big mad discussing competing economic theories but I really think a huge amount of the lack of communication is a paradigm issue. unfortunately that sounds very gay to say. it's still true though.

 

[Betonhaus]

Anti zionism is breaking containment

Candace Owens went on Theo Von and talked about the Jewish lobby

Ian Carrol went on Joe Rogan to talk about it

Andrew Tate went on the Nelk boys to talk about how you can't criticize Jews.


That and Trump's continued support of Israel as he abandons Ukraine and Israel cozies up to Russia.

Funny how when you call everyone a Nazi then suddenly nobody is

 

[God's strongest milkman]

we finally had a way to pull in New European immigrants

I feel like the easiest way to do that is to just offer refugee status and almost immediate immigration to European political prisoners and the members of any banned of oppressed political parties or movements in Europe. It might prevent Europe from banning the AFD and if it doesn't it would definitely encourage European immigration as well as actually fitting America's history and formation.

It would also be a way for Trump and Vance to signify that America and European values really are different, the same offer given to Canadians would hinder something like the trucker protest crackdowns.

It's hard to argue that you're the "free world" when people flee your country due to political persecution.

America has a very strong history of brain draining the rest of the world and stealing everyone who is capable of living without being under a benign boot. No reason not to lean into it and steal the good Europeans that don't actively want to be destroyed by Muslims.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Triple the melanoid index

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Ok but I’m pretty sure there are more Poles in England than in Poland, so you need to convert to a percentage or else it’s like saying “white people in the US commit more murder than blacks in Chicago”

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Not even two days since the Joint Address, and the Democrats have sunk to a new low. Bravo! Keep this shit up, Dems.

They are quintupling down on the very things that has made the country hate them. They hate us, so we hate them right back.

This is the tone that the Democrats want to continue to set. They are the party of hatred, evil, war, and poverty.

EDIT: Also crime. I forgot to add that the Democrats are the party of crime, too. It's hard to keep track of their wretchedness sometimes.

 

[Levitcus prime24]

Funny how when you call everyone a Nazi then suddenly nobody is

Adventure a slur will become a badge of honor

 

[Telemeter]

Yes, modern cars last longer in terms of mileage, but repair costs are through the roof. I’ve been a professional in the automotive industry since 2001. I cut my teeth on European cars from the '80s and '90s, and keeping those on the road was significantly cheaper than maintaining cars from the 2010s and beyond. I’ve made more money fixing pointless issues in modern cars, problems that shouldn't even exist but have to be repaired just because the check engine light is on. (Looking at you, BMW—radiator grilles triggering a check engine light? LMAO. Ridiculous, but thanks for the $$$.) I drive a 2012 Ford, and my wife drives a 2003 Ford.

This has to do with the ridiculous regulations that have been imposed on cars over the past few decades.

You just cannot make and sell a simple mechanical artifact, because it's not efficient enough, it all has to be over engineered, complex, with real time fuel mixture calibration, inactive cylinders, and computer controlled, cause new emission requirements mandate a .05% increase of efficiency.

It basically eliminates all advances in material science, you could have lighter, stronger and more reliable engines that would basically run forever if they were allowed to be mechanically simpler.

 

[marvlouslie]

Can someone explain what started these funny JD Vance memes? I feel like it must have been leftists that started it with the intent to insult him but as usual they failed.

Usually when the Left tries to do something as an insult, the Right embrace it and laugh at it. It's happened every time they've tried. The idea that "the Left can't meme" isn't too old, and this generally backfires because the Left as a whole is filled with miserable and awful people.

 

[NSA Intern]

Ok but I’m pretty sure there are more Poles in England than in Poland, so you need to convert to a percentage or else it’s like saying “white people in the US commit more murder than blacks in Chicago”

You're right, looked into it and there's an order of magnitude more Poles than Albanians in Bongladesh. At least officially. So it's still triple the melanoid index, thereabout, but in the other direction.

 

[“Token” the Neigermiester]

It feels like the issues with composition are rooted in the same issues people are struggling with across the board: the essence of who we are as a people, what our morals are, what we perceive as intrinsically beautiful and inspiring, are all corrupted. Like with physical art, the postmodernist mindset poisons the creative mind. Suddenly, the constant, the underlying beauty, is seen as an issue to be solved, not something to be relied upon. Composers try to blend other genres into their work without understanding what people love about either.

Regarding musical composition: in conjunction with the post-modern mindset, we view it as a utility in service to "something greater". This last part I see to be a perverted, democratized view of the Faustian Spirt, which to put it short, is utlitarianism.

Imperfection can be beautiful, but is often (usually maliciously) mistaken for jagged ugliness. This I believe, is the source of this belief where it seems that the "underlying beauty, is seen as an issue to be solved, not something to be relied upon".

Funny how when you call everyone a Nazi then suddenly nobody is

Not even the "Nazis" are calling themselves such. I'm seeing the the noun 'NatSoc' being used more often in lieu of the former.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

This has to do with the ridiculous regulations that have been imposed on cars over the past few decades.

You just cannot make and sell a simple mechanical artifact, because it's not efficient enough, it all has to be over engineered, complex, with real time fuel mixture calibration, inactive cylinders, and computer controlled, cause new emission requirements mandate a .05% increase of efficiency.

It basically eliminates all advances in material science, you could have lighter, stronger and more reliable engines that would basically run forever if they were allowed to be mechanically simpler.

Don't act like automakers aren't complicit in this too. They are nickle and diming the customer for every little feature and using the technology as an opportunity push subscriptions and over charging for repairs because they have made everything so complicated and specialized that you need to come to them if you want it fixed. There is a way to comply with regulations and respect right to repair, but they are not going to.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Anti zionism is breaking containment

Candace Owens went on Theo Von and talked about the Jewish lobby

Ian Carrol went on Joe Rogan to talk about it

Andrew Tate went on the Nelk boys to talk about how you can't criticize Jews.


That and Trump's continued support of Israel as he abandons Ukraine and Israel cozies up to Russia.

It's not about not being able to criticize Jews it's about being a schizophrenic lunatic about them.

 

[The Noise]

A sentiment I see repeated on this thread (and society in general) way too often from Trump supporters is that they hate him and take back all of their support for him because he did something stupid, i.e "I used to like Trump but then he said Israel was our greatest ally so now I hate him and am voting Democrat next election etc etc etc" or "Trump was based but then he did crypto so he's not based anymore."

You and Trump are not always going to see eye to eye on everything. He has his own plans and ambitions and goals and has what he sees as the best ways to accomplish those. He's going to do stupid shit you disagree with. It's healthy and reasonable to call him out for those things because that is an important component of a functioning Democracy(tm). What is unhealthy and less acceptable is when you become a blackpill accelerationist because not everything is exactly according to what you want.

In a nutshell, I'm essentially echoing the sentiment of former mayor of New York Ed Koch:


This is also why I cannot stand doomer groypers on X who are saying that they should have voted for Harris because Trump didn't cut all aid to Israel in his first week in office. Israel has greater political implications for the US than "le JOOOOOOOS control le world!!!" and kicking them to the curb and giving up basically all of our soft power over the Middle East would be catastrophically retarded. If Harris was in office right now we'd be still be sending money to Israel + all the USAID money, maybe even more accelerated by a Harris win + we would all be drafted to go die in Ukraine before the end of this year.

I don't mean to be hypocritical since I'm guilty of doing this myself in this thread, but especially in a place as polarized and given to extremes as this subforum, this is helpful to remember.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

You're right, looked into it and there's an order of magnitude more Poles than Albanians in Bongladesh. At least officially. So it's still triple the melanoid index, thereabout, but in the other direction.

600,000 Poland born Poles currently in England, but millions of them suddenly had to gtfo when the Soviets attacked from behind while they were defending against the Nazis.

Even Wojtek ended up in the UK after the war, since that’s where their government in exile was