US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

General Trump Banner.png

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/
 
Last edited by a moderator:
This whole recession thing is like giving someone a broken toy, and than accusing them of breaking it.
Abandoning 70 years of trade agreements we established, while spitting in the face of our closest allies and economic partners (not named israel) tends to accelerate things.

We put checks and balances in place so the president couldn't unilaterally decide our foreign economic policy. Now that is out the window, so the fallout will land squarely on Trump.

If he pulls us out of it, I'll praise him, but entire industries are scrambling to get everything from construction materials to large industrial equipment delivered before tariffs hit, which has my entire trade on pins and needles for looming work shortages in the near future.

What does a strong auto industry do when the people who drive their vehicles are penny pinching out of fear or outright unemployed, and the companies who buy their work trucks don't have work?
 
I tried to watch that shit and didn’t get 2 minutes in. Sam Satyr’s opening move was “I claim that Trump outlawing DEI is more about distracting us from him giving more power to corporations”, I was hoping someone would press him at all or ask him to be more expansive, but no, the first fucking retard goes up and accepts the premise of his question at face value and begins trying to argue from there. I hate these fucking videos. All it would take is one person being like ”But why? How is that true?” and it would be over.
Late reply but I want to bring up how Sedar makes the claim that only 900 kids received puberty blockers in the past five years from 2020 to 2025. I looked up how many kids are born in the U.S yearly and in both 2021 and 2023 it was around 3.6 million kids born. Obviously no kid should be encouraged into transgenderism, but liberals argue that republicans are making a big deal out of something that effects a tiny minority. However, if his numbers are correct then this argument can just as easily be fired back on them. Why is the media so obsessed with putting trannies into everything despite them being an extremely tiny minority? Why are democrats dying on this hill and wasting time complaining about the 1 boy that gets banned from girls sports then? Its one boy, who gives a fuck. Why does that one boys right matter more than all the girls who are uncomfortable with him being there? This whole thing just proves the big money behind transgenderism.
 
Abandoning 70 years of trade agreements we established
The dynamics of international trade has changed A LOT in those 70 years. Back then we were a manufacturing powerhouse, now we are little more than a pay piggy for several continents full of welfare queens. We need some drastic adjustments if we are going to stay in that top spot.
 
So basically all that bitching was for nothing.
Yes. The CR exists solely to keep Trump's tax cuts(which Dems and Biden kept in) and to give them the time to work on the reconciliation bill as the reconciliation bill bypasses the filibuster. This is why all these budget hawks going on and on about Massie being right and Republicans "caving" are fucking retarded. Everything Massie wants is coming in the reconciliation bill, but we cannot get there without the CR keeping the government open.
 
Last edited:
Which makes me wonder if it's just for show, that they all knew Golden was voting for it so Massie could continue to be "principled".
Well that's the case then that means people like Auron Macintyre sucked off a restarted who was willing to sabotage his own country just so he could stay “principled”
 
Well that's the case then that means people like Auron Macintyre sucked off a restarted who was willing to sabotage his own country just so he could stay “principled”
Sucked off a what now? Lol

Yeah, I know it was that cursed autocorrect. Just felt like poking.
 
The dynamics of international trade has changed A LOT in those 70 years. Back then we were a manufacturing powerhouse, now we are little more than a pay piggy for several continents full of welfare queens. We need some drastic adjustments if we are going to stay in that top spot.
We aren't broke because of USAID.

US bonds are a historically strong investment. There's a reason we are a global economic force despite our debt, and it's the same reason China owns so much of our debt, and it's their investment in US bonds.

Our current predicament is due to a large influx of money printing and low interest due to covid policy, followed by interest hikes that slowed down borrowing, and limited public works project capability due to supply line shortages.

I am indifferent towards cutting funding for Ukraine and other USAID projects. A certain amount of fiscal conservatism during economic strife is probably a good thing. As you said, we are not a manufacturing powerhouse, but we are a very strong consumer market. We don't export enough goods to strong arm the world into paying us for importing their goods.

Market confidence directly correlates with consumer spending, which is the foundation of our economy. I'd love to see the markets rebound, I love a good economy no matter who's in office, but the optics aren't good right now at this very moment.
 
Back