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/

 

[Lian Xing]

He also personally hates LIDAR.

At the time he made the decision, all the components for a vision based system were cheaper than the LIDAR unit alone. I also agree with him. You have eyes. You can drive just fine. Why complicate the process with a LIDAR unit?

 

[Clobber3]

The various recipients of U.S. aid need us more than we need them and the attempt to win ‘friends’ by constant concessions is no substitute for a certain inward firmness and consciousness of basic objectives.

Henry Kissinger after the Korean War was over.

 

[The Ugly One]

I don't understand Elon's obsession with only using cameras, since that's "how humans drive".

LIDAR modules are expensive and gobble electricity. He needed some way to get FSD out the door, since it was already several years late, and do it cheaply enough to actually shift some units.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

California is so comically huge that things don't make sense there.

so is Alaska, and one congressional district in New York is bigger than all of New England (not counting maine) combined. Its not the state's fault that the state had such little population until the 1900s that no one thought to break it up.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Can a university do that? “umm akshually you DIDN’T complete all those classes and we DIDN’T publicly recognize that you did so by giving you a physical award”

Yes they can. Whether it matters or not is up to the employer but at the end of the day, it's just a piece of paper. But at this point if I see Columbia University on an application to my company, I'm just not going to give them an interview. That's what shitstains like this don't realize. They're hurting everyone around them.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Good morning, USPG2! I bring you some news articles to chew on.

"Schumer clashes with liberal colleagues over House GOP funding bill" (archive). Sounds like the Progressives are fixing to take over the party. I wish them luck, because then the Democrats are utterly fucked.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding bill, splitting with fellow Senate Democrats who are loudly calling for the bill’s defeat.

Schumer’s announcement provides crucial political cover to Senate Democratic centrists who are thinking about voting for the House-passed bill to keep the government from shutting down, even though they have serious concerns about the House bill.

Centrists such as Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) have come under intense pressure from Senate Democratic liberals and progressive activists outside of Congress to defeat the House bill.

Liberals including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are spearheading calls to vote against the House proposal, which would make cuts to nondefense programs and wouldn’t prevent Trump from shifting around funding to favor his own priorities.

Warren argued the House bill would give President Trump and Elon Musk “a blank check to spend your taxpayer money however they want.”

“We need to push back,” she declared.

Sanders said it would “literally take food out of the mouths of hungry children, take healthcare away from seniors, and give a huge tax break to the wealthiest people on the planet.”

“It cannot pass,” he declared.

Merkley said the “House Republican plan is horrific.”

“And we should be, Hell No.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a progressive who is popular with the party’s base, urged supporters on social media to call Democratic senators and ask them to “vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.”

She called a potential Senate vote on an alternative 30-day clean continuing resolution “a meaningless gesture.”

“Senate needs to fight,” she posted on X.

Under growing pressure from their left flank, several Democratic centrists said Wednesday evening and Thursday that they would vote against the House GOP spending proposal, even though they had earlier warned that the failure to pass it could trigger a devastating government shutdown.

Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), two centrists up for re-election in 2026, announced they would vote to block the House bill, as did Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who as recently as Monday warned that blocking the bill and possibly triggering a shutdown would be a “huge risk.”

Ossoff, who is considered the most vulnerable Senate Democratic incumbent, announced late Thursday evening — after Schumer’s announcement — that he would oppose the House bill.

He said the bill “guts NIH research into diseases like Alzheimer’s and maternal mortality, funding for the prevention of violence against women, and Army Corps of Engineers construction of water infrastructure.”

Slotkin, who won election to the Senate last year in a state that Trump carried, also announced late Thursday evening that she would vote against the House bill.

“I will be voting no on the continuing resolution tomorrow. First, because this bill is bad for Michigan. It makes significant cuts to Michigan’s key infrastructure projects,” she said. “But on top of that, my Republican colleagues offered no assurances that the money wouldn’t be redirected at the whip of Elon Musk,” she said.

One Democratic senator familiar with the tense internal debate over strategy said the strong arguments of liberal senators and the growing pressure from the base had moved votes in the caucus.

“Some of them may be changing their viewpoint here,” the senator said of colleagues’ shifting stances on the House bill. “We’ve had that robust debate.”

“We’ll see,” the lawmaker said Thursday morning of how the final vote would turn out. “I think people will see this as a massive sellout to an authoritarian president. You don’t stop a bully by handing over all of your lunch money.”

Faced with growing opposition within the Democratic caucus to the House bill — and a dwindling number of potential Democratic votes who could get the bill across the finish line — Schumer made the dramatic decision to tell colleagues at a lunch meeting Thursday that he would vote to advance the House bill.

Schumer then announced his decision on the Senate floor — marking an abrupt shift from what he said a day earlier, when he told Republicans that there weren’t enough votes to pass the House bill.

“Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House [continuing resolution,]” he declared on the Senate floor Wednesday.

“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass. We should vote on that,” he insisted.

But Schumer backed away from that stance over the span of less than 24 hours.

Republican senators, including Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), swiftly rejected the idea of voting for a 30-day government funding stopgap, arguing it was too late and that the House had already left town for the week with no plans to return before the Friday deadline.

With the 30-day clean CR that he demanded dead in the water, Schumer faced the possibility that Democratic colleagues would follow the urging of more liberal senators and vote down the House-passed bill, which would likely trigger a shutdown.

Schumer intervened by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance the House bill.

He acknowledged that the House bill is “very bad,” but warned that a government shutdown would produce a far worse result.

“I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down,” he said.

He warned that a shutdown “would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now.”

He said it would give the Trump administration “full authority to deem whole agencies, programs and personnel ‘non-essential,’” and furlough federal workers indefinitely.

And he warned that there would be “nobody left at agencies to check” Trump’s political advisors and appointees.

He noted that many federal employees and government experts fear that a temporary shutdown could lead to permanent cuts and that congressional Republicans would use their majorities to “cherry-pick” which parts of the government to reopen.

Asked if the House bill would have enough Democratic votes to squeak through the Senate, Schumer told reporters that his colleagues are reviewing it.

“There are a bunch of undecided votes and as members study it and look at it, each will make his or her own decision,” he later told reporters at a pen-and-pad briefing.

Schumer’s decision to vote to advance the House bill was immediately criticized on the left, including by Ocasio-Cortez.

The progressive firebrand from New York told CNN on Thursday that it would be a “tremendous mistake” for Schumer to vote for the cloture motion to advance the bill.

Asked if she would Schumer for his seat in 2028, Ocasio-Cortez said: “I think what we need right now is a united Senate Democratic Caucus that can stand up for this country and not vote for cloture and not vote for this bill.”

Asked if he was worried about the criticism, Schumer told reporters Thursday evening that he did what he thought best.

“The bottom line is you have to make these decisions based on what is best for not only your party, but your country,” he said.

“I firmly believe … that I’ve made the right decision,” he said. “I believe that my members understand that I came to that conclusion and respect it. … People realize it’s a tough choice but realize I made the decision based on what I thought were the merits and I think they respect it.”

Democrats across the Senate slammed the House bill this week as an atrocious piece of legislation.

Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, called it a “dumpster fire.”

She noted it would cut nondefense spending programs by $15 billion in 2025 and argued it would hand “a blank check to Trump and Elon Musk to pick winners and losers and steal from our constituents.”

She warned it would cut 44 percent from the Army Corps of Engineers’ work to protect against floods and hurricanes and leave a $280 million shortfall in the National Institutes of Health budget.

She called for Congress to immediately pas a clean four-week CR instead.

But Schumer told reporters Thursday evening that the month-long stopgap could pass the Senate.

“Patty Murray worked extremely hard as did our Appropriations Committee members to get Republicans to go along with a 30-day bill so they could do what they really like to do, which is write a whole big appropriations bill, and they wouldn’t go along,” he told reporters.

“That’s regrettable, very, very regrettable,” he said.

"Congress poised to force $1B cut to local DC budget, surprising many lawmakers" (archive). DC monsters are angry that daddy put a spending limit on their credit card.

Congress is poised to pass a President Trump-endorsed funding bill this week that D.C. officials warn would lead to a $1 billion cut to the district’s local budget, a move that has been catching members of both parties off guard.

The 99-page, GOP-drafted stopgap funding bill would keep the federal government running past a Friday night shutdown deadline at largely fiscal 2024 levels. While its passage is not assured, there is enormous pressure on Senate Democrats, who hold the deciding votes, to allow it to advance.

But Democrats and local officials are sounding the alarm over the omission of language that would allow D.C. to continue spending its local budget at fiscal 2025 levels, as has been a long-standing practice for stopgap bills.

“This doesn’t save the federal government any money, right?” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a senior appropriator, told The Hill. “This is not about a billion dollars in federal funds. What they did was cap the D.C. budget.”

“So, this is like telling someone’s city council what their total budget cap is, which is just Congress trying to use the District of Columbia as their playground and plaything?”

Van Hollen said that he’s looking “at a whole variety of options right now to try to address that issue,” but he added that his “understanding” of the motive by House Republicans in leaving out the language was that “is it was deliberate.”

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) told The Hill she supports allowing D.C. to continue to operate under its own budget plan and that she plans to speak to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on the matter.

“I support that language. I have no idea why the House left it out,” she said.

The stopgap funding bill being considered by the Senate would be the third continuing resolution (CR) for fiscal 2025, which began in October. While there are some funding boosts and cuts in the bill, it keeps funding largely at fiscal 2024 levels.

A key difference between this CR and previous ones is that it is missing language allowing D.C. to spend its local budget — which consists mostly of local tax dollars — at already approved 2025 levels. While D.C. was granted what’s known as “home rule” in the 1970s, Congress still approves its budget during the appropriations process.

As a result, D.C. officials have said the district would be forced to spend at its fiscal 2024 levels like federal agencies would under the stopgap — despite running at its updated budget levels for roughly half a year.

In a statement obtained by The Hill this week, the mayor’s office described the cut to D.C.’s budget as a “senseless, reckless” move that “would have devastating consequences for our nation’s capital, impacting public safety, education, and essential services.”

Leading up to the House vote on the legislation earlier this week, D.C. officials took to the Capitol with their concerns over the stopgap, with Bowser calling on members just meters away inside the building to address the “$1.1 billion problem” halfway into its fiscal year.

“We are not a federal agency,” she said. “We are a city, county, state all at once, and we provide direct services to the people of the District of Columbia, visitors to the District of Columbia, businesses in the District of Columbia, diplomats and visiting heads of state and everyone who works here in the Congress.”

The mayor’s office said in a recent request to lawmakers that such a cut would deal a significant blow to its general funds budget, which it described as “solely supported” by the district’s “locally raised taxes, fees and fines.”

“So far, DC has expended, obligated or encumbered $6.3 billion, which is 48 percent of the total local appropriation,” the note stated. “If we now had to reduce local spending by $1.1 billion it would require a 16 percent cut to all remaining funds that are not expended.”

The office also warned such a cut “would result in immediate and unanticipated layoffs of direct service workers and reduction or elimination of direct services residents and visitors rely on.”

Bowser’s office has pushed for the Senate “to ensure the District can continue to operate under our congressionally approved [fiscal 2025] budget.”

The office additionally is asking for Congress “to add back the language that provided the District with the ability to spend its local resources in the event of a federal government shutdown.”

Additionally, Van Hollen and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) are pushing for an amendment to prevent cuts for D.C.

But adding the language back into the bill would require an amendment, which would send the CR back to the House for a vote. The House adjourned after passing the spending bill on Tuesday and would not be able to return to D.C. to pass an updated version before the government shuts down.

If it does fail Van Hollen said the plan is then to ask to try to pass a resolution before the Senate leaves town “to accomplish the same goal on D.C.”

House GOP appropriators said in a statement on Wednesday that “additional resources to support the District of Columbia with respect to ensuring the security of public events, as well as responding to terrorist threats or attacks, remain,” though it acknowledged that “for the remainder of the fiscal year, this bill holds D.C. at [fiscal 2024] levels, like the rest of the federal government.”

“The House Appropriations Committee has been assured that D.C. will continue to have a balanced budget,” they added. “Given the impact a government shutdown would have on D.C. and the nation, House Republicans took steps to avert one.”

Asked about the recent opposition from D.C. officials to the current stopgap plan, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) initially told The Hill earlier this week that some of the funding “was inaugural stuff, like extra police,” but he added that he would have to “go through and look at it in more detail than I have.”

“I’m sorry if everything wasn’t perfect, and I’m sorry the Democrats weren’t on the table to talk to us, but it just is what it is.”

In its memo to Congress, the district said almost three-fourths of its budget “is made up of locally generated revenues,” compared with about 24 percent that “comes from federal grants that all other states received.”

Previous stopgap legislation also included funds for Trump’s inauguration in D.C. earlier this year, but Bowser’s office said federal payment comprises less than 1 percent of its total budget and is separate from federal grants.

“Yet it supports critical functions, including in [fiscal 2025’s] approved budget of $47 million for the costs incurred to support the inauguration of President Donald Trump and $50 million to the District’s Emergency Security and Planning Fund (EPSF) which supports costs incurred by the District to support federal activities.”

“In [fiscal 2024], DC had no funds appropriated to support President Trump’s inauguration and less funding for the EPSF,” the mayor’s office added.

Lastly: "Passengers evacuate after American Airlines plane catches fire on tarmac of Denver airport" (archive). If there were any airport for sketchy globohomo sabotage to happy, it's Denver International with its creepy ass mural.

An American Airlines plane carrying 178 people caught fire on the tarmac after making an emergency landing at Denver International Airport Thursday evening, forcing many passengers to evacuate by climbing out onto a wing and with emergency slides. Airport officials said 12 passengers were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

The fire started just before 6 p.m. Mountain Time after the plane, a Boeing 737-800, diverted to the airport due to what appeared to be an engine issue.

The Federal Aviation Administration told CBS News in a statement that American Airlines Flight 1006 had departed from Colorado Springs Airport and was bound for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when the "crew reported engine vibrations."

"After landing and while taxiing to the gate an engine caught fire and passengers evacuated the aircraft using the slides," the FAA said.

In a separate statement, American Airlines said the plane experienced an "engine-related issue" after it had landed and taxied to the gate.

The airline said all 172 passengers and six crewmembers got off and were "being relocated to the terminal."

The plane wound up parking at gate C38 at Concource C.

Multiple videos posted on social media show flames coming from the plane and people evacuating by climbing onto a wing. Heavy smoke was seen coming from the plane during the chaotic scene.

An airport official told CBS News the fire was extinguished soon afterwards.

A family member of one of the passengers told CBS News Colorado that all the luggage was taken off the plane and the passengers were being rebooked for a flight that was scheduled to depart Denver for Dallas at 1 a.m. local time Friday. American Airlines later confirmed that it was sending a replacement aircraft and crew to help customers continue on to DFW.

One passenger, Gabrielle Hibbitts, told CBS News Colorado that, "As soon as the plane landed, we smelled this weird burning plastic smell and then everybody started screaming and saying there was a fire."

She said once she and her sister were a safe distance away, "We saw the plane ... and there was smoke everywhere."

Their mother, Ingrid Hibbitts, told CBS News Colorado, "It was surreal. I was like, 'Is this gonna blow up. ... What's happening here? Are they gonna be able to put out the fire?' I'm really grateful that this happened on the ground because if this happened in the air, I don't think I'd be standing here telling you the story."

CBS News transportation safety analyst Robert Sumwalt, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the emergency response on Thursday shows "the importance of having well-trained pilots, well-trained flight attendants, well-trained airport rescue and firefighting personnel and air traffic controllers, all working together to ensure a safe outcome when something like this happens."

Sumwalt said it's likely the FAA investigation into the incident will focus on when and where the fire started.

"We've got to really understand exactly when this smoke started and ... I'm not sure exactly why all of a sudden, when they got to the gate, the smoke started filling the passenger cabin. I think that will be a part of the investigation," Sumwalt said.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

*i'm still pissed about the Epstein fuck up, the lawfare, and the tarriff delays

I don't get what the fuck you're pissed about. Trump is getting everything he wants and everyone caved.

Things don't make sense because the Dems have done all they can to get an iron grip on the political machine and the Cali Republicans just bumble about (see the last election where the house race took WEEKS to count when it seemed in the Republicans favor but all the found votes pushed it to the Dems and the Reps didn't challenge it), as a result there are a lot more Democrat vs Republican voters.

It's stupid and pointless to argue this at this point, but there are no fair elections in the US. If the election wasn't rigged, half of these blue cities would be red. They never are. There's fraud and fuckery in all of them.

or to put it another way Columbia just gave everyone an out if they list it on their resume. "oh well Mrs. Muhammad i protested against an apartheid state so they took my degree away" like do jews realize who's running HR and background checks? liberal white women are going to fucking love anyone that was a freedom fighter because of all of the propaganda of the jew media the last century.

Those HR Employees have bosses and it's as simple as me saying "We don't hire anyone from this campus anymore. We have too many Jewish employees." Bam, it don't matter what colored hair she has, she ain't doing it. If she does, they're both fired. You think if I'm a boss watching the news I'm going to care it's only a handful of kids doing this? No I'm just blacklisting the entire university.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

Those HR Employees have bosses and it's as simple as me saying "We don't hire anyone from this campus anymore. We have too many Jewish employees." Bam, it don't matter what colored hair she has, she ain't doing it. If she does, they're both fired. You think if I'm a boss watching the news I'm going to care it's only a handful of kids doing this? No I'm just blacklisting the entire university.

"We have too many Jewish employees." Is probably not the line that any business is going to take if they'd like to continue to have access to banking.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

He Raise American Tarrif?

Dump Et.

 

[Nick Obre]

HAHAHA HOLY SHIT IM LOVING THIS TIMELINE
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Get the fuck out beaner . Nobody cares your whore is pregnant. Those ice agents shouldve bellyflopped her

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/13/ice-agents-smash-windows-of-vehicle-drag-two-peopl/

Context

Absolutely warms my heart to see these filthy coloreds get what's coming to em

Payback a century in the making

After all, it's just a clump of cells

 

[autistic dog]

China is so fucking fucked. Between China's failed central planning, India's failure to industrialize, and Pakistan's just absolute failure as a nation in general, one of these niggers is going to start a nuclear war.

I just love how much a paper tiger China is. Between half their population freezing to death when coal supply is disrupted to another third drowning from the destruction of three gorges dam there would only be like 8 people left a week into the war.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

USPS signs agreement with DOGE, agrees to cut 10,000 workers: ‘Broken business model’
The service plans to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early retirement program
Link/Archive

Spoiler

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy informed members of Congress on Thursday he has signed an agreement with the General Services Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.
In a letter to Congress, DeJoy lamented that the Postal Service has a "broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and core change."
"Fixing a broken organization that had experienced close to $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion, without a bankruptcy proceeding, is a daunting task," DeJoy wrote. "Fixing a heavily legislated and overly regulated organization as massive, important, cherished, misunderstood and debated as the United States Postal Service, with such a broken business model, is even more difficult."
DOGE will assist USPS with addressing "big problems" at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement aims to help the Postal Service identify and achieve "further efficiencies."
USPS listed such issues as mismanagement of the agency's retirement assets and Workers' Compensation Program, as well as an array of regulatory requirements that the letter described as "restricting normal business practice."
"This is an effort aligned with our efforts, as while we have accomplished a great deal, there is much more to be done," DeJoy wrote.
Critics of the agreement fear negative effects of the cuts will be felt across America. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerald Connolly, of Virginia, who was sent the letter, said turning over the Postal Service to DOGE would result in it being undermined and privatized.
"The only thing worse for the Postal Service than DeJoy’s ‘Delivering for America’ plan is turning the service over to Elon Musk and DOGE so they can undermine it, privatize it, and then profit off Americans’ loss," Connolly said in a statement.
He added: "This capitulation will have catastrophic consequences for all Americans – especially those in rural and hard to reach areas – who rely on the Postal Service every day to deliver mail, medications, ballots, and more. Reliable mail delivery can’t just be reserved for MAGA supporters and Tesla owners."
The National Association of Letter Carriers President Brian L. Renfroe said in a statement in response to Thursday's letter that they welcome anyone's help with addressing some of the agency's biggest problems but stood firmly against any move to privatize the Postal Service.
"Common sense solutions are what the Postal Service needs, not privatization efforts that will threaten 640,000 postal employees' jobs, 7.9 million jobs tied to our work, and the universal service every American relies on daily," he said.
USPS currently employs about 640,000 workers tasked with making deliveries from inner cities to rural areas and even far-flung islands.
The service plans to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early retirement program, according to the letter.
The agency previously announced plans to cut its operating costs by more than $3.5 billion annually. And this isn't the first time thousands of employees have been cut. In 2021, the agency cut 30,000 workers.
As the service that has operated as an independent entity since 1970 has struggled to balance the books with the decline of first-class mail, it has fought calls from President Donald Trump and others that it be privatized.
Last month, Trump said he may put USPS under the control of the Commerce Department in what would be an executive branch takeover.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

I just love how much a paper tiger China is. Between half their population freezing to death when coal supply is disrupted to another third drowning from the destruction of three gorges dam there would only be like 8 people left a week into the war.

I’ve been hearing “China’s going to collapse in the near future!” for twenty years now. Between the demographic pyramid, the reliance on coal, the reliance on imported foodstuffs, the Three Gorges Dam and flooding, their buildings being cardboard, their economy being propped up by fake property transactions, their economy being propped up on debased or fraudulent metals, etc. I’ve heard it all. I just don’t believe this anymore. Sure, in a hot war the destruction of the dam and the stopping of imports could have major repercussions. But I don’t believe in a natural China collapse which is always just on the horizon. I think that’s an excuse by American elites to justify continually empowering China and destroying the American economy under the guise that it’s no big deal because they’re destined to fail anyways.

 

[Bindo]

"We have too many Jewish employees." Is probably not the line that any business is going to take if they'd like to continue to have access to banking.

True, but as we've seen so many times, the bitches making salary running HR and Marketing with their Masters in BA and Communications don't care. They want that dopamine hit for being enlightened and progressive.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

It's stupid and pointless to argue this at this point, but there are no fair elections in the US. If the election wasn't rigged, half of these blue cities would be red. They never are. There's fraud and fuckery in all of them.

Exactly, liberals NEED to apply their thumbs to the scale to have things go their way. The same idea applies to social media, progressive ideas only thrive though strict moderation and active push by algorithms. Take all that away and let topics and conversations develop naturally, suddenly the masses seem much more conservative.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

Can a university do that? “umm akshually you DIDN’T complete all those classes and we DIDN’T publicly recognize that you did so by giving you a physical award”

Its supposed to be for things like "oh we caught that you cheated and didnt actually pass the classes". But Universities being leftist controlled "he who has power defines what is correct" morality perverted that purpose like everything else.

 

[autistic dog]

Yes, but it's considered a pretty extreme remedy. Usually it's for things like plagiarism getting caught after the fact, or trading favors like money/sex for Grades.

If we can prove a gender bias in college courses we can push colleges to revoke all womens degrees and send them back to the kitchen dimension.

 

[BaronOfTheTaigas]

I’ve been hearing “China’s going to collapse in the near future!” for twenty years now. Between the demographic pyramid, the reliance on coal, the reliance on imported foodstuffs, the Three Gorges Dam and flooding, their buildings being cardboard, their economy being propped up by fake property transactions, their economy being propped up on debased or fraudulent metals, etc. I’ve heard it all. I just don’t believe this anymore. Sure, in a hot war the destruction of the dam and the stopping of imports could have major repercussions. But I don’t believe in a natural China collapse which is always just on the horizon. I think that’s an excuse by American elites to justify continually empowering China and destroying the American economy under the guise that it’s no big deal because they’re destined to fail anyways.

The elites were all convinced they could just move to China once they finished draining the US and it's sphere of resources -- Then Covid happened and Xi took advantage of it by totally liquidating the Shanghai Clique and put hard restrictions on foreign influence.

Now their exit has been closed and that is one of the reasons politics has gotten so schizophrenic now: Where else can they bail? Hawaii? New Zealand? It's still nowhere close to their hope of controlling what they predicted to be the next major global power.

Edit: Speculating on this, I'd even stick my neck out a little and argue this is the very reason a few elites flipped to Trump and are now backing him to a hilt, beyond the Biden Admin fuckups.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Emperor Trump The Merciful!

 

[mindlessobserver]

Yes they can. Whether it matters or not is up to the employer but at the end of the day, it's just a piece of paper. But at this point if I see Columbia University on an application to my company, I'm just not going to give them an interview. That's what shitstains like this don't realize. They're hurting everyone around them.

The Ivy Leagues have really done irrevocable damage to their reputation. The degrees now mean you are an overly credentialed activist with entitlement issues. Only useful if the person hiring is also an Alumni and giving you the clubhouse inside track.