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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Yeah and came back with a vengeance when the Epstein files didn't drop immediately.

We're still waiting on those.

Remind me, to whose benefit would the Trump administration drag its feet on naming and shaming people who facilitated and took part in a child sex trafficking ring that involved American girls? Anyone in that series of files who would be 'put in danger' is someone who deserves it. What gives?

We're presuming Trump has complete control of the administrative state. He does not. The unelected were in open defiance of his admin last time, and this hasn't changed other than he knows about it now.

The impression I got from Blondey and Saar was that Blondey was suckered with some token files we already had, didn't realize it, and was left hanging as Saar's leftover staff from the Biden admin (or earlier) refused to cooperate.

That will take time to resolve. The fact that it was a minor stumbling block is only noteworthy because demoralization ops against the right by "how do you do fellow Conservatives MAGA" types are latching onto it desperately. It's as transparent an demoralization op as "what about EGG prices HUH?" talking points from other midwits, or "He still hasn't built the wall, you know" being Ann Coulter's Pokemon-like battle cry whenever she was around conservatives his entire first term.

 

[George Lucas]

I doubt this gets seriously followed by the majority of trucking companies.
Powerleveling here, but I work at a pretty big one and the amount student drivers from the Middle East that outright tell me they can't read makes me not want to be near any truck on the road I see with my company's logo.

That would explain why I saw a truck driver completely ignore a ‘All trucks must use bypass’ sign on the freeway and almost tip over as it glided on banked turn.

 

[quaawaa]

Valentina Gomez is a carpetbagging lolcow, but this is still funny:

Spoiler: Image in Tweet

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[Valley of Death]

It took one month for me to lose faith in Trump cause holy shit what the fuck is this administration so far?

 

[FieldPiece]

May as well ask. They definitely sold out Poland, but was curious as I couldn't find a count like that.

It could have been a shitpost but FDR was a literal psycho who abandoned half of Europe to soviet slavery instead of pointing to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and saying to get the fuck back to Moscow unless they want to face the same fate. Instead he started offering to carve up India and Africa with the Soviets. Even LBJ felt some grief over all the people he killed, LBJ did it all with a smile.

 

[Justin Igger]

We're presuming Trump has complete control of the administrative state. He does not. The unelected were in open defiance of his admin last time, and this hasn't changed other than he knows about it now.

The impression I got from Blondey and Saar was that Blondey was suckered with some token files we already had, didn't realize it, and was left hanging as Saar's leftover staff from the Biden admin (or earlier) refused to cooperate.

That will take time to resolve. The fact that it was a minor stumbling block is only noteworthy because demoralization ops against the right by "how do you do fellow Conservatives MAGA" types are latching onto it desperately. It's as transparent an demoralization op as "what about EGG prices HUH?" talking points from other midwits, or "He still hasn't built the wall, you know" being Ann Coulter's Pokemon-like battle cry whenever she was around conservatives his entire first term.

These simple niggers, lacking any theory of mind, imagine that Trump supporters think he’s some superhero, not for nothing as there’s clearly some kind of higher power protecting him, but in their again, nigger-ass jigaboo minds they expect to have some “OH SNAP NIGGA!” moment where Trumpman plays the secretly recorded tape of Epstein saying “and I got away with it thanks to Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama! I played this stinkin country like a HARP FROM HELL!” and anything less than that is somehow proof that he is the real Epstein. Niggers gonna nigger.

 

[invisibult plus+]

I've got a better Fauci song if you'd believe it

I unironically really like some of Five Times August's music.

At 5’7, Fauci is only around an inch taller than Napoleon. Zawinsky Syndrome strikes again.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

At 5’7, Fauci is only around an inch taller than Napoleon. Zawinsky Syndrome strikes again.

He really is a sad little man.

 

[gibbslets]

It took one month for me to lose faith in Trump cause holy shit what the fuck is this administration so far?

(You)

 

[Betonhaus]

It took one month for me to lose faith in Trump cause holy shit what the fuck is this administration so far?

Shit like this is why Funnyjunk a) shows the country flag for each poster and b) outright banned all Indian ip addresses.

 

[David Floyd George]

It took one month for me to lose faith in Trump cause holy shit what the fuck is this administration so far?

That long? You have the patience of a saint. Really, all of us here should work harder to be just like you.

 

[Valley of Death]

Shit like this is why Funnyjunk a) shows the country flag for each poster and b) outright banned all Indian ip addresses.

I'm American bud.

That long? You have the patience of a saint. Really, all of us here should work harder to be just like you.

Trump messed up in the past sure but never to this degree. Not to mention with the establishment and leftists against him and having a stranglehold so our options were...yeah.

Now I question if his first presidency was actually him or him being surrounded by people who knew what the hell they were doing and filtered out his bad ideas.

It's like Trump is trying to go down the list of everything the media said about him for 10 years and actually prove them right.

 

[Clyde Cash's Left Teste]

I don't recall seeing Biden since 1/20

 

[Ethereal Eye]

God damnit, these half assed attempts at doomposting and demoralization are making me miss Fatpacks. At least he had some charm and character.

 

[thegunbuilderguy]

Well, the prevalence of lane assist and this example from 2015 of a production car being remotely controlled by executing code on the fucking CD player sorta puts the lie to that.

In that 2015 hack, they clearly said the operation of that indirect steering cannot be done without the hacker having physical access to the car's firmware, as the control board for the steering was on a separate microcontroller, isolated from the rest of the systems, as it should be.

It wasn't remote-controlled, unless you consider having the ability to hack the radio and AC to be remote control, and let's not forget that to execute the code on the CD player you also need physical access to the CD player.

Please don't be had this easily by a fucking headline.

 

[Coptakhenaten]

God damnit, these half assed attempts at doomposting and demoralization are making me miss Fatpacks. At least he had some charm and character.

I usually am asking if Trump is doing a specific policy because I'd be concerned if he isn't even considering the potential issue and just want my concerns assuaged if possible given new or old information. I feel I might be critical of Trump but it's with the intention of hoping that he is actually going to exceed my expecations.

I don't know why this sudden influx of demoralization baiters have appeared lately. Might dip off KF for a while again and hopefully things settle in a few weeks.

 

[moocow]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/17/trump-deportation-alien-enemies-act-live-updates/82487553007/ https://megalodon.jp/2025-0318-0918-59/https://www.usatoday.com:443/story/news/politics/2025/03/17/trump-deportation-alien-enemies-act-live-updates/82487553007/

Dear god I'd love it if Trump's team invoked National Security interests and shoveled all this horseshit over to the FISA courts. None of that is constitutional either, but these same faggot judges have been complicit in supporting it for two decades, so let them fight that battle too just for added fun.

For those unaware/unfamiliar, the FISA court was spawned in the late 70's as part of a foreign anti-espionage bill. Remember all those civil rights the government's not supposed to infringe (as per the Constitution and its amendments)? lol no ... and SCOTUS has repeatedly backed the FISA court over that kind of shit. You can literally be sent a "National Security Letter" ordering you to shut the fuck up, say nothing to anyone under penalty of imprisonment, and present yourself to the FISA court (in secret), where a complete case can be made against you, without any right to review (or even be give any access to) the evidence against you, no public oversight, and all sorts of other kangaroo court shit.

And the government can sweep any case it wants straight over to them at will. If it did that for this case, every attorney, politician and judge currently involved would be stonewalled, shut out completely and removed entirely from the whole thing, and there's fuck all they can do about it without dismantling FISA. Whoops.

Correct me if I’m wrong but they have no authority whatsoever to tell the military to do anything and it’s an insane power grab.

You're completely correct. Even a fucking E1 still in basic training doesn't answer to civilian judges for "orders" concerning military operations. The military can (and absolutely should) tell this judge, to his face, in person, to respectfully go fuck himself. The three branches of government are separated the way they are explicitly to prevent the military from being "split-brained" and abused like this by multiple branches. You're in the legislature or judiciary and want the military to do something? Better ask the executive reeeeeeeally politely. And whoops, the executive seems to be rather pissed at the judiciary at the moment. Whoops.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Just remember.

In 2 more days, it'll only be 2 months total that Trump has been in office since his inauguration

And he's done so fucking much since and even before that.

 

[Justin Igger]

I'm American bud.


Trump messed up in the past sure but never to this degree. Not to mention with the establishment and leftists against him and having a stranglehold so our options were...yeah.

Now I question if his first presidency was actually him or him being surrounded by people who knew what the hell they were doing and filtered out his bad ideas.

It's like Trump is trying to go down the list of everything the media said about him for 10 years and actually prove them right.

Just say the fucking line so we can all laugh at you and move on, you raped and broken faggot.

 

[YarrBlueballs]

Boasberg ordered Kambli to answer several questions about the flights by noon Tuesday and to give him an official explanation about why he was not able to disclose that information in court at Monday's hearing and what forum he can answer those questions in.

I like how the judge was told it's a matter of national security, explicitly something that is need-to-know with the executive determining who needs to know, but he's literally doo high off his kite that he believes the civil judiciary deserves to know what assets are doing despite lacking the fucking clearance.

Honestly I'm kinda dumbfounded how SCOTUS could ever rule with the judge? The Executive has always been allowed secrecy for national security!