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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[SugarKane]

New JFK FILES JUST GOT ADDED from the original drop
13,700 more pages
"We now have plenty of money - our new backers are Jews - as soon as 'we' (or they) take care of Kennedy."
@Francis York Morgan idk if you want to highlight this

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025

March 18, 2025 - 7 PM EST Release: 32,000 pages (1,123 PDF files)
March 18, 2025 - 10:30 PM EST Release: 31,400 pages (1,059 PDF files)
March 20, 2025 - 9:30 PM EST Release: 13,700 pages (161 PDF files)

 

[neger psykolog]

The companies tend to just vomit money into the communities around their facilities, even if it's just an office with a handful of employees, and all of the employees pay a shitload in taxes as well. It's basically trickle-down economics, it's just trickling into countries with less taxes because with low/no tariffs to give those companies the incentive to invest in the US they, shockingly, don't

Basically, they can take the jobs and investments that those companies brings even if they don't get any direct tax revenue out of it, or they can let that money float away elsewhere because the companies are just going to go to the most convenient place with little to no taxes that they can

Yeah and obviously the predicament is if Ireland tries to rock the boat they'll just fuck off and find somewhere else.
I remember there was quite some concentrated anger about the fact Ireland was doing it because Facebook and Apple in particular were avoiding paying tax like fuck while they have quite literally exploited tons of countries to make all of those piles of cash in the first place.

It seems unfair to me that they can just channel all their shit through Ireland (I'm not even so sure they do it anymore) and avoid meaningful tax obligations elsewhere.

I would have a huge amount of respect for Trump if he gave the big tech companies a sort of "guaranteed preferential tax agreement for the next 25 years" (or something similar) so at the least the US could capture more of the tax. In fact, I am surprised more countries don't do that kind of thing to begin with (they sort of do by promising certain incentives to get them to build factories and shit, but I am more talking about them channeling their funds/sales through those countries).

I think whether we like it or not FAANG etc are here to stay so countries should try to work out ways to maximize tax from those companies and do so not by trying to throw the book at them but by trying to incentivize them in a way which is beneficial for both of them.
(admittedly I haven't read much up to date shit on FAANG tax bullshit, so I might be slightly out of date when it comes to today's reality)

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

every lib friend i have is of the 'he WILL SOON' variety. it's so fucking annoying. it's always next tuesday that the genocide will begin. and when next tuesday rolls around, i ask, and they say 'NEXT tuesday, idiot.'

No joke, it's literally the apocalyptic thinking that dominated certain 19th century cults that thought they knew the day when God's judgment would be at hand. This is literally exactly that kind of sentiment, made secular. The world as we know it is about to end, a new and darker age will be upon us because of despotism and ecological disaster, and we will be plunged into darkness and there will be many signs the world is ending and everything we know is gone, and then after an unfathomable time under a fascist Antichrist violating everything sacred, some redeemer bashes the fash well enough that we get fully automated luxury space communism.

They don't even realize they're borrowing from Christian millennialists, but they really are. I'm waiting for a sect of them to start believing in some equivalent of the Rapture.

 

[neger psykolog]

Where do you think those funds are going to come from? The Irish are USD3.3 trillion in the hole.

Jesus fuck. I still have no idea why democracies (including the US) don't have hard and fast rules for when their debt gets that bad. Like immediate firing of the current president/prime minister and the cabinet and a snap reelection when it hits whatever % of the GDP for some amount of time. Instead, nothing seems to happen and every new leader continues to do the exact same shit.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

new and darker age will be upon us because of despotism and ecological disaster, and we will be plunged into darkness and there will be many signs the world is ending and everything we know is gone,

And that would be downright nutty!

 

[Core Theorist]

believing in some equivalent of the Rapture

They already do. It's called the "Singularity" where AI is going to develop very suddenly and so rapidly it turns into a "God" (lol, lmao, rofl, kek) and ascends into a higher form, dragging along its worthy transhumanist/technofetishist disciples into itself. It's just the Rapture for godless nerds.

 

[Thiletonomics]

While government cuts are pending and in the works, Hawaii Governor Josh Green has asked the US to spend more money on a Federal Affairs Office. / Archive

It's as if he doesn't know that Senators Hirono and Schatz, and Reps. Case and Tokuda are supposed to do that duty, but granted they don't do much except for voting against bills to ban troons from places like Women's Sports, without saying why, for obvious reasons.

These recent moves Green has made since Trump's election also seem like he's attempting to backdoor his way into a 2028 Presidential Nomination. He wouldn't have the baggage that Newsom, Kamala, Walz, and Hochul have, but he hardly has credibility for himself either, so the other Democrat nominees would all have to shit the bed simultaneously for him to even have a shot.

 

[Aidan]

I still have no idea why democracies (including the US) don't have hard and fast rules for when their debt gets that bad.

Good luck getting enough politicians to implement it.

 

[StudMccool]

New JFK FILES JUST GOT ADDED from the original drop
13,700 more pages
"We now have plenty of money - our new backers are Jews - as soon as 'we' (or they) take care of Kennedy."
@Francis York Morgan idk if you want to highlight this

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025

View attachment 7117159View attachment 7117169

March 18, 2025 - 7 PM EST Release: 32,000 pages (1,123 PDF files)
March 18, 2025 - 10:30 PM EST Release: 31,400 pages (1,059 PDF files)
March 20, 2025 - 9:30 PM EST Release: 13,700 pages (161 PDF files)

Am I just way to tired or reading that single PDF mean most of western civilization is built on total fabrication?

my lizard brain is triggering and Im trying to rationalize how...

fuck I might need a walk.

 

[David Floyd George]

nothing seems to happen and every new leader continues to do the exact same shit.

Well, there's your answer. If nothing happens when you fuck up, that's a pretty good incentive to keep on fucking up.

Good luck getting enough politicians to implement it.

Bingo. Let's keep in mind that a hefty % of this all winds up in their pockets.

 

[Delany's Donkey]

Jesus fuck. I still have no idea why democracies (including the US) don't have hard and fast rules for when their debt gets that bad. Like immediate firing of the current president/prime minister and the cabinet and a snap reelection when it hits whatever % of the GDP for some amount of time. Instead, nothing seems to happen and every new leader continues to do the exact same shit.

it'll be fine, just import 100,000 more pajeets and niggers to try and keep the graph going up. all we need to avoid the consequences of our actions is infinite growth, guys. Fuck the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Yeah and obviously the predicament is if Ireland tries to rock the boat they'll just fuck off and find somewhere else.
I remember there was quite some concentrated anger about the fact Ireland was doing it because Facebook and Apple in particular were avoiding paying tax like fuck while they have quite literally exploited tons of countries to make all of those piles of cash in the first place.

It seems unfair to me that they can just channel all their shit through Ireland (I'm not even so sure they do it anymore) and avoid meaningful tax obligations elsewhere.

I would have a huge amount of respect for Trump if he gave the big tech companies a sort of "guaranteed preferential tax agreement for the next 25 years" (or something similar) so at the least the US could capture more of the tax. In fact, I am surprised more countries don't do that kind of thing to begin with (they sort of do by promising certain incentives to get them to build factories and shit, but I am more talking about them channeling their funds/sales through those countries).

I think whether we like it or not FAANG etc are here to stay so countries should try to work out ways to maximize tax from those companies and do so not by trying to throw the book at them but by trying to incentivize them in a way which is beneficial for both of them.
(admittedly I haven't read much up to date shit on FAANG tax bullshit, so I might be slightly out of date when it comes to today's reality)

Yeah, I'm not sure if they're still in Ireland either. Ireland ran into some trouble with the EU over what they were doing. Basically all of the EU countries agreed to have a minimum corporate tax rate so that no one country would end up with all of the huge companies. Ireland ignored it for as long as they could and, predictably, ended up with all the huge companies. I don't think they went back and retroactively paid every bit that they would have owed for prior years had Ireland followed EU rules but Apple was forced by the EU to pay the full 9% (i believe of global sales, not just EU) to Ireland for the previous year and Ireland tried really fucking hard to not take it because they wanted to keep all the tech giants HQd there for the other benefits that it brought them.

I assume most of the big companies got hit with similar taxes that ireland couldn't keep avoiding collecting but Apple was the only one that the program I was watching covered. I don't remember them ever covering what happened after but if they're paying the same/similar taxes that they would be elsewhere they probably just moved

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Wow Jews did it huh.

 

[Professor Donger]

every lib friend i have is of the 'he WILL SOON' variety. it's so fucking annoying. it's always next tuesday that the genocide will begin. and when next tuesday rolls around, i ask, and they say 'NEXT tuesday, idiot.'

I have a friend who's currently talking about how we were conquered by Russia because Trump is a Russian KGB Plant. It's kind of wild

 

[StudMccool]

Shit, I feel like this is big, Warren Roberts (warren commission) was in communication with Oswald as early as 1963

doc 180-10091-10228

 

[The Mighty Banth]

Not sure of the answer to that but Ireland has made itself a de facto tax haven for companies like Facebook and Apple for fucking decades. I remember being a kid and pulling apart my mac and seeing a "made in ireland" label and was confused as fuck.

It's stupid because they could make tons of money off of those companies, but they don't because they're Irish (I'm not sure what the actual reason is)

How do you lose money as a tax haven?? I'm even more confused.

 

[Eventide]

I have a friend who's currently talking about how we were conquered by Russia because Trump is a Russian KGB Plant. It's kind of wild

*looks around*

I see no grown men wearing Adidas sweatsuits. I feel like that'd be the first sign we were secretly conquered by Russia.

 

[Schpoots]

If da jooze killed kenendy then I have no idea where our timeline is going but I thank the writers for keeping me on my toes.

 

[The Ugly One]

They already do. It's called the "Singularity" where AI is going to develop very suddenly and so rapidly it turns into a "God" (lol, lmao, rofl, kek) and ascends into a higher form, dragging along its worthy transhumanist/technofetishist disciples into itself. It's just the Rapture for godless nerds.

Can't wait for the universe to be ruled by a retarded god who can't get basic math questions right, makes up legal publications that don't exist, and shorts out if you ask it which race commits the most violent crime.

 

[StudMccool]

180-10086-10257 all the way at bottom
LHO= Lee Harvey Oswald