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
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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/

 

[CharlesBarkley]

The trick to getting women is like being successful in politics. Lie and hope to god no calls you out. Also maybe brush your hair.

 

[The Ugly One]

Join a church. They still exist.

I go every Sunday. 98% of the population of this city does not. Thus it's not much of a cultural force.

Meanwhile fat manlets like Ethan Ralph get married and reproduce multiple times over.

More guys need to accept that a skinny horse-faced girl is the best they can do, but is it really so bad if all your girl wants for Valentine's Day is carrots and sugar cubes?

 

[Crescent Fresh]

I said this before, yet banning certain foods outright immediately is a terrible idea if Trump wants good results in the midterms or a successor in 2028.

Should it be reformed to make people healthier? 100%. Yet actually doing it would be a straight up “losing the bread and circuses” moment for a significant amount of people who would come out in droves to vote for literally anyone else to give them back the food choices which were “taken away” by RFK and Trump.

MAHA should try to focus on cutting out certain harmful ingredients before they do such a thing. It’ll be much harder to get a populace to care if Starburst can’t be as bright anymore or whatever, yet “Trump took our soda and Hot Pockets!” Is going to be a different story entirely.

 

[Stardust_Ziggy]

I genuinely don’t understand these people. “Trump drinks Diet Coke!” No shit, and I’m sure he can afford the $7.60 for a 12 pack. But you know who can’t? SNAP recipients. Water comes out of the faucet, nigger, try it sometime.

Also, yearly (if not quarterly) updates of income, etc

My friend’s mother was on SNAP and had to update every year. And every year she would ask her manager at work to reduce her hours for the month prior to doing the paperwork so that it looked like she made way less than she actually did.

 

[StMaryPiper]

Meanwhile fat manlets like Ethan Ralph get married and reproduce multiple times over. It's not your looks or your money holding you back, it's your loser passive mindset. That's literally all. Hell, even Chris-Chan pulled a lady.

Don’t use lolcows as examples of getting laid. Those are people who use infamy and lack of standards to their advantage. Besides that they’re awful fathers. Ethan Ralph has kids but the pump and dump approach he uses does nothing for nobody.

 

[ZMOT]

Wish someone would have told me that in my 20's. I wound up getting the one chick that was obsessed with Phantom of the Opera.

ever wore the mask in bed?

 

[Velociraptor]

The Dem's will eventually get their shit together, there is always the chance of another Obama igniting the party.

This can't happen. Progress only moves one way, you can't try and roll back your platform to something more palatable when you've demonized any attempts to do so.
Furthermore, depending on what your definition of "another Obama" is, he's way more likely to be in the GOP than the Democratic party.

This is an extremely gay, extremely virgin and an extremely loser mindset. So many of the people sobbing about how every woman is a whore only pay attention to whores. Meanwhile fat manlets like Ethan Ralph get married and reproduce multiple times over. It's not your looks or your money holding you back, it's your loser passive mindset. That's literally all. Hell, even Chris-Chan pulled a lady. Stop overcomplicating it. And if you think somehow today is worse than the past, Emmitt Till got lynched for hitting on a white woman. He is not unique in that regard, nor was he lynched because of his race. It's always been hard out there for a pimp.

Sorry man, but I'm not trying to be like Ethan Ralph, lol.

 

[Jace on ice]

I half way agree and half way disagree, yes bans are unpopular but soda is so insanely fucking unhealthy, it's probably the main cause of the horrific obesity epidemic in the west and a ban or heavy restrictions would unironically be highly beneficial.

 

[The best and greatest]

Sorry man, but I'm not trying to be like Ethan Ralph, lol.

All the same he begs the question: If ralph can get laid and leave a legacy what's your excuse exactly?

 

[MirrorNoir]

So what's their reasoning again? You don't just jump out of a 2nd term election and let your vice president take the reign, then jump back on the podium role just like that.

He had his chance, why is he coming back for round 2?

Jill wants her power as first lady/Edith Wilson back, Obama wants revenge on Trump and knows Biden is the only hand puppet he can completely control, and TPTB probably are terrified at AOC running for President and/or have soured on Newsom after the fires and his attempt to pivot to the center pissing off the base.

 

[Velociraptor]

I said this before, yet banning certain foods outright immediately is a terrible idea if Trump wants good results in the midterms or a successor in 2028.

I struggle to find any statistics on this, but my intuition tells me that the majority of people who benefit from SNAP already vote straight Democrat anyways.

 

[BullfrogBill]

Well the best part is AoC is now thinking she's a shoo in for 2028.

And we thought we dodged a bullet avoiding Kamala...

But if AOC ran against Vance it's hard to imagine Vance losing. AOC being the first female President is a bigger insult to women than Kamala being the first female President. Imagine President AOC and VP Jasmine Crockett

 

[behindyourightnow]

AOC is a plant of some kind. I don't know what group or agency is backing her but when she was elected to congress she was working as a bartender and less than a week later was wearing 200k necklaces to DC fundraisers.

The "just a bartender" narrative was fake. All throughout AOC's college career she was clearly following the CIA/USAID "let's groom photogenic young minorities for political careers" pathway, complete with international scholarships and interning for Ted Kennedy. And then, suddenly, she was out on her ass working as a bartender and waitress.

I think AOC's handlers told her to slum it for a while so that she could establish a plausible "everyman" persona and narrative, and so that the grooming pathway would look less obvious. Then they concocted a story about her brother secretly nominating her in a competition (the "casting call" @XYZpdq Jr. was referring to) which randomly and fortuitously launched her political career.

It's important to recognize all this, because it explains the way she acts now. AOC knows that the establishment is responsible for her success, and that they can take it away if she steps too far out of line, and this is why there are always lines she absolutely will not cross. She's the old establishment with a new "sassy young Latina" coat of paint.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

I struggle to find any statistics on this, but my intuition tells me that the majority of people who benefit from SNAP already vote straight Democrat anyways.

Yes and no. There are poor white people too. Lots of poor whites voted for Trump in Penn South Carolina and GA. Snap creates a wealth cliff trap where making more money makes you poorer unless you can hop a wealth cliff.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Apparently, Trump is “crying for the SCOTUS to help him after being ripped apart by the court”.

Apparently.

 

[tehpope]

The "just a bartender" narrative was fake. All throughout AOC's college career she was clearly following the CIA/USAID "let's groom photogenic young minorities for political careers" pathway, complete with international scholarships and interning for Ted Kennedy. And then, suddenly, she was out on her ass working as a bartender and waitress.

I think AOC's handlers told her to slum it for a while so that she could establish a plausible "everyman" persona and narrative, and so that the grooming pathway would look less obvious. Then they concocted a story about her brother secretly nominating her in a competition (the "casting call" @XYZpdq Jr. was referring to) which randomly and fortuitously launched her political career.

It's important to recognize all this, because it explains the way she acts now. AOC knows that the establishment is responsible for her success, and that they can take it away if she steps too far out of line, and this is why there are always lines she absolutely will not cross. She's the old establishment with a new "sassy young Latina" coat of paint.

Maybe. Or she was "slumming" it because she had rich parents who would bail her out if anything actually happened to her. There is overlap between rich people and the cia.

 

[DickMain]

I don't really think there can be "another Obama". The luster of "first BLACK president" is gone, and the post-Trump GOP isn't going to willfully be controlled opposition with intentional throw candidates like McCain and Romney.

We're talking about the party that has to invent things to pat themselves on the back for, the blue ribbon party. "First black president SINCE Obama!" is not out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Velociraptor]

Yes and no. There are poor white people too. Lots of poor whites voted for Trump in Penn South Carolina and GA. Snap creates a wealth cliff trap where making more money makes you poorer unless you can hop a wealth cliff.

Don't take it the wrong way, I wasn't saying "only blacks get welfare", just that the majority of recipients probably already vote Democrat.
I know poor whites exist, I have a few in my family, but the question for them turns into "would banning SNAP from buying Soda flip their vote?", and if it does, would those votes be enough to swing an election?

We're talking about the party that has to invent things to pat themselves on the back for, the blue ribbon party. "First black president SINCE Obama!" is not out of the realm of possibility.

Yeah, but "would that make anybody else care?" is the question. And the answer is almost certainly not.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Did you see the polling from Newsom's podcast? Where he tried to reform his image to seem more moderate? The Left fucking turned hard against him for talking to figures from the Right, it either didn't move the needle or made center and right likedhim less than before.

Newsom is fucking cooked on the national level, he at best can hope to take his Aunt's House Seat.

Now I'm not saying that the Dems WON'T still go with him, but if they do with this evidence, they are worse off than even the most giddiest of us could imagine.

As depressing as it is that's their best ticket. Newsom isn't going to play second fiddle to anyone and Cortez has name recognition as well while being in the Harris seat.

 

[Fuck Fags I'm A Homophobe]

Don't take it the wrong way, I wasn't saying "only blacks get welfare", just that the majority of recipients probably already vote Democrat.
I know poor whites exist, I have a few in my family, but the question for them turns into "would banning SNAP from buying Soda flip their vote?", and if it does, would those votes be enough to swing an election?


Yeah, but "would that make anybody else care?" is the question. And the answer is almost certainly not.

maybe limiting the amount of soda would go over better?