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/

 

[invisibult plus+]

If he's in finace his literal job is knowing about the state of these things. I'd take his opinion over yours just on that (assuming he's a succesful financieer). Still, freaking out in general does not help but if you got any exposure to certain parts of the economy it's getting really fucking hard to not freak out due to how much shit is changing.

It looks to me that things will be shit in the short-term but will stabilize in the long-term.

Boomers have a tendency to think that just because something was right in the past, or it’s right for them, that means it’ll be right now, or for others. The “look him in the eye and give him a good handshake,” experience and neuroplasticity and all that.

He basically does what DOGE does but for one large single company, which is why I find his reaction even more annoying. His fears, as best as I can understand them, are that Elon is this crazy man that should not have access to American information, and he believes that Elon is working to get rid of social security and also sell off information to Russia.

Where does he get this from? YouTube? Business news sites? He should ask himself if his company, or any equivalent, would do what he thinks DOGE does if he trusts the establishment so much.

 

[CoolFool]

That just makes me think he's a lefty boomer.

Well that's the thing, he's a Republican and always has been, but he's never liked Trump.

Where does he get this from? YouTube? Business news sites? He should ask himself if his company, or any equivalent, would do what he thinks DOGE does if he trusts the establishment so much.

My dad gets his information from MSM. He 100% thinks CNN, The Washington Post, and NPR are the least biased sources out there.

 

[GenociderSyo]

I've been trying to get him to hang out with me more, he won't do it. He just sits around doomscrolling on his phone. He used to not be this way. It seems like things went to hell when he upgraded his phone into an actual smart phone that allowed him to play videos. People warn about kids getting hooked on their phones and believing bullshit, I think that's what happened to my dad.

You might be able to help him by using things that show how unhealthy doomscrolling is. His perception is going to be hard to change, but if you can get him to realize that obessing on it is unhealthy and there are many sites discussing how doomscrolling can be harmful. It be a way to help his anxiety and your worries without having to shatter his world view which may not be something you can do.

Site on Doomscrolling:
https://socalmentalhealth.com/13-ways-to-stop-doomscrolling/

On topic though I did not see it posted but Booker has taken over the Senate floor and plans to talk as long as possible its being live streamed on the senate website.

 

[invisibult plus+]

My dad gets his information from MSM. He 100% thinks CNN, The Washington Post, and NPR are the least biased sources out there.

You might be able to help him by using things that show how unhealthy doomscrolling is. His perception is going to be hard to change, but if you can get him to realize that obessing on it is unhealthy and there are many sites discussing how doomscrolling can be harmful. It be a way to help his anxiety and your worries without having to shatter his world view which may not be something you can do.

Maybe CNN or NPR has some articles on doomscrolling? Or would it backfire since they’d blame it on X and TikTok?

 

[FieldPiece]

Do I have good news for you.

Ok then the sequel to that. You caught me, I'm a fake Hitler fan and am not caught up on the Hitler literary universe.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Maybe CNN or NPR has some articles on doomscrolling? Or would it backfire since they’d blame it on X and TikTok?

They actually do, but it's kind of off the wall.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/health/social-media-mind-control-wellness/index.html

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

They fixed that now, the last administration made Credit Card Debit immune to bankruptcy. You WILL pay your 30% APR loans no matter what.

Do you have a source? I have not heard of this.

 

[LiquidKid]

This is something lefties have talked about. Especially all those White girls trying to see Taylor Swift. I'm all for Trump trying to build bridges with the "other side". It cuts out a very annoying middleman, that adds nothing productive to the economy. I doubt it took long to write, and it took 5 seconds to sign

I just don’t really see how this can be fixed in a logical way without outright banning all resales. But then again, I’m also someone who by pure coincidence resold two wristbands to the Las Vegas Harvest Festival(yes, that one) so I’ve seen both sides of the concert ticket situation

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Trump had Kid Rock at the WH to sign an EO about ticket scalping, makes a joke he might wear the getup tomorrow (please wear Luffy's outfit instead)
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He should wear it the next time he meets Zelensky.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

I grew up listening to Rush and he was always the most interesting thing on the radio except for maybe Coast to Coast. His show was cozy, complete with in-jokes, a slow moving personal narrative, and enough comedy to pierce the slog that is US politics.

That isn't to say he was perfect, looking back he had a MASSIVE blindspot and didn't really understand how pervasive the RINO mentality was in the Republican superstructure, but Rush primed the grass roots for the MAGA takeover of the Republican party.

Helps that he's dead too so I can never meet my metaphorical hero and be sorely disappointed.

Legend Of The Three Caballeros is pretty good, iirc that was an existing project that ended up there, though.

considering how much he shared shock jock dna with Stern it's kinda weird how shitpost conservatism hit a lot of people out of nowhere in more modern times

Rush was great. Even as a kid I liked him. He was so irreverent and brash. I drifted ledt in and after college but came back and realized Rush was formative for me.

And yeah, he as basically a proto Right Wing shitposter and memelord.

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This would be like Godzilla vs King Kong or Batman v Superman.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

To boomers though the tarrifs are basically annuda shoa, literally 6 million lines go down

And I'm absolutely all for it. Fuck the boomers. These risk adverse faggots have allowed all kinds of fraud and shenanigans to take place in order to force line to go up. I'm perfectly fine with these faggots getting ass blasted.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

It would be kinda cool if Trump uses the reply to the Ukraine Russia War with, "I'm a humanist, not a globalist, I'm a humanist; 2500 people a week are dying--" yada yada yada. Enjoy the fan fiction.

 

[invisibult plus+]

They actually do, but it's kind of off the wall.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/health/social-media-mind-control-wellness/index.html

Figured as much. There are a couple tidbits about impacts on mood and sleep, but of course they prey on readers’ egos by likening social media to cults in their potential impacts, like other media are any different.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

My current theory is that this is due to China just allowing the 10 largest insurance companies in China to invest up to 1 percent of their holdings in gold

https://www.gold.org/news-and-events/press-releases/chinas-insurance-funds-inject-new-vitality-global-and-domestic-gold

The National Financial Regulatory Administration of China has issued the “Notice on Launching a Pilot Program for Insurance Funds to Invest in Gold” (hereinafter referred to as the “Notice”), allowing ten insurance companies to invest in gold, effective immediately upon the release of the Notice on February 7.

this is why I still love you
your massive amazing jewocity to the point it drives people antisemetic still shines though, and even if you run insane defense for Israel you can track gold like a motherfuck
mad props.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Seems as though every day, I see people calling the tariffs proof that “Trump is going to ruin the economy”, given how much other countries are taking measures to adjust accordingly.

Is it really that hard for people to not see things in just the short-term?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Is it really that hard for people to not see things in just the short-term?

well, I hate to break this to you, but the past seventy years of human history exist

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

My dad gets his information from MSM. He 100% thinks CNN, The Washington Post, and NPR are the least biased sources out there.

It's time you just sit your dad down and tell him something along the lines of the following:

"Dad, I think you're too old. The days where the MSM can be believed are over and done with. Young people, people my age, don't consume information this way. When you die, CNN, WAPO, NPR, NBC, ABC, etc., they're all going bankrupt. They won't exist. NOBODY my age listens to these people because they have been proven time and time again to be liars or spin artists. Everyone my age gets news directly from the source as it happens because in 2025, everyone is a journalist because everyone has a phone. They're getting news as it happens and compiled news from podcasts. MSM is completely obsolete and it WILL die someday soon. I don't care if you think these young people are dumb or not, it's the reality and you cannot change it.

The world you knew all your life is gone. It changed about 10-20 years ago and it is never coming back. If you're worried about DOGE, people my age love it and it's probably going to become a mainstay of government for the foreseeable future. If you're worried about America becoming isolationist and no longer having "allies", that's what my generation WANTS. They don't like Europe. They don't like the foreigners. They don't like Israel. They don't like Ukraine either. They also don't care if your IRA, 401k, or stock market is in the shitter. They have crypto and your failure is not their concern. They are laughing at you complaining about social security checks and will probably let social security fail and replace it in the future. Young people HATE your generation for ruining everything for them. Regardless of whether you believe that's true or not, it's true to them and they're young and running the world and you're on your way out the door. It is their world now. Not yours. I'm sorry, but this is something everyone goes through. It'll happen to me too someday. Things just change."

I understand where you're coming from, I had to explain what I said above to my parents. They didn't get it either, but now they do.

 

[Betonhaus]

Seems as though every day, I see people calling the tariffs proof that “Trump is going to ruin the economy”, given how much other countries are taking measures to adjust accordingly.

Is it really that hard for people to not see things in just the short-term?

they have been trained not to. Companies only plan for the quarter, countries only plan until the next election. a decade long project would be forgotten, a hundred year project is unfathomable.

 

[Life is Hell...]

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After seeing the people who worked on this show that were laid off recently...

I think it's for the best...

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

this is why I still love you
your massive amazing jewocity to the point it drives people antisemetic still shines though, and even if you run insane defense for Israel you can track gold like a motherfuck
mad props.

I don't half-ass anything, you're getting the whole stereotype

Trump admin is reviewing 9 billion dollars worth of federal funding to Harvard University after it refused to investigate antisemitism on campus

https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-trump-administration-reviewing

According to a source familiar with the review, President Donald Trump’s antisemitism task force is investigating $255.6 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in multiyear grant commitments between the government and Harvard.

A source familiar with the review said the investigation is being launched over concerns about Harvard failing to abide by its civil rights law responsibilities. The source warned that, should Harvard not address the concerns from the task force about antisemitism and take steps this week, it could begin to lose funding.