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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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[FILTH Tourist]

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I just woke up, but you kinda got me with this one. Granted China doing shit in Taiwanese sea or airspace is just a normal Tuesday for them.

 

[BigPeanut]

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He’s always been such an attention whore nigger

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Democrats were motivated by the ad blitz. Not enough to matter though.

It was a huge gamble to run a guy on a platform of "ruining Donald Trump's year", because if you lose on that platform... uh... you're kind of fucked.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/

https://archive.md/EEnRU

Tldr: Trump team apparently uses Gmail, but WaPo admits to being unable to be unable to provide evidence when asked (though they claim they have it). Trump team denies this.

 

[Potatoherder]

Turnout was terrible. Down 55% from 2024.

Almost like running shitty candidates makes people not want to vote. Of course they won't learn from this and the guy with a literal foreign flag in his office will run in 2026.

 

[tehpope]

Tldr: Trump team apparently uses Gmail, but WaPo admits to being unable to be unable to provide evidence when asked (though they claim they have it). Trump team denies this.

Its probably Bullshit then. If they can't provide evidence, its libel.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Almost like running shitty candidates makes people not want to vote. Of course they won't learn from this and the guy with a literal foreign flag in his office will run in 2026.

It’s Florida. I’d be shocked if any Goys under 40 voted.


Appointing Waltz was clearly a mistake, but at least it didn’t cost a House seat. Trump was smart not to fire him right now though. Wait a few months and ask him to resign.

 

[moocow]

Hell. I'm literally in Hell.

Also, my car only takes full synthetic.

So does mine. The price difference is just wild though

 

[Breadbassket]

HE BROKE STROM THURMONDS RECORD

Like Thurmond, this Democrat's efforts to stop his opposition will be just as futile.

 

[Gregis]

Turnout was terrible. Down 55% from 2024.

Is this not pretty normal for a special election? Even midterms have notably depressed turnout.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

So are we going to have to wait for a week to see the Wisconsin Supreme Court election results?

Yes. Especially if the Dems are going to lose. They'll keep counting until they win.

 

[Breadbassket]

Is this not pretty normal for a special election? Even midterms have notably depressed turnout.

Maybe that's the case, to my understanding the turn out for anything that isn't the presidential election is often terrible.

 

[Wash away the rain]

Well, Corey Booker has set a new record for longest senate speech, beating out Strom Thurmonds filibuster of the Civil rights act.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/01/booker-speech-trump-marathon/82764713007/

Bit of a shame that it's all for a "Reeeeeeeeee, orange man bad!" Protest. Kinda anti climactic.

New strategy unlocked nigga busta unlocked upgrade your fent reactors today.

 

[Bindo]

Interesting, so in November the seat was +33 R but this round it was ~ +10 R, pretty big shift.

That swing is the off-year, special election cycle, the 10:1 spending and the fact that Randy Fine is probably the worst candidate the FL GOP could have possibly run.

And with all that against him, he still won. Dems are cooked in Florida.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/

https://archive.md/EEnRU

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Tldr: Trump team apparently uses Gmail, but WaPo admits to being unable to be unable to provide evidence when asked (though they claim they have it). Trump team denies this.

We still doing this?

Call it "transparency" or whatever helps you sleep because the only people they are hiding shit from are you and me, not China and Russia and Iran.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Is this not pretty normal for a special election? Even midterms have notably depressed turnout.

Bad turnout for special elections is normal, this was just a bad time to stay home.

Midterms used to, but much less so in the Trump era.



This was Ron DeSantis’ district… Must have a lot of wealthy Jews there.

 

[Nihil Jung]

Republicans hold Florida US house district despite being outspent 10:1.

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@Fatpacks Can you get a burger suit for your burger suit?

 

[Netizennameless]

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Judge has supreme authority

No and it's retarded for you to even think that. A judge is a referee, he sees that the rules of the court and the law are being followed and no more. He cannot determine facts.

Scenario 1: Paco is accused of murder. The jury convicts him. The judge can find that the conviction was based on unlawful evidence or the jury was prejudiced, but he cannot determine whether or not the murder happened or if someone else was responsible.

Scenario 2: Paco is accused of murder. The jury determines they cannot conclude the murder happened. The judge has no recourse. Let's go with your interpretation that he could throw out the acquittal. There is still no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Paco committed the specific murder. The judge is not legally empowered to determine facts, so the end result is a mistrial.

This is by design. The judge exists to prevent "convicted because we just don't like you" or the prosecution abusing their power. If a judge could determine guilt, juries would be useless.

Lastly, look up jury nullification.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

An oil change costs like a hundred bucks or so. Healthcare is not so cheap out of pocket, which is a whole other problem.

If you actually bother keeping yourself healthy, the upkeep costs don't amount to much.
I spend a few hundred dollars on bloodwork a year, keep an eye on my waist size, and spend some money occasionally to expand my collection of weights.

You don't have to pay for medication if you don't need any, out of pocket bloodwork is cheap nowadays for the basic stuff, I get mildly sick maybe every other year and that doesn't require any meds just some broth and tea until I'm feeling better. Even some regular monitoring procedures is cheaper out of pocket than it was through insurance anyway.

The biggest savings I've ever achieved was getting healthy and getting away from insurance in favor of what is essentially catastrophic coverage.

It does require not being a fat fuck and doing some basic research into how to eat to prevent shitty chronic diseases though.

 

[sadrefrigerator]

To use a popular analogy, no one uses auto insurance to pay for an oil change or other kinds of routine maintenance. Instead you go to any number of providers who will quote you a price up front, do the work requested, and then bill you for the agreed upon amount. Imagine how much more fucked it would be if you had to go through insurance to get an oil change.

This is a stupid analogy.
Insurance is for when things happen that are out of your control.
Noone insures and oil change because it is basic maintenance. It's pointless since every car need an oil change and there is no point pooling money when everyone's going to get a payout. Cars are expected to break down. Insurance doesn't pay out when your engine blows up, or your transmission breaks. Auto insurance is only for accidents.