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
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[pwnest injun]

Chyna has announced reciprocal tariffs.
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Why are the Chinese punishing their own people this way??
And I thought the organ harvesting slave camps were bad...

China would have to import something from the US first for those tariffs to matter.

Lol, they import tons of food and energy from us. We import shower curtains from them. Let's see who hurts more.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

Vietnam is negotiating:

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Speaking of Bing Bing Wahoo, Nintendo moved their manufacturing to Vietnam to avoid tariffs on China. So the price on their new console might not go up if Vietnam does the smart thing.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

Is the Right comfortable with saying Reagan and the free trade ideology that removed good paying jobs from America was a mistake?

If I say yes will you fuck off back to wherever you came from?

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Why are the Chinese are punishing their own people in this way??
And I thought the organ harvesting slave camps were bad...

Never, EVER underestimate the capacity for inhumanity an Asian communist regime is capable of.

As bad as the USSR could get, the chinese cultural baseline of cruelty and apathy to the plight of others means some insanely evil shit is done to human beings. Add communism and totalitarianism and it gets almost supernaturally bad.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Why are the Chinese are punishing their own people in this way??
And I thought the organ harvesting slave camps were bad...


Lol, they import tons of food from us. We import shower curtains from them. Let's see who hurts more.

Hey, having a wet bathroom floor is pretty fucking awful.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

A thought crossed my mind about the tariffs today and that was of the unions. Union workers in the United States are many things but a core requirement to be in a US Union is to be employed in the US. Chinese bullshit manufacturers aren't paying union dues, they aren't voting for union interests. Mexican auto workers aren't either. Going down to brass tacks it's nothing but a major advantage to the various union powers in the United States to support ditching overseas manufacturing as much as possible and bring jobs (and new possible union members) back into the fold. I think that's why you had the head of the Teamsters speaking at the RNC back in the day, something that hasn't happened for as long as I can remember. The Teamsters don't give a shit if they're driving from some port to their destination or if they're driving from a factory in Indiana either, but they do care if their members are getting replaced by imported scabs.

Right now there's a lot of screeching about stonks but the unions, one of the DNC's most powerful voting blocs, have everything to gain from people getting work in areas that they control. Double the auto workers and you double the power of the auto union. I'm no expert but I'd say that's worth ditching the Dems who would choose the coveted tranny vote over them.

We live in strange times.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

What has Trump done or at least plan to do about the cost of housing the main cost of living crisis ?

1. Deport illegals who're getting houses on government money
2. Restrict HB-1 visas so jeets who live 20 to a house and arrive by the million can't simply buy up everything
3. Point and laugh as housing prices collapse
4. Younger voters now have a small piece of America and tangible wealth to pass on to their descendants

 

[The Ugly One]

Reagan didn't sign NAFTA or admit China to the WTO.

That was Clinton.

You can always sniff out a Zoomer/Late Millennial because they have no idea that the 90s and 80s were different decades. And they'll call Van Halen "boomer rock."

inb4 "but Eddie Van Halen was born in 1955," his fans weren't, that's what matters

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.

I don't think it'll be that much seething. Everyone already seemed to have a massive problem with the entire concept of Switch 2's features as being selling points. (Price, only resolution and frame-rate improvements, increased game cost, increased monthly subscriptions for basic features, ect...). I saw more excitement for the WII-U than this, and the WII-U was a fucking joke as well. Might have a few Zoomer autists freak out about it though. you know, the ones who make bukakke videos with their Amibos.

 

[password1215_12]

A thought crossed my mind about the tariffs today and that was of the unions. Union workers in the United States are many things but a core requirement to be in a US Union is to be employed in the US. Chinese bullshit manufacturers aren't paying union dues, they aren't voting for union interests. Mexican auto workers aren't either. Going down to brass tacks it's nothing but a major advantage to the various union powers in the United States to support ditching overseas manufacturing as much as possible and bring jobs (and new possible union members) back into the fold. I think that's why you had the head of the Teamsters speaking at the RNC back in the day, something that hasn't happened for as long as I can remember. The Teamsters don't give a shit if they're driving from some port to their destination or if they're driving from a factory in Indiana either, but they do care if their members are getting replaced by imported scabs.

Right now there's a lot of screeching about stonks but the unions, one of the DNC's most powerful voting blocs, have everything to gain from people getting work in areas that they control. Double the auto workers and you double the power of the auto union. I'm no expert but I'd say that's worth ditching the Dems who would choose the coveted tranny vote over them.

We live in strange times.

Unfortunately, union membership has declined significantly since the 1970s along with good salaried jobs through laws and punitive justice and I don't think it will ever come back. Look at all the Right to Work states and other laws and policy designed to break up unions.

 

[Angelos32]

1. Deport illegals who're getting houses on government money
2. Restrict HB-1 visas so jeets who live 20 to a house and arrive by the million can't simply buy up everything
3. Point and laugh as housing prices collapse
4. Younger voters now have a small piece of America and tangible wealth to pass on to their descendants

“Restrict H1B visas”
Yeah not with musk around

 

[The Ugly One]

Unfortunately, union membership has declined significantly since the 1970s along with good salaried jobs through laws and punitive justice and I don't think it will ever come back. Look at all the Right to Work states and other laws and policy designed to break up unions.

The unions have been nothing but an arm of the DNC for decades, happy to destroy their members' employment prospects as long as they deliver elections for the Democrats.

 

[TrinityReformed]

The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.

The tarrifs on the nips aren't on their electronics though?

 

[Mister Fister]

Never, EVER underestimate the capacity for inhumanity an Asian communist regime is capable of.

As bad as the USSR could get, the chinese cultural baseline of cruelty and apathy to the plight of others means some insanely evil shit is done to human beings. Add communism and totalitarianism and it gets almost supernaturally bad.

Chinese civil wars get apocalyptic, and if you look at history the cycle is repeating

 

[TenMilesWide]

Hey, having a wet bathroom floor is pretty fucking awful.

If we'd been sourcing our shower curtains domestically, say from Michigan-based Aperture Fixtures Inc., we could've had teleporters by now.

 

[Getting Tard Comed Jr]

Is the Right comfortable with saying Reagan and the free trade ideology that removed good paying jobs from America was a mistake?

Yes dumbass. The "right" is currently being run by democrats of 20 years ago. Which is precisely what the "conservative" movement was designed for. Until you idiots realize you aren't dealing with the fundies that didn't want you playing dungeons and dragons you will not get anywhere. There is no small goverment party, there is no free trade party. Reagan fucked up.

In more important news, how does the farms feel about a third term?

 

[UCT]

The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.

Feels like even giving a preorder date was something the retailers wanted more than Nintendo. Because if you registered to preorder on Nintendos own website you won’t get an invite until May. I doubt the price is going to change much on the system, especially if the countries are already in talks. The biggest seethe seems to be coming from the same retarded libshits who don’t know how to read or understand the world, or the Brit*sh if you go on the comments of sites like NintendoLife and etc. Certified retards crying and screaming about shit they don’t understand or care to learn about because a new toy might be delayed or cost more.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The Right, the most ardent capitalists, spent 30 years saying how based and epic it was that we could buy cheap goods from China when we sent all our manufacturing overseas. Free trade was largely a Reagan creation and the Right still sucks him off to this day. NAFTA was only protested against by leftists at the time now it's correctly stated by the Right that NAFTA was a mistake.

Is the Right comfortable with saying Reagan and the free trade ideology that removed good paying jobs from America was a mistake?

Yes. The right who wanted nafta and free trade are buddies with the democrats who helped pass it. Thanks Bill!

 

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The seethe over the next few days will be astronomical as the switch 2 has been confirmed to have delayed its preorders because of tariffs, and the console was already expensive itself with the games being a even greater travesty.

Adjusted for inflation, Switch games cost the same as SNES games did when they were new. Some SNES games even cost more, depending on how much storage was on the cart.

Also, the Switch 2 and it's Games' prices were set months ago, so the tariffs cannot have anything to do with it, unless they decide to raise the prices this week during the delay.

 

[deleuzeon]

In more important news, how does the farms feel about a third term?

In general I don't care, for Trump specifically I refuse to think about it until 2027. Let's see. If the country is rocketing towards a golden age I definitely won't give a fuck.