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/

 

[Buttigieg2020]

It’s more akin to some mafioso wink-nudge threat “we all love our kids, don’t we? Would be a real shame for one of them to fall off a balcony, my dear old mother would be beside herself with grief.”

Of course it’s a threat. How anyone is surprised by this is beyond me, especially after his first term.

Trump loves brinkmanship tactics.

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

have you considered that maybe being a manufacturing prole country is retarded and there's a reason why we've spent centuries trying to move away from that

Even China is diversifying away from manufacturing cheap shitty low margin goods

 

[Meat Target]

Also these people you hate

You presume to know which people I hate? I regret to inform you that your psychic powers are lacking.

All Trump has done is

Purge them and their ideological commissars from their sinecures in government, business, and academia, and choke off taxpayer funding to their moronic pet projects.

Trump, Musk, and Thiel have never declared me an enemy of the state for criticizing them, or demanded loyalty from me while appealing to Bush-era cuckoldry.

"But, but they might-"

Save it. You can't scare me with anything Trump might hypothetically do (which is usually a product of your imagination). Biden and his toadies already did it to me.

 

[The Ugly One]

My local construction company should be allowed to use slave labor from Guatemala so my siding is cheap, and Chinese scammers should be able to file fraudulent trademark claims so that I can get imitation goods for cheap. That's just free-market capitalism, buddy, and if you don't like it, well, just look at the STOCK MARKET, don't you like the STOCK MARKET bro? Look how many people profit off slavery and fraud. That means it's a GOOD THING.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

It's easier than providing a reference in APA 7th and most Farmers are should be capable of downloading a PDF. Here it is, you lazy retard.

The Article was bad

On the one hand, U.S. import tariffs may protect some U.S.-based manufacturers
from import competition in the domestic market, allowing them to gain market share at
the expense of foreign competitors. On the other hand, U.S. tariffs have also been imposed
on intermediate inputs, and the associated increase in costs may hurt U.S. manufacturers’
competitiveness in producing for both the export and domestic markets.

So they might work, they might not.

Well an analysis from 2023 said, they did work.

• Annual U.S. imports of steel decreased by 17.2 percent between 2017 (the year before the
  tariffs’ implementation) and 2021.
• Annual domestic production of steel fluctuated throughout the period, remaining about 5
  percent higher in 2021 than in 2017.
• Although domestic steel capacity utilization was growing before the tariffs, it increased more
  rapidly beginning in 2018, reaching a 14-year high in 2021.
• Investment announcements from a variety of producers since the imposition of the tariffs
  indicate that production and capacity will likely continue to increase in the coming years.

• The total volume of annual U.S. imports of aluminum decreased by 19.0 percent between 2017
  and 2021. Unwrought aluminum imports decreased by 25.2 percent; wrought imports
  decreased by 4.8 percent.
• U.S. aluminum production has fluctuated throughout the period but increased overall, with the
  largest increase (22.5 percent) occurring in the primary segment, followed by 15.4 percent in
  the wrought segment and 11.5 percent in the secondary segment.
• Primary aluminum smelter capacity utilization increased by more than 20 percentage points
  between 2017 and 2019. Although it has fallen somewhat since then, it was still about 15
  percentage points higher in 2021 than pre-tariff levels.
• Similar to steel, investment announcements from producers in all three aluminum segments
  since the imposition of the tariffs indicate that production and capacity utilization will likely
  continue to increase in the coming years.

pg. 79 & 80

That was during the worst of Covid. Imagine what our economy would look like with no Biden and no Covid and no BLM.

 

[Thirsty Kitty]

Suck a fucking dick you faggot.

you are a retard gorilla nigger

 

[The best and greatest]

have you considered that maybe being a manufacturing prole country is retarded and there's a reason why we've spent centuries trying to move away from that

Have you considered the possibility of people producing for themselves and their community rather than concentrating the levers of economic power in the hands of a small group of elites?

Do you think the fish in my aquarium even recognize they're stuck in a box?

 

[Beep from Kenshi]

They're fleeing (to Canada)

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The great academic flush can't come soon enough. Hopefully by 2026 I can take an exam without having my nostrils violated by curry BO.

 

[Thirsty Kitty]

Have you considered the possibility of people producing for themselves and their community rather than concentrating the levers of economic power in the hands of a small group of elites?

Do you think the fish in my aquarium even recognize they're stuck in a box?

america has spent the past 5 decades becoming a technological powerhouse and you want to throw it away so paper mills in west virginia will reopen

 

[spiritofamermaid]

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.

Maybe if unions weren't so corrupt and prioritized lining the upper member pockets we wouldn't have right to work states

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

My local construction company should be allowed to use slave labor from Guatemala so my siding is cheap, and Chinese scammers should be able to file fraudulent trademark claims so that I can get imitation goods for cheap. That's just free-market capitalism, buddy, and if you don't like it, well, just look at the STOCK MARKET, don't you like the STOCK MARKET bro? Look how many people profit off slavery and fraud. That means it's a GOOD THING.

I am probably the most anti capitalist person here and everyone suddenly becomes a libertarian every time I express support for things like central banking and economic planning that everyone here hates for some reason.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Have you considered the possibility of people producing for themselves and their community rather than concentrating the levers of economic power in the hands of a small group of elites?

Do you think the fish in my aquarium even recognize they're stuck in a box?

Have you considered that Trump is just going to reverse most of those tariffs in like a week after those countries that had a 0-1% tariff tell him "ok mister trump we will lower our tariff from 0.000001% to 0 now buy our cheap shit again" and you will be in the exact same place as you were before except a lot of people over the age of 50 will want to kill you for giving their 401ks a heart attack?

 

[Kulee Baba]

Wtf was the last administration doing that these dudes felt confident enough to stand outside together like it's a fucking company picnic?

Absolutely nothing which is why Biden’s Admin will go down as one of the most evil admins in terms of foreign policy.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

They're fleeing (to Canada)

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I'm gonna have to hand a hesitant half W to Poojeets for one thing and one thing only. Unlike leftoids when they say they're leaving when they take an L they fucking mean it and actually leave apparently.

 

[Levitcus prime24]

have you considered that maybe being a manufacturing prole country is retarded and there's a reason why we've spent centuries trying to move away from that

“Did you everything that getting fucked up the ass by faggits was a good thing actually”

 

[CEO of Gay]

The largest manufacturers of CNC machines by volume are Japanese and German companies. (Although these are probably full sized.) This is also true for a lot of industrial automation. We can negotiate with those countries.

It would’ve probably been smarter to make a domestic investment deal with Japan on the tooling front. Maybe dropping the tariffs will incentivize that to happen.

I seem to recall that the big players in CNC machines still have plants here in the US, because it's easier to build the machine here than build them oversees and shipping them. Am I remembering wrongly?

 

[Fuck Fags I'm A Homophobe]

I predict most will be trannies, NPCs, redditors and faggots. Anyone who is not pozzed by Globohomo realized that the only games worth playing are the old ones.

ngl, is it the time to finally send off my 360 to get modded so I can start downloading games (yar har har) onto it?

 

[Potatoherder]

They're really pissed about Trump getting rid of those NSC people.

aka they were the leakers and saboteurs. Loomer gets a lot of shit for legit reasons but she is good at smelling out scummy people. Called out a lot of grifters on the right before it was cool.

 

[The best and greatest]

america has spent the past 5 decades becoming a technological powerhouse and you want to throw it away so paper mills in west virginia will reopen

"A non sequitur is a statement or response that does not logically follow from the previous conversation or context, often leading to confusion or humor. The term comes from Latin, meaning "it does not follow.""

-Brave Assist

"A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition and the subsequent refutation of that false argument, instead of the opponent's proposition."

-Wikipedia

 

[Thirsty Kitty]

“Did you everything that getting fucked up the ass by faggits was a good thing actually”

so quick to think about gay sex, curious!