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/

 

[Mr. Manchester]

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You'd think all those people with sickles and hammers in their twitter names would be really happy.

Just no pleasing some people.

 

[One Angry Computer]

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This more delectable than chocolate and more pleasing than sex, we just can't stop winning bros.

 

[MeltyTW]

Not only that but suddenly they care about labor rights and working conditions in foreign countries. And environmental pollution from industries supplying the west!

Very amusing to see.

yeah ill get right on making bush or obama or biden care about kids here, fucking let alone workers over there. idk maybe if i had complained more about foreign polluters hed cripple industry here further to pretend hes fixing the problem when its actually over there.

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half of them probably tried to censor this site anyway.

 

[Betonhaus]

Mazak - Made all over the globe but they have a plant in Kentucky, although not their largest production center.
Haas Automation - Exclusively made in California.
DigiMori - Made all over but have a plant in California as well.
Nakamura - Japan
Bridgeport - Made in Connecticut.

They aren't much bigger or more difficult to ship overseas than a car/truck. They're crated and package for travel fairly easily.

Fuck Haas, they're run by bean counters and every feature standard on other machines is an additional option you have to pay for.

They're only popular because they gift training consoles to technical schools.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

You'd think all those people with sickles and hammers in their twitter names would be really happy.

Just no pleasing some people.

"Eat the Rich"
"No, Not like that!"

 

[Aidan]

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The "eat the rich" crowd is busy complaining about the stock market, too. Amazing.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

What was wrong with Biden's economic policy from your perspective ? What can you criticize him for that can't be said about Trump ?

Inflation from January 2017 - December 2020 (Trump's Presidency): 242.839 to 258.811 -- 6.577% increase.
Inflation from January 2021 - December 2024 (Biden's Presidency): 261.582 to 313.689 -- 19.920% increase.
[ Sauce / Archive ]

Inflation tripled (3.029 times) under Biden. To put it in terms of purchasing power, $100 at the start of Trump's term was only worth $93.83. After four years of Biden, $100, was worth $83.39 (alternatively, that $93.83 left after Trump left office was now down to $78.24.

Sure, COVID was ongoing. But the restrictions and bonus bucks that were in place during 2021 and even 2022 didn't help because inflation for those years were at or above the average rate for the previous four years combined. It took until 2023 for inflation to finally slow down again and that's not taking into account whether supply chain issues are still messed up. To little, too late for most consumers? Perhaps.

Will inflation be worse under Trump's second term with these tariff wars? Time will tell, especially with his first term tax policies that put more money back in taxpayer wallets (by virtue of increased standard deductions) set to expire this year unless they're renewed by congress. Most normies care most about how much money they have on hand to pay for stuff and how much more expensive bill-paying becomes over time. The onus is now on Trump to show he can do better than Biden did in that respect.

 

[Gregis]

Here’s an expanded list of countries involved in tariff negotiations with the United States under President Donald Trump’s tariff war as of April 4, 2025, along with explanations of where their negotiations stand based on available information. This builds on the previous list and reflects the latest developments in the ongoing trade disputes.

Dog friend, did you write this yourself? If so, great work. If not you should cite where it's from, not only to avoid plagiarism, but so that the information can be validated and checked. If it's AI, forum rules specifically require that you make note of that.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Everyone knows that elections have consequences. Yet somehow the consequences manage to take those who voted for them by surprise:

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Throw money at homelessness, get more homelessness. California has proven this law to be reliable, even if where the money actually goes remains a mystery:

Equitable utopia is never more than a few tax increases away, according to the neoliberal faith.
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It's like they made it mandatory to give your change to the loitering panhandlers.

 

[(°▽°)]

I'd rather have trolls here than have everyone agree. It makes you soft.

Trolls are a renewable resource. All the current trolls could kill themselves () and you'd still have enough new trolls to keep you hard ().

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Fuck Haas, they're run by bean counters and every feature standard on other machines is an additional option you have to pay for.

They're only popular because they gift training consoles to technical schools.

Just like most modern tech machine corps? I mean, it doesn't get any more Apple Pie and Chevrolet than John Deere and I don't think I have to tell you how they intentionally fuck over every farmer who chooses to purchase something green. Enshitification comes for us all eventually. But yes. It's shitty.

 

[quaawaa]

Inflation tripled (3.029 times) under Biden. To put it in terms of purchasing power, $100 at the start of Trump's term was only worth $93.83. After four years of Biden, $100, was worth $83.39 (alternatively, that $93.83 left after Trump left office was now down to $78.24.

No way is that true. Everything I buy at the grocery store is 50-100% more expensive than pre-Biden prices.

 

[Barleys]

It's a classic prisoners dilemma, if all the nations of the world agree to not negotiate then they'll be in a stronger position later, but by breaking rank they avoid a lot of immediate pain and do not risk being left in the dust if other nations negotiate

This is not the prisoner's dilemma even slightly and that's where nations who are fighting against it are wrong. China is the second largest consumer market spender in the world at 7 billion dollars spent per year, the U.S is 21 billion, the U.S is 3 times more profitable for consumerism than the second largest. You can't really prisoner dilemma when your industries which actively lobby for you get like 4/5 of all of their profits from the USA.

 

[LifeAlert]

Everyone knows that elections have consequences. Yet somehow the consequences manage to take those who voted for them by surprise:

Throw money at homelessness, get more homelessness. California has proven this law to be reliable, even if where the money actually goes remains a mystery:

Equitable utopia is never more than a few tax increases away, according to the neoliberal faith.

You seem to be getting pretty worked up over what other people think. Take a chill pill and worry about your own shithole community. btw I see you finally learned to archive your shit! I guess that one brain cell really works.

Staying on topic, it would appear that men are still being allowed to compete in women's sports - think it's time for another executive order

 

[George Lucas]

I'm fine with Japan having our tech. They're bros, and honestly they need our help. They're also currently being targeted by the WEF for UK style cultural corruption and ethnic cleansing -- you aren't allowed to be an ethnostate in a world where the official interstate religion states that ethnic heterogeneity is a virtue all must ascribe to -- but right now, Japan stands.

Vietnam, well, they're at least better than China, and I haven't heard any bad shit about them other than boomers are assmad they were forced to stop playing Total War in the jungle years ago.

China can get fucked tho. How long till we bomb the 3 gorges again?

After the Cold War, Vietnam basically said 'fuck you' to Russia and China and are effectively part of the Allies. While they are still a Communist country by law, they are moreso a 'Ho Chi Minh' country which is about maintaining a fiercely independent Vietnam and they have a free market economy. Historians and economists will tell you they have a 'mixed' economy, but this is really just cope. They are a capitalist society with an one-party government.

 

[Balanced Boomer]

I bet the billionaires are really scared of having to pay 20 dollars more for gas. How will they ever survive ?

Also these people you hate, All Trump has done is give them tax cuts. He is planning to cut income tax which is mostly paid by the wealthy one of the few things tilted in favor of a working class person.

Oh no, not the heckin' income taxarino!!!! You mean EVERYBODY gets to keep all the money they earned? Oooooooooooh nooooooooooo.

 

[One Angry Computer]

Trolls are a renewable resource. All the current trolls could kill themselves () and you'd still have enough new trolls to keep you hard ().

If we could harness the energy given by internet trolls, humanity would be colonizing other stars by now.

 

[Jace on ice]

Everyone is so unbelievably asshurt and meanwhile I'm sitting here sipping a Monster and smiling. I fucking hate the neoliberal globalist order and dismantling it is exactly what I voted for.

 

[Balanced Boomer]

The third position is the way forward. I praise Xi Jing Ping's management of China. Many people do not know this but Xi was heavily influenced by Carl Schmitt. Fun fact Carl Schmitt's Wikipedia page has a whole section on this.

National socialist were right on a lot of things.

"Why you Americans no drink piss? Yum yum it so tasty! Piss and bat so good for world economy! Silly Americans, you be so much happier if you drink piss! Piss give children healthy backbone and natural lubricant for when shoved into industrial machinery for cleaning! Praise Xi for his universal One Piss Policy! Drink the piss, imperialist swine!"

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