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/

 

[Hojicha]

In a recession there will be no jobs. American jobs are already being lost due to the tariffs.

you can always move

 

[John Badman]

you can always move

That was already my plan, to flee the Great Goy war draft.

 

[Balanced Boomer]

That was already my plan, to flee the Great Goy war draft.

I don't think it'll really come to that. It's gonna be okay, man. Stay safe out there.

 

[clipartfan92]

Hundreds of protesters turn out in European cities against Trump
Reuters (archive.ph)
By Emma-Victoria Farr
2025-04-05 19:56:57GMT

Spoiler

FRANKFURT/BERLIN, April 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested in European cities on Saturday against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk, following a bruising week for financial markets after Trump unveiled sweeping global tariffs.

In the German city of Frankfurt, the "Hands Off!" demonstration was organised by Democrats Abroad, the official organisation of the Democratic Party for U.S. citizens living overseas.

In Berlin, protesting in front of a Tesla showroom, demonstrators held placards calling on fellow Americans living in Germany to protest for "an end to the chaos" at home.

Gathering at Frankfurt's Opernplatz, members of the overseas Democrats group demanded the resignation of the U.S. president, with placard slogans reading "Restore Democracy", "Hands off our personal data" and "The world is tired of your bullshit Donald, be gone!"

In Berlin, slogans directed at Musk read "Shut up Elon, no one voted for you," and a dog wore a sign that said "Dogs against DOGE," referring to the Department of Government Efficiency run by senior adviser Musk, an initiative of the second Trump administration to reduce federal spending waste, fraud and abuse.

In the French capital of Paris, about 200 people, mostly American, gathered on the Place de la République to protest against Trump. Some gave speeches to denounce the president, with protesters waving banners ranging from "Resist Tyrant", "Rule of Law" "Feminists for Freedom not fascism" and "Save Democracy". One sang and played the Bob Dylan song Masters of War.

Protests against Trump and Musk were also held in other European cities, including London and Lisbon.

In the British capital, a few hundred people gathered in Trafalgar Square, holding signs saying "Proud American Ashamed" and "WTAF America?" The crowd chanted "Hands off Canada", "Hands off Greenland" and "Hands off Ukraine" while listening to speeches criticising Trump.

Reporting by Emma-Victoria Farr, Christian Mang and Frank Simon; Additional reporting by John Irish in Paris and Sarah Young in London; Editing by Toby Chopra



People hold placards on the day of a 'Hands Off!' demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk as part of an anti-Trump and anti-Tesla worldwide movement, at Place de la Republique in Paris, France, April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

A demonstrator holds a placard as members and supporters of "Democrats Abroad" call on fellow Americans living in Germany to protest for "an end of the chaos" at home and against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk in Berlin, Germany, April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Christian Mang

A dog attends a demonstration as members and supporters of "Democrats Abroad" call on fellow Americans living in Germany to protest for "an end of the chaos" at home and against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk in Berlin, Germany, April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Christian Mang

People attend a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk, at the Terreiro do Paco in Lisbon, Portugal, April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

A person holds a placard as people attend 'Hands Off!' demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk as part of an anti-Trump and anti-Tesla worldwide movement, at Place de la Republique in Paris, France, April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

Demonstrators protest against Tesla CEO Elon Musk outside the new Tesla dealership in London, Britain, April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

It's been mentioned a couple of times, but it's hilarious that all the signs are in English.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Can someone tell me why Russia and China are winning in the trade war yet America seems to be collapsing? 7D chess I’m assuming?

You’re retarded. Getting rid of the small purchase exemption alone fucked wish, temu etc into the dirt. China is literally at risk of collapse

See, this is the thing. Domestic production is preferable to import/export as a default because of value multipliers, like wages being spent in the area where a factory exists. A factory can support an entire town by employing a thousand people, because that gives a customer base to the towns’ retail and a tax base to the town’s government.

You want to import things when they’re exceedingly difficult to produce or procure, not just because “hey wouldn’t it be funny to redirect revenue flows to ports and overseas” because the revenue flows are really fucking important and we don’t have an index that produces a figure to represent them, so all you hear is like “unemployment”.

Also this perspective: the US has the largest demand of any market on earth, and running $1 trillion trade deficits annually bottom line means we consume $1 trillion a year more than we produce. You manufacture when you have demand, because demand is what enables manufacturing. The whole utility of export is to search for demand.

 

[John Badman]

I didn't think it'll really come to that. It's gonna be okay, man. Stay safe out there.

Israel is in trouble. It will always come to that.

 

[Hojicha]

That was already my plan, to flee the Great Goy war draft.

where will you go John Badman? Where will you go now that the US is raping all the other countries with high tariffs, where will you go that has freedom of speech to vocalize your distrust of the tranneis, of the Muslim caliphate, where you can access nutritious food and decent healthcare at a whim, where you can own a firearm

OH JOHNBADMAN, where will you gooooo

 

[Irene and 22 others]

All these retards out here crying about how every company is supposedly tanking because of these tariffs, as if that itself isn't a sign that we have become too dependent on other countries and need to get back some self suffiency.

The same faggots crying about a 5% dip in the stock market at the same ones who have been cheering over and hoping for Tesla to drop by an even larger amount. Never mind that almost all of the stocks will recover over the next several months to years. The only people losing anything are the idiots that just bought in and are panic selling. If you bought Nvidia a few years ago you're still up massively. If you sold now you might not make as much money as you could have last week, but you've still made a shit ton of money.

 

[John Badman]

where will you go John Badman? Where will you go now that the US is raping all the other countries with high tariffs, where will you go that has freedom of speech to vocalize your distrust of the tranneis, of the Muslim caliphate, where you can access nutritious food and decent healthcare at a whim, where you can own a firearm

OH JOHNBADMAN, where will you gooooo

China seems to be doing well. Much better than the US currently.

 

[gaysexenjoyer]

God I fucking hate Bioshock Infinite.

 

[LiquidKid]

China seems to be doing well. Much better than the US currently.

In what metric? These tariffs will destroy China harder than any other country.
Literally there’s an almost no lose scenario here for America and a guaranteed lose scenario for any country that doesn’t cave.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

That's nice. Now the judge can enforce it.

Oh wait, he can't? Huh, weird. Guess he can cry impotently then.

Man, who knew dealing with a corrupt judiciary was so simple? And weirdly similar to dealing with deranged Bluesky leftists.

These Dem judges seem to be hell bent on creating the very Constitutional Crisis they've been bleating about for the last 2 months.

Ok big judge boy Trump ignores your ruling...what are you going to do? Fine him? Charge him with contempt? Send the bailiffs after him?

I just want the SCOTUS to put an end to this one way or the other. Either the POTUS is the POTUS or any scuzzy judge can do whatever they want because it's actually the judiciary that runs the country.

After SCOTUS has it's say then we can decide where the US goes from there.

 

[John Badman]

In what metric? These tariffs will destroy China harder than any other country.
Literally there’s an almost no lose scenario here for America and a guaranteed lose scenario for any country that doesn’t cave.

By the metric that they use Russia as an export loophole to continue doing the same as they’ve done with Mexico. The same loophole your president purposefully gave to them.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

OH GOOOOD

 

[Not Really Here]

By the metric that they use Russia as an export loophole to continue doing the same as they’ve done with Mexico. The same loophole your president purposefully gave to them.

Nigger that's not a loophole, that not declaring total embargo. Russia doesn't have the economic ability to replace, or evade US tariffs, to any real extent.

 

[Fuck Fags I'm A Homophobe]

man these protests were gay as fuck, no fights, no riots, nothing? where's that 2020 energy at?

 

[Mister Fister]

They could get quite a few fag officers to join them, maybe even some who aren't completely incompetent, like Mark Milley.

But where are they going to get trigger-pullers? The foaming-at-the-mouth lefties in the Army, the kind who'd be willing to kill somebody for trannies and niggers, are POGs. The ones you actually have to be scared of are the ones who are loyal to America.

Fixed. Anyway, has anyone stopped to think here that the ones with weapons overwhelmingly support Trump over the Washington Empire.

 

[MeltyTW]

In what metric? These tariffs will destroy China harder than any other country.
Literally there’s an almost no lose scenario here for America and a guaranteed lose scenario for any country that doesn’t cave.

Which is why all the countries are pissed despite it supposedly only hurting us and helping them, because you know they were so against that kind of arrangement before

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

By the metric that they use Russia as an export loophole to continue doing the same as they’ve done with Mexico. The same loophole your president purposefully gave to them.

We don't do trade with Russia. Biden's sanctioons over Ukraine pretty much killed it.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

By the metric that they use Russia as an export loophole to continue doing the same as they’ve done with Mexico. The same loophole your president purposefully gave to them.

They pissed Russia off because they already started releasing maps moving their borders into siberia. Russians have been mass returning appliances bought from China and expressing dissatisfaction with the arrangement.

China is expecting to see half, HALF of its factories close this year. Trump fucked them into the dirt

Oh, also there’s a bunch of chink social media bitching from mercenaries who fought in Kursk and Ukraine that Russians hate them, are racist, and send them to the front line to die on purpose