US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
General Trump Banner.png​

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/
 
Last edited by a moderator:
  • Winner
  • Like
  • Semper Fidelis
Reactions: Hassou Tobi, Based Downie, Argh My Cigar and 144 others
Click to expand...
SpergioLeonne said:
Tariffs are the biggest topic in American politics right now, and there would be no future for a tariff thread once people have this out of their system.
Click to expand...
It's a reframing move, they've had to admit everybody does the bad tariff thing to us, and now they're on to claiming the calculations don't make sense. Now that everybody is clear "free trade" means "drain the US" it will be used as political pressure to get protectionist Legislation passed short of the EO.

This is an attack on both offshoring, and a strike to the Democrats, in their core rustbelt base. If Trump gets trade reform, expect major union campaign, and center-left Democrat support for Republicans in the mid-terms. They've been bitching about trade since the Japs in the '80's.
 
  • Like
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Agree
Reactions: CEO of Gay, AmateurComedicTaxidermist, spiritofamermaid and 10 others
Not Really Here said:
This is an attack on both offshoring, and a strike to the Democrats, in their core rustbelt base. If Trump gets trade reform, expect major union campaign, and center-left Democrat support for Republicans in the mid-terms. They've been bitching about trade since the Japs in the '80's.
Click to expand...
yeah tbh I'm having a tough time seeing as anything other than a (reasonable) gamble
if this shit can work it's literally the death of the democrats after the USAID and all, if it fails the economy was going to collapse anyway so whateer I do what I want
 
  • Like
  • Feels
  • Agree
Reactions: spiritofamermaid, Not Really Here, TrinityReformed and 4 others
Not Really Here said:
It's a reframing move, they've had to admit everybody does the bad tariff thing to us, and now they're on to claiming the calculations don't make sense. Now that everybody is clear "free trade" means "drain the US" it will be used as political pressure to get protectionist Legislation passed short of the EO.

This is an attack on both offshoring, and a strike to the Democrats, in their core rustbelt base. If Trump gets trade reform, expect major union campaign, and center-left Democrat support for Republicans in the mid-terms. They've been bitching about trade since the Japs in the '80's.
Click to expand...
It’s also insane pressure on China, because we’re in a position to squeeze 100% of their trade surplus. The lady in the stream I linked a few posts up is going through how while we directly import like $400 billion from China a year, that figure doesn’t count pass throughs and general pressure. For instance, China has a $200 billion surplus with Europe, and Europe has a $200 billion surplus with us. The other Asian countries have a $200 billion deficit with China, and an offsetting surplus with us.

By charging tariffs to EVERYONE, we’re reducing their ability to export to us and import from China. Clogging up the works. We’re shutting down China’s exports.

We’re winning world war 3 with no shots fired
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: CEO of Gay, BarberFerdinand, AmateurComedicTaxidermist and 18 others
SpergioLeonne said:
It’s also insane pressure on China, because we’re in a position to squeeze 100% of their trade surplus. The lady in the stream I linked a few posts up is going through how while we directly import like $400 billion from China a year, that figure doesn’t count pass throughs and general pressure. For instance, China has a $200 billion surplus with Europe, and Europe has a $200 billion surplus with us. The other Asian countries have a $200 billion deficit with China, and an offsetting surplus with us.

By charging tariffs to EVERYONE, we’re reducing their ability to export to us and import from China. Clogging up the works. We’re shutting down China’s exports.
Click to expand...
and he didn't even need to bullshit up a coof to grind the world into the dirt!
 
  • Like
Reactions: spiritofamermaid, DOUBLE_WHEEL, Pocket_Sand! and 2 others
SpergioLeonne said:
It’s also insane pressure on China, because we’re in a position to squeeze 100% of their trade surplus. The lady in the stream I linked a few posts up is going through how while we directly import like $400 billion from China a year, that figure doesn’t count pass throughs and general pressure. For instance, China has a $200 billion surplus with Europe, and Europe has a $200 billion surplus with us. The other Asian countries have a $200 billion deficit with China, and an offsetting surplus with us.

By charging tariffs to EVERYONE, we’re reducing their ability to export to us and import from China. Clogging up the works. We’re shutting down China’s exports.

We’re winning world war 3 with no shots fired
Click to expand...
If this leads to the CCP losing the mandate of Heaven and cause China to go into years of in fighting. If the CCP goes then North Korea isn't really needed any more.
 
  • Like
  • Optimistic
Reactions: spiritofamermaid, YarrBlueballs, TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve and 3 others
George Lucas said:
That’s not the point I’m making. Union guys don’t care how the pension is funded. It’s guaranteed. Whether the companies are worried about supporting the pension is really not on their minds at all. Some plans have a market-based component, but it’s thought of as more of a supplement.
Click to expand...
This may be a clock post but you need to research the pension benefit guarantee corporation. 100% of a pension is absolutely not guaranteed.
 
  • Agree
  • Like
Reactions: spiritofamermaid and George Lucas
clipartfan92 said:
This 15-Year-Old Just Scorched Team Trump in a Frankly Amazing Interview
Click to expand...
do I spy a lil pooner dude?
clipartfan92 said:
Is there anything that this government is doing that particularly gets under your skin?

I think firing all of the government workers because the government can’t do its job. And I bet some of those government workers aren’t coming back, so it’d be it’d be really hard to rebuild the government.
Click to expand...
That's the point
 
  • Like
Reactions: GhastlyGhost, spiritofamermaid, IwillNEVERERposthere and 13 others
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
If this leads to the CCP losing the mandate of Heaven and cause China to go into years of in fighting. If the CCP goes then North Korea isn't really needed any more.
Click to expand...
Have we even heard a peep from North Korea this trump term? They’ve completely faded into the background.

Also they got pretty paranoid about Covid and closed their border with China, like actually built out fencing and actively guard it. North Koreans are not having a good time escaping lately.

I think that relationship has been better. Also North Korea is off par from China in that they straight up sent troops to Russia to fight in Ukraine, while all China has done has been to turn a blind eye to people going for mercenary contracts.

When is the last time the Norks even launched a missile over Japan? They’ve been leaving all the threatening to China, who have been sailing around threatening everyone with unannounced live fire naval drills.

The quietness lends towards me feeling like the main confrontation is happening now
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: spiritofamermaid, IAmNotAlpharius, DOUBLE_WHEEL and 4 others
SpergioLeonne said:
When is the last time the Norks even launched a missile over Japan? They’ve been leaving all the threatening to China, who have been sailing around threatening everyone with unannounced live fire naval drills.

The quietness lends towards me feeling like the main confrontation is happening now
Click to expand...
Didn't that fat leader kid end up being replaced by his sister a couple years ago? I think the started getting quiet around then.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: spiritofamermaid, DOUBLE_WHEEL, Sneedifarms and 1 other person
George Lucas said:
Eh this is really only Germans and that’s because of WWII. If you go to Europe you’ll see flags everywhere. They just hate American patriotism because the media feeds them bullshit about us being uncultured rednecks who shoot people.
Click to expand...
Those European fags sucked off Israel as hard as Boden did.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back