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

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:
Hire them to edit videogames. Problem solved.

Edit: why the horrifying rating? I thought having them edit out the gays in vidya would be a boon?
They're doing their editing to hit a target market. If their target market is the US they're just going to make things infinitely more pozzed. I could be mistaken and they're just doing what they do(did) for the love of the game, if that's the case then I'll embrace them with open arms (before whispering 'no homo' of course)
 
I think on some level the fact that they can't conceive that the economy simply isn't fucking working for other people, and that the stock market taking on a little bit of chaos -- the holy line, peace be upon it's name, that which must ALWAYS go up, did in fact go up yesterday, but only a little, and that's unforgivable -- might cause long term gains that other people could benefit from... new jobs, new factories... is worse.
It's way fucking worse, because the stock market isn't even GDP, and that is already a shit measurement of "how people are doing."

Both of them think that divorce rate plummeting to zero, every family suddenly having a stay-at-home parent, all mortgages being paid off and savings rate increasing to 10%, would be an absolute disaster, because the market would go down, and GDP would go down, housing supply would skyrocket, it'd be a financial shit-show.

But it would be fucking absolutely amazing for the country.

So fuck 'em. The measure is not the rule.
 
I once heard about one black nerd that was so nerdy that when he was ostracized by his community, he fucked off to a Greek island and proceeded to engage in eugenics to create a race of people known for liking mayo, wearing polo shirts, and being responsible for the vast majority of scientific innovations. He had a big brain and his name is just on the tip of my tounge...all I can recall is that it sounds kinda like Jacob.
He didn’t take disrespect lying down, he went on and made himself some waifus and got revenge by making white people. Praise our father Yakub.
now they're doing gay little AI videos and shitty cartoons about how it won't be $125/hr lazy factory work but instead minimum wage sewing socks and shirts.

They keep saying "THERE ARE MANUFACTURING JOBS RIGHT NOW!" and "WHO'S GOING OT DO IT? YOU? YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT????"

They can't comprehend: "Yes."

"THERE ARE MORE MANUFACTURING NOW THAN IN THE 80'S JUST AUTOMATED LOLOLOLOLOLOL!"

They really really don't get it.

But people are able to see exactly what these people think of people who just want an honest fucking job they can depend on working for instead of this bullshit now.

They literally can't comprehend a willingness to trade a day's labor for a day's pay.

View attachment 7193999
If I was Trump I’d offer student loan forgiveness for anyone willing to work in factories. 1 year of work = 10k forgiven. Oh? You have 250k in debt for your feminist basket weaving degree? That’ll be 25 years, Karen.
 
This is likely as close to a core definition as to what an American is we'll ever get. From the settlers seeking religious freedom to the pioneers going west, the spirit of getting down and dirty, putting in the effort to build something from scratch is the American way.
 
This is only tangentially related to what your saying, but I could not help but notice the "I usually wait for Catturd to weigh in, so I know all the facts."
What the fuck is the deal with that? I really don't get why the Boomer right likes that guy so much, he doesn't really seem to have particularly original takes and seems like a pretty run of the mill MAGA Twitter account. I just find it really odd that the boomers really glommed onto that guy, he really doesn't seem like anything special.
During covid19 TPTB Identified him as one the 6 key spreaders of missinformation. His takes likely saved millions of lives by convincing them to forgo the vaccine man dates.
 
The MAGA base did give Trump enough Senators and House Reps, but Trump allowed the non-Israel-First candidates to have their elections stolen
It’s not enough if the barest of efforts by the opposition if enough to get rid of it. It’s not enough if the inaction of Trump is enough to fuck it up. Which is what I was saying, MAGA keeps only putting their lot in with Trump. If he decides, for whatever reason, to do nothing or gets screwed with, the rest of your shit gets messed with.

MAGA is currently very weak.
 
now they're doing gay little AI videos and shitty cartoons about how it won't be $125/hr lazy factory work but instead minimum wage sewing socks and shirts.

They keep saying "THERE ARE MANUFACTURING JOBS RIGHT NOW!" and "WHO'S GOING OT DO IT? YOU? YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT????"

They can't comprehend: "Yes."

"THERE ARE MORE MANUFACTURING NOW THAN IN THE 80'S JUST AUTOMATED LOLOLOLOLOLOL!"

They really really don't get it.

But people are able to see exactly what these people think of people who just want an honest fucking job they can depend on working for instead of this bullshit now.

They literally can't comprehend a willingness to trade a day's labor for a day's pay.

View attachment 7193999
I work a production job and it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I'm making nearly three times minimum wage and I have a desirable working schedule. Manufacturing will never be entirely automated and will always need people to oversee the work the machines do. It's not the most luxurious work but it's certainly more solid than the retail and warehousing hellscapes people are landing in.
 
1744122460263.png


Citing “drastic” government funding cuts, U.S. Catholic bishops Monday said they’re ending a century-old program of resettling refugees fleeing war or persecution.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services, the largest refugee resettlement agency in the world, will also end its support of undocumented children who come into the United States.


The bishops’ program was one of 10 national resettlement groups — most of which are faith-based — whose contracts were suspended in January by the Trump administration. The government has been partnering with such groups to resettle vetted migrants for a half-century.
“This is a painful end to a life-sustaining partnership the Catholic Church in the U.S. has had with our government and that has spanned decades across administrations of both political parties. It offers every Catholic an opportunity to search our hearts for ways to help in the absence of government support,” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the president of the conference, said in a Washington Post op-ed Monday.



“The drastic reduction of these programs forced us to reconsider the best way to serve the needs of our brothers and sisters seeking safe harbor from violence and persecution,” he said

The USCCB, which represents the leadership of the Catholic Church in the United States, resettles tens of thousands of refugees a year on behalf of the government. “These are displaced souls who see in America a place of dreams and hope. Some assisted American efforts abroad at their own risk and more seek a place to worship and pray safely as they know God calls them,” the group said in a statement.
 
Ready to gtfo back to the burbs, put out my smoke, hear “Excooze meh saar” from behind. Wasn’t the expected Jeet student, it was a doppleganger of that black dude from Gladiator in full police uniform attempting to give me a ticket while speaking pigeon English.
what was the ticket for then?
 
It's way fucking worse, because the stock market isn't even GDP, and that is already a shit measurement of "how people are doing."

Both of them think that divorce rate plummeting to zero, every family suddenly having a stay-at-home parent, all mortgages being paid off and savings rate increasing to 10%, would be an absolute disaster, because the market would go down, and GDP would go down, housing supply would skyrocket, it'd be a financial shit-show.

But it would be fucking absolutely amazing for the country.

So fuck 'em. The measure is not the rule.
The "stock market" in itself is people just buying and selling ownership of companies, so what's good for the country absolutely will be good for the stock market in the long run. A country with solid manufacturing and a huge domestic market and a reasonably high-IQ population with a cultural work ethic does not even need to spend five seconds worrying about the stock market. But the problem of course is that there's so much leverage in the market and so many massive institutional investors because playing stonks was the only way to protect the value of your money for such a long time due to inflationary monetary policy. It became the economic metagame, and people overoptimized for it, and now the game is getting patched, and they're whining because they preferred CS 1.6 over Source, so to speak.
 
During covid19 TPTB Identified him as one the 6 key spreaders of missinformation. His takes likely saved millions of lives by convincing them to forgo the vaccine man dates.
Ah, that makes sense, he was catapulted into the zeitgeist by being labeled as an enemy of the narrative. He's definitely doing something right considering how much staying power he has among the Boomer right.
 
I work a production job and it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I'm making nearly three times minimum wage and I have a desirable working schedule. Manufacturing will never be entirely automated and will always need people to oversee the work the machines do. It's not the most luxurious work but it's certainly more solid than the retail and warehousing hellscapes people are landing in.
I work Manufacturing too. I don't think automation will ever take over. The automation machines we do have brake every other day. Then it's a pain in the ass to get anyone to fix it, think the ice cream machines at Mc Donald's.
 
Back