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/

 

[mold]

Historically this isn't true. Americans didn't start thinking about extreme individualism (not believing they belong to a group at all) until after WWII. In the countryside, most people were still mostly anglos until fairly recently. Their identities were focused on protestant Christianity. Episcopal vs Lutheran vs Baptist vs Methodist vs Evangelical all vs Catholics. If you were from the South you had your racial identity vs Blacks as well. For most of American history most of America thought of themselves as "Americans" meaning White Protestant.

bullshit

this is the worst kind of revisionism and you have no relationships with the older members of your family and never read any books if you believe this

all of those identities were happily discarded for chasing the almighty dollar. people swapped churches to make money. they passed for white to make money. they left their marriages and went west to make money.

that's who we are as a people and it's why our leader anointed by God is Donald Trump

 

[Fuck Bankers]

bullshit

this is the worst kind of revisionism and you have no relationships with the older members of your family and never read any books if you believe this

all of those identities were happily discarded for chasing the almighty dollar. people swapped churches to make money. they passed for white to make money. they left their marriages and went west to make money.

that's who we are as a people and it's why our leader anointed by God is Donald Trump

Read this post. Just because our coastal elite suck doesn't mean everyone agrees with them.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

that's who we are as a people and it's why our leader anointed by God is Donald Trump

"Buy low, sell high." - things Jesus definitely said

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

They're the most profitable drug in history and they keep lowering the threshold to prescribe them, that should be your first red flag.

The guidelines have gone from under 300 total cholesterol to under 200 to pushing even lower including pushing for under 70 ldl being ideal. they have no idea what they're doing except looking to the dollar signs.

I was prescribed statins when I was about 28. I'm not overweight and my diet isn't liquid cholesterol, but the doctor told me that about 75% of all cholesterol production is unrelated to dietary cholesterol. AKA some people just have naturally higher cholesterol and changing their diet will not affect it much unless they are borderline.

Interesting, especially when you see deathfats with high cholesterol from terrible dietary choices. Naturally high cholesterol is probably no worse for you than naturally high white blood cell count, until it starts compounding with other things like high blood pressure, lack of exercise, poor diet, and smoking.

I've also seen side effects of rhabdomyolysis with high statin doses, which could easily make deep muscle pain that requires painkillers to treat. It's all a racket, and I am no longer on statins.

 

[John Badman]

* Asks for billionaires
* Shows example
“Well not THOSE billionaires, they’re my friends!”

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Idk man, most people used to be freehold farmers that banded together in outrage over a small amount of taxation

one example of this from my home state of Kentucky was the "black patch" tobacco wars. A large tobacco conglomerate (now called british-american tobacco) cornered the tobacco market and drove down prices which was threatening to put the small Kentucky/Tennessee tobacco farms out of business.

Publicly these farmers formed Planters Protection Association to pool together their crops of Dark fired tobacco (of which KY/TN had and still has the premier crop) to withhold them from the market to negotiate for better prices.

the PPA was not as successful as the farmers wanted so they formed a outlaw posse called the Night riders or The silent brigade. They went around KY and TN burning company crops, destroying warehouses and farm equipment of those farmers who refused to join the PPA. They would also publicly humiliate company officials and farmers by whipping them.

eventually it went to SCOTUS and American Tobacco company (now BAT) was declared a monopoly and forced to separate.

 

[mold]

PTSD has a series of criteria for diagnosis that people don't always fit and a treatment plan that might not work for individual cases. Decent psychiatrists take a "less is more" approach because they don't want to misdiagnose someone who then receives incorrect treatment. It could be that a depression or generalized anxiety diagnosis is more accurate for a given case, but I do not know the ins and outs of the person you're talking about. I'm just giving my armchair opinion.

Also, the abundance of munchies makes it clear why certain people care about special diagnoses.

well I'm not giving an armchair opinion, I'm not talking about an individual and I have no idea why people have such strong opinions they need to express based on ????

there are basically no "decent psychiatrists" and people barely even see actual psychiatrists anymore, they see psychiatric NPs, who have very little experience and usually just didn't want to do regular nursing anymore.

the reason I'm jumping down your throat is your weird need to comment about people needing "special diagnoses." we have a massive institutional crisis in mental health care and overuse of dangerous psychoactive substances. people should never default to blame powerless individuals interacting with this system.

 

[Christmas Cretin]

* Asks for billionaires
* Shows example
“Well not THOSE billionaires, they’re my friends!”

Nobody has even replied to your last post. Who are you talking to?

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

* Asks for billionaires
* Shows example
“Well not THOSE billionaires, they’re my friends!”

There isn't a smoke-filled room somewhere with a dozen billionaires sitting around a table directing national affairs. It's more like a million older paper-millionaires who truly believe they are "wealthy" because number has been artificially inflated for half their lives and don't understand the consequences of what they've done. Their brains won't allow them to understand it, they earned those paper gains and the illusion of fake wealth you see.

 

[Exterminatus]

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1910643168883720489

DEI?
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Under military code of conduct she fucked up, this was some of the email she sent out after Vance visited the Space Force base in Greenland.

"I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base”

"I commit that, for as long as I am lucky enough to lead this base, all of our flags will fly proudly -- together”

Sounds like she violated Article 88 of the UCMJ:

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I was prescribed statins when I was about 28. I'm not overweight and my diet isn't liquid cholesterol, but the doctor told me that about 75% of all cholesterol production is unrelated to dietary cholesterol. AKA some people just have naturally higher cholesterol and changing their diet will not affect it much unless they are borderline.

This was my conversation with my doctor: some people just have crazy high cholesterol and a low-dose statin works. Most doctors will give you the lowest effective dose, see what happens, and leave you there so long as you are stable and get the desired results.

well I'm not giving an armchair opinion, I'm not talking about an individual and I have no idea why people have such strong opinions they need to express based on ????

there are basically no "decent psychiatrists" and people barely even see actual psychiatrists anymore, they see psychiatric NPs, who have very little experience and usually just didn't want to do regular nursing anymore.

the reason I'm jumping down your throat is your weird need to comment about people needing "special diagnoses." we have a massive institutional crisis in mental health care and overuse of dangerous psychoactive substances. people should never default to blame powerless individuals interacting with this system.

I don't have a strong opinion, just an opinion. You're the one getting mad about it and, as you say, jumping down my throat. Considering the number of munchies out there, discussed on this site, I don't know why you're surprised by that comment. I understand your point about issues with psychiatrists, mental health, insurance, and so on. I don't discount that, but - respectfully - I think you're taking what I said a little too personally.

If what I said upset you in any way, I'm sorry. Not "tee hee, I'm sowwy UwU (hahaha fucking retard)." I apologize. That was not my intention at all.

 

[mold]

I think there’s some malice as well. As a kid, my mother had me “diagnosed” with autism so she could get more free money from the state. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that I was able to get retested and it was determined that I wasn’t autistic. I would bet that if they didn’t cash awards for people with autistic children, the diagnoses would go down

yes, and this is why there is the superficial paradox of why food stamps should not be reduced (ok you can take away soda)

if aid isn't as general as possible and the means testing isn't as basic bitch as possible, you incentivize things like crazy check seeking

we're not getting the randian paradise of no gibs. we have to have smart gibs and that means reducing perverse incentives.

 

[John Badman]

Nobody has even replied to your last post. Who are you talking to?

I’m speaking to you.

 

[mold]

respectfully - I think you're taking what I said a little too personally.

I blame the jewsperging, it makes me rage out about what's actually wrong

 

[mold]

"Buy low, sell high." - things Jesus definitely said

yes, Matthew 25:14-30

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I blame the jewsperging, it makes me rage out about what's actually wrong

I added it after just to be perfectly clear, but I am genuinely sorry if what I said upset you. I meant nothing by it.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

OMFG BUY EVERYTHING.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

yes, Matthew 25:14-30

I hope this is a joke.
Fink says we are in a recession.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Rates need to be increased not lowered. Printing endless cheap or even free money for two decades is why we're in this mess.

It can be increased AFTER the government refinances it's own loans.

I am increasingly suspecting that if the bankers and financiers that were profiting from the hollowing out of the US can't have their slow, managed decline, they will deliberately take measures to crash the economy with no survivors to punish the plebs for getting uppity.

Yes. They would rather burn it down than let anyone else have it. They ABSOLUTELY will intentionally tank the economy if Trump continues to take things away from them, especially since they could do so and it would reset the 2008 crash (which they're at fault for but have delayed for nearly 20 years by money printing) and it would be immediately pinned on Trump.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

I sure hope RFK bans red 40, I took some generic tylenol at lunch and it had a bright red 40 coating. Now I'm all drunk feeling this shit is the worst lol