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

  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
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:
Gamer's Nexus will talk about tariffs - they're doing a whole documentary on it for some fucking reason. Steve & co have embarked on a road trip around California to listen to all the techbros complain about muh supply chains.
Take a shot every time Steve says "non-political"
Honestly shameful that they only look at the immediate term of the effects of tariffs. The comment section is of course, cancer
 
CTRL-F "Gretchen Whitmer"

Not Found

😂

I wouldn't trust any poll that I didn't rig myself. If Whitmer is not there at all it's probably because they want to keep her out of the discussion for now so that when she enters into it she appears to have a meteoric rise. The average Democrat voter is more easily lead along than a sheep and the the media machine can create the appearance of momentum that the anointed candidate can ride the wave of to a party nomination.
 
I wouldn't trust any poll that I didn't rig myself. If Whitmer is not there at all it's probably because they want to keep her out of the discussion for now so that when she enters into it she appears to have a meteoric rise. The average Democrat voter is more easily lead along than a sheep and the the media machine can create the appearance of momentum that the anointed candidate can ride the wave of to a party nomination.
Wasn't she just at a Trump oval office event? Short of her being there to Operation Valkyrie him, i am pretty sure she is gonna be persona non grata.
 
Wasn't she just at a Trump oval office event? Short of her being there to Operation Valkyrie him, i am pretty sure she is gonna be persona non grata.
That was a whole hilarious stunt. She asked to talk to trump about the tariff situation, because imagine how the messaging about bringing manufacturing back must rustle up Michigan voters..

So Trump invited her to come to the White House, while he happened to have press there, and he signed an executive order about election integrity in front of her
 
I don’t want to help NEETbeards by lessening their anxiety, however

View attachment 7227893
If anything goes wrong, we should rename the resident evil franchise to “black myth wuhan”
Not surprised at all that Japan is one of the most willing to work out a deal.
They've been in love with us ever since we nuked them, just like all tsunderes.
 
The problem is that they can run centrist and then go nuts, literally like what happened to Biden. Also the moderate block of the Democrats are niggers so you can very easily be as crazy as you want as long as it's about issues niggers care about
yes, running an open Progressive would be Political Suicide which is why the Democrats strategy in 2028 will likely be a white person thats ostensibly Centrist for President while the Progressive retards in Congress actually drive policy which is pretty much what happened with Biden, what Republicans have to do to keep the White House is to find another populist like Trump because running another Corporatist hack like Bush 43 would end in complete and utter disaster and the country would be handed over to Progressive faggots on a silver platter
 
Wasn't she just at a Trump oval office event? Short of her being there to Operation Valkyrie him, i am pretty sure she is gonna be persona non grata.
Trump bambozled her into a press conference where he nuked her '28 chances by saying she's doing an excellent job.
Gretchen did the only honest and mature thing and tried to hide her face like a sperg
0_Photo-of-Governor-Whitmer-hiding-in-shame-in-the-oval-office-goes-viral.webp
Honestly shameful that they only look at the immediate term of the effects of tariffs. The comment section is of course, cancer
Either willingly or unwillingly Gamers Nexus are being used by techbros to apply political pressure.
Steven is thrilled and amazed so many of them have been willing to go on camera - I don't believe he's that stupid he can't see what's going on.
 
Not surprised at all that Japan is one of the most willing to work out a deal.
They've been in love with us ever since we nuked them, just like all tsunderes.
Haha, yeah, it’s definitely counter intuitive at the surface level, but they’re maybe the world’s foremost society where honor is important, so some calculation is like “well America won, it would be undignified to whine about it, and the treaty of San Francisco showed grace in victory, so we good.”

It was all the way back in 1960 that we said “ok we’re not going to insist on a troop presence,” and our military has been there by invitation since
 
Haha, yeah, it’s definitely counter intuitive at the surface level, but they’re maybe the world’s foremost society where honor is important, so some calculation is like “well America won, it would be undignified to whine about it, and the treaty of San Francisco showed grace in victory, so we good.”

It was all the way back in 1960 that we said “ok we’re not going to insist on a troop presence,” and our military has been there by invitation since
Allowing them to keep the Emperor and a shared anti-communist sentiment also helped them warm up to us, Japan basically has the role of Britain but in Asia (though it’s not the best example recently as Britain is a totalitarian dictatorship under the guise of a Parliamentary democracy for the past 10 or so years)
 
China's really trying to get the upper hand on an icy slope. Good luck with that.

Bernie's been replaced by AOC as the bait the Democratic party dangles in front of stupid activists for their votes money.
FIFY
As he should. As much as I appreciate Vance's way with words and attempt to explain/provide context to the deportation topic, it's not that complicated. If you're in the US illegally, you've broken the law. If you've accidentally broken the law, get on a path to citizenship. If not, you get deported. This should be 100% done if you're a member of a terrorist gang who's been found guilty of committing crimes in addition to being here illegally. This guy has had three due processes already. Enough is enough.
 
To me, that's the problem. During the transition from Obama to Trump, politics went from being something only the grown-ups followed, to becoming a part of pop-culture. The 2016 election season spawned so many memes, and generated so much discussion online, that the Internet never really went back. And everyone in the country put the battle for political ideals at the center of their thinking, and at the center of their creative works, both corporate and independent.

There are just some people who are not cut out for politics, and really never should've gotten into them to begin with.
I'd argue it started earlier. You watch movies from the 2000s, and there's constant Bush and War on Terror references. Not as much as 2016, that buck broke Hollywood, but the rot was already setting in
China Uncensored did a video on what an invasion of Taiwan would look like

Based on this article:



The first one is a blockade of the Island. But then China would be sitting ducks for the rest of the world once the calvary comes running in.
The second, china strikes taiwan with missiles and storms the island. And the rest of the world is playing catch up.
The last one is the second option, on steroids. They still storm the island, but also attack Taiwan's allies at the same time. Both physical and cyber attacks. Basically, distract the US, et. al, from coming to Taiwan's aid by causing issues elsewhere.

The last one sounds like pure fiction tbh. It reads like something from a Jack Chick tract. They might do some physically or cyber attacks. But not both at once. The article mentions the possibility of China activating cells it has of nations within the US and elsewhere.

But then again, if they do go with the last option, it could leak out. Ala the Zimmerman telegraph. And then the US would have a reason to rally the rest of the world to sanction China and impose large tariffs on them.


Possibly russia as well. Russia owes china a solid.
China would hit Taiwan with everything. EVERYTHING. Why do you think they have been building so many amphibious assault ships and landing craft. They would launch a non stop air and sea campaign while deploying as many land troops as possible. Now Taiwan's defenses are beefy. China would lose a lot, and that's assuming nobody intervenes in the meantime. It would be Normandy on crack.
 
China's really trying to get the upper hand on an icy slope. Good luck with that.
I’m sure that China was the back room pressure, I mean it’s almost too painfully obvious so it feels dumb to say, behind trump talking about annexing Canada and Greenland. They stated outright that it was to do with fentanyl and pass throughs, in the case of Canada, mineral resources regarding Greenland, and arctic sea routes in both cases.

But then the thing is, we MUST have communicated these and other unknown concerns to the EU through diplomatic channels, and they still publicly reacted in wildly bellicose tones. Norway refused to refuel our naval vessels, France moved some ships off Newfoundland to be like “we r gunna protec heccin Canada,” etc

So I think the timing of the trade war was for trump to call bluffs on all of that shit and force a public vote, in essence, between us and China

If China is bitching now that they want to trade but we have to be nice, that means shit didn’t work out for them the way they hoped it would, or we moved their timeline too soon for them to be comfortable with the full confrontation.

And it’s not OVER yet, obviously. China won’t take anything they can’t spin as a win

@WelperHelper99 i think there’s something to read into. China’s largest drills were like 70-80 aircraft and idk, correct me if I’m wrong but no more than 30 ships?

They still have zero practical experience in truly large scale logistics
 
I’m sure that China was the back room pressure, I mean it’s almost too painfully obvious so it feels dumb to say, behind trump talking about annexing Canada and Greenland. They stated outright that it was to do with fentanyl and pass throughs, in the case of Canada, mineral resources regarding Greenland, and arctic sea routes in both cases.

But then the thing is, we MUST have communicated these and other unknown concerns to the EU through diplomatic channels, and they still publicly reacted in wildly bellicose tones. Norway refused to refuel our naval vessels, France moved some ships off Newfoundland to be like “we r gunna protec heccin Canada,” etc

So I think the timing of the trade war was for trump to call bluffs on all of that shit and force a public vote, in essence, between us and China

If China is bitching now that they want to trade but we have to be nice, that means shit didn’t work out for them the way they hoped it would, or we moved their timeline too soon for them to be comfortable with the full confrontation.

And it’s not OVER yet, obviously. China won’t take anything they can’t spin as a win

@WelperHelper99 i think there’s something to read into. China’s largest drills were like 70-80 aircraft and idk, correct me if I’m wrong but no more than 30 ships?

They still have zero practical experience in truly large scale logistics
China won't accept anything that won't allow them to save face. But there are many ways to save face. They are taking a pounding right now. This cannot continue.

As for your second point, it's gotten larger if I recall in terms of their formations. But the fact remains that their last real war was against Vietnam. And they lost. I think they could win in a extended war against Taiwan, but holy fuck they would take enormous losses. The Taiwan strait would be a graveyard of warships with how many anti ship missiles Taiwan has stockpiled.
 
Back