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/

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Truth. Speaking as someone whose whole family comes from Naples (probably the most nigger of all Italians aside from Sicilians) and the fact that Neapolitans have always been a dirt poor nigger culture, I've watched with disgust as family members eat pig knuckles, chicken gizzards, and literally suck marrow out of bones.

Bone marrow is great, it’s just you’re supposed to boil it out and make soup

Anyways I forgot to say earlier, happy Smigus Dyngus, everyone! I don’t know what that actually means but it sounds like the most unforgivable curse in the whole wizarding world

 

[Betonhaus]

I'm bored. These politics are getting repetitive.

Somebody needs to get shot again and make things interesting again.

It's possible something interesting will happen next week when we find out if Canada chooses a slow death or a painful death.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I'm bored. These politics are getting repetitive.

Somebody needs to get shot again and make things interesting again.

the comics haven't gotten far enough into the Trump vs The Fed battle yet, so they have to fill for a bit more before they start that fight arc

 

[Mr Macintosh]

Luffy at the Easter Egg Roll, putting the Easter bunny in his rightful advisor place as opposed to being a Visiting Angel (this time seems like just a female staffer, Maybe Margo Martin?). Karoline Leavitt looking good as a tradwife:

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massive cheating by a kid at 0:50 that Trump points out


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And for LOLs:

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That security detail is top notch.

 

[mandatorylurk]

More from the Egg Roll:

Trump and the Bunny show Joepedo ain't shit:

Trump doing some arts and crafts, I heard he drew a blue duck because he's never seen a blue duck and to be honest with you he wanted to see a blue duck:

Trump dance before leaving to make yuge deals:

 

[Suburban Bastard]

China is threatening consequences for anyone that makes a deal with the USA that is against Chinese interests?

So much for the friendly facade. There's the China I know: lacking in confidence and scared.

The need to threaten consequences highlights the situation better than anything. Most nations are likely planning on concessions or negotiating.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

The need to threaten consequences highlights the situation better than anything. Most nations are likely planning on concessions or negotiating.

Lol they must have coordinated with Jamie Raskin

 

[northstar747]

it's difficult for most to experience the authentic styles.

authentic? there used to be these weird dudes with mustaches and hair buns...they were experts about authentic.....I think covid killed them off though

 

[Overly Serious]

There are two methods to deal with this. You can go the Android way and if your CPU tries to draw more power than your battery can supply, your phone just reboots. The Apple way was to slow your CPU down so it CAN'T draw more power than the battery can supply, so your phone stays running and useable, but at a slower rate depending on how bad the battery is.

Three methods. The hidden one would be to give us back replaceable batteries but they don't want to do that because it would mean people didn't have to upgrade their otherwise perfectly serviceable phones.

Though they'll say it's because they need it to make their phones thinner. You know what? I'm a guy - I don't care if my phone is 15mm thick. In fact, I'd like that.

 

[Mr Processor]

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the American dream isn't 'let them eat flat-screens' or 'cheap baubles from China' — says Trump is focused on mortgages, cars, real wage gains​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/rea...S&cvid=57366d64ca9e41a5b1337333fe085f93&ei=31

“Not at all,” Bessent replied. “What I’m saying is the American dream is not ‘let them eat flat screens.’ If American families aren't able to afford a home, don't believe that their children will do better than they are [doing], the American dream is not contingent on cheap baubles from China, it is more than that. And we are focused on affordability, but it's mortgages, it's cars, it's real wage gains.”

Honestly, I think he's right, everyone should be buying Cathode Ray Tube TVs rather than "flat screens," as he so helpfully calls them. I'm sure that will cause the price of houses and cars to drop.

It might surprise you to find out that Bessent is a baby boomer. I was certainly surprised.

 

[The Ugly One]

And that’s a good thing.

Most “authentic” food sucks and is peasant slop. Only a handful of countries have ever developed a formal culinary culture.

There aren't any countries where the average person has been rich enough for long enough that the "formal culinary culture" is anything other than "what only rich people ate not that long ago." The whole point of French restaurant culture was to make the experience of aristocratic dining accessible to the middle class, and it then evolved into its own thing. It's still not reflective of what rural agricultural workers were eating in the 1920s.

It might surprise you to find out that Bessent is a baby boomer. I was certainly surprised.

Wait until you find out when Donald Trump was born.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the American dream isn't 'let them eat flat-screens' or 'cheap baubles from China' — says Trump is focused on mortgages, cars, real wage gains​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/rea...S&cvid=57366d64ca9e41a5b1337333fe085f93&ei=31


Honestly, I think he's right, everyone should be buying Cathode Ray Tube TVs rather than "flat screens," as he so helpfully calls them. I'm sure that will cause the price of houses and cars to drop.

It might surprise you to find out that Bessent is a baby boomer. I was certainly surprised.

People who aren't boomers don't need to be explained how shit sucks, boomers still think flat screen

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Yes, the "Chinese" food we get in the US is not real. I was fortunate to have a real experience at a Chinese restaurant where a Han co-woker ordered off the secret menu. Nothing too exotic as Chinese will eat everything that moves, but still interesting. I have also had former Indian co-workers explain the various styles of cuisine as I tried them out. Unfortunately, without people who know at restaurants run by the correct natives, it's difficult for most to experience the authentic styles.

Yeah, ages ago our local Chinese place got closed down because someone found the dog carcasses in the freezer. They swore (owner literally printed an article in the paper) that the dogs were just for the worker menu, never sold to customers or used in the buffet.

Which I believe, because I can't imagine dog is more economical than chicken. They probably imported it too, since every dog in our area is pumped to the gills with anti-parasite drugs due to all the mosquitos.

They also had some rabbit meat and some of those aggressive Asian bass the Chinese stocked all the ponds and ditches with before the EPA banned them for being an invasive species.

And that’s a good thing.

Most “authentic” food sucks and is peasant slop. Only a handful of countries have ever developed a formal culinary culture.

Yeah, worst part of being in Cancun wasn't random teens throwing eggs at us, it was trying to find decent food without just going to a McDonald's (which was even worse there than they are here). The hotel had free food every evening, all authentic Mexican dishes. It wasn't all terrible, but just peasant food, and some really tough beef cut I couldn't identify. Bland as all hell.

The menudo was probably okay, but I never liked the texture of hominy and tripe isn't my thing.

Only thing better than the American version is the tortillas themselves, and I suspect that's mostly from being freshly made more than anything. Maybe a better grind for the corn.

And for all the bitching American's get for not getting other cultures' foods correct, the Mexicans can't cook an edible hamburger or french fries to save their lives. The pizza was pretty good though, but it's hard to fuck up pizza without being Californian.

 

[jagerkon]

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the American dream isn't 'let them eat flat-screens' or 'cheap baubles from China' — says Trump is focused on mortgages, cars, real wage gains​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/rea...S&cvid=57366d64ca9e41a5b1337333fe085f93&ei=31


Honestly, I think he's right, everyone should be buying Cathode Ray Tube TVs rather than "flat screens," as he so helpfully calls them. I'm sure that will cause the price of houses and cars to drop.

It might surprise you to find out that Bessent is a baby boomer. I was certainly surprised.

He is completely correct in what he's saying. The actual boomer opinion, that I have had the joy of hearing from my father many times, is that we should all be grateful to globohomo for affordable smart TVs, phones and plastic garbage, aka shit we don't need, instead of worrying too much about car and home prices.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Three methods. The hidden one would be to give us back replaceable batteries but they don't want to do that because it would mean people didn't have to upgrade their otherwise perfectly serviceable phones.

Though they'll say it's because they need it to make their phones thinner. You know what? I'm a guy - I don't care if my phone is 15mm thick. In fact, I'd like that.

Four methods. Buy a battery pack and never unplug your phone. I've been doing that for a solid decade now, and it's honestly never been a problem.

 

[John.Doe]

First of all, how doez her wife's "conduct" negate the fact Garcia was never given his right to due process?

Due process does not mean a 10 month long jury trial, it means 'the process that is due'. A full jury trial and conviction is not part of the 'due process' afforded or appropriate to the person and the circumstances, in this case an illegal alien in immigration court determining his deportation status. He had his day in court with an attorney on this matter, he was able to appeal the matter, and it was upheld. That is the end of it, there is no more judicial review available.

As an illegal alien, he was entitled to a hearing with representation before an immigration judge. At this hearing, it was found that he was a member of MS-13, this is known as a judicial finding of fact. This was a finding by the immigration judge supported by sufficient evidence, was able to be challenged by Garica/his attorney, was appealed to the relevant court, and that determination was upheld. The docket is listed here, you'll find these documents attached as part of the initial finding.

The process that is due to an illegal alien was given to him, and appropriate to the context.


You have to remember also, 'due process' also does not mean 'he gets to have as many court cases as he wants in front of whatever judge he wants until he gets a favorable outcome', which is what the media keeps crowing about.

 

[pwnest injun]

My own personal conspiracy theory that I believe in is that climate change was a psyop created by the Chinese in order to weaken America and the rest of the world. Think about it in the us you were told for years that “cow farts was destroying the earth” or “eating meat was destroying the earth” well china never had any of that they were allowed to build coal plants and pollute the ocean for decades. I've had some one tell me that it was alright for china to not follow through on the climate change stuff because they have more people than us, whitch is retarted once you think about for 5 minutes.

My personal conspiracy theory is that the climate change propaganda is an attempt to lower standards of living globally now that Communism is no longer a real threat. The idea is that the government encouraged maximum extraction and production in order to provide a quality of life that was as high as possible in order to show superiority over communism during the cold war. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and now the elimination nearly all former Soviet allies, the guys running the levers don't need to compete as much, so they're training the population to settle for less.

Think of it like the Berlin airlift. We kept it going for as long as it was necessary, but once the blockade was over, we stopped. Essentially, the Boomers' entire lives were a PR operation.

Re: phone talk, Eric Prince's Unplugged phone has made a whole lot of improvements over the past year. It's pretty solid now, and the battery lasts nearly 2x as long as iOS or Droid because it's not constantly spying on you.

 

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the American dream isn't 'let them eat flat-screens' or 'cheap baubles from China' — says Trump is focused on mortgages, cars, real wage gains​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/rea...S&cvid=57366d64ca9e41a5b1337333fe085f93&ei=31


Honestly, I think he's right, everyone should be buying Cathode Ray Tube TVs rather than "flat screens," as he so helpfully calls them. I'm sure that will cause the price of houses and cars to drop.

It might surprise you to find out that Bessent is a baby boomer. I was certainly surprised.

You know, when you intentionally pretend to miss his point you really come across as a redditor. Have you been fitted for a burger suit yet?

 

[Mr Processor]

He is completely correct in what he's saying. The actual boomer opinion, that I have had the joy of hearing from my father many times, is that we should all be grateful to globohomo for affordable smart TVs, phones and plastic garbage, aka shit we don't need, instead of worrying too much about car and home prices.

He's not talking about smart TVs though. He's talking about flat screens.

You know, when you intentionally pretend to miss his point you really come across as a redditor. Have you been fitted for a burger suit yet?

Explain his point to me (that I pretended to miss) like I'm a Redditor (which I obviously am). It will greatly improve this thread.

 

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He's not talking about smart TVs though. He's talking about flat screens.

Explain his point to me (that I pretended to miss) like I'm a Redditor (which I obviously am). It will greatly improve this thread.

No. Go derail elsewhere.