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

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Should be a wild four years.

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[Michael Wade]

do they have the celebrity apprentice seasons on? Gary Busey was fucking insane. Nick Rochefort references that a few times like he was selling steaks or whatever

Not yet, but they have been gradually adding seasons to it. Right now we are up to season 6. Im really looking forward to season 12, that has the most star studded line up of C list actors.

 

[LouBoots]

do they have the celebrity apprentice seasons on? Gary Busey was fucking insane. Nick Rochefort references that a few times like he was selling steaks or whatever

Tom Green does a standup set where he talks about his run on The Apprentice with Andrew Dice Clay. One of their assignments is making cupcakes.

 

[Not Really Here]

I feel like claims that losing the 3 Gorges dam would headshot China are overstated

Rushing water is one of the most destructive forces on Earth.

The 400 million people downriver from the dam don't all live clustered right around the dam's base, retard. Yichang, the first large city downstream from the dam, would take 30 minutes to an hour for the water to reach. Wuhan is 300km away and would have 12 hours or more of warning, and Nanjing and Shanghai are around 1000-1200km away.

You couldn't evacuate 400 million to safe zones in 12 hours, you'd kill half of them in the panic.

The only realistic way I can think of is via ICBMs because I don't see how anything else would have the range or the fire volume to survive the gauntlet of China's ground and air defenses to commit this warcrime.

4 sticks of dynamite in a crumbly area, on the shoreline of the oldest dam upstream. You could intentionally create a rock slide, that suddenly increases pressure on the dam structure to failure.

Cascade failure is the highest probability, when you have a bunch of old shitty dams upstream, in geologically unstable areas prone to rock slides.

 

[Day of the Cope]

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:

Imagine outing yourself as someone who's never watched Dilbert: The Animated series.

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.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Boomers aren't concerned with rising house prices because many of them plan on selling their home and retiring in Mexico. So, for them, anything that lowers the value of their home is basically fucking their retirement plan.

 

[YarrBlueballs]

4 sticks of dynamite in a crumbly area, on the shoreline of the oldest dam upstream. You could intentionally create a rock slide, that suddenly increases pressure on the dam structure to failure.

Cascade failure is the highest probability, when you have a bunch of old shitty dams upstream, in geologically unstable areas prone to rock slides.

The basic outline is that all it takes is a few intelligent people and a relatively small amount of explosives to murder thousands with targeted infrastructure sabotage, dams especially because it's nigh impossible to evacuate people in time. The US is so extensively susceptible because of how long our infrastructure logistics are, it makes it impossible to actually realistically guard everything all the time completely, and China has the same issue.

Most nations don't even bother anyways because they're operating under the belief that, outside of terrorism (which is perpetuated by retards so not as much of an imminent threat) conventional enemies would want the infrastructure intact for their own purposes. Deciding to say fuck it and eradicate capabilities wholesale is basically the point where the tactical deployment of nuclear weapons becomes viable anyways, so civilian casualties becomes somewhat moot.

 

[Dave The Diver]

It's due to how fructose is metabolized as compared to say glucose.

Thanks a lot for explaining. This reminds me of an article I read a long time ago that tried to reason why Americans were having all the health issues you listed versus the Japanese who ate carbs as a staple food (rice), but had none or very few such health issues (high cholesterol, fatty liver, etc). I am sure there are multiple causes (ex: portion size), but prevalence of HFCS in Western diets can explain a big chunk.
Me though? I am a bit of a Grugg. "Joe Rogan say Seed Oil and HFCS bad? Grugg no buy!!"

So. I said the other week that I thought it would be railguns that took out a giant dam. But go with me here.

Space laser. Just heat and cool that fucker for a while.

We should have special cameras on all our dams that can spot the beams...

Fuck yes, this is exactly the kind of schizo-posting forward thinking analysis that I am hoping to find on KF.
I mean, there's a good chance they tested a space based laser weapon first on Lahaina in 2023 and second time in SoCal just this year. If global war really does pop off it's gonna be insane...

4 sticks of dynamite in a crumbly area, on the shoreline of the oldest dam upstream. You could intentionally create a rock slide, that suddenly increases pressure on the dam structure to failure.

Mate, how are you going to create a spy cell in China that can procure dynamite and carry out such an attack on a guarded installation? A powerful enough earthquake can also happen and crack one of those dams, but we're talking about a realistic case in a time of war...

The basic outline is that all it takes is a few intelligent people and a relatively small amount of explosives to murder thousands with targeted infrastructure sabotage, dams especially because it's nigh impossible to evacuate people in time. The US is so extensively susceptible because of how long our infrastructure logistics are,

(Dear Glowniggers, this is just a joke. I disavow.)

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-21/ishiba-says-japan-won-t-just-keep-conceding-in-us-tariff-talks

So the dollar is down, stocks are down bonds are being dumped. We have no news on any new trade deals or how they are radically better then before.

 

[Not Really Here]

China has the same issue.

Worse, they started building dams upstream near the headwaters, TGD is the last, in a series of stacked dams, some going back 60+ years.

an attack on a guarded installation?

Fucking retard.

The hillside surrounding the reservoir, of a decades old dam upstream, isn't a guarded installation.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Fuck me running, I wish once, JUST EVEN ONCE, that one of these zombie, NPC news presenter would ask one of the Democrat officials bleating on and on about some spic getting "due process" exactly, and I mean exactly, what process do they think he is due. What is the process that you either think he's due or that you want him to have?

Is it another round with an immigration judge? Is it a full-blown jury trial? If so, to determine what?

These faggot Dems just keeping chanting the mantra "Ohm, due process. Ohm," and no one asks them to detail what they mean.

I have a friend that said he didn't get due process because there was never a jury trial as guaranteed in the constitution. I explained that not every trial is eligible for a jury trial, and that's not what due process means in a legal sense at all. He USED to be a smart guy, but the capture by rhetoric has gotten so bad that he literally told me that I "always bring up some technicality bullshit to excuse actions".

The bottom line is the media is doing all of this on purpose. They want people to think "a citizen from maryland got snatched up on the street and sent to an el salvador prison for being brown" because that's a LOT more outrageous than "an el salvador citizen was deported after losing his appeal to stay, and was put in prison by el salvador for crimes committed there". That's why they always use "maryland man" instead of illegal immigrant, and never talk about how he lost all of his immigration cases.

In the end, this isn't about any legitimate due process concerns. Every part of this would have been easily resolved by following the law as written. They decided that they wanted to change the immigration system using only policy changes to avoid having to go through congress. Turns out, the system really gets jammed up when you try to go around it.

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

TFW all the "fiscal conservatives" who support "sound money" are mad the federal reserve won't cut interest rates and print money for partisan reasons to distract from a government's failed economic plan

 

[Melee Bouquet]

I dunno, why ARE people so upset over HFCS?

@asr already answered it perfectly, but it's funny you mention HFCS because regular corn syrup is one way to make extra smooth ice cream or sorbet. As with HFCS, regular corn syrup can have off notes (often perceived as metallic) however, it prevents iciness and creates a plusher texture. It's not as bad as HFCS but it's not good for you either.

4 sticks of dynamite in a crumbly area, on the shoreline of the oldest dam upstream. You could intentionally create a rock slide, that suddenly increases pressure on the dam structure to failure.

I'm surprised this hasn't happened already as a false flag or something

 

[Not Really Here]

I'm surprised this hasn't happened already as a false flag or something

50,000 tofu(probably) dams in the Yangtze basin.

 

[Dread First]

I remember sitting in a history class and the professor was telling us about the wonderful and empowered lives of the Sultan's Harem. How they were more empowered than the women in Europe. Despite the fact that those women were sex slaves, taken from Europe. Also the fact that Europe had Queens, and the Ottomans did not. That was when I learned to hate academia.

Turkroach trivia time!

Imperial concubines and the various wives of the Ottoman sultan at the time functioned broadly similarly to the various concubines and wives of the emperor in Imperial China. That is to say: while a broad majority of them were likely slaves taken from other regions, Western academia tends to romanticise the few wives and concubines who partook in power politics of their own to secure their positions and potentially take a shot at having their son end up on the throne.

That said, the House of Osman did one-up Imperial China in terms of how fucked up their succession crises were with the concept of imperial fratricide, as codified by Mehmed II in the mid 1400s. The idea was that you'd quash out any rebellions by preemptively taking out all possible contestants to your rule. In practice? It got way too fucked up after a certain point, and that's why later generations opted for permanent house arrest after Mehmed III's death in 1603.

One unintentional side-effect of constant state-sanctioned fratricide within the House of Osman is that constant pruning of the Osman dynasty meant no hereditary aristocracies descending from a common ancestor like there was in medieval Europe. When they pivoted to permanent house arrest, the imprisoned male relatives (i.e. brothers, cousins, nephews) of the Sultan could be used as bargaining chips to question the legitimacy of the Sultan in power at the time.

 

[autistic dog]

And then China (like USSR before it) claps back with "Americans owned slaves".

Except we don't deny it or censor it. Trump can respond with a 9000% tariff on slavery made goods since they agreed it's bad.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I'm surprised this hasn't happened already as a false flag or something

Give it time.

Except we don't deny it or censor it. Trump can respond with a 9000% tariff on slavery made goods since they agreed it's bad.

I want Trump to keep up on the gas because China would do even worse if they were in our place.

 

[Quiet Guy]

They've also been linked to intestinal inflammation and impairment of the gut barrier which in itself is linked to shit like autoimmune disease and a bunch of other chronic conditions.
Be aware that a lot of heavy cream also has emulsifiers in it. I buy cream from a local farm to avoid it, and I've seen some health focused brands without it but all the others I've seen in stores have carageenan and similar shit.

Is it because they're (presumably) synthetic emulsifiers? The gallbladder's gall is designed to emulsify fats. Or is it simply that there's too much?

 

[Dave The Diver]

Except we don't deny it or censor it. Trump can respond with a 9000% tariff on slavery made goods since they agreed it's bad.

You don't get it. International politics uses "internet argument" rule set. This means that if I say "America is a racist and colonial power that owned slaves and genocided their Native American population" then you say BASED get to shut the fuck up. This news clipping talks about Russia's use of such whataboutism, but ChiComs do it as well.
inb4/someone gets their panties in a twist because they think me presenting a logical fallacy masquerading as an argument is the same as me standing by it

 

[autistic dog]

Mate, how are you going to create a spy cell in China that can procure dynamite and carry out such an attack on a guarded installation? A powerful enough earthquake can also happen and crack one of those dams, but we're talking about a realistic case in a time of war...

Step 1: Issue letters if marque to rednecks offering them a bounty for captured Chinese ships.

Step 2: Repurpose Chinese ships and sell them back to the rednecks

Step 3: Effective total blockade of shipping to or from China

Step 4: Enact land blockage of China

Step 5: US Millitary and Navy transport rednecks trucks to edge of blockade

Step 6: Provide Millitary grade weapons to rednecks

Alternative plan: Launch a tungsten spear from orbit at the dam with a trajectory and speed that makes it impossible to detect or stop.

 

[Dave The Diver]

Step 1: Issue letters if marque to rednecks offering them a bounty for captured Chinese ships.

You're right, I'm taking this way too seriously.

My proposal is to get the chinks hooked on opium again. They were a lot more chill in the 19th century...

 

[autistic dog]

You're right, I'm taking this way too seriously.

My proposal is to get the chinks hooked on opium again. They were a lot more chill in the 19th century...

That is their reason for flooding America with fent. They also have really strong drug laws to prevent it from happening to them again.

Believe it or not letters of marque are actually on the table.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/musk-and-don-trump-jr-express-support-for-reviving-letters-of-marque-against-cartels/ar-AA1y0RP2

Musk and Don Trump Jr. express support for reviving letters of marque against cartels​