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/

 

[StudMccool]

Blame Buddy Holly, who popularized the unnecessarily thick glasses(done specifically to have an iconic look) and has consistently been considered fashionable to this day.

Though in his defense, he was a southern boy from the 1950’s and had a very square head which complimented the frames well

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You wouldn't be implying we have lost class in our pop stars?

Now would you?

 

[GunCar Gary]

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/

Thoughts?

What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was, to the best of his knowledge, a single document. Form I-751

Kasper’s understanding is that his failure to submit I-751 led to a removal order

he had a valid removal order because he didn't submit the proper paperwork to finalize his naturalization which would have happened this year. sucks, but the same past leniency that let him get through the process and illegally get a job is the same that led hordes of third worlders to invade America

gotta crack a few eggs to make an omlet

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

There’s no such thing as a Muslim who isn’t a terrorist. Terrorism is quite literally baked into their religious doctrine

Islam's eschatology almost brags about being Antichrist-ish vis-à-vis Christianity. It is also possible to make jokes that the mahdi is literally a circumcised penis (one-eyed, with a head wound) that goes around slaughtering everyone who isn't Muslim. It's a very mockable religion when you start getting into all the retarded shit in the hadiths.

Blame Buddy Holly, who popularized the unnecessarily thick glasses(done specifically to have an iconic look) and has consistently been considered fashionable to this day.

Though in his defense, he was a southern boy from the 1950’s and had a very square head which complimented the frames well

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I've also seen a lot of people wearing Jeffrey Dahmer glasses the past few years. It's weird.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Here's an interesting question:

Is Patreon income tips?

If so, can they be taxed?

I would say no. Tips are something that a customer pays and is 100% optional, but in 99% of cases paying for a Patreon sub gets you something for it, and if you don't pay you get nothing.

 

[東海旅客鉄道株式会社]

fertility clinic carbombing

Thought that guy just ended up being an incel?

 

[LiquidKid]

Can anyone tell me exactly what the big beautiful bill entails, it would be nice to fully know.

Spoiler: ChatGPT took the wrong bill, and I’m retarded

Asked ChatGPT to summarize it:

H.R. 1 (often called “The Big Beautiful Bill”) is massive and covers a wide range of reforms. Here’s a more detailed and organized breakdown of what the bill does across its three major titles:

Title I – Voting Access and Election Modernization

A. Voter Registration Improvements

• Automatic voter registration (AVR) through state DMVs and other agencies.
• Online registration systems required for all states.
• Same-day registration required for federal elections.

B. Voting Rights

• Restores voting rights for felons after release from prison.
• Prohibits voter caging, purging, and using non-forwardable mail as a disqualifier.
• Mandates nationwide availability of early voting (minimum 15 days) and vote-by-mail with postage prepaid.
• States must provide secure drop boxes for absentee ballots.

C. Voting Infrastructure

• Requires paper ballots and risk-limiting audits.
• Grants for upgrading election technology.
• Establishes Election Security Grants Advisory Committee.
• Prohibits internet-connected voting systems.

Title II – Campaign Finance Reform

A. Campaign Transparency

• Expands disclosure of political ad sponsors (TV, radio, online).
• Includes the DISCLOSE Act, which mandates dark money groups reveal large donors (>$10K).
• Creates “Stand by Every Ad Act”: candidates must appear in their ads.

B. Public Financing

• Launches a small-donor matching system (6:1 match) for House races.
• Paid through a new “Freedom from Influence Fund” (via fines, penalties—not taxpayer money).
• Creates a pilot program for vouchers for small-dollar contributions.

C. FEC Reform

• Reduces commissioners from 6 to 5 to avoid partisan deadlock.
• Strengthens enforcement power and transparency.

Title III – Ethics and Government Accountability

A. Presidential and Congressional Ethics

• Requires presidential, vice presidential, and major-party candidates to disclose 10 years of tax returns.
• Prohibits use of taxpayer money for settlements in harassment cases.
• Requires public reports on White House visitor logs.

B. Executive Branch Conflicts of Interest

• Expands definitions of “lobbying.”
• Closes the foreign agent loophole.
• Prohibits senior officials from lobbying their former agency for 2 years (currently 1).

C. Congressional Ethics

• Requires the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) to review and approve congressional financial disclosures.
• Strengthens the Office of Congressional Ethics by making it permanent.

D. Judicial Ethics

• Requires a code of ethics for Supreme Court Justices.
• Expands public access to federal court documents.

Title IV – Political Advertising and Social Media Transparency

• Requires platforms like Facebook and YouTube to disclose ad buyers.
• Creates a public ad database for political advertising.
• Bans foreign nationals from participating in political ad purchases.
• Requires identification of deepfakes in political content.

Title V – Redistricting Reform

Requires states to use independent commissions to draw congressional districts.

The commissions must:

• Be politically balanced
• Hold public hearings
• Use transparent criteria (no favoring parties/incumbents)

What the Bill Does Not Do (Clarified)

• Does not change the Electoral College.
• Does not eliminate state elections or state control over non-federal elections.
• Does not mandate universal vote-by-mail, but requires states to offer it for federal elections.
• Does not ban voter ID entirely, but limits ID requirements that disenfranchise eligible voters.
• Does not defund police or immigration enforcement (not even referenced).
• Does not limit religious speech or advocacy in any way.

Edited for format

Edit again! ChatGPT took the wrong fucking bill. This time I redid it with the direct PDf and had it only summarize the PDF, to it will be accurate this time. That said, I will leave the original one there just for the sake of not looking like I’m trying to hide my mistake in trusting the AI. I will also include the PDF here so you can double check

Actual Summary:

Key Actions Taken by H.R. 1:

1. Nutrition and Welfare (Title I)

• Adds work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents to receive SNAP benefits.
• Places limits on waivers for those work requirements.
• Restricts SNAP use on internet-related expenses.
• Changes matching fund and administrative cost-sharing structures for states.
• Repeals grants related to nutrition education and obesity prevention.
• Modifies SNAP eligibility for non-citizens and energy assistance considerations.

2. Rural and Agricultural Investment

• Funds programs related to conservation, trade, rural schools, energy, and forestry.
• Revises support for horticulture and miscellaneous agricultural initiatives.

3. Defense and Military (Title II)

• Increases spending on:
• Shipbuilding
• Air and missile defense
• Munitions production and supply chains
• Indo-Pacific Command capabilities
• Cybersecurity improvements
• Expands support for military quality of life and counter-drug border missions.

4. Energy and Environment (Title IV)

• Repeals and rescinds multiple environmental programs and clean energy initiatives, including:
• Grants for port pollution reduction, clean heavy-duty vehicles, and greenhouse gas reduction
• Methane emissions reduction incentives
• Funding for clean energy at schools and environmental product declarations
• Cuts hundreds of millions from the Department of Energy, including programs supporting renewables and minority economic impact.

5. Health and Medicaid (Title XIV)

• Adds stricter eligibility checks and address verification for Medicaid/CHIP.
• Requires more frequent redeterminations of eligibility.
• Bans federal funding for gender transition procedures for minors under Medicaid and CHIP.
• Repeals staffing standards for long-term care facilities.
• Cuts retroactive coverage options and reduces certain pharmacy payments.
• Expands eligibility to contribute to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
• Allows fitness and exercise costs to qualify as medical expenses.
• Enables both spouses to contribute to the same HSA.

6. Tax Reform and Cuts (Title XI)

• Extends Trump-era tax cuts (from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act), including:
• Lowered income tax rates
• Increased standard deduction and child tax credit
• Business income deduction
• Estate and gift tax exemptions
• Adds new tax breaks:
• Eliminates tax on tips and overtime income
• Makes student loan employer payments permanently tax-exempt
• Increases deductions for seniors
• Creates “MAGA accounts” for savings and investment with tax advantages
• Allows catch-up HSA contributions and new deductions for exercise and fitness costs.

7. Border and Immigration

• Adds new funding for Coast Guard assets and maritime interdiction.
• Enhances DoD support for border security operations.

8. Technology and Communications

• Launches a federal initiative to modernize AI and IT infrastructure.
• Orders new spectrum auctions to raise funds.

9. Education

• Expands qualified education expenses under 529 plans to include homeschooling and credentialing.
• Adds scholarship credits and adjusts adoption credits for tribal children.

10. Defunding of Previous Programs

• Repeals and rescinds nearly all climate and clean energy funding provided under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and related legislation.
• Targets dozens of specific programs including EV funding, air quality monitoring, and environmental justice block grants.

11. Debt Ceiling

• Raises the federal debt limit by $4 trillion .

 

[FILTH Tourist]

english teachers either are pregnant and on maternity leave or being far lefty fags because they're mad they never made it

Mine was a disgraced ex pastor who left the church and became a teacher due to drug problems. He was actually one of my favorite teachers in HS who had a real deep impact on me.

 

[Quiet Guy]

Terrorism is quite literally baked into their religious doctrine

Take three cups of jihad and pour into a bowl of Islam, then add a cup and a half of taqiya and a cup of quran whisk until frothy and bake at 350 degrees for one hour. After baking is done remove and add suicide bombers to taste and let cool.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text

Very dense and a lot of it is amending other things so unless I want to google I get no context for a lot of the laws/acts being amended.

Still I must trust the plan

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

H.R. 1 (often called “The Big Beautiful Bill”) is massive and covers a wide range of reforms. Here’s a more detailed and organized breakdown of what the bill does across its three major titles:

All I see here are reforms that have been needed for a long time. Not sure why anyone who isn't a sleazy politician would want this to fail.

Honestly Thomas massie seems like yet another libertarian corporate dick sucker.

Every time I see him yap on Xitter, it's him shitting on Trump for one reason or another.

 

[StudMccool]

So reading more up on the BBB and the recent deaths of a couple of House of Reps member people are figuring out that the only reason it passed was because three Dems died..

If they had been alive that would have been enough to kill the bill to something like 214 - 217. I hope to god I can finally get a tax free (and eventually a PSA made) silencer cause three Dem ghouls would not step down.

this nigga saw the same Philip DeFranco short I did.

I dont like that mfer AT ALL but damn if he aint ON IT as it comes out.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

Though in his defense, he was a southern boy from the 1950’s and had a very square head which complimented the frames well

I reckon those frames also stood out on those teeny-tiny black and white TVs with shit resolution.

 

[cain_destroyer1]

The problem is no one agrees on "white." Do you mean the Angloids with their bad teeth and shitty attitudes? Do you mean the Scandinavians with their penchant for letting Mohammed rape their daughters? Do you mean the Hungarians who speak a weird language with no relative except for Finnish and who may actually be aliens? How about the French, are they white? I've been reliably told that, because I'm Italian, I'm not white. The amount of times I've been called a pasta nigger is non-zero.

I'm not saying you should bend over and let the Frantz Fanon widgets destroy you, but you have to admit that it's much easier and more civilized to be an American and kill all communists.

While I was eating my birria taco, I just had that sudden realization you just said. My bad, I guess that's WHY it wouldn't work out. Being American is not being White; if anything for better and worse, they STILL cannot decide on the terminology.

How can you not understand what white it? Holy shit. It is fair skinned, european ancestry.

You fell for the trap of people trying to muddy the waters arguing about edge cases trying to say "well we dont know when white starts and ends, therefore, there is no such thing as white"

Here is a metaphor for for you. You know what a lake is, you know what a puddle is. When does a puddle become a lake? We may have different definitions, but we both agree that the great lakes are a lake, and not a puddle. Just because we do not know where the line is between those categories does not mean there is no such thing as a lake.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

english teachers either are pregnant and on maternity leave or being far lefty fags because they're mad they never made it

Mine was a disgraced ex pastor who left the church and became a teacher due to drug problems. He was actually one of my favorite teachers in HS who had a real deep impact on me.

Female English teachers are useless for male students. I had exactly two male English teachers in my K-12 education. One of them encouraged me to write and actually wanted to submit some of the stories I wrote to student writing contests. The other only seemed interested in having his ego stroked and wanted to be the "cool" teacher. That's 50% usefulness, which beats the fuck out of every other English teacher I ever had.

 

[Schpoots]

Does the white house not have security cameras in it? I'm confused as to why who signed the executives orders during bidens reign is such a mystery.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

How can you not understand what white it? Holy shit. It is fair skinned, european ancestry.

You fell for the trap of people trying to muddy the waters arguing about edge cases trying to say "well we dont know when white starts and ends, therefore, there is no such thing as white"

Here is a metaphor for for you. You know what a lake is, you know what a puddle is. When does a puddle become a lake? This is what people try to focus on, to distract you.

So does that mean Sicilians are white? They are part of Europe and many are fair-skinned.

 

[Clobber3]

Can’t help but feel like this is the late 1800s Russia, and we’re just along for the ride.

May God bless the United States.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

I love how I can come here at any time and someone will be inevitably trying to culture someone else about one event or the other in the Second World War. Never change.

The longer two or more men are in conversation with each other, the closer the probability of WW2 being discussed approaches 1.

 

[Jace on ice]

Thought that guy just ended up being an incel?

The fertility clinic failbomber was an reddit antinatalist, basically a cringe nihilist who wanted to end all life on earth like a Final Fantasy villain.

A really really shitty one considering the only life he managed to end was his own.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

So reading more up on the BBB and the recent deaths of a couple of House of Reps member people are figuring out that the only reason it passed was because three Dems died..

If they had been alive that would have been enough to kill the bill to something like 214 - 217. I hope to god I can finally get a tax free (and eventually a PSA made) silencer cause three Dem ghouls would not step down.

Did they die by natural or "natural" causes?