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...but if you're deep in 9/11 lore, you'd know a surprisingly chunk of the fire department was too busy looting the Gap and other stores in the mall below the towers, to actually get their sh!t together & save office workers. Atlantic journalist William Langewiesche got raked over the coals/blacklisted after he wrote about said unfortunate fact in a book.
Which specific people were driving that truck?

"If your grandparents were hispanic, you should be fine with infinite illegals with no background checks having jobs that require communication"
It's funny how libs, who don't even feel blood solidarity with their immediate family, do not understand why a US citizen of Mexican ancestry doesn't feel blood solidarity with some random Ecuadoran who snuck across the border yesterday.
If your grandparents were Latinos, they came up during the Chavez times, which gives me an excuse to post this again:
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It irks me more and more each time I go through the airport and have to do the security theater of removing my belt and shoes. X-Ray me and my bag, fine. But some parts of this are purely a humiliation ritual at this point.

But we all clapped and gave them the power.
Everyone should be refusing the backscatter at this point. Fuck em.
 
The vast majority of theories about controlled demolition, thermite paint, drones, etc. were psyops
My favorite stupid conspiracy theory is that stupid conspiracy theories are themselves a conspiracy, with a whole wing of the CIA dedicated to crafting conspiracy theories and seeding them in the population via obscure forums and shitty websites for the express purpose of making conspiracy theorists look stupid.
 
I think a lot of his jurisprudence is based on the assessment that the power of the court is a fragile illusion that could be shattered by both a very driven federal power structure simply ignoring a decision and a public who supports them in doing so. I think that if you had a more brazen court you would have seen it crushed by the 'iron triangle' long ago - it survives because Roberts is a shrinking violet.
Your perspective is myopic. It only considers the scenario of the powers of the state against each other. You are not considering the People vs the State. The People have power over the Legislative and Executive when they elect them and are free to express their dislike of them through protest.
The People have 0 power over the Judicial. And there is 0 recourse against them going tyrannical. Even protest against them is highly regulated.
 
I quite obvious that the modern 3 way split of governmental powers doesn't work and hasn't worked for a century now. The Judicial has more power than the Executive or Legislative and it's more secure in it's hold of that power.
It's not supposed to just "work". Those three branches establish checks and balances that intentionally make it difficult for the government to do things BY DESIGN since the founding fathers understood that the government just doing things was (and will continue to be) the cause of most of their problems in the first place.
 
My favorite stupid conspiracy theory is that stupid conspiracy theories are themselves a conspiracy, with a whole wing of the CIA dedicated to crafting conspiracy theories and seeding them in the population via obscure forums and shitty websites for the express purpose of making conspiracy theorists look stupid.
Well the feds do post on 4chan.
 
Your perspective is myopic. It only considers the scenario of the powers of the state against each other. You are not considering the People vs the State. The People have power over the Legislative and Executive when they elect them and are free to express their dislike of them through protest.
The People have 0 power over the Judicial. And there is 0 recourse against them going tyrannical. Even protest against them is highly regulated.
That's by design, it's why the Judicial can only fuck up what the other branches do and it can't really actively pursue anything, only obstruct. It can't raise funds, it can't enforce its rulings. It's a stick in the gears. When they do try to spin law out of thin air like with Roe it's legally fragile and subject to being overturned for that very reason.

'The People' are often retarded, and the idea that direct democracy would fix the American government is ridiculous. Some of the worst trampling of rights (Sedition Act, Espionage Act, Patriot Act) had huge groundswells of public support behind them and the Court stood in the way of some of their worse excesses, stood against a mad public screaming for the government to take their own rights away.
 
RFK Jr. Slams Medical Journals, Floats In-House Publishing Plan
In house publishing but only if complete data transparency and some effort towards replication involved.
If it's as lacking in transparency as the current system, in house would only make it easier to con people and publish fraudulent data and conclusions with no oversight.
 
Is this some chink “dreamers awaken” thing? Is your surname Dagoth, by any chance?

The Hukous, which might I say are far more gay than haikus, have a financial incentive to generate fake registrations
what? I have no idea what the first thing is about

Parents don't get subsidies for registering a fake kid on their hukou, and they lose the chance to have their own kid on the hukou, and I am of the mind that it would be common knowledge if it was a common practice to just invent people for your hukou, particularly since the place where that'd be 'advantageous' somehow would be places with good hukous, i.e. tier one cities like Shanghai or Shenzhen. Once you register a family member it's harder to get them off, and if you're registering fake kids, you're stealing that couple's chance to have a child without financial penalty or difficulty. What is very common is relatives from bumfuck nowhere are desperate to get their kids on their urban relative's hukou. There's financial incentive to de facto fostering with 'better off' urban relatives.

Anyway, the government is likely aware of the population count with a decent degree of certainty, there are countless touch points and serious problems with labor oversupply and overcapacity depending on where you are in China. If they're lying externally, there is very likely an internal and true number. They do aim to continue governing after all.

That sounds horrible.
It is! They basically aren't able to attend school or buy property, and marriage is of course legally an impossibility. Parents have to pick the kid to go on the hukou or pay a hefty fine for the extras. Luckily Chinese society is structured around working young rural men to death in a yearly cycle of subsistence farming, long-range migration, factory, logistics, or construction labor, and then returning home. It has proven 'stable' for about 50 years or so now. 'Stable' here meaning diminishing growth and a broad regional pact to die out this generation and leave no children.
 
This continual inference by Democrat judges is starting to worry me.

Not what they are doing, I expected nothing less after the Democrats were wiped out in the election so it would be natural for them to use the last lever they have control over to try to stop whatever Orange Man Bad was doing but rather what will happen when Trump and Congress take steps to reign them in. The current Democrat Party is in the final stage of TDS so to expect them to act like rational adults is pure copium.

This is a very delicate situation that will have major ramifications going forward. Now I highly doubt the SCOTUS will rule in any way that will limit or diminish judicial authority, it would be silly to expect a judge to agree to limit their own power as judges are still people after all so this will have to be done through the Congress. Which won't be easy as while Trump has the support of the people the Machine is still firmly and totally against him in all things. Getting anything that diminished the power of the Uni-Party will be a massive struggle and probably won't happen.

I don't want the Trump to have to break the system to get his agenda done as that will just leave the US vulnerable to the next Democrat POTUS to go whole hog and rule via fiat and then we have no systematic way to stop him outside of violence as impreaching a POTUS is never going to happen and now the courts are neutured so what does that leave but violence?

That path leads to runiantion so we need some sort of comprimise but again these Democrats have ternimal TDS and are willing, even eager, to burn the US institutions to the ground if that's what it takes to stop Orange Man Bad.

It's a shitty shitty situtation and the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for it.
 
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health will be blocked from reporting their research in certain publications “unless these journals change dramatically,” Kennedy said, adding that his department would instead create its own journals for each of its institutes that could “become the preeminent journals.”
One of the things that always stuck in my craw: the American public pays billions of dollars to fund this research, then we can't read it. Threaten to nationalize JSTOR and other digital libraries unless they give unfettered, free access to all publicly funded research to every citizen of any nation that funded it. Or build a national digital archive which any publicly funded research must have a copy of their paper published in.
 
This continual inference by Democrat judges is starting to worry me.

Not what they are doing, I expected nothing less after the Democrats were wiped out in the election so it would be natural for them to use the last lever they have control over to try to stop whatever Orange Man Bad was doing but rather what will happen when Trump and Congress take steps to reign them in. The current Democrat Party is in the final stage of TDS so to expect them to act like rational adults is pure copium.

This is a very delicate situation that will have major ramifications going forward. Now I highly doubt the SCOTUS will rule in any way that will limit or diminish judicial authority, it would be silly to expect a judge to agree to limit their own power as judges are still people after all so this will have to be done through the Congress. Which won't be easy as while Trump has the support of the people the Machine is still firmly and totally against him in all things. Getting anything that diminished the power of the Uni-Party will be a massive struggle and probably won't happen.

I don't want the Trump to have to break the system to get his agenda done as that will just leave the US vulnerable to the next Democrat POTUS to go whole hog and rule via fiat and then we have no systematic way to stop him outside of violence as impreaching a POTUS is never going to happen and now the courts are neutured so what does that leave but violence?

That path leads to runiantion so we need some sort of comprimise but again these Democrats have ternimal TDS and are willing, even eager, to burn the US institutions to the ground if that's what it takes to stop Orange Man Bad.

It's a shitty shitty situtation and the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for it.
The rot is too big and too pervasive. Only a great man can change this.
 
'The People' are often retarded, and the idea that direct democracy would fix the American government is ridiculous. Some of the worst trampling of rights (Sedition Act, Espionage Act, Patriot Act) had huge groundswells of public support behind them and the Court stood in the way of some of their worse excesses, stood against a mad public screaming for the government to take their own rights away.
Roe v Wade lasted longer than Prohibition and cost nobody's career. You can easily do whataboutism. But that doesn't negate the core issue. The people can be wronged by the courts, are often wronged by the courts and there is no way to make it right outside of waiting for the court to die of old age and slightly better people to take power. There is just as much recourse against the Judicial as there was against king George. Mob rule may be worse but I am not arguing for mob rule. I am simply pointing out the injustice and the fact that you can't keep going like that forever.
 
Ever been to a jeet-run McDonald's?

They don't clean the bathrooms.
They don’t use the bathrooms. They have their shitting street out back in the parking lot where they go and try to scam the homeless when they’re on their break.

Why in the world would they clean the bathrooms when they never go in there?
 
This continual inference by Democrat judges is starting to worry me.

Not what they are doing, I expected nothing less after the Democrats were wiped out in the election so it would be natural for them to use the last lever they have control over to try to stop whatever Orange Man Bad was doing but rather what will happen when Trump and Congress take steps to reign them in. The current Democrat Party is in the final stage of TDS so to expect them to act like rational adults is pure copium.

This is a very delicate situation that will have major ramifications going forward. Now I highly doubt the SCOTUS will rule in any way that will limit or diminish judicial authority, it would be silly to expect a judge to agree to limit their own power as judges are still people after all so this will have to be done through the Congress. Which won't be easy as while Trump has the support of the people the Machine is still firmly and totally against him in all things. Getting anything that diminished the power of the Uni-Party will be a massive struggle and probably won't happen.

I don't want the Trump to have to break the system to get his agenda done as that will just leave the US vulnerable to the next Democrat POTUS to go whole hog and rule via fiat and then we have no systematic way to stop him outside of violence as impreaching a POTUS is never going to happen and now the courts are neutured so what does that leave but violence?

That path leads to runiantion so we need some sort of comprimise but again these Democrats have ternimal TDS and are willing, even eager, to burn the US institutions to the ground if that's what it takes to stop Orange Man Bad.

It's a shitty shitty situtation and the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for it.
We're in the period of an empire between the loss of the idea of ruling (mandate of heaven to steal the Chinese concept here) and final end. I'm expecting tripling down on the Cathedral's bullshit and a whole lot of weird stuff.
 
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