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/

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Isnt he also batshit insane?

So more competent to hold office than the rest of the field.

 

[Breadbassket]

Cross posted from article thread

Justice Kagan in 2022
“It just can’t be right,” Justice Elena Kagan said in remarks in 2022 at Northwestern University’s law school, “that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”

Justice Kagan today:
Kagan expressed concerns about the government’s ability to ignore lower court decisions. She questioned Solicitor General John Sauer about the implications of losing multiple lower court cases and the potential for widespread harm without universal injunctions.

Judicial partisanship is fine when it helps her side, it's as simple as that.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Cross posted from article thread

Justice Kagan in 2022
“It just can’t be right,” Justice Elena Kagan said in remarks in 2022 at Northwestern University’s law school, “that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”

Justice Kagan today:
Kagan expressed concerns about the government’s ability to ignore lower court decisions. She questioned Solicitor General John Sauer about the implications of losing multiple lower court cases and the potential for widespread harm without universal injunctions.

Liberal judges are hypocritical, inconsistent fuckwits who will say and do anything to justify their political priors which gives increasing power to their political party... and my pecs are beautiful, news at 11. Hoo-hah!

Man, I'm pretty.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

No, not much study was "permitted" by mainstream academia, and what little was published of course went with globohomo orthodoxy that it's all horrible and evil. Attempting to study it today from a "neutral" or even "hey maybe it does work" position gets you tossed out of academia and branded a "homophobe" for life.

Effective gay conversion therapy exists, and it's practically no different from traditional (and recognized) abuse therapy techniques -- it just focuses on a different kind of trauma. As it happens, practically all homosexually ultimately stems from early-life sexual abuse by a same-sex abuser. Gay people are made, not born. As it turns out, conversion therapy doesn't beat people over the head with bibles and encourage them to "pray the gay away." It provides legitimate therapy to help abuse victims identify and come to terms with their abuse, explore why they behave the way they do because of it, examine how their current behaviors put them at greater risk for an assortment of "poor outcomes," and finally figure out what they actually want for themselves (not just what the "queer community" cult surrounding them wants).

In other words, people turn gay because Uncle Bob touched them when they were young and it fucked up their idea of sexuality. Then hormones kick in, and the gay community -- always in search of fresh meat -- is all too happy to provide the young all the sexual debauchery they could ever ask for. "Conversion" therapy is really just "sexual trauma" therapy, with the uncomfortable conclusion that "you're likely straight, just fucked up because Uncle Bob touched you when you were younger and his friends then took turns railing your virgin ass repeatedly during your teenage years."

Wasn’t the problem with conversion shit is a lot of predators infiltrated it to get access to victims?

 

[Detective Carey]

Idk, about that dude, but from first hand experience screening and interviewing candidates, the group that much under ~33 right now legit think that typing with their thumbs and accessing everything through an app, "in the cloud" on someone else's computer, constitutes technological literacy.

What's a directory structure? SQL query? Zip a file? Text formatting? Oh! I have a web app that I can upload the proprietary, federally regulated information to in order to format the text!

iTunes, Netflix, Steam sales and smartphones fuckin' murdered computer literacy.

Yeah no this^ not going to power level but I'm probably older than many of you, and the new waves of hires hitting the workforce currently know jack and fucking shit about basic computer operation, they're clearly not teaching anything about computer basics in school. You have to basically start at EILI5 with them and go from there, regardless of how many fucking degrees or certificates they have.

I'm an old fuck and back in the day when I was bright eyed and bushy tailed and climbing the ladder, it was the same but from a different angle: you had a bunch of greatest gen/boomers/gen xer's who struggled with tech to varying degrees depending on their education that you had to wrangle until they were good enough to leave alone, and the millennials were starting to grow up and entering and taking over year by year so the main corpo opinion from the top was "well as these dinosaurs age and retire out teaching new hires the ropes tech wise will get easier and easier so no big deal we don't need to refurbish or beef up our internal training, the modern era will have done it all for us no big deal calm down" and lol, lmao even.

It was really just the savvy boomers and gen x people and the early millennials who understood anything computer wise and only needed varying levels of having their rough edges smoothed off (and even with silent gen or boomers you could teach them, they weren't retards).

Once the zoomers and now alphas started showing up, they were even more clueless as the old dinosaurs back in the day, I'd say by huge factor. They're fucking nearly worthless, and even when they are vaguely salvageable, they waste so much time bitching and whining about their feelings and what is or isn't fair that two thirds of your time coaching/training them is just jerking them off so they calm down and get back to fucking work.

I'd much rather have a pool of boomer grandmas to teach basic OS shit to, than half a pool of whiny kids bitching about their mentals and feelings constantly distracting me from teaching them how to fill out a time card or log into their remote desktop then email then chat.

 

[mold]

No, not much study was "permitted" by mainstream academia, and what little was published of course went with globohomo orthodoxy that it's all horrible and evil. Attempting to study it today from a "neutral" or even "hey maybe it does work" position gets you tossed out of academia and branded a "homophobe" for life.

Effective gay conversion therapy exists, and it's practically no different from traditional (and recognized) abuse therapy techniques -- it just focuses on a different kind of trauma. As it happens, practically all homosexually ultimately stems from early-life sexual abuse by a same-sex abuser. Gay people are made, not born. As it turns out, conversion therapy doesn't beat people over the head with bibles and encourage them to "pray the gay away." It provides legitimate therapy to help abuse victims identify and come to terms with their abuse, explore why they behave the way they do because of it, examine how their current behaviors put them at greater risk for an assortment of "poor outcomes," and finally figure out what they actually want for themselves (not just what the "queer community" cult surrounding them wants).

In other words, people turn gay because Uncle Bob touched them when they were young and it fucked up their idea of sexuality. Then hormones kick in, and the gay community -- always in search of fresh meat -- is all too happy to provide the young all the sexual debauchery they could ever ask for. "Conversion" therapy is really just "sexual trauma" therapy, with the uncomfortable conclusion that "you're likely straight, just fucked up because Uncle Bob touched you when you were younger and his friends then took turns railing your virgin ass repeatedly during your teenage years."

I dunno man I'm very skeptical that there is effective conversion therapy. If there were, there are a lot of religious groups who would use it. There are plenty of groups with enough money to send their gay kids out of the US to places where they could have the gay therapized out of them with zero legal restrictions, as well as groups that operate enough social pressure to get adults to do this voluntarily. If this worked the Mormons, for example, would be all over it, and they'd be parading the success stories. Instead the "success" stories are either closet cases or very holy people who have been granted the gift of chastity.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

I am calling it now, she will have a nigger moment so large she will be forced to resigned. Her frequent courtroom interruptions, her wild takes that go beyond the other shitlib justices, unprofessional legal writings, and the fact other judges are calling her out. She will chimp out before Trump's term is over.

Kitawnjeequa gon' make dis straight wit YA'''ll she da feistiest Black YAAS Queeeeeeeeen slayer and be spillin' all a dem teaaaaaas on DHEIEWUUUUUMPFFFFFF

 

[DarkSonicPhil]

If you’re going to have kids, do not send them to public schools even after this ruling. No doubt schools won’t make policies and will still treat students like shit. Couldn’t imagine if I was forced to read Maus knowing what I know now lmao

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Couldn’t imagine if I was forced to read Maus knowing what I know now lmao

Turns out the Nazis weren't really cats

 

[Breadbassket]

If you’re going to have kids, do not send them to public schools even after this ruling. No doubt schools won’t make policies and will still treat students like shit. Couldn’t imagine if I was forced to read Maus knowing what I know now lmao

Sadly it's not a matter of if, but when a school district will try to circumvent the ruling.

 

[DarkSonicPhil]

Turns out the Nazis weren't really cats

So strange how the international representatives of the Mice announced an informal war against Germany before the start of the story.

 

[Buzz Killington]

Today's still a win, even if some of it may have mixed results. The big dubs are on muzzies scoring a win over fags and district courts no longer in charge. The porn ID laws sound good on paper, but I'd have to see how it works in practice. Australia's trying something similar with a social media ban and I get the feeling it's just gonna be a precursor to a Social Credit system. It depends on how it's enforced. Still, I see this as a good day despite those lingering questions.

 

[Mister Fister]

Yeah no this^ not going to power level but I'm probably older than many of you, and the new waves of hires hitting the workforce currently know jack and fucking shit about basic computer operation, they're clearly not teaching anything about computer basics in school. You have to basically start at EILI5 with them and go from there, regardless of how many fucking degrees or certificates they have.

I'm an old fuck and back in the day when I was bright eyed and bushy tailed and climbing the ladder, it was the same but from a different angle: you had a bunch of greatest gen/boomers/gen xer's who struggled with tech to varying degrees depending on their education that you had to wrangle until they were good enough to leave alone, and the millennials were starting to grow up and entering and taking over year by year so the main corpo opinion from the top was "well as these dinosaurs age and retire out teaching new hires the ropes tech wise will get easier and easier so no big deal we don't need to refurbish or beef up our internal training, the modern era will have done it all for us no big deal calm down" and lol, lmao even.

It was really just the savvy boomers and gen x people and the early millennials who understood anything computer wise and only needed varying levels of having their rough edges smoothed off (and even with silent gen or boomers you could teach them, they weren't retards).

Once the zoomers and now alphas started showing up, they were even more clueless as the old dinosaurs back in the day, I'd say by huge factor. They're fucking nearly worthless, and even when they are vaguely salvageable, they waste so much time bitching and whining about their feelings and what is or isn't fair that two thirds of your time coaching/training them is just jerking them off so they calm down and get back to fucking work.

I'd much rather have a pool of boomer grandmas to teach basic OS shit to, than half a pool of whiny kids bitching about their mentals and feelings constantly distracting me from teaching them how to fill out a time card or log into their remote desktop then email then chat.

Unironically asking if they play PC games is a good interview question for at least knows how to use a computer.

 

[Taser Confetti]

Gay people are made, not born.

Then how did patient zero come to be?

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

So strange how the international representatives of the Mice announced an informal war against Germany before the start of the story.

Refusing to buy cheese from the cats isn't a war, especially when the fish who called it a war were editorializing for shock value

 

[Judex Meus]

knock yourself out looking for those programs but 1) the most populous states do not have them, these are programs primarily in rural states 2) they are nothing compared to SNAP, medical care, daycare subsidies, sec 8

Yeah, it's much less than those programs, but that's because those programs give WAY more than they should to WAY more people than they should. I even said in my post that it's not available in all states, but IF you live in a state where it's available you should be taking advantage of it. I didn't know about it until maybe a year ago and it was available in a state that my relatives live in for several years - that's why I'm telling people now so they know about it. In fact I wouldn't have heard about it if a friend hadn't given me the heads up, that's why I'm even bothering to mention it in the first place.

Your argument boils down to "well all these other shitty programs give way more money so why even bother." That's fucking retarded. There are absolutely people who leech off the welfare system and everyone knows it, but this is one program that's limited in scope and directly benefits people who give enough of a shit to send their kid to a good school OR homeschool the kids themselves. Which means it typically doesn't benefit worthless pieces of shit who steal tax money to buy menthols and soda which is exactly what you're describing. This is perhaps one of the only cases where government subsidies could go to a worthwhile cause and you're bitching about it.

 

[DumbDude43]

Unironically asking if they play PC games is a good interview question for at least knows how to use a computer.

>yes sir i do play PC games!
>that's good! which ones?
>ummmm....

 

[faraomuurahainen]

Republican candidate for NYC mayor, Curtis Sliwa, said he would join forces with Eric Adams if it was the only way to stop Zohran Mamdani from winning the mayoral election.

Siwa attributes Mamdani's mayoral win in the democratic primary to strong support from wealthy, educated white Gen Z and millennial voters in affluent NYC neighborhoods.

 

[gaysexenjoyer]

Then how did patient zero come to be?

A prank gone wrong

 

[Historical Strelkov]

thumbnail your shit

regime change in israel is a joke. who are you going to replace bibi with? Lapid is a retard, Bennet is a bigger hawk than Bibi, Gallant is a hawk, Gantz can't even hold his own party together, Smotrich/Ben Gvir are extremist hawks

this is something that sounds radical and smart to people who don't know anything about Israel, Netanyahu is the most moderate and patient player in Israel which is why he endured people calling him a pussy for 13 years for not striking Iran only to hit iran at the exact right moment

The israeli people will welcome us as liberators, and they will embrace liberal secular democracy. They cant be allowed to have nuclear wessels or an enrichment program. We will turn Eilat into trump plaza and casino. Or is that too on the nose?