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/

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Trump seems intent on keeping the allies he has in Congress rather then consolidating ideological control. Graham was against Trump in 2016 but ever since his first term he has sucked up to him hard but there is a good chance he is merely acting as an opportunist.

The Senator notably supported Trump's election recount efforts in 2020, said that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are lawfully elected after the events of January 6, 2021, voted against Trump's second impeachment and was against the January 6 commission. He has also criticized Trump for not supporting a federal abortion ban and said it was "a mistake" for Trump to pardon criminal defendants who pleaded guilty to or were convicted of violent crimes during the events of January 6 but at the same time he later defended Trump's decision to fire the 17 Inspectors General early into his second term.

He seems quite "fair-weather" with his political support at times to say the least.

Here is Graham getting booed in his own home state a few years ago and then immediately being defended by Trump:

Yeah, but about that whole 'drain the swamp thing'.... I guess it's OK when we do it? Again?

 

[pwnest injun]

I'd unironically sign up for ICE if it didn't involve being a glowie. (the only good kind of glowie but regardless)

They probably want you to speak gutter Spanish too.

Yes pls fire this bitch. Disappointing results all across the board.

Even as a paid liar, she's trash.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

It's that simple, but people want to kick and scream and cry over it. I don't like graham, I think he's a scumfuck and a closeted faggot, but he wins elections.

And that just means that instead of there being light on the horizon like we thought we're actually nowhere near bottom yet. Things will have to get much worse.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

As for emergency alerts, it grinds my gears when they are overused to the point people ignore them. In my part of Kiwi Land, we get alerts for potential bad weather - a lot of which never materializes or it shifts and goes elsewhere. It's gotten to the point people treat these alerts like the boy who cried wolf and ignore them, so it's not surprising people would ignore alerts for actual bad weather happening when they get so many small alerts that prove to be over hyped nothing.

It's worse than that, it's my understanding that the alerts have the same emergency alert tone that is used for Amber / Silver / Blue??(this one is new to me and only just happened yesterday) alerts which refer to Child kidnapping in progress, Old person missing, and apparently a cop being shot(???) respectively but the range you get them from is ridiculous and so they're way too common and almost never relevant to you.

I'll get an alert about a custody dispute at 2AM and it's in an entirely different town. I wouldn't be surprised if I unconsciously turn it off in my sleep by this point.

 

[marlimar]

How many Chinese cities are made of plaster and chickenwire? Which ones? Why aren't they collapsing?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xYL4epbjsyI

 

[pwnest injun]

Yeah, but about that whole 'drain the swamp thing'.... I guess it's OK when we do it? Again?

When you're surrounded by enemies, you have to pick a direction and commit to it.

It appears like Biden importing 18 million foreign nationals forced that issue to the top of the pile.

 

[Frank_Jaeger]

"When Trump completes his vision of America and turns us from a global superpower back to 1833 standards of living, I want to die in a coal mine!" Said no one ever

 

[babyDunk]

It took Kristin Norm an entire 3 days to authorize search and rescue teams,l. Guess Barbie was too busy doing her nails and hair help those drowning kids, huh?

1. There were multiple warnings issued by the NWS (days in advance as well) so i do not know what "you had no warning" means here
2. The US coast guard was already deployed and on the ground at the time, and the state responders already had people on the ground as well.Apparently the FEMA delay was because of budget threshold issue? Dumb if you ask me.

But surely FEMA is more skilled at navigating floods than the COAST GUARD right?

I do not mind that you think trump is a fat pedophile and you hate MAGAts, but please attempt to hold in your retarded takes and tendencies, otherwise i implore you to get free rope.

When you're surrounded by enemies, you have to pick a direction and commit to it.

It appears like Biden importing 18 million foreign nationals forced that issue to the top of the pile.

I will say seeing the neocons still exist is exhuasting

 

[Nameless One]

When you're surrounded by enemies, you have to pick a direction and commit to it.

It appears like Biden importing 18 million foreign nationals forced that issue to the top of the pile.

Never thought I'd see so much cope from you.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

I'm guessing gathering the radioactive stuff for reactors is out of the question?

No. It could be useful. If there was a demand and a need, it would absolutely be economical to separate the uranium and thorium from the tailings for commercial use. The main issues are that they are very, very low concentrations, and therefore less economically viable than conventional uranium mines, the demand for that amount of uranium and thorium isn't there, and the processing sites are not set up to separate the materials which are not rare earths. If there was some kind of large scale expansion of nuclear power and it became economically viable, it would be relatively trivial to set up a parallel processing site to extract those elements.

It's actually similar to the coal ash thing I mentioned earlier. It would actually be rather economically viable to process existing coal ash waste pools for rare earths, as the ash waste has a higher yield than most rare earth fields, but the environmental protection costs and startup costs make it unprofitable. Obviously when talking about processing hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic, slightly radioactive coal ash, we're talking about real environmental concerns beyond the abstract greenhouse gasses or whatever. Accidentally dumping ten thousand tons of coal ash slurry laden with arsenic and antimony wet with sulfuric acid into a local river would be an environmental nightmare which would Palestine, Ohio look like spilled milk.

That's not to say it shouldn't be done, or that it isn't still a good idea, just that if it is done, we need to be careful and invest in redundant protections for the environment and local communities.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

The US coast guard was already deployed and on the ground at the time, and the state responders already had people on the ground as well.Apparently the FEMA delay was because of budget threshold issue? Dumb if you ask me.

Didn't they have a delayed response during the storms in 2024 because of budget issues? Namely the spending their funds rehousing illegal immigrants in hotels so there was nothing left for citizens? Does anyone want FEMA around at all?

 

[whoishomermynameis]

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1943049717631586754

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

Out of all the people, it had to be Lindsey.

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Lindsey Grahamnesty may be a warhawk faggot, but at least he tows the party line and votes with Trump unlike Massie. You win by winning.

 

[The Ugly One]

This may be a hot-take but I think "could do it but chooses not to" is actually worse than "too stupid to do it correctly".

They're culturally too stupid.

 

[babyDunk]

Didn't they have a delayed response during the storms in 2024 because of budget issues? Namely the spending their funds rehousing illegal immigrants in hotels so there was nothing left for citizens? Does anyone want FEMA around at all?

Those storms were still Drumfs fault! If the Climate Denying MAGAts just handed over more power to Climate Change activists, then the floods and hurricanes would not have happened!

The experts declared as much, so it is now fact

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I dunno if anyone is still paying attention but Biden's personal doctor has plead the 5th before every question when in front of the House Committee.

I'm not American but can you plead the 5th before what is just a investigation? And doesn't that really incriminate him, that he won't answer a single question under oath about Biden's health or his actions during that time?

I hope the DoJ puts the screws to him, he was the person most responsible for Biden's health and alerting people to his decline so the fault lies heavily on him.

 

[VanyaMotorbike]

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1943049717631586754

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I know Idris Elba was involved in a similar project in Sierra Leone, but it hasn't yet been exposed as a grift (Nor has there been any recent news)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68573737

Hollywood actor Idris Elba has a "big dream" for Sierra Leone, the West African nation where his father was born - to regenerate a beautiful island off its coast and turn it into an eco-friendly "smart city".

"Originally we went there thinking how could we bring tourism to the most incredible 19 miles of beachfront," the British star told the BBC about Sherbro Island.

But as the idea was explored, a more innovative plan came into play - to bring in partners and seriously develop the area in a sustainable, eco way. The project now also intends to bring wind-powered renewable electricity for the first time to Sierra Leone.
"It's a dream, you know, but I work in the make-believe business," says Elba, best known for his roles in Luther, the Wire and for playing Nelson Mandela. The 51-year-old actor wants to make people believe this can happen - and change perspectives.

"It's about being self-reliant, it's about bringing an economy that feeds itself and has growth potential. I'm very keen to reframe the way Africa is viewed… as an aid model.

"This opportunity is completely different."

Elba was brought into the project by his childhood friend Siaka Stevens, the grandson of a former Sierra Leonean president of the same name.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

When you're surrounded by enemies, you have to pick a direction and commit to it.

It appears like Biden importing 18 million foreign nationals forced that issue to the top of the pile.

I just refuse to believe that Lindsey Graham is the least gay and sleazy pro-Trump Republican in South Carolina and all the stickers in the world will not change my mind.

 

[Terrifik]

another block on birth right citizenship

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1943313524299645012

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/10/judge-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship/84533181007/

CONCORD, New Hampshire − A federal judge again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, made the ruling July 10 after immigrant rights advocates implored him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by implementation of Trump's directive.

Laplante agreed the plaintiffs could proceed as a class, allowing him to issue a fresh judicial order blocking implementation of the Republican president's policy nationally.
The question of whether to issue an injunction was "not a close call," he said, noting children could be deprived of U.S. citizenship if Trump's order took effect.

"That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone," he said. "It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”

The judge said he would stay his ruling for a few days to allow the Trump administration to appeal and would issue a written decision by the end of the day.

The American Civil Liberties Union and others filed the suit just hours after the Supreme Court on June 27 issued a 6-3 ruling, powered by its conservative majority, that narrowed three nationwide injunctions issued by judges in separate challenges to Trump's directive.

The suit was filed on behalf of non-U.S. citizens living in the United States whose babies might be affected.

Under the Supreme Court's decision, Trump's executive order would take effect on July 27.

Looking to seize upon an exception in the Supreme Court's ruling, the lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the decision allows judges to continue to block Trump policies on a nationwide basis in class action lawsuits.

The three judges who issued nationwide injunctions found that Trump's directive likely violates citizenship language in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment. The amendment states that all "persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

The Justice Department has argued that Trump's order conforms with the Constitution and has asked Laplante to find that the plaintiffs cannot sue as a class.

The Supreme Court's ruling did not address the legal merits of Trump's order, which the Republican president issued as part of his hardline immigration agenda on his first day back in office in January.

Trump's order directs federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of U.S.-born children who do not have at least one parent who is an American citizen or lawful permanent resident, also known as a "green card" holder.

Laplante, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, ruled Trump's order contradicted the 14th Amendment and a 1898 Supreme Court ruling interpreting it.

In that case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court interpreted that amendment as recognizing the right to birthright citizenship regardless of the immigration status of a baby's parents.

More than 150,000 newborns would be denied citizenship annually if it takes effect nationally, according to Democratic-led states and immigrant rights advocates who have challenged it.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

I'm not American but can you plead the 5th before what is just a investigation?

Yes, the 5th is one of the few amendments that still has a lot of power. There are ways around it, but it is extremely difficult on the government's part.

And doesn't that really incriminate him, that he won't answer a single question under oath about Biden's health or his actions during that time?

Legally, pleading the 5th can't be used against you. Practically, it is showing Congress there is smoke and it could motivate then to pry deeper.