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

General Trump Banner.png

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/
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I’m old enough to remember a form of boomer home loan where monthly repayments were set at a fixed rate and the only repayment variable was the term of the loan.

In effect, they committed to say $600/mth for 25 years, if interest rates increased the 25 years extended, if they dropped the 25 years was shortened. At some point between 23 and 27 years the loan would be paid off, normally with a small additional payment to ensure the lender wasn’t screwed out of a profit.

The beauty of these loans is that as people’s careers developed they earned more money, but their mortgages stayed the same, meaning they could pay the loan down faster. Or invest, if investment gave a better return, or buy nice stuff. Sure, the lenders might not have made as much but the economy benefited because people weren’t crushed by inflation.

Of course, such loans impact the Federal Reserve’s ability to heat or cool the economy by controlling interest rates so it’s no wonder such loans were phased out when the flower child generation discovered rapacious greed in the 80’s and earnestly started attacking the ladder that Gen X was beginning to climb up.

If I were stupidly J. Paul Getty rich and already had more money than I knew what to do with I’d be setting up a low-profit/non-profit home loan co-operative using this repayment method, aimed squarely at young white families. Come on mega millions, give me the juice and I’ll change the face of home loans forever.
How is this effectively any different from a conventional fixed-rate mortgage? The monthly payment is the same for those. Are you a foreigner living in a country where ARMs are still common?
 
Newsom also visited China, South Korea, Italy, Japan, etc

AOC visited several countries in Latin America.


This is common.
It's common for a potential candidate for president to go kiss the wall. The rest of the stuff isn't as big a deal because we don't give as much aid to those other countries.

I don't like how it is expected, and damn near required for them to show their alignment with Israel. Trying to downplay this really doesn't do you a lot of favors. I do wish my leaders didn't have to openly do, what appears to me, this groveling bullshit. What really does anger me though, is when they do shit like what that miserable shit weasel goes there and visits FUCKIGN SETTLEMENTS, visits land being actively stolen.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/mike-johnson-israeli-settlement-west-bank-gaza-rcna223004

i mostly don't give a shit about what goes on there, but when you lend credibility to stealing that land, and then you come back and talk about wanting peace.. The words ring a bit hollow.

I'm not even saying it's wrong for the land to be taken, it's not my business, I don't really care, but mike is endorsing that shit on behalf of the US, and that's wrong.
 
Great shitpost but wouldn't work, not one chinaman would die.
View attachment 7743183
The movies like black hawk down where a dozen militia are shooting spraying and praying at marines and the marines don't get hit isn't actually unrealistic. It doesn't seem intuitive but there are a lot more places for the bullet to miss than for it to hit. It's why western armies spend over ten thousand $ on each warfighter just to condition them to shoot straight under pressure. For rifles anything beyond 30 meters your chances of hitting with spray go down to near 0, for handguns it's anything beyond 10 meters.

Even the chinese can probably beat that.
This is why, if you find yourself at gunpoint and unarmed, the best thing you can do is run as quickly as possible in the opposite direction. The gunman will likely miss.
 
It's common for a potential candidate for president to go kiss the wall. The rest of the stuff isn't as big a deal because we don't give as much aid to those other countries.
Trying to downplay this really doesn't do you a lot of favors
The central question was why don't politicians visit other countries and only visit Israel. I showed that isn't true.

You don't give as much aid but you make giant trade deals. If Japan and South Korea are competing for a trade deal but the deciding factor is a politician who visited South Korea on a private groups dime, it's more likely that they will go with South Korea.

Mike Johnson shouldn't visit disputed settlements
 
People keep getting stuck on the Jailbait hand job angle and aren't taking in to account that Epstein was THE guy for funneling money into CIA black operations. So, if your pipeline is being fucked with by some guerilla militia in spic land, you're giving millions of dollars to Jeffry, and he's putting it in the hands of some School of the Americas death squad on your behalf.

Flesh peddling is a side hustle. The guy was a facilitator of illicit wars and murder. More serious than a rub and tug..

Was he though?

The whole Epstein story is so fucking weird. You have Epstein flying around with weapons dealers one minute. You have a weird old billionaire signing power of attorney over to him and giving him hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.

The truth will likely never come out.

Which is why it was so dumb when Trump made it an issue all by himself.
 
Which is why it was so dumb when Trump made it an issue all by himself.
That was Bongino, Patel, Bondi, et al. more than anything. I remember Trump's campaign messaging, he was largely doing his non-committal consideration schtick he tends to do instead of committing, at least at first. I'll blame Trump insofar as he's the ringmaster of the circus, but if the clowns promise getting an elephant into the clown car as their act and then show off it's just some small toy, it's the clowns who ultimately did the screwup until someone can show evidence the ringmaster was behind this bait-and-switch.
 
Only good thing about Bill Balls was getting NORMALIZE INDIAN HATE into the public consciousness. In truth dude gives off mega pussy-douche vibes.
He literally just defended a woman from a dozen “youths” in an anti-gun city with a Soros prosecutor.

He’s the furthest thing possible from a pussy.
 
My hope is that trump is using the India tarrifs to force them back to the bargaining table. In exchange for less tariffs he will tax remitances.
Terrible.

Only deal we'll offer is mass genocide of their own population. They need to take back all the street shitters they've dumped on the rest of us as well. Anything short of that is a terrible deal for Trump.
 
The movies like black hawk down where a dozen militia are shooting spraying and praying at marines and the marines don't get hit isn't actually unrealistic. It doesn't seem intuitive but there are a lot more places for the bullet to miss than for it to hit.
Don't forget that firearms require braincells to operate. We still regularly observe african militia's using the range markings on their sights as power levels - if you set the gun to "500" instead of "100" then its obviously going to hit harder. Or that you just need to point the gun in the general direction of the guy you want to kill, and the only reason he won't die is because he's got stronger magics than your gun so the bullets are bouncing off.

That kind of magical thinking isn't magically absent in retards and gang bangers the world over. Especially in gang fighting, where you're not really fighting with the sole intent of killing the enemy, your fighting to show how badass you are and assert your turf and dominance - So you could take the time to make calm, calculated shots, or you could turn the gun sideways and shuffle your low hanging pants across the firing line while shouting nigger and pulling the trigger as fast as you can. One of those will look more badass than the other, killing the guy shooting at you is more of a bonus. And if both parties are being retarded and shooting like retards, you'll probably survive being retarded like that, which just reinforces that its a good idea.

The psychology of gunfights is wild stuff.

View attachment 7744320


Seems sama is trying to lock in the fed to openAI or trying to suck trumps hog, OR BOTH!
My bets on traffic and training data. Your average agency office drone is going to be feeding through massive reams of government documents to get to the actual meaningful bit, which they can both show off to investors as "look how much traffic and engagement we got" and then turn around with just a little bit of masking of data, to use as a massive source of legalese style writing to train off of.
 
off.

That kind of magical thinking isn't magically absent in retards and gang bangers the world over. Especially in gang fighting, where you're not really fighting with the sole intent of killing the enemy, your fighting to show how badass you are and assert your turf and dominance - So you could take the time to make calm, calculated shots, or you could turn the gun sideways and shuffle your low hanging pants across the firing line while shouting nigger and pulling the trigger as fast as you can. One of those will look more badass than the other, killing the guy shooting at you is more of a bonus. And if both parties are being retarded and shooting like retards, you'll probably survive being retarded like that, which just reinforces that its a good idea.
Orks basically are if the nigga magic actually works.
 
My bets on traffic and training data.
this is my guess too. The #1 goal of most of these companies (aside from actually turning a profit) is to feed as much data as possible to their LLMs. I'd be very curious how they're planning on separating out the fed's data from the rest of their training set, if they're bothering to at all.
 
The Democrat Party’s thought leader Jasmine Crockett says she’s not just going to punch Republicans, she’s going to knock them out.

View attachment 7741263
It’s funny that Democrat rhetoric so often centers on class, considering that they have no class. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), a prominent face of her party, was in Phoenix for a MoveOn rally on Sunday:

“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of sh*t. Okay, we know that! Yes, he is! He is!” Crockett said to cheers.

Normal people are supposed to tolerate creatures like her ruling over them? Not an option.

Democrat language alert:
https://xcancel.com/Breaking911/status/1952398434951909834
1754492649422.webp


Crockett is popular within her party because she is no outlier but rather its apotheosis. Her fellow neoliberals lap her act right up. “Fact check: True,” cheers the aptly named shitlib site Crooks & Liars, but with a qualification:
I’d argue that Trump is worse than sh[*]t. Sh[*]t can be used as a fertilizer and soil amendment in many places. In contrast, Trump has zero redeeming qualities, so I’d go with describing Trump as “a rancid piece of sh[*]t.”

No doubt that passes for compelling argumentation among the current Democrat base.

Attempting a reasonable discussion with a libshit would be like talking to a squirrel — if instead of chattering squirrels spewed obscenity.
 
Last edited:
Attempting a reasonable discussion with a shitlib would be like talking to a squirrel — if instead of chattering squirrels spewed obscenity.
someone can fact check me on this, but didn't people dig up clips of her earlier in her career and she spoke like a normal human being instead of ghetto trash?
 
Back