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/

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

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https://openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-entire-us-federal-workforce/

Seems sama is trying to lock in the fed to openAI or trying to suck trumps hog, OR BOTH!

Grok is already there

 

[deleuzeon]

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https://openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-entire-us-federal-workforce/

Seems sama is trying to lock in the fed to openAI or trying to suck trumps hog, OR BOTH!

Probably also trying to vacuum up all the data they'll be plugging into it and all the queries they make. I'm sure someone will tell me that it's a local copy, but yeah, sure thing.

 

[quaawaa]

Trump just doubled India's 25% tariff to 50%!

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation​

The White House
August 6, 2025

ADDRESSING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order imposing tariffs on India in response to its continued purchase of Russian Federation oil, and establishing a process for the potential imposition of similar tariffs on other countries that directly or indirectly import oil from the Russian Federation.

• The President found that India is currently importing Russian Federation oil. Accordingly, to address the national emergency stemming from the Government of the Russian Federation’s actions taken against Ukraine, he is imposing an additional 25% tariff on imports from India, effective August 27, due to India’s direct or indirect importation of Russian Federation oil.
  • This tariff is in addition to any other duties, fees, taxes, exactions, and charges applicable to such imports, unless subject to existing or future actions under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
  • This tariff is also in addition to any tariff applicable under Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025, as amended, but the additional 25% tariff imposed by this order shall not apply to articles set forth in Annex II to Executive Order 14257.
• The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and other senior officials, will determine whether other countries directly or indirectly import Russian Federation oil and recommend further actions to the President as needed.

COUNTERING THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S THREAT TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY: The Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine pose an ongoing threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy, necessitating stronger measures to address the national emergency.

• India’s importation of Russian Federation oil undermines U.S. efforts to counter Russia’s harmful activities.
• India’s subsequent reselling of this oil on the open market, often at significant profit, further enables the Russian Federation’s economy to fund its aggression.
• By imposing a 25% tariff, President Trump aims to deter countries from supporting the Russian Federation’s economy through oil imports and impose serious economic consequences on the Russian Federation for its ongoing aggressions.

PUTTING AMERICA FIRST: President Trump has been consistent that he will not tolerate Russian Federation aggression.

• President Trump has been transparent that the Russian Federation would not be facing these actions if they were to “get a deal where people stop getting killed.”
• President Trump has also been upfront that India would face tariffs for buying Russian Federation oil: “India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits …. Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA.”
• President Trump remains committed to pursuing peace, and these actions aim to pressure the Russian Federation toward a resolution that ends the conflict and saves lives.

Source (Archive)

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Fuck you Tim Cook. Chinese-made smartphones are currently tariffed 20% and the country you moved production to try and dodge the tariffs now has a 50% tariff. Hope investing in India was worth it.

 

[The Nothingness]

Another economic boycott, except for the bare essentials, has been scheduled for this Saturday by The People's Union USA. This will likely goes as well as their last one.

lol at Newsweek claiming it's a grassroots organization and unaffiliated with any political party.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

PSA re One Big Beautiful Bill and "no tax on tips"

TLDR: Mandatory tips ~may be~ likely are going away

To be considered a "qualified tip" the tip must be paid *voluntarily* without any consequence in the event of nonpayment, not the subject of negotiation, and determined by the payor. *Thus, for example, an automatic gratuity of 18% added by a restaurant to a check for a large party would not be considered a qualified tip.*

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

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:

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

What an era of Jon Stewart politics gets you?

Whenever I see speeches like this, it always make me think back to Synthcool:
"I get my political information from washed-up Gen X Democrats who you know never really actually put much stock in any solutions to systemic issues or doing anything against corporate greed. Nah, I just want to do my vaguely political Jack McCoy impression at the dinner table to own my Republican grandparents."

Cringe. this would be sad if these fucklechucks didn't want to destroy the west and civil society.

Think of how many Africans they could have fed...

 

[Turkey Beef]

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?

Correct. In typical neoliberal construct, Jasmine Crockett is a an absolute fraud. Relevant part starts 15 seconds into the video:

Megyn Kelly fills us in on CrockOfShit’s privileged background, and contrasts video of her cosplaying as ghetto trash and her standard sheboon mode:

Sounds like Crockett is a hate hoaxer. Anyone surprised?

As phony as her Ebonics is Crockett’s excuse for calling wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott “Hot Wheels.”

Her lame explanation:

“I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable.”

Then we read this:

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) “liked” Facebook comments referring to wheelchair-bound Texas governor Greg Abbott as “hot wheels” in 2021—a year before he started busing migrants to Democratic cities, the policy Crockett said she was referring to when she called Abbott “hot wheels” herself.

How unsurprising. CrockOfShit is so witless, she didn’t even come up with the “Hot Wheels” epithet on her own.

Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow suspects Crockett is working for the GOP:

“Jasmine Crockett is a plant. She is for us. She is here for us. And I don’t think the Democrats…[are] going to figure it out. That she’s a — we’re sponsoring her somehow. There’s a Republican conservative out there who is spending money on this person to keep her afloat and to keep her showing up at this stuff. … She is a TV figure created to create talk radio content.”

However, even if CrockOfShit is patently phony and no normal person could find her appealing, the same could be said for most if not all Democrat hacks.

 

[Mister Fister]

Trump found an excuse to fuck over pooland.

 

[deleuzeon]

In typical neoliberal construct, Jasmine Crockett is a an absolute fraud.

If they haven't already tried this angle, they're going to excuse this by saying it's code-switching, and that it's good actually, and you just don't get it because you are a mayo monkey who doesn't respect black ways of knowing.

 

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He was one of the TV Supermen, but the worst one because he was on the most romance oriented version. He's probably done some Hallmark movies or something.

With this, he's also basically announcing he's retiring from convention appearances because he will sure as hell be blacklisted.

Dean Cain was already blacklisted to the point that they refuse to even count him as a "non-white superman" when they advocate for race swapping the character as part of their humiliation rituals. It's not even a secret that he's conservative, and has appeared on Fox News and the like for years.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

WE ARE SO FUCKING CLOSE

CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE DAY OF THE FLUSH!!!

 

[Back me up!]

In a actual smart move the Feds are now going after states to clean up their elections. Smart use to use the VRA to do it.

"JUST ANNOUNCED: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon is trying to UNDO race-based Congressional districts largely gerrymandered for Dems, and is suing to remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls.

"We are investigating violations of federal voting laws. We're ensuring that all 50 states have and continue to have clean voter rolls. We are challenging efforts to suppress or dilute the vote. We are attacking illegal race-based gerrymandering, and we are protecting ballot access for all Americans."

"We have sued jurisdictions such as North Carolina for not registering voters properly by first verifying their eligibility."

"We have notified Texas of grave concerns about congressional districts drawn with racial motivations, and we are suing other jurisdictions where there is evidence of ineligible voters on their voter rolls."

"Our job is to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat."

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1953110378767913124

WE ARE SO FUCKING CLOSE
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CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE DAY OF THE FLUSH!!!

All we need is one Nationist jeet to steal/sale US State Security to justify killing the whole Visa/OPT/H-1B program.

 

[Mister Fister]

WE ARE SO FUCKING CLOSE
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CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE DAY OF THE FLUSH!!!

Trump is trolling India to do something stupid. Can Jeets not take the bait?

 

[autistic dog]

Ey calm down hermano, are you saying a Mesican will like commit a violent crime due to poor impulse control because you said words to their face or something? Not cool esse.

Come on man everyone knows mexicans only commit crimes of opportunity. They dont do violence for no reason based on poor impulse control. They're not niggers!

 

[Fapcop]

Fuck you Tim Cook. Chinese-made smartphones are currently tariffed 20% and the country you moved production to try and dodge the tariffs now has a 50% tariff. Hope investing in India was worth it.

Lol…

You do realize that the primary mover behind moving production to India was… The USG, right?

Trump just doubled India's 25% tariff to 50%!

Its a dumb, harebrained move that just makes him look even more unreliable than before.

Literally government by tantrum.

And it won’t hurt the jeets that much, since it doesn’t touch services which is way bigger than exports. India doesn’t export all that much to America. Services is where it’s at.

 

[not william stenchever]

There is so much dirt out on this guy that it’d be political suicide to run him. From the weird finger lake tattoos to snorting drugs with Malia Obama to his short-lived career as an artist to the prostitutes, interracial gangbang porn, corrupt dealings in Ukraine and evidence he molested underage girls from his own family, this piece of shit will never be run for office.

So you're saying that with the DNC he has a chance?

Literally government by tantrum.

I don't have a problem with the idea when it comes to the jeet question because they'll do the same but far stupider.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Even the devil can quote scripture

And he can quote it better than you ever can.

 

[deleuzeon]

India doesn’t export all that much to America

But when they do, what a mess. They just exported some Sig parts to us that got an Air Force person shot dead by his own gun, so really they shouldn't be exporting anything to America.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Use their own tactics against them:

edit: my nigga

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

Lol…

You do realize that the primary mover behind moving production to India was… The USG, right?

Its a dumb, harebrained move that just makes him look even more unreliable than before.

Literally government by tantrum.

And it won’t hurt the jeets that much, since it doesn’t touch services which is way bigger than exports. India doesn’t export all that much to America. Services is where it’s at.

“SAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE 50% TARIFFS SAAR!”