US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - 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/

 

[Jagerjack]

In todays world a 90s democrat is Hitler

And vice versa, most modern conservative politicians and advocates are just liberals from 20 years ago. We're literally at the point when feminists, hoes, dykes and faggots are on our side fighting against troons. Tired of winning.

 

[Lip Glossary]

If Obummer wasn't from a single parent household he would've never gotten higher than a senator.

Still pretty funny that he was related to Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy on his mother's side.

I'm convinced all the retard picks for cabinet and agency heads is because he'd rather have an incompetent buffoon than a clever snake that could turn on him.

Just have to say it one more time because I said it twice yesterday: he picks blind loyalty over competence and it costs him.

In todays world a 90s democrat is Hitler

That's not even hyperbole because with my beliefs right now, I would be much closer to Democrat leaning independent in the 90s than a conservative leaning one.

 

[Hojicha]

It makes me genuinely happy knowing there's millions of young people out there that only know Ron Pearlman as the pee-pee poo-poo guy.

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"Ya hear that, Lil Vasily? I just shit a hole through my new trousers!"

Hey! I know him as the guy who purposely learned French so he could star in a movie where his love interest was a little girl. (City of Lost children)

 

[Lip Glossary]

Hey! I know him as the guy who purposely learned French so he could star in a movie where his love interest was a little girl. (City of Lost children)

I've always known him as one of those "That's that guy from that thing" actors until his politics and child's understanding of issues solidified his name in my mind as just another soft pampered actor who has played make believe tough guy for so long they think they actually are tough.
I remember when the parental rights in education bill was passed in Florida and he put out a video going "Don't say GAY? DON'T SAY GAY?" and went on a huge rant about how it's fucked up to ban using the word gay completely from schools.
Of course anybody who uses their brain knows that the loony left nicknamed it the don't say gay bill to try to kill support for it, and the actual bill was about teachers not talking about sexual orientation and gender identity to kids younger than third graders without parental consent, because it's inappropriate and has no place in public school.
He's just another fucking liberal retard that hears some shit and runs with it. I wonder how many people would actually be conservative if it was mandatory for everyone to learn with the actual issues and bills were about.

 

[Pargon]

Hey! I know him as the guy who purposely learned French so he could star in a movie where his love interest was a little girl. (City of Lost children)

Funny, I remember him for literally being the only good thing about a movie directed by the same person

“Can’t believe I almost fucked it.”
“Yeah, like you never fucked a robot!”

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

It really is just the same group of has-beens interviewing each other in circles.

Source | Archive

 

[SOLDIER OF WALES]

Renee Good's in the news again.
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Impossible not to notice how much they have to leave out to push a certain narrative.

shoulda got a parade and at the end of it the opportunity to kill her wife and the dog in the backseat too kek

 

[Nanashi no kiwi]

The New York Post published the failed assassin’s manifesto:

This is the most millennial-coded "manifesto" I've ever read. If you're gonna try to pull off a high-profile assassination, at least drop the quirk chungus shit.

 

[Bindo]

Did a tiny bit of reading, he failed upwards in the DOJ and DOD and was only able to stick around for all these years due to constantly kissing Trump's ass.

So an Indian from central casting.

 

[Jace on ice]

When "Being a nigger" and murdering 800 innocent people with drone strikes you signed off on are the top two things of your legacy, then you are a failure as a president.
The man is a well spoken communist who only won because of the colour of his skin. If he wasn't a nigger, America would have been able to see his grift coming from a mile off.

Literally the only good thing I can say about Obama is that for the most part since leaving office he's fucked off.

Yea he occasionally shows up at a DNC fundraiser but I fully expected him to get a show on MSNBC or CNN where he'd spew hate and gleefully poison race relations for personal gain.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Nah, Trump just sucks at picking cabinet members and has a retarded habit of ignoring the advice of his few good ones if the bad ones suck up to him or just happen to be a blonde.

I don't think you understand. Trump's cabinet was basically all MAGA heavy hitters. They were publicly very popular new conservatives. He didn't pick them necessarily based on loyalty alone, he picked problematic people for the Deep State. Unfortunately for Trump, some of these people were not able to live up to their task.

I firmly believe the only reason Noem was outed was because of her husband and Trump just got ahead of the story.

Bondi was never Trump's first choice. Everyone else he picked got denied or gayoped. It was a position that mattered.

Kash Patel got this job because he was in Trump's radar for a long time. He got confirmed specifically because he vowed multiple times he wouldn't abolish the FBI. He was not the wrecking ball guy and everyone knew it. I don't know if that was the wrong or right decision yet, but so far it's becoming apparent it probably wasn't the right decision.

Literally the only good thing I can say about Obama is that for the most part since leaving office he's fucked off.

He has not fucked off. Him and his cabinet were demanding blackmail on Trump from Epstein every other week. He takes literally every chance he gets to bash the Trump administration. He does press tours every other week where he talks about how evil Trump is. What part of that is fucking off?

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

My morning thoughts today: There is no ethical minimum wage under FICA; everyone under 65 should be paid $0.00 on paper. We should fashion nooses from social security checks mixed with the already-pillaged blood and sweat of the youth, and do what should’ve been done long ago: finally uncap Social Security contributions. Cuz, ya know, it’s the humane thing to do.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Literally the only good thing I can say about Obama is that for the most part since leaving office he's fucked off.

Yea he occasionally shows up at a DNC fundraiser but I fully expected him to get a show on MSNBC or CNN where he'd spew hate and gleefully poison race relations for personal gain.

They tried some sort of Netflix deal, but like a lot of celebrities they are finding out that streaming services don't have the same, "Nobody watches this but it's on TV so we still talk about it like it matters" energy that CNN and MSNOW and SNL and Kimmel and the like coast on.

 

[The Ugly One]

NYC basically has, or had, a golden goose of inertia. They're so fixated on what they think they can squeeze from this stone that they don't seem to recognize that they can genuinely kill it.

In a way, they already had. NYC exists in the first place because it's at the mouth of a major river, making it a prime trade location. Then, as many port towns do, it became a massive shipbuilding location. When the Industrial Revolution exploded, the closer you were to the trade hub, the better. The finance industry follows trade & manufacturing, because where better to trade than right near where all the trade and manufacturing are happening? At some point, though NYC decided it didn't want any foundational industries, just finance, so it chased everyone out. Finance is there because of what the city was, but it's a very easy industry to move if they want to give socialism a whirl.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

The FBI has been conducting raids in MN in connection to the fraud that JD's taskforce has been assigned to investigate. So anyone who thought we stopped all domestic affairs to bomb the browns in Iran should probably get sized up for a burrito wrapper.

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FBI raids Minneapolis childcare facilities, part of sweeping fraud investigation


Maybe Blondie was sitting on her ass and playing to the camera instead of doing her job. It could be a coincidence, but her successor seems more goal oriented than she was.

Honestly this kind of timing is probably the best thing the Trump administration could possibly do.

First you let the "citizen journalists" make a video of the target issue, triggering an outrage cycle about Topic X that will spin itself out for however long it takes until it's proverbially "yesterday's news" no one gives a shit about.

Then after all the hoopla dies down and people have moved on to another outrage cycle, you launch actual action against the target issue, political action this time. All the outrage got used up on the citizen journalist who ran the initial story. A few dedicated liberals still speak out against it, but their liberal audience has mostly moved on to today's NPC update and can no longer get the same level of pissed off at the issue.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

It really is just the same group of has-beens interviewing each other in circles.
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Source | Archive

Sheesh. Anyone who took Tucker vaguely seriously and was starting to contemplate becoming an anti-Trump pro-Qatar person should look at this as proof positive he's actually lost his mind. He thinks MTG was one of the best people in Congress. "I'm so desperate for friends I'll say anything."

 

[Lip Glossary]

When I was 16 working some shit job for $5.15 an hour, my dad always used to say to me "The minimum wage in this country is actually ZERO dollars an hour. So stop bitching and put the work in like everyone else."
So these commies that are bitching for universal basic income or $25 dollar an hour minimum wage are forgetting that you can always have nothing.

In a way, they already had. NYC exists in the first place because it's at the mouth of a major river, making it a prime trade location. Then, as many port towns do, it became a massive shipbuilding location. When the Industrial Revolution exploded, the closer you were to the trade hub, the better. The finance industry follows trade & manufacturing, because where better to trade than right near where all the trade and manufacturing are happening? At some point, though NYC decided it didn't want any foundational industries, just finance, so it chased everyone out. Finance is there because of what the city was, but it's a very easy industry to move if they want to give socialism a whirl.

Which explains why cities near water are always infested with the loony left.

 

[General Zoider]

The New York Post published the failed assassin’s manifesto:

i never thought I would see the day that someone would become a shooter mid soy-late.

 

[The Nothingness]

Hey look, another Stone Toss comic in real life!

 

[moocow]

Also Tucker Carlson's website database got accessed (hacked is too generous)

Thank you for calling that out. I hate the way this asshole's reporting about it like it's some super "security breach" or "hack," like how he says "oh such-and-such database is running on a Supabase (a run-of-the-mill PostgreSQL-as-a-Service for people too stupid to just "apt-get install postgresql18" on a host and lock it down) with "row level security disabled."

Like, yeah, no shit, that's fucking standard, you stupid fucking asshole. Row-level security is a pain in the ass in general and TBH all security features implemented in-engine in modern databases is a clusterfuck pain in the ass performance-killing turd, and there's a reason it's rarely wise to put more than one application's data in a single database server anymore. There's a reason people don't lean on row-level security much. It's slow and annoying. Also not usually very useful when you get down to it either.

SOP for a consumer-facing product or subscription sales portal that uses a database backend is to give it its own database server instance (that is, if you log into the database engine with its CLI or other tools, the only databases/namespaces/whatever you will see are those the engine itself creates for its internal use and then whatever the application creates), lock that instance down tight and hard (giggity) so literally nobody can even talk to it except the known ingress point for the application itself and a specific user account for administrative tasks via SSH only. All other security considerations within the DB engine get turned off aside from standard "username/password" for the app's authorized account, and it's only allowed to talk from whatever source IP(s) your frontend calls it from (and nowhere else).

PostgreSQL is more secure than most and offers more security functionality than most, but in practice next to none of it is actually necessary and just slows things down and over-complicates things too much. Use it to store, index and query data, and rig it so nobody can talk to it except one thing. Focus your security efforts there, not in the DB engine.