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Should be a wild four years.

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My attitude has always been that there should be a limited government that doesn't do shit. Trump is about to sign a FISA 702 extension for warrantless spying on Americans, when even he fucking acknowledged the dems will use it to spy on MAGAtards. If I were just vindictive I would say fuck yeah and when your turn comes I would be the first to lop your head off. But I don't want to do that, because I love Americans and don't want them to be cucks to a European (or Bolshevik)-style government.
So you admit that you want to commit violence as you realize that being a principled loser isn’t a winning tactic.
 
Yeah they're replaced with younger, potentially even more volatile extremists. Smart.
Trump's strategy is very clear. Drain them. Bomb them. Cuck them into submission.

Nigger, it's war. What do you think war is?

I don't think you're aware of this, but I wanted Ayatollah Al Khameni and his family dead. I got everything I wanted for Christmas from Trump and then some. There's nothing you can really say to convince me this was a bad idea because I personally wanted this and it's already done.
 
So you admit that you want to commit violence as you realize that being a principled loser isn’t a winning tactic.
Do you have reading comprehensions issues? "If I were just vindictive". I'm not, as I said I may be a political loser but I have principles and even if I never win, I'll keep them. When democrats consider whatever you're saying to be right wing extremism and talk about putting you in gulags, I'll be defending you, even if you want me to kill myself and to be honest I want you to kill yourself too.
Nigger, it's war. What do you think war is?
Over, apparently, as we hit 60 days.
 
It's hard? I thought Trump was giving everyone free money and shieeee
The first line was the shitpost (where do you think we are, Dr Cox?), the second line was the message. I'm not giving one single goddamned dollar to anyone or any community on the internet. I've seen the monetization parasites gut, corrupt, or outright destroy entire communities and hobbies through monetization for 2 decades. 2 people offered me kiwi gold in DMs a while back. I told them I didn't want it. Its a paid sticker, not a virtue.

Its not about 20 dollars, and the fact you feel $20 bucks is a flex proves my point in a way you probably won't understand. Congrats, you dropped $20 bucks on some intangible internet bullshit! What a hero!

The "MORE monetization will surely restore the formerly free and open interwebs to its former glory" is ass-backwards at best, and a shitty pipe dream at worst. I know, I know, "nature of the beast" and "what else can jersh do?"

I don't have those answers. But, I do have my principles. I paid cash for my home, have 2 trucks, a car, and a fucking bulldozer. I own 30% of my buddies business. And you? You had $20 bucks and a bucketload of Something Awful style condescension. You absolute baller! How's your life going besides that $20? Do you have a bulldozer?

Because the opinion of a nigger that doesn't have the option to go full killdozer matters very little to me, even if hes got his heckin kiwi gold.
 
Over, apparently, as we hit 60 days.
I'm assuming you are young because you are very naive.

War doesn't work that way. It is not "WE DECLARE WAR, WAR HAPPENS, WAR OVER, SIGN TREATY; EVERYONE GO HOME". It is decades long excursions, territory divisions, control, fallouts, blockades, civil strife incidents, sometimes toppling over of multiple regimes. The initial fighting might be over, but this conflict is going to go on for a long time as a Cold War. Look at Russia and Ukraine. That's going to keep going for another decade.

There's a very big difference between what Trump is doing and what has been done in the past by other Presidents.
 
I don't have those answers. But, I do have my principles. I paid cash for my home, have 2 trucks, a car, and a fucking bulldozer. I own 30% of my buddies business. And you? You had $20 bucks and a bucker of Something Awful style condescension. You absolute baller! How's your life going besides that $20?
For one, I'm not retarded enough to pay cash for my home when my returns from stocks are greater than my mortgage. For two, I don't have 2 trucks and a car. For three, I don't invest in friends' businesses. I do have $20 and I am pretty condescending though. And life's going pretty good actually, thanks for asking. It's calm enough where i don't feel the need to sticker-spam like I'm on reddit, for one.
War doesn't work that way. It is not "WE DECLARE WAR, WAR HAPPENS, WAR OVER, SIGN TREATY; EVERYONE GO HOME". It is decades long excursions, territory divisions, control, fallouts, blockades, civil strife incidents, sometimes toppling over of multiple regimes. The initial fighting might be over, but this conflict is going to go on for a long time as a Cold War. Look at Russia and Ukraine. That's going to keep going for another decade.

There's a very big difference between what Trump is doing and what has been done in the past by other Presidents.
I don't think the US has the money to sustain that. We're already at peak-of-WW2-debt type debt. Maybe it made more sense 50 years ago, but right now you're going to have people protesting like there's no tomorrow because their lives are kinda shit and they want more gibs from the government.
 
Do you have reading comprehensions issues? "If I were just vindictive". I'm not, as I said I may be a political loser but I have principles and even if I never win, I'll keep them. When democrats consider whatever you're saying to be right wing extremism and talk about putting you in gulags, I'll be defending you, even if you want me to kill myself and to be honest I want you to kill yourself too.
Newsflash nigga, they consider anything other than full on Marxism to be Nazi. It's the problem of being late is the same punishment as rebellion, death.
 
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Tucker gets less views than Saul Sadka lmao. Have you ever heard of Saul Sadka? Me neither.
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Tucker is so triggered by Joel Berry he accidentally shows us Greater Israel.
People attempting to dunk on 7k paid subs don't understand how recurring billing income works as it applies to content creation. That's half a mil a year assuming $6/mo and not the monthly $9 rate. That's not counting social media monetization, ad reads, merch, speaking fees, etc. The dude is doing fine, insanely well really.
 
Right. And I'm the retard for buying my home outright.
Look I do think you're retarded for not understanding how money and debt works. If you spend $400K for a house in 2020 dollars, versus locking in a 2-3% mortgage and paying $80K in 2020 dollars, then letting inflation help you spend less dollars real-term for the same house? Yeah, you're kind of retarded.
 
I don't think the US has the money to sustain that.
The US always has money to sustain anything and everything when it comes to military endeavors. I know that sounds ludicrous, but the way the world works is Might Makes Right. The strongest army gets to do whatever they want and control the cash flow. We control the cash flow and the army, so the debt is basically meaningless because international politics boil down to a Violence Based Economy.

I'm not saying debt is domestically meaningless, it both is and isn't, but it IS meaningless in terms of international politics.

Maybe it made more sense 50 years ago, but right now you're going to have people protesting like there's no tomorrow because their lives are kinda shit and they want more gibs from the government.
They can protest all they want. It made no difference for Viet Nam and it won't make any difference here. I've organized more protests than you probably have and I can tell you firsthand, if protesting could stop a war-it'd be illegal. Just ask Ukraine.
 
Look I do think you're retarded for not understanding how money and debt works. If you spend $400K for a house in 2020 dollars, versus locking in a 2-3% mortgage and paying $80K in 2020 dollars, then letting inflation help you spend less dollars real-term for the same house? Yeah, you're kind of retarded.
Oh, I see, now. You're one of those "its not a home, its and investment" retards. And you probably bitch about boomers without any self relfection.

Keep on HODLin, buddy. Imagine paying 400k for a house. Enjoy the bughive.
 
People attempting to dunk on 7k paid subs don't understand how recurring billing income works as it applies to content creation. That's half a mil a year assuming $6/mo and not the monthly $9 rate. That's not counting social media monetization, ad reads, merch, speaking fees, etc. The dude is doing fine, insanely well really.
I'm not saying he isn't doing fine. I'm just saying his audience isn't as big as he wants you to believe.
 
We control the cash flow and the army, so the debt is basically meaningless because international politics boil down to a Violence Based Economy.
The US is not self-sustaining, nor can it ever be. If every other country decides they want more interest for borrowing to the US, as has been happening, the US can't nuke everyone. Realistically speaking, anyways.
They can protest all they want. It made no difference for Viet Nam and it won't make any difference here. I've organized more protests than you probably have and I can tell you firsthand, if protesting could stop a war-it'd be illegal. Just ask Ukraine.
You do realize Lyndon B Johnson didnt try to get re-elected solely because of widespread protests, and Nixon pussied out of multiple escalations because of how large the protests were getting, right?
Oh, I see, now. You're one of those "its not a home, its and investment" retards. And you probably bitch about boomers without any self relfection.

Keep on HODLin, buddy. Imagine paying 400k for a house. Enjoy the bughive.
You're talking about something completely different. I simply pay less real dollars by locking a mortgage. It has nothing to do with investment or not, but let me answer that too.
I live in my home, if I ever need to move it becomes an investment as I will have to sell it. There's nothing wrong with not being retarded about money management, unless you either operate on 15th century anti-usury principles (in which case you deserve exactly what happened to anti-usury people) or you can't understand how money works, which is actually the true boomer mentality. Maybe you should take an econ 101 course.
 
Look I do think you're retarded for not understanding how money and debt works. If you spend $400K for a house in 2020 dollars, versus locking in a 2-3% mortgage and paying $80K in 2020 dollars, then letting inflation help you spend less dollars real-term for the same house? Yeah, you're kind of retarded.
I disagree with you a lot but I can agree with you here. It's a question of math at this point. 400K loan@3% is 1613 per month. 400K invested at 8% is like 2667 a month in interest returns. I'm excluding mantience, insurance and taxes as those are the same no matter what. I can understand the desire to own a home free and clear here though so it's a different equation.

Now, I'm not too sure as the loan interest and returns make this strategy risky.
 
Oh, I see, now. You're one of those "its not a home, its and investment" retards. And you probably bitch about boomers without any self relfection.

Keep on HODLin, buddy. Imagine paying 400k for a house. Enjoy the bughive.
Actually, yes. You might be retarded for buying your home outright. There's many reasons you don't buy a home outright. You can but it's largely situation dependent. I don't think I would in today's market because I largely expect it to crash.

If you expect it to crash, and you currently own your home, you might want to reconsider.

the US can't nuke everyone.
That's essentially what Trump did with tariffs.

To your point, countries don't really work that way. There are always countries who will make a deal with Trump and the US. There's no "countries are just going to abandon the US!". That's just a LARP and not reality.

You do realize Lyndon B Johnson didnt try to get re-elected solely because of widespread protests
That was the 60s where people gave a shit. This is 2026, over 50 years later where nobody gives a shit. The era where protests had any teeth are gone. If protests still worked, Democrats wouldn't be resorting to rioting and sending in pallets of bricks.
 
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