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WW1 was the last major war of older times, and the first major war of this modern world.
WW2 could just easily be the threshold war between eras. Before WW1, some modern weaponry (zeppelins, submarines, ironclads) had already seen usage, and after WW1, the colonial world order was still intact, and the cultures of Europe had not been alienated from their former selves (with the exception of Russia)

After WW2, decolonization began, nuclear weapons presented a bigger change to warfare than any of the inventions used in WW1, and the complete cultural transformation of all involved nations began at extreme speed. Moreover, WW2 is the single biggest cultural and political touchstone of the entire world for the 80+ years thereafter. I think it would be reasonable to claim that the entire present world is still just the aftermath of WW2 at some level.
 
Marx was a lazy asshole who was stealing ideas from other people. If it wasn't Marx it would have been some other sociopath who fundamentally didn't understand human beings and thought they knew how everyone should live their lives better than they did.

Marx wasn't well regarded or someone taken all that seriously by contemporary socialists. I forget who had done, it but someone went back to look at citations of his work and he was a nobody until the Soviet Union catapulted him to prominence. The Russians who formed the Soviet Union and implemented Marxist policies were also bourgeois assholes that came from money and claimed to advocate on behalf of the workers.

Why they chose Marx may just be a matter of chance, but I suspect they sensed a kindred worthless soul in Marx. I also believe that the lack of coherent policy lets the midwits that revere Marx fill in the blanks themselves and not have to care too much about it as it lead to the promised socialist paradise. It's more akin to a religious text that proposes heaven on earth instead of as part of some next life.

The politics of WWI are difficult to understand without knowing much about European royal families and empires, German unification, the decline of the Ottomans, and trouble in the Balkans. WWII is a lot more straightforward.

I think the explanation is much simpler than that. The USA wasn't as involved in WWI, but was involved in both major theaters of WWII. Of course we're going to be more interested in something we were not only involved in, but were instrumental in winning. The weapons it was fought with also make it more interesting as WWI devolved into trench warfare as military tactics hadn't quite caught up with technological advances yet. By WWII there were significant advances in armored vehicles, airplanes, naval vessels, and weapons. By the end of the war atomic weapons had been developed and used to devastating effect. WWII is the big Hollywood sequel to the well made budget film that was WWI.
 
Marx wasn't well regarded or someone taken all that seriously by contemporary socialists
Engels really was the main guy and Marx was his Vito or Gator. Marx was mainly known for his understanding of capitalism right? even my pubic school noted he was most famous for das capital and he never really moved on from the very basics of politics. its like if the Sugarhill Gang still rapped today with that same "Hip hop you don't stop" lyrics.
 
WW2 could just easily be the threshold war between eras. Before WW1, some modern weaponry (zeppelins, submarines, ironclads) had already seen usage, and after WW1, the colonial world order was still intact, and the cultures of Europe had not been alienated from their former selves (with the exception of Russia)

After WW2, decolonization began, nuclear weapons presented a bigger change to warfare than any of the inventions used in WW1, and the complete cultural transformation of all involved nations began at extreme speed. Moreover, WW2 is the single biggest cultural and political touchstone of the entire world for the 80+ years thereafter. I think it would be reasonable to claim that the entire present world is still just the aftermath of WW2 at some level.
No, sorry, the First World War was clearly the shifting point between eras. It was the end of world order established by the Congress of Vienna, which lasted a century. It established the world led by the United States, which was the only country to come out of it better off than it entered. The causes of the Second World War are found directly as consequences of the first.

If you want to say that the Second World War was the means by which that era accelerated towards its peak, then I think you'd have a point.
 
everyone not in the MAGA bubble sees it as embarrassing, because Trump had all this big talk about "America finally putting its foot down" by doing big boy tariffs to the rest of the world, only to start gradually walking it back not long after, because shockingly, this might actually be a retarded idea after all.

kek what a bitch

You're like a cuck who sits in your chair in the corner and ridicules your wife's boyfriend as he's railing her.
 
No, sorry, the First World War was clearly the shifting point between eras. It was the end of world order established by the Congress of Vienna, which lasted a century. It established the world led by the United States, which was the only country to come out of it better off than it entered. The causes of the Second World War are found directly as consequences of the first.

If you want to say that the Second World War was the means by which that era accelerated towards its peak, then I think you'd have a point.

It could also be said that the two major external outcomes from WWI, Wilson’s social progressive gospel laying the foundation for FDR and the Russian Empire becoming the Soviet Union, shifted the era so much that we are still dealing with the effects of that to this day.
 
SO, the nigs are on suicide watch.
Kek
He dindu nothin' my arse.
His lawyer dropped him faster than George Floyd OD'd on fentanyl.

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Dems are seething they can't use this as an excuse to burn down everything.
Honestly the only thing that can counterbalance this would be a school shooting to shift attention away from the shit being flung at the black community.
 
Dems are seething they can't use this as an excuse to burn down everything.
Honestly the only thing that can counterbalance this would be a school shooting to shift attention away from the shit being flung at the black community.
Ok dude, so fifth generation warfare, right?

We take all the 11-17 year old black gangsters and send them to China.

Put them in off the shelf sears suits and tell China they’re foreign investors. The chinks will fool themselves with hopium and allow them in
 
I was sperging about it a bit earlier, the ultimate terror for people with this mindset isn't being subject to violence or dominance (they have no experience of this), it's being expelled from a group. That's it. That's what must be avoided at all costs. They can't really comprehend anything beyond that.
This really puts troons fighting so hard to get into women's spaces in a new light. It's literally torture for them, they twist their bodies and minds to meet "the requirements" to be a woman, only for women to go "eww gross dude why are you here". By leaving one group to join another which does not accept them, they become their own group of undesirables living in the hell of only being accepted by the unacceptable.

I guess it's why they get handmaidens, the handmaidens would HATE to have someone not accept them so they just do the "good thing" of being so open minded the troons can brainfuck them.

Demonic. All of it.
 
If there are no arrests during Trump's term then he is controlled opposition and designed to let off steam. The next globalist in power will make an example out of people and things will get much much worse.

Not holding my breath for arrests, but at least we'll have a clear sign that it's time to prepare if they don't start happening soon.
 
SO, the nigs are on suicide watch.
Kek
He dindu nothin' my arse.
His lawyer dropped him faster than George Floyd OD'd on fentanyl.

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This really feels like the last dying breath of the blm movement. Jordan Neely was probably the knockout punch, this is like the fingers twitching as the life leaves the corpse.
 
It established the world led by the United States, which was the only country to come out of it better off than it entered.
The transformation of the US from an isolationist power, into one not only willing, but eager to get mixed up in European blood feuds has got to be the worst blow dealt to the Republic since its founding. It should also be mentioned that US interventionism has been more about maintaining the status quo than altering it to suit US interests. The saving of France, and Britain from defeat at German hands resulted in the Soviet Union. And yet another war with Germany, that neither power could fend off without US support, again. The destruction of the old empires and an end to european colonialism has resulted in decolonization, and the proliferation of communism. Both of which has clearly been a disaster for humanity. The europeans got themselves caught up in a large stupid war, and they should have been left there.

And what did our intervention get the US? What did our anti-empire policies achieve? The creation of Poland only resulted in France, and Britain sitting on their asses when Hitler, and then Stalin invaded in the 30s. The long slog across the Pacific only resulted in giving the Chinese communists the chance to turn the most populous nation on earth into a communist hell hole, and led to the Korean and Vietnam wars. Need I say anything about the creation of Israel has gotten us?

That little fight in France has been the worst mistake this nation has ever made. Every other pointless conflict can trace its origin to that one.
 
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