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/

 

[Core Theorist]

This is why they believe everything on TV and constantly have to have TVs going. It's sad, my parents, both 1940s actual baby boom boomers, raised us to not spend much time in front of the TV and now they can't live without it and are shocked us kids don't watch stuff. They're the first mass media generation and it's a lot like Zoomies being the first real smart phone generation.

Fuck man at least the zoomies actually use the brainrot to transfer information in a two-way communication (well, sometimes). Just passively and slavishly consuming media without interacting with it at all seems particularly corrosive.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

muh troonhammer 41,000!! I need my adeptus cuckstodes smurfs!!! Please don't do this to me trumpler!!!

Next he’s going to sign an executive order saying geneseed is stored in the balls!

 

[Cemetery Support]

r/Askreddit top last month.

I am so very tired of it.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1908852437630489055

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My mom is freaking out about her investments and my local convenience store has raised the price of a bag of chips to about $7. Between the stock rally after trump was inaugurated and the most recent dip, I've lost about 35% of the value of my investments.
This is gonna be rough, boys, but this is what I voted for and this is what change looks like. This is the ride Mr. Bones informed us about.

 

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Thats neat. Trump should do a photo op where he fires a MANPAD at an enemy alien like skeet shooting.

FTFY. Pull!

 

[FieldPiece]

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Won't someone think of the hedgefund mamagers!?

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

This is why they believe everything on TV and constantly have to have TVs going. It's sad, my parents, both 1940s actual baby boom boomers, raised us to not spend much time in front of the TV and now they can't live without it and are shocked us kids don't watch stuff. They're the first mass media generation and it's a lot like Zoomies being the first real smart phone generation.

It's pretty crazy. I remember as a kid, they always told us: no watching TV and using the PC at the same time or radio, for that matter. Essentially, one media at a time.

Fast forwards 25 years later, my boomer dad is watching AI slop about Ukraine on the boomer box while listening to a political youtuber on his phone.

 

[Delany's Donkey]

Won't someone think of the hedgefund mamagers!?

I'm thinking of their suffering right now

 

[porkWellington]

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Even if the UK comes to a deal with the US, we all know Games Workshop will raise prices by 20%

I started getting into Warhammer and been lurking relevant subreddits and Grimdank is bad. There's almost always something IRL political, Coomer, or worse pro-Tau as their top posts. They're very anti-gatekeeper to a fault; they disdain older fans who aren't as down with the inclusivity retcons. They'll unironically say they want to get rid of the older fans "from OUR community".

Horus Galaxy is the counter-balance subreddit and where people who aren't down with the inclusivity retcons go when they get banned from the other Warhammer subreddits. The posts are usually better, but you'll see some bitching about Grimdank. Grimdank's also been pretty open about trying to get Horus Galaxy banned by Reddit admins so I get it, but on Reddit even mentioning another sub in a rant can be interpreted as that sub "brigading" which goes against Reddit's ToS.

 

[Niggergante]

The Cannonball Run record is about 26 hours (NYC to LA).

There was literally no traffic during covid which is why it's so fast

 

[Sugriva]

on Reddit even mentioning another sub in a rant can be interpreted as that sub "brigading" which goes against Reddit's ToS.

Since when has Reddit ever cared about enforcing their rules fairly? They're selective suggestions that only apply depending on the whims of the jannies.

 

[Beavis]

This is gonna be rough, boys, but this is what I voted for and this is what change looks like. This is the ride Mr. Bones informed us about.

diamond hands only

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

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Even if the UK comes to a deal with the US, we all know Games Workshop will raise prices by 20%

Two words

Resin printer

You're welcome

 

[Core Theorist]

Resin printer
You're welcome

you got a loicense for dat dere printer m8? Yew dew? Gud awn ye! But, Oi, it looks loike yoos be needsings and electricity loicense. Big whup, you forgots yous loicense loicesns toos. Whuzzats? yous actually printings figgereens witde printur? You fohgot yous plastics loicense... Yu's a real scrowder! Wes gonna have to breng you in!

 

[I was a Teenage “JA”-man]

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Even if the UK comes to a deal with the US, we all know Games Workshop will raise prices by 20%

same shit with Nintendo, if it was expensive before why didn’t you protest than?

 

[Jump]

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Yeah, that would be tough, probably 48 hours straight driving. I would have to start after a full 8 hours sleep.

I rigorously comply will all traffic regulations, since the repeal of the national 55mph limit, most highway travel is between 70-85 mph(112 kph- 135kph).

No matter how you time it your going to eat up hours in traffic in New England or around Chicago. Then getting across Cali in to LA.
And good luck if your doing more then 1 mph over in Ohio with out of state plates.
I think 50hrs is a safe bet with team drivers. Ive driven from NYC to Las Vegas and it took me 3 days really pushing it.

There was literally no traffic during covid which is why it's so fast

Ya I was about to reply that. The highways where completely empty and cops where just not pulling anyone over because they feared the coof. The records where beat down a few times during covid. And they where using modified cars with extra fuel tanks. IIRC current record holders had an AVERAGE speed of 110mph with a peak speed at 175mph. And they where only stationary for 20 something mins in the whole trip for a fuel stop.

Spoiler: There is only one guy who could make it coast2coast in that time solo

 

[DSP for president 2032]

Posters in the Musk thread are saying that The Muskrat has forgotten his place by going against Trump like this. I suppose it makes sense - it's his thread, so the posters there hate him, but I think they are misreading the situation.

I think this is also Trump's end goal. First, make it crystal clear that the tariffs are only reciprocal, e.g. you get rid of your tariffs and I'll get rid of mine, and then we usher in an era of prosperous free trade between the USA and its allies.

Only with its allies, not with Chaaaaaiiiina.

I'm not sure where I stand on the free trade. On one hand, I really like the idea of being able to buy the best products from across the globe, but on the other, some posters in this thread have made a very strong case for protectionism. Isn't it tragic that kids and Nintoddlers all over the world exclusively play games on an imported Japanese Nintendo Switch? Where is the competing American-made Hicktendo Moonshine with Jazz Jackrabbit 4?

Oh, and I had to look it up but Ritter Sport is in fact German-made. Very delicious too.

But kudos to Milka for fooling so many people lol.

The gayest thing about Redditors turning American products upside-down has to be that they really don't have to bother. The infinity reciprocal tariffs will make it really obvious which products are from where, really soon.

Again assuming these retards have actually read Fahrenheit 451. They haven’t made a modern remake of it with brown people and trannys yet have they?

I regret to inform you that the worst part about the remake is that it does not even include the mechanical hound.

Even though it's politically and thematically outdated, I love that novel as a sci-fi art piece and the hound is the best part. They could have made one with CGI, and say that it injects you with a lethal dose of fentanyl instead of the vague "super strong opioid" lol.

Oh, and Montag doesn't even have a wife. She's a really pathetic character, and we can't have women be pathetic, can we? She would have actually been relevant to the modern ennui of the consoomer. Having everything she could ever want, and still trying to kill herself. No awesome blood-vacuum scene either.

In the remake, the resistance wins by giving birds autism and I refuse to elaborate further. You'll just have to torture yourself by watching it for yourself.

 

[quaawaa]

Your analysis is otherwise pretty good, but draftees during Vietnam were mostly boomers.

The draft has a maximum age limit and skews younger even within its age range. 19 and 20 year olds were drafted at much higher rates.

There's an important difference between whether or not the median boomer went, and whether or not the median draftee was a boomer.

And all those boomers hated the hippies and voted for Nixon.

Hippies were the antifa of their day, right down to being a tiny portion of the population beloved by the Democrat elite and hated by literally everyone else.

Remember, the reaction to Kent State from the public wasn’t “how could our troops gun down peaceful protestors?” but rather “why didn’t they kill all of them?”

 

[Breadbassket]

Here's the list of organizations behind the "Hands Off" protests across the country yesterday:

 

[Angelos32]

If I was Trump, I'd say to India, don't bring any more of your street shitting scam artists here again.

The problem is I can 100% see him making the opposite deal. Bring all the street shitters over so the corporations can keep their slave labor for the trade off of moving operations to the US

 

[The Big A]

Posters in the Musk thread are saying that The Muskrat has forgotten his place by going against Trump like this. I suppose it makes sense - it's his thread, so the posters there hate him, but I think they are misreading the situation.

I think this is also Trump's end goal. First, make it crystal clear that the tariffs are only reciprocal, e.g. you get rid of your tariffs and I'll get rid of mine, and then we usher in an era of prosperous free trade between the USA and its allies.

Only with its allies, not with Chaaaaaiiiina.

I'm not sure where I stand on the free trade. On one hand, I really like the idea of being able to buy the best products from across the globe, but on the other, some posters in this thread have made a very strong case for protectionism. Isn't it tragic that kids and Nintoddlers all over the world exclusively play games on an imported Japanese Nintendo Switch? Where is the competing American-made Hicktendo Moonshine with Jazz Jackrabbit 4?

Making America a more viable place to export from helps the domestic economy, and China is still the largest trading partner with the US, so cutting them off as well as cutting off any of their attempts to circumvent our laws, will still have a large effect.

I believe the desire to decouple the US and China is mutual at this point. The last 5 years showed America how perilous it is to rely on a foreign rival for so many vital goods. As for China, they know what happened to Russian assets owned overseas can easily happen to them if relations get too frosty, or western governments find a justification. Both would benefit from isolating themselves from each other.