US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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now they're doing gay little AI videos and shitty cartoons about how it won't be $125/hr lazy factory work but instead minimum wage sewing socks and shirts.

They keep saying "THERE ARE MANUFACTURING JOBS RIGHT NOW!" and "WHO'S GOING OT DO IT? YOU? YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT????"

They can't comprehend: "Yes."

"THERE ARE MORE MANUFACTURING NOW THAN IN THE 80'S JUST AUTOMATED LOLOLOLOLOLOL!"

They really really don't get it.

But people are able to see exactly what these people think of people who just want an honest fucking job they can depend on working for instead of this bullshit now.

They literally can't comprehend a willingness to trade a day's labor for a day's pay.

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This overlaps with my hatred of how they marketed "the side hustle". There's nothing wrong with doing extra work to make extra money. Sometimes you have to do extra to survive. Sometimes you have to if you want some spending money.

But if there aren't options for good jobs, the "side hustle" market can step in to help out! You can put wear and tear on your car to drive Uber, deliver with DoorDash, you can scalp electronics, you can make OnlyFans porn, hell you can do ALL of these, sometimes simultaneously! Until you realize you are giving all of your energy to the side hustle, barely clear costs, get dropped from Uber because your car had hail damage (happened to my sister), get dropped from Lyft because they sent you a fare that was outside of your "zone" so you broke the rules (HAPPENED TO MY SISTER), get dropped from DoorDash because the food showed up cold...

They replaced the American Dream with the American Side Hustle and society is actively worse for it. Bring back manufacturing so we can be proud of what we build again instead of dealing with a NEET who paid for delivery with SSDI, complains when it shows up, and disputes the charge after eating the meal anyway.
 
Jump now to modern days. They are falling over backwards to support censorship, want the government to control every aspect of their lives, hate women via replacing them with troons, and insist that MSNBC medical advisors ran by big pharma are 100% to be blindly trusted. War with Russia is now a good idea. Racism and mean words are ultimate vice and must be censored CCP style. They melt down over their savings taking a slight dip in the always chaotic market.

Never has there been a more hypocritical people who 180ed every ethical and moral position they once held in the most shameful manner possible.
60's: Stick it to the man!

2025: Everything in above quote.

Congratulations, you've become the man. "Don't trust anyone over 30" turned into "Tough luck everyone under 65".
 
This overlaps with my hatred of how they marketed "the side hustle". There's nothing wrong with doing extra work to make extra money. Sometimes you have to do extra to survive. Sometimes you have to if you want some spending money.

But if there aren't options for good jobs, the "side hustle" market can step in to help out! You can put wear and tear on your car to drive Uber, deliver with DoorDash, you can scalp electronics, you can make OnlyFans porn, hell you can do ALL of these, sometimes simultaneously! Until you realize you are giving all of your energy to the side hustle, barely clear costs, get dropped from Uber because your car had hail damage (happened to my sister), get dropped from Lyft because they sent you a fare that was outside of your "zone" so you broke the rules (HAPPENED TO MY SISTER), get dropped from DoorDash because the food showed up cold...

They replaced the American Dream with the American Side Hustle and society is actively worse for it. Bring back manufacturing so we can be proud of what we build again instead of dealing with a NEET who paid for delivery with SSDI, complains when it shows up, and disputes the charge after eating the meal anyway.
The main cause of that is housing prices, they have gone up them most and are the hardest to avoid. Wages and consumer goods prices aren't really the issue America has that better then a lot of countries
 
I think one of the best counters to this is the existence of UAW, none of those fuckers are working minimum wage.
The class of people who work the bottom of unskilled factory jobs in china would be homeless violent junkies under the American system. Idle hands being kept busy, fed and housed. If you're not retarded and want more, they have an easy service industry like any other first world country. Also high level factory jobs that would exist in the US with high wages. Everyone seems to forget the most basic widgets on a us factory floor are still made by a Chinese woman with no teeth and nimble fingers. The educated classes have a flourishing tech, finance, and aerospace industry. Their demographic crisis is going to ensure that's the status quo for some time, IMF be damned. It's not going to end in the brown shit hole we've found ourselves in.

America put its indigent class to work in the 30's building dams and bridges, it could be done again. Kick out all the aliens and eliminate all the handouts. We just need to ensure the works there. And there is a long list of work to be done to rebuild this country.
 
Has anyone else been getting tariff shit spammed in any of their social media feeds? I keep getting a ton of tariff videos made by buckbroken libshits in my YouTube recommendations, and the creators are either literally who's or people I recognize and are the last people who should be sharing their political opinions. It's fucking annoying.
This is happening to me as well. There must be a little astroturfing money left. All I know is prices are going down in my area.
lil' Ben trying to act like he wasn't kvetching, just deport him, he's not worth it anymore:
He must have had a stroke when Netanyahu agreed 100% with Trump's trade policy.
To be fair to Shapiro, his line has consistently been that he doesn't see tariffs as a feasible long-term economic policy. He is a staunch free trade guy and sees these tariffs as a diplomatic bargaining ship. His concern was always that Trump might see tariffs as a long-term economic tool.
 
I have lost $184k since the start of the year but that's still $70k better than yesterday. Statistically if this trend continues I'll be even by Friday. Cmon Donny, make the line go up.
 
I work a production job and it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I'm making nearly three times minimum wage and I have a desirable working schedule. Manufacturing will never be entirely automated and will always need people to oversee the work the machines do. It's not the most luxurious work but it's certainly more solid than the retail and warehousing hellscapes people are landing in.
When I was working manufacturing, I considered sticking with it and getting into the automation side of things. There will always be robotic arms grabbing things, suction cups that need maintenance, and (most fun of all) new projects to add automation to machines that were originally pretty manual.

There will always be a need for someone to make the stupid robots work properly. It's like the old "learn how to code" chestnut that gets tossed around, only you're building things that have real value rather than cool code projects that you probably won't get paid for unless you go to die slowly at some FAANG job.
 
China has been the only thing holding Hollywood back from having full-black casts and gay romance in every movie. We'll see how this plays out.
Complete financial collapse is what will happen. China is the only thing keeping Hollywood solvent right now. The costs are so inflated for everything Hollywood that it's virtually impossible to keep a movie profitable without China's help. Americans aren't showing up for movies that blow. This will only escalate that. The damage would be absolutely tremendous and Hollywood might not recover this time.
 
lmao.....EU is so fucked....that's not happening and trump knows it. EU either buys expensive Americans shale oil and LNG or cheap Russian gas & concede Ukraine completely.

And if they take American energy, say good bye to all industries relying on cheap energy...


There is no way out of this...
 
Complete financial collapse is what will happen. China is the only thing keeping Hollywood solvent right now. The costs are so inflated for everything Hollywood that it's virtually impossible to keep a movie profitable without China's help. Americans aren't showing up for movies that blow. This will only escalate that. The damage would be absolutely tremendous and Hollywood might not recover this time.
Are you telling me we could be in the timeline that retvrns to tradition with budgets sliced in half or less? I might actually bother watching TV again!
 
Complete financial collapse is what will happen. China is the only thing keeping Hollywood solvent right now. The costs are so inflated for everything Hollywood that it's virtually impossible to keep a movie profitable without China's help. Americans aren't showing up for movies that blow. This will only escalate that. The damage would be absolutely tremendous and Hollywood might not recover this time.
Thank you chinks.
 
...And what you're describing in that second quoted section is called entrapment...
I always thought those YouTube videos with bait cars they could remotely cut the engines on were really funny. They even had cameras in the cars so you could see the suspect bouncing around and panicking inside the car when 4 or more police vehicles materialize around the corner. Maybe it's entrapment, but entrapment can be really entertaining.
 
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