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Should be a wild four years.

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So trump is going to start finding illegals 1000 dollars per day that they remain in the US.

Spic reddit's response?

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AY CARAMBA.
THEYRE TACOCAUSTING US!!!!
To be a Redditor is to be a lesser being than any that walks the Earth. I think along with the wonderful idea of marking the heads of illegals like the Redditor says we should also have a mark for those with a Reddit account. They must be known, and they must feel shame.
 
Democrats weren't pro-worker even since Clinton became president. Really from 1980-2015 we just let the workers get fucked over by free trade, increased financialization of the economy, mass immigration, and increasing wealth inequality. It took a billionaire wrestler to make pro-labor politics hip again.
Pro-tariff politics aren't exactly totally pro-labor in the traditional sense (they are by modern American political standards) but we'll see how Trump interacts with unions.
 
Pro-tariff politics aren't exactly totally pro-labor in the traditional sense (they are by modern American political standards) but we'll see how Trump interacts with unions.
Pro tariff probably just means American industry first. Pro worker for like health care, pension, nah.

Still, it may not be perfect, but it's better than NOTHING.
 
I know what you mean about the bloodlust, but it was by no means unanimous.
Not unanimous, but supermajority support.
Maybe, maybe for Afghanistan in the immediate months after 9/11;
Bush won re-election and the popular vote in October 2004. 20 months into the Iraq War and more than 3 years into the Afghanistan war.
otherwise there were tons of antiwar protests all throughout the 2000s. There was debate about Iraq before we ever went into it,
you should know by now that Democrats have been astroturfing protests since the 1970's. Look at the election results.
and the government had to manufacture WMD lies in order to really sell it.
The American people did not care at the time why we invaded. That excuse was for NATO and the UN to get European nations to join the war.

Oh get fucked you stupid nigger. That only makes our country look worse, not better.
This is what I'm talking about. Optics matter now, 20 years later when everyone's come down from the bloodlust and feels guilty. It doesn't change reality. People knew in 2002 that the WMD story was bullshit. They still re-elected Bush, the people supported both wars for years afterward. Obama won two terms having not ended either war. You are reinventing history.
And by 2006 we already had confirmation that Iraq had no WMDs to speak of, and by the end of Bush's second term, support for our presence in Iraq was dwindling even among Republicans
Bullshit. Republican support for Bush eroded right alongside the economy, crashing in 2007 with the mortgage default crisis.
. The lies we were sold to by Bush's horseshit administration for invading Iraq did more damage to America than would you--probably the last retard in 2025 who thinks our presence in the middle east was somehow righteous in how prolonged it was--can conceive of.
In hindsight you are correct, but that doesn't change the reasons we actually went to war.
Shove your "patriotism" up your ass. You're not a patriot, you're a mutt nigger faggot jingoist.
This is how Democrats behave when you disagree with them. Just an emotional outburst.

I've said all I care to about this subject and you obviously disagree. That's fine but don't just make shit up to confirm your worldview.
 
They can make some good points from time to time but Libertarianism as an ideological position is prone to enabling issues that may be destructive to society as a whole.
I found the basic ideals of libertarianism--fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism--very interesting. It aligned with ny own ideals of not wasting public moneys and generally leaving people alone about their personal life. Once I looked into libertarian thought a little more deeply I realized it was trash though.
 
I found the basic ideals of libertarianism--fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism--very interesting. It aligned with ny own ideals of not wasting public moneys and generally leaving people alone about their personal life. Once I looked into libertarian thought a little more deeply I realized it was trash though.
I’m kinda seething right now, tbh, regarding the Paul family.

“Oh we have to fix the debt!! We have to end the wars!!!! But not if it means winning against China!!”

Like fags, did you realize that pressing all sides could make all sides less eager to blow up money in Ukraine?
 
I found the basic ideals of libertarianism--fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism--very interesting. It aligned with ny own ideals of not wasting public moneys and generally leaving people alone about their personal life. Once I looked into libertarian thought a little more deeply I realized it was trash though.
The rational part of libertairanism can be summed up with "leave me the fuck alone". Unfortunately our country is circled by vultures from both inside and out. In a perfect world it would work great. But we don't live in a perfect world and if we don't aggressively defend our collective interest, we will slowly be robbed blind.
 
I found the basic ideals of libertarianism--fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism--very interesting. It aligned with ny own ideals of not wasting public moneys and generally leaving people alone about their personal life. Once I looked into libertarian thought a little more deeply I realized it was trash though.
It has a certain appeal depending on the time, place and what it's being used for but its destruction of moral and legal guardrails for certain activities and actions in the names of what are claimed to be individualistic liberties can have consequences, both of the predicted and unforeseen variety.
 
I found the basic ideals of libertarianism--fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism--very interesting. It aligned with ny own ideals of not wasting public moneys and generally leaving people alone about their personal life. Once I looked into libertarian thought a little more deeply I realized it was trash though.
All they cared about was weed. The rest was window dressing. Always hated the capital L of the P party.

ETA a lot just want no drug bans at all, heroin, crack, all good. The worst of the worst kind of people. Gross.
 
It's the only field I can think of where the vast majority of academics are completely and utterly incompetent.
I don't know about "vast majority" but I have found that almost every field of study has people who are educated in it, and people who understand it, and there's a lot less overlap of those two than you would expect.

Good education leads to understanding but I think a lot of education just requires people to memorize facts and terms.

On the other hand, good understand can come from just interacting with something and pondering it enough.

Actually... as I type this out it occurs to me that I have never once taken an official class on the skill I use to make ~$100k a year... It was a hobby I just went with.
 
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