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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Iran is in a death spiral. All their proxies but the houthi are destroyed or crippled, they are running out of water to the point where Tehrans freshwater is at 5 percent capacity, they are going through an energy crisis, the people hate the government and there have been massive protests against the government that ended in brutal repression. All it needs is a push. Regardless of the outcome, it removes a major oil supplier for China and a major weapons supplier for Russia.
Didn't we bomb the Houthis?
 
I'm fully down for investigating Trump for insider trading if we investigate every single member of congress and every governor as well lmao. I'm not going to make excuses for him, lets open up the floodgates on everyone while we're at it.
 
If you support Trump's actions with tariffs so far, why ? Just why tell the class why ?
To provide a quick statement on why tariffs are a good idea I've outsourced the argument out to an AI.

Tariffs can be a good idea in certain contexts depending on a country's economic goals. Here’s a breakdown of the main arguments in favor of tariffs:

🔒 1. Protecting Domestic Industries

Tariffs can help shield local businesses from foreign competition—especially newer or struggling industries that can't yet compete with big international players.

Example: If a country wants to grow its own electric vehicle industry, it might put tariffs on imported EVs to help domestic producers grow and gain market share.

📈 2. Promoting Job Growth

By making foreign goods more expensive, tariffs can encourage people to buy domestically produced goods, which can increase demand for local labor.

More demand for local products = more production = more jobs (in theory).

💰 3. Government Revenue

Tariffs generate money for the government, especially in countries that don't have a strong income tax system. That revenue can go into infrastructure, education, etc.

🛡️ 4. National Security

Certain industries are considered vital for national security (like defense, steel, energy). Tariffs can ensure those industries stay alive domestically, so a country isn’t dependent on others in a crisis.

🔁 5. Trade Negotiation Tool

Tariffs can be used as leverage in trade negotiations—to pressure another country to lower their own tariffs, remove unfair trade practices, or open up their markets.

⚖️ 6. Correcting Trade Imbalances

If a country imports way more than it exports, tariffs can reduce the trade deficit by making imports more expensive and less attractive.

That said, tariffs can also cause higher prices for consumers, retaliatory tariffs from other countries, and inefficiencies in the long term. So whether they’re a good idea depends a lot on the context and how they're used.
 
Sorry to interrupt the regularly scheduled jewsperging, but if the Senate doesn't pass this, they are tacitly affirming that the Executive Branch has no real powers.

I sound like a broken record because I keep saying this, but we are seeing an absolute push by the left to utterly destroy the Executive Branch and make the President into a ceremonial position who has no power to issue effective EOs that do anything, or to hire or fire/ control policy and how money is spent by departments he supervises.

We are watching the Constitution and our government be transformed before our eyes. To use the clichéd Rome comparisons, this is like the transformation from the Republic to the Principate or the Orientalizing of the office of Emperor in Late Antiquity--massive changes to the government that occurred without a formal change to the government and under a fig leaf that it was the same government and nation.
As a former OWS turbo lefty, it’s quite something to witness that even the hand-wringing surrounding the Constitution-busting powers granted to the Executive during the Patriot Act Era ended up being largely fake and gay.

Not that all that shit wasn’t a huge overreach. Not that it hasn’t been abused far beyond the scope of the WoT, including against citizens.

No, what makes it fake and gay is that it turns out these unitary Executive powers are only all-powerful when used in service of the uniparty. Honeypot some retarded Muslim teens into a fake terrorist plot, crank muh Threat Level to Plaid, black bag them and send them off to Gitmo torture? One news cycle of finger wagging. Kick occultist murdering rapist gang members out of the country? Judge Schmekle Gonzalez-Djibouti blocks your path.
 
I sound like a broken record because I keep saying this, but we are seeing an absolute push by the left to utterly destroy the Executive Branch and make the President into a ceremonial position who has no power to issue effective EOs that do anything, or to hire or fire/ control policy and how money is spent by departments he supervises.

We are watching the Constitution and our government be transformed before our eyes. To use the clichéd Rome comparisons, this is like the transformation from the Republic to the Principate or the Orientalizing of the office of Emperor in Late Antiquity--massive changes to the government that occurred without a formal change to the government and under a fig leaf that it was the same government and nation.
Total Democrat and activist judge victory. We all know this won't pass. It won't be allowed to. The uniparty has come out on top for at least the past two decades and that's not stopping now.

But hey, at least we owned the libs epic style with facts and logic for about five seconds before they decided to just exterminate us for wrongthink!
 
As a former OWS turbo lefty, it’s quite something to witness that even the hand-wringing surrounding the Constitution-busting powers granted to the Executive during the Patriot Act Era ended up being largely fake and gay.

Not that all that shit wasn’t a huge overreach. Not that it hasn’t been abused far beyond the scope of the WoT, including against citizens.

No, what makes it fake and gay is that it turns out these unitary Executive powers are only all-powerful when used in service of the uniparty. Honeypot some retarded Muslim teens into a fake terrorist plot, crank muh Threat Level to Plaid, black bag them and send them off to Gitmo torture? One news cycle of finger wagging. Kick occultist murdering rapist gang members out of the country? Judge Schmekle Gonzalez-Djibouti blocks your path.
Yeah, and the thing is, I never really was too hot on the idea of the Unitary Executive anyway. I'm torn because I personally support Trump's agenda, but I feel uncomfortable that he's doing things that if Biden or Obama did in opposite form with the same authority I'd be against.

The Judicial overreach seems to be taking a new form though in trying to scrub ALL the President's powers. Like you can make the argument that a lot of Trump's EOs are things that 50 years ago would have been the power of Congress. But if the President can't fire staffers in his Cabinet agencies, or decide to cancel programs they do because those agencies are funded by Congress, he really has no power.
 
Total Democrat and activist judge victory. We all know this won't pass. It won't be allowed to. The uniparty has come out on top for at least the past two decades and that's not stopping now.

But hey, at least we owned the libs epic style with facts and logic for about five seconds before they decided to just exterminate us for wrongthink!
Thank you for informing us of total democrat and activist judge failure and death, our beloved mascot.
 
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