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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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
I listen to (among many other news shrews) Ben Shapiro regularly and the one things he has been saying the past few days, which is indicative of how geopolitically stupid he is (it's one of his weak spots, for sure), is that Japan (and others) will do more business with China because of US tariffs.
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I hope he doesn't brainwash you into fighting for Israel. Nothing against you, but anybody who watches Shapiro with an intermediate knowledge of politics would understand that Shapiro loves to incite people. He goes by reaction, always thinking he's superior to others. That's why he likes speaking at colleges.
 
Pendulous Dong said:
Yes, we know. 10% is not enough to offset the trade deficit.
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40% of the trade deficit is direct from China, I don’t know what the figures are if you include pass throughs, I.e. countries who import from China just to export the same shit to us with a different sticker and different rates. Might be 60%
 
Sammich said:
Most of my family had the same experience I did with him. We heard about that goofy bastard running for president and just thought it was some sort of gimmick to sell a book, or some business venture. We laughed at him and thought it was funny. Then he started talking about all the shit wrong in the country and thought "why not that orange nigger.. fuck it"


I think that was a lot of people, I still dont' understand why so many people HATED him.
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I hate Trump because he cut taxes for the rich and supported Israel. I was for him initially though then turned against him.
 
The Last Stand said:
I hope he doesn't brainwash you into fighting for Israel. Nothing against you, but anybody who watches Shapiro with an intermediate knowledge of politics would understand that Shapiro loves to incite people. He goes by reaction, always thinking he's superior to others. That's why he likes speaking at colleges.
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I haunt a lot of other news outlets. I only listen to/watch Shapiro's news stuff because it's basically a conservative version of The Hill (it focuses on DC politics). My main squeeze is The Hill and, occasionally, Foreign Policy. Now that the Small Wars Journal is back, I'll be reading the shit outta that.
 
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UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
There are many interesting details in the interview, like names of individuals and little known facts. The general topic is how the corrupt globalists operate.
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Sammich said:
That's the thing a lot of people don't really give alex enough credit for, that motherfucker has a deep knowledge of so much stuff. He's got a silly goofy presentation, but he's a smart guy. His Joe Rogan podcasts are some of the most wild deep dives into a lot of the tinfoil hat shit most people ignore.
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I agree Alex Jones has some deep knowledge. He isn't always entirely forthcoming with that knowledge. He knows how to fill airtime and keep his audience entertained. Man's gotta make a living, so I don't blame him for prioritizing entertainment. His interviews on Rogan and now Tucker let him deliver knowledge in a more condensed way.

*warning: non-kosher
 
Zorgulon said:
I hate Trump because he cut taxes for the rich and supported Israel. I was for him initially though then turned against him.
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I don’t even want most corporations to pay current rates because we’re just going to turn around and use it to fund qatari neovaginas while hiring more bureaucrats to congratulate eachother over what gigantic fags they are.

I want everything stripped down to the functional minimum and for people to have actual ballot questions about anything extra instead of trusting our faggot representatives not to do it behind our backs
 
jthtgrw33 said:
difference between him and Fuentes is their on "opposite" sides of the political sphere.

Hinkle started the "American Communist Party" 2 years ago and they won some stupid seat in Maine last year where the only duty is to arrest the police sheriff if he fucked a kid or something.

You could reasonably argue that Hinkle is the better politician, if only because he actually ran a party that won a seat (even if the seat sucks)
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That seat sounds like the political equivalent of a participation award.
 
UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
I agree Alex Jones has some deep knowledge. He isn't always entirely forthcoming with that knowledge. He knows how to fill airtime and keep his audience entertained. Man's gotta make a living, so I don't blame him for prioritizing entertainment. His interviews on Rogan and now Tucker let him deliver knowledge in a more condensed way.

*warning: non-kosher
Alex Jones knows about the jews.mp4
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I never put much stock into the Alex-Bill conspiracy, but some of these old videos man. The way his lips move, and some of the facial expressions are like 1:1.
 
SpergioLeonne said:
I don’t even want most corporations to pay current rates because we’re just going to turn around and use it to fund qatari neovaginas while hiring more bureaucrats to congratulate eachother over what gigantic fags they are.

I want everything stripped down to the functional minimum and for people to have actual ballot questions about anything extra instead of trusting our faggot representatives not to do it behind our backs
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It's not like the Corps are paying shit in the first place, they just pass the cost onto the consumer.
 
NSA said:
Without powerleveling too much, I work in manufacturing and people have an exaggerated idea of how hard it is to manufacture stuff. One of our products we manufacture in China OR in the USA depending on raw material costs and it's fluctuating all the time. We can easily just make it here instead if the tariff shit keeps going. We literally just start making it here, with the infrastructure we already have, which is nowhere near full capacity.

I can only talk about my little corner of the manufacturing world, but there are a lot of factories here that have been running at 75% capacity for years and could go to 100% in maybe 2 or 3 weeks.
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In general, growth pains only happens to bleeding edge tech like EUV lithography or tesla's battery factories

Anything that's some injection mould, CNC or welded tends to be very agile, Mainly because they aren't specialized, and specialized machinery is one of the hardest to scale up and grow, because there isn't a seller making them.

Like, a wire bender/turner machine making paperclips is nice but you may want to make a machine specialized for making paperclips and there isn't a seller making that because why tf would you do that, the onus of developing custom hardware meant to make something extra fast and reliable becomes a vicious money game of cat and mouse
 
I do (unfortunately) think there will be less support for Trump/populism in the coming years.

Lots of boomers that were previously supportive have realized that the businesses they run are entirely dependent on either immigrant slave labor or cheap materials from China.
 
"He lied to me."

— Huey Long on the reason for Long's break with Roosevelt (Williams p. 639)

This is why I turned against Trump.
 
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