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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Current members of the House of Representatives
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Current members of the US Supreme Court
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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[The Nothingness]

Also Trump talked about wanting battleships. Lol.

Cue the articles on how battleships are obsolete vessels and they cost too much.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

The board of peace to rule over Gaza? Sounds like something straight out of the Left Behind movie.

He’s been gunning for the Nobel Peace Prize

 

[George Lucas]

Naaaah. Upscaling and restored picture is marketing gooketygook. I don't need to see the drywall screws on the USS Enterprise.

I thought TNG was on film, no need for upscaling?

 

[Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu]

The board of peace to rule over Gaza? Sounds like something straight out of the Left Behind movie.

We were never going to get out of this. It will be a place where our children go to die and a suck of our taxpayer dollars. Now it will be Israel’s own UN. So Americans can pay twice.

And nobody will give any pushback. It’s about Trumps legacy, always has been. And we’re just the ones who pay for it and die for it.

 

[Ranine Avatar]

"Have you seen the Bismarck? Beautiful ship, magnificent ship, it was yuuge, why can't we have something like that?"

I believe DJT will not accept anything less than the biggest guns.
15" guns?
18" guns?

 

[pwnest injun]

I don't think it's necessarily something exclusive to Anglo peoples, perhaps the root of the issue is trying to see the entire world through the lenses of Enlightenment and Enlightenment-inspired ideals when in reality those ideals were could only ever properly exist in European descended cultures. It's a similar situation to trying to impose concepts of democracy upon places that have no history or experience with it which often results in calamity, corruption or failed states. People are trying to merge seemingly incompatible beliefs together and it just isn't working or if it does it functions in a strange way.

I still think the Anglos are different from the continental Europeans. For example, I don't think that France would give over their #1 colony because a small bald man went on a hunger strike. They're more of the "if you ask for something, you're going to get it, hard" sort of types.

 

[George Lucas]

Cue the articles on how battleships are obsolete vessels and they cost too much.

I always thought this was cope considering in an actual war you’re going to need bombardment and nothing works better for that than a Battleship.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I thought TNG was on film, no need for upscaling?

Not what the studios kept. The remaster took an obscene amount of money.

 

[Levitcus prime24]

We were never going to get out of this. It will be a place where our children go to die and a suck of our taxpayer dollars. Now it will be Israel’s own UN. So Americans can pay twice.

And nobody will give any pushback. It’s about Trumps legacy, always has been. And we’re just the ones who pay for it and die for it.

Maybe you should stop staring at cats assholes it’s causing you to become stupid.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

I can't believe there isn't more discussion of the speech. It was amazing and I now find Pete very attractive.

Check any military-related subreddit to see how it was actually a horrifying and authoritarian speech that was the modern equivalent of Night of the Long Knives.

 

[Nice Stick]

I always thought this was cope considering in an actual war you’re going to need bombardment and nothing works better for that than a Battleship.

In the last war where battleships were widely used, the only notable thing they accomplished was famously sinking. Bismark, Yamato, Musashi, Azizona, etc.

 

[Back me up!]

Oh hey you're gonna be able to get your autism medication with cash directly through TrumpRX, direct-to-consumer website:

 

[Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu]

Maybe you should stop staring at cats assholes it’s causing you to become stupid.

Maybe you shouldn’t paint me as an idiot when I currently have a boy sitting in a bomb shelter while 2 backwards religions and peoples lob bombs and missiles at each other.

Maybe you can act as if I don’t understand and never lived in the country, situation or the hopelessness of trying to peacefully coexisting with these very same rabid Muslims.

According to some. Everyone that doesn’t want their children or husbands to die for this fruitless cause, while they squeeze every penny out of us, is a retard to actual shoe on head retards who don’t even begin to understand what they’re signing us all up for.

 

[George Lucas]

In the last war where battleships were widely used, the only notable thing they accomplished was famously sinking. Bismark, Yamato, Musashi, Azizona, etc.

I guess bombardment and supporting your aircraft is a thankless job.

 

[Jace on ice]

Oh hey you're gonna be able to get your autism medication with cash directly through TrumpRX, direct-to-consumer website:

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It's going to be funny when redditors mass order Tylenol through this thing just so they can make pityposts on r/redscarepod about how Blumpf is so orange and bad that he gave them liver failure.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Everything gets laser beams now. For a police sniper they'd probably just be in IR mode all the time. It could also just be a dude with a laser designator on a tripod.
A lot of those antifa guys are definitely getting painted with IR lasers throughout the night.

I have an excuse to post this cool picture of USMS SOG team member using a visible laser in portland.

antifa lasers:

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

Azizona

Used Gemini for this fucking monstrosity

 

[Quijibo69]

Another yearly threat of a government shut down no matter who's president. This should be a drinking game at this point.

Here we go again.

Reagan has top score!

 

[Fellen]

In 2026, GOP voters have to do better in the primaries. The only way we can have politicians that prioritize things we ask is if we vote out the ones not doing their job and picking ones that will.

 

[George Lucas]

Hegseth’s speech was angry, uncontrolled, and seemed to be serving some Conservative news clickbait site rather than his military. Trump’s speech is fine but also seems pointless. None of this expresses strength to me. It expresses desperation from an Executive branch that seems to have lost control of its own military.

Hegseth has largely been a disappointment, a big dog without teeth, IMO.