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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Genuine question, how does this affect my life?
I don’t know, is it a good thing for normal people or a bad thing?
unless you regularly depend on a federal program vanashilly little will change, the only exceptions are medicare/social security those will remain more or less ok despite the "government shutting down" as they are more or less independent organizations at this point with sovereign wealth funds for lack of a better term.

Nuts and bolts would possibly be your mail service might be interrupted LONG LONG TERM but that would require like decades of federal insolvency.


the shut down is good for everyone not activley sucking on the government teet, IE the ones supplying the "milk"
 
Every single time the fed shuts down nothing in my life changes.

Abolish social security, medicare, medicaid, and hud. we'd have a surplus overnight.
But wouldn't all the damage caused by violent niggers off of their welfare and social programs negate all the potential savings the shutdown would bring?

If we cut off their gibs for even just a week, every street in this country would look like something straight out of Haiti or South Africa.
 
Just about to ask.

Why is it, that these fucking niggers can make so much more money than me, AND have the ability to just DECIDE not to do their fucking jobs?

When you realize their only job is to suck money out of you and make your day to day life more miserable, you’ll understand.
 
Genuine question, how does this affect my life?
I don’t know, is it a good thing for normal people or a bad thing?
Trump's people are going to use this to gut entrenched bureaucrats from the government which is going to save us more tax money. It's a big win for the country and the American people... unless you're on government assistance like WIC.
 
A system of governance wherein the man with the coolest smoking pipe (ONLY FOR TOBACCO) is put in charge seems reasonable to me. In all seriousness, I really need to see if I can buy a replica of that pipe online, that thing is rad.
It might be hard to find an exact copy but there are loads of similar pipes out there new and vintage. Meerschaum pipes are usually elaborately carved. Skulls, animals, naked women, historical figures, or complex designs are the norm.
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Every single time the fed shuts down nothing in my life changes.

Abolish social security, medicare, medicaid, and hud. we'd have a surplus overnight.
The scary part is even if we cut EVERYTHING and dedicated `100% of the budget to repayment of debt it would still take half a decade, actually longer beacuse more than 10% of our total budget is just intrest payments
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btw, I want to point out how massive that last number is, its damn near the yearly funding of our whole military
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Without JUST THE INTEREST PAYMENTS ON the debt we could fund a SECOND WHOLE US MILITARY!
 
Do you work for the federal government? if not, it doesnt.
If you do, you get to go on paid vacation.
They kind of get that but not necessarily, federal workers that are both furloughed and essential (must still report to work despite the shutdown but not get paid) will receive back pay after a shutdown ends.
 
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though to my understanding you won't be able to visit federally funded national parks
Who's gonna stop you if supposedly the service taking care of it is shut down?
You know what, fuck that restriction. Go to a national park. Eat a random berry. Shit in a bush. Traumatize a deer. Find a native american reserve and burn it down.
 
They kind of get that but not necessarily, federal workers that are both furloughed and essential (must still report to work despite the shutdown) will receive back pay after a shutdown ends.
Also the president could just decide to ignore a shutdown and pay people he wants to stay anyway. Shutdowns only exist because of a memo from the carter administration. They where devised as a way to punish the republicans who were holding up the budget bill at the time.
 
Trump needs to lease this building out to Spirit Halloween.

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There is no other use for it now anyway.
Turn Congress into a haunted house for October. You don't even need to hire actors or costume them as creepy ghouls. Just stick Schumer or AOC behind a corner and you have the scariest attraction of the year.
 
yeah, that is the pipe he smoked all through the war and his imprisonment. Its a carved Meerschaum pipe. Meerschaum is kinda like soapstone. it used to be the number one material for pipe making back before the 1930s when it was mostly replaced by briar wood.

its fairly fragile but stays cool in the hand and as you can see in the photo it takes on a nice patina from the smoke and tobacco over the years.

Davis' pipe was carved in the "eagle-claw" style. most people today call the style a "dragon-claw" but its an eagle. new pipes like that will run about $500 at the cheapest and the sky is the limit if you buy from any of the famous carvers. Meerschaum is primarily a product of Turkey. its not profitable to mine anywhere else anymore.
I've never had a meerschaum. Gotta find one and at it the the list of "shit I want but am too much of a tightass to buy". I always assumed it was a kind of wood.
 
None of this makes any sense to me. I'm losing it.

90% of the EPA getting furloughed, what does that even do? What does the EPA do exactly, other than suggest policy? They have 20,000 people there? Is that like, a lot?

Is our government just like the economy, fake and gay? At this point I keep hearing doomsaying about government shutdowns, and everytime it's basically just "omg but the national parks!" and it's the exact same feeling as when people go "OMG drumpf tariffs are ruining the US economy!" and the S&P 500 goes from 500,000 points to 494,000 points and then two weeks later it's 500,420 points. I'm going to spend the next week seeing everyone blame random shit for the government shutdown and instead I suspect it'll be like every time this happens and nobody actually notices.

I'm with Null, shut the bennies down, but also publicly announce there's no enforcement of ATF policies so that people can defend themselves from the ensuing riots. Let God sort it out? Not that I want violence or anything of the sort, I think I just struggle to imagine anything ever happening, you could have another 9/11 and people would be chudjak posting.
 
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