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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The following is an artistic dramatization and should not be taken as instruction or encouragement.

Kill doomers. Behead doomers. Curbstop doomers until their teeth fall out like their heads are broken Tic-Tacs containers. Bash doomers' brains in with a baseball bat. Separate doomers' brainstems from their spinal columns. Drop doomers out of a helicopter without a parachute. Make doomers bathe with a plugged-in toaster. Release doomers into lion enclosures. Eat doomers' brains and pass their prion diseases onto other doomers. Turn doomers into sausages. Deport doomers to Africa. Set doomers on fire and only put it out once they're disfigured for life. Exsanguinate doomers. Mulch doomers. Put doomers over bamboo as it's growing. Show doomers' browsing history to their dads. Expose doomers to South African car anti-theft devices. Tell Hillary Clinton doomers have evidence that will lead to her arrest. Feed doomers to chainsaws. Stick doomers in genpop with a CP conviction. Fatten doomers up and sent them to the jungles of Papua New Guinea.

Call me optimistic I guess.
 
If I was the Chinese king, I would not care about much but I would nuke India to put them in their place. Also, I would have a blonde big titty girlfriend and I would fart on a small Indian child.
 
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro secretly offered the U.S. sweeping access to his nation’s oil, gold, and mineral wealth—proposing to cut ties with China, Iran, and Russia—to avoid military conflict with Washington. The Trump administration rejected the deal. - NYT

Pretty sure this means it's joever for him. I'm not even sure why you would offer this, because you might as well just abdicate, because that's what it is. Everyone knows, that you know, that they know, that you know, ITS OVER.
 
Its neither here nor there. Obviously they're both great.
Huxley wrote Bernard from a stunted upper class perspective
Orwell wrote from the perspective of a middle class person.

I think the true dark horse of this conversation is rarely mentioned.
I feel Frank Herbert got it right from the top-down in Dune/Dune Messiah/God Emperor of Dune.

Fahrenheit 451 was incredibly prescient with its commentary on both censorship of anything that might offend someone's feelings and the extent to which society would gorge itself on slop content and become uncaring niggercattle.

Henlien was a lolbert

Heinlein's works certainly include works that have libertarian protagonists such as The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but he wrote many works with protagonists or that explored societies that libertarians would find abhorrent such as the posthumously published For Us, The Living which he wrote very early on in his career. He wasn't afraid to explore different ideas or to try to extol the possible virtues of various ideologies, which is a large part of why he's a good author and many of his novels are still well regarded and read to this day.

He was briefly here a day or three after the shutdown started.

It was nice of them to let Fatpacks post one last time before clearing out his desk.
 
A space elevator to the moon won't work, the point is getting out of Earth's atmosphere without having to deal with rocket launches. Once in space you can do whatever a lot easier.

Also the moon revolves around the Earth, no way to link them together. That said I'd love for us to start dragging asteroids to a mining facility for processing, it can even be near the moon so the moon's gravity catches any chunks.
Bread goes in, toast comes out. You can't explain that!
 
Look, that stripper absolutely loves them and they absolutely have to help put her through college.
The soldier should have waited a few years because any day now universities and colleges will stoop so low as to teach classes on stripping and call it woman's studies.
 
It did, where we went wrong was the nation building shit, if we just bombed Saddam and left we would have been fine.
Yeah why not worked so well with saddam
Akshually, if we had just used the Ba'athists as a proxy force post-invasion, instead of disbanding the police, military, and civil service; and then banishing them from government jobs ever again, I think it would have gone much better. Reading the initial occupation days of OIF is a tragedy of neocon hubris, arrogance, and naivety. Always use local forces as proxies should be the lesson of GWOT. In Afghanistan, it could have been much more like you said, with spooks just propping up the Northern Alliance and SOF precision striking AQ.

Venezuela is also actually within our sphere of influence and not halfway across the world.
 
Aluminum is weird because the ore is not the costly part, electricity is. Hence most producers are area with very cheap energy (like canada with the very cheap hydro).
I actually did a high school report on aluminium production and the biggest issue with it, and the reason why it's the only metal worth recycling, is because of the resulting waste product known as "red mud". See, we don't actually pull pure aluminium out of the ground; what gets dug up is something called bauxite which goes through something called the Bayer process. I'll spare the details, but the end result is it produces aluminium oxide... and a heavily caustic slurry known as red mud. This stuff has zero practical use and the only way we know how to deal with it is to dry it out in massive, shallow pools. There have been some attempts at finding uses for it, but they have largely gone nowhere.
 
Akshually, if we had just used the Ba'athists as a proxy force post-invasion, instead of disbanding the police, military, and civil service; and then banishing them from government jobs ever again, I think it would have gone much better. Reading the initial occupation days of OIF is a tragedy of neocon hubris, arrogance, and naivety. Always use local forces as proxies should be the lesson of GWOT. In Afghanistan, it could have been much more like you said, with spooks just propping up the Northern Alliance and SOF precision striking AQ.
Pretty sure that's almost exactly how Russia-Ukraine kicked off, so... not confident you're right there.
 
Too bad we have the worst allies, perhaps the worst allies in history. We should have become the monster Europe makes us out to be and turned them into true vassal states living under the fear of an MEU full of Crayon Eaters with authorization to use entirely too many explosives being mere days away at the slightest hint of disobedience. It wouldn't have made Europe hate us less and there would be the theatrical component of whenever the soviet union bitched about it the honest response to them would be "same as you".
I didnt even read your post but seeing MEU made me read it. Though during most of the cold war they were called MAU (Marine Amphibious Units). Otherwise agree.
 
God I fucking hate senate lolberts
Total inability to accept any positive change if it doesn't 100% align with their morality

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If Rand Paul values the lives of drug lords so highly, perhaps he should go live with them...

In other words, DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT RAND PAUL TO VENEZUELA ((yes i know this is not possible, but it would be very funny.))
 
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