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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mlanguishi said:
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Yeesh
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I'm not into precious metals, what are the implications of this?, I heard somewhere that when Gold and Silver prices are rising really fast, its because people are losing faith in the current fiat system and are storing their assets into these more intrinsic materials, is it vice versa as well when it drops?
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
Yeah but the point is to arm people quietly and cheaply, it's not to give them the best gun. View it as a liberator pistol where you use it to overpower someone with a real gun.
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my point is that what you’re doing with a 3D printer is remarkably similar to what you’d do with a cnc mill or an EDM, just crappier and not really cheaper
 
The Big A said:
I recall part of the act making it illegal to count mail in ballots received after election day.
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IIRC that's a provision in the MEGA act, which also bans RCV, bans universal mail-in ballots, mandates paper ballots, and eliminates the federal pre-approval needed by some states to redistrict or modify election laws.
 
CruzMissile said:
I don't hate Tex-Mex but there's a pretty distinct reason why I'd agree it's slop, most of the shit on the menu is just some combo of grease, meat, cheese, and corn (and corn syrup). Why do you think Mexicans are so fucking morbidly obese half the time? Their diet fucks up their glucose intake from the corn and the amount of grease just adds pure fat. There's zero class to Mexican/Tex-Mex food. You can enjoy it all you want but I think it's on the slop side of things which is why I'm not a huge fan of it. I'm more of an enchilada person than a taco person though when I do order that type of food.

There's almost no grease in a well-made Thanksgiving dinner.
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I think a big issue people have with thinking of TexMex as slop is Sysco food supplier. Even in authentic Mexican areas, you go there and it's all exactly the same because it comes from the same distributor in big plastic bags. From dubiously passed health inspection hole in the wall ghetto places to gentrified local chain restaurants, the refried beans are all the same generic paste, the ground meat all has no seasoning and big chunks of potato as filler. It's catering the the lowest common denominator, and it doesn't get any lower than reheating precooked Sysco slop. I honestly think it's worse quality than Taco Bell.

You gotta step it up to at least a mid-grade, though your risking paying $5 more for the exact same Syscoslop, or a higher end one where you are paying $18-25 for a basic Enchilada or taco plate but it's most likely not Sysco, at least not their bottom barrel premade shit.
 
BigJoey41X said:
I'm not into precious metals, what are the implications of this?, I heard somewhere that when Gold and Silver prices are rising really fast, its because people are losing faith in the current fiat system and are storing their assets into these more intrinsic materials, is it vice versa as well when it drops?
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This is all paper assets. It is what you buy if for some reason you have an actual need to hedge against price changes of gold or silver. Or you watch too much Fox news and the scary looking man told you to put it in your 401k to be safe. I wouldn't put too much weight into price swings of them.

Gold and silver assets have massively outperformed their long term historical trend over the past 2 decades (in part because they've become easier to buy such as through these paper assets and increase in what accounts, specifically 401ks and IRAs that can buy them) and are likely to mean revert eventually.
 
CruzMissile said:
I don't hate Tex-Mex but there's a pretty distinct reason why I'd agree it's slop, most of the shit on the menu is just some combo of grease, meat, cheese, and corn (and corn syrup). Why do you think Mexicans are so fucking morbidly obese half the time?
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They're Indios who traditionally did not have non-crumbly cheese as part of their diet. It's the white man's addition of melty cheese and flour (tortillas traditionally were corn which is much lower carb tortilla) that make the Squatamalen balloon to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum proportions.

CruzMissile said:
There's zero class to Mexican/Tex-Mex food. You can enjoy it all you want but I think it's on the slop side of things which is why I'm not a huge fan of it. I'm more of an enchilada person than a taco person though when I do order that type of food.
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>Wrap where all the sauce is on the inside
>Wrap where all the sauce is baked/poured on top

Food snobs man. The entire thing is so performative. It's ok to like what you like but unless you're literally doing the third world thing of using a your hand as a spoon from a communal slop bowl there's not that much difference at the staple strata of a cuisine. The reason tacos are so ubiquitous and popular in America are due to the same factors that make sandwiches and hamburgers so ubiquitous and popular.

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To clarify further here. At the base level, most cuisines are going to have certain commonalities in staple common-man's dishes. They're either some sort of hardship food that gets turned into a "comfort food" or some easy to make combination of staples. At that level, there is going to be a lot that looks like "slop" because it's the kind of thing that can be prepared en masse that wouldn't be out of place at a lunch line. We should be clearer about what slop means. Low quality, garbage nutritional content, and fake flavor additives can turn any cuisine item into slop. I can have a damn good cheeseburger that is nutritionally complete, I can also have a slop soy-filled burger with soy bean sauce, and corn syrup buns.

This is always slop though.
 
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BigJoey41X said:
the sad thing is that the Trump administration is the best thing the right is going to ever get, the "old" republicans are fine with being centrists for the past 30 years and not upsetting the status quo when the status quo is cracking.

Compare to the left, where there are plenty of hungry progressives looking to enact their vision of America if they get to the white house, while its only really Trump and his cult of personality bold enough to do what he's doing that occasionally lines up with right wing objectives.
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The right is finished. Nothing else matters at this point. After Trump it's legitimately over and we will be subject to a 100,000 year communist empire. America's future is set in stone.

Potatoherder said:
One thing that seems to be going under the radar is Pam Bondi's DOJ is decimating the antitrust division.
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At this point Biden unironically was better.
 
FlappyBat said:
This is all paper assets. It is what you buy if for some reason you have an actual need to hedge against price changes of gold or silver. Or you watch too much Fox news and the scary looking man told you to put it in your 401k to be safe. I wouldn't put too much weight into price swings of them.

Gold and silver assets have massively outperformed their long term historical trend over the past 2 decades (in part because they've become easier to buy such as through these paper assets and increase in what accounts, specifically 401ks and IRAs that can buy them) and are likely to mean revert eventually.
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then what the fuck is the point of "buying" gold/silver when you don't even actually have it in your own physical possession?, it's the same thing as buying stocks now.
 
Time for Trump to get serious about affordability. Gaslighting the country into thinking its not an issue because green line go up isn't working. Americans are hurting and seeing little to no relief. If things improved financially he would get a blank check to do whatever he wanted to but as long as stagflation continues, midterms are going to be a hard uphill battle. Migrants and tariffs are not the blame, but Trump isn't doing anything to turn this around or even address the issue directly with any action beyond some flippant tweets.
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Myrtle the Turtle said:
Time for Trump to get serious about affordability. Gaslighting the country into thinking its not an issue because green line go up isn't working. Americans are hurting and seeing little to no relief. If things improved financially he would get a blank check to do whatever he wanted to but as long as stagflation continues, midterms are going to be a hard uphill battle.
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He won't do shit. This is the best the right is going to get. The economy under Trump is worse than it was under Biden and I have no idea how the fuck you accomplish that.

Democrats are guaranteed to take the House and Senate in 2026, and the presidency in 2028. Communism is our future.
 
When Trump put a Jeet in charge of the FBI is it possible he was dipping into the forbidden arts of business management and intentionally putting in a horrible boss to demoralize and soften the liberal controled FBI so when Vance puts a ex-millitary in charge he can crack then into shape and weed out the criminals that got sloppy?
 
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