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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Dread First said:
In absolute fairness, this is 100% a move that is in complete lockstep with past mayoral precedent here in New York City. It's a fundamental problem with governance, and Mamdani himself can't do much to buck New York City's fundamental balance sheet obsession with both residential and commercial property taxes. Something like 35-40% of our budget is built off that, and I guarantee you that the vast majority of those coffers built off property tax are going straight to gibs. It's a decades-long issue that can only be solved by New York City undergoing a colossal property value shock that causes them to irrevocably crater.
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Reading shit like this really kicks in my sense of gratitude that I live in a state that is constitutionally prohibited from going into debt without an affirmative vote of the people, property taxes can't be raised without a vote of the people, budgets of every level of government—from state government down to your local levee district—must be balanced (no deficit spending), etc.

Living in NY, Cali, Illinois, etc, would literally force me into a mental asylum.
 
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visas down.
not far enough but progress.

Fount of BadSpeak said:
I personally go back and forth. I don't have a job that can be done remotely like Null, so it makes my choices a lot less flexible than his, but I get the sentiment for sure.
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I don't. There's plenty of pozzed things about America, but thinking moving to some brown country will fix things is hard to understand.
There are good things happening in south america or whatever but at the end of the day you have to worry if the next election will turn it back into a communist state or whatever.
 
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You guys gotta be patient with normies who have been living under a 24/7 365 psyop regime on the racepill question. I know it's frustrating but your autistic doomer attitudes and immediately lashing out at them is unironically probably what makes a lot of them not take more steps to shrug off the programming. If you find yourself getting too frustrated engaging with them on it just step back and don't engage with them as much on the topic.

That said in my own family I just straight up have begun ranting about a lot of topics around this and my boomer lite mom at least is receptive to it and agrees where before she had a more bleeding heart attitude to this stuff. The change is happening even if it's not the immediate 180 a lot would prefer.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
I think back to the tsunami a decade or so ago that hit Japan. All the harrowing footage of the cities and countryside flooding.

And they had a bunch of the bridges fixed in a few weeks so that the rest of the recovery could continue.

Meanwhile the bridge down the street from me is closed for a paint job. We are on year six. Six fucking years of the township fighting the state fighting goddamn CSX and the bridge is getting worse. It takes 15 minutes to detour around it... AND IT STILL WORKS. But it is closed. For paint. For half a decade.
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Converting a train station from above ground to subway in 3 hours, with enough time for two test runs between last train at night and first train in the morning

 
Alcoholism said:
Dems know that Newsome is unelectable. DNC will tease him up until the last minute just to keep the base happy.
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Yeah, I'm predicting there will be several bernie-tier candidates in the primary who can energize certain segments of the base, but would lose a general election against a rather large piece of granite who will primary hard, play really softball with the other candidates, and then bow out and deepthroat whoever the party actually picks to run.
 
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visas down.
not far enough but progress.


I don't. There's plenty of pozzed things about America, but thinking moving to some brown country will fix things is hard to understand.
There are good things happening in south america or whatever but at the end of the day you have to worry if the next election will turn it back into a communist state or whatever.
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There are caps to quite a few of these programs by type, and I know that labor visas in general are capped. A lot of the decline I presume come from H2Bs displacing other visa types as importing illegals has become nearly impossible.

If Indians get displaced by Mexicans making 20 bucks an hour instead of 5, that's a net benefit imo.

Nice Stick said:
That's the 2024 number. The 2025 numbers are running late and haven't been released, but I expect they will be well over 1 million due to Trump's immigration paperwork processing surge.
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Prepare your rainbows, but that number may be offset by over 100 countries being added to the "no immigration" list since last January, albiet many of these changes only took place late last year or early this year.
 
Lip Glossary said:
I'll say hello to white people and other races when I walk by them on the street, but when I walk by a nigger I pretend like I'm looking for something in my pocket just to spite them :lol:
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I heard one say once the worst thing for them is when people refused to even look at them, as if they didn't exist. So now I make sure to do that as obviously as possible.
 
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Jace on ice said:
Trump is right to insist on classical architecture especially since former president Barack Obama has spent 40 million in taxpayer funds to build what appears to be an evil wizard's tower in downtown Chicago.

Brutalism doesn't even begin to describe it.
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The WORDS WORDS WORDS on the building are completely unreadable.


indomitable snowman said:
Rock thrower guy (name Elpidio Reyna) from Saturday has been identified and his house raided.
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Blast from the past with the riots in LA from June. The rock thowing guy - Elpidio Reyna, has plead guilty to felony assault. He could face up to 20 years (unlikely IMO)
Elpidio Reyna, 39, of Compton, was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry for the alleged assault of a federal officer.A Southern ...Elpidio Reyna, 39, of Compton, was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry for the alleged assault of a federal officer.A Southern California man who had fled the country was arrested and charged with the assault of a federal officer. (U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli)
According to his plea agreement, Reyna assaulted a federal law enforcement officer on June 7, 2025, while the officer was performing official duties.

Federal agencies were conducting a joint enforcement operation near a Home Depot in Paramount when protesters began throwing rocks, lighting objects on fire and obstructing officers, according to officials.

Prosecutors said Reyna lit objects on fire in the street and threw rocks at a convoy of law enforcement vehicles occupied by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, including the victim identified in court documents as “R.T.”

One rock shattered the window of R.T.’s vehicle, cutting the officer’s forehead.

“This defendant could have easily killed a federal officer or innocent bystander,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement. “As he found out the hard way, violence against law enforcement is not constitutionally protected and will be met with swift justice. Those who engage in similar violence will be arrested, charged and eventually convicted in a court of law.”

U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha scheduled sentencing for Aug. 7. Reyna faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
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Nice Stick said:
That's the 2024 number. The 2025 numbers are running late and haven't been released, but I expect they will be well over 1 million due to Trump's immigration paperwork processing surge.
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My bad, the source I had was dated 2025 but I missed that it was for the previous year. Thanks for the blackpill of pointing out that it's probably even higher... America First indeed!
 
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