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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Members of the Trump Administration
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[Celebrate Nite]

School shootings are based and I hope they happen more.

i know someone who would love to be your friend

Spoiler

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Either way, the US would destroy the chip plants if it seems like China is getting too close for comfort.

I do want to highlight that there's really not much need for an external actor to destroy the plants to deny them. The main value points in the plants are the actual technical expertise that can run the top end equipment, and the top end machines themselves. The former is gonna be conscripted into the islands defense and probably dead by the time the Chinese threaten to secure the plant, and the latter could be rendered permanently useless to china just by opening them up and stealing a few of the mirrors in them, and its completely bricked. They could be flown out or destroyed, and that'd be the end of the game entirely for China - they do not have the means to produce those mirrors or the coatings on them used to focus the light, they're extremely exotic. Same goes for pretty much any control board in the machine, pull and destroy it and there's no viable way for China to replace it or its software. Those parts are already export restricted and with extremely limited supply, there's no interest in trying to dodge it, there's already more than enough legit buyers to make it pointless. Same goes for industrial espionage, too few players and too narrow an attack surface for it to really be pulled off. TSMC has a massive number of these machines, and its still only in the dozens. Imagine how narrow and monitored the spare parts market is as a result.

And even having them doesn't really help either from some reverse engineering perspective - Aside from the fact that this isn't a videogame and that's not really how this works, the stuff in question isn't a top secret so much as it is so difficult to do at all that only the single entities doing so globally can manage. That lack of underlying technical refinement is specifically why China hasn't replicated the machines yet, and as soon as they reach that point, they wouldn't need to seize TSMC at all. TSMC is only an objective in so far as denying it to everyone else, China really doesn't stand to gain much.

 

[You're MDNWU]

Bad day to be a narco-terrorist:

I know it's small numbers, but hot damn do I love it nonetheless.

They'll be forced to try and push more through on land and ideally we start doing the same there.

 

[Stealthzdragons]

rifftrax is ok.
both amazon prime and pluto tv (free) have mst3k and rifftrax channels
i just watched the space mutiny episode on youtube because someone mentioned it earlier, it was excellent.

Big McLargeHuge!

 

[marvlouslie]

I just saw a CNN panel where Abby Phillips literally tried to say that people who can't get passports can't vote. What the fuck? YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE (or State ID) IS YOUR ID YOU PRESENT TO VOTE. I swear to fuck, these people are deliberately misrepresenting something so fucking basic, and so common sense, it's actually fucking maddening. It infuriates me so goddamn much,

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I've been following this nest since the hatchings were shared on thread. It's heartwarming to see the younger eaglet will likely pull through.

seriously the wife and me were REALLY worried about the younger one too,
I noped out of the cam for a minute so I could convince myself that if he wasn't there when I came back that he just got moved to a big nest up north where he'll have a lot of room to run around

 

[mlanguishi]

I just saw a CNN panel where Abby Phillips literally tried to say that people who can't get passports can't vote. What the fuck? YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE (or State ID) IS YOUR ID YOU PRESENT TO VOTE. I swear to fuck, these people are deliberately misrepresenting something so fucking basic, and so common sense, it's actually fucking maddening. It infuriates me so goddamn much,

They're either lying or just don't understand what the word 'or' means. As in either. I hate her constant smug, vague expression she always does.

 

[GettrGriftr]

They're either lying or just don't understand what the word 'or' means. As in either. I hate her constant smug, vague expression she always does.

You just want to bitch-slap that smug, benzo smile off that sheboon face.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Since we're talking MST3K some of my favorites:

-The Giant Gila Monster
-Danger!! Death Ray
-Prince of Space
-Master Ninja 1 and 2.
-Manos
-Mitchell
-Alien from L.A.
-Zombie Nightmare
-Jack Frost
-The Brain That Wouldn't Die

and Space Mutiny, already mentioned. Also don't miss the MST3K movie.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

 

[not william stenchever]

But I should've expected this from someone who still tries to justify comparing Nick Fuentes to Adolf Hitler off of pure objectivity. Because anyone thinking objectively would think of Adolf Hitler when thinking of Nick Fuentes.

Nick Fuentes, if he were an Austrian, in the leadup to WW1 would have said that Franz Ferdinand getting shot was a good thing.

 

[harmy.kook]

Buildup of air forces near Iran is insane rn:

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This is from this morning and it's already out of date, the amount of assets have nearly doubled:

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From 3 hours ago and already quickly becoming out of date:

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https://x.com/EGYOSINT/status/2023844197384458414

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Planes are STILL preparing to transit the Atlantic:

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Can't wait until the Weekend Happenings broskis

wild
you got hired from fucking reddit

jeet coding

I'm a proud Newpipe user nowadays for this reason.

Listening to some stream about some retarded Roblox fagtuber in the background with no issues, but others on the stream swear that something's happening

 

[marvlouslie]

They're either lying or just don't understand what the word 'or' means. As in either. I hate her constant smug, vague expression she always does.

It's not that they're lying. Like I said, they're deliberately misrepresenting something that should be basic common fucking sense at this point. The Left literally just wants to cheat, and they're thrashing about trying to excuse it.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

I don't clearly remember Team USA landing in Africa, but I'm pretty certain that was a total shitshow.

Funny story, one of my grandfathers was US Army Air Corps ground crew in WWII, he was involved in landing in North Africa. He was supposed to be a later wave but they mixed up and landed him and his unit in the initial wave. Unarmed. I think they basically hugged cover and hid behind some rocks until the beach was secured. And the US, in theory, was actually good at these, we did them enough.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

After watching the roach stream I have to say I'm a pretty big fan of palantir's CEO.

 

[mlanguishi]

A special election GOP win, rare.

 

[Stealthzdragons]

Just keeping this site running does more than I think you sometimes realize. When the entire internet spread its asshole for blm in 2020 this place kept me sane, that's not an exaggeration. Just seeing somebody acknowledge the fact that people like vaush, hasan, and destiny are in fact as evil and insane as my intuition tells me is like an anti-gaslight when the rest of the net was sweeping for them. I know it feels irrelevant in the grand scheme of things but these things can have ripple effects. Everything starts with a conversation.

Edit: Think about this. I was an Obama worshipping lefty stoner good boy in 2012. My redpilling was a long and slow process but this place was crucial in just reminding myself "no you are not insane". Reddit, youtube, cnn, even fox news to a degree wanted to believe I was insane, when enough people tell you that it can happen because humans have social radars. This place was instrumental, i didn't even know about A&N cause it was blocked back then, just lurking lolcow threads showed me i'm not crazy.

If it can happen to me it can happen to anybody.

This hit me in the feels, man. I'm getting nostalgic.

Yeah, high school days and college, had that leftist/oblivious mindset. Didn't really bother with politics. I kid you not, Rush Limbaugh is the one who set me down on that slope of finally having that 'Wake the fuck up, Samurai' moment. Love him or hate him, he knew how to open people up to this stuff, and yes, that means I also got into listening to Glenn Beck. Even though there were days when he was just too preachy.

It's also really weird how much of a shift in perspective you have on life when your political mindset changes. You start to become more aware of what's happening.

Clay and Buck are just... meh. Though I do find that one user here funny, forgot who it was, calls them 'Gay and Cuck.' Gives me a chuckle. Props to them.

Couldn't stand Sean Hannity. ECK.

Then I found the forums. I think a friend showed me this place, lurked here for a long while. I was there during the 2016 election upset, the 2020 Summer of Love BS. Etc etc.

The triple H name, who we do not speak of, having a meltdown is still pretty damn funny.

Despite all the doomers trying to shit it up, it helps to come here and at least read some form of sanity that isn't constant black pilling. I like to think Fatpacks is all of our pessimism combined into one. Like a Blackpilling Captain Planet amalgamation but in a burger suit. That fateful day when Reverse Oracle truly embraced his origins and put on the burger suit.

As you said, if it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

The triple H name, who we do not speak of

People talk about me all the time. I'm a pretty big deal here.

 

[CIS White Droid]

Don't pretty much all amphibious landings of tanks result in a tank graveyard that's only use is for infantry cover, on the off chance the tanks make it to the right section of shoreline?

I don't clearly remember Team USA landing in Africa, but I'm pretty certain that was a total shitshow.

Typically you don't start landing tanks until the beachhead is already secured. That being said amphibious landings in 2026 are a very different animal from amphibious landings in 1943/44.

 

[not william stenchever]

Taiwan won't be in it alone. believe we'll be there. And there's a reason we sold Japan 1000 Tomahawks a while back.

Japan would be excited to do this again:

 

[CIS White Droid]

Funny story, one of my grandfathers was US Army Air Corps ground crew in WWII, he was involved in landing in North Africa. He was supposed to be a later wave but they mixed up and landed him and his unit in the initial wave. Unarmed. I think they basically hugged cover and hid behind some rocks until the beach was secured. And the US, in theory, was actually good at these, we did them enough.

The US Army was very green during Operation Torch. We cut our teeth in North Africa and got bloodied in Italy. We didn't really hit our stride until the push through France and Belgium. Even then there were colossal fuck ups like Market Garden and ignoring the intelligence that the Germans were massing for an offensive in the winter of '44.