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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Something that europe somehow has over the US is how the party president is almost always the prime minister/president/executive leader.

If Trump was the chair of GOP, i think 90% of his problems in both terms would had been fixed almost overnight.
Another thing is that party presidents can kick out disloyal representatives and unless they are affiliated to party in a certain amount of time, their term is nullified and they get replaced quick.
If that was a good thing then Europe wouldn't be the shitshow it is. If the US operated like that then we would never have gotten Trump as the GoP would never have let him become chair and any MAGA supporters would have been purged right away.
 
All this redistricting stuff has been funny to me because so many states have tried to redistrict and most have failed either due to judge cucking or politician cucking. The only ones that have succeeded are Texas's which shifted 5 seats to the GOP and Caifornia's which undid all that.

All these happenings resulted in nothing happening.
Florida is also looking like it's gonna add some seats, despite that decrepit septuagenarian crying about how unfair it was and how DeSantis is a meanie.
 
Can FCC obscenity regulations fuck off already? There is no case for ruling people can't say piss on the radio if the politicians are out there constantly dropping f-bombs.
 
Florida is also looking like it's gonna add some seats, despite that decrepit septuagenarian crying about how unfair it was and how DeSantis is a meanie.
remember that our detractors, those dang dirty trolls that come here and shittalk us all, told us nothing like this would ever happen. they told us virginia was getting those gerrymandered seats, and that the republicans would never add more.

texas is adding 5 seats because the supreme court ruled it was fine to use it and move forward during the challenge.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/04/texas-redistricting-map-us-supreme-court-2026-midterms/ | https://archive.ph/wip/2k7Z5

North Carolina redistricted the only contentious district to divide it in half, and make one vote republican, which basically cancels out the dem-favored seat (bonus points if you can guess what seat it is before checking!)
https://www.wral.com/story/nc-passe...al-districts-into-law-ahead-of-2026/22208874/ | https://archive.ph/wip/7Q97U

ohio is redistricting in such a way as to shift the favoring of the districts from 10-5 republican-democrat to 12-3.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/ohio-redistricting-gerrymander-new-map-00631254 | https://archive.ph/jvrFR

missouri is going with a map that is completely in the GOP's favor, adding one if not potentially two new seats for republicans, though one new seat is more likely. only question here is if they get 106,000 signatures in 6 districts (all democrats of course) to prevent the map from going forward without a ballot initiative, but the secretary of state said that 1/3rd of the signatures are invalid.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/nx-s...districting-plan-that-may-benefit-republicans | https://archive.ph/wip/TfTYc

and that's just the states that have approved or mostly approved the map for 2026. republicans are adding 9 new seats with conservative estimates, and the democrats are dealing with shit like this:
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i especially like this. they loved cherrypicking all their judges so specifically when they were the ones taking Trump to court, but now that the republicans are doing it, they're throwing a shit fit.
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https://apnews.com/article/virginia...p-referendum-d4ece389549224ff188a86b9e3bad201 | archive

one thing i noticed is that there are always calls to 'keep the maps fair' in republican redistricting regions by the libtards who show up to protest, but when it's their bughive redistricting the state like in virginia, they are completely silent.

even when they take power in fedland, they can't manage to do much more than screeching about how unfair it is that they can't ignore every law ever passed and do whatever they want, while their attempts to imitate the republicans, who did all their redistricting things last year when their state required them to, just never pan out!

it feels good to be fucking winners, doesn't it? :story:
 
That's how it feels watching true crime interrogations or body cams sometimes. "Yes or no, did you leave your kid to die tied in a stroller while you went to do drugs?" "WELL WHAT HAPPENED WAS I WAS HUNGRY AND SCARED OF MY MAN AND MY KIDS WAS SCREAMIN' AN' I NEEDED A-" Can't imagine how annoying it would be from the perspective of their court appointed attorney lmao
One thing I regularly tell people about the criminal process is that in the overwhelming majority of criminal cases, the defendant has already confessed to all of the elements of the crime needed to convict them, almost always without realizing it, and usually in the process of trying to justify themselves to the officer they're talking to. This is why most cases just go straight to plea deals and everyone and their brother complains that their public defender didn't fight for them and just told them to take the deal; there never was a good defense to your case, it was hopeless from the start, because you couldn't keep your damn mouth shut. Being a court-appointed criminal defense attorney is often more like being a psychopomp guiding wayward souls through the underworld.
 
one thing i noticed is that there are always calls to 'keep the maps fair' in republican redistricting regions by the libtards who show up to protest, but when it's their bughive redistricting the state like in virginia, they are completely silent.

even when they take power in fedland, they can't manage to do much more than screeching about how unfair it is that they can't ignore every law ever passed and do whatever they want, while their attempts to imitate the republicans, who did all their redistricting things last year when their state required them to, just never pan out!

it feels good to be fucking winners, doesn't it? :story:
Doomers get a visit from the Nigger Whipper.
 
All this redistricting stuff has been funny to me because so many states have tried to redistrict and most have failed either due to judge cucking or politician cucking. The only ones that have succeeded are Texas's which shifted 5 seats to the GOP and Caifornia's which undid all that.

All these happenings resulted in nothing happening.
Even if the Virginia one holds up it’s still all only amounted to a marginally Republican-friendly stalemate
 
“It’s begging the question. What does Recorder Heap have to hide?” Lesko said.
PSA: Begging the question is a logical fallacy where an argument includes its conclusion within its premise. I'm so tired of illiterate pseudes misusing this phrase when punctuating their deductive word vomit.

✅️ Correct usage
Statement: "We are obliged to place more niggers in leadership because diversity is our greatest strength."
Response: "That begs the question, is diversity our greatest strength?"
 
Interpretive dance is an absolute cancer. I remember one of my professors putting together a holocaust memorial event with some speeches from survivors that I went to (One story that stood out was a jew that gained enough trust to do handyman jobs around his camp was pulled aside by the warden and told "Hey, if you see an opportunity to escape, take it." when things were getting real bad) Anyway, the Dean of the school forced my professor to let every department contribute, so we got some lovely music, some art, then we got to the dance. We had fruit cakes in skintight morph suits twirling around holding big posters with a holocaust victim on it. EVERYBODY hated it, my professor got shit for it and had to issue an apology for their contribution even though he knew it was a bad idea and that is why he didn't want them to contribute anything in the first place.
 
PSA: Begging the question is an informal logical fallacy
Fixed that for you. Otherwise, I totally agree with you. That's been a raspberry seed in my wisdom tooth for decades!

Illiterates who don't know when to use "fewer" v. "less" is second one my list.
 
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