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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[autistic dog]

Turns out that Delta pilot was a WOMAN who could imagine!

Shaniqua getting $1000 a month popping out kid after kid by three different baby daddies needs to be cut the fuck off. It's cruel, yes, but I'm tired of pretending that she isn't scamming the system. Every single one of these people needs to be looked at.
Cutting off Illegals from getting EBT would save the program a FUCKTON of money and have it go back to citizens.

There is actually enough money to go around once you start trimming the fat. Just because a few people are scamming the system, doesn't mean everyone is.

How dare you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Turns out that Delta pilot was a WOMAN who could imagine!

wasnt a black womxn at least

also she was First Officer, not the captain, the captain was likely piloting

 

[TrinityReformed]

Trump could end the "sporting purposes" checklist (originally instituted by George H. W. Bush) for arms importation any time he wants as he has full executive privilege to control imports via executive order. He won't.

Looks like that falls under section 2 part b article 7 of this EO he signed on February 7th.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/protecting-second-amendment-rights/

There's still hope, man. Let's see what happens.

 

[liam dees]

I don't think anyone should have kids after age 35 because of personal experience being the kid of older parents.
It sucked seeing other parents doing things with their kids that my parents were too tired and/or apathetic to bother with. Having to explain that yes, those were my parents and not my grandma and grandpa was unpleasant too.
We don't need to go into dealing with the health problems of the elderly and what it does to their kids.

Don't have kids if you're old. Just admire your friends' pictures of their grandkids and call it a day.

You say that as if parents in their 20s or 30s aren't also too tired to spend time with their kids, or dump their kids in front of phones. Respectfully stop using your personal example to make a generalised point about parenting.

Those complaints you brought up just seem so trivial too, no offense.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

Commerce Secretary Lutnick: Trump's goal is to abolish the IRS (Archive)

Spoiler: Short article text

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Wednesday evening President Trump's goal is to "abolish" the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The big picture: Lutnick's remarks on Fox News, which come as the IRS is reportedly poised to lay off thousands of workers, build on a pledge Trump made to create an "External Revenue Service" to oversee tariffs and other potential foreign revenue.

Driving the news: Lutnick said on Jesse Watters Primetime that Elon Musk, in his capacity as a senior White House adviser leading DOGE, was "going to cut" $1 trillion "and then we're going to get rid of all these tax scams that hammer against America, and we're going to raise a trillion dollars of revenue."

• Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Lutnick if he'd give the savings from DOGE cuts back to the American people.
• "Think about it, Donald Trump announces the External Revenue Service, and his goal is very simple ... his goal is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay," Lutnick replied.

Editor's note: This a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

0:57

*Video clip from today's Lutnik Fox appearance

 

[SpergioLeonne]

a nation has a responsibility to make sure its people aren't starving, cold or homeless.

So what are YOUR responsibilities, if the government is supposed to take care of all these trifles?

 

[autistic dog]

Insulting St. Zelenskyy really stirred the hornet's nest.
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These are just a few out of about 800,000.
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This last guy is also a massive Israel shill so he's clearly just angry about anything that actually benefits American interests instead of foreign wars.

Do these people not realize USAID triggered a color revolution in Ukraine that Zelnsky(jew guy) was in on? Trump is holding ALL THE RECIPTS. Telling him ummm achually would be them saying him doing color revolutions all of western europe is allowed.

 

[StMaryPiper]

So what are YOUR responsibilities, if the government is supposed to take care of all these trifles?

NEETing it up afterwords. Those Vidya aren’t going to play themselves you know?

 

[autistic dog]

Has anyone here heard of this video titled

I don't know why I always get this video suggested to me whenever I watch YouTube logged out, but this former X Factor winner apparently claims there's a secret world religion. I have not watched it, as it's 5 hours long. Unfortunately, the comments are off too, so has anyone here watched this video?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Eeo-82Eac8

If you watch the whole thing you unlock the next level of video and your allowed to read the secret comments on the video.

You have many more videos to look forwards to only you can unlock the truth!

https://youtu.be/oOReBkMrTew

https://youtu.be/dOX6kVQE3XY

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM

 

[Pelican Bones]

wasnt a black womxn at least

also she was First Officer, not the captain, the captain was likely piloting

The FO and captain split flying time pretty equally and the FO is just as likely to perform the takeoffs and landings.

 

[SmokelessFire]

You say that as if parents in their 20s or 30s aren't also too tired to spend time with their kids, or dump their kids in front of phones. Respectfully stop using your personal example to make a generalised point about parenting.

Those complaints you brought up just seem so trivial too, no offense.

Nah having old parents suck, it's not normal or trivial having your parent be in their 70s when your 25. It's crazy to me that this controversial.

 

[DavidS877]

wasnt a black womxn at least

also she was First Officer, not the captain, the captain was likely piloting

If someone has a live ATC recording that would be a good indication. Usually the one not piloting is on the radio, so if the captain is doing the radios then the first officer is likely flying.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Commerce Secretary Lutnick: Trump's goal is to abolish the IRS (Archive)

Spoiler: Short article text

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Wednesday evening President Trump's goal is to "abolish" the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The big picture: Lutnick's remarks on Fox News, which come as the IRS is reportedly poised to lay off thousands of workers, build on a pledge Trump made to create an "External Revenue Service" to oversee tariffs and other potential foreign revenue.

Driving the news: Lutnick said on Jesse Watters Primetime that Elon Musk, in his capacity as a senior White House adviser leading DOGE, was "going to cut" $1 trillion "and then we're going to get rid of all these tax scams that hammer against America, and we're going to raise a trillion dollars of revenue."

• Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Lutnick if he'd give the savings from DOGE cuts back to the American people.
• "Think about it, Donald Trump announces the External Revenue Service, and his goal is very simple ... his goal is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay," Lutnick replied.

Editor's note: This a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

Howard Lutnik on Fox News with Jesse Watters.mp4
*Video clip from today's Lutnik Fox appearance

How to secure eternal presidency with this one powerful move.

 

[CapricornusRex]

What would you use your $5000 on, hypothetically? Anybody could answer this.

Pay off all my medical debt.

 

[verissimus]

What is this person talking about? Churchill famously got thrown out of office (again) as prime minister during WW2.

 

[Pelican Bones]

If someone has a live ATC recording that would be a good indication. Usually the one not piloting is on the radio, so if the captain is doing the radios then the first officer is likely flying.

It was a male voice VASAviation had a video of it.

ETA: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NiUC8h4pkcs

 

[Silly Fella]

I mean your not wrong but like are Americans any better ? Remember the summer of Floyd and how many statues were tore down ? Remember how anti White frankly anti American thinkers like Robin Diangelo and Ibram X Kendi were (and in many cases still are) mandatory reading in the biggest corporations and the most elite universities .

I would argue White guilt is a bigger issue in America. I just want White Americans to self reflect on their own circumstances instead of getting mad at their kin over in Europe for problems that exist in America.

Americans whites are better in a indescribable way, I think it may be less gayness. Whatever that trait is that makes us think we can handle guns, whereas European will look at something that powerful and think "no one should have that."

 

[buying gf]

Interesting thing I saw in Financial Times February 18th print edition that I haven't seen talked about anywhere. The interesting part is this graph:
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Something like 70% of the top Uranium mining countries are Russia-China aligned. The article took great pains to complain about Niger no longer selling to the West, and Kazakhstan doing uranium business pretty much solely with Russia and China (2/3rd is sold to Russia and China, and only 28% to US, Canada, France, and UK).
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That's not really good for US, and makes keeping Canada as a friend (or annexing it) a vital security interest.

Whilst Kazakhstan dominates the exports, in terms of raw deposits, Australia sits on almost one third of the world's total uranium. It'll be interesting to see if the US government decides to pressure the Aus government to allow more mines to open.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

So what are YOUR responsibilities, if the government is supposed to take care of all these trifles?

Responsibilities are not exclusive.

Both Parents are responsible for the wellbeing of their child. Grandparents also have a responsibilty. The extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins have some level of responsibility for their relation. This extends out to clan or further nativity levels, which includes the nation. That's why we have orphanages.

A nation having a responsibility to care for the wellbeing of its native citizens doesn't mean infantilized dependency.

Responsibility is a social contract. It only exist if people agree it does. Laws are also a social contract.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Americans whites are better in an indescribable way, I think it may be less gayness. Whatever that trait is that makes us think we can handle guns, whereas European will look at something that powerful and think "no one should have that."

I mean, there were hundreds of years where every time the equivalent of “take your clot shot or lose your job” came up, there was also the option of “I guess I could go to America…”

When Europe was out of frontiers and people dreamed of just making it on their own in the woods somewhere, they could go to America.

Eventually anyone with testicular instincts was in America

@UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid

Our constitution’s preamble mentions “providing for the general welfare.”

“General” is used to indicate non specificity.

I interpret that to mean providing a climate within which opportunity exists so that people can generally provide for themselves. No promises were made to support a class of drug addicts and the mentally and morally feeble. If you’re not addicted to drugs or mentally or morally feeble, you don’t need help