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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[Honka Honka Burning Love]

why was she enrolled in columbia if she never attended class for 8 years?

So Columbia could get free money from the Government.

 

[ChefKiss]

Progressives don't actually care about the issues they champion. They just use them for asspats and to morally grandstand on how they are better than you.

also because they're told to care about them and/or paid to care about them by people who profit from the scams behind these causes
That's why they'lll act like gamergate or people not liking Ghostbusters 2016 is a major feminist cause but Sheikh Bin Mohammad al Abdul Muhammed Durka Jihad being head of the UN Womens right council while stoning women to death isnt of any concern

 

[HTTP Error 404]

The Department of Education is investigating 52 univeristies for anti-White discriminatio

This has always been illegal but the left convinced themselves that "racism is just power + prejudice" and thus "you can't be racist towards whites" and that if they wished real hard the laws wouldn't apply to the "good bigotry" they liked just absolutely because.

I'm hoping for a nice mass purge of this shit -- DEI, JEDI, BRIDGE, what have you -- and lots and lots of lawsuits from White employees and Male employees. Not just in academia, but in the corporate world too.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

Or the fbi can just not act like fucking retards. It makes no sense that SWATing is even a thing.

I have to have a valid ID and credit card to order a pizza at most places (due to prank orders) and to rent a hotel room. (due to retards trashing them).
I can anonymously tip any old horse shit lie and send the accidental not accidental death squad to random people's door over voip.

The swat teams make more problems than they resolve for the past decade.

 

[Pelican Bones]

True, they never got anywhere near Kursk proper.

They are in the Kursk Oblast. They are the ones that Trump was talking to Putin about.

 

[The Ugly One]

So basically, NGOs can pay foreigners to be political agitators here, and the courts have ruled that's some kind human right.

 

[marvlouslie]

no, that's her, you're thinking of the spokesperson who spoke at the press conference

She can fuckin' go with him, as far as I'm concerned. She's a traitor.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

So basically, NGOs can pay foreigners to be political agitators here, and the courts have ruled that's some kind human right.

tbh "undermining the USA is a basic human right" explains a lot of actions from a lot of groups

 

[tehpope]

tbh "undermining the USA is a basic human right" explains a lot of actions from a lot of groups

They see the USA as an economic zone, not a country with its own laws and sovereignty.

 

[jje100010001]

FBI saars are looking into Swatting.

https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1900536072871768094

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Between the activation of leftist assets, Democrat lawfare, the tariff wars, and Bondi being MIA and causing the Admin’s first disappointment (Epstein/JFK files), seems like February going into March has been less productive than the first few weeks.

 

[Justin Igger]

Between the activation of leftist assets, Democrat lawfare, the tarrif wars, and Bondi being MIA and causing the Admin’s first disappointment (Epstein files), seems like the second month has been less productive than the first.

The Democrats are all spiraling in real-time, they can't even hold their gaslight-a-thon press conferences anymore without their own hand-picked journalists calling out their bullshit. They're shifting wildly between stumbling over their scripted words and straight up lecturing people like they're children. Their task before them is impossible: they need to convince the world that what is obviously good, is actually bad. And you're worried they're gonna win?

 

[Nottafed]

It seems like Musk is on such a power trip that he no longer cares about what happens to his net worth. It's the same mentality I get in the late stages of a strategy game, ignore the economy and every other long-term concern to rush victory conditions and pet projects.

they are going to kill him anyway, might as well take their asses down with him.
I applaud it.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

that would actually be bad for the poor, they mostly get refunds.

That refund is money that shouldn’t have been taken in the first place. Getting it in one lump looks good, but in all honesty if you make more than $9/hr the gov’t is essentially taking one week of groceries away from you every week you work. If they’re getting a refund anyway, why bother taxing them in the first place?

 

[marvlouslie]

People keep fear mongering a government shutdown as if it would be the worst thing in the world. Would it really be the worst thing though? Really? Everyone would still get their government benefits. Nothing really would stop, aside from Fed workers not going into their jobs (I give little shit of that).

Hell, it'd be worth a shutdown just so we wouldn't have to hear their useless screeching for a while. Remember how no one really noticed Hollywood "striking" ?

 

[GunCar Gary]

A second Columbia University protester who took part in anti-Israel demonstrations on campus was nabbed by Homeland Security agents Thursday

good, good

 

[Back me up!]

People keep fear mongering a government shutdown as if it would be the worst thing in the world. Would it really be the worst thing though? Really? Everyone would still get their government benefits. Nothing really would stop, aside from Fed workers not going into their jobs (I give little shit of that).

They fear monger every single time. Now it does get a little bit annoying the longer it goes on with Parks being closed, some checks not getting sent out, etc. But the Dem should be more worried cause if the Gov is shutdown that gives DOGE even more time to go hold wild over everything while the govies are not even in the buildings.

 

[marvlouslie]

They fear monger every single time. Now it does get a little bit annoying the longer it goes on with Parks being closed, some checks not getting sent out, etc. But the Dem should be more worried cause if the Gov is shutdown that gives DOGE even more time to go hold wild over everything while the govies are not even in the buildings.

Checks would still be sent out. We've had government shutdowns before and people still got paid, but literally no one noticed due to how useless the lot of it really is and we just went about our lives.

For the record, here's the 21 times the government has actually shut down:

• 2018-2019 (President Donald Trump): December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 - 34 days
• 2018 (President Donald Trump): January 20 to January 23 - 3 days
• 2018 (President Donald Trump): February 9 – 1 day.
• 2013 (President Barack Obama): October 1 to October 17 - 16 days
• 1995-1996 (President Bill Clinton): December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996 - 21 days
• 1995 (President Bill Clinton): November 14 to 19 - 5 days
• 1990 (President George H.W. Bush): October 5 to 9 - 3 days
• 1987 (President Ronald Reagan): December 18 to December 20 - 1 day
• 1986 (President Ronald Reagan): October 16 to October 18 - 1 day
• 1984 (President Ronald Reagan): October 3 to October 5 - 1 day
• 1984 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 to October 3 - 2 days
• 1983 (President Ronald Reagan): November 10 to November 14 - 3 days
• 1982 (President Ronald Reagan): December 17 to December 21 - 3 days
• 1982 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 to October 2 - 1 day
• 1981 (President Ronald Reagan): November 20 to November 23 - 2 days
• 1979 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 to October 12 - 11 days
• 1978 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 to October 18 18 days
• 1977 (President Jimmy Carter): November 30 to December 9 - 8 days
• 1977 (President Jimmy Carter): October 31 to November 9 - 8 days
• 1977 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 to October 13 - 12 days
• 1976 (President Gerald Ford): September 30 to October 11 - 10 days

Anyone notice how short they were? Shut down threats are all performative theater meant to get the base pissy about something utterly useless.

 

[The Noise]

Unrelated to current goings-on, but randomly remembered this at work today.

Anyone else remember when Joe Biden, the "most progressive president in history," decided to walk the picket line and fuck over unionized railworkers for wanting sick days? Remember when a train derailed in East Palestine and released a shitload of toxic chemicals into the air only a few months later due to the dogshit working conditions that they were protesting over?

I still can't believe any part of the Biden presidency was real.

 

[Betonhaus]

People keep fear mongering a government shutdown as if it would be the worst thing in the world. Would it really be the worst thing though? Really? Everyone would still get their government benefits. Nothing really would stop, aside from Fed workers not going into their jobs (I give little shit of that).

Hell, it'd be worth a shutdown just so we wouldn't have to hear their useless screeching for a while. Remember how no one really noticed Hollywood "striking" ?

I would suspect that the next government shutdown may not include back pay for the employees sent home

 

[marvlouslie]

I would suspect that the next government shutdown may not include back pay for the employees sent home

Again, I refer to you to my post which I've just updated about the times we've shut down. Literally less than a fucking MONTH for all of it, which equals about a regular vacation time. The longest we've ever had a shut down is a month and two days.