US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I seem to recall that the big players in CNC machines still have plants here in the US, because it's easier to build the machine here than build them oversees and shipping them. Am I remembering wrongly?

Mazak - Made all over the globe but they have a plant in Kentucky, although not their largest production center.
Haas Automation - Exclusively made in California.
DigiMori - Made all over but have a plant in California as well.
Nakamura - Japan
Bridgeport - Made in Connecticut.

They aren't much bigger or more difficult to ship overseas than a car/truck. They're crated and package for travel fairly easily.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

Yes.

It's this powerful ability called "changing your mind." Where the people in the party can realize that certain policies are damaging to the country and evolve their platform. Instead of spiraling into a death cult that acts as a parody of all the values it used to believe in.

A lot of people (at least those I've spoken to) also didn't think it was that big a deal or frankly didn't think about it all until they saw the consequences staring them in the face.
They were busy living their lives and the "this is good for the country don't worry" was enough to keep their mind off it until all of a sudden it wasn't.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

 

[Buttigieg2020]

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American Juche now!

 

[redlenses2112]

Everyone knows that elections have consequences. Yet somehow the consequences manage to take those who voted for them by surprise:

Consumers in Los Angeles County were shocked Tuesday as a new quarter-percent sales tax, ostensibly to raise funds for services for the homeless, went into effect following a referendum in November.
L.A. voters passed Measure A, which replaced and increased an earlier county-wide sales tax for the homeless. That tax, passed a decade ago, failed to stem the growth of the homeless population and may even have encouraged it.

Throw money at homelessness, get more homelessness. California has proven this law to be reliable, even if where the money actually goes remains a mystery:

L.A. residents recently learned that $2.3 billion spent on homeless services in Los Angeles had been unaccounted for — and the money had come from the same sales taxes that referendums like Measure A had been designed to fund.

Equitable utopia is never more than a few tax increases away, according to the neoliberal faith.
https://archive.is/YWRjN

 

[2ndBest]

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Sucks. Maybe offshoring your companies to save pennies on the dollar wasn't the brightest idea, was it?

 

[SpookNuker]

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who cares not me

 

[George Lucas]

Nintendo: Hi, we know there’s been massiv backlash about our prices to the point our own live stream was flooded with demands for a lower price. Well, now we are delaying preorders explicitly because of tariff evaluations.

Normal people: right, so you’re making this about politics

Lefties: who made this about politics?


Are people really this stupid? They flat out said their delay was a tariff response, that’s Nintendo specifying it was politics. And I agree with that one guy in these comments, this is deflection to avoid the pricing backlash. But no, it’s all politics now

Is me adjusting my bookkeeping practices to take advantage of the TCJA making it about politics?

Like sure, they could be bullshitting about the reason for the delays, but we don't know that yet. If they are being honest that the tariffs are making them reevaluate whatever, that's not political, that's business.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

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You'd think all those people with sickles and hammers in their twitter names would be really happy.

Just no pleasing some people.

 

[One Angry Computer]

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This more delectable than chocolate and more pleasing than sex, we just can't stop winning bros.

 

[MeltyTW]

Not only that but suddenly they care about labor rights and working conditions in foreign countries. And environmental pollution from industries supplying the west!

Very amusing to see.

yeah ill get right on making bush or obama or biden care about kids here, fucking let alone workers over there. idk maybe if i had complained more about foreign polluters hed cripple industry here further to pretend hes fixing the problem when its actually over there.

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half of them probably tried to censor this site anyway.

 

[Betonhaus]

Mazak - Made all over the globe but they have a plant in Kentucky, although not their largest production center.
Haas Automation - Exclusively made in California.
DigiMori - Made all over but have a plant in California as well.
Nakamura - Japan
Bridgeport - Made in Connecticut.

They aren't much bigger or more difficult to ship overseas than a car/truck. They're crated and package for travel fairly easily.

Fuck Haas, they're run by bean counters and every feature standard on other machines is an additional option you have to pay for.

They're only popular because they gift training consoles to technical schools.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

You'd think all those people with sickles and hammers in their twitter names would be really happy.

Just no pleasing some people.

"Eat the Rich"
"No, Not like that!"

 

[Aidan]

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The "eat the rich" crowd is busy complaining about the stock market, too. Amazing.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

What was wrong with Biden's economic policy from your perspective ? What can you criticize him for that can't be said about Trump ?

Inflation from January 2017 - December 2020 (Trump's Presidency): 242.839 to 258.811 -- 6.577% increase.
Inflation from January 2021 - December 2024 (Biden's Presidency): 261.582 to 313.689 -- 19.920% increase.
[ Sauce / Archive ]

Inflation tripled (3.029 times) under Biden. To put it in terms of purchasing power, $100 at the start of Trump's term was only worth $93.83. After four years of Biden, $100, was worth $83.39 (alternatively, that $93.83 left after Trump left office was now down to $78.24.

Sure, COVID was ongoing. But the restrictions and bonus bucks that were in place during 2021 and even 2022 didn't help because inflation for those years were at or above the average rate for the previous four years combined. It took until 2023 for inflation to finally slow down again and that's not taking into account whether supply chain issues are still messed up. To little, too late for most consumers? Perhaps.

Will inflation be worse under Trump's second term with these tariff wars? Time will tell, especially with his first term tax policies that put more money back in taxpayer wallets (by virtue of increased standard deductions) set to expire this year unless they're renewed by congress. Most normies care most about how much money they have on hand to pay for stuff and how much more expensive bill-paying becomes over time. The onus is now on Trump to show he can do better than Biden did in that respect.

 

[Gregis]

Here’s an expanded list of countries involved in tariff negotiations with the United States under President Donald Trump’s tariff war as of April 4, 2025, along with explanations of where their negotiations stand based on available information. This builds on the previous list and reflects the latest developments in the ongoing trade disputes.

Dog friend, did you write this yourself? If so, great work. If not you should cite where it's from, not only to avoid plagiarism, but so that the information can be validated and checked. If it's AI, forum rules specifically require that you make note of that.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Everyone knows that elections have consequences. Yet somehow the consequences manage to take those who voted for them by surprise:

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Throw money at homelessness, get more homelessness. California has proven this law to be reliable, even if where the money actually goes remains a mystery:

Equitable utopia is never more than a few tax increases away, according to the neoliberal faith.
https://archive.is/YWRjN
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It's like they made it mandatory to give your change to the loitering panhandlers.

 

[(°▽°)]

I'd rather have trolls here than have everyone agree. It makes you soft.

Trolls are a renewable resource. All the current trolls could kill themselves () and you'd still have enough new trolls to keep you hard ().

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Fuck Haas, they're run by bean counters and every feature standard on other machines is an additional option you have to pay for.

They're only popular because they gift training consoles to technical schools.

Just like most modern tech machine corps? I mean, it doesn't get any more Apple Pie and Chevrolet than John Deere and I don't think I have to tell you how they intentionally fuck over every farmer who chooses to purchase something green. Enshitification comes for us all eventually. But yes. It's shitty.