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/

 

[Buck Broken Chimp]

The way I see it, the biggest threat to Trump's tariffs is TPTB thinking they can just wait it out until the end of his term and then get back to business as usual. That goes double for investment in US industries which takes years to bear fruit.

All of these tariffs are by executive order. He needs to convince people that either they can get passed into law or that his successors will continue them. Otherwise America is just going to get the short-term pain and quit before getting the long-term gains.

This has always been a weakness with American foreign policy. People just wait out the current presidency.

This has been my contention with the tarrifs. Even if they do pay off there is no guarantee they will stay in place they likely won't as the average voter isn't willing to put up with the massive price increases.

 

[Jace on ice]

For the visual learners among us this is a pretty decent explanation of what Blumpf is trying to do.

 

[Pod 042]

The way I see it, the biggest threat to Trump's tariffs is TPTB thinking they can just wait it out until the end of his term and then get back to business as usual. That goes double for investment in US industries which takes years to bear fruit.

All of these tariffs are by executive order. He needs to convince people that either they can get passed into law or that his successors will continue them. Otherwise America is just going to get the short-term pain and quit before getting the long-term gains.

This has always been a weakness with American foreign policy. People just wait out the current presidency.

TPTB can't afford to wait this out. They have existed solely off syphoning money from the United States for a very long time. Four years without funding is a death sentence to them and their pet projects. They're not dead yet though, expect them to become much more desperate and deranged as the lack of funds starves them.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

If you see America as anything less than this you should be deported to a corner of the globe in which I will personally never see you again. If you do not match the energy of this drawing unironically you are just a tourist in my country
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gatcha designs were always too busy

This is a but of a sideways response to your post, but anyways

I hate "environmentalists". I love the environment, but I never hear these cunts complaining about the endless plastic crap being produced in the east and shipped to the west. Instead it's all about how I (specifially) shouldn't drive, shouldn't go on holiday twice a year, how I should wear a jumper instead of turning on my fucking heating.

Utter cunts. Ban China from producing temu crap and invest in nuclear. I'm the real environmentalist.

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I love the snails, but Save The Snails is always about getting that plot of land declared a wetland so the owner can't develop it, backed by the asshole who owns the plot of land up the road. It's never about saving the snails.

I recall Ron! got some traction on good efforts in Florida by rebranding it as "conservation" and "conserving wild lands" and stuff like that.

 

[Not Really Here]

At the risk of sounding retarded I have to ask what's with all the Jew bashing here?

Standard brainwashing victim response. They learn they were lied to by the large group they deeply support, then cope with the first, other major 'secret power' they can rationalize. It's a cyclical thing I've personally witnessed after: Bush 1, Bush 2-3, Obama 1-2, Trump 1, Biden, and Trump 2.

The post-Obama spike was so large, it spawned a label 'alt-right.' That cycle was particularly bad as Obama supporters like Null, and Richard Spencer, bought the 'we're just Americans' hype, voted for him, then got race riots, and 'fuck white people' Federal policy. It also fed into the current cycle, and found synergy with the current 'pendulum swing' toward full on protectionism, and standard 'Palestinian' dead kid propaganda they always use after starting shit, to make us bribe Israel into stop killing the ghetto niggers of the Arab race.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

HOLY SHIT SELL EVERYTHING. DONT EVEN TRY TO BUY THE DIP.

 

[God of Nothing]

For the visual learners among us this is a pretty decent explanation of what Blumpf is trying to do.
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i kneel before the tariff god

 

[Not Really Here]

the average voter isn't willing to put up with the massive price increases.

We know.

 

[xertruglia]

Jim mentioned during his last stream

Who is Jim? Is that your friend?

 

[George Lucas]

For the visual learners among us this is a pretty decent explanation of what Blumpf is trying to do.
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If this is the plan, we’re going to see an epic Fed vs. Treasury battle. Unless Powell bends the knee.

 

[Jace on ice]

Been seeing a lot of the following on twitter/reddit.

"If Trump gers his way your North Face jacket will be $2000 and your degenerate rapper endorsed Nike sneakers will be $500!"

Well good news nigger I don't buy moronic luxury status products because I am not a mindless consumerist niggercattle drone.

 

[(°▽°)]

You don't. There's a prewash in the normal cycle just for that reason

I don't know what's on your plates (a few drops of vegetable broth?) but I have never seen anything short of an industrial dishwasher that could actually deal with bits of food still on the dishes--and you still rinse dishes before putting them in an industrial dishwasher!

 

[TerminalTryHard]

Hey guys remember when the Chinese state media ran an article about China, Japan and S Korea forming a trade union? That was funny.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Hey guys remember when the Chinese state media ran an article about China, Japan and S Korea forming a trade union? That was funny.

Lmao three most competitive Asian countries that exports exact same products forming an alliance.

LOL N

 

[Not Really Here]

Who is Jim? Is that your friend?

Please be respectful when he's talking about his daddy.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

I'm curious if the Daily Wire paid off a bunch of bots to spam Ben Shapiro's latest videos on the tariffs with comments on how they're a disaster for the country. Just looking at the top rated comments, you see a lot of name + numbers accounts.

I don't think there all digital bots but there are a few biobots. I've seen paraphrases and flat out plageristic quotations in some of the posts.

 

[PFM]

I don't know what's on your plates (a few drops of vegetable broth?) but I have never seen anything short of an industrial dishwasher that could actually deal with bits of food still on the dishes--and you still rinse dishes before putting them in an industrial dishwasher!

I'm guessing these people haven't lived long enough to inspect a broken dishwasher to find a bunch of old rotted food jammed up in the dishwasher's innards.

 

[babadook]

I'm curious if the Daily Wire paid off a bunch of bots to spam Ben Shapiro's latest videos on the tariffs with comments on how they're a disaster for the country. Just looking at the top rated comments, you see a lot of name + numbers accounts.

It's the new default naming convention that it's applied backwards to old YT accounts as well, if I remember correctly

 

[George Lucas]

I don't know what's on your plates (a few drops of vegetable broth?) but I have never seen anything short of an industrial dishwasher that could actually deal with bits of food still on the dishes--and you still rinse dishes before putting them in an industrial dishwasher!

I’m not sure what crappy dishwashers you’re using. Every dishwasher I’ve owned, from old tanks built in the 70s to Chinesium late models have been able to handle dirty dishes fine. You need to scrape off the solid parts of food, but that’s just because that’ll clog the drain. You are supposed to leave the residue. Dishwashers are actually designed for the grease on food to maintain the mechanical parts. If you prewash the dishes, it’s worse for the dishwasher.

If the dishwasher isn’t cleaning effectively, usually it’s water temperature. Below 110°, water has a hard time melting grease.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

The funniest thing about the boycotts over tariffs is them talking out both sides of their mouth. I thought that umm ackually the tariffs are paid by the importer so you stupid American are footing the bill? The interesting fact is how weirdly obsesses they are with America. You see videos of Canada packing up Jack Daniels to ship back removing the product entirely. American liquor store just raises the price of crown royal as needed without even mentioning the tariff. Americans have been getting fucked by tariffs for so long that we have already accepted the markup for "imported" as a fact of life.

"We don't think about you at all" in action. Even if subtly.

The obnoxious part about muh tariff frenzy that's occurred as a armchair econ dork on slow down times is finding any information on historical tariff rates for specific goods and specific countries you have to turn your search box into something that looks like a fucking host file had an abortion with a python script with the amount of boolean bullshit to filter out anything that isn't reddit and twitter retards squawking, freedom.eagle/magafart domains, or the major MSM rags and articlefags pumping their SEO to the gills with TARIFF for buzz and clicks.

I just fucking want to run goddamn numbers and see how bad the fucking we've been getting has truly been on specifics goods and materials has been over a decade.
JUST GIVE ME FUCKING NUMBERS AND FIGURES INSTEAD OF RETARD'S PUFF PIECES YOU WORTHLESS WEB-END.

I'm starting to think that bookchads had the right idea, you can't algorithm suppress and SEO boost and put a stupid fucking AI pre-amble on the printed fucking word.