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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[Amelia Troonheart]

Sure, but it's hard to convince a 22-year-old of that.

As a 22 year old, I didn't hear this perspective much if at all. Most of what I was told was that children were expensive, time consuming, will end a woman's career and cause discrimination, that if you have a baby young you'll ruin your entire life and everyone will call you trashy, that never stop crying, are boring for the first year, and I definitely shouldn't consider it until Im ready to put up with it.

Which, on some level is of course true. They can be all of those things. But I wasn't told you'll just adapt to it and all the positives that come with it. That just like moving out of your parents place it's a bit scary until you get used to the responsibility.
Ultimately because of that narrative, I had decided not to have kids from a young age. There seemed to be no benefit to it.

That only changed when my eldest niece was born, and I got to spend a lot of time with her from newborn up to toddlerhood. I helped out a lot and all of those negatives people kept piling up seemed inconsequential and childish compared to what you get in return.

 

[Melee Bouquet]

The lulziest thing about these birth rate discussions are the male advocates for motherhood who really really really hate women.

Good job boys!

 

[edgymovies]

Domestic jobs being laid off in anticipation of the economy shitting itself over tariffs is somehow a win? What happened to fixing the economy and NOT trying to front-run a recession?
Last week you were glazing Orange Man about how many new factory jobs he’d create. Now every American company is cutting off a pound of flesh from its employees to stay afloat and you call it a good thing?

You simply don't understand the art of the deal.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

Trump is live. Executive order signing

 

[foolish little scheisse]

I've been wondering about targeting and fucking with vulnerable people online as well as broadly spraying ideas that will predictably worsen the mental health of a percentage of the people exposed to it for a long long time, since the very early days of sudden jihad syndrome, and what happened during covid almost made me sure that this is happening.

but the almost and not entirely is that I can't come up with a plausible story of who is doing this. it's just too competent to be the government.

Well there's this interesting little passage in Ephesians 6:12 that may give some clear insight on that.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Singapore and China always disliked each other. Especially since the Chinese built a port just next door in Malaysia. Singapore is a city-state and like most of it’s kind it’s wealth is built on trade, so that was very bad for business.

And the Chinese are still pissed that Singapore was able to resist their influence when the British left. China really wants to go back to the pre-century of humiliation state where they sit right in the middle of any and all trade any Asian country does.

TLDR: nihil novil sub solum. The two fucking hate each other since forever.

Nah, Singapore is 70% Han and it’s rulers have extensive ties to the CCP.

Why don't you lads share with the class? More than vagueposting, that is.

Theory is that DeSantis wants to replace Hegseth as secdef

 

[CryptoHermit]

Realistically nothing. The spinster problem has existed long before human society, historically childless people without families would be cleaned up by periodic wars.

Modernity is basically a genetic bottleneck for who will succeed in having children. Whether that bottleneck is eugenic or dysgenic is up to you.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Theory is that DeSantis wants to replace Hegseth as secdef

hahaha holy shit that's stupid enough I can believe it

honestly I'm starting to wonder if Ron! is doing some sort of 5d Chess on behalf of MAGA, putting up himself and his wife as the most god-awful front-running alternatives to the good candidate (Trump, Byron Donalds, Hegseth)

 

[mandatorylurk]

Lil' Ben is in Ugayne interviewing another lil' friendo, buddy. Con Inc. desperate to retain power as it thrashes around with its head underwater:

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Some gay glowie is running for Congress, if this is the new democrat template for taking on MAGA they're still going to lose:

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[moocow]

she's a horrible idea for a candidate regardless of this, but no clue if this is anything real or what

Reeks of smear bullshit to me. If that "conflict of interest" (using a lawyer they've used before for other purposes) is the best they can do, they're just trying to shit on her political aspirations. Expect silence a week from now when this gains no traction.

Hell, all DeSantis has to do is say something publicly like "trannies can't fuck kids in pre-schools" and they'll forget about this bullshit in an instant.

 

[Aidan]

Lil' Ben is in Ugayne interviewing another lil' friendo, buddy. Con Inc. desperate to retain power as it thrashes around with its head underwater:
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Some gay glowie is running for Congress, if this is the new democrat template for taking on MAGA they're still going to lose:
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Looks like Zelensky is wearing elevator shoes.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

America has fallen further and become more craven under the weight of this. Maybe it's unfixable. It's definitely unfixable with your attitude.

The Biden admin made some noise about not crossing a line and giving ukraine certain cluster type weapons. Until they ran out of other munitions so they quietly [July 2023] decided to send. Because to those in the Biden admin, it was never a question of morality or right and wrong. It was a gambit, a series of positions to appear to take to gain more power.

They're trash. The lot of them. Subhuman trash.

If America survived this last infestation, it might just recover. Once all the useless eaters that have been truncated by mrna therapies are gone, it will be a lot easier for the player characters of the world to keep moving forward.

I believe we can recover. It’s the fatalists on the left that are a problem. They’re ok with decline because they’re cowards and traitors.

Can someone explain the "China's been cheating us" meme to me in some detail?

The only two points I know of when it comes to "cheating" is China manipulating their currency to keep their exports strong and them abusing USPS "de minimis" rules to ship chinkshit to America at super low prices. That's it.

How does China agreeing to do dirty work of steel and other industrial manufacture starting from the 70s their fault? It was America's businesses that made the decision to outsource factories to China. China just said "yes". That's it.

They steal ip all the time and are fishing entire ecosystems to death.

 

[The Noise]

Bros I am so fucking sick of the amount of control Democrats and foreigners have over our institutions. I just realized I barely use Google at all anymore and prefer to defer to ChatGPT/Grok because Search is fucking unusable. I was trying to find one of those funny JD Vance memes but no matter what I searched I would just get astroturfed MSM articles about whatever Vance is doing. If I try to search anything about the Holocaust I get similarly astroturfed generic shit about the Holocaust even if I'm looking for a specific quote/event.

It's all fake bullshit. There no searching going on anymore, it's just whatever Google wants me to see. If legalized TJD sweeps this nation I am going to be the first to go to whatever gaudy Indian-style McMansions the Indians own and pour boiling feces down their throats like how they killed Marcus Licinius.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Reeks of smear bullshit to me. If that "conflict of interest" (using a lawyer they've used before for other purposes) is the best they can do, they're just trying to shit on her political aspirations. Expect silence a week from now when this gains no traction.

Hell, all DeSantis has to do is say something publicly like "trannies can't fuck kids in pre-schools" and they'll forget about this bullshit in an instant.

yeah looks like the main dirt is that they didn't file their paperwork for shit, which isn't really worth clutching pearls over but will probably mean her crew fucks up running for Gov
personally I'm watching to see how much DeSantis keeps his grudge against Trulieve going since that pops up this too
gas station weed seems to be a bit of a pawn in their slapfight since they hate the competition

also this literally IS from a week ago

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

Colorado keeping up the recent retard streak.
Tweet (Archive)

Spoiler: Images in tweet

Are they trying to do a speed run on ruining their state aka becoming California 2.0?

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

Regarding Gamers Nexus' tarriff coverage, the tone of the video is consistent with GNs pro-consumer point-of-view: tarriffs = stuff will be more expensive -> bad for the consumer, in a "here and now" sense. It is notably divorced from the forward-looking goals of the tarrifs which should eventually make things better for American consumers, but that does jump into political territory that Steve probably didn't want to tackle then and there. It's also the meatiest coverage on tarriffs I have seen anyone do so far. Steve has businesses show their own spreadsheets with numerical teardowns on the impact the tarriffs have on them. It's not shitheads on Xitter screaming about the doom and gloom they think tarriffs might do. With how close GN and Steve are on the pulse of the enthusiast tech industry, it's not surprising that he reflects the frustration like the guys at Hyte feel, I don't think it's him catching TDS.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I mean I would if I was married and had kids(still in college), I was more asking what is the solution to change people’s minds about wanting to have kids because money isn’t going to do it

Best bet for the normies who are just money oriented is to point out that everyone and their dog knows that social security and other official retirement programs are never going to pay out for the current young adults, and they need a better plan than "Hope the government sets up a new even more ponzi scheme for them". Even investment programs and other financial vehicles will struggle to pay out enough, and no amount of money can solve the problem of whatever program your in deciding to just fuck with you, see all the horror stories of shitty treatment in retirement homes. A well raised child is orders of magnitude more likely to be able to help out their parents in old age, and if you weren't a complete shitheel to them, they'll actually care about you and be willing to do so.

Why expect the government to mug people at gunpoint for you when your children can probably do just as much for you, if not more, without the threat of jailtime.

 

[GunCar Gary]

Some gay glowie is running for Congress, if this is the new democrat template for taking on MAGA they're still going to lose:

lmao little weenie glowie. i'll bet his biggest struggle is keeping Grindr off his phone to prevent temptation

 

[Melee Bouquet]

Some gay glowie is running for Congress, if this is the new democrat template for taking on MAGA they're still going to lose:

Very soyjak-y when he shoves the phone at the viewer, perfectly captures the intrusive, demanding ideology of the left. In addition to being so assblasted over Trump and Kash Patel that he called them "threats... to American safety and security" and resigned, he's also unrepentant about going after the j6ers:

“I’ve listened as employees recounted harrowing moments when violent insurrectionists, within hours of release, called their homes and threatened revenge,” he wrote. “These threats are real because Trump released 1,500 violent insurrectionists into our communities.”

Sullivan also tweeted that working on January 6 cases was “one of [his] proudest moments in the FBI.”

Spoiler: article text and links

FBI Analyst Who Resigned Over Kash Patel Announces Congressional Run​

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The Daily Caller
Eireann Van Natta
Tue, April 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM CDT

A former FBI analyst who resigned over FBI Director Kash Patel and President Donald Trump announced he was running for Congress on Tuesday.

John Sullivan is challenging New York Republican Rep. Michael Lawler for New York’s 17th Congressional District.

“For 17 years, I served in secret, protecting us from threats like Russia, foreign terrorists and drug cartels, and eventually the insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol,” Sullivan wrote online. “Now, I’m stepping out of the shadows to run for Congress.”

FBI Analyst Who Resigned Over Kash Patel Announces Congressional Run​

Eireann Van Natta for The Daily Caller
Tue, April 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM CDT

John Sullivan is challenging New York Republican Rep. Michael Lawler for New York’s 17th Congressional District.

“For 17 years, I served in secret, protecting us from threats like Russia, foreign terrorists and drug cartels, and eventually the insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol,” Sullivan wrote online. “Now, I’m stepping out of the shadows to run for Congress.”

“I’m a dad, a husband, a public servant and a cancer survivor,” he added in his campaign video.

He also labeled Rep. Lawler “Elon Musk’s favorite congressman.”

Sullivan said he resigned from the bureau over the Trump administration in April. He blasted Trump and Patel as threats to “American safety and security.”

“Last week, after nearly 17 years on the job, I resigned from the FBI,” he posted on X. “I saw the threat Donald Trump and Kash Patel are to American safety and security and I couldn’t stand idly by any more.”

He linked to his full resignation letter on Substack, which lamented Trump’s pardons of around 1,500 individuals connected to January 6. He alleged that those pardoned were “violent insurrectionists.”(RELATED: Murderers, Rapists And Robbers: Biden Goes On Commutation Spree For Christmas)

“I’ve listened as employees recounted harrowing moments when violent insurrectionists, within hours of release, called their homes and threatened revenge,” he wrote. “These threats are real because Trump released 1,500 violent insurrectionists into our communities.”

Sullivan also tweeted that working on January 6 cases was “one of [his] proudest moments in the FBI.”

Over two dozen FBI confidential human sources (CHSs) were in Washington, D.C. in connection to events that took place on Jan. 6, 2021.

Sullivan also claimed Patel seeks to make the FBI “Trump’s personal detective agency, investigating and harassing people that Trump and Elon disagree with.”

The FBI complied with Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in February and handed over the names of employees involved in January 6 cases.

During the Biden administration, the FBI reportedly raided the homes of pro-life protesters and January 6 defendants. The bureau also surveilled school board parents, according to whistleblower Stephen Friend, and allegedly punished whistleblowers.

Sullivan worked in the Washington, D.C. and New York FBI field offices, according to his Substack.

The former agent said he eventually served as the Section Chief of the Intelligence Workforce Development Section in the Directorate of Intelligence.

 

[John Badman]

Hilarious how your very own article contradicts your shilling.
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That’s cute. Wowzers! What a hard hitting statement

"China needs to change," Bessent said. "The country knows it needs to change. Everyone knows it needs to change. And we want to help it change — because we need rebalancing, too."

Versus calling your boss a retarded fuckup as seen below.

On Tuesday, Bessent told investors in a closed-door meeting that he expects "there will be a de-escalation" in President Donald Trump's trade war with China in the "very near future," CNBC reported.

"No one thinks the current status quo is sustainable" with tariff rates at their current levels, Bessent said at a private investor summit in Washington.