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
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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/

 

[Green Man]

Trump just defunded NPR and PBS

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/

Good, NPR has been a fucking mouthpiece for the DNC for longer than I've been alive. A clearly partisan mouthpiece really doesn't need to receive government funding unless they are providing a public service of some kind, which they really aren't other than propagandizing to pump out more shitlibs. NPR has been funded to turn many American citizens into basically fucking Canadians and every single fucking time I have accidentally tuned my radio and stopped on that station, it's some motherfucker speaking softly through his nostrils about how the latest album from Kabwumpwee Djibouti [featuring baboon sounds and banging on bongos] is really quite genius and is a poignant commentary on the absurdity of being a Republican.

PBS is less bad but I could take 'em or leave 'em, only thing is they'll pull the same shit they did with Mitt back in 2012 and claim that Trump is personally shoving Big Bird against a brick wall and putting the gun barrel to the back of his neck. I like Big Bird but Sesame Street has been trash ever since Elmo arrived, I was glad when Larry David tried to strangle that little red bastard. Grover's okay too I guess.

As others have said this will probably be blocked due to some ruling or injunction that it's unconstitutional to make government-funded broadcasters do... SOMETHING that is in the aim of public good rather than just hosting a bunch of breathless retards talking through their nose about how bad the orange man is.

 

[Keystone]

Trump just defunded NPR and PBS

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/

Good start to page 4000.

Naturally all the usual retards will say this is censorship, despite the fact the government won't stop anyone from privately donating to them to stay on air; you know, like how PBS used to operate.

 

[Zionazi]

Thank God! No more state-owned media!

 

[Kulee Baba]

Why are Placebos for testing a bad thing?

 

[close]

What exactly is impounding and how is what Trump is doing not that when he says "do what I want or I cut the gibs" to the states/universities?

 

[itogi]

Why are Placebos for testing a bad thing?
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It's not about placebos being bad, it's about the person who orders the testing.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

CPB is separate from NPR and PBS. CPB funds local public station operations and programming. Getting rid of CPB won't do anything to larger city PBS and NPR affiliates, but it will likely result in a bunch of tiny rural stations going dark. Those rely much more on federal funding since they don't have the viewer/listener base to support operations and don't have the cash to produce their own programming for most of the day

 

[SpergioLeonne]

CPB is separate from NPR and PBS. CPB funds local public station operations and programming. Getting rid of CPB won't do anything to larger city PBS and NPR affiliates, but it will likely result in a bunch of tiny rural stations going dark. Those rely much more on federal funding since they don't have the viewer/listener base to support operations and don't have the cash to produce their own programming for most of the day

heck yeah, what a crime. While we’re at it, the government should tax me to put these shits that people ALSO don’t use anymore back up on everyone’s roof

 

[quaawaa]

CPB is separate from NPR and PBS. CPB funds local public station operations and programming. Getting rid of CPB won't do anything to larger city PBS and NPR affiliates, but it will likely result in a bunch of tiny rural stations going dark. Those rely much more on federal funding since they don't have the viewer/listener base to support operations and don't have the cash to produce their own programming for most of the day

Good thing he didn't rid of the CPB then. He just told them not to give money to stations to buy programming from NPR and PBS. They can still buy programming from other sources.

 

[The Nothingness]

Trump just defunded NPR and PBS

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/

Now for him to buy Sesame Street.

 

[quaawaa]

Down with the Harvard Crimson! The Crimson Tide is rising:

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The United States, not the Soviet Union, was the most important country in WWII:

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Comments on the Democrat's latest impeachment attempt:

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[Irene and 22 others]

This thread isn't moving anywhere near as fast as it was a few months ago, but it's crazy that it's already on page 4000.

 

[northstar747]

Down with the Harvard Crimson! The Crimson Tide is rising:
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I like this.

But I want a tax on university endowments for student debt relief

 

[BikeLock]

you start organzing flight ops to bomb schools full of children and hospitals full of sick people you will have piltos telling you to go fuck yourself so much faster than you realize

super easy to say that behind a keyboard there are very few pilot level candidates who will willingly bomb civillians.

Schools and hospitals my guy? fucking quit being a pussy and advocate for nuclear arms use en mass if your going to go that way.

Sorry, not trying to be MATI, just irks me bad when people so callously talk about putting the torch to CITYS like Sun Tzu himself dident preach how terrible putting a city itself to siege is

They will follow orders, or they will be removed for Mutiny, that is how the military works. If they are told to bomb schools and hospitals, they will bomb them, that is the entire point of the military.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5278280-trump-administration-supreme-court-venezuelans-deportation-protection-tps-noem/

https://megalodon.jp/2025-0502-0621-04/https://thehill.com:443/regulation/court-battles/5278280-trump-administration-supreme-court-venezuelans-deportation-protection-tps-noem/

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[MaduroHunter]

There's another protest at my college today. Normally I wouldn't even notice, but the teacher just straight up left the class to join it. In fact, this rally was joined by the president of the college and most of the staff.

There was no notification about it either. I think they were banking on people like me showing up and just... joining the rally because they were already there. Thankfully I could just go get a burrito instead during that time. If you hear something on the news about "an incredible student turnout!!!" Just keep this in mind.

what you get on your burrito

 

[thegunbuilderguy]

Nothin' but love my fellow autist, but you're not winning this one. It creates TWO failure points. The original, and the archive. That's the point.

Three, if we have a screenshot too!

Plus it has wonderful side effects, like depriving some of the most annoying fuckers in the world of clicks and ad views.

We 100% need a "kiwimatic" browser addon that does just that
like, you see a post anywhere, you click on the addon and it drops down a window to archive it on a trusted archiver of your choice and puts the resulting link in a history list you can copy the link to your clipboard to paste whenever

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

The United States, not the Soviet Union, was the most important country in WWII:

Nah it was Germany.

But I'll enjoy a nationalist party any day.

 

[quaawaa]

We 100% need a "kiwimatic" browser addon that does just that
like, you see a post anywhere, you click on the addon and it drops down a window to archive it on a trusted archiver of your choice and puts the resulting link in a history list you can copy the link to your clipboard to paste whenever

There's already an archive.today extension to archive links:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/archive-page/gcaimhkfmliahedmeklebabdgagipbia?hl=en-US

 

[MaduroHunter]

Down with the Harvard Crimson! The Crimson Tide is rising:
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Source (Archive)

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The United States, not the Soviet Union, was the most important country in WWII:
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Comments on the Democrat's latest impeachment attempt:
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Source (Archive)

I geniunely wonder, what would happen if the Democrats said "fuck it" and started cursing out/fedposting in unison on social media/on the floor. Like.. they'd get impeached I'd assume?