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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To address these one at a time:
1. Groceries tripling in price
Here is a chart on food inflation prices in recent years:
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Looking at this one can deduce is that while there has been food price increases in the last decade (which would happen naturally due to inflation in of itself), 2025 is not an unusually bad year for it.

2. AI bubble

Personally I agree with this as spending on AI overall continues, the return on investment is not there yet which is what has been financial reported on in the industry. Investors do expect record returns though and 2026 (a midterm election year) in particular is set to be a big year for AI spending. If the ROI doesn't appear the bubble should pop eventually though.

3. Student loan bubble
This is definitely a crisis (not of Trump's making in particular) but will not effect everyone. A good portion of the Republican voter base doesn't even have college degrees so maybe it's something that can be exploited for political purposes. I can see the end of government-backed lending being announced in order to address this.

4. The stock market being infeasible for average Americans

It has been reported that just 62% of Americans own stocks. On average these individuals are White and making over $100,000 a year. If your point is that it makes no sense, that's not a new sentiment. An economist who died in 1946 once said "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent," and that's true as today as it was then.
Just to follow your format:

1. Grocery prices have demonstrably increased and despite promises by the current administration they haven't reached 2019 levels. Wages have not adjusted across the board to coincide with these prices. Groceries are not the only metric but rather a baseline that demonstrates without discrepancy that costs are increasing. Whatever populist rhetoric is leaving the current administration's figureheads' collective mouths is just hot air until there is a healthier relationship between average wages and prices across the board.

2. AI is functionally just Nvidia and various companies pumping money into each other. This is what's known as a bubble. The global economy is balancing on the shoulders of Nvidia and I don't believe you're so stupid I have to explain why that is a bad thing. Our current situation owes itself to Reagan-style favoritism toward corporate interests and putting a gun to the temple of the middle-class.

3. Student loans are going to cripple two (maybe three) generations of the youngest American demographics. The fact that this was allowed to happen is insane. If I was elected Fuhrer tomorrow I would have an investigation conducted and begin publicly executing bankers and academics by the end of 2026. This is the single biggest punch in the gut the American population has ever endured and it was the result of a hydra comprised of federal government, banks and universities.

4. The stock market is rapidly becoming the only way to grow money. This is because it's the only immediately-accessible investment opportunity of average Americans. If your average negro can't work at the airport and use his wages to put a little money into a blue chip stock every two weeks then your economy is a fucking failure.
 
Leftist Ws:
-Comey's case got dismissed
-Letita Jame's case got dismissed
-Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still living in the country, better off than ever
-They assassinated Charlie Kirk and suffered no consequences
-Charlie Kirk's death has been turned into an absolute joke. He's mocked across the entire Internet and his legacy has become a laughing stock along with anyone who ever believed in him.
-They attacked a TPUSA event and suffered no consequences
-Republican party is absolutely shattered with no cohesion. You have the VP telling everyone to get along while every third world nation on the planet is conquering this country. The last AmFest was filled with black whores talking about protecting African Christians, Ben Shapiro talking about how if you don't bend the knee to Israel you aren't welcome in the party, Tucker Carlson talking about how it's mean an unchristian to not be dicked down by muslims, and Vivek talking about how he's just as American as you are.
-Judges have blocked literally everything Trump's tried to do
-Anarchotyranny is in full action. If you aren't White you can commit whatever crime you want and get away with it
-You can attack federal agents and be acquitted immediately, meanwhile if you show a muslim a piece of bacon you'll be arrested for a hate crime in a red state. It is both safer and more legal to be a violent left-wing terrorist than it is to be a peaceful right-wing protestor.
-Democrats have won every notable election since the general election in 2024, including getting an AG elected who literally said he wanted to murder conservative's children and watch their parents cry as the life drained from their children's eyes.
-Somalians have defrauded Minnesota for billions and many of them have had their cases dismissed by activist judges
-Got two straight-up socialists elected in NYC and Seattle. The radical portions of the Democrat base get everything they want while the Republicans are doing everything they can to prevent anyone to the right of Bill Clinton from gaining any control in their political party. Can't even make edgy jokes in a private group chat for a Young Republicans chapter without getting shamed and kicked out.
-No crackdown on antifa like we were promised
-Won the redistricting game. California gerrymandered 5 seats while all the red states cucked out.
-Dems more energized than ever. The Trump administration has done everything they can to look as heavy-handed and fashy as possible while being as soft, weak and useless as they can be. This gets the worst of both worlds where nothing is actually done, but the aesthetics validate the Dems beliefs that they're fighting fascism, which guarantees that they will fucking kill us the next time they get elected into office.
-Republicans completely demoralized. The right is reduced to begging to deaf ears for the administration to do something while the left continues to terrorize them unimpeded. Even the shilliest Republican pundits know they're going to lose the midterms. (Except you guys somehow)

Right-Wing Ws:
-Line went up :D
-Comey’s and Letitia James’s cases were dismissed because the admin rushed (as I remember you calling for them to do) and fucked up the paperwork
-Kilmar is scheduled to be deported to Liberia
-Tyler Robinson caught, tranny roommate in black site, Antifa designated as FTO (I shared that they were making a list of Antifa foot soldiers and financiers to roll up but you’re welcome to ignore actual facts)
-Amount of TPUSA chapters doubled, they have raised huge amounts of money
-you got me there but it is California tbf
-All of the infighting successfully shut down by Vance
-once again, in California
-and they were immediately overturned
-in California, Michigan is a purple state and nobody was arrested in the Dearborn protests
-they only won in the beltway because the federal workers were furloughed, Van Epps overperformed
-there is plenty of footage of Somalians getting arrested, plus the FBI raided Walz’s offices recently
-radical leftists won in radical left areas? Color me shocked
-see above
-As it stands, both sides cancel each other out, if Florida successfully redistricts then that’s another +4 to R’s
-Dems are polling at 15% approval, they are not energized lol
-polling stands at D+1 to D+3, at this time in 2017 it was D+10

Right Wing W’s:
USAID defunded
Border crossings down by 95%
Not a single illegal released into the US for the past seven months
Hundred billion to ICE
Disparate impact ended
SCOTUS planning to gut VRA
100,000 dollar H-1B visa fee plus new travel rules that fuck jeets over
Antifa designated as FTO
Military recruitment highest in 15-20 years
Hundreds of billions in tariff revenue
Chinese exports to US halved
No tax on tips/no tax on overtime
Gaza war ended
Tens of trillions in investments for reindustralization
Latinos no longer a majority of births in Texas
White birthrate up nationally
2.5 million deportations

If I saw all of the progress we made last year, I would be jumping for joy irl. And we have another three years, not even counting a possible Vance win in 28.
 
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Daily Beast: "Vance’s Navy SEAL Cosplay Immediately Backfires; The vice president’s beach workout with an elite unit drew jibes and questions about his priorities." (A)
Vice President JD Vance posted glossy photos of his personal training session with Navy SEALs—but the beachside stunt immediately drew mockery and accusations of political tone-deafness.

The 41-year-old former Marine, who served in Iraq before entering politics, had joined the Navy’s special-operations community for an early-morning workout at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California, a longtime hub for SEAL selection and training.
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“Vice President Vance trains with @USNavy Seals at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado,” the caption read. On his personal account, Vance gushed that he had “just finished PT with the Navy SEALs for 90 minutes.”

He added, “They took it easy on me and I still feel like I got hit by a freight train. So grateful to all of our warriors who keep us safe and keep the highest standards anywhere in the world!”

Critics were unimpressed. “Nice cosplay as a Navy SEAL,” one user wrote, adding: “Leadership isn’t about photo ops, it’s about fixing the mess at home.”

Other critics photoshopped the infamous meme of Vance with a cartoonishly puffy face onto the soldiers he was working out with, using “GI Jello” as a punchline.

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Another commenter sneered that it was a “desperate photo op for a Vice President who cares more about his military ‘aesthetic’ than actually governing.”

Digital strategist Mike Nellis jabbed: “Cool, man—but when you’re done cosplaying, can you and your boss do something about housing and grocery prices? Thanks.”

And Democratic strategist Christopher Hale wrote on X, “It’s the middle of the workday. While Americans are grinding to make Christmas work, the vice president is burning taxpayer dollars pretending to be a Navy SEAL.”
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Vance’s made-for-camera workout follows a Trumpian trend of the president’s inner circle engaging in theatrics. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 45, marked the D-Day anniversary and his birthday in June by leading a filmed PT session with troops on Omaha Beach before delivering a speech at the Normandy American Cemetery, a spectacle that also drew scrutiny as self-promotion.

The secret plot to make Vance look based af is working, or maybe the media is actually just retarded. I can't really tell anymore.
 
Daily Beast: "Vance’s Navy SEAL Cosplay Immediately Backfires; The vice president’s beach workout with an elite unit drew jibes and questions about his priorities." (A)
He didn't cosplay and was humble.
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Ah ok.
 
Daily Beast: "Vance’s Navy SEAL Cosplay Immediately Backfires; The vice president’s beach workout with an elite unit drew jibes and questions about his priorities." (A)
The President and VP spending time with the troops is a good thing, good for their morale, and for ours. Newsflash Faily Beast, our armed forces are made up of Americans too.
 
$100k per head in tax dollars that they've been awarded.
Which is still better than what was happening before. I just watched a vid on X of some fedex jeet trucker getting his truck stuck on the side of the highway. If jeets wanna kill their company, their free to do so, but now it will cost them 100k to import a fucking road hazard.

The Alaska's were classed as "large Crusiers" and were the only ships typified as such by the US navy. The navy did not like the term "battle Crusier" despite the Alaska class having all the hallmarks of such a ship (armament of a battleship, light armor and speed of a crusier).
Yeah, I know that. I just figured Super Crusier sounded more like Trump than Large Crusier. "You know folks, we have the best cruisers, tremendous cruisers, I hear their calling them SUPER CRUSIERS! Can you believe that? Super Crusiers!"
 
You know despite being british I agree that the civil rights movement was a mistake because it destroyed freedom of association and that means i have to associate myself with faggots like yourself.
"I can't argue, only ad-hominem and snarky gotchas." IDK what I said that was wrong.
 
Bro Trump has like an 87% approval rating among conservatives what in the absolute fuck are you even talking about?
Look buddy, heh, in MY Gayper discord and matrix servers Trump is falling....FAST, ok?

Look pal, kek, you clearly are not tuned into the pulse of the people k? In MY botfilled rumble live comments section, all I see is JD married a Pajeet...you got that?

See bitch, obviously you just are coping over the fact that Trump has done NOTHING in a whole year. Name an accomplishment.......oh.....haha...guess you don't know that, that achievement actually, isn't real and is made up. Try again.

Perceive cuck, all me and anyone I interact with or watch on a day to day minute to minute basis is talking about this! WHY are you pretending otherwise hmmmm? Doesn't matter, lmao, nothing is real and we are just vassals for Israel, (DID YOU SEE TRUMP PULLING OUT A CHAIR FOR BIBI!?!?!) we are just stuck in another forever war with Iran since Trump failed and missed all the nuclear sites and got nothing out of it, so fake so gay.

Observe retard, there is no fixing this, sigh. We need to vote for the democrats and wait for a REAL option to appear that we can get behind....Perhaps....hmmm (grooms in Roblox until I find an answer)...ah HA! Yes....Hitler 2.0....its perfect now all we have to do to achieve this is roll over, lie down, sit on our hands and...wait.
 
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