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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Seems like everyone's leashes are coming off and they're 2 steps away from just saying slurs.
Should be ONE step.
Turning your comments off is a surefire way to assure everybody that you're on the winning side of an argument :lol:
Fuck man even if they're baiting into a "yeah but really it's not 100% true and/or Trump isn't actually responsible WE PROMISE TRUMP BAD!" article with that lede it must have deeply, brutally hurt whatever liberal dipshit is in charge of typing it into the official twitter computer at their office. :story:
Stop it! Fatpacks is already suicidal, if you kick him too hard when he's down you might accidentally kick the razor out of his hand.
We've won so much tonight all fatpacks can post is some literally who twitter rumor.
Enjoy the SOTU Buddy?
*The Alf guy from a page or two ago is so high he somehow wandered into this part of the conversation and saw fatpacks getting dragged*
ABSOLUTE. FUCKING. CINEMA!



Don’t worry, the Fraternal Association of Trump Pessimists Always Committed to Kill Support may slow down, but they will never stop. They will never quit. They will always doom. Until everyone does.
I'm sure fatpacks will find a way to make lemons out of lemonade.
 
the postman isn't obligated to deliver your fucking mail.
OK so I know I am late, and haven't caught up because of the SOTU happenings, but I rarely get anything delivered via USPS - all my banking is online, and packages are UPS or Amazon. This move could sow distrust in the mail, which could also mean more people won't be trusting USPS to deliver their ballots either. Thoughts?
 
OK so I know I am late, and haven't caught up because of the SOTU happenings, but I rarely get anything delivered via USPS - all my banking is online, and packages are UPS or Amazon. This move could sow distrust in the mail, which could also mean more people won't be trusting USPS to deliver their ballots either. Thoughts?
The USPS has never been trustworthy in my nearly-50 years living on this earth. The following are all common knowledge among everyone I know:
  • never send cash through the mail; a carrier will steal it (same goes for gift cards and really any financial instrument that isn't traceable and imprinted with the identities of the sender and recipient, like a check or money order, that can't be easily cashed by an intercepting third party)
  • never send anything important through the mail: a carrier might steal it just in case it's got something valuable in it
  • there is no recourse for lost mail; simple stamped envelopes that go missing are simply gone, no refunds, no replacement postage, nothing, while lost packages might get paid lip service (but rarely -- if ever -- a refund or an insurance payout if you're gullible enough to pay extra for it)
  • mail you care about may go missing or be inexplicably delayed (again, no refunds or apologies), but by god you can set your fucking watch by the regular arrival of the "pre-sorted postage paid" and "ads on newsprint" garbage they've been paid to stuff in your mailbox for you to throw away without looking at any of it
  • nothing important should ever be sent via the postal service except by the overpriced certified mail "service" (so you can at least prove you tried to send something when an adversarial party claims you didn't) -- always send important correspondence via courier if it actually matters to you
  • if mail suddenly stops being delivered for days or weeks at a time, they've probably changed something at the local office and didn't bother telling you (and you have to go in-person to find out what changed, why, and how to un-fuck it, and you can count it taking more than one visit)
  • all in-person visits to a USPS office will require standing in line for at least 10-15 minutes on a good day or an hour on a bad one; no employee (black or White) will move faster than a snail's pace, know anything at all about their products or services, or be at all interested in actually helping you, but you can count on them having memorized a fantastic list of excuses why they either can't do what you're asking, don't know how to answer your questions, can't find your mail, and why all of that is your fault, you fucking asshole
  • no in-person transaction, no matter how simple, will take less than five minutes or involve answering fewer than three marketing questions or other upsells (go buy a book of stamps sometime with cash, time it, and count the number of times they try to sell you other shit while they fish around on their POS to figure out how to begrudgingly conduct a business transaction with as many keystrokes as possible)
  • no combination of shipping options (except possibly "Media Mail" if you can actually still get it -- and good luck getting the counter faggots to even admit it still exists or convince them your package is eligible) for any parcel of any kind will cost less than $15 no matter how slow, unreliable, untraceable or otherwise shitty the service is
  • no amount of preparation for an in-person request for service will be met with any display of appreciation or thanks for having your own shit in order -- in the contrary, it will offend the counter workers because it means they actually have to do something now (well, eventually, once they figure out there's nothing left for them to complain that you didn't do correctly)
IMHO the USPS is an even more crooked and broken version of Amtrak -- a pseudo-nationalized-yet-somehow-still-private-entity with no viable oversight, accountability or consequences for incompetence, that's guaranteed to be funded no matter how poorly it performs or how much it fucks up.

The only thing that reliably sluices through the USPS is all the fucking junk mail (because it essentially subsidizes everything else and is, as a consequence, their highest-priority business) and the DMV-like contempt its public facing employees display to its customers.

There's a reason nobody trusts the USPS. They're not trustworthy. "Mail-in ballots" have always been a disaster in the making. I'd rather trust the fucking military to deliver my mail to a war zone than the USPS to deliver a postcard to my neighbor.
 
"The temple of democracy" you sound like dems after J6. I didn't think those buildings and institutions were hallowed ground then and that opinion hasn't changed because Trump won. All politicians should be given endless shit
Yeah by us, not by gay ass opposition parties flexing and posturing for the camera. I have to go to enough touring Broadway bullshit with my girlfriend, I don't need to see it from AOC and lightbulb head. They can keep their medicine shows on the MSM who endlessly shill for them.
I'm noticing most outlets seem to be ignoring the US contribution to taking out El Mencho. The dominant narrative and most people seem to think that Mexico just up and decided to do it all on their own.
Mexico couldn't order a fucking Pepsi without getting diet. They are BARELY a fucking country.
 
so did trump epically own libshits last night
Hilariously so. The facts made them brood, the jokes made them seethe, and they actually tried to heckle but were shot down.
Not only that but the cameraman understood the assignment, when he was talking about fraud it panned to Ilhan Omar, and when he was dragging the Dems it cut to Hakeem Jeffries.
 
so did trump epically own libshits last night
Yeah. It ruled. He pretty much buck broke them all night. He kept giving awards to niggas and to hero’s and praising victims of violent crime nonstop then pointing at democrats not applauding every-time calling them soulless monster niggers or something.

Yet… he didn’t show us an alien and he didn’t whip Al Green with a bullwhip. All in all, I rate it 8/10.
 
Another opinion drop today from SCOTUS, will Louisiana v. Callais finally be released? Who the fuck knows?!
 
Spanberger is the perfect establishment candidate to win the primary in 2028 because nobody ever heard of her before this year, and she seems genetically engineered to rebuild the anti-Christian Clinton coalition of socialist progressives, Jews, Muslims, and Spics when Vance runs. Either Gavin Newsom or Pete Butigeig will get the token white male VP slot based on who had more money, since they both fill the roll of subservient male cuck needed to get the job.
 
Interested in seeing how that rate payer protection pledge for datacenters pans out. The increase in electricity cost for anyone unfortunate enough to live in a state they love pumping full of those fucking things has been a huge problem. Techbros don't give a shit and will burn infinity money and resources for convenience (just buy a bigger aws ec2 instance bro just negotiate a new AI contract where we get more tokens bro) so I hope whatever he is doing to incentivize this works
Nearly all of the increase in cost of electricity is due to green energy mandates which cause ratepayers to pay for an extremely expensive and useless duplicate power grid. Datacenters are just a scapegoat; they’ve always paid for the electricity they use, though until Trump’s pledge, some of them didn’t pay for the transmission upgrades to support their usage.

Here’s a great article explaining why renewable heavy grids are expensive:

Most of the states where people and politicians are complaining about them don’t even have them as datacenters are in states with cheap electricity and land for obvious reasons. The pledge Trump got the companies to sign will prove this when prices continue to increase in states that invest in renewables while prices decrease in states that invest in fossil fuel and nuclear power.
 
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