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💼 CareercowDonald J Trump - 45th/47th President of the USA, convicted felon, Epstein bro, Putin/Netanyahu simp, serial liar, sore loser, cheat and the Chris-Chan of Presidents. Lost a war to Iran and algae. THIS IS NOT USPG2.
It's surprisingly difficult to get an image of the official coin being used by the Office of the President and not some third-party "collectable". I found a good picture of the front, but not the back.
Seems a little redundant to paste up a bunch of Presidential seals with little White Houses on the top on the doors of the White House.
It's surprisingly difficult to get an image of the official coin being used by the Office of the President and not some third-party "collectable". I found a good picture of the front, but not the back.
2016-20 were better because the Dems were promising the apocalypse when it was mostly an okay time. Mainstream media was saturating a lot of baseless noise like Russiagate and two-scoops of ice cream and Trump dumping the fish food into the koi pond. It was the Left constantly malding over nothing and once they found excuse to riot, had BLM do so. Combined with COVID governance once Biden actually got into power, they screwed up Gen Z and Alpha during their school years. That's why they don't have credibility today; the Democratic party caused a lot of harm to a lot of people while pretending they were the adults in the room.
It is very important to understand why Trump won. I'm on Trump's case now because he's doing a lot of the same things Biden was doing like causing a war that threatens US hegemony like messing with energy reserves. I had a problem with Biden destroying the Nordstream and Keystole XL pipelines for the same reason as Trump blocking the Strait of Hormuz. If you're okay with Biden screwing up, but critical of Trump, you're just as demoralized as USPG.
There also was boiling anger at the establishment across the west circa 2016 and people were desperate for any kind of change or shake up, no matter what the form it came in. People were getting pissed off that year after year, things got worse, nothing seemed get better and the same old suits would show up and spew some rhetoric non-statement about things are gonna be really good soon. So when this loud mouth orange mess who acted nothing like the clean and tidy politicians everyone was used to, people flocked to him. It didn't help that every establishment Republican said "it would really upset us if you vote for this guy" and the Dems kicked out Burnie for establishment incarnate, Hillary.
It happened in Europe with Brexit in the UK where again every establishment politician was pleading "don't do this" and In France Le Pen saw a much bigger surge in support than expected.
Was it petty and short sighted? Yes, but the political class shouldn't have been surprised that when people are screaming at you that they aren't happy and they want things to improve and change, if you ignore them, then they will start smashing whatever they can get their hands on to get your attention and to spite you, even if they get hurt in the process.
Exxon Mobil refusing to start drilling in Venezuela was a curve ball Trump wasn't expecting. That was the whole purpose of the invasion. Duh. Notice how you don't hear about the US's involvement in Venezuela anymore.
Imagine fuckin up a war with Iran so badly fucking Saudi Arabia, sworn enemy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is forcing you to give up just to make the pain stop.
That is surprising because MBS has made bank cleaning up after the Trumps and the Kushners. To be this opposed means Trump fucked up yugelier and bigglier than ever before.
There also was boiling anger at the establishment across the west circa 2016 and people were desperate for any kind of change or shake up, no matter what the form it came in. People were getting pissed off that year after year, things got worse, nothing seemed get better and the same old suits would show up and spew some rhetoric non-statement about things are gonna be really good soon. So when this loud mouth orange mess who acted nothing like the clean and tidy politicians everyone was used to, people flocked to him. It didn't help that every establishment Republican said "it would really upset us if you vote for this guy" and the Dems kicked out Burnie for establishment incarnate, Hillary.
It happened in Europe with Brexit in the UK where again every establishment politician was pleading "don't do this" and In France Le Pen saw a much bigger surge in support than expected.
Was it petty and short sighted? Yes, but the political class shouldn't have been surprised that when people are screaming at you that they aren't happy and they want things to improve and change, if you ignore them, then they will start smashing whatever they can get their hands on to get your attention and to spite you, even if they get hurt in the process.
This can't keep being used an excuse. It's a decade later, and little if anything has improved. In fact--even putting everything else he wrought during his first term aside--that we had still been reeling from his mishandling of COVID even before he got back into office was itself a significant step down from the mid-2010s, and he's only compounded our issues since retaking the throne. No ends have come with which could the means be justified. After such a long time since, I can say that with certainty: this. wasn't. worth. it.
Not accusing you specifically of doing this, but I've seen more than a few instances of people getting defensive about their choices back then in the vein of those Joker memes of "when the nice guy snaps, you better look out" like that makes them some sympathetic fallen-hero type. No one who isn't hopelessly devoted to the cult at this point can honestly argue that Hillary would have been worse--scratch that, that she wouldn't have been echelons better than what we got-- even in light of Bernie indeed being the preferable option. We let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and jumped straight into the worst-case scenario because we couldn't get the best-case, and I am sick and tired of it being painted as some tragedy of "a noble people being pressured into a regrettable decision by extreme circumstances".
This whole woe-is-me-for-what-I-had-to-do act: "yeah, we were petty and spiteful, but--!"
No. Enough "but"s. Things were fine back then. At the very least they were leagues better than the shitstorm we find ourselves in now, to the point that all of those old "fuck 2016" memes look hopelessly quaint nowadays. Were things great? No. Did they warrant "breaking the glass in case of emergency"? Also no. The most that could be said was that things were "tense but stable" and--barring the recent SJW infestation--still pretty decent, all things considered. Looking back, the most notable thing I can remember truly sucking back then was the PS4 days being the lamest fucking console generation since the crash of '83, and that was about it. Sociopolitically, I'd say we'd settled back into that post-Lewinski, pre-Bush vibe of "slightly irked, but otherwise alright". But we weren't fucking desperate. Not the way many of us are now.
There was discomfort and a feeling of spinning our wheels, yes. I felt that ennui too, and lord knows I was hoping the 2016 election would be a threshold moment to a new era as well. But nothing warranted going for the nuclear option. There comes a point where everyone who contributed to this timeline with their votes has to stop with the justifications and admit--without qualification--that they fucked up. Not even to face some sort of punishment or even judgement, but just to be fucking honest with themselves and to stop wasting their own energy and everyone else's time with their delusional self-affirmations.
All we need is, "I was stupid and made a rash decision despite repeated warnings as to the consequences because those warnings came from people I disliked and didn't want to listen to." There, all sorted. Now let's move on and fucking fix this.
Not accusing you specifically of doing this, but I've seen more than a few instances of people getting defensive about their choices back then in the vein of those Joker memes of "when the nice guy snaps, you better look out". No one who isn't hopelessly devoted to the cult at this point can honestly argue that Hillary would have been worse, even in light of Bernie indeed being preferable option. We let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and jumped straight into the worst-case scenario because we couldn't get the best-case, and I am sick and tired of it being painted as some tragedy of "a noble people being pressured into a regrettable decision by extreme circumstances". This whole woe-is-me-for-what-I-had-to-do, "yeah, we were petty and spiteful, but--!"
Yeah I wasn't trying to say it was a good excuse more just stating the general feeling at the time. While I defiantly agree that people need to take responsibility for their choices and admit their mistakes, I do think that the Dems and wider establishment across the west really failed to understand the zeitgeist and are only really starting to understand it 10 years later.
They are both senile old faggots, but one is objectively worse than the other one. It's like unequal infinities, they're both infinite, but one can still be bigger than the other.
I didn't vote for that fat orange retard in 2016, or in 2020 or 2024 for that matter, but I didn't vote for Her Royal Clintonness either, because she is an utterly loathsome person. Running her was like being handed a shit sandwich, and being told that this time, it's different, because THIS shit sandwich has sprinkles and a vagina!
No. Enough "but"s. Things were fine back then. At the very least they were leagues better than the shitstorm we find ourselves in now, to the point that all of those old "fuck 2016" memes look hopelessly quaint nowadays. Were things great? No. Did they warrant "breaking the glass in case of emergency"? Also no. The most that could be said was that things were "tense but stable" and--barring the recent SJW infestation--still pretty decent, all things considered. Looking back, the most notable thing I can remember truly sucking back then was the PS4 days being the lamest fucking console generation since the crash of '83, and that was about it. Sociopolitically, I'd say we'd settled back into that post-Lewinski, pre-Bush vibe of "slightly irked, but otherwise alright". But we weren't fucking desperate. Not the way many of us are now.
I didn't vote for that fat orange retard in 2016, or in 2020 or 2024 for that matter, but I didn't vote for Her Royal Clintonness either, because she is an utterly loathsome person. Running her was like being handed a shit sandwich, and being told that this time, it's different, because THIS shit sandwich has sprinkles and a vagina!
Find her as distasteful as you want, the woman was at least as competent as any other politician of the time. At worst, a Hillary administration would've been another four years of the "Obama vs. McConnell" gridlock we'd been experiencing since the 2010 midterms, only replacing Obama with Hillary and culminating in the entirety of the 2010s being nothing but a full decade of total political stagnation, all thanks to that crotchety mumbling turtlefuck refusing to die and relieve us of his hypocritical power-brokering bullshit. But considering the alternative that was demonstrated this past decade (as in 2016-2026), I still honestly would have taken that.
After all, we ended up with a wannabe royal dynasty anyway, didn't we? At least Hillary, for all her insufferable "class prez" vibe, wouldn't have slapped her goddamn name and face on every piece of government property she could and forced everyone to look at that gross fucking "prolapsed-anus mouth" expression for ten years straight. She wouldn't--and demonstrably didn't--attempt to throw a coup and overturn an election she lost, and she sure as fuck had more cause to contest the 2016 results than Trump in 2020 when you consider she actually won the popular vote. She wouldn't have tried to rewrite the rules to get herself a third term after already delusionally rambling that she already had three terms despite losing that middle election. In fact, for all her faults, she at least bowed out gracefully and didn't try again, knowing how toxic her reputation had become. Did Trump? Or did he stage a fucking terrorist attack on the capitol and have his horde of fanbros attempt to lynch opposing elected officials when he lost?
If nothing else, consider Hillary's 2016 concession speech ending with a dejected but hopeful [paraphrased] "you should never regret fighting together for this or lose heart, because there's always tomorrow and there's still work to do" versus Trump's unending bellows in 2020 of [verbatim] "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!"
I once might have started the next sentence with "the 'His/Her Royal Majesty' aspect being equal," but honestly, it isn't equal. I cannot fathom Hillary being anywhere near as entitled, narcissistic, and flat-out despotic as has Trump has proven to be. We can't even say "well, she would've been a warhawk against Iran" anymore because Trump is now doing that himself and they're trying to whitewash it as a good thing! Like, that's the thing: virtually any criticism you could levy at Hillary, Trump is equally if not probably tenfold guilty of, with plenty of precedent to pick from. The choice was between "some of the damage versus all of the damage", and we picked the latter.
You didn't vote, fine, whatever. But let's not pretend it was a choice between two congruent evils. Hillary was still by far the better of the two choices we were left with after she fucked Bernie out of the nomination and we picked the wrong moment to try to "punish" her for it. It was textbook "cutting off your nose to spite your face". We would've had other opportunities to fight back against that and try again with Bernie, even with Hillary at the helm--certainly more than Trump has given us--but what we did instead was a vain gesture of "retaliation" that only served to fuck us in the long run.
If this is a love tap I'm terrified of the day Trump sends in the Marines. Assuming he can find a Commandant stupid enough to look at Kharg Island and think it's easy. Also, since I'm feeling spergy, the comparisons to Iwo Jima prove how stupid these idiots are. They remember the memorial thanks to Eastwood, but the Corps remembers how it took 10,000 men over five weeks plus naval and aerial support to get six Marines to raise the flag. That's not going to happen here. Unless Iranian generals are stupid (not yet) they have the capability to sink all three destroyers if anyone makes a serious move on Kharg. Plus Iran has the ability to shit all over the neighbors, so to speak. I just don't understand how anyone thinks this war is going our way?
If nothing else, consider Hillary's 2016 concession speech ending with a dejected but hopeful "never stop trying to do make the world a better place" versus Trump's unending bellows in 2020 of "I WON THE ELECTION, BY A LOT!"
say, quick question. what happens if gas goes up to 10 bucks because of this? not in the california tax kind of way, i mean this is the national average now
What would happen?
What would happen....
Let's use the most recent examples of oil shocks that have impacted America:
The 70s and 80s, despite our society's memory hole revisionism, were some of the worst times to be an American, economically, post-Depression. Let's not forget however, that it wasn't JUST the oil shocks that did this. It was also the unsound monetary policies of Nixon and Reagan, and how they were willing to sell our country to the highest bidder, and wage social, economic and political warfare against half the country. This was also when the prison system (prison system!) expanded dramatically, the hard drug epidemic began in earnest, and wage stagnation relative to productivity fell off...
Does all of this sound familiar? If it doesn't, then you have been living under a rock.
Though, if you ARE strictly asking about the effects of 10 dollar oil on America?
Bad? I'd say bad. The economy and suburban society will grind to a halt almost immediately, and we will probably see major boots on the ground warfare soon after.
Guys guys a deep red shithole just got gerrymandered into a deep red shithole, niggers BTFO, totally worthy feature guys. No? Are you a libtard with TDS? I bet you gravedanced Kharlie Cirk.
sir this is a lolcow thread, please take your political ranting to USPG2 before I report you
It is actually a very big deal, because it's yet another example of extreme Supreme Court bias and corruption, and is yet another tearing up of precedent, and a pretty important one too. Really not feature-worthy though, I agree.
What would happen?
What would happen....
Let's use the most recent examples of oil shocks that have impacted America: Ver archivo adjunto 8974134
The 70s and 80s, despite our society's memory hole revisionism, were some of the worst times to be an American, economically, post-Depression. Let's not forget however, that it wasn't JUST the oil shocks that did this. It was also the unsound monetary policies of Nixon and Reagan, and how they were willing to sell our country to the highest bidder, and wage social, economic and political warfare against half the country. This was also when the prison system (prison system!) expanded dramatically, the hard drug epidemic began in earnest, and wage stagnation relative to productivity fell off...
Does all of this sound familiar? If it doesn't, then you have been living under a rock.
Though, if you ARE strictly asking about the effects of 10 dollar oil on America?
Bad? I'd say bad. The economy and suburban society will grind to a halt almost immediately, and we will probably see major boots on the ground warfare soon after.
It is like watching a cake bake isn't it? All the ingredients are there and while it cooks some pretend there is no cake baking.
The government has a secret weapon though to slow the baking, they turn down the temperature by printing more money and blowing up the deficit and debt. The cake will turn out like shit eventually once it's finished baking, but it is you and I that will be eating it, the chef will be safe in Mar a lago with 15 billion.
sir this is a lolcow thread, please take your political ranting to USPG2 before I report you