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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The Biden Administration doesn't get enough credit for what they did after 2022 economic policy-wise but the problem is that people in pain will lash out for no reason which is why everyone believed that the admin did fuck all. There was no way around a shitty 2-3 years after 2020 but the median voter doesn't get that and thinks the president can just press a "click to fix everything" button or defund the military overnight and redirect the money to something else.
A funny point: while what you said is broadly true, Trump was so worried about oil prices he let up on sanctions not only on Russia, but on Iran itself! Yes, they revoked oil sanctions against the country they attacked. That's how sensative they are to an increase in oil prices.

They can only paper it over for so much time, however. At the end of the day, it's supply and demand, and the supply simply isn't there.
 
the biden admin was amazing. I hope the dnc pays you well.
I shit on the DNC constantly but come on, the economy did begin to recover and his infrastructure bill has done a lot. The news simply didn't talk about it and focused on culture war bullshit which is part of the reason why Biden and Harris were never gonna win 2024; they didn't know how to campaign or properly highlight their real achievements and instead focused on how Trump is literally Hitler, trans rights are human rights, no human is illegal, and all that gay bullshit.
 
South Carolina may end up being able to redistrict after all.
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Probably covered, but Georgia is also doing it:
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The maps looks like this for 2026:

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I shit on the DNC constantly but come on, the economy did begin to recover and his infrastructure bill has done a lot.
I’ll absolutely give credit to Biden for the CHIPS act, but come on, the infrastructure bills were full of shit like the BEAD, where we gave telecom companies 42 billion dollars to do effectively nothing (except stay solvent while Starlink actually offered service):

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Hilarious timing on this though:
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And yet the Trump admin evidently cannot accomplish something even remotely similar and is instead pushing for 500K Chinese students to fly in and take American jobs as well as dystopian digital ID legislation like the GUARD Act (which unanimously passed the Senate committee earlier this month).
I would argue that this is because the GOP prefers to let private entities do a lot of the heavy lifting and they enable that through deregulation. The DNC is already leaning heavily against the construction of data centers so under Harris we would've probably witnessed some massive spergouts on her end with AI companies being subject to greater scrutiny and their data centers being subjected to retarded regulations.
 
I have to ask. Why is a large chunk of "USA Politics" posters MAGA supporters here also seen in the "Canada is a failed state" thread complaining about being Canadian?

inb4 "I'm not Canadian I'm Quebecoise". That's even worse you don't even speak English. *ahem* @Samuel Fuller *ahem*
Because we're future Americans, either when we get enough money to immigrate individually or if our entire province leaves Canada.
 
This "thought" is so idiotic, it's impossible to even know where to start.
Start at the easiest accusation people like you always make about market dynamics like this: Oil is clearly a 100% purely fungible good. An ounce of oil in the middle east and an ounce of oil in the middle of canada are completely economically indistinguishable and there is literally 0 cost in either time or money to replace one with the other.

Perfect world globalist economics are over. Anyone with a degree in that shit is going to resist the truths that have been becoming more and more blatant for years, but the people who learned from practice instead of being indoctrinated with 19th century theories can see it clear as day. Covid alone should have been an ice water bath to those who thought logistics would only ever head in the direction of cheaper, faster, and more reliable.

Complete separation from the global market situation will obviously never happen; the costs of overcoming barriers will always be fighting against the reward of conducting arbitrage. However it is the most shallow and worthless type of pattern recognition to think it is the strait's blockage causing high gas prices in the western hemisphere, when it is clearly being caused by the competition created by the arbitrage opportunity.
 
I’ll absolutely give credit to Biden for the CHIPS act, but come on, the infrastructure bills were full of shit like the BEAD, where we gave telecom companies 42 billion dollars to do effectively nothing (except stay solvent while Starlink actually offered service):
Yeah in my opinion the bill should've focused more heavily on the buildout of regional rail systems in the southern US and Rust Belt. Bare bones commuter rail systems on a mixed double-triple track alignment with bypass tracks at stations for Amtrak and freight would hardly cost anything and get decent ridership. The only time passenger rail ever costs a lot of money is when you're building HSR or metro services in urban areas that are on viaducts or in tunnels.
 
Yeah in my opinion the bill should've focused more heavily on the buildout of regional rail systems in the southern US and Rust Belt. Bare bones commuter rail systems on a mixed double-triple track alignment with bypass tracks at stations for Amtrak and freight would hardly cost anything and get decent ridership. The only time passenger rail ever costs a lot of money is when you're building HSR or metro services in urban areas that are on viaducts or in tunnels.

Honestly, I DO wish we'd start focusing on infrastructure stuff. Our road system has seen better days, and we've got bridges failing left and right. I don't even want to think about the rail system falling apart due to lack of maintenance. A lot of folks really don't get that this shit is important.
 
Honestly, I DO wish we'd start focusing on infrastructure stuff. Our road system has seen better days, and we've got bridges failing left and right. I don't even want to think about the rail system falling apart due to lack of maintenance. A lot of folks really don't get that this shit is important.
DOWN WITH STROADS AND BAD UGLY PLANTS IN PLACES THAT ARE NON-NATIVE
 
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