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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Can't find a cite (thanks, "tech") but about twenty years ago some PJ O'Rourke type character (not him) commissioned a basic civics test—how many branches of government, which amendment does what, etc.—for a bunch of "lawmakers," said to be a representative sample. Their average score was lower than the random citizen control sample.

In their defense, not their job.
True, but responding to Chu's loaded question with a non-sequitur like that was also entirely appropriate in those circumstances. Bessent knows these hearings are largely a complete waste of time so people in Congress can grandstand for the cameras, and he treated the question with the level of respect it deserved.
 
His mom is still lucid and his whole family is deep in with the DNC. The dems are throwing shit at the wall and trying some of the aggressive shock jock stuff Trump does to draw in voters. It doesn't work for most of the canadates so they are having Hunter try it out because he has nothing to lose and is already an open degenerate.
Hunter's mom has been dead since 1972.
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Unless some MAGA guy arises from the crowd and hits Collins with a steel chair in the polls, Maine is cucked.
Unfortunately it's just an electoral reality that Collins is the best Republican that can get 50% of the vote in Maine. The options are Collins, who votes our way <50% of the time, or a Democrat who votes our way 0% of the time.

Maybe some more Somali deportations help the situation, but 🌈🌈🌈.
 
True, but responding to Chu's loaded question with a non-sequitur like that was also entirely appropriate in those circumstances. Bessent knows these hearings are largely a complete waste of time so people in Congress can grandstand for the cameras, and he treated the question with the level of respect it deserved.
Chu is a retard, a real pro-level politician would be like this

Chu: Ding dong ching chong bix nood.

Guy: Do you know who the president of World War 1 was?

Chu: Before I answer that, do you know who invented the hot dog bun?

Guy: ... Uhh....

Chu: That's what I thought. Don't play checkers against a master CHESS player, NIGGER!
 
Chu is a retard, a real pro-level politician would be like this

Chu: Ding dong ching chong bix nood.

Guy: Do you know who the president of World War 1 was?

Chu: Before I answer that, do you know who invented the hot dog bun?

Guy: ... Uhh....

Chu: That's what I thought. Don't play checkers against a master CHESS player, NIGGER!
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Gas in my area is almost below pre-war prices and dropping every time I refuel.
This is probably one of the main reasons Trump is in no rush to cut a deal or restart kinetics.
Demand destruction, source alternatives, and general normalization of things are doing his work for him while choking Iran's economy.
 
This is probably one of the main reasons Trump is in no rush to cut a deal or restart kinetics.
Demand destruction, source alternatives, and general normalization of things are doing his work for him while choking Iran's economy.
Once the base material shifts to American sources, it doesn't go back. Dooming is learned helplessness.
EDIT: Iran fought the last war, thinking it could choke the US and repeat the 70s.
 
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Unfortunately it's just an electoral reality that Collins is the best Republican that can get 50% of the vote in Maine. The options are Collins, who votes our way <50% of the time, or a Democrat who votes our way 0% of the time.

Maybe some more Somali deportations help the situation, but 🌈🌈🌈.
"We can accept that this guy is going to shoot at us 80 percent of the time and then only ever combine fire with us on an enemy we could have killed anyways or accept that its an enemy that we get to shoot back at. Oh also the person encourages desertion and treason and uses up 5x times more supplies than our other troops."

After a certain point you gotta cut.
 
"We can accept that this guy is going to shoot at us 80 percent of the time and then only ever combine fire with us on an enemy we could have killed anyways or accept that its an enemy that we get to shoot back at. Oh also the person encourages desertion and treason and uses up 5x times more supplies than our other troops."

After a certain point you gotta cut.
Ok, you have a 1-2 seat majority with 4-5 "Republicans" who you can't unseat before November who proven that they will backstab you at the drop of a hat. If you "cut," you are risking Majority Leader Schumer and 24/7 impeachment season for the next 2+ years.

Is it worth cutting for purity?
 
It was literally like two weeks after he got elected to the senate. Hunter and Beau were in the car but survived.

My theory is Joe was trying to rub his family out for a clean slate and he never cared that Hunter was a crackhead because Hunter wasn’t even supposed to be alive
That doesn't really make sense. Beau was the smart one and suppose to take over the family crime business but got brain cancer instead. Yeah no one cared about Hunter but after Beau death they had to put him in as a front for the Biden and kept fucking it up.
 
To be fair. Newscum is out. While a D will still be horrible. Punishing each D who makes things worse by voting them out should be the priority. It's why I didn't care that Zohran won. He kicked out Adams and Cuomo who born ran NY and NYC horribly. He's doing a bad job as well. But my thoughts on the mayoral race is the same. Not Karen Bass. I would hope it will be Pratt. But my main concern isn't pratt winning. But rather bass losing. She fucked up the Palisades. That should be enough to disqualify her from future elections.
Shitty take, “oh yeah fuck the cities and the fact they have fraudulent elections”. Nothing should make you more angry than what the Democratic Party has done to Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. I remember when cities were clean and there was rarely a vacant store front. The money for industry is in the city’s if we let it all go we will have nothing left and have effectively abandoned our forebears who risked everything to come here.
 
Not only were the jobs numbers better this month, the previous months were revised strongly upward too.

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The true irony of Trump is he delivers on the "if you wait 10 minutes you get 3 marshmallows" yet the way he talks people demand the marshmallow now.
 
Gas in my area is almost below pre-war prices and dropping every time I refuel.
That's because we've been draining the SPR and selling (dumping) it on the global market below market price to keep the charade going. This is not a good thing for many obvious reasons.

The SPR should hit it's all-time historical low either today or tomorrow.

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Then why are there so many hydrocarbons on other planets? Either there was tons of life on them that died off without a trace or the conspiracy theory is true.
Because the spontaneous formation of hydrocarbons from carbon deposits under heat and pressure doesn't mean that there's infinity oil, only that the carbon deposits don't have to be formed from formerly organic matter?

I think Hunter was so publicly humiliated that he quit caring about his image to the rest of the country. He could either slink back into obscurity or just be like "Yeah, I'm all those things and thus afraid of nothing". He's a truly free man as he has nothing to lose.
Do you think that a guy who films himself having sex with Ukrainian midget prostitutes while smoking crack cares about anything, ever?
 
That doesn't really make sense. Beau was the smart one and suppose to take over the family crime business but got brain cancer instead. Yeah no one cared about Hunter but after Beau death they had to put him in as a front for the Biden and kept fucking it up.
Beau was 3 when it happened. A little premature to label him “the smart one.”

According to the official bio, Joe got with Jill two years later. But to hear it from the guy Jill was married to, their affair started earlier and was the cause of their separation.
 
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