US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

> get fucked by shrinkflation, inflation

> get fucked by tariff.

Dood just fuck me and get it over with.

 

[Pew_Pew_Slash]

are statistics about black crime bullshit?

Yes, because they are even worse observably than the stats say. If you need proof then go to your local D'Jackson and strike up any subject of normal conversation. Offer your hand in handshake and look him right in the eye and smile warmly. Do everything you'd do with any rational, civilized human being and make sure you wear a vest and slash resistant gloves.

 

[Shartin' Luther]

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If you don't have a significant percentage of your savings in the stock market you are either poor or retarded or both.

 

[Dread First]

Yes, because they are even worse observably than the stats say. If you need proof then go to your local drug dealer D'Jackson and strike up any subject of normal conversation. Offer your hand in handshake and look him right in the eye and smile warmly. Do everything you'd do with any rational, civilized human being and make sure you wear a vest and slash resistant gloves.

You don't even need to approach a local drug dealer. Just ask if you can bum a light for a ciggie when you're waiting for your next bus at the bus terminal, and watch how they look at you funny.

 

[behindyourightnow]

Been seeing a lot of the following on twitter/reddit.

"If Trump gers his way your North Face jacket will be $2000 and your degenerate rapper endorsed Nike sneakers will be $500!"

Well good news nigger I don't buy moronic luxury status products because I am not a mindless consumerist niggercattle drone.

A lot of people would be happy to pay more for clothes and other consumer items if expense still actually guaranteed quality. The problem these days is that even if you choose the "more expensive = better quality" brand or model, there's no guarantee it's not shit. Even if it's a brand you have trusted for 20 years. One day you'll buy a pair of shoes from a brand you've loved for a decade, only to find out too late that the manufacturer switched warehouses in China and the new manager decided to cut some corners with the materials, and now your shoes are falling apart after a month. Same thing for appliances, even cars. With a few rare exceptions (that most people can't afford anyway), brands and price points aren't even trustworthy anymore.

Which is one reason many people just give up and buy cheap disposable junk. At least if it wears out quickly you didn't pay that much for it and you don't feel like you got ripped off.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

Hey guys remember when the Chinese state media ran an article about China, Japan and S Korea forming a trade union? That was funny.

I like them using Ishowspeed to show how good China is.
The Chinese haven't realized this yet but bragging about how good your home is just invites 3rd world mongrel shitskins so I hope this leads to them getting flooded with infinite niggers and pajeets fleeing to the LGBT lighting cities. I mean, that could be the plan to fill in all those empty cities they've built the past decade but would also lead to mass death from the shit construction so it kinda works itself out.
Since China is China and has this weird Polish attitude towards the West it'll be funny seeing them brag about all the niggers and pajeets they imported to own the racist West like how they bragged about all the trannie faggots using that Rednote app trying to demoralize us. Like ok? We don't want them here, you can have them.

 

[Dead Lion]

Let's check on Europe's boycott of the US:

The irony of this being all posted to Reddit, an American website.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

Honest question, Why didn't they wear gloves?
I ran freezer areas and my coworkers and I just used gloves to protect our hands (with the addition of moisturizing after a shift if necessary). Didn't have any issues.
Tbh I had more problems when I did dishes from the hot water/cleaner combo. THAT really messed with my skin.

She wasn't allowed. And there were no co-workers sharing dairy duty. Just her, up and down the entire very large dairy section, restocking and facing off for 6-9 hour shifts.

 

[hihest]

It is to encourage some manufacturing to reshore itself itself in the US while also getting our trade partners to come to the negotiating table. That's it, plain stated as can be. Some unintentded industries will get caught in the mix, some goods may rise or fall in price but that's how this game is played.

The issue with Trump's tariffs is that they create too much uncertainty; he's not even applying them strategically and has already flip-flopped multiple times.

Regardless of your stance on tariffs, businesses aren't going to gamble billions on U.S. manufacturing if tariffs come and go like Twitter headlines. Businesses make plans in 10 - 20-year blocks, not days or whatever Trump's mood is. Why would they rewire entire supply chains if the trade policy is going to:
1) be reversed next week
2) get undone by the next administration.

Tarriffs that fluctuate each week or with each administration don't provide the kind of certainty or incentive for businesses to plan or make long-term investments. So instead, businesses play it safe: they freeze hiring, freeze investments, outsource even more, and hedge their bets. They stagnate and don't gamble on anything disruptive. until things are more predictable.

 

[Gauf]

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Highly recommend these books.

Nobody in this thread can read

 

[MeltyTW]

They stagnate and don't gamble on anything disruptive. until things are more predictable.

That's assuming that trumps successors don't win more terms, or also that it's more stable to be in this flux vs just having tariff free simple domestic manufacturing.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

The issue with Trump's tariffs is that they create too much uncertainty; he's not even applying them strategically and has already flip-flopped multiple times.

Regardless of your stance on tariffs, businesses aren't going to gamble billions on U.S. manufacturing if tariffs come and go like Twitter headlines. Businesses make plans in 10 - 20-year blocks, not days or whatever Trump's mood is. Why would they rewire entire supply chains if the trade policy is going to:
1) be reversed next week
2) get undone by the next administration.

Tarriffs that fluctuate each week or with each administration don't provide the kind of certainty or incentive for businesses to plan or make long-term investments. So instead, businesses play it safe: they freeze hiring, freeze investments, outsource even more, and hedge their bets. They stagnate and don't gamble on anything disruptive. until things are more predictable.

there is one way to fix this.

Trump Fuhrer.

 

[Atlas Sneezed]

I don't know what's on your plates (a few drops of vegetable broth?) but I have never seen anything short of an industrial dishwasher that could actually deal with bits of food still on the dishes--and you still rinse dishes before putting them in an industrial dishwasher!

I have 2 preschool age kids. We eat "normal" slavic things like meat, potatoes, salads and soup. The only "extra" thing I need to do is to simply trash the leftovers, like I won't put a dish inside with meat, bones or potatoes still on it - that would obviously clog the drain and fuck with the device. I don't rince them, just put them over a bin and scoop out the leftovers - if needed. Then into the dishwasher they go. That's in addition to utensils, glasses and coffee cups, pans and whatnot.

 

[ghastlyretard]

Trump Fuhrer.

I'm down as long as we gas the chinks.

Tarriffs that fluctuate each week or with each administration don't provide the kind of certainty

But if you make it in the US it can't be tariffed in the US, and that's a certainty.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

Mother fucker, do you know how expensive it is to leave California? The cost of rent and expenses alone makes having a savings almost impossible.

I would have been out of here a decade ago if I had the money to leave.

If you don't have money to leave California, you probably don't have money for guns either and aren't ordering CA restricted weapons in a different state which is what my comment was about.

Sorry you've been trapped there but after a decade you've likely built a life in California and that makes it all the harder to leave. The bottom line is you'd leave if you HAD to, so you could also leave if you WANT to as well.

 

[quaawaa]

Regardless of your stance on tariffs, businesses aren't going to gamble billions on U.S. manufacturing if tariffs come and go like Twitter headlines. Businesses make plans in 10 - 20-year blocks, not days or whatever Trump's mood is. Why would they rewire entire supply chains if the trade policy is going to:
1) be reversed next week
2) get undone by the next administration.

Explain why automakers invested billions in EV manufacturing when it was clear that there was no market demand and that the mandate would go away in four years.

By the way, Biden kept Trump's tariffs on China.

 

[Dread First]

So then there is trade to regulate. Though a very sporadic and specialized sort. In which case the tariffs arent for nothing.
...Probably not gonna see a whole lot of return on it though tbh. I imagine its massive one off purchases at random and a constant trickle of relatively low cost supplies for the few people manning the bases.

You're not entirely wrong, but there is a point to be made: scientific instruments do have a lifespan. Some instruments are mission-critical and must stay put depending on what the nature of their task is, regardless of the advances made in science and technology. Others, however, generally have a lifespan of say... 10-20 years, maybe more depending on how resilient the instruments in question are. They also require upkeep, as the USA's Harmonised Tariff Schedule, adapted from the World Customs Organisation's Harmonised System, has specific provisions regarding machine parts for repair. Those provisions allow for repair parts to be imported/exported with minimal or no customs duties. The USA's own export control laws do complicate things somewhat, depending on the country of origin and where those instruments come from, where they're going, etc. That's a whole other can of worms that I'm not remotely qualified to talk about, though.

Disclaimer: I am not a licensed customs broker, nor am I an attorney-in-fact who does customs entries for 3PL companies. I am adjacent to those fields, however, and the recent tariff madness requires me to stay up-to-date for my job duties IRL. Make of that what you will.

 

[Butt_Pouncer]

I know 80% of the people itt are too poor and/or retarded to care, but this is not winning and it never will be.

Stay mad faggot
I was driving home and stumbled upon a small protest on a intersection SoCal on route 66 about orange man and Elon. I noticed the attendant were alll old fat men and old fat women. Very low energy

 

[grocerygoblin]

Businesses make plans in 10 - 20-year blocks

Take all my 's

 

[MaduroHunter]

Stay mad faggot
I was driving homme and stumbled upon a small protest on a intersection SoCal on route 66 about orange man and Elon. I noticed the attendant were alll old fat men and old fat women. Very low energy

it's really just the hippies out there with the leftists. looking at my local areas protest (i've seen one since trump got into office, really fuckin tiny. but Florida is pretty red), it was 70 percent boomers, 10 percent college kids, 20 percent millennials or other. They were gone after 2 hours, only like 15 people were there.