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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I'd absolutely love for you to show me where we have an issue with foreigners in foreign countries coming over
Might just be sleep deprived but I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.
Do you think the US is better than Sweden or Germany for welfare???
If you’re a migrant and you pick out the right (((NGO))), absolutely.
 
The whole reason most of us know who Tim pool is, is because a decade ago Lauren Southern challenged him to go to Sweden and see for himself that it was hosting African gang warfare
It's so easy to forget that he used to go out and do things, not just sit at a desk and tawk.

Of course, he had to stop. People were beginning to reach for the beanie. Degloving his bare cranium in public
 
bro to submit a fucking DNA sample to CBS you have to apply for a biometric appointment.

This is an expensive, time consuming application which involves physically appearing at what is basically a military base inside a city. They also just sort of randomly issue these dates to applicants. You get a notice saying "Your biometric appointment is in 2 days at 3pm. Be there."

That's Step 1 to visiting Disney World. Who the fuck is going to visit the US? We're going to crush tourism nation-wide from the only countries we actually want tourists from.

This is a stupid policy and you're right to point out its stupidity. This is an obscene number of hoops to jump through and it's likely they will take their money elsewhere.

Fortunately, only about 10% of US tourism is foreign. And with so many tourist spots hiking prices for the last few years, it'd be nice to see some discounting and shorter lines from the decrease.
 
So objectivley how do we reach consensus? What source would be beyond reproach other than someone or some group in the government?

If we are at the point of calling the local Spokane journies TPTB minions of evil we have lost the plot a little bit

Do I need to bring you peer reviewed sources?
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Also just go to a grocery store and buy a sirloin steak real quick, like im not just saying things that are upsetting to upset you, im saying them because they upset me to and if we dont all say something about it, its very likely to just get worse.
 
bro to submit a fucking DNA sample to CBS you have to apply for a biometric appointment.

This is an expensive, time consuming application which involves physically appearing at what is basically a military base inside a city. They also just sort of randomly issue these dates to applicants. You get a notice saying "Your biometric appointment is in 2 days at 3pm. Be there."

That's Step 1 to visiting Disney World. Who the fuck is going to visit the US? We're going to crush tourism nation-wide from the only countries we actually want tourists from.
I don’t want to completely dismiss what you’re saying because tourism really IS an awesome way to make money, it’s like the only case where the service sector is legit increasing gdp instead of being a make-work sub economy.

However, I’m leery of shitting on Trump if for no other reason than how fucked we were without him, so I’m choosing to not get worried until the public comment period is over
 
A lot of people don't have the time left to wait to break even. After the 1929 crash it wasn't until the 1960's that valuations were the same in real dollars.
Sure, but based off the people comparing it to 2008, not the great depression they probably will. I've yet to see democrats begin to scream "It's fucking over, panic sell EVERYTHING!". This also all speculation on all our parts.
 
This is a stupid policy and you're right to point out its stupidity. This is an obscene number of hoops to jump through and it's likely they will take their money elsewhere.

Fortunately, only about 10% of US tourism is foreign. And with so many tourist spots hiking prices for the last few years, it'd be nice to see some discounting and shorter lines from the decrease.
>The U.S. tourism industry is a massive economic driver, contributing around $2.3 to $2.5 trillion to the U.S. GDP

just a casual (up to) $250 billion down the fucking drain for tourism dependant states.
 
Fortunately, only about 10% of US tourism is foreign. And with so many tourist spots hiking prices for the last few years, it'd be nice to see some discounting and shorter lines from the decrease.
You know that some states like Nevada have well over 50% of their tax revenue come from tourism right?

Even a 3-5% drop could decimate local economies.
 
You know that some states like Nevada have well over 50% of their tax revenue come from tourism right?

Even a 3-5% drop could decimate local economies.
Vegas is fucked anyways. Too expensive. It’s failing by itself
So objectivley how do we reach consensus? What source would be beyond reproach other than someone or some group in the government?

If we are at the point of calling the local Spokane journies TPTB minions of evil we have lost the plot a little bit

Do I need to bring you peer reviewed sources?
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Also just go to a grocery store and buy a sirloin steak real quick, like im not just saying things that are upsetting to upset you, im saying them because they upset me to and if we dont all say something about it, its very likely to just get worse.
Did you notice that suddenly the need to cull all of our chickens and cows suddenly disappeared?

Beef has been stable, eggs dropped precipitously. Some things are up. All in all, the trajectory is better than it was and the reason the local news people are assholes is because they’re making these minor movements in price seem like they’re as bad as the initial Biden cost explosion was
 
You know that some states like Nevada have well over 50% of their tax revenue come from tourism right?

Even a 3-5% drop could decimate local economies.
tourism is something from a bygone era of white supremacy. all we need is infinity indians and brown people and more indians to write ChatGPT wrappers to sell to indians. that is what the GDP should be.
 
tourism is something from a bygone era of white supremacy. all we need is infinity indians and brown people and more indians to write ChatGPT wrappers to sell to indians. that is what the GDP should be.
It genuinely depresses me that a large percentage of our elites unironically believe this.
 
A better summary would be "If you don't know anything about China or Japan, there may be some things that you thought were Japanese that were actually borrowed from the Chinese whole cloth."

But that doesn't really make sense, because the average person who doesn't know much about either country couldn't tell you what's supposedly Japanese in the first place, aside from sushi, samurai, origami, anime and ninjas—which are all actually originally Japanese.
Anime traces its roots to America, the name is literally an English loanword. Osamu Tezuka, whose works are largely responsible for the modern "anime art style", was directly inspired by American cartoons (including Disney), which were imported to Japan post-WWII in an effort to curb Japanese nationalism by suppressing traditional Japanese art and culture. Visual novels on the other hand are something that could be argued to be more authentically Japanese. The storytelling format of static sprites on generic backgrounds is basically just a modern, digital version of kamishibai, e.g. traditional Japanese paper puppet shows.
 
You think the local news is just making up shit? or that I made that image in paint?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=inzJMbisG6U
Statistics can be made to make anything factual. You simply choose the most convenient data points to make your argument. I don't know about you but my beef prices where I'm at are actually quite a bit down. I usually make steaks once a week and they're actually down by about 1/3 from a year ago at least at Costco.

The strange part of the story you linked is they blame tariffs for beef prices increasing 20%? We don't really import beef. Something like 90% of all beef is domestic so if there's a 20% increase then tariff's being a direct factor is nonsensical. As for coffee? Maybe I can't see I've noticed any kind of jump. The jump was during covid and I've seen some fluctuation since then but it's not this admin that's doing most of that.

If you want real evidence they're reaching they mention bananas being up 9% as an example. It's under 2 dollars for 3 lbs of bananas, dear god are you telling me we might have a 9 cent banana price hike? that's how you know they're really reaching lmao.

Groceries have been up since Covid and that sucks but what's really up is fast food. I don't know how anyone can justify spending 25 dollars for 2 at a fast food place these days I don't even understand how they're in business. I could make 2 prime cut sirloins and potatoes at home for less then some chicken sandwiches at Popeyes, which is lunacy. I really think the majority of food price complainers just can't cook.

Get a second freezer, buy meat in bulk, learn to cook, incorporate rice if you're down bad and you can eat quite well on the cheap. Right now in my freezer I have 20 burger patties, a dozen chicken patties, 12 steaks, 18 portions of cooked taco meat, 2 dozen hot dogs, 4 packs of bacon, 5 lbs of ground beef not prepared, 3~ lbs of panko nuggets, 5 lbs of meatballs. I have about 15 lbs of rice left, noodles. Shit is not that complicated.
 
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