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/

 

[The Nothingness]

NY Mayor Mamdani inauguration starts with the "Socialist Anthem" Bread and Roses

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "We'll replace rugged individualism with collectivism"

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Seal it up, Mr. President!

 

[pwnest injun]

NY Mayor Mamdani inauguration starts with the "Socialist Anthem" Bread and Roses

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "We'll replace rugged individualism with collectivism"

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"Why won't any bank loan us money?"

This is going to be really funny in very little time.

 

[LiquidKid]

It's literally the same cycle we saw from 16-20. Like the the guy or hate him, doesn't matter. Journoscum are dumb little gremlins and once Trump is gone they're still going to run articles about him. It's all they know how to do now.

Never forget: Trump gets two scoops of ice cream, everyone else gets one.

Forever my favorite headline because of how petty it was

 

[invisibult plus+]

He is going to do nothing but run up debt and further diminish NYC. He will probably end up eating the publicity for NYC gibs fraud.

He's probably going to be the poster child of infrastructural failure, and is easy scape goat for everyone else who has let NYC infrastructure crumble. Wouldn't be shocked if their fire responses end up more botched than LAs with the wildfires.

Even if billionaires aren't leaving (a common cope I've been seeing), they'll never have enough warpstone. He's going to worsen NYC's cultural problems by feeding their "fuck you got mine" mentality, taking everything meant "for the people." Their flooding problem has been fucking bad in 2025, and it's going to get worse.

 

[mold]

once Trump is gone

why did you have to make me sad

 

[quaawaa]

Average Mamdani voter:

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[Point and Laugh]

It doesn’t matter how bad Mandami fucks up NYC. Somehow it will all be Trumps fault. Idk why anyone thinks that people still on board with the left will ever leave their delusional bubbles.

That said, there are a lot things he won’t really be able to do and it’ll be interesting to see if he gets a pass or if he will actually get pushback from the governor or any other lobbying groups who know he can’t pay for any of the shit he’s promised.

 

[GettrGriftr]

Happy New Year, you glorious bastards! Let's pray that 2026 is a based year and one that doesn't go Fatpacks way.

As to glamorous dames of the last century, here's my contribution.

Gene Tierney


And (be still, my beating heart) Myrna Loy

 

[quaawaa]

It doesn’t matter how bad Mandami fucks up NYC. Somehow it will all be Trumps fault. Idk why anyone thinks that people still on board with the left will ever leave their delusional bubbles.

If Wall Street moves to Florida/Texas/North Carolina/wherever, the city will collapse. If they continue to act like cucks, the city will linger on.

 

[George Lucas]

It doesn’t matter how bad Mandami fucks up NYC. Somehow it will all be Trumps fault. Idk why anyone thinks that people still on board with the left will ever leave their delusional bubbles.

That said, there are a lot things he won’t really be able to do and it’ll be interesting to see if he gets a pass or if he will actually get pushback from the governor or any other lobbying groups who know he can’t pay for any of the shit he’s promised.

Yeah if you go to any liberal city’s subreddit they blame every problem on Republicans. It’s especially absurd in hard blue states where even the state government has hardly any Republicans.

 

[gernig]

JD Vance started following HowlingMutant on xitter

SHITPOSTER OCCUPIED GOVERNMENT!

 

[Sammich]

Repealing prohibition and then pretending that it failed

what are you talking about? it was a massive failure, more people were drinking during that were drinking before. It lead to one of the most violent times in our history, outside the civil war. It was as big a failure as the war on drugs was.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Yeah if you go to any liberal city’s subreddit they blame every problem on Republicans. It’s especially absurd in hard blue states where even the state government has hardly any Republicans.

Well, then it’s our cruel country forcing their poor state to right all the wrongs, like Somalians starving because they don’t have enough to steal

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Trump will do nothing. If he was a Democrat in office, he'd be rounding these people up for disobeying his edicts. Trump should just drive up to Governor Walls House with two divisions of the US Army and have him publicly arrested and charged with treason.
And then put the Somalians in concentration camps, every single one in the US. He's a fun little fact. The president still has the ability to do this, thanks to FDR.
Same thing with the Mexicans and the Indians.

 

[harmy.kook]

Trump will do nothing.

If that was the case, we wouldn't have even heard of it

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aGby18D7SOg

 

[Breadbassket]

what are you talking about? it was a massive failure, more people were drinking during that were drinking before. It lead to one of the most violent times in our history, outside the civil war. It was as big a failure as the war on drugs was.

The Prohibition was doomed from the start. The Bureau of Prohibition lacked the training and the numbers to properly enforce the law. At its peak it had 3,000 agents spread out over a country populated by over 120 million people in 1930. Congress didn't provide much additional funding, public opinion turned against the concept and the federal government wasn't as powerful back then as it is today.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

If that was the case, we wouldn't have even heard of it

Ted Cruz literally has been selling out Texas to India along with Greg Abbott and the head of the GOP in Texas is literally Indian.

 

[LowlyPheasent]

I have accessed the nuclear launch codes. Which states should i nuke?

:new york
alifornia
:illnois
:Utah
:UTAH
:YOU MUST VOTE UTAH NOW
:SALT LAKE CITY
:I WILL SEND A VIDEO OF ME SHAKING MY ASS VIOLENTLY AT UTAH GETTING NUKED!
:I WILL NUKE THE US IF UTAH IS NOT CHOSEN AS THE PERFECT LOCATION FOR A NEGANUKE!
:SEND NUKES TO UTAH AND MECCA!
: have gaysex with @WelperHelper99 and leak the mormon gunt tape to deer

No new jersey as option. 0/10

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Iran fragments.

pretty sure i read that their capitol has run out of water a few months ago.

what are you talking about? it was a massive failure, more people were drinking during that were drinking before. It lead to one of the most violent times in our history, outside the civil war. It was as big a failure as the war on drugs was.

don't forget the great depression taking place at the same time which wasn't helping anything.

 

[Breadbassket]

don't forget the great depression taking place at the same time which wasn't helping anything.

Be aware of the part that taxes played in the Prohibition era.

From a 2011 article on the subject:

Prohibition lasted from 1919 to 1933. One of the stumbling blocks advocates of Prohibition faced before 1913 was that the federal government was heavily dependent on taxes on alcohol. The passage of the income tax constitutional amendment that year allowed government the luxury of banning alcohol without reducing tax revenue.

“I had no idea how important liquor was to the federal government,” says Novick. “It started in the Civil War with the levy on beer and whiskey to help fund the war, and it never really went away. Some 30 percent to 40 percent of the government’s income came from the tax on alcohol. So Prohibitionists realized that the only way they’re going to have a ban was through income tax, which was a progressive cause and was really supposed to distribute wealth and to make things equitable during the robber baron era, where the wealth was being accumulated in a very small segment of the population.”

The 16th Amendment of 1913, allowing Congress to levy a federal income tax, helped pave the way for Prohibition, but World War I helped stir up the pot. When the United States entered the war in 1917, anyone of German heritage was suspect. Since most brewers were of German decent, the Anti-Saloon League used this to equate migrants and drinking with being anti-American.

On the other side, as the Great Depression deepened in the 1930s, income tax revenues plummeted and there was a question about why we were foregoing all that tax revenue and jobs from alcohol sales and production