RexFavilla

The Canadian tarriffs are some of the most justified ones because of the insane degree of protectionism that Canada practices. They institute things like play time rationing for American musical artists to give domestic musicians a leg up, disincentivize a bunch of American candy brands to make room for their own. Not to mention the insane dairy cronyism going on. Which is fine, but you absolutely don't get to wretchedly sob when you then get slapped by tariffs after doing this shit for decades.

linate wrote:

Great thoughts

You dont sound like a stereotypical conservative

I'm not really a doctrinaire conservative. I think that seeing or believing in any 'we' in politics is retarded. There's me. There's my family. There's my local community. And then there are politicians. The second I think that the politicians are part of my 'we', that they are 'on my team', and start voting for them unconditionally is the moment they will give me and my actual 'we' groups jack shit. Because the only thing they need from me is my vote. This makes my vote the only weapon I have. Someone who thinks of themselves as a Democrat or a Republican or even as left or right to a lesser degree renders themselves politically inert, because they give up the only weapon they have for free. This is why the far left is eternally pussywhipped; most of them would never do what elements of the right and center just did and punch their own side in the mouth, even if it means the 'bad guys' winning.

Misterio wrote:

RexFavilla wrote:

People are absolutely tired of Trump. He hasn't delivered on any of his promises. The only issue he is polling above water on is immigration, and he even fucked that up by not going after the people hiring illegals and publishing those dumb tonedeaf music videos. Oh and by putting a retarded bimbo in charge of DHS. His response to getting electorally raped was to drone on about the marble he's installing in his new ballroom. The man is cooked. Now he's talking about escalating again in Iran. If he keeps going like this he will get the Thatcher treatment, as his own party will have no choice but to stab him in the back to save their own skins.

No, the ones who are tired of Trump are the Democrats but the average people are tired of the economic situation that is caused by the conflict with Iran.

Then why did Republicans mention Trump all the time during the primary but specifically NOT mention him in ads during the general? Why were Trump rallies held in the leadup to the election statistically associated with a DROP in support? Maybe you're a bit out of touch and just want him to still be popular here for whatever reason, but the man is electoral poison and has nobody to blame but himself.

Misterio wrote:

Sidewalker wrote:

SatanLucy wrote:

Yeah, Trump lost badly. Too bad he is still president.

"In fact, if people ever got tired of me in the U.S., I'll move to Israel, and become prime minister" - Donald Trump (yesterday)

The midterms made it pretty clear the American people are tired of Trump; it's time for him to move on to be Israel's Prime Minister.

People are not tired of Trump, they are tired of the war with Iran and the impact on their economy.

People are absolutely tired of Trump. He hasn't delivered on any of his promises. The only issue he is polling above water on is immigration, and he even fucked that up by not going after the people hiring illegals and publishing those dumb tonedeaf music videos. Oh and by putting a retarded bimbo in charge of DHS. His response to getting electorally raped was to drone on about the marble he's installing in his new ballroom. The man is cooked. Now he's talking about escalating again in Iran. If he keeps going like this he will get the Thatcher treatment, as his own party will have no choice but to stab him in the back to save their own skins.

Million dollars. Instantly wipe out all interest-bearing debt and invest the rest. It'd take a while to get the 12% yield up to those levels and I'd be paying interest on current debts as I did so. Plus who knows how long I'll even live. Could get cancer in ten years. With the million I could at least afford treatment and extend my life.

linate wrote:

I mean it's like punishingly expensive to do basically anything. It's punishingly expensive to keep yourself alive. And keeping a kid alive and giving them a good life? Buddy, no shot. Birth rate is in decline for a lot of reasons.

A huge amount of this is the retarded war in Iran. And even if Dems/Trump pull out and sign the Obama deal 2.0 it won't do back to normal. Biden already drained the reserves dangerously low and Trump has drawn them down even further to absorb price shocks. These will need to be rebuilt, which means when floating storage starts to flow again it will not provide immediate price relief.

So that problem isn't going away. The housing market problem is not going to go away as long as we continue to import people to do jobs Americans can do, like Microsoft laying off thousands of employees and then applying for H1B replacements. Those people need to rent or buy houses, usually the most inexpensive options as fresh arrivals which drives up 'starter house' prices. The fact that Trump did little to address the abuse of visas to undermine American wages because his tech buddies profit off overseas slave labor means that all his deportations did jack squat to alleviate housing pressures.

Anything you can do to address this issue will run afoul of the donors. No more endless scab labor supply to depress wages? Daddy isn't happy. Extra taxes or outright bans of corporate ownership of single family homes? Daddy isn't happy. In fact, politicians of both parties are working overtime to make the problem worse by trying to waive or reduce property taxes for retirees, which will reduce pressure to sell and shift the tax burden to young families that are already struggling. The only person doing anything to fix this is Mamdani taxing extra property holdings at higher rates, and this is part of why the Republicans just got absolutely wiped out and the DSA is enjoying historic wins. They are simply too beholden to their donors and to boomers.

linate wrote:

It just allows exploitation and bad experience for customers

I said what I said. Come at me bro. Fight me on this. Lolz

Honestly just do a flat 15% service charge and have it be a cultural norm to tip more than that for exceptional service. This way *cough cough* certain customers can't stiff the wait staff and cause a free rider problem. This also sucks because then those customers will be given worse service and not all of them deserve it. I know black people and Jews who tip well and it's not fair for them to be saddled with the stereotype that they are going to stiff their server and treated with suspicion whenever they go to a new restaurant.

Apparently, there was a data leak, and an e-mail tied to Ramaswamy's official twitter and an earlier Harvard dataleak was subscribed to a hookup platform where he expressed interest in group sex, online flirting, and 'other'. So sorry if I put the image of this doofus engaging in orgies in your head, but the facts must be shared. Can he fall much lower in the public eye?

Vader wrote:

It’s all boomers that have tremendous amount of wealth built up already and don’t give a fuck what will happen because they will die and 10-15+ years. Politics in America has died and will be dead for quite some time. The only way you pick sides now are if you have to side with the craziest lunatics on the left, or the genuinely evil AIPAC lovers of the right. It’s sickening

Yeah they are now campaigning to remove or reduce property taxes for retired people which is a literally insane policy. I honestly feel like in ten years we are going to have a Maoist-style red guard movement that just tortures old people to death because they are so clearly steering the country into a nosedive. The boomer death clock is already almost at 50% after all. As their political influence wanes and the % of the young population that isn't voting increases there will eventually come a tipping point where the young will be able to exercise a whiplash jolt of political power over the boomers and it will not be pretty.

Canadians should be forced to use a system of measurement based on the length of Donald Trump's foot as the measure of length. For mass, they can have trumps, kilotrumps, millitrumps, etc. based on his weight measured at the time of adoption.

I think MAGA will collapse in on itself as soon as Trump kicks the bucket. Rubio is just a repackaged neocon wearing MAGA like a skinsuit. JD Vance is a Silicon Valley golem who just finished sticking his neck out for the whole pedophile ad fiasco. They both represent different wings of the donors of the governing MAGA coalition but neither of them commands the grassroots, rabid support that is the backbone of the movement. That part of the movement has diverged into several splinters.

You have the outright deranged MAGA cultists who worship the ground Trump walks on even as he whips out his dong and pisses all over them. Another part blames the donors and other forces for 'leading Trump astray' - these people are scapegoating the very interests which Vance and Rubio represent for 'ruining' MAGA. And then there's the blackpilled element of the movement, which thinks the whole thing is dead and that the Republican party needs to be burned to the ground to punish it for its many betrayals.

The last two aren't going to support Vance or Rubio, especially after Vance has made so many missteps this cycle that revealed his true loyalties. The first are honestly insane and I have no idea what they will do once Trump dies - maybe insist of being buried with him like slaves of the Pharaoh. The support that Rubio and Vance receive for their actual stances/loyalties is not enough to win an election. The Republican primary in 2027/2028 will either be a shoehorned coronation, which will result in a weak candidate who will go on to lose the general, as it always does. Or it will be a spectacular bloodbath and possibly the deathknell of the party.

Savant wrote:

He's one of the creepiest to me.

Talarico seems like he has this little 'duper's delight' smile just behind his mask whenever he's talking.

Come on, dude. This can't be a bigger red flag then just being an obvious jerk to people.

If a politician isn't trustworthy, literally nothing else they say or do matters. 'Being an obvious jerk to people' ranges from a complete non-issue to a marker of trustworthiness. Like that Dem candidate that just gave an interview blitzed - she oozed pure, offensive authenticity and normal people respond to that.

I'm convinced that most people involved in political campaigns, especially Dems, are face-blind autists. Someone with an untrustworthy demeanor or vibe is a huge liability, and its like they just can't see it. Talarico will probably win because of this retarded war and because Texans have apparently grown accustomed to being ruled by bloodless lizard people but I see him failing on the national stage. Big Buttigieg vibes.

Savant wrote:

Every single politician from Texas makes my skin crawl, I feel like they all have lampshades made out of human skin at home.

Eh, Talarico seems genuine even if I don't agree with all his policies.

He's one of the creepiest to me. Him, Beto, Eyepatch, Ted Cruz all make my skin crawl. Talarico seems like he has this little 'duper's delight' smile just behind his mask whenever he's talking. He also has whatever the male version is of that eerie 'Stepford Wife' vibe that some women have is - Stepford Twink?

SkepticalOne wrote:

I mean, we are deep in the midterm season - why are we not seeing anyone stumping for candidates? We've got threads highlighting awful campaigns, and general propaganda against "leftists", but not much else.

Are folks like Paxton and Abbott (or candidates in states other than Texas) too bad to advocate for, not worth the effort, or are people uninterested in current political events?

Fwiw, Talarico is objectively better than Paxton, and Hinojosa cant do much worse than Abbott.

I think people are just at an all-time low for faith in politicians. Liberals dealt with the 'hope and change' rugpull during the financial crisis and bailout, now MAGA is dealing with the Trump 2.0 rugpull. I think literally nobody, aside from wealthy people who live in a shrinking socioeconomic bubble and view politics as an entertaining diversion, hold any illusions about politicians representing anything aside from their donors or themselves.

When it comes to the Texas option, there's something in the water there. Every single politician from Texas makes my skin crawl, I feel like they all have lampshades made out of human skin at home.

Vader wrote:

The whole MAGA base have been lobotomized at this point.

I think his last supporters are boomers with their brains dripping out of their ears.

GreatfulGoy wrote:

yes you can assume whatever you want about my genitalia as you are a creepy neonazi with some fetish for that.

You should bear in mind, the largest penises worldwide are black primarily and (depending which region of the Latin America is taken) Latinos.

So, if physical size in the genialia is your go-to for self worth as a neonazi, I hate to break it to you but white people are just mid.

It's almost like - and I realize that this is a wild idea that could never possibly be true - not everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi. But that's crazy talk.

GreatfulGoy wrote:

Better to have a chode than a thumb.

You can be the next Keats - Ode on a Hindu Chode. Wax poetic about the rapturous experience of having a weird, stubby-fat cylinder kind-of-grind against one's vagina in repeated, violent, sporadically semi-successful attempts at penetration.

GreatfulGoy wrote:

South Asians often have thick penises, regardless of length btw. It's yellow Asians who have the fully small ones in all respects.

Ah yes, chodes, what every lady is thirsting for in her heart of hearts.

SatanLucy wrote:

It's different for white women

I am speaking as a racist white man. For women, it's different. They don't want asian guys because they are short, their tiny little dicks, and their skinny figure. White women will of course prefer white men the most. It's racism.

The tiny dicks is a big issue over there; it's even been blamed on a slow update of condom usage in casual sexual encounters and the resulting wild proliferation of STIs like HIV. Slippage/breakage, etc.

BBC News - Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

I'd want to specifically meet a black woman, they're on average more fun and would pose less of a physical threat than a man of any race. It's kind of mean to the black woman though because they also, on average, don't particularly like to be in the woods. If I can change other characteristics, I would want them to be morbidly obese. This way if we need to resort to cannibalism I could run away from them and kill and eat them once they were in a weakened state, and there would be much more of them to eat. Just rendering all that lard would provide invaluable survival supplies.

SatanLucy wrote:

It is extremely obvious when you compare it to Kamala Harris that you have anti brown racism as the core thing driving your interpretation.

Most white people are racist, especially in dating. The order of priority in dating for a white man is:

1. White or Asian

2. Brown

3. Black

It's different for white women.

It's

1. White
2. Indian (Feather)/Hispanic
3. Black
4. Arab
5. Asian
6. Indian (Dot)

I actually saw research studies done on dating preference and iirc this was the order they gave. Kind of interesting. What's especially odd is that the general order held with women of other races too, with a few of them bumping men of their own race further up the ladder.

GreatfulGoy wrote:

It is extremely obvious when you compare it to Kamala Harris that you have anti brown racism as the core thing driving your interpretation.

The two worst politicians in America both being brown isn't my fault. Sounds like a 'you' problem.

SatanLucy wrote:

They richly deserve it for betraying 90% of their campaign promises.

I mean, all politicians betray like 90% of their campaign promises.

Most betray around 60-70%. Anyone who thinks that their politicians are 'on their side' or their 'friend' or even a good person is retarded, unless they are a billionaire payrolling that politician. The point of a democracy is to use your vote as a weapon to expand that 30-40% of campaign promises you can expect to be delivered. The only way you can do that is to let them lose when they don't deliver. This is why Republicans usually get more out of their politicians than Democrats, especially far left Dems, do. They are more likely to take their ball and go home and let the Republicans lose - this is basically what the Tea Party was. That and a slew of primary upsets. The left wing of the Democrat party, meanwhile, fell into the 'vote blue no matter who' pattern and their party basically laughs at them and slaps them in the face with their dick whenever they ask for something, and the Bernie voters just keep supporting them.

Sidewalker wrote:

Republicans want Ohioans to vote for Vivek Ramiswami because he didn't get raped as a child, and Jon Husted because he has a nice ass, it's amazing how far down they have to go to think of something good to say about their candidates.

Trump again praises Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s body: ‘His ass is... a pile of muscle’ - YouTube

The midterms are only a Scaramucci away and they have completely run out of ideas.

Blue wave if comming.

They richly deserve it for betraying 90% of their campaign promises. The libtards can execute Trump by firing squad at this point. It would be a blessing and a clean break. I do think Trump might pull a Bibi though and start a huge conflict with Iran to stay in power, maybe even carry out a false flag or 'let' a massive terrorist attack go off like Netanyahu did.

Honestly Dems are in such a good position they could quietly crib a couple policies from Trump (cracking down on H1Bs, sweeping the tranny stuff under the rug, having a border), reverse his deeply unpopular one (letting Israel take a big steaming dump on the 1st amendment, this retarded data center buildout, not clapping like seals while the IDF turns Palestinian children inside out and whirls them around their head) and they could cement power for quite a long time. The question is whether the Democrats can swallow their pride and admit that people are voting against Trump's betrayals and not 'coming home' to the policies that lost the Dems the election in 2024.

Thett3 wrote:

“My opponent was raped as a child, isn’t that pathetic? She should’ve been studying at Kumon all day instead”

Such a horrifically bad campaign strategy I can’t believe it’s real life. I have NEVER seen anything like this.

His whole campaign has been a disaster. From saying Americans can't get jobs because they want to have families and lives, acting like foreign strivers built the tech industry instead of just inhabiting it once it was already built (by people who were paid a living wage and enjoyed a healthy work/life balance). And it's not like it's better now - nothing fucking works anymore, and it wasn't an American company that just created a TLS certificate that was just the number '4'. Not being able to lift a small child. His wild crashout after being heckled. He's possibly the worst politician of my lifetime, even worse than Kamala.

Vivek Ramaswamy made an ad that featured a video of Amy Acton's estranged mother shittalking her daughter. Acton is estranged from her birth mother because her mother defended and remained married to Amy's stepfather after he was accused of raping her as a child. As this man was formerly accused and prosecuted for the incest/rape of another daughter from a previous marriage, this was a very credible accusation. It's possibly the most spectacular political self-immolation of my lifetime, and it comes from a candidate who's already squandered a considerable lead through unforced errors and general sliminess.

It reminds me of why the anointment of Kamala Harris was such a bad idea: an open and fair, competitive primary is a test by fire and proves that your candidate can handle the basic tasks of a political campaign and survive under pressure. Combined with Ramaswamy's Christmas Crashout (wherein he impotently seethed at Americans having sleepovers) and other awkward, alienating moments on the campaign trail which have seen his support dwindle even in a Republican stronghold, Vivek is the textbook case of a personally weak candidate who was shoehorned through what should have been an open primary field. It's a cautionary tale to both political parties about the importance of testing your candidates before it's too late.

Why did you tell him your views on Israel lol? At work? And you know your boss is in to the whole ethnic cleansing thing? Just say you're horrified by the 6 billion babies that hamas ran over with steam rollers on October 7th and that you firmly support Bibi personally tearing the spine out of every six year old in Gaza.

Magoroth wrote:

RemyBrown wrote:

Jews speak their own language and had their own kingdom for centuries.

Which prose? Hebrew? Yiddish? Christians and Muslims had their own exclusive proses too (historically).

Ah yes, the unknown CHRISTIAN language hitherto spoken by all Christians!

Hebrew was a dead lamguage until it was ressurected a few decades ago. And back when it was a living kanguage, Christians also spoke it.

I used to be kind of Libertarian, now I think Libertarians should be put in jail and the government should hire homeless schizophrenics to sit outside their cells on a stool and mock/taunt them 24/7.

A political view that I firmly hold is that the debatecraft user linate should NOT be mauled half to death by a pack of rabid pitbulls and then thrown into a vat of vinegar. That would be awful and our politicians should not work to make it happen - in fact, they should work to NOT make it happen if it ever seems at all likely.