The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?

[majestic]

2 hours ago, ShadySands said:

Trump has been costing me money since his first term. This is due to changes on itemized deductions for taxes.

Tired of winning all the time yet?

[Malcador]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-palestinians-canada-d5613417c217374352305564c6a96842

Trump sure has some issue with Canada.

[Zoraptor]

Probably worried Canada will burn down the White House again.

Though on reflection that seems unlikely. Given Trump thought the US Revolution involved airfields his knowledge of history is suspect. Maybe he watched some South Park to see what all the fuss is aboot?

 

[rjshae]

3 hours ago, Malcador said:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-palestinians-canada-d5613417c217374352305564c6a96842

Trump sure has some issue with Canada.

Canada is the largest exporter of energy goods to the USA, and that is the sole cause of the trade deficit between the two nations. DJT seems to view trade as a zero-sum game, so he's looking to zero out our trade deficit with Canada. Well just stop importing oil from Canada then. Sure, sure, the price at the pump will go way up.

[uuuhhii]

if white house burn down again it can be rebuild as overpriced gold house instead

pretty sure current administration of usa would love that

[Malcador]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/addressing-threats-to-the-us/

"Recent policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Brazil threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.  Members of the Government of Brazil have taken actions that interfere with the economy of the United States, infringe the free expression rights of United States persons, violate human rights, and undermine the interest the United States has in protecting its citizens and companies.  Members of the Government of Brazil are also politically persecuting a former President of Brazil, which is contributing to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Brazil, to politically motivated intimidation in that country, and to human rights abuses.

 

 

[Malcador]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-01/epstein-files-trump-s-name-was-redacted-by-the-fbi

How could Obama have done this

[rjshae]

I present to you, the very first meeting of this administration's economic team:

Et voilà, the plan for world-crushing tariffs is born.

[rjshae]

Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the type of action only a rather stupid person would take?

"Speak not into the ears of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of your words.”

[uuuhhii]

obviously the orange are stupid

not news for anyone have vague memory of last decade

bigger problem is the new tariff on dozen nation

it is only a matter of time all the nation thought they are safe after bribe usa with hundred billion investment get new tariff on them too

what happen after that

[uuuhhii]

eu and australia are putting age verification on everything

all the nsfw site and search engine

rejoice

cyberpunk without any fancy cybernetic are here

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Here in Texas we beat them to it. I guess you can always become a temporary resident of Canada for the time being.

[melkathi]

wrong thread

Edited Saturday at 07:40 PM by melkathi

[Chairchucker]

On 8/2/2025 at 1:35 PM, uuuhhii said:

eu and australia are putting age verification on everything

all the nsfw site and search engine

rejoice

cyberpunk without any fancy cybernetic are here

I remain sceptical as to how well that will work. I kinda sorta agree with the premise, which is that children are being damaged by the internet, I'm just not sure how well this policy will actually work to fix that.

[uuuhhii]

7 minutes ago, Chairchucker said:

I remain sceptical as to how well that will work. I kinda sorta agree with the premise, which is that children are being damaged by the internet, I'm just not sure how well this policy will actually work to fix that.

 

child are being damaged by radio and tv too

also dnd

far less than they are damaged by their parent most of the time

people actually care would not use such nonsense excuse

[HoonDing]

birds of a feather

[rjshae]

At one time there was a hope that states might start to move past Gerrymandering, but then Trump won.

Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts at Trump’s urging, but there’s a risk

On DJT's behest, the Pubs are trying to gerrymander Texas to gain 5 seats in the House. What do the Dems do in response?

How California draws congressional districts, and why it might change in a proxy war with Trump

Texas has 38 seats, of which 13 or so are Democrat

California has 52 seats, of which 9 are Republican.

[Chairchucker]

On 8/3/2025 at 3:57 PM, uuuhhii said:

 

child are being damaged by radio and tv too

also dnd

far less than they are damaged by their parent most of the time

people actually care would not use such nonsense excuse

...D&D? What?

 

And plenty of things are age restricted. Cigarettes. Alcohol. Back when people still cared about DVDs or whatever, those were too, so nice job on using an example of something that is very much age restricted. The idea of restricting access to certain harmful things based on age (or completely, see also the legal status of many drugs) is not a new one.

[ShadySands]

Are we back at Satanic panic again?

[uuuhhii]

obsession without reason

sadly still a great problem in information age

[Bartimaeus]

@Hurlshort, what post of mine did you like three hours ago and why is it now in one of Trump's extralegal gulags where I'm not allowed to visit it

[Hurlshort]

2 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

@Hurlshort, what post of mine did you like three hours ago and why is it now in one of Trump's extralegal gulags where I'm not allowed to visit it

Huh weird. I don't think I liked any of your posts in weeks.  

[majestic]

Ah, that's the fun little bug where a notification tells you about a like in a thread moved to the moderator forum for moderation. Had that one too, after I replied to a SonicComradYellowMage117 post. God told off for trying to "evade" the word filter by "accidentially" misspelling a common colloquial term for fornication. 

Edit: Kinda bizarre, that was over five years ago.

Edited 10 hours ago by majestic

[Zoraptor]

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Not sure there's anything geopolitically funnier than the current US v India stoush. All that work at bromancing Modi and all those poor photons and elctrons working overtime about how Russia was losing India and it's back to 1971 because Trump has the mentality of a 7 year old*. If it's hard work isolating China without Russia it's absolutely impossible without India as well, let alone if you manage to drive an actual rapprochement. It's also the fundamental problem with buddying up to strongman populists- they know their popularity relies on Nationalism and appearing strong, so they cannot be seen to back down from public threats. Doubly so when it's a country that has been a colony within (just) living memory.

It's not even like there's a major pro US party other than the BJP in India.

*It'd be interesting to know if the views of those in the EU who thought they rolled over for Trump on the tariffs would change if that was the cost for imposing secondary sanctions on those trading with Russia**. Because that would be an alternative reading besides Trump hating BRICS and not being given his tendies diet coke and well done steak on a silver platter with sufficient subservience.

**Excepting, of course, the EU's trade with Russia. It really is a mystery why the rest of the world think the west are a bunch of hypocrites.

[uuuhhii]

it is so funny usa still didn't figure out they can not cater to both india and pakistan at the same time

after decades of trying