American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[dammage79]

That tracks in the N.W.O theory and why he's on a total western hemisphere annexing rant too. Next you'll hear about a new north american unified currency called something like the Amero or some such thing.

[direwolf]

Only one week in and it’s already a complete disaster. And he hasn’t even gotten to the tariff stuff yet. The question is how much more of this insane crap will normal Americans just sit back and take before people inevitably lose their s*** and take to the streets? This is gonna be a wild 4 years.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Only one week in and it’s already a complete disaster. And he hasn’t even gotten to the tariff stuff yet. The question is how much more of this insane crap will normal Americans just sit back and take before people inevitably lose their s*** and take to the streets? This is gonna be a wild 4 years.

Lol! The funny part about this statement is that the people who would 'take to the streets' are the Pro-Trumpers!

The dissenters are in their homes sipping Cognac and thinking "well....I never!" and thusly fainting into their stack of books.

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

You can't talk sense into them. They voted in a orange felon rapist.

The only good thing is if all his policies affect his voters directly but it's prob going to affect more of the people who didn't vote for him.

Surprisingly enough since now it's starting to affect them personally, a few members on r/conservative are very slowly starting to become self-aware of who they voted in. Not everyone mind you, but a few small cracks are showing in some of their threads.

My favorite quote from u/maktesh:

Indeed. I know several people (including a family member) who work at various relief agencies; they aren't even allowed to give out food and blankets (to people who are here legally) with the latest order.

The issue here is that much of this was already promised and in the pipeline. It's one thing to cut off future agreements, but it's another to leave people stranded when they've already been set up to fail.

This is negatively affecting SIVs and legitimate refugees, such as hunted/persecuted Christians.

For example, people can no longer receive the already-allocated funds for things like rental assistance. Agencies have already walked them through signing leases and getting ready to find work, but can no longer help with that. This harms the people renting homes (edit: and landlords, who are often people with a spare home) and is essentially going to heighten the homeless problem. And keep in mind that these refugees have to repay their travel loans. For non-SIVs, they aren't given free gifts. Just an interest-free six-year loan.

I support slowing/stopping immigration until we sort out the issues, but going back on our promises and leaving people in the streets isn't how we make America great again.

Very interesting to see that they spent all last week praising Trump and laughing at Libs, but the literal moment if affected them, it's "whoa hold on a sec!".

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

Very interesting to see that they spent all last week praising Trump and laughing at Libs, but the literal moment if affected them, it's "whoa hold on a sec!".

Thats sort of the thing.

Rhetoric is easy. Life is hard.

Knowing the difference before it bites you in the ass is the key.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

Surprisingly enough since now it's starting to affect them personally, a few members on r/conservative are very slowly starting to become self-aware of who they voted in. Not everyone mind you, but a few small cracks are showing in some of their threads.

My favorite quote from u/maktesh:



Very interesting to see that they spent all last week praising Trump and laughing at Libs, but the literal moment if affected them, it's "whoa hold on a sec!".

r/conservative is an amazing place to browse these days. So much cognitive dissonance. When Trump says something they like they praise him as the greatest. When he says something they don't like, it's "let's wait and see" or "that's not what he meant to say".

[Fuzz]

Presumably the "find out" part starts happening to these "politicians" really soon, once Americans realize they do have a way to fight back against the tyranny of evil, and it involves that little second amendment and a mountain of guns higher then Denali.


Reminder, you can only take so much from people, until they reach the point of losing everything, and then they have nothing left to lose.

[OldSam]

Just a question - what the hell are the Secret Service doing going into schools?

[CroFlames]

The American government had the foresight in 1945 to immediately help Germany after that very country inflicted untold destruction and terror on them and their Allies. Even with their wounds still fresh, America knew it was smart to help their former enemy.

Today, the American government antagonizes their not their enemy but their own allies for what appears to be no reason except their leader's hubris.

What happened to America???

[driveway]

Originally Posted by OldSam

Just a question - what the hell are the Secret Service doing going into schools?

Secret Service investigates the counterfeiting of money. It was almost certainly related to that.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

The American government had the foresight in 1945 to immediately help Germany after that very country inflicted untold destruction and terror on them and their Allies. Even with their wounds still fresh, America knew it was smart to help their former enemy.

Today, the American government antagonizes their not their enemy but their own allies for what appears to be no reason except their leader's hubris.

What happened to America???

It got a really bad haircut, and it's been all downhill from there.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by driveway

Secret Service investigates the counterfeiting of money. It was almost certainly related to that.

Big counterfeit rings operating in elementary schools?

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Big counterfeit rings operating in elementary schools?

Nobody ever thought to check the milk money.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Jesus. "America" just went from a 3rd world kyithole country to a 5th world kyithole country.... So how do these agencies get their funding back? by buying 250 Trump trading cards or bibles?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/polit...ent/index.html

Basically this is part of this:

https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...600fe5622733f0

He's consolidating power in the West Wing. Effectively if anything requires federal funding, Trump is essentially getting the power to choke it off. So it actually doesn't matter what the actual law is, if it takes federal money to enforce or implement or maintian, Trump controls it.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Presumably the "find out" part starts happening to these "politicians" really soon, once Americans realize they do have a way to fight back against the tyranny of evil, and it involves that little second amendment and a mountain of guns higher then Denali.


Reminder, you can only take so much from people, until they reach the point of losing everything, and then they have nothing left to lose.

You mean McKinley

https://abcnews.go.com/US/google-map...y?id=118177262

[SutterBrother]

An American contractor asked me with a straight face what I thought about the United States offering to allow Canada to join.

I told him Canadians were unlikely to be willing to trade free Universal Health Care for school shootings.

(I wanna say I read that here somewhere, so thank you)

He replied that there would be a lot of economic advantages, and then asked if it's true Canadians often have lengthy wait times for things like a MRI.

I told him Canada had one of the highest standards of living in the world, and that our healthcare prioritized the most needed cases. I also pointed out that with "cradle to grave" health coverage, Canadians were less likely to allow medical problems to progress (like Cancer) that would eventually kill Americans who either didn't have coverage, or delayed too long out of financial concerns, thereby leaving their families fatherless and destitute and a burden on their communities.

He listened reasonably, and replied that clearly there were varying economic outcomes. I don't mean to paint him with some MAGA brush. He literally just didn't know much about Canada. I suppose that's the case for most Americans.

[GioforPM]

So far he's:

a. illegally fired Inspectors general;
b. illegally frozen funds already allocated by Congress;
c. fired prosecutors who investigated him
d. started having ICE detaining people and demand papers according to demographic
e. banned trans people from government service and the military
f. removed all military memorabilia regarding racial hisotry (eg Tuskegee airmen)
g. allowed the regular army jurisdiction to arrest immigrants
h. purported to amend the 14th amendment
i. withdrawn from the Paris Treaty
j. issued orders to permitexpropriation of oil lands and drilling in natural preserves.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

An American contractor asked me with a straight face what I thought about the United States offering to allow Canada to join.

I told him Canadians were unlikely to be willing to trade free Universal Health Care for school shootings.

(I wanna say I read that here somewhere, so thank you)

He replied that there would be a lot of economic advantages, and then asked if it's true Canadians often have lengthy wait times for things like a MRI.

I told him Canada had one of the highest standards of living in the world, and that our healthcare prioritized the most needed cases. I also pointed out that with "cradle to grave" health coverage, Canadians were less likely to allow medical problems to progress (like Cancer) that would eventually kill Americans who either didn't have coverage, or delayed too long out of financial concerns, thereby leaving their families fatherless and destitute and a burden on their communities.

He listened reasonably, and replied that clearly there were varying economic outcomes. I don't mean to paint him with some MAGA brush. He literally just didn't know much about Canada. I suppose that's the case for most Americans.

Wait times for things are vastly overstated, and MRIs here are just like there - if you can afford it you can go right away. But if you can't, you at least getr one here. There you don't.

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

So far he's:

a. illegally fired Inspectors general;
b. illegally frozen funds already allocated by Congress;
c. fired prosecutors who investigated him
d. started having ICE detaining people and demand papers according to demographic
e. banned trans people from government service and the military
f. removed all military memorabilia regarding racial hisotry (eg Tuskegee airmen)
g. allowed the regular army jurisdiction to arrest immigrants
h. purported to amend the 14th amendment
i. withdrawn from the Paris Treaty
j. issued orders to permitexpropriation of oil lands and drilling in natural preserves.

You didn't mention Greenland. Or Canada. Or Columbia. Or that for federal disaster aid, blue states need to pass voter ID laws.

I read an article today that this is "the flood plan". MAGA floods the system with all these orders, and there isn't enough attention our outrage or resistance to push back against everything.

Seems to be working.

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

So far he's:

a. illegally fired Inspectors general;
b. illegally frozen funds already allocated by Congress;
c. fired prosecutors who investigated him
d. started having ICE detaining people and demand papers according to demographic
e. banned trans people from government service and the military
f. removed all military memorabilia regarding racial hisotry (eg Tuskegee airmen)
g. allowed the regular army jurisdiction to arrest immigrants
h. purported to amend the 14th amendment
i. withdrawn from the Paris Treaty
j. issued orders to permitexpropriation of oil lands and drilling in natural preserves.

Things democrats have done in response:

Schedule an "emergency" virtual caucus meeting. For tomorrow. #resist