American Government Thread 2: RIP John McCain, 81

Which SRK members are on these bridges?

Starhammer hasn’t posted in a while. Do you see any black dudes in those pics?

Also… LULFOX

And JK OS… Fucken retard.

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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/974830245051273216

So yes on that then? No worries, in the span of time that it took Trump to get 1 trillion in debt, Obama more than doubled that. 2 trillion in 11 months. But kept on citing “but shit was bad so its okay to bankrupt the country”.

Considering that most of Trumps spending is still on left leaning entitlement spending why do you care? Trump has made no meaningful cuts to entitlement spending.

However due to his cuts an estimated 2 million less people are on food stamps. So that is helping to curb that spending.

But hey no worries, when Oprah wins the 2020 election she’ll raise taxes on everyone.

Just remember these maxims comrades, “Trump is always right” and “I will work harder”.

Buuuut he didn’t bankrupt the country nor was it intended to. Not sure of your point. The point was to bump us out of the recession that he inherited through the surprisingly consistently shitty Republican economic policies. You spend your way out of the badness, and then you refill the coffers, not permanently cut taxes on the rich, when things are going well. I used “permanently” there because the tax bill is meant to trick the dumb by giving them temporary minor benefits while fucking you long term. Much like the oh so generous corporations giving you temporary one-time bonuses as they get permanently richer.

Trump has made no meaningful cuts to entitlement spending yet.
I’m unclear as to why I would think that his spending on “left leaning” entitlement programs is relevant. It turns out that in most political systems you use tax revenue to fund programs. You can just skip collecting revenue and still fund programs, but that seems inane.

I’m unclear why cutting food stamp spending is good. In theory you want to provide people enough baseline that they can work themselves into better positions and better society. Maybe you don’t like it: awesome. Seems insignificant compared to military spending.

Hey no worries, Trump set everything up to raise your taxes in 2028 already. Seems like the trend right now is for Republicans to wreck things by cutting tax revenue (“starve the beast” inanity) and Democrats to try to get the economy back on track by raising taxes. It’s got to be sweet being the irresponsible party giving everybody all the presents and tax cuts that you can’t afford and will in fact have to pay back later.

You should read up on economic policy. Obama definitely didn’t get it all right, but he did some pretty critically positive things. If you’re even thinking about the “first 11 months” as a bad thing, I’m flabbergasted. :lollipop:

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sure, why not? it’s not like trump values professional knowledge, expertise or self-edification. he’s more influenced by the enormous amount of time he spends watching cable news than policy advisors. besides, the WH is like a reality show. why not have a mass firing and staff it with cable tv pundits who can flip flop than you can say,“4d chess”.
https://twitter.com/larry_kudlow/status/943328009687314432
https://twitter.com/larry_kudlow/status/948390527266951169

mueller might be gone as soon as trump fires jeff “mr. magoo” sessions. trump will replace him with jeanine pirro.

no. cut taxes, lose money. the cbo projected a loss in revenue back in january. the only people who believe you can offset the revenue loss via growth from tax cuts are supply siders.

trumponomics in a nutshell. trump throws pennies around like manhole covers to his stans and they’re confused that everyone else isn’t cheering his generosity for the little guy. lol…be more interested in fighting culture wars than poor tax policy resulting in crumbs from the table, brehs.

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/959864342417170432
https://twitter.com/nottongtied/status/968951154813136897
https://twitter.com/beth4158/status/970304016507949057

speaking of #PA18. did anyone see the GOP pour gasoline over 10 million dollars and light it on fire in the pennsylvania house special election over a district that won’t be there in november?

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/973750707336679424

fyi, R+11 means a generic Republican has an inherent 11-point advantage over a generic Democrat in any election.

lol…i get the feeling that everybody might end up catching strays as soon as pertho does figure it out.

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No, it’s not fake. It’s just what happens when guys who have grown up with silver spoons in their mouths and have never NOT known what it’s like to have money get to write checks their asses can’t cash.

The only thing worse than tax-and-spend liberalism is borrow-and-spend “conservatism.”

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Every president since Reagan is guilty of screwing America. It’s not a left/right issue, the baby boomers are to blame.

The boomers, according to Gibney, have committed “generational plunder,” pillaging the nation’s economy, repeatedly cutting their own taxes, financing two wars with deficits, ignoring climate change, presiding over the death of America’s manufacturing core, and leaving future generations to clean up the mess they created.

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Great article. Baby boomers and their collective “fuck you, I’ve got mine” mentality have been one of the single most destructive things to happen to the US. Their parents gave them the keys to the kingdom and what did they do? Make sure anyone coming after them was screwed from the get go because their disasterous policies and inability to admit they might be wrong about something are the hallmarks of their generation.

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Its ok bois… Few more years and they are gonna start dropping like flies, then the world can move forward.

This presidency is definitely the boomers swan song. Last grasp at fucking up the world.

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Lmfao at Trump throwing another temper tantrum on Twitter over the weekend.

pretty sure theoqing a twmper tantrum on tqitter is Trunps morning rutine.

pedoviejo, give RSG his account back.

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lol yea deffinitly need to turn the predictive dictionary on my phone back on.

hahahahahahaha :joy:

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Probably don’t want to watch this on a flammable monitor, because this seems like straight fire:

Huh. The US portion is being aired tomorrow.

Shocker. :poop::poop::poop::poop:

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The debt is pretty bipartisan if you ask me.

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