The US Politics/Elections Thread 2.0

[luciusfunk]

12 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

Trump hasn't indicated that he will remove women's right to birth control.

He has repealed a law that granted women a federal right to abortion, resulting in individual states deciding for themselves what the laws should be, some of them making abortion illegal. Whether he intends to outlaw abortion remains to be seen, he has been very vague on the whole "pro-life" question. Personally, I don't think he will unless the majority of people were with him. He doesn't have any ideology except populism. He probably couldn't care less one way or the other in re: to women's rights, he only cares about himself.

Trump didn't repeal Roe v Wade. It was a decision made by the Supreme Court to send it back to the states to make the decision.

[evilfacelessturtle]

20 hours ago, bumcheecksmcghee said:

Hey mate

 

 

Trump won

🤣

🎣

Let us all know when you've accepted it an stopped having a sooky lol x

 

Hey mate

 

 

Biden won in 2020

 

It's been 4 years, so let us all know when you've accepted it an stopped having a sooky lol x

 

 🤣  🤣  🤣  🤣

🎣 🎣 🎣 🎣

Edited November 14 by evilfacelessturtle

[evilfacelessturtle]

14 hours ago, Rindmelon said:

I believe 'emergency contraception' would mean the pill. If i'm reading this right it wouldn't be a blanket ban but it would be harder to get.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/trump-birth-control-contraception-00159555

“Project 2025” blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.

Taken together, the policies highlight the many ways a second Trump administration could hamper access to contraception, short of a blanket ban. The impact would also be much greater now that roughly one-third of states prohibit nearly all abortions.

“I’ve been very concerned with just the emphasis on expanding more and more contraception,” said Emma Waters, a senior research associate at The Heritage Foundation, which spearheaded the blueprint.

Waters criticized the Biden administration for promoting “an absolute right to contraception” and said she sees the proposed policies not as “restrictions,” but rather “medical safeguards” for women.

"The party of free markets, small government and individual liberty", folks!

8 hours ago, Graeme said:

Ah yes, the "grab 'em by the pussy" guy. A true champion of women's rights. Not to mention the fact established by a court of law that he sexually assaulted at least one woman.

Hey now, they suddenly started believing in Feminism overnight when they realized they could use it to attack trans women. But only in that case, otherwise FeMiNaZiS!!!!! And also how dare the left call us nazis!

[bumcheecksmcghee]

2 hours ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

Hey mate

 

 

Biden won in 2020

 

It's been 4 years, so let us all know when you've accepted it an stopped having a sooky lol x

 

 🤣  🤣  🤣  🤣

🎣 🎣 🎣 🎣

Lol yea and???

Never said he didn't... and as I've said I'm not from America haha.. so I don't care about 2020 or 2024, just pointing out TRUMP WON this one 🤣🤘

Just ripping you cos you STILL are having a little cry... like a girl you are.. and you keep replying and I love it... like the right, I'm in your head, and it's so good HAHAHAHA

So please come at me, unless your adult enough to admit the result, cos we all laughing at you, and your mates on "the view" 🤦🤪😄

Bye sook x

MAGA 2024 

🎣🫡

[SoulMonster]

Even by my standards of bickering and arguing, this is too much.

[luciusfunk]

18 hours ago, Rindmelon said:

I believe 'emergency contraception' would mean the pill. If i'm reading this right it wouldn't be a blanket ban but it would be harder to get.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/trump-birth-control-contraception-00159555

“Project 2025” blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.

Taken together, the policies highlight the many ways a second Trump administration could hamper access to contraception, short of a blanket ban. The impact would also be much greater now that roughly one-third of states prohibit nearly all abortions.

“I’ve been very concerned with just the emphasis on expanding more and more contraception,” said Emma Waters, a senior research associate at The Heritage Foundation, which spearheaded the blueprint.

Waters criticized the Biden administration for promoting “an absolute right to contraception” and said she sees the proposed policies not as “restrictions,” but rather “medical safeguards” for women.

Project 2025 isn't even Trump's agenda.

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

Some of the people Trump is picking for his cabinet has gotten me worried.

I honestly think he's out to destroy our government.

These four years will be terrible and possibly beyond, since Trump has said he might not leave at the end of the four years.

Sounds like some other dictators from the past and now.

[evilfacelessturtle]

14 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

Even by my standards of bickering and arguing, this is too much.

I wonder if she'll ever realize that this whole time I've been mocking how childish her comments are.

And to think it apparently started because she thinks I denied Trump's win, even though I never said anything remotely close to that? It's really sad.

13 hours ago, luciusfunk said:

Project 2025 isn't even Trump's agenda.

It was written by the Heritage Foundation, who picked all of Trump's judges for his last administration, and 140 of the people who worked on it were literally part of his administration.

And Matt Walsh (among others) just admitted it was always the plan, because now that the election is over they don't have to lie anymore:

Why is everything the right says so easily disproven?

[bumcheecksmcghee]

51 minutes ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

I wonder if she'll ever realize that this whole time I've been mocking how childish her comments are.

And to think it apparently started because she thinks I denied Trump's win, even though I never said anything remotely close to that? It's really sad.

It was written by the Heritage Foundation, who picked all of Trump's judges for his last administration, and 140 of the people who worked on it were literally part of his administration.

And Matt Walsh (among others) just admitted it was always the plan, because now that the election is over they don't have to lie anymore:

Why is everything the right says so easily disproven?

Lol Still in denial... let it go. 

You're a loser like ya girl kamala...

And yes you did start it by crying foul over the usa election, but got the sooks on when challenged. Be the bigger person an just put me on mute since you live in a bubble and have to keep replying.. 🤣

You just proved it by Still clogging up the feed in useless opinions not facts from people or sources.. 

I can tell your one of those European they/thems, probably university student, blue shaved hair, nose ring etc... 

So I'll leave you be as you have proved here you are a sore loser, unhinged, unable to form proper facts or sentences and in general just a fxkwit that the people of the forum are laughing at an sick of, with your baseless replies an just not scrolling on.

Better luck in 2028, farewell my lefty loony 🙋

[WhazUp]

21 hours ago, bumcheecksmcghee said:

Lol yea and???

Never said he didn't... and as I've said I'm not from America haha.. so I don't care about 2020 or 2024, just pointing out TRUMP WON this one 🤣🤘

Just ripping you cos you STILL are having a little cry... like a girl you are.. and you keep replying and I love it... like the right, I'm in your head, and it's so good HAHAHAHA

So please come at me, unless your adult enough to admit the result, cos we all laughing at you, and your mates on "the view" 🤦🤪😄

Bye sook x

MAGA 2024 

🎣🫡

If you are this spirited about a country you aren't even involved in, what types of posts do you make when the topic is about your actual country?

 

Even Axl Rose, in the middle of typing his rant to Madison here, would be telling whoever authored that post to take it down a notch and chillax lol

Edited November 15 by WhazUp

[bumcheecksmcghee]

5 hours ago, WhazUp said:

If you are this spirited about a country you aren't even involved in, what types of posts do you make when the topic is about your actual country?

 

Even Axl Rose, in the middle of typing his rant to Madison here, would be telling whoever authored that post to take it down a notch and chillax lol

Haha i never would reach uncle axl status... team Brazil would be going banana's in the social media team, maybe a free dr pepper as a gesture of goodwill 🤷🥲

But I appreciate your feedback, and as said above, I'm done with this clown an they/them are free to their rants to cyberspace as the winner is the big orange man of doom, fact  🙂

[evilfacelessturtle]

[ZoSoRose]

When will the Better video come out? Soon is the word

[evilfacelessturtle]

So much for "picking the most qualified candidate based on merit"... Trump picks multiple people with zero experience in the respective field he's chosen them for. Kristi Noem hasn’t worked in Homeland Security and does not even have a law-enforcement background. Doug Bergam has zero experience with energy production. Lee Zeldin has zero experience in environmental science. Matt Gaetz only practiced law for two years but he's ready to be the Attorney General? Pete Hegseth has no experience running anything larger than a small nonprofit.

What is the one thing these people did have to offer? Loyalty to Trump. That's how criminals choose associates, not presidents.

How do all the "no new wars" parrots feel about his new warmongering neocon cabinet?

[luciusfunk]

1 hour ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

So much for "picking the most qualified candidate based on merit"... Trump picks multiple people with zero experience in the respective field he's chosen them for. Kristi Noem hasn’t worked in Homeland Security and does not even have a law-enforcement background. Doug Bergam has zero experience with energy production. Lee Zeldin has zero experience in environmental science. Matt Gaetz only practiced law for two years but he's ready to be the Attorney General? Pete Hegseth has no experience running anything larger than a small nonprofit.

What is the one thing these people did have to offer? Loyalty to Trump. That's how criminals choose associates, not presidents.

How do all the "no new wars" parrots feel about his new warmongering neocon cabinet?

Edited November 17 by luciusfunk

[janrichmond]

10 hours ago, luciusfunk said:

What's this??

[evilfacelessturtle]

10 hours ago, luciusfunk said:

Case in point: you are everything you accuse the left of being. You don't care about meritocracy, you just use it as an excuse to attack minority hires.

Levine has a ton of experience in the field, she was an admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Dept of Health. She is ten times more qualified than any of Trump's appointees, but you still call her a "diversity hire" because you don't actually care about merit at all, you just want to attack your political scapegoat.

Edited November 17 by evilfacelessturtle

[janrichmond]

Men in drag

 

[evilfacelessturtle]

Trump's new AG pick Gaetz wants to defund the police. Where is the outrage from "back the blue"?

"we either get this government back on our side or we defund, get rid of, abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF" - Matt Gaetz

Now why would a child trafficker want to abolish the FBI? Hmm...

[luciusfunk]

3 hours ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

Trump's new AG pick Gaetz wants to defund the police. Where is the outrage from "back the blue"?

"we either get this government back on our side or we defund, get rid of, abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF" - Matt Gaetz

Now why would a child trafficker want to abolish the FBI? Hmm...

FBI is not police…

[luciusfunk]

You laugh, but I’m right. 

[Sweersa]

14 hours ago, luciusfunk said:

FBI is not police…

FBI is federal law enforcement. As is ATF, HSI, etc. (the latter of the two I'm quite familiar with), So while "police" doesn't describe federal special agents the best, it is suitable in a general sense to describe them as a whole. Of course, all federal agencies have many, many people working under them who are not law enforcement, such as support roles (forensics, IT, accounting, administration, etc.) so if that was your angle, I understand that.

Edited November 18 by Sweersa

[luciusfunk]

But abolishing the FBI and ATF is not the same as “defund the police.”

[Sweersa]

2 hours ago, luciusfunk said:

But abolishing the FBI and ATF is not the same as “defund the police.”

Correct, in fact, with the feds or as I like to say, the "alphabet soup agencies", there's far too many of them and a lot of cross over. HSI (Homeland Security), the FBI, and ATF do a lot of the same thing. Sometimes, there can even be infighting and conflicts with CIs, etc. 

At the very least, some consolidation and efficiency audits should be in order. 

To lighten the burden on our government on enforcing federal firearms laws, they should repeal the 1986 FOPA, the 1968 Gun Control Act, and the 1934 National Firearms act.  

[SoulMonster]

One of the problems with US democracy is the distance between voters and politicians. Politicians are an elite that can't be trusted. What do people who think this, and voted for Trump, now that he hands out positions in government to whoever donated money to him rather than based on merit? The mesage is, if you have money and are loyal, then you get to steer this country. Where's the democracy? "Drain the swamp"? Hilarious.