US Politics Thread 2021-24

[Otto Harkaman]

Originally Posted by Dargo

A hack is an elegant way to solve a problem,

A "hack writer" is a pejorative term for a writer who produces low-quality, rushed work, often for money. They are known for prioritizing quantity over quality and are often hired to write specific genres like pulp fiction or to express political opinions for clients. The term implies a lack of skill or originality, suggesting that the writer is merely fulfilling a job requirement without artistic merit.

[Gorpet]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Sure, but it all depends on the tools else the demolition cost more to repair than it ever will balance.

Oh, damn how so ?

Originally Posted by Skybird

You're a gifted man, you know that?! Carry on with these, and in a year you have enough material to publish them all on a collector's book edition...

Well, Was his interpretation right ?

Originally Posted by Dargo

You will still get your ich habe nichts gewusst moment if not karma is a biaach.

Can, Oh Drago give it to us in English?

Originally Posted by Dargo

The fuel for that strategy is emotion, not a coherent ideological conviction. Ultranationalism and a sacred belief in ‘the right of the strongest’ are always part of it, but apart from that, it has no unified narrative. Trump just needs to be a story ‘teller’. His words matter, in the sense that they should provoke anger. But what he tells, and whether what he says is true, is less relevant. He simply has to touch a nerve and know how to hold it.A people that elect corrupt politicians, whiners, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims but accomplices!

Isn't that what the Democrat party and their Leader, Joe Biden has done for the last 4 years. And you know what Drago , It's obvious that you are a person that has an Ideology that is on the boundaries of Mental Derangement of the mind . A product of Harvard or some Virginia based think tank. Any way, you just had to expose yourself. Now we know. Drago And some how this you tube got put in my reply LOL
where is the original montage i replied to ? Oh damn Democracy , A calling for transparency , Look somewhere else not here.

Originally Posted by Dargo

The fuel for that strategy is emotion, not a coherent ideological conviction. Ultranationalism and a sacred belief in ‘the right of the strongest’ are always part of it, but apart from that, it has no unified narrative. Trump just needs to be a story ‘teller’. His words matter, in the sense that they should provoke anger. But what he tells, and whether what he says is true, is less relevant. He simply has to touch a nerve and know how to hold it.A people that elect corrupt politicians, whiners, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims but accomplices!

Isn't that what the Democrat party and their Leader, Joe Biden has done for the last 4 years. And you know what Drago , It's obvious that you are a person that has an Ideology that is on the boundaries of Mental Derangement of the mind . A product of Harvard or some Virginia based think tank. Any way, you just had to expose yourself. Now we know. Drago

[QUOTE=Otto Harkaman;2957925]A "hack writer" is a pejorative term for a writer who produces low-quality, rushed work, often for money. They are known for prioritizing quantity over quality and are often hired to write specific genres like pulp fiction or to express political opinions for clients. The term implies a lack of skill or originality, suggesting that the writer is merely fulfilling a job requirement without artistic merit.

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Originally Posted by Dargo

Trumpism is built on the foundations of slavery and the racist Jim Crow laws that in the early twentieth century deprived the fundamental rights of black American citizens (this racial segregation incidentally inspired Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, which underpinned were behind the Holocaust). Black Americans, along with the indigenous people, Latinos and Muslims, will therefore be the first to recall that for centuries the United States has revolved around a politics of exclusion and violence. Trumpism is built from the socio-economic ruins of ‘The American Dream’, in which poverty is seen as personal failure and individual success comes at the expense of others. It is formed from rule-of-law debris of the ‘war on terror’ brought to life by the algorithms of tech oligarchs like Elon Musk (Who, by the way, now has all the data of every American. Which he will make billions from. The big steal?), who have fed the public sphere in bite-sized morsels to trolls and conspiracy thinkers.

Trumpism could grow because of a toxic cocktail of existential threats, such as planetary depletion, the climate crisis, the corona pandemic and a technological revolution that may make humans obsolete. The earth's very richest, who are ‘prepping’ for what they see as an inevitable apocalypse and therefore want to get rid of the democratic state regulation, brought Trumpism to fruition by pouring into it the money needed to capture the White House. These deep American roots give Trumpism an exceptionally solid social base, and that is something that neither Hitler nor Mussolini could initially count on.

Is your Suntu flag a cry I need help ? I don't know why you want to call Americans Trumpism and go on a rant about things that happened a hundred years ago. Reading your post, you seem to live in a world that's ..Questionable and every thing you say is a product of some teaching of your past. So why don't you tell us about you? And how you got here to tell us about Donald Trump.... Will Skybird come to your paintes.

[mapuc]

What kind of America will the American wake up to, after Trumps exit from the White House ?

Markus

[Reece]

America will be great again!!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mapuc

What kind of America will the American wake up to, after Trumps exit from the White House ?

Markus

Like any other president exiting the WH, we hope for a prosperous America.

[August]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Like any other president exiting the WH, we hope for a prosperous America.

You and I know that but the foreigners here, influenced by their US hostile press, cultural animosities and a few nutty, mostly German rabble rousing Trump haters right here in this thread think (or hope) the USofA will splinter and collapse, or worse.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by August

You and I know that but the foreigners here, influenced by their US hostile press, cultural animosities and a few nutty, mostly German rabble rousing Trump haters right here in this thread think (or hope) the USofA will splinter and collapse, or worse.

Yes, some are biting at the bit to see the USA falter. It will not happen in our lifetime.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by August

You and I know that but the foreigners here, influenced by their US hostile press, cultural animosities and a few nutty, mostly German rabble rousing Trump haters right here in this thread think (or hope) the USofA will splinter and collapse, or worse.

I do NOT hate Trump or USA and I don't want to see it collapsing

AVGWarhawk is right when he wrote "Like any other president exiting the WH, we hope for a prosperous America."

It was merely a thought based on all the negative news I get from our news channels.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The foreigners, cultural animosities and a few nutty, mostly German rabble rousing

Are not words that are conducive to keeping a thread with so much historical vitriol open.

[Otto Harkaman]

Oh dear, what a tempest in teacups we brew,
With Teutonic tirades and rabble-roused stew.
Cultural frictions and ancient lament,
Dragged back from the past like a moldy old tent.

Foreigners flung in a sentence so wide,
One wonders what century’s stuck in your stride.
Vitriol's vintage, uncorked with a clatter—
But history, my friend, is a much messier matter.

The Germans, you say, with their nutty old flair,
(Though Wagner and Nietzsche might raise an eyebrow there).
Are we tossing out nuance like week-old bratwurst,
To spice up the thread with a populist burst?

Let’s not banter with blunder or plunge into spite,
Or cast every thread into polemic night.
For forums and follies are best when they dance,
Not stomp through the past in a paranoid trance.

So lighten thy tone and holster thy rage—
Let’s pen witty posts, not a new warlike page.

[August]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Are not words that are conducive to keeping a thread with so much historical vitriol open.

Well maybe not but they are true.

[Jeff-Groves]

Would not break my heart to see this HATE thread with so much historical vitriol go POOF!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Otto Harkaman

Let’s pen witty posts, not a new warlike page.

methinks yer iambic lacks pantameter

[Otto Harkaman]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

methinks yer iambic lacks pantameter

loose verse

Saying a poem is "iambic but lacks pentameter" means it's using the rhythmic building blocks of traditional English verse (iambs) without the full structure (five per line), and that very much fits with what loose verse often does: borrow tradition while breaking its rules.

[Buddahaid]

A Federal Court has just declared Trump's tariff war unconstitutional and has summarily vacated and permanently enjoined their operation.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...17080.55.0.pdf

"CONCLUSION
The court holds for the foregoing reasons that IEEPA does not authorize any of the Worldwide, Retaliatory, or Trafficking Tariff Orders. The Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs. The Trafficking Tariffs fail because they do not deal with the threats set forth in those
orders. This conclusion entitles Plaintiffs to judgment as a matter of law; as the court further finds no genuine dispute as to any material fact, summary judgment will enter against the United States. See USCIT R. 56. The challenged Tariff Orders will be vacated and their operation permanently
enjoined. There is no question here of narrowly tailored relief; if the challenged Tariff Orders are unlawful as to Plaintiffs they are unlawful as to all. “[A]ll Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States,” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 1, and “[t]he tax is uniform when
it operates with the same force and effect in every place where the subject of it is found.” Head Money Cases, 112 U.S. 580, 594 (1884); see also Siemens Am., Inc. v. United States, 692 F.2d 1382, 1383 (Fed. Cir. 1982); Nat’l Corn Growers Ass’n v. Baker, 10 CIT 517, 521, 643 F. Supp. 626, 630–31 (1986) (noting “the statutory and constitutional mandate of uniformity in the
interpretation of the international trade laws”). Plaintiffs’ Motions for Summary Judgment are granted, and their Motions for Preliminary
Injunction are denied as moot. Judgment will enter accordingly.

Dated: May 28, 2025
New York, New York
By the panel."