American Politics

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3022343]POTUS needs to take care of the interests of the ENTIRE Dis-United States of America. POTUS should be a uniter not a divider. A POTUS does not have the luxury of propagating the hate that I see displayed by those on the [U]FAR RIGHT[/U] posting in this thread.

I don't hate Trump! Trump hates me. Because I don't look like him (the people he likes) and I am not rich.

Tax Wealth not Work![/QUOTE]Inflation and lost jobs for Americans, from Trump taxes. Next time, shoot better than his big ears and don t elect Vance.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3022453]The Pelosi for years of Insider Trading, and Scumbag Bubba and his ugly husband in the next cell for years of Foreign Money Laundering.

[URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shocking-new-documents-expose-multi-front-effort-protect-clintons-while-framing-trump[/URL]

A real shame Scumbag Joe handed out all those pardons but none for these Scumbags. LMFAO.[/QUOTE]Is there any evidence anywhere that Pelosi engaged in "insider trading"? When and where was that?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3022343]POTUS needs to take care of the interests of the ENTIRE Dis-United States of America. POTUS should be a uniter not a divider. A POTUS does not have the luxury of propagating the hate that I see displayed by those on the [U]FAR RIGHT[/U] posting in this thread.

I don't hate Trump! Trump hates me. Because I don't look like him (the people he likes) and I am not rich.

Tax Wealth not Work![/QUOTE]Hope you are doing well these days SubCmdr and have the hoes flowing in Thailand. I must speak my opinion here. I get what what your saying about Trump's policies not support minorities and and low income individuals.

What policies in particular are you angry about?

I work in inner city and I am thrilled he's cracking down on crime. OMG when you have to work there everyday, it takes a very real toll on you. I have been reading the left wing media saying he's targeting black communities by cracking down on crime, but I can tell you the city where I live- Philadelphia- really needs something done. I call them pyscho bums. The pyscho bum population is just out of control. I went to get pizza late at night right before I left for my travels and there was a 300 lb dude in his underwear sweating like a pig just chillin on the street talking to himself like it was nothing, no cops bothering him or anything LOL. Shit like that bothers me, BTW he was white, not that it matters. For context I saw many homeless in Rio sleeping on the street, but none of them were Pyscho Bums that made me feel like I needed to keep an eye out for them. My point is, this poilcy people are complaining about in my opinion is a very good thing for all people and needs to be done. Dangerous homeless or mentally ill people who pose a threat need to get the help they need and be taken off the street. Especially away from people just trying to live and work in the city. They shouldn't have to deal with that every day.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3022540]Hope you are doing well these days SubCmdr and have the hoes flowing in Thailand. I must speak my opinion here. I get what what your saying about Trump's policies not support minorities and and low income individuals.

What policies in particular are you angry about?

I work in inner city and I am thrilled he's cracking down on crime. OMG when you have to work there everyday, it takes a very real toll on you. I have been reading the left wing media saying he's targeting black communities by cracking down on crime, but I can tell you the city where I live- Philadelphia- really needs something done. I call them pyscho bums. The pyscho bum population is just out of control. I went to get pizza late at night right before I left for my travels and there was a 300 lb dude in his underwear sweating like a pig just chillin on the street talking to himself like it was nothing, no cops bothering him or anything LOL. Shit like that bothers me, BTW he was white, not that it matters. For context I saw many homeless in Rio sleeping on the street, but none of them were Pyscho Bums that made me feel like I needed to keep an eye out for them. My point is, this poilcy people are complaining about in my opinion is a very good thing for all people and needs to be done. Dangerous homeless or mentally ill people who pose a threat need to get the help they need and be taken off the street. Especially away from people just trying to live and work in the city. They shouldn't have to deal with that every day.[/QUOTE][B]Ronald Reagans shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness.
As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations.[/B]

[URL]https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/[/URL]

[QUOTE]One month prior to the election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act, which had proposed to continue the federal community mental health centers program, although with some additional state involvement. Consistent with the report of the Carter Commission, the act also included a provision for federal grants for projects for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health, an indication of how little learning had taken place among the Carter Commission members and professionals at NIMH. With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states. The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naivet complicated by grandiosity.
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California was the first state to witness not only an increase in homelessness associated with deinstitutionalization but also an increase in incarceration and episodes of violence. In 1972 Marc Abramson, another young psychiatrist working for San Mateo County, published a landmark paper entitled The Criminalization of Mentally Disordered Behavior. Abramson claimed that because the new LPS statute made it difficult to get patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital, police regard arrest and booking into jail as a more reliable way of securing involuntary detention of mentally disordered persons. Abramson quoted a California prison psychiatrist who claimed to be literally drowning in patients. . . . Many more men are being sent to prison who have serious mental problems. Abramsons paper was the first clear description of the increase of mentally ill persons in jails and prisons, an increase that would grow markedly in subsequent years.
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Of all the omens of deinstitutionalizations failure on exhibit in 1970s California, the most frightening were homicides and other episodes of violence committed by mentally ill individuals who were not being treated.[/QUOTE]Ronald Reagan as governor and president was the iconic Repub template for all Repub policies and agendas that followed:

[B]'Republicans are defunding the police: Fox News anchor stumps congressman.
Chris Wallace quizzes Jim Banks of Indiana on Fox News Sunday.
Biden: $350bn in bill opposed by GOP is for law enforcement.[/B]

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/28/chris-wallace-republicans-defunding-the-police-fox-news-congressman-jim-banks[/URL]

Continuing with the iconic Repub and template, Donald Trump:

[B]Trump decries crime rates, but his administration has slashed prevention efforts.
Aug. 13, 2025[/B]

[URL]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-decries-crime-rates-but-his-administration-has-slashed-prevention-efforts[/URL]

[QUOTE]The Trump administration moved this week to take over policing in Washington, D.C., and yesterday deployed the National Guard in the city, claiming a spike in crime. The president has suggested similar action could be taken in other cities.

But the data doesn't back up many of his claims. Murder and violent crime dropped significantly across the U.S. last year, a trend that's continued so far in 2025.

And, as John Yang reports, [b]the federal law enforcement crackdown comes even as the administration cuts funding for other kinds of crime prevention work.[/b][/QUOTE]Defund, deregulated, abandon, the Repub way.

Sorry, but we just can't afford to fund the police, get violent, mentally ill homeless people off the street AND give Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, et al and their space ship hobby companies desperately needed tax cuts too.

The GOP has its priorities.

When too old and senile Trump did good DT BBBJ on red carpet to Putin in Alaska and now Putin fucking him deep in the ass without lube, shooting a US company, not a mistake in Donbass or Kherson, but in West Ukraine over Kiev. Trump is just playing clown to fuck with his orange face.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3022540] I work in inner city and I am thrilled he's cracking down on crime. OMG when you have to work there everyday, it takes a very real toll on you. I have been reading the left wing media saying he's targeting black communities by cracking down on crime, but I can tell you the city where I live- Philadelphia- really needs something done. I call them pyscho bums. The pyscho bum population is just out of control. I went to get pizza late at night right before I left for my travels and there was a 300 lb dude in his underwear sweating like a pig just chillin on the street talking to himself like it was nothing, no cops bothering him or anything LOL. Shit like that bothers me, BTW he was white, not that it matters. For context I saw many homeless in Rio sleeping on the street, but none of them were Pyscho Bums that made me feel like I needed to keep an eye out for them. My point is, this poilcy people are complaining about in my opinion is a very good thing for all people and needs to be done. Dangerous homeless or mentally ill people who pose a threat need to get the help they need and be taken off the street. Especially away from people just trying to live and work in the city. They shouldn't have to deal with that every day.[/QUOTE]Citizens do not have any civil rights if they can't walk around their neighborhood or city at any time of the day or night in complete safety. This is one of a government's fundamental obligations to its people. It is truly obscene to watch how Woke Democrats have dropped the ball on this one and their insane reasoning on why.

[URL]https://www.newsmax.com/politics/white-house-miles-taylor-trump/2025/08/23/id/1223683/[/URL]

But Mainstream Media keeps suggesting to their readers and viewers that Repubs are "pro Business" and "better at handling the economy than Democrats"! Lololol!

Add this to the higher Inflation Rate, higher average price of a gallon of regular gas, worst real jobs report, Trillions more already added to the deficit, etc, etc, etc since Trump began to blitheringly blather about, took office and enact his Trump Tariffs / Tax Increases on the American Working Men and Women and Consumers:

[B]US Bankruptcies Hit Highest Level Since COVID.
Aug. 22, 2025[/B]

[URL]https://www.newsweek.com/us-bankruptcies-highest-level-since-covid-2116819[/URL]

[QUOTE]S&P Global Market Intelligence, the research and data arm of the credit-rating agency, found that filings by large public and private companies rose to 71 last month from 66 in June, marking [b]the highest monthly tally since July 2020.[/b] So far in 2025, meanwhile, the total of 446 bankruptcy filings is [b]the highest for this seven-month stretch since 2010.[/b][/QUOTE]Sure, Biden-Harris handed him The Envy of the World Economy, so it is going to take a lot more concerted determination on the part of Trump and his Repub-controlled Congress to plunge us into one of the Repub Party's patented Great Repub Depressions or Great Repub Recessions, Historic Repub Jobs Destruction and so on as that Party's favorite and repeated economic policies and stewardship plunged us into due to the policies and stewardship of, say, Coolidge / Hoover, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, see 2010 above, and Donald Trump Part 1, see 2020 above.

But they are sure working hard day and night to get us there!

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3022408]This should be quite entertaining.

LMFAO.

[URL]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-mounts-a-new-traveling-horror-show/[/URL]

But will she sell more than 3 copies?[/QUOTE]Well, her book does come with a set of crayons so there is that.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3022569][B]Ronald Reagans shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness.
As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations.[/B]

[URL]https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/[/URL]

Ronald Reagan as governor and president was the iconic Repub template for all Repub policies and agendas that followed:

[B]'Republicans are defunding the police: Fox News anchor stumps congressman.
Chris Wallace quizzes Jim Banks of Indiana on Fox News Sunday.
Biden: $350bn in bill opposed by GOP is for law enforcement.[/B]

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/28/chris-wallace-republicans-defunding-the-police-fox-news-congressman-jim-banks[/URL]

Continuing with the iconic Repub and template, Donald Trump:

[B]Trump decries crime rates, but his administration has slashed prevention efforts.
Aug. 13, 2025[/B]

[URL]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-decries-crime-rates-but-his-administration-has-slashed-prevention-efforts[/URL]

Defund, deregulated, abandon, the Repub way.

Sorry, but we just can't afford to fund the police, get violent, mentally ill homeless people off the street AND give Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, et al and their space ship hobby companies desperately needed tax cuts too.

The GOP has its priorities.[/QUOTE]This sums up exactly how I feel about this.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_XgHdTeR2M[/URL]

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3022422] It is why government is so desperate to get rid of the 2nd Amendment. (there's only one reason they want our guns you can't object to getting ass raped if you aren't much of a threat) ie J6 was a day where some of the best American Patriots stood up to the oppression.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/04/jan-6-insurrection-sentencing-tracker-526091[/URL]

During the October sentencing of Maryland man Andrew Bennett, Judge James Boasberg repeatedly pressed prosecutors on why they were not seeking jail time in his case and indicated he likely would have granted it had they did. " There is a strong argument that anyone who was there that day deserves jail," Boasberg said.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3022422]I've been thinking for some time about starting a covert Utube channel with spy glasses (you can't have any cellphones or they go APE shit go figure) in family court in Cook County with some of my free time, exposing their tyrannical feminist bullshit.[/QUOTE]When I was roped into family court in a case where I was a witness and not a participant, I was not happy. I was supposed to sit there for hours waiting for this dumb judge to make a decision. Without disturbing anyone, I just sat with a scowel. A baliff came up to me and threatened to put me in jail for my attitude. I later learned it would have been legal to do so. After I left, the judge said aloud, "I banned a parent from seeing a child for months and there was no evidence of drug use. I wonder why I did that again?" In court, you are just supposed to sit there and smile while the judge wastes your time or takes your kid from you.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3022540]The pyscho bum population is just out of control. I went to get pizza late at night right before I left for my travels and there was a 300 lb dude in his underwear sweating like a pig just chillin on the street talking to himself like it was nothing, no cops bothering him or anything LOL.[/QUOTE]And the Democratic leaders of these cities swear their hands are tied. I do not remember if you recall but Xi, the leader of China, flew into San Francisco and the Democratic leadership literally cleaned up the homeless problem in like a day. And once Xi left, they let it go back to shit.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3022583]Citizens do not have any civil rights if they can't walk around their neighborhood or city at any time of the day or night in complete safety. This is one of a government's fundamental obligations to its people. It is truly obscene to watch how Woke Democrats have dropped the ball on this one and their insane reasoning on why.[/QUOTE]And the response of these Democratic douches is to call Trump the Fuhrer and people who voted for him MAGAloons. Wanting to walk around your street without getting harassed by some homeless goon makes you a Nazi?

Meanwhile, the Democratic douches were applauding the lawfare campaign against Trump and the criminal cases against nonviolent J6 participants. And these same Democratic douches who swear 2020 was not rigged, completely ignore that one of their heroes, Letitia James, has had fraud charges brought up against her and has had her $500 million decision against Trump denounced as unconstitutional and revoked. Oh no, we were not trying to rig the 2024 election. Not us.

Yeah, Ms. James, that is what voters wanted: not getting criminals off the street but charging Trump with anything.

And you got Loony Tooms swearing the only reason Trump was victorious is some Muslim switched sides. You cannot make this shit up.

[QUOTE]Higher housing prices means more tax revenue. Fucks new home buyers.[/QUOTE]Higher housing prices are because of the gross inequality of wealth distribution in the Dis-United States of America leading to the [B]Rich and Super Rich[/B] buying up the assets of the middle class and poor. [B]Rich and Super Rich[/B] realize that money in and of itself has not real value. That is why they use it to buy real assets.

[U]Recognize that a mortgage is just a different form of ownership of the rich![/U]

[B]Tax Wealth not Work![/B]

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3022540]Hope you are doing well these days SubCmdr and have the hoes flowing in Thailand. I must speak my opinion here. I get what what you're saying about Trump's policies not support minorities and and low income individuals. What policies in particular are you angry about?[/QUOTE]Appreciate the well wishes RamDavison84. Yes, I have more prostitutes available for hire here in Thailand than I have the time, ability or money to fuck. I have a pussy priority system. Because I've got a rotation of regulars and a waiting list of those trying to get into the rotation.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3022540]I must speak my opinion here. I get what what you're saying about Trump's policies not support minorities and and low income individuals. What policies in particular are you angry about?[/QUOTE]I am not here to debate policy with anyone. I do not sit in any position that would allow me to create or implement policy. So, I just express my opinions on it.

[B]I appreciate your opinions[/B] Let's get one thing straight. I am not angry. I am disappointed. But please do not think it started with our current POTUS. I put the Dis-United States of America in my rearview mirror over a decade ago. [B]Why[/B]? I did not like the direction I saw the country going and so I voted with my feet. People don't understand the power of they have. The one vote you get every four years don't mean shit to me. The real power is in presence and your dollars. I control where I spend mine, except for the IRS ass rape of my hard earned income that occurs each year.

I admire that you continue to be a productive hard working member in the Dis-United States of America under difficult conditions. You deserve to be safe. I spend the majority of my adult life protecting my fellow citizens in a civilian capacity. I took an oath during that time to protect the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. So I will not allow anyone to question my commitment to my country of origin. Please note I am not directing this at you. But at the two main MAGA posters who are complete hypocrites. Law enforcement is underfunded. Law enforcement is not representative to the communities where they enforce the law. Law enforcement for the most part is rarely held accountable. It is the POLICE verse them. What the police do not realize is that they are THEM.

[B]Stay safe in dem crazy streets my brother![/B]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3022179]I see a lot of revisionist history being tossed around by the usual suspects here lately:

[u][b]"Obama did nothing"[/b] in response to Russia's invasion of Crimea?[/u]

[B]Donald Trump misleads on Russia, Crimea, Obama and the G-8[/B]

[URL]https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/27/donald-trump/donald-trump-misleads-russia-crimea-obama/[/URL]

[B]AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts Obama-Biden aid to Ukraine[/B]

[URL]https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-donald-trump-ap-fact-check-barack-obama-981ef7feb11053c1340a9d028d6f357b[/URL]

[B]Obama Announces Sanctions to Punish Russia For Crimea Invasion.
The sanctions are the most comprehensive placed on Russia since the Cold War.[/B]

[URL]https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-announces-sanctions-punish-russia-crimea-invasion/story?id=22939730[/URL]

Guess who tried to secretly abandon those tough sanctions?

[B]Senate Democrats launch investigation into Trumps pause of Russia sanctions.[/B]

[URL]https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5384194-democrats-investigate-trump-russia-sanctions/[/URL]

The same orange potus who blew Putin many more times than that for invading Crimea:

[B]37 times Trump was soft on Russia.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia[/URL]

Those are just some of the blowjobs Trump gave Putin with regards to the tough military aid and sanctions Obama imposed on Russia for invading Crimea. Check out that link for many more blowjobs Trump gave Putin on other issues.

Not only did Obama not "do nothing" in response to Russia invading Crimea, but the blowjobs Trump gave Putin FOR invading Crimea as well as for many other attacks on our and other democracies tells us everything we need to know for why Putin didn't have to bother shedding any Russian blood in order to get his Trump Puppet to serve up his Anti-American, Democracy-destroying agenda on a silver platter.

Talk about giving Putin "the opening and confidence to launch a 2nd campaign"! Except it wasn't a matter of "ineptitude" on Trump's part. It was clearly Trump's determination to fulfill that murderous dictator Putin's wishes due to them both sharing the same World view and ambitions.[/QUOTE]Thanks for that great fact checking post on Crimea!

The amount of MAGA dis/misinformation claims that [b][I]"Obama did nothing"[/I][/b], is just jaw-dropping staggering, from the gullible suckers on the right.

It gets really old fast and I get really tried, of those MAGA cultists, who constantly love to [I][b]"shot from the hip"[/b][/I] and make loud mouth unsubstantiated [I]MAGA "know nothing", "do nothing", "no nothing"[/I] claims.

Always posting their "loud-mouth" MAGA claims, with nothing and no evidence to backup said claims.

Once again, GOOD POST!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3022727]Thanks for that great fact checking post on Crimea!

Once again, GOOD POST![/QUOTE]God, what a load of bullshit that is. Fact is Putin took over Crimea when Obama was president. Then Biden is in office, provokes the shit out of Putin, and Putin invades Ukraine. So Putin started all these wars when Trump was NOT president, and you dumb douches claim how tough you were with Putin. Yeesh.

And your answer to any legitimate charge is ALWAYS the same bullshit. The charge is Obama did not do anything when Putin invaded the Crimea, and the answer is, wait for it. Well, what about Trump?

And that is why I call you Democratic douches. Your answer for everything is what about Trump?