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Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:56am On May 11
"cross posted**

A few months ago I was declared a lunatic and heretic elsewhere for posting that Trump's actions are not geared against Russia but China.
Clayton Wood took my advice and wrote 3 quite long articles about China vs America

https://claytonswood.substack.com/p/understanding-the-dragon-post-3-of

Trump has undertaken huge efforts to neuter China on
_Panama Canal
_Venezuela oil
_Iranian oil
_Greenland rare earth elements
_ Taiwan

In 6 months America has obliterated the Chinese global air defense market . No country will buy Chinese radars which were advertised as capable of downing F-22s, F-35s and the B-2s.

Very informative,that link is the final part,the other 2 are in the substack.


Trump wants the Ukraine war to end so that he has all the time to deal with China.
Putin is no threat to the west as long as nukes are not flying. He needs the west buying gas, and fertilizers more. Plus cooperating on Space Projects

Deepsight
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:00am On May 11
benalvino3:
Budaatum I told you Starmer will not survive till the next election. The guy is the worst thing the UK has seen.
Child groomer support better keep it's mouth shut when Farage becomes PM.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 10:06am On May 11
basilico:
"cross posted**

A few months ago I was declared a lunatic and heretic elsewhere for posting that Trump's actions are not geared against Russia but China.
Clayton Wood took my advice and wrote 3 quite long articles about China vs America

https://claytonswood.substack.com/p/understanding-the-dragon-post-3-of

Trump has undertaken huge efforts to neuter China on
_Panama Canal
_Venezuela oil
_Iranian oil
_Greenland rare earth elements
_ Taiwan

In 6 months America has obliterated the Chinese global air defense market . No country will buy Chinese radars which were advertised as capable of downing F-22s, F-35s and the B-2s.

Very informative,that link is the final part,the other 2 are in the substack.


Trump wants the Ukraine war to end so that he has all the time to deal with China.
Putin is no threat to the west as long as nukes are not flying. He needs the west buying gas, and fertilizers more. Plus cooperating on Space Projects

Deepsight
It's glaring Trump has made many impulsive errors. Glaring. Why do you people have this desire to always explain away his gaffes as hidden genius chess moves.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:19am On May 11
Liberal run hellholes raid pensions after squandering the inheritance.


On a 55-39 party-line House vote, Washington Democrats passed , terminating LEOFF Plan 1, the pension that covers cops and firefighters hired before 1977. Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed it in April 2026. Every yes vote was a Democrat. Every Republican voted no.

- : 160% funded as of June 2024 with a $2.5B surplus, projected to hit 225% funded with a $4.3B surplus by 2029, no employer or employee contributions required for 25 years, 5,945 retired members.

Where the money goes when the plan is restated June 30, 2029:
110% of liabilities transferred to a new plan to cover promised benefits
Remaining ~$3.9 billion swept into a Pension Surplus Holding Account
$569 million pre-allocated to the Climate Commitment Account
$880 million to refill the rainy-day fund Democrats already drained
The rest available to the legislature for the General Fund

Retired first responders sued in federal court April 30, 2026, alleging Contract Clause violations. : (), who has paid into LEOFF 1 since 1972.

Washington Democrats are funding illegal-alien sanctuary services, climate slush funds, and the rainy-day fund they themselves emptied,
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:24am On May 11
DeepSight:
It's glaring Trump has made many impulsive errors. Glaring. Why do you people have this desire to always explain away his gaffes as hidden genius chess moves.
Your first instinct, which may be from conditioning, aversion or inbuilt into your DNA is to criticize without knowledge of the contents. Those are three long articles .
Stop trying to personalize this because I posted it.
If it was Kamala Harris who has done the same , you'd have run out of praises to extoll her .
A blind person can see that .

How can you people ever be helped. The articles are critical of Trump in some aspects
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:44am On May 11
“Socialists have a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they know, wealth just exists somehow, and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.” —Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell received a demonstration this week, courtesy of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The New York congresswoman declared, “You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth — but you can’t earn that, right?”
In other words, billionaires don’t create wealth through skill, innovation, risk-taking, or delivering value to millions of customers.

They simply steal it. By definition.Notice that AOC never paused to examine how people like Taylor Swift, J.K. Rowling, or Palmer Luckey actually built their fortunes.

As Sowell observed decades ago, socialists display remarkably little curiosity about how wealth is created.

To them, the pile of wealth simply exists, and the only real question is how to redistribute it.Meanwhile, in New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani filmed himself outside Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse to push a new “pied-à-terre” tax on luxury second homes.AOC, Mamdani, and their enthusiastic supporters in coastal cities aren’t really debating tax rates.

They’re asserting that your success ultimately belongs to them.James Madison warned of exactly this danger in Federalist No. 10.

He described factions consumed by “a rage for an equal division of property” and called such schemes “improper or wicked.” More than two centuries later, he remains correct.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 10:50am On May 11
basilico:
Your first instinct, which may be from conditioning, aversion or inbuilt into your DNA is to criticize without knowledge of the contents. Those are three long articles .
Stop trying to personalize this because I posted it.
If it was Kamala Harris who has done the same , you'd have run out of praises to extoll her .
A blind person can see that .

How can you people ever be helped. The articles are critical of Trump in some aspects
That is how you would presume I would praise Obama over Libya.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 11:11am On May 11
budaatum:
Reform
Lol....and Bemeruca, Benalvino3 and Basilico will argue in MAGA fashion that Reform party is not racist

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 11:13am On May 11
basilico:
Liberal run hellholes raid pensions after squandering the inheritance.


On a 55-39 party-line House vote, Washington Democrats passed , terminating LEOFF Plan 1, the pension that covers cops and firefighters hired before 1977. Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed it in April 2026. Every yes vote was a Democrat. Every Republican voted no.

- : 160% funded as of June 2024 with a $2.5B surplus, projected to hit 225% funded with a $4.3B surplus by 2029, no employer or employee contributions required for 25 years, 5,945 retired members.

Where the money goes when the plan is restated June 30, 2029:
110% of liabilities transferred to a new plan to cover promised benefits
Remaining ~$3.9 billion swept into a Pension Surplus Holding Account
$569 million pre-allocated to the Climate Commitment Account
$880 million to refill the rainy-day fund Democrats already drained
The rest available to the legislature for the General Fund

Retired first responders sued in federal court April 30, 2026, alleging Contract Clause violations. : (), who has paid into LEOFF 1 since 1972.

Washington Democrats are funding illegal-alien sanctuary services, climate slush funds, and the rainy-day fund they themselves emptied,
Liberal hellholes indeed. Please let me know who runs most of the poorest states in the USA.....republican shitholes
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 11:14am On May 11
benalvino3:
Budaatum I told you Starmer will not survive till the next election. The guy is the worst thing the UK has seen.
Everyone dislikes Starmer. Im happy to see him go
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Obrigardo: 11:57am On May 11
basilico:
Democrat Eric Swallwell?
Ask your question properly and stop beating around the bush. We handled him well, so what?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:41pm On May 11
GracieX3:
Liberal hellholes indeed. Please let me know who runs most of the poorest states in the USA.....republican shitholes
When huge companies like Starbucks and Boeing exit , you can call that place a hellhole.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:44pm On May 11
DeepSight:
That is how you would presume I would praise Obama over Libya.
Iqra.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Bombshell bombshell

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/8/white-house-official-monica-crowley-promises-bombshell-2020-election/


Ambassador Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, said the administration will “soon” produce evidence that proves President Trump won the 2020 election.

Ms. Crowley, speaking Wednesday at an event hosted by Breitbart News, didn’t reveal more about the evidence but expressed confidence in what it would show.

“He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that,” she said.

That matches comments by other high officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, who have talked about evidence of a conspiracy to subvert the 2020 vote, which made President Joseph R. Biden the victor over Mr. Trump’s vehement objections


I'll be following and updating this story


https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/11/fulton-county-fights-federal-subpoena-for-records-about-botched-2020-election/

Fulton county whose 600,000 ballots were seized by FBI got a new subpoena ...
It seeks names, positions/functions, residential addresses, email addresses, and personal telephone numbers for essentially the entire 2020 Fulton election workforce.

They are fighting against this new one , requested by a prosecutor outside of Georgia. Most likely a Florida prosecutor.

This is no laughing matter. It has been established that Obama, Hillary, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Strzok etc conjured up the Russia hoax ,then conspired to remove him via Mueller and sham impeachment 1.
Logically it follows, they took him out through the 2020 fraudulent elections after which they sought to silence,jail, bankrupt and murder him to cover up the original sin.
Media played a huge role in the scandal.

I'll have the last laugh.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by raumdeuter: 1:50pm On May 11
After the democrat loss at the Virginia redistricting battle their next line is to fire all the Supreme court judges
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:15pm On May 11
The three liberal judges at the Supreme Court delayed the Roe vs Wade ruling.
They also delayed the Louisiana redistricting rulings.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/11/scotus-liberals-caught-slow-walking-another-ruling-to-help-dems/

They are democrat activists in black robes.



basilico:
There are 9 Supreme Court justices.. 1 is a full time activist with a full research team who was criticized by Judge Alito .
The 3 activists delayed their decision for over 7 months to limit it's use in the midterms.
A newspaper has discovered what the activists couldn't .
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by IjeBos(m): 3:33pm On May 11
In conservative minds the word conservative seems to be a code word for white.
Raumdeuter for whatever reason can't see that.

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by IjeBos(m): 3:36pm On May 11
Why is this thread morphing into a UK politics thread?
There are some tangential issues, but both countries are vast enough to have their own thread. In fact their own sections.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by raumdeuter: 3:45pm On May 11
IjeBos:
In conservative minds the word conservative seems to be a code word for white.
Ramdeuter for whatever reason can't see that.
Good morning professional victim

In the same state of South Carolina, the statewide senator is Tim Scott a black man and he is a conservative

In Tenessee the congressman representing a 60% black district is white

For some reason Democrat think the black vote is their entitlement and property
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:48pm On May 11
basilico:
Bombshell bombshell

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/8/white-house-official-monica-crowley-promises-bombshell-2020-election/


Ambassador Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, said the administration will “soon” produce evidence that proves President Trump won the 2020 election.

Ms. Crowley, speaking Wednesday at an event hosted by Breitbart News, didn’t reveal more about the evidence but expressed confidence in what it would show.

“He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that,” she said.

That matches comments by other high officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, who have talked about evidence of a conspiracy to subvert the 2020 vote, which made President Joseph R. Biden the victor over Mr. Trump’s vehement objections


I'll be following and updating this story


https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/11/fulton-county-fights-federal-subpoena-for-records-about-botched-2020-election/

Fulton county whose 600,000 ballots were seized by FBI got a new subpoena ...
It seeks names, positions/functions, residential addresses, email addresses, and personal telephone numbers for essentially the entire 2020 Fulton election workforce.

They are fighting against this new one , requested by a prosecutor outside of Georgia. Most likely a Florida prosecutor.

This is no laughing matter. It has been established that Obama, Hillary, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Strzok etc conjured up the Russia hoax ,then conspired to remove him via Mueller and sham impeachment 1.
Logically it follows, they took him out through the 2020 fraudulent elections after which they sought to silence,jail, bankrupt and murder him to cover up the original sin.
Media played a huge role in the scandal.

I'll have the last laugh.
Nemo judex in causa sua.
How many times have i said this to you?
Is it lost on you?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:53pm On May 11
GracieX3:
Everyone dislikes Starmer. Im happy to see him go
I so feel for Kemi. The dislike of Starmer would have been a great opportunity for her. Unfortunately, it seems like she'd be dump's Kamala.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:57pm On May 11
IjeBos:
Why is this thread morphing into a UK politics thread?
There are some tangential issues, but both countries are vast enough to have their own thread. In fact their own sections.
It's because a lot of us, wherever we are, are interested in USA politics because it affects us and warns us to avoid or prepare for what you might export to us.

Besides, are you not happy we are here to dilute the USA maga nonsense?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by IjeBos(m): 3:57pm On May 11
raumdeuter:
Good morning professional victim
In the same state of South Carolina, the statewide senator is Tim Scott a black man and he is a conservative
In Tenessee the congressman representing a 60% black district is white
For some reason Democrat think the black vote is their entitlement and property
Captain "Racist Apologist" dons his cape again.
Maybe you can speak to what the congressman actually said rather than what you wish he had said.

I find it quite amusing that Republicans who have to make things up to play victim (Massachusetts gerrymanders so we need to gerrymander, people who tried an insurrection were treated poorly) accuse others of being victims, when there are real facts to support the disparate treatment of those other people.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bayelsaowei(m): 3:59pm On May 11
My people..Nigeria is loading in the US..

Trump has learned how to grab election victory from the Nigerian playbook.

When I tell people they are supporting a felon and a mental patient, they argue.

I am ashamed for the US.

Resilient America’s; hang in there.. this too shall pass.. the felon and sex offender shall pass along with his worshippers..

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by IjeBos(m): 4:07pm On May 11
budaatum:
It's because a lot of us, wherever we are, are interested in USA politics because it affects us and warns us to avoid or prepare for what you might export to us.

Besides, are you not happy we are here to dilute the USA maga nonsense?
The USA MAGA nonsense is what we deal with day in and day out in the US. Unfortunately that is the US's plight right now.

In fact, I think this forum should have a USA section and then sub threads in that section.
There is so much happening in the US, that individualized topics would be better. i.e a racism topic etc. etc.
The UK and international stuff dilutes it, as not everyone has a base of understanding in UK politics, like me, to even understand it fully or have an informed opinion. And it's not related to the US for the most part.

And honestly, posting it in the US Politics Section makes it seem like everything has to be seen through the US perspective as if the US super special. UK politics should be an end in itself.

Also why is there no UK election topic. Would be useful so I could pop in if I wanted to understand what was going on with Starmer or the election.
I'm surprised someone hasn't created it.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by raumdeuter: 4:09pm On May 11
IjeBos:
Captain "Racist Apologist" dons his cape again.
Maybe you can speak to what the congressman actually said rather than what you wish he had said.

I find it quite amusing that Republicans who have to make things up to play victim (Massachusetts gerrymanders so we need to gerrymander, people who tried an insurrection were treated poorly) accuse others of being victims, when there are real facts to support the disparate treatment of those other people.
Captain professional victim strikes again, The South Carolina you are crying about has a statewide, Not just a district, a statewide Senator who is black in a state that is 62% white

I find it amusing that professional victims and the left assumes they own blacks and the black must be their footstool anytime they want
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 4:28pm On May 11
GracieX3:
Lol....and Bemeruca, Benalvino3 and Basilico will argue in MAGA fashion that Reform party is not racist
The party is not racist, maybe the guy is. If we go by your logic then all parties are racist not just reform.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by IjeBos(m): 5:06pm On May 11
raumdeuter:
Captain professional victim strikes again, The South Carolina you are crying about has a statewide, Not just a district, a statewide Senator who is black in a state that is 62% white

I find it amusing that professional victims and the left assumes they own blacks and the black must be their footstool anytime they want
What does any of that have to do with what the Congressman said with his own words?
In his words Conservative is not African American.

What is the point of spending so much of your time writing this gibberish online?
It's confounding the lengths you go to gaslight and defend utter nonsense.

Do you get paid for tapdancing on demand to defend racists?
I want to hope you do as that would be the most reasonable explanation for what you do in this forum.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by raumdeuter: 5:09pm On May 11
IjeBos:
What does any of that have to do with what the Congressman said with his own words?
In his words Conservative is not African American.

What is the point of spending so much of your time writing this gibberish online?
It's confounding the lengths you go to gaslight and defend utter nonsense.

Do you get paid for tapdancing on demand to defend racists?
I want to hope you do as that would be the most reasonable explanation for what you do in this forum.
A conservative Senator in South Carolina he referred to is an African American
Just South of South carolina is Florida with Byron Donalds a conservative Congressman. You are free to go on your victimhood parade.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Ijebosc: 5:17pm On May 11
raumdeuter:
A conservative Senator in South Carolina he referred to is an African American
Just South of South carolina is Florida with Byron Donalds a conservative Congressman. You are free to go on your victimhood parade.
Ra-coon
There are actually black man who hate their own skin so much that they wake up every day to defend racists who want to take away rights from people who look like them.

Fortunately for you, there are people like me who will fight for the rights of your children, even when you're too busy playing "pick me black man" to do so.
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