/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>385942
>possible to rationalize people actually fucking dying to fake assassination plots
Wars, famine, genocide. List goes one. We humans are capable of such marvels. Ponies? Doubtful.

>>385872
>drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations
Translation: we are broke and we need to expend the money somewhere else.

>>385933
>To be fair, staging assassinations would be much more believable if people actually died.
This anon has a very compelling point.

>>385971
Exposing things like USAID is why glownigger trannies like the sharty were spamming 4chan with "FELL FOR IT AGAIN AWARD" soyjaks.

Trump exposed the CIA's international fronts and the best they can say is "you're coping"? Glowniggers have probably died from USAID being exposed.

>>385971
I made this thread months ago as a shitpost, referring only to Trump's change in expression in his portraits, but some idiots have chosen to turn it into a defacto /ptg/ by bumping it with irrelevant tabgents instead of making their own threads.

>>386004
socialists tend to leech off of good threads. Free thinking men create their own threads

>>386003
>Trump exposed the CIA's international fronts and the best they can say is "you're coping"?
Nope. Trump only eliminated the toolbox used for the judeo-bolshevik faction to enable him to carry the judeo-zionist agenda.
See the difference? The former was trying to sabotage the later, and Trump prevented that.

>>386004
>but some idiots have chosen to turn it into a defacto /ptg/ by bumping it with irrelevant tabgents instead of making their own threads
It is Trump related and no new breads are needed. Thank you.

>>386009
This thread is not /ptg/. Go make new threads for Trump news.

>>384332
Yes, he can.
>https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-funding-wealth-boston-448df045
Pardon my sangfroid, but I can think of few spectacles more satisfying than watching the elite New England liberals lose their ass.

>>386018
Once again faggots fail to understand /ptg/
It's not about the general; it's the concept of Life, Liberty, and Prosperity for the American people. You thought that "shutting /pol/ down" would make the dream go away; instead, the dreams lives on in other places, including this one.

>>386018
lol nah, I don't wanna accidentally bump off a porn thread. I'm just starting to come around for horsepussy.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $5,000 DOGE CHECKS?
WHAT HAPPENED TO “BIG” ARRESTS?
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DIDDY FILES?
WHAT HAPPENED TO LOWER FOOD PRICES?
WHAT HAPPENED TO MASS DEPORTATIONS?

all trump wants is attention
the reason he made a bunch of wacky tariff announcements was so every country's leader and every major CEO would have to get on their knees and suck orange cock for an exemption
the reason he is using 300 year old laws to overnight disappear illegals instead of proposing immigration reform to congress (especially for asylum abuse) is because its flashy and is cool on TV and xitter
humiliating Zelenskyy was just good TV
stock market going down is good because people pay attention to trump
stock market going up is good because people pay attention to trump

>>386424
> WHAT HAPPENED TO MASS DEPORTATIONS?
Literally hundreds of people are being deported daily, border crossings are massively down, people are self-deporting. What more do you want exactly?
> WHAT HAPPENED TO LOWER FOOD PRICES?
Food prices are the result of complex market forces beyond anyone’s ability to directly control. With globalization on the way out food prices will probably rise in the short term before eventually stabilizing.
> WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DIDDY FILES?
Who cares? Outside of online schizo communities this is a non-issue for 99% of people.
> WHAT HAPPENED TO “BIG” ARRESTS?
See above. For my part, I’m glad the administration is focusing on actually getting shit done instead of focusing on vendettas and show trials.
> WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $5,000 DOGE CHECKS?
Probably not feasible?

Anyway, protip: you might come across as slightly less of an absolute retard if you turn off caps lock.

>>386424
>lower food prices
>mass deportations
illegals often work in agriculture
if you deport one, you probably need to replace that job with a US citizen who would demand a higher wage
so these 2 goals are in opposition
its not an impossible problem to solve, but you cant be a retard
a retard would do something like start a trade war with every country we import food from

Bro, a Hispanic friend of mine reported that he was at a Taqueria that was playing a Mexican channel, and an ad from the Department of Homeland Security saying "We will find you, and we will deport you" played on the television.

>>386424
Sure, Trump can just pull out his infinity gauntlet and do all of those things. Nigger you know he ain't got godlike powers

>Doge checks
Are you seriously going to feel betrayed if he doesn't do an idea that was briefly floated around a month ago? Really? You're grasping at straws if that's what you have to criticize him for
>Big arrests
Fauci and Cuomo are supposedly referred to the FBI. If there are no arrests by the end of the year, then by all means, criticize him for it, but in the mean time building up criminal charges and presenting them to the grand jury takes time.
>Diddy files
He never promised this.
>Food prices
Eggs are down
>Mass Deportations
News article claimed we're up to 117,000 this year. Lower than ideal, but you can't just tell the existing lot of ICE officers "Hey, instead of working 8 hour shits, why don't you do 40 hour shifts?" That isn't how it works. More staff need to be hired and the agency needs to be expanded, which can't be done at the snap of a finger.

>>386425
>the reason he made a bunch of wacky tariff announcements was so every country's leader and every major CEO would have to get on their knees and suck orange cock for an exemption
Yes.png. Also we have a global 10% tarrif, and instead of retaliating, everyone is going along with it and barely noticing, because Trump has set the bar so high.

>instead of proposing immigration reform to congress
Dude, there is no way in hell that you believe that congress can or will do shit. First of all the President doesn't introduce legislation into Congress. That isn't a power of the President. He can't do that. Second, Congress can't get any meaningful legislation of any kind past the filibuster. Thirdly, there are too many politicians bought off by big-business in congress to get enough republican votes past the slim majority.

And we barely need legislation anyways. Yes, Hart-Celler should be repealed, just as Cancer should be cured and we should end aging. It's not fucking realistic right now and you know it. So take a victory lap for a 96% reduction in legal immigration.

>>386428
The US imports almost no food; The US is a major food exporter. It's one of our only exports to Asia. And furthermore we aren't in a trade war with any nation we import food from. We are exclusively in a trade war with China, who buys our soybeans and from whom we buy no food. Everyone else is at a 10% tariff.

>>386429
In 2024 the average tarrif rate was 2.5%. Trump has quadrupled that tax.
Around 17% of US food consumed is imported. So technically on a pure calory count, the US could be food independent, but personally I like coffee, chocolate, and bananas. All of which is 10% more expensive, because Trump wants people to grovel and beg at his feet

>>386432
That's an absolute maximum increase of 1.275%, and most of that is actually going to borne by changes in the exchange rate and on the producer. You'll be alright. Fixing the deficit and the trade balance is more important.

>>386433
Do you know the relationship between trade deficit and federal budget deficit?

>>386561
Yes. In an open market, a trade deficit must be financed by foreign investment. This can be the Chinese buying land, the Japanese buying out American businesses, or everyone buying American treasury notes. Generally this means that a budget deficit in the federal government will cause a trade deficit as it makes the USD more expensive and thus encourages imports and decreases exports. There's a reason that the trade deficit and the federal budget deficit are such similar numbers and are correlated.

Tariffs are a tax that raises revenue directly for the Federal Government, thus doing at least that little bit towards reducing the budget deficit. They also provide an obvious incentive to not buy as many imported products or to source the same locally, which more directly effects the trade deficit.

>>386569
The little bit of tax income (relative to other tax income) is pretty much irrelevant to federal budget deficit, especially if the tariffs have their intended effect of decreasing trade. What has a bigger effect is the long term damage to the US economy that the tarriffs cause. The size of the US economy is 1:1 correlated with US tax income

>when a the US has a trade deficit with a country, that country has to buy treasury notes
Cool, we print those. We are getting goods for printed money. Awesome. And Inflation has been staying around 2-3% ish percent long term.
I don't understand how buying treasury notes increases the federal budget deficit. I don't think the Fed is saying "oh shit china wants to buy a billion dollars of federal notes, make sure to spend another billion dollars on military hardware so we can increase the federal budget deficit by a billion dollars"
>sometimes they invest in US companies
cool
>sometimes they buy land
Not cool, but I haven't heard much about this happening. Is it really that significant?

The US also has a services trade surplus that counters like 20% of the goods trade deficit

>>386576
>The tax income is irrelevant
Then why be up in arms for what is going to be a less than 1.25% increase in price? If it's so tiny as to be irrelevant, then it's irrelevant and there is no need for pearl clutching.

>I don't understand how buying treasury notes increases the federal budget deficit
That's what the budget deficit is. The Government sells bonds. People buy them. People buying them doesn't increase it; when the deficit increases, people must necessarily buy the bonds to pay for it. People buying notes doesn't cause the government to sell the bonds, except that it reduces the interest on the bonds, giving the government an incentive to sell more. But the reverse, that people must necessarily buy what the government sells, is necessarily true.

>What has a bigger effect is the long term damage to the US economy that the tarriffs cause
The US had vastly higher tarriffs in the 1800s and up to the 1930s. We've had """Free Trade""" since 1970. How much has the economy actually increased since then? Are we actually wealthier? Are wages actually higher? No. It's exactly the opposite. Most people have become poorer since free trade because now their wages have to compete with the whole planet.

The U.S. Economic model under free trade is basically this: People in the U.S. who can't get jobs go onto disability payments. With this money, they but cheap plastic trinkets from China. The Chinese government takes this money and uses it to buy Treasury bills from the U.S. And the US in turn, uses these sales to pay for the disability payments. This is harmful, insane, and unsustainable.

>land
Yes, but that's an entire tangent I don't care to go into

>services surplus
This is true, but the trade deficit covers the total of both, and on the whole the US imports more than it exports. The tarriffs do not cover services, but a negotiated solution to the tarriffs likely would.

To give an example, Canada has a law that states that something like 40% of its media played on televsion or radio must be domestically produced. This of course is to limit specifically American media from taking over Canadian air. America does not have such restrictions; the radios can play Nickelback as much as they want. An even more dramatic example is China only allowing a very limited number of American movies to play in its theaters. This and restrictions like it are asymmetrical barriers to trade that could be eliminated in a negotiated settlement.

>>386424
The DOGE refund checks were always wishful thinking.
You're never going to see a dime of that money unless you're a member of the tiny hat club.

>>386582
>tax income is irrelevant/relevant
tariffs are an anti-progressive tax. so you don't get much income, but it impacts certain people and industries a lot. Impacting certain industries is the whole point of a tariff
a progressive tax (like federal income tax) gets more income from high earners, and doesn't impact low earners much. Gaining money is the point of the federal income tax

>economy hasn't grown since 1970 meme
maybe when you just compare wages to house prices. This is more of a housing issue (which is a zoning issue). tariffing lumber and drywall doesn't help here

>randomly brings up non-tariff barriers that might be "le negotiated" down
can you name a single "le negotiation" that has reduced trade barriers?
Even with every trade barrier on the planet entirely removed, the US would likely still have a net trade deficit. Is the goal to remove the trade deficit or is it to remove trade barriers?

>>386576
chinks have been buying up land around military bases

>>386621
>But it’s a regressive tax
Yes. The best move the Trump administration could possibly make is for Congress to allow the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to expire save the parts that eliminates deductions for state income tax after $10,000, for Trump to abandon his campaign promise of eliminating income tax on tips, overtime, and social security, and for the capital gains tax to be completely eliminated and folded into the income tax. Is this viable? Not just no, but hell no. It could never happen under a Republican administration and a Republican Congress. Ever. Congress could never go along with it.

You must, as Machiavelli says, learn to accept the inconvenience of things and call the less bad good. We can’t sustain a 2 trillion dollar deficit forever. Tariffs are the only tax completely within the power of the executive branch.

> can you name a single "le negotiation" that has reduced trade barriers?
Nigger the negotiations are going on now. As we speak. That’s why there’s a 90 day pause. They are meeting with representatives of many nations now and negotiating. What do you want me to do? Invent a Time Machine and go two months into the future? Find a leak if the ongoing negotiations? This is pointless bitching. And how is it random? You’re bitching about the tariffs and the trade war. You have correctly pointed out that the U.S. exports many services. I am pointing out that a part of the negotiations is sure to include non-tariff barriers to trade. One example that Trump brings up every time he speaks is Canada not allowing American banks to operate in Canada, even as Canadian banks can operate in the U.S. I am certain that the negotiations with Canada are going to cover this barrier to trade and others that aren’t common knowledge. Will the barrier to trade be eliminated in exchange for eliminating or reducing tariffs on Canada? I have no idea. We’re gonna find out, and we’re gonna find out soon.

As I was typing this reply, I heard that “The White House has 18 proposals for Trade Deals.”

Has there previously been some barrier to trade that was eliminated in a negotiated settlement by some pair of nations at some point in human history? I am absolutely certain there has been. Do I know any off the top of my head? No. Am I going to waste my time looking up this “””random””” topic? Absolutely not. You look up every trade deal ever made, you prove it’s never happened once, and you come back to me. The USMCA is probably the most obvious place to start.

>It’s a housing issue
The lack of increase in average wages was a well known talking point before the explosion of housing prices.
>increase the supply of lumber and drywall.
If only the U.S. had a supply of trees and gypsum. There’s so much Calcium sulfate (the main ingredient in drywall) produced as a by product of burning coal for electricity that it has to be thrown away. Housing prices are a result if immigration, speculation paid for by an inflationary monetary policy, and restrictions on building houses from thousands of local government. It has little to nothing to do with trade.

>Is the goal to reduce the trade deficit or is it to reduce trade barriers
Eliminating barriers to U.S. exports to foreign nations will increase exports and thus reduce the trade deficit. This is self-evidently obvious.

The goal of the tariffs is to reduce the U.S. trade deficit and on shore critical industries. This will be accomplished by selective tariffs on critical industries, and negotiations that should reduce barriers to U.S. exports, as well as, I assume, probably an indefinite global tariff of 10%, or maybe higher on selective nations, combined with deregulation of industry and tax credits to pay for the reshoring of industrial production. Will this effort completely eliminate the trade deficit? Absolutely not. Will it reduce it to at least some degree. I assume it would, yes.

I get it. You hate Trump, so you impulsively say that everything that Trump does is bad. But what the hell do you want him to do? You want a continuation of the status quo? How does that benefit anyone but a narrow band of the rich? We’ve had enough of doing nothing. It’s time to do something. And like it or not, Trump is doing something.

>>386632
tariffs are probably the worst tax possible for raising money. Its a tax exclusively on physical goods, its a tax on raw materials, its a tax on manufacturing in general. You could probably pick any other tax strategy in the past 100 years of American history and that tax would raise more money with less negative economic impact
>Tariffs are the only tax completely within the power of the executive branch.
only if there is a national emergency, which there isn't. Trump made up some bullshit about fent to be allowed those emergency powers.
>what do you want him to do
Trump has MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS. Why can't he pass a tax bill? Why does he have to make up bullshit emergency powers?

>immigrants cause housing issue
immigrants will pack 2 families of 12 into a single ranch house. if everyone lived like an immigrant, there would be no housing crisis
a lot of construction workers are immigrants, so deporting millions of them won't help.
but again, this is really just a NIMBY zoning problem anyway.

>goal to eliminate trade barriers
>let him cook on le negotiations
Do you think that the average total effective tariff rate will be lower in December 2024 or December 2025?
I think with all these trade wars, we will have to be very very lucky to get below what we had pre liberation day.

>You want a continuation of the status quo? How does that benefit anyone but a narrow band of the rich?
Apple was able to call up trump and beg for a tariff exemption. Your local mom and pop shop can not call up trump and beg for a tariff exemption

>>386648
shill

The faster the world as we know it ends the better.

>>386648
>if everyone lived like an immigrant, there would be no housing crisis
Absolutely worthless.
The invasion of the 3rd worlders is meant to destroy our civilization such that we have to become 3rd worlders. This is a deliberate and intentional extermination of our way of life, along with a theft of our living spaces.

It is entirely unacceptable. Wars were fought to make sure this kind of degradation of our society didn't happen.

>>386426
>WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DIDDY FILES?
<Who cares? Outside of online schizo communities this is a non-issue for 99% of people.
What? So you're not for cleaning the swamp? Of course I care if masons are gonna keep guarding masons, it justs shows that no actual change is being made

>>386804
If you want to do anything about the masons, you need a massive chem attack on Grand Lodge. Just saying

>>386733
NIMBY detected
I'm not saying that anyone should shove 2 families of 12 into a ranch house, but the insistence that the only valid form of housing is low density single family houses with their own front and back yards makes new housing incredibly difficult to build.
If duplexes or townhouses or apartment buildings were easier to get zoned in your city, you wouldn't have a housing issue.
inb4 muh commieblox

>>386905
>NIMBY detected
What NIMBY-ism are you seeing? Ultra-dense housing is a hellscape and a breeding ground for horrors.

It is fundamentally unreasonable and unjust to artificially flood our countries with millions and millions and millions of third world foreigners. Forcibly export them back to where they came from. These long term uninvited guests do not belong and have no claim to these lands.

Only once that is done will it be clear how to deal with the housing demand.

If this is not prioritized, then the housing demand issue will be politically usurped to be yet more "we need to kill our own civilization to serve destructive and hostile foreigners who actively disrespect our way of life" nonsense.

My people are more important than the peoples of other civilizations. That many of my people have grown up in such a comfortable place that they've forgotten that the world is an unkind place to those who fail to maintain borders is one of their chief sins. Kindness, a strength in a homogeneous society, becomes an extreme weakness when foreign groups seeking to take without giving move in.

The housing problem exists specifically because of government and boomer sabotage. Turning all cities into ultradense hellscapes like New York is not the way a place should grow. This takes a lot more than a few more apartments and townhouses.

The better solution is to found new towns. Spread the population out wider, not taller. Ultradensity is not a sustainable solution.

>>386426
>Deportations
>Literally hundreds deported daily,.
>What more do you want exactly?
I want exports to happen _much faster_ than they were being imported over the last four years. The goal is to repair society, NOT to return to "just before the last openly bad administration screwed us even harder". It's to entirely and completely pull the plug on the willful sabotage of society that the leftist projects are about.
Their generations of "let me just try this thing for a little while" has proven to be a mistake, so the plan will be cancelled and un-done. No questions, no negotiations, no ifs, ands, or buts.

>Diddy Files
>Who Cares?
It is important. "Everybody who's anybody" is in on it. We are all being ruled by some of the most vile creatures humanity is capable of producing. They lie, they sabotage, they harm innocents, and they live in a philosophical world where the highest thing to seek is sensory stimulus. The overly credulous morons who populate much of the public will definitely never do anything about this if they are not constantly made aware of this and reminded of it. The masses might still not do anything about it after being made aware of it, but there needs to be a reasonable threat of negative consequences for everyone, including those at the top of society. Otherwise they will continue to only ever get worse and worse and worse over time.

>Big Arrests
This links again to people of a certain class being immune to consequences. It should happen. Not just a few sacrificial pawns, but the guilty parties. Have them work diligently for good for years to reduce their sentence from life in prison to just a decade or two in prison. But they definitely deserve punishment that the public is made aware of in order for people to maintain their fading embers of trust and faith in the system.

The States are in what looks like a much better situation than before Trump got almost taken out. The good parts of his administration are strengthened in several ways over his 2016 term, and I do expect him to make some actual improvements and gains over the absolute shitshow that is the current government.

I give congratulations to the States for the benefits they are getting through Orange Man's second administration, and condolences for the portions of his behaviours that are controlled by the jews. I wish for a similar if not greater improvement and garbage-clearing in all western nations.

>>387067
>what NIMBY-ism
>if you build an apartment building, you are turning your town into New York City
>spread the population out wider, not taller
If you think anything more than 8 people an acre is "ultra dense", you are the boomer holding housing back.
Cities are more efficient in every metric but agriculture
>industries close to each other
>shorter commutes for each worker
>possiblity of commuting without a car, cars being the least efficient transport method imaginable
>shorter water pipes and electrical wires per person
Living spreading out with a front and back lawn is a LUXURY
NIMBY's Demand that everyone HAS to have that LUXURY or else they don't get to live anywhere, because they think that apartment buildings look icky

>https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/transparency-regarding-foreign-influence-at-american-universities/
Do you think that will include Israeli influence?
Naw, just kidding. I'm not that naive.

>>387183
>Cities are more efficient in every metric but agriculture
you also become indoctrinated cattle easier in a city, and there's tons of more emf bombardment to keep your immune system weaker

>>387316
>indoctrinated cattle easier in a city
in a city you can talk to people on the street. Politics is local
In the suburbs you talk to the internet and the TV
>emf bombardment
Whatever negative health effects you think this has, it is outweighed by the health benefits of walking instead of driving
>keep your immune system weaker
when the Europeans (continent with cities) met the Native Americans (continent without cities), who died of disease?

You seem to have a big hate boner for people who live in cities. You think they are the "coastal elites" maybe? What is more elite: living in an apartment or living on half an acre of DECORATIVE land

>>387183
>Cities are more efficient in every metric but agriculture
So is mass depopulation, with the positive it benefits agriculture.

>>387333
Even with a low population, cities are more efficient for everyone who isn't literally a farmer
Lower population = less tax revenue = less road maintenance
Cities have far less roads per person

Source: all of human history except for North America after 1950

>>387329
I think people who live in cities are indoctrinated cattle, they're the humans at the mouse utopia that those in power have been engineering for long.

Stay the fuck in your containment cities.

He does love to stand out, doesn't he...
>https://fortune.com/article/pope-francis-funeral-dress-code-donald-trump-blue-suit/

What should Democrats do now?
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjnw42p8lro
How about accept their failure and fuck off forever.

>>388573
What does this have to do with the thread topic?
Make s new thread. Let this one die already.

Some things never change.
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/04/trump-nbc-interview-constitution-economy/