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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#100751: Sep 15th 2015 at 10:38:19 AM

[up][up][up]I'm not American, pepper spray here isn't cheap and easy to come by here, people here don't bother much with your looks unless you have something to threaten them and knives have more than a single use.

With the amount of police abuse and police engaging on unlawful shootings, I don't think that cops are any safer.

And as I said, carrying one knife saved at least me from having my phone snatched away from me (and no I can't afford another one).

edited 15th Sep '15 10:39:22 AM by AngelusNox

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#100752: Sep 15th 2015 at 10:43:47 AM

I carry a small knife, but it stays in my pencil case an is used entirely to sharpen pencils. I also carry a sketch pad and pastels.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100753: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:03:01 AM

TONIGHT. CNN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE:

DRINKING GAME:

Take a shot if:

Trump says he loves somebody.

Trump says somebody has made him "a lot of money"

Trump mentions "TRUMP TOWAR"

Chris Christie calls Rand Paul "a threat to national security"

Someone calls Jeb Bush "low" energy.

edited 15th Sep '15 11:03:20 AM by BAFFU

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100754: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:04:14 AM

[up][up][up] They are quite useful aren't they?

The only knife I've ever carried is a pocket one, and I always have it with me wherever I go. You never know when you might need it.smile

[up]You tryin to kill us all?tongue

edited 15th Sep '15 11:07:04 AM by Skycobra51

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#100756: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:13:15 AM

[up][up][up][up]I do that a lot with mine, mostly because I tend to lose all my sharpeners.

[up][up][up]Take a shot every time the camera focuses on Trump's toupee.

[up][up]If you have an entire computer lab to disassemble and all the wires are tied up you'll be really thankful for having one.

[up]Another step on the right direction.

edited 15th Sep '15 11:15:06 AM by AngelusNox

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100757: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:17:16 AM

[up][up]That's good, just hope that accusations of racism aren't flung against the police if some of the unidentified rapists end up being minorities.

On the bright side, Lynch is doing a way better job than Holder ever did.

edited 15th Sep '15 11:33:10 AM by Skycobra51

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TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#100758: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:19:12 AM

Amusingly, even in a country with so many firearms as Finland, the main weapon used in virtually all homicides (even if the perpetrator has a gun) is a knife. God help you if they spot a gun on you.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#100759: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:36:46 AM

[up]Puukkos are cool and I'd really like to own a Sami.

But in all seriousness, knife assaults have a higher Lethality rate than handguns.

There were enough studies about this already, most assaults happen under 5m of distance between the assailant and victim, under this distance the ability of inflicting damage with a unsheathed blade is higher than being able to reliably shoot someone with a handgun. Due to the problems associated with gun shots (noise and handgun cartridges suck at inflicting outright lethal wounds), most victims of gun shots have a fairly good chance of survival if the victim receives medical care withing 30m, with knives not only hitting major arteries or debilitating with stabbings is more likely to happen and making the victim more unlikely to receive medical care due to the silent nature of knife attacks.

edited 15th Sep '15 11:42:32 AM by AngelusNox

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#100760: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:39:47 AM

[up][up][up] Not having overseen Fast and Furious defiantly helps. And in all due fairness, near the end Holder did quite a bit of good. I really respected him for holding a fair inquiry for Wilson. It would have been easy for them to just toss the man into prison to appease the mob, and maybe even Holder's own sensibilities, but they made a through inquiry and got to the bottom of things, in particular besides confirming the "Hands up don't shoot" thing was a myth, the fact that Ferguson was indeed a cesspit of police corruption on a level that would not be out of place in some backward third world hell hole. Lynch, save for the FIFA investigation, is just continuing with his good work.

edited 15th Sep '15 11:39:56 AM by JackOLantern1337

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100761: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:45:52 AM

[up]Probably the two things Holder did right. In my opinion, he should've been strung up for Fast&Furious, nice job giving more guns to criminals, but I digress.

edited 15th Sep '15 11:47:44 AM by Skycobra51

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#100762: Sep 15th 2015 at 11:57:18 AM

Fast and Furious was a program to track illegal weapons sales to identify the dealers and middlemen involved. The BATFE lacks the statutory authority to require arms dealers to track their sales (thanks Congress) so a complex sting operation was seen as the best option. To my knowledge, no weapons were intentionally sold to drug dealers; rather, existing sales were tracked instead of being intercepted in order to see where they went.

The whole thing had the stink of mismanagement about it from day one, but it was not illegal, and wouldn't have been necessary at all if Congress hadn't sabotaged the BATFE's enforcement capabilities to begin with.

Making it into a scandal was one hundred percent political, just like Benghazi and Hillary Clinton's private emails: Republicans using manufactured scandals to distract people from their complete inability to govern.

edited 15th Sep '15 12:52:01 PM by Fighteer

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
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#100763: Sep 15th 2015 at 12:09:43 PM

[up]Maybe not intentionally, but they still dropped the ball. There's a reason the KISS(Keep It Simple Stupid) principal exsists.

Then again, it is the US government, nothing its done ever goes to plan.

edited 15th Sep '15 12:11:27 PM by Skycobra51

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#100764: Sep 15th 2015 at 12:23:16 PM

[up][up] But did they ever recover the weapons? And no, after they were used to kill border patrol agents does not count.

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100765: Sep 15th 2015 at 12:33:12 PM

Not that I'm aware of, I'm pretty sure they lost track of them.

edited 15th Sep '15 12:35:35 PM by Skycobra51

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#100766: Sep 15th 2015 at 12:47:31 PM

Conservative group plans TV ads to attack Trump for not actually being conservative

Much of Trump's rise has been attributed to his being outside the traditional political world. The billionaire, who has never held public office or previously run for a government job, has said he will fix the system.

The Super Pac ads aim to depict him as part of the political establishment and just another politician, repeatedly describing him as "the worst kind of politician."

Club for Growth has long been a thorn in the side of establishment Republicans, but in launching these ads it is aligning itself more closely with those in the party hoping to defeat Trump.

Dat last sentence. Alliances, how quickly they change based on convenience.

"Can we please stop blaming the media for Donald Trump?" asks the Washington Post

To believe that Donald Trump is a media creation born of a desire for ratings, you have to believe one other thing: That conservatives, who comprise much of Trump's support base at the moment, take their marching orders from the media. Which, of course, they don't.

Outside of Fox News Channel and the Drudge Report, conservatives trust almost no one in the media.

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100767: Sep 15th 2015 at 12:50:24 PM

[up]Club for Growth and the Super Pac are only lashing out because Trump is probably the first candidate to not need them and in the case of CFG, told them where to stick it (I'll bet my last dollar that "No" isn't the only thing he said to them.)

But yeah good luck to them, because Trump will eat them all alive. With a pinch of salt, or maybe even some curry.tongue

edited 15th Sep '15 1:09:55 PM by Skycobra51

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SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#100768: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:24:15 PM

Is anybody else surprised that there hasn't been a single attempt on Trump's life? Really, you would expect such a hateful rhetoric-spewing piece of dog shit to have stared down the barrel of a gun at least once into the election by now.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
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Lost in Space
#100769: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:26:05 PM

It's kind of weird to think about, but presidential candidates rarely get people invested in them enough to try to assassinate them. And there haven't been any serious political assassination attempts in the U.S. since the one on Reagan, that I can recall.

Trump doesn't qualify for Secret Service protection yet, so he's just out there being Trump. People love him. He hasn't done anything yet to directly earn anyone's abject hatred, and he's wealthy, white, and male, which make him as safe demographically as you can get.

edited 15th Sep '15 1:27:35 PM by Fighteer

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BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100770: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:35:09 PM

Well I can picture some Trump University student taking a shot at him.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#100771: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:39:17 PM

This is a dumb question, but for the people living in the US right now, does your state issue you trash cans that the dump trucks come empty every week, or do you buy your own?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#100772: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:39:25 PM

[up][up]I do wonder why it doesn't happen more often in our current environment of stark inequality, but most of the time the lashing out occurs at a much lower level, like a disgruntled former employee killing his co-workers instead of his CEO. It's more than anything a crime of opportunity, not meticulous planning of the sort required to take down a big name.

[up] Trash collection varies widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Where I live, the local municipality handles it. There is a nominal, one-time charge for each trash bin, and recycling bins are free. You also pay for the collection service itself, at intervals from tri-monthly to annually.

In some areas, the collection bins are owned by the city and you only owe a fee if yours needs to be replaced. In others, private companies contract with the jurisdiction (city or county) and households pay them directly for the service.

edited 15th Sep '15 2:31:56 PM by Fighteer

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#100773: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:42:10 PM

Reagan was an odd case when you consider the reason for the attempt wasn't really a political one.

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#100774: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:43:00 PM

Edit: [nja]'d to the point where my post was useless (and incorrect).

edited 15th Sep '15 1:43:30 PM by TotemicHero

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
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A procrastination in of itself
#100775: Sep 15th 2015 at 1:43:40 PM

The kind of groups likely to carry out an assassination are going to be organised groups, the FBI and CIA tend to have such groups under control. That leaves lone wolf attacks, so you're looking for a heavily armed nut, into conspiracy theories, detached from reality, probably poor and with some kind of mental health problem.

That's not a Trump assassin that's a Trump voter.

edited 15th Sep '15 1:44:16 PM by Silasw

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