The America Great Again Thread

So USPS suspends all mail from china?!

this shit is getting weird



The move comes after rules came into force in the US which closed a loophole that allowed small packages worth $800 or less to be sent to America without paying taxes or fees.

Chinese retailers, such as online giants Shein and Temu, have used the tax exemption to ship low value packages duty-free to the US

uh oh, those gen x'ers who voted for trump are going to be pissed

This type of stuff is going to drive up the cost of everything but am not convinced that we could afford to continue on the path we been on. Since the Clinton years the US has kind of stagnated with anemic growth. We really haven’t had good times in 30 years. And a certain segment of society has really struggled. All this even with historically low inflation and interest rates. Just to get by requires both parents to work and in increasingly precarious jobs. Now am not saying we should actively try for inflation but that low inflation by itself has not resulted in much and we need to try something different. Not saying this is necessarily it but democrats really haven’t delivered (I am thinking especially of the Obama years).

And China has been acting like our enemy for years so not sure why we should continually treat them as a friend. We have been good to them so why the hate? Compare the way they treat us to the way Japan does….

sweetcell wrote:
dear american imperialists: great news! thanks to your messiah trump, you will indeed be getting a 51st state!!!

small change, tho: it won't be Canada.

it'll be Gaza.

In a different era, I'd by editing a Julian's America post about how Gaza is the new Riviera and "fuck St. Tropez, the Golen Heights is the Summer 2026 nightlife destination! If you're already too late to rent a penthouse unit, leverage Saudi debt financing to build your own resort!"

. . . but I don't have the energy anymore.

Julian, wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
dear american imperialists: great news! thanks to your messiah trump, you will indeed be getting a 51st state!!!

small change, tho: it won't be Canada.

it'll be Gaza.

In a different era, I'd by editing a Julian's America post about how Gaza is the new Riviera and "fuck St. Tropez, the Golen Heights is the Summer 2026 nightlife destination! If you're already too late to rent a penthouse unit, leverage Saudi debt financing to build your own resort!"

. . . but I don't have the energy anymore.

During my lifetime Beirut was once the riviera of the Middle East and Dubai was a camel outpost.

Looks like USPS reversed its decision on China parcels


Learning in Trump 2 it’s better to wait a week before reacting….save a lot of hassle.

hutch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
dear american imperialists: great news! thanks to your messiah trump, you will indeed be getting a 51st state!!!

small change, tho: it won't be Canada.

it'll be Gaza.

In a different era, I'd by editing a Julian's America post about how Gaza is the new Riviera and "fuck St. Tropez, the Golen Heights is the Summer 2026 nightlife destination! If you're already too late to rent a penthouse unit, leverage Saudi debt financing to build your own resort!"

. . . but I don't have the energy anymore.

During my lifetime Beirut was once the riviera of the Middle East and Dubai was a camel outpost.

Oh, going old school with it! The JA OGs recall gettin’ it on in Lebanon!

A.I.hatch wrote:
the thing is the average American doesn't understand is the massive amount of waste in the gov't isn't going to gov't bureaucrats
but it's those gov't contractors who make millions/billions a year working WITH the federal gov't with little to no oversight but a good old boys network that hands out the cash

elon is the world's richest man

hutch wrote:
This type of stuff is going to drive up the cost of everything but am not convinced that we could afford to continue on the path we been on. Since the Clinton years the US has kind of stagnated with anemic growth. We really haven’t had good times in 30 years. And a certain segment of society has really struggled. All this even with historically low inflation and interest rates. Just to get by requires both parents to work and in increasingly precarious jobs. Now am not saying we should actively try for inflation but that low inflation by itself has not resulted in much and we need to try something different. Not saying this is necessarily it but democrats really haven’t delivered (I am thinking especially of the Obama years).

it's incredible how, in this state of mind, any economic frustrations get pinned on Dems, only.  is it because the GOP has been written off?  we don't expect economic situation of the lower classes to improve under republicans?  IF SO WHY DO WE KEEP ELECTING THE GOP WHEN FEELING ECONOMIC PAIN??

"dems didn't make things better, so let's vote for the GOP to make things worse!"

i'm so pissed at american voters.  the whole world experienced inflation after the pandemic, but it was LOWEST in the US.  americans did better than everyone else.  the president has limited to no influence on the price of eggs - but let's all believe in the fantasy that only trump can fix it.

Definitely think people should have voted for Biden.

Both parties have failed the American people over the past 25 years.

Simply saying inflation is not our number one problem.

Economic stagnation, mal distribution are bigger problems. Of course inflation is a big issue too.

Along with Leopard Ate My Face that's making the rounds I saw this in reference to the shutting down of USAID that the CCP will of course be continuing on their path of influence that the GOP was so concerned with in the past..

They will come for you Cannibals never stop eating.

I guess Department of Education and NPR are next…

My partner will hit the streets when they go after NPR

  Had a too long rant, but it does feel like we were sold a bill of goods on being the lone world superpower from the 90s - some point in the past 8-10 years. They deregulated the banks and businesses giving us less option and less competition. They offshored manufacturing and jobs. They goosed the economy with financial games and tricks and we as a society kind of coasted for decades on a variety of communal vibes mostly based on "American exceptionalism".
  We coasted on a sense of peace and prosperity through the 90s, then solidarity and resolve post-9/11, then the idea of a "post-race" president, then to some degree #resist. I feel like the last vestiges of that cracked under Biden (from inflation and financial
"mal-distribution" and immigration along with bombastic rhetoric and tribal mistrusts) and fully crumbled with this second Trump administration. We make very little here, outside of bombs, guns and celebrities/influencers/attention grifters. We no longer have a communal sense of identity and without that there can be no rebuilding. I don't know and can't imagine (barring external events) how that can be rebuilt, especially if it remains profitable for a good amount of people at the top and something to which folks from the bottom to top of the middle can put their heads in the sand about. The folks at the bottom are either stretched too thin to do anything, have had their ire redirected and used by others or to some degree they are relishing in having others to share in their pain. 
  This was still too long.

hutch wrote:
I guess Department of Education and NPR are next…

My partner will hit the streets when they go after NPR

I'm guessing there will be an avalanche of lawsuits over Dept of Ed

Musk and Trump are two peas in a "fuck you, sue me pod".
Who, for how much and for how long can anyone fight?
Not to mention, who are the final arbiters of justice?
A 5-4 or 6-3"fuck you", 

evilizac wrote:
Musk and Trump are two peas in a "fuck you, sue me pod".
Who, for how much and for how long can anyone fight?
Not to mention, who are the final arbiters of justice?
A 5-4 or 6-3"fuck you",

makes me want to be a carnivore if these are the kind of peas that are out there

what.  the.  actual.  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce
The offer — which tells federal employees that they can quit their jobs and receive roughly eight months of pay and benefits — had up until Tuesday not been made available to most national security roles in an apparent cognizance of their critical function to the security of the nation.

fuck that cognizance, burn it all down!  a definite recipe for success in foreign intelligence is to replace all the folks with knowledge, experience & contacts with new people whose #1 qualification is loyalty to trump.  i mean, how hard can the work be?  should be easy to pull any ol' mouthbreather off the streets and drop them into Langley… just learn on the job.  what could go wrong?

between this and USAID, i hear they have run out of champagne in moscow and beijing.

(TAN: trump's strategy is working on me… i just can't anymore.  i'm exhausted, exasperated, beyond frustrated, angry, questioning both my identity and that of the american people… congrats, you orange-hued wrecking ball)

The offer is very poor so very few will likely take it.

I read today only 20,000 government employees have accepted

But , yes, it’s worrying….

If only there had been a recent election….


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2egvv8mk79o

Two wings of the same bird, right? Except, one wing is cancerous and has gangrene and leprosy oh and is infected with the evil entity from Idle Hands. . . 

Yeah, it's so weird they didn't vote for the party that was actively arming a wholescale slaughter of their people!

hutch wrote:
If only there had been a recent election….


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2egvv8mk79o