I’m pro closing the border as my family immigrated themselves from countries that were not safe at all, however I’m truly confused on who is getting deported. Some people on the right have said that it’s people who specifically have committed crimes but is that the truth? Or Is it a random check of just people who look Latino? Like what’s going on? Ice is in my city & ppl are freaking out but some Latinos have been saying not to worry bc they’re only going after immigrants with records.

This seems to be an idea proposed after the events of 2020. I will say that at least where I live, the local police agency, most officers in the agency have a college degree already ? So....

"trump tried to flood the central valley" (the army core of engineers tried to release dam water that would flow to a now dry lake bed that can be directed to l.a.)

"trump shut off medicaid for 80 million people" (these web portals shut down for a few hours because they were scared their dei would get defunded)

"trump wants to invade greenland" (trump is playing hardball about eu defense spending in one of the most important regions in the world, where the u.s. is the only nation with a military base despite it belonging to an e.u. country)

"trump removing all troops from europe" (it was a tiny fraction of total forces stationed there)

etc...

Yes i hate when republicans do it to and also call them out, no i didnt vote for trump, yes I think musk is a nazi etc etc before you all shift the goalposts and claim im some maga white christian nationalist

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news

People keep saying that democrats can't blame the voters, for their enabling of getting a piece of shit into power. For a group of people that thinks all politicians are corrupt, the far-right sure does love putting the blame on others. That goes for centrist who voted right this year too, like fucking what???

If you're same talking points are about how the Democratic party hasn't done anything to help out the populace, can you even name 2 policies that they are responsible for in the last 3 years? Most Americans aren't even informed enough, they literally just eat the slop that is the news, not realizing that when they talk about the 'brainwashed' left, they are just as brainwashed.

Some might even say, "Eh, my vote doesn't matter anyway, I'm going to vote Trump". Literally the problem!

News can be tiktok, YouTube, Reddit, hell any place that filters information to you, instead of you actually looking it up yourself. These people are misinformed, and it's like they're perfectly okay with that fact. Their ignorance gives them a shield to defend behind, because it dissolves them of accountability.

I say, hold them accountable.

If you could back in time, who would you replace Trump OR Harris (or Stein for that matter) with? Who is the best centrist candidate in your opinion? Who would you have liked to see get into the WH?

I remember a conversation with my dad that stuck out to me. He told me that at one point, you could vote across the aisle depending on what YOUR values were and if the politicians line up with that.

He said that there was a time Republicans could be trusted with running the country and not total nutcases. They... just had different values than the Democrats but weren't crazy.

I do love my history but learning about what the country was like before is different from experiencing it.

So for the older folks here....what was the party like before Trump got into power? Will the old Republican party ever come back?

I've been thinking about my centrist opinions and grey-area, middle-ground politics recently, and I remember reading the quote from Malcolm X about the white centrist being the most dangerous political individual. People like me have only a handful of informed opinions, and even fewer beliefs they would/could protest for, and almost none that I would kill or die for. We stand by and decry to actions taken by our stronger oppressors and thereby give them the strength and authority to continue on the path of destruction instead of making counter-actions to disrupt that power dynamic. Being a centrist feels like playing chess against a dozen queens but you only have pawns.

White centrists have done more to destabilize the power dynamic and put oppressive authoritarians at the top than extremists and revolutionaries ever have. This whole trump business has given me so much political dissonance over my own opinions that I don't even know what I believe anymore and I don't know what to do about it.

It doesn't help that I'm in the U.S. Military and married to a nonbinary person. I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me, but when the rights of my spouse are infringed upon, I believe I would have the will to fight back however I can. As soon as I can, I want to start reading more local and state politics and less national and international news so I can generate a more informed opinion on the policies that affect my own environment and community.

I'm very confused and I feel like I don't politically fit in anywhere else. Thanks for letting me rant, and hopefully this reaches the right people.

I'm dead scared of trumps tariffs not only causing more inflation (Larry summer's warning - he's been right, but early on MANY THINGS) but devaluing the dollar losing reserve currecncy as a consequence ,dxy dropping very badly, blowing up inflation more, interest rates, more countries joining BRICS, anti American sentiment becoming more pervasive, including close Allies like Canada and Mexico [more Canada obviously in terms of ideology, culturism, language] , also fueling a market collapse, this would far offset any benefits of his tax cuts.

I do think he was right on the border. Sixty minutes did a piece on this huge “border hole" with nobody enforcing it in the San Diego area. People passing freely. Border patrol doing nothing because they were instructed not to. Even sixty minutes was flabbergasted. The fact Biden did nothing about it to at least close the fence was probably not an entirely insignificant factor contributing to his reelection. That also, in trumps defense, made no sense.

His perception Harris was acquiescing and dems being too leniant maybe was partially true, but he's going in with no stops, with nobody benefiting from these tariffs. Canada has stuck with the USA for centuries. Just why. To say I'm concerned would be an understatement . I have almost no hope (but not zero) his advisors will warn him and he'll backtrack today. Might be a good time to invest in countries like Brazil and Mexico where the sentiment is so horrible now in my opinion . I don't know. What I do know is he doesn't appear to be beneficial for the country and I wouldn't even be surprised if the wealthy begab to despise him too. my sentiment against him is undergoing much further deteoriation.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, I'm a moderate libertarian.

If the minimum wage kept pace with the ratio of the 70s it would be somewhere in the low 20s right?

Why not raise minimum wage? Poor people are great at spending all their money. See what happened with the stimmies?

Of course this administration will have nothing to do with it, but can you imagine the economic boom of markets expanding because this?

Good policy? Bad policy? Terrible policy?

American politics in a nutshell, folks.

We’re there ladies and gents.

Hi,

I haven’t been caught up with US elections or trumps standings to be honest.

Can someone tell me why Trump only removed the T if he/his sponsors dislike the whole LGBT movement.

Why did he just remove the T, is it just a progression thing where identities will be slowly removed or is there some sort of specific hatred for transgender people??

Edit: I’m a gay man so was just interested, honestly I’m more of a “please let me live my life in peace, I don’t need anyone to love me or hate me, just be neutral with me or leave me alone” but to summarise my views are:

• Neogender/Xenogender/NB is not really apart of LGBT and I don’t think they represent me as a person at all, or anyone within LGB anyway, and to be honest I don’t even think that transsexual people see them apart of “T” - also since when are Furries apart of LGBT?! Honestly I’m a young guy, but I don’t even associate with my own community anymore.

• I don’t really believe that children should be taught anything overly sexual, just teach them general stuff about safe sex at the age of 16, anything younger with parent permissions and no class needs to go into details as I find that quite strange.

• Schools should be a neutral place where people aren’t bullied or directed to a certain sexuality, just let people be people, they will work it out.

• There should be antibullying schemes in place against homophobia/transphobia as realistically that goes against the neutral part, because it starts pushing an agenda that one type of person is bad, etc.

• I don’t believe that transgender women should be in woman’s sports.

• If you’re not passing don’t be outraged if someone misgenders you…and they shouldn’t lose their jobs. It’s your responsibility to aid in you being identified with the correct pronoun, not everyone around you.

• Biological Men/Women do not have to date you, and it’s their preference to date whoever they want, there is absolutely nothing wrong in that, if they don’t want to date trans people that’s fine, keep moving…welcome to the real world, you can’t demand love.

It’s hard to describe I just believe in people not causing issues for others and just let people live their life without imposing beliefs on other people…but I would like people to also be protected from discrimination, harassment, as not everyone will want to allow people to just live their life in peace.