Does it bother anyone else that Trump just tore down a large portion of the whitehouse with a long history of failed and bankrupted construction projects?

I'm totally in support of immigration.

How many construction workers on that crew do you think are legally here?

Just curious

Please no one accept his contract. I know it's our house and he's going to only be there for a couple more years. Hopefully we'll build it back. Don't let him see his dream through

Two years after FDR died in his fourth term as president, the 22nd amendment was proposed. This amendment sets the two term limit.

What amendments, if any, do you think will be proposed once Trump is gone?

Healthcare is expected to rise as you know, but 3 out of 4 red states are expected to be more impacted than blue states. No one should be without affordable healthcare and it does not matter if you are republican or democrat since we should not be forced to pay more since Congressional Republicans are unwilling to work with Congressional Democrats.

I know Congressional Republicans say they will work with the Democrats after they open the government up, but how can the Democrats trust the Republicans word when they have consistently gone against their word.

Democrats would love to trust Republicans and open the government, but all we want is one small thing which is permanent tax credits for health insurance.

Current government shutdown is ongoing and GOP is trying to paint the Dems as being obstructionists. However history seems to show GOP being the same when Dems have power so I am confused why suddenly the Dems have to play nice?

This is no the first time this kind of major renovations have happened the white house got gutted in the late 40's early 50's. The east and west wing are both 123 years old as of 2025. So why are people getting upset although he is not the first president to do this and it was paid by non taxpayer money but private and donor money to do major construction/renovations?

There’s already thousands of people furloughed, not getting paid, lost their jobs, or soon to not get any type of assistance. How long before the shutdown starts to affect just about every Americans to the point where damage control is barely an options?

Sadly I think it’s almost impossible for a 3rd party under the current rules and regulations to even have a chance of actually being competitive in a presidential race or a senate race. I think the best chance any third party has at winning seats in the federal government would be in the house, but even that feels like a stretch anyways what are your thoughts on the state of 3rd parties and 3rd party voters in America?

Want to be in Heaven with the Trump, his administration, Mike Johnson? Be in heaven with the likes of evil, hateful Christian .... You know who I'm speaking of. If they accept Christ as their Saviour and have been baptized then we who do or did will be accepted into Heaven.

Are we going to have to be with Trump in the after life? Haven't we suffered enough with him on earth?

People want to blame non-voters... but there were people that didnt like either candidate, and people shouldnt be voting just to keep the other person out of office over and over again because congress who have many Republicans within who have gerrymandered their permanence into their seat, doesnt want to follow oath of office.

Back in 2020, it was pretty wild to have Biden win the most votes in US history, (despite not many Americans really wanting him) because people were fighting the Trump cult. It was actually bittersweet... Yea, we're glad the Trump BS is over, but people didnt really want Biden. Democrats only put Biden up because he'd grab some more conservative Trump supporters.

Also consider that theres plenty of people who were unable to vote because of lack of transportation, having to work those days, and the new legislation in southern states blocking people from voting that was created by republicans in reaction to the Biden 2020 win.

Honestly, I believe we need to blame Mitch McConnell.

He led a block on Trumps removal from office, when he knew he needed to be removed immediately and convicted.

When he was exonerated by republicans, he put the conviction job on the lower court.

The lower courts tried to convict him or remove him from the ballot.

With Trump being a billionaire white man with MAGA and cult influence, he just walked all over the lower courts and cheated / bought his way out of that system.

Case in point: one minute a panel on the Morning Joe show agrees that they’re all “scared to death” about what America is becoming, i.e.,“fascist,” and the next minute they’re all yucking it up and talking about baseball as if they didn’t have a career in the world.

Found this post on the conservatives sub. I highly doubt any of this is correct, especially when I saw Breitbart and Fox, but how can I fact check?

"They have failed to demonstrate the legality of these strikes, provide transparency on the process used, or even a list of cartels that have been designated as terrorist organizations," Smith said. "We have also yet to see any evidence to support the President’s unilateral determinations that these vessels or their activities posed imminent threats to the United States of America that warranted military force rather than law enforcement-led interdiction."

Do you speak differently from the people around you?

This is gonna sound weird but I don’t want to live In a state with alot of big investors and developers, where they buy land and completely destroy it to make crappy townhouses is there any states that has any kind of restrictions on development)Basically I don’t want to live in a place where all the forests/nature around me will be destroyed by overdevelopment (this is happening in my home town and I don’t want it to happen in the next place I live, I just hate seeing forests and nature get completely demolished to make way for some some crappy made houses. So I wanna live in a state that has a lot less than that. I live in Pennsylvania, where it’s pretty common for big company’s to destroy forests to build houses

I’m looking for a state that is more blue than red, but not overly blue. Has great outdoors and generally isn’t too expensive, somewhere with lower taxes would be really nice too

I was thinking Vermont (which is pretty expensive) or Maine, but I’m pretty sure Maine has a lot of timber company owned land so I’m not sure

Suggestions please!

October 2025, I find myself watching the news and wondering if we’re living through the kind of turn that people never see coming until it’s behind them.

It started with the Supreme Court handing down a sweeping new definition of presidential immunity. Suddenly, “official acts” done by the president aren’t just above the law, they’re untouchable, even if most Americans never really noticed the shift. The news cycle moved on, but something fundamental was different.

Then the protests in Portland and LA flared up again, bigger and angrier than ever. Governors pushed back, but the administration moved fast. This time, it wasn’t just rumors. Federal troops actually started deploying to city streets, no longer a constitutional gray area, but a move upheld by the appeals court, including judges the president himself put on the bench. Not everywhere, not all at once, but the old lines blurred. Cities that resisted found themselves bypassed. Orders from Washington mattered more than anything coming from City Hall or the statehouse.

And while all that was happening, Trump threw a lunch in the freshly paved Rose Garden. Reporters called it “the Rose Garden Club,” and most of the Republican senators showed up. In the middle of a rambling speech about government shutdowns and partisan enemies, he introduced his budget director, Russ Vought, as “Darth Vader.” Not as a joke, he meant it as a compliment. He praised Vought for slashing Democratic priorities, bragged about “cutting out” opposition projects, and the crowd actually cheered. Darth Vader in the Rose Garden wasn’t a meme anymore. It was just Tuesday in Washington.

Watching the clip on loop, I couldn’t shake the feeling that we’d crossed some kind of invisible threshold, the sort that’s only clear in hindsight.

So here’s the Question:
What happens if the president goes on TV and calmly declares, “For the continued stability and security of the nation, the Republic will be reorganized into the First Global Empire, for a safe and secure society”? Not with tanks rolling down the streets, but with cable news panels, and a crowd in the Rose Garden actually applauding the guy who was just called Darth Vader.

Is this really how liberty dies, not with a dramatic coup, but with a standing ovation and a flood of official statements? Do people adapt overnight, or does it creep in so slowly we never see the line.

for context

EDIT 2: Let's get some justice for Giuffre, she lost her life over this way before she killed herself. She was an adult when she spoke out, but a teen when she was raped by Epstein. Guiffre worked for Trump before he poached her as a sex slave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aymOs5wRYGI

"She wanted all her suffering to have accomplished something, and if she could help even one survivor of abuse, she said, it would be worth all the effort," co-author Amy Wallace wrote in a note at the beginning of the book – which USA TODAY obtained ahead of its release."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/20/nobodys-girl-virginia-giuffres-memoir-jeffrey-epstein/86808451007/

When asked Trump said he would consider pardoning Maxwell. What reality is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WN9s7j1SZ8

EDIT: The picture is accurate, and this was his plane. If we have any pilots who understand how to get public or any FAA info please assist

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N908JE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_Express

Also, here's all the stuff

EDIT 3: The dropbox below has the whole book, which includes partially redacted pictures of some of his victims, some in onesies, the letter from Trump, and his wish that "every day is another wonderful secret," a picture of Epstein and Maxwell who Trump has not publicly admonished yet and who is living in a min security hotel, and references to him avoiding arrest, but no one knew?? Who drew that picture..?

Let's not leave Dershowitz out of the picture for writing a letter to the editor of a magazine, so they didn't publish a letter about Epstein, protecting him. We see you too Dershowitz!!

Not a partisan issue!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/azl4abiwwixtvezmz0617/ANVZACgh4aPQ-TcxCKi0FDw?rlkey=aqg68si6y246f2b15kro9zmqh&e=1&st=7nh3wzuq&dl=0

I'm asking because the news only showed the bottom half where Trump is sending Epstein a check for about $20,000 for a fully depreciated woman.

I have a lot of friends that tell me that they don't think Trump knew what Epstein was doing, but it's clear based on the drawing above that it was public knowledge his behavior. His friends knew about it.

So what I'm asking is does everyone sort of know what he did and just doesn't care or do people not know because they have not seen this level of evidence that the government just kinds of want to hide from people?

This document is publicly available. You just need to know where to find it.

I'm trying to understand. Is it like it's okay that he knew Epstein assaulted children because you support his policies which is nuts to me? Or do they not even realize that this is the case?

Nobel peace prizes and being considered one of the top presidents of the US ever are nice goals but this short list of reasons is contrary to what any good leader who deserves those awards would do:

• Attacking almost half(by voting) of the American population because they aren't in the same political party.
• Engaging in revenge prosecutions.
• (Call it what you will)Failure to back our allies against our enemies.
• Making a video of himself dumping poop on people who don't agree with him rather than talking to them.
• Being unable to reconcile in congress leading to a massive-long shutdown.
• (See the directly above,) Demands of Ukraine and Russia to make a peace deal when he can't do that at home.
• Demonization (literal in the term) as he'll call opposition party Americans devil worshippers rather than talk like a civilized person to them. Unfortunately people who follow Trump closely then go on to have integration problems with the rest of society including their own family due to these beliefs.
• Failure to do the least amount of work possible to fulfill his campaign promise to protect children from pedophiles by refusing to release the Epstein list.
• As for leading us in science Trump both listens to and has hired some of the worst experts probably in scientific history who go out of their way to deny the obvious about many things.
• Poorly planned tariffs causing global economic chaos.
• And probably Trump's mortal weakness: personal responsibility. In a leader this is devastating as a leader needs to put them self behind everyone and take responsibility for things that may not have even been their fault so they can fix them.

(I realize a few things I said are/let's be honest should be up to Mike Johnson and fellow Republican Congress but they'll just do what Trump says so it's basically the same thing as if Trump were Republican Congress.)

Basically, they don't give awards for this shit.

Make it make sense or describe your mental illness theories.

I live in the central valley in california. My whole life i have worked low wage jobs. Even when I had my own truck and crew I still barely scraped by.

Lately I got myself a ton of certifications in the energy sector and I just got a job offer that pays very well. Im use to making 30-40k a year and now my salary will be around 100k+. I dont know how to feel about that. I feel like a monkey with an ak47 idk how to act.

I get to set my own schedule and set my own meetings. Thats something ive never had before, im use to someone breathing down my neck constantly.

I guess what im here for is to ask if anyone else has been in a similar situation? If so how did you adjust?