Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123591600#Comment_123591600

No president can usurp the US constitution.

Not by themselves. They need an organisation behind them.

The fact is that public consensus has been coming apart for a long time in the US. Social media, underpinned by chronic cultural problems has polarised American society, inducing widespread radicalisation. The difference between the right and left on this is that the left are still fractured while the right has largely united and they've united under Trump. Their guiding principle is not the US constitution. It is the word of Trump speaking to their prejudices and fears. This is the essence of a particularly scary term you may have heard in the last year - 'post-constitutional America'.

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct

Eloquent speech from Charlie Angus

https://bsky.app/profile/adriennebo.bsky.social/post/3lsoxrlqs6s2w

lumphammer2

Donald Trump must be the first time in history that a weak, lazy man totally uninterested in his job who basically spends 99% of his time asleep or playing golf is idolised by millions of uninformed zombies …… Trump has no input whatsoever on government and has delegated that to incompetent extremists who answer to either Project 2025 itself an incompetent project or Netanyahu ….. Trump is a paper tiger and a con ….. a liar and a marketeer snake oil salesman who comes out every now and again to spout the propaganda of what is behind him ….. he speaks for an entity that is akin to The Handmaid's Tale …. but he is the Basil Fawlty spoof version ….. he speaks to the press ….. abuses Kaitlan Collins or whoever is in the firing line ….. and then rides off into the sunset as all cowboys do ….. in this case to play golf and say he beat Tiger Woods or whoever …… another lie ….. while he allows a group of incompetent unelected hardline ministers run America as some sort of a cross between Gilead and Fawlty Towers with Maxwell Not-So-Smart in charge of security, trade and economics …..

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123591686#Comment_123591686

Hitler famously used to sleep until after midday after nights of staying up till 3am ranting to his guests. No one ever disturbed him, not even for D-Day and it resulted in no tanks being sent to the coast to push back the allies.

Trump will slob around and sleep most of the day but once he gets his BIG Mac and settles in for a night of Faux news tjen he comes to life, jabbering to the world on social media.

Narcissists tend to be lazy and incompetent but loving telling others how everything should be done and no one does it better than them.

Doesn't say alot of the human race that we flock to them like moths to a bulb.

Igotadose

Tariffs and annexation yields (imo) essentially no US wine sales to Canada last month. Down 94% YOY which imo means nothing sold.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trump-trade-war-alcohol-sales-dropped-after-provinces-pulled-us-products/

Economics101

Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but the heading in the above chart should read "US Exports of Wine to Canada", or alternatively "Canadian Imports of Wine from the US".

No argument about the substance of the chart, though.