Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

Justin Trudeau isn’t the governor…but we all know that.

Again, thought experiment, imagine Biden said this.

not at all, hes just your average narcissist, i.e. entitled!

It's not even his every thought. Trump has never mentioned Panama before, and knows nothing about international trade or shipping.

It's obvious that during one of his Mar-a-Lago dinners some wealthy shipping magnet or similar mentioned how the Panama canals costs had risen and that China were taking more slots meaning less for US (read their) shipping.

And Trump recalls that in school he was told about the canal and how US were involved.

That's it. That is as deep as it goes. He knows nothing about it, except that the US is big and Panama is small and therefore they will do whatever he says because otherwise....

He tried the same bravado with China last term and ended up bailing out soya bean farmers with billions of tax dollars. So he is going to try to bully someone else this time.

Of course what he doesn't understand, one of the many things he doesn't understand, is that the US cannot afford to lose access to the canal. It would be disastrous for their international trade

…oh dont worry folks, the amount of absolute bullsh1t thats gonna come from this man over the next few years will be like nothing else, and all of it, bullsh1t!

It's fairly par for the course for the Fanta Furher. Did anyone expect reason and kind wishes?

He's getting more and more unhinged, but it'll be good to see him retaliate over the President Musk stuff, as he surely will. His ego can't survive much more of it.

H1-B's aren't paid less, but they indeed are more inclined to stay with an employer, in order to get their green cards. However, positions filled by H1-B's don't go to conventional US-based hires, which is used as a way to keep everyone's wages down, that is, it's not like H1-B's earn less and US citizens earn more - they all earn the same at the same job level. Of course, enforcing that with the Pillage People running the department of Labor will get harder to do, hard enough as it is already.

As someone who spend nearly 40 years in high tech, H1-B visa abuse by employers is a thing, especially the Pillage People now making Combover Caligula's decisions for him. Employers game the 'we made this position available for everyone, didn't get any applications outside of H1-B' all the time. Employers really hate it when employees share salary data, too, that's been something since forever, one employer I had (a huge monopoly no longer with us) did encourage an annual survey, done by employees (actually organized by my office mate), that compared salary actuals by employment level and experience. Never worked for an employer that did that since (that was in the 70's)

This sort of thing, about buying Greenland etc, reminds me of Boris Johnsons bridge from Scotland to N.I.

I think Donny may be running the same game.

That is the game of virtue signalling.

This seems to be theatrics. As with Bojo and his epic bridge there was never any intention of a bridge, he knew it all to be complete utter bollox the whole time.

The public can speculate the details of the construction and the costs and benefits, doesnt matter he knows its not getting built.

The speculation is the point. Its all free advertising.

The idea was to paint an image. There was never any feckin bridge.

Im the kind of guy who considers this a possibility, this concept of mine reflects a truth about me, my character and my potential. I actually see this as a possibility. I may do this.

(But no, he didnt, it was a deception).

So DT, even if nothing whatsoever comes of these ideas of greenland and panama, gets to project the image of a daring, forward thinking, mover and shaker. All round ass kicker.

Nothing has to be done. He only has to be associated in the minds of the simple with "buying greenland".

Now if youll excuse me i have to browse some ferrari catalogues.

because im the type who may actually buy one.

Stick to what he promised and how he will deliver it.

I can’t see that happening to be honest:

Hopefully the H-1B issue will be raised in tonight’s GOP presidential debate. The Disney scandal is taking place in Florida, home to two of the candidates, Senator Marco Rubio and Governor Jeb Bush. Both candidates have proposed to expand the H-1B program without fixing any of the program’s flaws, which allow American workers to be overlooked for jobs or replaced by cheaper temporary workers. Donald Trump (of all people), the front-runner for several months, will be the only candidate on the stage tonight who has proposed sensible ways to fix the H-1B program: he has proposed that American workers have a first shot at job openings and would prevent employers from using the H-1B as a cheap labor program.

https://www.epi.org/blog/disney-h1b-scandal-in-spotlight-meet-american-workers-whose-jobs-careers-were-destroyed/

(article is nearly 10 years old)

The employees involved in Disney lost their case when the lawsuit was dismissed, but I’m wondering why is this all coming up again?

Sarah Blackwell, a Florida attorney who represented laid-off Disney workers, said Trump "no longer acknowledges" the problems with the H-1B visa.

"Some of the Disney workers are among the disappointed in his lack of support and action since the election," Blackwell said. "But there are American workers who have been, and are being, fired and training foreigners to take their jobs who still hold onto the hope that President Trump will be the hero he promised to be."

https://www.techtarget.com/searchhrsoftware/news/252479060/Trumps-H-1B-work-visa-actions-disappoint-ex-Disney-workers

Something tells me, seeing as how Trump has sided with Musk in the 'Tech Right' vs 'FarRight', you'll have some now backtracking on their statements and taking the knee, now what Trump has weighed in. They can be wrong, but they can't say Trump is wrong. Can't have that in a cult, no siree.

So, in a dispute between the American worker and big corporations Trump sides with the corporations.

Shocked. Nobody could ever see this coming.

He doesn’t need the votes or support of the dumb and poor, makes sense that he will go with the corporations.

They'll still cheer him on regardless. Sure they're still waiting on all that wealth to start trickling down like Reagan said it would.

Any day now...…............

Besides, in 4 years if he can't hide from what he'll do via POTUS immunity, or pardon himself and his cronies, whoever promises the best pardon and most kickbacks to him and his will get his endorsement and carry the MAGA mantle forward. 50/50 it's Vance, I don't think he's MAGA enough, he's Trumpy though, lies, doubletalk, cowardice. 4 years, though, is an extremely long time and here we go again.

I wonder where all them conspiracy theorists going on about unelected elites running things have disappeared