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

Any inaugural celebration parties around on Monday afternoon to celebrate the new overlord?

Americans are weird, going to rallies and inaugurations.

such a bonkers nation.

yea, you're right. if I had a euro every time I saw someone wearing a suit made out of Simon Harris flags….

You're always going to have more extremes in a far bigger country.

It's the exact same percentages in terms of those who are politically charged enough to care that much to attend conferences or inaugurations.

They've voted for the circus because the so-called grown ups didn't work for them. This is the consequence of left wing liberalism whether you want to believe that or not. It's the backlash to that. It's not just the US, they are just further down the road.

Whether it's mind-numbing incompetence, mass migration, a crippled justice system, a woke ideology of insanity constantly pushed on to people who know it's all crazy (and they've tolerated it for over 20 years), sheer hypocrisy when it comes to corruption.

The most acute problems are manifest in the cities they control where Democrats are most vulnerable to the consequences of their own policies. That is where it is most visible for Americans.

They see decline and all they want is an alternative. The only alternative at present is Trump.

What I feel many really want now is a Reagan type alternative but that's not on offer, unfortunately. Someone who can intelligently advocate for new standards and start reversing the social issues.

They'll have to get through the clown show first.

Either way the majority found the Democrats unpalatable.

To top it all the LA fires is more hideous Democrat incompetence on full display. It's a microcosm of what many felt before the election that they've got to see on full view after they made the only choice they could make in the election.

"a woke ideology"

Oh FFS, enough of the culture war nonsense please!

It's beyond embarrassing at this stage.

This is the go-to line to try to avoid the fact many people care about this and they don't like the direction of travel. You'd rather all the craziness is not spoken about and is just ignored.

The problem the left has is that it's not being ignored.

You know it's thought that the "they/them" ads for the Republicans played primarily at sport events had a big impact on the outcome and may even have swung it decisively to Trump in the end.

Many people care about this, they don't like the direction of travel and they are voting with their ballot.

That's why we have Trump.

Keep the ostrich mentality if you wish. That's the Democratic Party all over - don't fix the problem, insult people who disagree, stick the fingers in the ears and pretend there is no problem.

It's not working out well, is it?

They would vote for a black man to be president but not a woman? Nope, not buying it. Another Democratic Party excuse down from HQ. Do you think Kamala Harris was a good candidate?

Yeah down to other things like Harris being part of the disasterous Biden administration plus she wasn't able to properly spell out how her policies would differ from Biden.

Anyway in other news President Elect Donald Trump is on his way to Washington as we speak.

Well I for one am convinced. Harris was vice potus to a man that beat Trump in the previous election. Since when Trump had stolen classified documents, been convicted of fraud etc etc.

But you are right about Harris not having clear policies. She never stood a chance against Trump as he had a concept of a plan.

It's more than a culture war though.

When Kermit says "To top it all the LA fires is more hideous Democrat incompetence on full display. It's a microcosm of what many felt before the election that they've got to see on full view after they made the only choice they could make in the election." he is not wrong. There is little appetite by the Democrat-led city authority to properly manage water so that water hydrants actually have water in them. However, when it comes to painting them same water hydrants in the LGBTQ rainbow colours, no problem - funding is there first and foremost.

As for "it's beyond embarrassing at this stage" - rightly so, the Democrats priorities are so far up their own derriere they probably enjoy the tickle of it all.

The same Trump that was fully behind 'Operation Warp Speed' which led to those 'vaccinations' being developed. Why would he spread vaccine misinformation about the very programme he sponsored? Trump always encouraged vaccination for the vulnerable, never as a mass public vaccination programme.

PLoS is just another hard left-wing NGO who would no doubt be highlighting 'vaccine damage' had Trump insisted on a compulsory vaccination programme for every American citizen.

So he was fully behind operation warp speed but didn't agree with it aims?