Trump - The positives - (see Mod note in OP)

I used to think the same but this election has proven that it’s not “it’s the economy stupid” but “it’s the perception of the economy by the stupid, stupid”

Biden at end of 2024 had created possibly the best US economy for a very very long time by just about any metric from unemployment to inflation to rates to stock market highs

Trump could cause a Great Depression type crash in next few years and you bet the media (social and traditional) would blame the democrats for it and let Trump off the hook, hell he did **** up the economy on his way out the first time around and yet people were looking back with rose tinted glasses

And then there’s young people who voted for Trump, I haven’t seen so much nose cutting since Brexit

I suspect if we see even higher inflation in egg prices under Trump over next 4 years

His supporters will downplay and dismiss it

Like I said it’s not about reality but perception of reality, which is why a president with few policies or often contradictory policies is now in White House

Facts and reality be damned

Eagerly awaiting to see what happens to price of eggs when the migrants who work on farms, transportation and shops are sent home and not replaced by anyone

^ gonna do wonders for egg and food prices

In the short term it will likely put further upward pressure on prices. The long term it's not so certain and may well result in lower real prices.

The reason for this is that it will force innovation and automation in sectors where this is difficult. An abundance of cheap labour is a known drag on productivity and holds back investment in technology with long or uncertain payoffs

Migrants won't be replaced by Americans but by machines

So much delusion in one post! Let's debunk some of the misinformation you've swallowed and are now regurgitating:

Donald Trump did not win a landslide victory. He won by one of the narrowest margins in US presidential history:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5094602-a-landslide-just-0-15-percent-of-all-voters-determined-trumps-2024-victory/

Democrats did not operate an "open boarders" policy. Yes, the number of recorded encounters with migrants by US border officials increased during Biden's term but by the end of 2024, they were back to similar levels to those recorded during Trump's presidency (whose figures were also lower than normal due to the Covid 19 pandemic). Trump was also responsible for preventing a bi-partisan bill aimed at tightening border security in May 2024, proof that he doesn't actually care about the issue:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jp4xqx2z3o

You are, of course, correct about echo chambers but you're on very shaky ground claiming Trump isn't far right when his financial policies are corrupt, quid-pro-quo tax breaks for the billionaires who fund his campaigns (and quite brazenly bribed him with donations to his "inauguration fund" and a million dollar deal for a biopic about his mail order bride that no one has any interest in watching). Of coures those tax breaks are funded by cutting public services (which ironically would be of most benefit to the under-educated working class that voted for him in droves). Pretty right wing. Add in his opposition to abortion (bought and paid for with the votes of fundamentalist Christians) and his courting of white supremacists and repeating of their slogans which clearly demonstrate he's a racist (as well as a rapist with likely hebephilic / incestuous inclinations). Add it all together and it's pretty hard not to classify him as "far right".

That said, in all honesty, the term "far right" implies an ideology. I'm not sure such lofty aspirations as "ideals" can be ascribed to Trump. Grifters and con-men aren't exactly known for being idealogues and as his record clearly demonstrates he's purely transactional in nature. He tells his supporters what they want to hear rather than doing anything to improve their lives.

Trump cannot end Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy can't even do that: polls of the Ukrainian people highlight sizeable amounts of the population that would fight on even were their president to surrender and you can be sure he has no intention of doing so, even if all military aid from the USA stops (something that both Democrat and Republican senators and congress members would do everything in their power to prevent since it'd do serious damage to their arms industry). There is only one way a US President can end the war and that's by issuing an ultimatum to Putin along the lines of "remove your troops from the recognised territory of Ukraine or the US military is going in to do it for you". Even if we disregard the obvious and imagine that Putin doesn't have some form of kompremat over him, it's very clear that President Bonespurs is neither strong enough, moral enough or brave enough to do that.

ably assisted by Britain and some European arms suppliers

I did think about this yesterday -

1. Under Trump America won't start wars of aggression is more likely to "finish them" or "withdraw" - no more Iraq's or Afghanistan, Vietnam etc
2. Trump actually does what he says he going to do and tells people he is going to do it
3. He believes that everyone has their price and a deal can be made on absolutely everything.

The worse that will happen is that Americans will starve. Who is going to work the low skilled low paid jobs such as the food and manufacturing sector if he turfs all the illegal immigrants out.

The main positive thing he brings is making it easy to identify the facists around us.

A Democratic President in office was catastrophic for the Middle East. A lot of young Americans were turned off both choices.

I didn't realise servicemen were sacked for not taking the vaccine. There doesn't appear to be any disagreement with Trump's decision to give them back pay.

It was pretty frenzied here over covid but even we didn't go to the Biden extremes on vaccines.

You say " a lot of young Americans " were turned off both choices . Kamala won that popular vote. There is hope there that those young Americans will turn their country around after what looks to be a dictatorial regime for the next 4 years ...small hope but it is still a positive .

I agree re the US servicemen . Also Biden did not deal with immigration. Or Netanyahu .

I'd say that Trump is extremely predictable in that you only have to pay him the most surface level compliment and he loves you. Putin would not be second guessing the things he'd need to say in order to persuade Trump. What IS unpredictable is who has his ear as an advisor, because there is a swirling vortex of sycophants around him and each has a knife out for the next.

I can inderstand why he was elected and fair play to him.

He is right to pull out of WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement.

It will be interesting to see his stance on the UN which is not fit for purpose.

I also think NATO will be really shaken up this time around.