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

Kamala couldn't even distance herself from her offer of free surgeries for illegal immigrant trans prisoners. She was a disaster and is the sole reason we have Trump, Americans had enough of Trump and gave the keys to the dems and Biden, then along came the worst candidate in history and they felt they had no choice but to return to Trump.

It was an issue, because they made it an issue. Telling people their kids would come home from school a different gender, and other assorted nonsense. Standard RW/Authoritarian playbook, tell your electorate that "x" is causing all the problems, and you know how to fix it.

Can we ditch Android and the other American tech firms?

One thing that will cause issues for the US public is the removal of the $800 tariff free import value. Bye bye to all that cheap Chinese tat ordered on Temu. They (US customers) will be liable for all duties due any and any administration costs.

We all know what it was like ordering online from outside the EU when the €22 order value VAT exemption was removed.

Why the US had the limit set so high at $800 beggers belief.

That's actually a tough one. As pointed out lots of American brands of drink/food are actually manufactured in Europe to EU standards. Though I guess you'd still be boycotting the named American company.

One possibility which I don't see mentioned is wine. Though the problem with boycotting this is most of it comes from California and Oregon which didn't vote for Trump.

The ads certainly seem to have hoodwinked you anyway. Her statement was she would follow the law, the same law that Trump followed in his first term

Unfortunately everyone is responsible over there. So voted for Trump or not we should make them all realise the extent of their mistake.

So what should the Democrats have done - told the NCAA to change their eligibility rules? Because it wasn't government policy that allowed trans swimmers to compete in female events, it was NCAA eligibility criteria for swimming. The policy was not implemented by Harris or Biden or Obama. In fact I think the strongest statement from anyone in a leadership position or position of power was along the lines of its up to individual sports to determine their eligibility criteria but to strive for inclusion and fairness where possible following the science.

It bears repeating - the democrats talked f*ck about trans issues in the campaign and where they did it was statements like "follow the law" and 2treat people with respect" - radical stuff!

I doubt that Trump is capable of the 4D chess move I'm hoping for with Musk.

Reel him in, give him enough rope to hang himself and then take everything off him, leave him penniless!!!

I don't normally post in these threads, so I'm backing out now take my posts apart if you want but it's my opinion.

Thanks.

How should that have worked, exactly? Protests wouldn't have prevented anything - Trump was the duly nominated candidate. Harris was his opponent. Harris and Trump's campaigns spent billions getting the word out. Trump actually, again, lost the popular vote if you count Democrats and Independents together, though the numbers were slight.

Harris was the duly nominated candidate for the Democratic party, but as we all know that was a mess and, had there actually been a primary and a candidate running for a year or so before the election, things might've turned out different.

But, again and again, if you walk into the polling booth and choose Trump, it's your choice you've made. No gun was held to your had. People could've held their noses and voted Harris ffs.

Just curious as to which of them will be the loser or the gainer. I assume the loser will be the interloper, seeing as he is in the High Tech-science business. Trump I see as a modern robber-baron.