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

To be fair to Arab Americans it was like voting for kang or kodus. Look at the bigger picture, America is extremely polarised red or blue. Blue let Israel destroy it and happily supplied weapons and directly provided air defence. Red now might let them conquer what's left. I say might because it's speculation.

Laughable.

https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1886566848512110834

The name 'USAID' brings to mind fresh-faced college graduates handing out sacks of rice in the Congo, doesn't it? When in reality, it's paying for Denise Chaila to lecture us on the national broadcaster. The rot is deep.

at least 3.5 million valid votes were not counted due to widespread election fraud instigated by the red states policies to disenfranchise likely democrat voters. (Minority voters were especially targetted)

Phase 1
Millions of votes 'challenged' or purged from election registers resulting on voters being given 'Provisional ballots'

and phase 2

Millions of 'provisional ballots' simply thrown away.

Democrats should have raised hell over this, but they were too busy being 'the adults in the room' while the fascists taking advantage and breaking every convention and rule they could get away with

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f

It is obvious now where the ceasefire came from. Netanyahu was told this was the plan. Stop the bombing to give Trump the appearance of being a peacemaker and then have everything the Israelis wish for handed to them. And not only that, the US is going to pay for it.

Hamas had little option but to accept. No doubt they were given assurances and promises which last night were completely crossed.

So Trump has now just announced that he is in favour of taking over foreign sovereign land, displacing millions of people to be immigrants in other countries (but certainly not the US as it's only for Americans and hates foreigners) and will continue to support Israel fully and completely. He had no one word to say about the killings by Israeli defence forces. The lack of aid, and the control of foreign media.

A POTUS is completely and totally in subjugation to a foreign leader. This is the 'strong' leader people were tricked into supporting.

Yes, but would the 3.5 million votes have been in states where they would make the difference between a Harris and Trump victory? In 2024, Trump got much the same total vote as in 2020, but Harris got several million fewer than Bdien in 2020. This apprears to have happened in both Blue and Red states. Don't go down the same "stop the steal" rabbit hole as the Republicans. Also, Harris didn't do so well among male voters - put that down to mysogyny if you want, it has little to do with voter suppression.

Trump will declare a state of emergency and suspend elections, and because America will already be at war on multiple fronts, he'll get away with it
Unless there can be mass uprisings from within the US.

We're 3 weeks in. He's already begun to populate his concentration camps for migrants in Guantanamo bay, He's announced his Gulags in El Salvador where political prisoners can be disappeared never to be seen again…

He basically views another country as real estate

This nonsense again- if I don’t call Trump a rapist, then I’m a rapist myself - I’m not going there - I had enough of that rubbish in the election thread

Yes, most of the corruption took place in swing states controlled by republican governors.

If every valid vote was counted, Harris would have won with a very significant majority and the Democrats would almost certainly control both houses of government

I know you dont back Trump on everything but do you think what he said was evil last night?

Of course they will.

Loyalty to Trump stands above loyalty to your country.

It was predictable - everything Trump has said since before the election and now is extreme and exaggerated - he does it because he has no opposition - the Democrats are lost in the wilderness and have no idea how to respond to him - they are leaderless and directionless.

Placing value judgements on what Trump says is pointless at this late stage - we expect him to say such things and he’s supported by 70+ million Americans which is a frightening thought - but this is nothing new - posting outrage every second post achieves nothing in this discussion forum and questioning people who don’t is just idiotic. I’m more interested in discussion around alternatives, challenges, what the response might be from the Arab world, how what he said may escalate more terrorist attacks - but no, instead it’s “reds under the bed” paranoia responses - if I don’t post hate speech about Trump I must be a supporter of him. I’ve no interest in being forced to state x or y just to appease certain posters - they don’t own this thread.

I am just asking if you thought it was evil what he said.

I have agreed and debated a lot of things with you up to election and was never hostile towards you.

Its a really simple question.

H. Arendt’s point about the banality of evil springs to mind, but it’s a step up seeing Trump and Netanyahu sitting there as relaxed suited & booted leaders of state casually discussing the wipe out of a country as a benefit to all.

A super Trump solution.

Follow that by the dead in the eyes nodding heads in agreement across social media.

The new normal: casual evil with an official stamp. I don’t think I can say WTAF enough today.