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

That applies to most leaders, but not Trump.

He seems incapable of passing by a camera or microphone without unloading the latest thought he had in the last 20 minutes since the previous briefing.

Just an observation but perhaps having such a media intensive leader of the free world could break the obsession with social media ?.

It has been very intensive since Jan 20th and I could do with a break.

Maybe four years of this manic pace will leave a certain number of us weary of the constant barrage from our phones all day long 🤨

 Any Arab American who thought Trump was even a little teeny bit their friend was incredibly dim.

Any american who thinks he is their friend is a bit dim.

His wife - immigrant

ex-wife - immigrant.

His new best friend - immigrant

Kind of ironic really, considering his stance on immigrants.

Positives:

There's a bit in Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum explains the aliens tactics, "It's like chess, first you strategically position all your pieces and when the timing is right, you strike".

DJT and Musk are being a bit premature with some of their activities, showing their hand too early. Result: People know what they are planning. Straight out of the Project 2025 runbook.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/

"For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight."

If you google USAID scandal, you'll get a whole bunch of left wing/anti trump outlets decrying this as a right wing conspiracy theory!

Regardless if you agree with what the funding is going towards - maybe you think govt directly but secretly funding pro Dem outlets & journalists is a good thing, and of course a DEI panto for ourselves. The fact remains, these payments are about as far from democratic as you can get and were kept secret for a reason.

An Israeli type playbook was used when anyone objected to men beating women in sport,

Instead of just trying to defend unfair sporting competition people were called all sorts of names like transphobic or a Terf.

Donald isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, but he’s been the first global leader to do this, and it’s 100% right. He’s not worried about over sensitive people’s feelings.

He should still be in jail though. Monkeys and typewriters.

Exposing USAID foreign inference.

Both trans-accepting and trans-excluding sporting organisations and sporting events are available. "Elite level womem" — indeed, any women — are free to participate in whichever they prefer. They don't need the likes of Rapey Don to "protect" them by telling them what kind of events they are allowed to participate in.

If you imagine for an instant that Trump's agenda here has anything to do with protecting cis women, I have a large volume of $TRUMP to sell you.

And imagine if they had voted for Harris. And Harris had continues the Biden policy of never saying no to Netanyahu and fuelling the genocide.

You could then state that "This is the same Harris who as vice president , done nothing to stop weaponising genocide in Palestine. Why do you think she would change now"

There was no good choice for those voters who abhorred the genocide in Palestine and the US role in that genocide. And those voters included a lot more than just Arab Americans, it also included a lot of young voters. Had Harris given any hope to those opposed to US policy in Palestine? I don't think so, certainly not enough to win their votes.

And I agree, Trumps policy is full on support for Netanyahu. And possibly Harris would have been less. But she wasn't promising to stop all weapon exports to Netanyahu.

He sorted out the golf😀😀

so there is a trans olympics and a non trans olympics? Is there a trans accepting and a non accepting women’s World Cup as well.

maybe you have no issue with a biological man punching a biological woman in the face but most people do.

weird take - women should not have to compete against men in women's sports. The fact people feel the need to debate or have to resort to mental gymnastics to try an justify men competing against women is always humorous.

It's just flood-the-zone tactics, so the other mischief doesn't get as much coverage, like Eloon's Nazi-boy being booted once his eugenicist nonsense came out. Another one of Eloon's stormtroopers apparently had a business (at 19) to help RuZZians avoid scrutiny when applying for visas and such to the US.

Like I posted earlier, trans people want to be left alone. The 'christian persecution' EO is so in violation of the 1st amendment hopefully it goes down in flames fast. Christian persecution my hole.

If you think there's a demand for a trans-exclusive Olympics and a trans-exclusive Women's World Cup in whatever sport you are interested in, please feel free to organise one. But don't deny other people the freedom to organise the events that they think will attract competitors.

And stop praising Trump for his efforts do do this. It just makes you look as if what you really see as positive in Trump is the authoritatianism, which is probably not the look you are reaching for.

General rule: If you're reduced to praising Rapey Don as someone who advances you cause, your cause is in real trouble. Find another exemplar. And, if you can't, probably best to say nothing.

The sanctions on the ICC is probably seen as a positive in America as America doesn't even recognise the ICC anyway and Biden called the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanhu "outrageous".