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

Scotus has granted him immunity. So there is no law that can stop him doing anything.

The voter's have shown they don't care what he does. The GOP certainly don't.

Its pretty simple. Don't bother with midterms, under the guise of some national emergency.

With the defunding of the FBI and CIA (where are all those crying about Dems defunding the police?) the risk of a terrorist attack has increaed and as GWB should you can masssively override peoples rights under the excuse of fighting a war/terror.

Continue to stack all federal agencies with loyalists such that voter supression can go into overdrive.

Continue to place loyal judges in key roles to an least massively delay, and ultimately derail, any possible legal chalkenges (Judge Cannon already dud this).

It might not end up being Trump, his age might get him, but make no mistake that MAGA is in charge and nothing is off the table

They were the Trojans horse, we'll get the Irish to believe they're saving Turtles, if they believe that they'll believe anything and by did we. RTE'e darling Samantha Power has a lot to answer for.

So what you are saying is we should break our word and lie.

The good news is the culture war is nearly over, another war Trump will end. We are going to have to find something else to be obsessed about soon, while ye continue to to be obsessed about Donald Trump for another 4 years after the 8 you've already put in.

Oh by the way, did you see JK Rowling's tweet today? It was a good one.

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1887472120541679690

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids. Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters. When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

Its more than Canada and Mexico conceded to get him to **** off.

But the jokes on him really. The vast majority of American cars imported into Europe are from the likes of Volvo, BMW, Mercedes and Toyota, who build their bigger SUVs and trucks in the US.

Its not as if people in Europe are going to stop buying Škodas or Kias and start picking up crap Chevys and Chryslers all of a sudden.

We don't NOT buy American brand cars because they are too expensive, we avoid them because they are terrible.

Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Jordan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, State of Palestine, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu.

This brings up something a friend mentioned to me recently.

Netanyahoo, who is wanted for the worst possible crime, recently travelled by air to the US, and to do so he must have travelled through somebody's airspace to exit the Mediterranean. It's possible but very unlikely that his plane used Moroccan airspace, which means that almost certainly one or more of the countries on that list permitted his plane to use their airspace. Looking at a map, it seems to me that the most likely candidates are a combination of some of these states: Greece, France, Spain, Portugal. Italy isn't on the list for obvious reasons, but their airspace would have been used too

If so we're talking rank hypocrisy here.

When the election result came in I knew it the final nail in the coffin of the US led post WWII western consensus.

Both Putin and Trump have done more for European unity than any European visionary could.

Quick reminder that Trump had this lunatic in the White House on at least one occasion.

Most people would go out of their way to avoid seeing anything that hateful cünt posts.

"The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status."

Laughable...I see she still has zero self awareness.

Ironically Europe is becoming a tad disjointed in recent times - some very strong right wing parties , a lot of rethinking on immigration and what’s tolerated around qualification for citizenship - some countries are starting to mimic the US- it’s not all roses over here even if vast majority might be against the Gaza proposed solution

I think 80% of the €5.5bil vehicles the EU buys from the US are BMW. Far as I can tell, they are the X series SUVs assembled in the US (with a German engine).

That's great for mainland EU. But Ireland will hammer US made cars with our old VRT 🤣

She's a truly great woman who speaks for millions of women & girls. Hopefully (as AllForlt says) we're now seeing the beginning of the end of the culture wars, which have been driven from the top down. Ideological beliefs imposed on everybody, like a new religion (that everybody had to buy into & believe) but now being pushed back thanks to powerful people like JK & DJT.

There's an arrest warrant out for him. That's wanted to me.