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

The footage of Musk at yesterday's CPAC was unbelievable. I mean, I would have said that allusions to Idiocracy are overused, but I just watched perhaps the most powerful man in America strut onto the stage, looking like the world's most awkward rapper, and then be presented with a chainsaw a few moments later.

As for the Democrats, they're so ineffectual that it would frankly be a relief if Trump went the whole hog and just had them all rounded up, arrested on some trumped-up charges of treason, and had the party banned. If this is the way the US is going, and nobody seems able to stop it, then you might as well get it over with.

Many in Nazi Germany werent entirely convinced either, but you eventually pass a threshold where you are with the Nazis, or against them.

This is the second high profile Nazi salute after Trump, so I would say it's entirely deliberate. Bannon is a hateful POS.

Lashing out on X as well, calling astronaut Andreas Mogensen "fully retarded" after he called him out on his lie that Biden intentionally abandoned two American astronauts aboard the ISS. A drug addled manchild who has more interest in insulting people online than looking after his own children.

U.S. military discipline obliges obedience to all lawful orders. I hope that they can stand up to what may be a very sinister move: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/trump-executive-order-military-justice/index.html

Funny, you couldn't move in here the night the Mueller report was released without coming across posters claiming that it proved there was no Russian connection at all.

On that subject, the night Trump won, the place was rammed with his admirers.

Pretty few and far between now.

Almost as if they have zero knowledge or interest in politics or policy, and only came on here to gloat that "the libs" lost.

The discussion here suggesting the dems dont have any strong candidates to put forward

I think the Nazi salutes are because they want people to call them Nazis, so they can tell their own supporters about how much the "left" hates them and thinks they're all Nazis. It bolsters their own support and further deepens the divide between the country. And then when you've convinced half the country that they're being unfairly called Nazis, they'll turn more of a blind eye and let you do a lot of stuff that doesn't reach the same levels death, destruction and hatred as the actual Nazis, but is still utterly repugnant and abhorrent.

If he apologised for it after realising what it looked like, yeah that would make it somewhat ok

I don't think he's made any official statement on it and I believe he may have done it more than once so that would suggest the first time may have been an unconvincing accident and he decided to continue with it when he saw the reaction

Strong possibility there yes.

The Independent have quoted Musk as follows:

Trump ally Elon Musk also launched a blistering attack on Mr Zelensky, accusing him of running a "massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers” and claiming – contrary to polling – that “he is despised by the people of Ukraine”.

Despicable.

This is unfortunately true - in many ways the democrats are as dysfunctional as the republicans, both the result of an utterly broken and corrupted system.

This isn't the case though. Both Obama and Biden delivered very significant legislation and managed very effectively how to navigate the shark ridden waters of both the House and Senate.

The Democrats are weak strategically (operations more so than policy) and we are seeing the effect of that right now, but all Dem Presidents in my lifetime have been pretty clear successes.

Biden was very good for Americans (despite what lies Conservative media tell), I lost all respect for him however because of his subservience to Israel and abandonment of the Palestine people but while he saw them as lesser people, many Republicans are showing us they don't see them as people at all.

This is outright **** scary now. We're so far passed the Rubicon