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

That film was way slower than I thought it would be. It has some solid moments and Jesse Plemons was good in it, but I would say the definitive depiction of civil war II in the USA is yet to be committed to celluloid. Maybe it'll be PBS Frontline at this stage…

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Does it matter? It's not like any law enforcement agency or the corrupt supreme court will care.

The US Supreme court has only three Trump appointees on it. Clarence Thomas's integrity has also been heavily questioned, due to the political views of his wife and his apparent enjoyment of gifts from influential people, but that's still four of a nine justice panel. The chief justice, John Roberts, is also of a conservative viewpoint, having been appointed by Bush Sr., but this was back when politics was normal in the US, pretty much. He seems like a serious figure, and not someone who would side with MAGA because MAGA, and flagrantly go against the US constitution in order to support Trump.

And to be honest, even Trump's appointees have ruled against Trump's side of cases before. I think they refused to even entertain the one about electoral fraud in the 2020 election.

People would point to the decision on presidential immunity as evidence of the SCOTUS's corrupt nature, although I see that was a 6-3 decision, meaning one liberal judge must have sided on the majority opinion, when they didn't even need to in order to give Trump a win.

The US Supreme court has only three Trump appointees on it.

Three so far. Nothing stopping him adding more MAGA Judges if he wanted to.

Your last point on the 6-3 presidential immunity decision, no liberal judge sided with the majority. There's only 3 of them and they all voted against.

Fair enough. OK, well that changes the calculus. So, then is it the case that all six conservative justices, including the Bush appointees have gone bad? Would they be willing to flagrantly contravene the US constitution in order to aid Trump?

These are the same judges that voted for citizens united and to repeal roe v wade.

The SCOTUS has been on the wrong side of a knife edge for decades now.

Conservatives appoint young healthy unqualified nakedly political appointments, Dems appoint elderly 'centrists'

Play that game out as if it was a game of chess....

Too many people think that EO was a ban on transgender athletics. It wasn't, it was just withholding federal funding for any organisation who allows men play women's sports. Women playing men's sports are ok though, reverse sexism or something there.

I'm just wondering how far he can push the EO's with regard to pausing/cancelling funding that Congress has already approved. If the courts let him away with it and set a precedence, it's very easy for him to get a budget passed that won't touch federal funded social programs but then the day after it's passed he just signs an EO cancelling all the funding.

He's trying to stop the killing...by facilitating a genocide. A genocide and an ethnic cleansing in just one month. He's fairly filling out the facist bingo card.

But of course, you know that. You just don't disapprove.

It's beyond laughable to keep claiming that a sexual predator cares about protecting women. The women I know couldn't give a fück about trans people in sport or bathrooms and are sick to the back teeth of hearing about it as like 99.9% of women, it has zero impact on their everyday lives. What they do care about is heathcare, gender based violence and inequality, their sexual and reproductive rights, discrimination, education to name a few. Women's basic rights and freedoms are being eroded all over the world and the likes of you are still wittering on about trans people incessantly. Give it a rest ffs.

He's a feminist apparently..

In other news, his approval ratings are on a rapid decline already and it's pissing him off.

Women on the field of sport or in the restrooms and changing rooms?

so we just stick to the EU/UK plan, we keep going until the last Ukrainian? Zelensky doesn’t seem to have any serious friends to back him up besides America, he needs to do a deal with Trump and by the sounds of it he has. Smart guys hire the bully for protection rather than playing the victim which I think is what we’re about to see happen.
Now he’s got the Ukrainian deal it’s time for the Russian one, he’s not just going to hand Putin a win if there’s a deal done to back Ukraine. For all the dramatics during the week Ukraine is now probably in a stronger position.

Not sure of your definition of the word, it’s all here on the Whitehouse website, a good few posters seem outraged he’s attacking women with such orders. Truly puzzling.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/

The news everyday is awful .trump is ignoring Congress passing executive orders to take apart the federal government and make it into a tool that reduces regulations that make impose costs on rich people billionaires and corporations.the civil service is there to protect the public and the environment and enable financial regulations .the point of reducing staff and so called waste is that regulations like consumer regulations will be ignored or not enforced .doj lawsuits against corruption and corporate negligence will reduced .

The quality of life for ordinary Americans will go down.medical services and medicare services for old people and working class people will be cut back to enable more tax cuts for rich people and corporations . 500 people were let go from the faa these people provide services for flight controllers and make sure that airlines follow the complex regulations that are concerned with plane maintenance and other procedures

Republicans are already protesting in some states as they see the effect of layoffs in federal agencys on ordinary people and services. When theres 1000s of people let go from agencys it's a negative long term effect those people will get new jobs and probably will never be replaced

The us army is struggling to get new recruits the loss of dei is bad news it makes it harder to find new recruits from minority groups

The federal government is a complex matrix of agencys it's budget is a trillion dollars it took decades to build it and to put in place computer networks that keep America working and provide public services like education and the collection of tax's and services like state parks and roads and emergency services

Doge and the actions of musk will just reduce the quality of life for ordinary Americans

The federal government was put in place by acts of Congress and the senate it's against democratic principals to sack 1000s of workers that provide services and protect the environment

They also let go alot of workers who provide medical services to the emergency workers who were involved in the 911 disaster people who risked their lives to try and protect the public