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

One can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs

Trumpcession is doing the rounds.

I can’t help but think ICE are simply “following orders” Nazi style - the German tattoo artist has been detained for over a month now- no doubt as an “example” to show Europe who’s boss- even though she had a flight booked she was detained for attempting to work on a non working visa - now I’ve seen a number of those customs shows and if someone is found to be potentially working when about to enter the country they get turned away and sent back on the next available flight - job done - this is political I’m sure of it

https://themunicheye.com/amp/german-tattoo-model-u-s-detention-center-12623.html

The Democrats really need to fight fire with fire and ram home these dumb catch phrases in the same was the maga crowd would. American society is no better than this level of discourse, so if you can't beat em join em.

Fifth worst month on US stock market since 2008 Great Recession

And not even a third of way through month yet

The trickling down is gonna be epic

Mod - no memes

He is too busy calling Mark Kelly a traitor for going to Ukraine.

Congress voted to setup up medicare medicaid for veterans and people on low incomes .there is social security for people who worked and paid taxes so that they don't have to work til they die , eg retire and get a basic pension as in all western country's . This pension is paid for by tax's the personal who worked til their 66 paid . This is a welfare system setup by Congress. By the way most people at some time use their parents as unpaid child care .

America is the richest country in the world .they spend billions on nuclear weapons and defense spending .

We have free speech as long as it's in favor of conservatives or trump .

Protest or speak out against Israeli genocide and you may lose your job or be deported .

Tesla pays 1.5 per cent tax. It's now be arranged that musk,s starlink is getting government contracts instead of other telecom company's .who provide fast broadband to most of the country at a fair price .

Starlink is designed to be used in remote areas it's not ideal for apartment blocks in the city .

Trump has put in place judges that him the power of a king . All of a sudden tech companies are scrapping dei and content moderation cos they are afraid of getting targeted.

The only hope is that a few honest judges will push back against trump and doges illegal power grab and stop the federal government being destroyed meanwhile highly trained qualified experts are being sacked by young people whose main qualification is using social media . The barbarians are at the gates .we are truly in the darkest timeline .

America is shutting down foreign aid while disease tb and chaos is spreading in the third world.

It makes a mockery of the important work serious reporters do - they deserve whatever vitriol they receive on social media - I won’t shed a tear - they’re a significant part of the problem

Or as Trump seems to be calling it, a “transition”.

Just hasn’t said a transition to what though.

SCOTUS has a heavy workload and the decisions it reaches on cases brought to it for adjudication may indicate which way civil life will be run at state level in the future. Today it declined to hear a claim by a sacked Fire Chief that he was fired because of his Christian faith.

There is another case coming before it: It is being asked to review an existing Colorado state law which prohibits medical practitioners there from using conversion therapy on young children. Conversion therapy uses a variety of shock practices to force gay people to ignore their sexual preferences and become hetero-normative. If it decides to make a ruling on that law being invalid and strikes it down, then it would cause a massive change in how [in Colorado for a start] civil life for children and maybe teenagers and adults could change for the worse. If it decides not to make a ruling and lets the Colorado law stand, it would not be welcomed by persons in positions of power who have hard-line heterosexual positions where homosexuals and their existing freedoms are concerned.

We'll have to wait and see how some very senior people of strong religious belief in the Trump administration react to todays non-hearing of the Fire Chief case and then to whatever decision SCOTUS makes about the Colorado law case in the near future.

Edit; from later report: The Supreme Court will take up a Christian therapist’s challenge to a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy aimed at young people questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The case, brought by therapist Kaley Chiles who is represented by the conservative religious group Alliance Defending Freedom, claims the state law violates the First Amendment by restricting her ability to communicate with clients who seek her services.

Trump in a crowded theatre.

"Fire! Fire!"

Fox News - Biden causes panic at Theatre. Dozens injured.

Fox news has been pretty sycophantic over trump's starting weeks despite all the mess.

At least UK had a lettuce they could time truss out by, the US is stuck in this stupidity for the next 2 years at least.

I heard a commentator mention recently that Musk isn't really that interested in money per se. Obviously, he is interested in money, but not so much for the luxurious lifestyle it affords but more for the power it grants.

Since Musk appears to be entrenching himself within the Trump administration, he may be willing to trade some wealth on paper for his seat next to the throne, so declining Tesla stock might not quite be the gotcha moment we think it is.

I doubt it, but the mood in the WH these days is such that I wouldn't be surprised if Trump and co. try to blame it on Ukraine, Canada or the EU. Anbody but Ruzzia.