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

Even McGregor identified himself as British at one stage I believe.

I think as well with America it's all about the show. Trump is a simplistic showman, McGregor is a simplistic showman. And they really love celebrities.

Trump and McGregor might be an unmitigated disaster as human beings and even worse for the welfare of a country, but they're entertaining enough to distract dumb people and convince dumb people that they're like them, which helps them sell themselves as showmen, which they are, you can't take your eyes off them, they're entertainment.

Throw in the weird way Americans worship celebrities, and the tendency of Americans to be deferential to celebrities/showmen (especially the celebrity preachers).

It's a weird setup, for a country built around the concept of individual freedom and the pursuit of better, how utterly subservient the majority of them are as a group that they surrender themselves and their self worth to a celebrity showman. Sad too.

literally few posts up you have Trump admin openly boasting about ignoring the law and judges

And if imprisoned Trump will just pardon them making mockery of your belief in checks and balances and the rule of law

Plenty do, especially as their Social Security & Medicaid gets closer and closer to the cliff-edge. Not to mention federal workers and families of who have been losing their jobs. And from April 2nd when more tariffs are due to hit, we'll probably start seeing a lot more.

He's far more likely to have lost voters, than to have gained the support of any who hadn't voted for him.

Yes and look at the results of this poll

A big change since November when Biden was in charge.

First time since 2012 it has exceeded 40% and 44% is the highest figure it has reached in 21 years.

Alot of people are happy with what Trump is doing.

On the flip side, in another NBC poll the Democratic Party has reached an all-time low in popularity.

Just over a quarter of registered voters (27%) say they have positive views of the party, which is the party’s lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990. Just 7% say those views are “very” positive.

Conveniently ignoring how he's polling badly for handling the economy and inflation and the end results of that haven't hit yet. On top of that, the stock market is on its 4th week of crashing. You've weirdly avoided even mentioning that with your drop ins.

Also on top of that, from the Irish perspective, he used St Patrick's Day to platform an Irish rapist. Given the fact he's supposedly all about protecting women, seems pretty much the antithesis of that. Instead we'll get vague efforts to paint anything as positive....

I wonder if Trump personally signed each of the pardons for all the Jan 6'ers.

The Democrats are sulking, and nobody likes a sulk.

Trump is taking a sledgehammer to American business, American society and American politics, turned on it's allies, has completely mental fiscal policies, has handed over the running of te country to Elon Musk, has turned America into Russia's bitch on the international stage, and the best that the Democrats can offer is wearing pink shirts, shaking a cane and waving paddles.

It's little wonder their support numbers have fallen, people won't vote for or follow jellyfish, and the Democrats have less of a spine than a jellyfish.

As bad as we can be over here, if our leadership had acted they way Trump has done in the last few weeks, we'd be looking forward to another election, or at the very least a lot of heads would have rolled.

The Democrats are so punch-drunk they can't even muster up anger at what's going on. Thousands of people losing their jobs, farmers being decimated, teachers, veterans, civil/public servants fired for now reason, trillions wiped off the stock market and bar one or two like AOC, not a peep. Any normal opposition would be raging and organizing massive protests and pushback.

What's even worse, it's quite clear a lot of people who voted for Trump are raging at the minute over what's he's doing, his approval is down, there's some very real anger there towards Republicans to the point many of them have stopped doing town hall meetings, it would be the perfect time to push back hard against Trumpism.

And yet, you could hear a mouse fart they've been so quiet. Trump and Musk to destroy America with mental deranged and fascist-like authoritarian policies that will rip it apart and turn it into an international pariah, and the Democrats to help that destruction via weakness and cowardice.

America looks fcuked.

What precipitated that pardon?

I think the biggest thing for the Dems is that they need to come up with a clear strategy and start moving towards some clearer leadership.

True. But they're nowhere near that at the moment.

It may feel like an age since he got back into the White House but, remember, we're not even two months into Trump's second term and the Democrats are still reeling from what the American voter has done to themselves. They haven't stopped saying WTF yet.