Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

“MAGA is simple, one message and any republican who doesn't like it is called a RINO and is attacked by everybody until they shut up or face being politically and sometimes personally annihilated.

There's a cult leader who can insult, belittle and blatantly lie about any republican politician or a member of their family and he doesn't get any push back.”

You describe it accurately but it’s just struck me, you could equally have been describing the “Church” of Scientology in terms of how it operates.

I hope the Democrats can focus on just a few clear messages and ram them into the consciousness of voters: 1. DOGE and the gutting especially of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, 2. Corruption Couuuption Corruption (so may spepcific and obvious examples one could give) 3. respect for the Constitution and the rule of law, which ought appeal to traditional Republicans who have not fallen for the MAGA nonsense.

There may be other big issues, but these 3 should have wide appeal. And of course the Democrats should give up on the woke stuff. As for the treatment of women and minorities, get away from the identity-politics stuff, and focus on merit (which DJT claims to do !!!), and hammer home the message that discrimination on the basis or irrelevant characteristics is outlawed.

In order to replace the workforce of illegal immigrants, Florida is now looking at changing labour laws to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts on schooldays.

Each day the headlines are getting more and more bizarre.

Not necessarily true David Mc. Stuff can be of the same quality, but it will be more expensive as it costs more to make in US or the foreign government don't subside the manufacturing

The woman is basically a TV character. She know's this kind of stuff is what works for the cretins that vote for her. An absolutely septic joke of a person.

At least she's toned it down since

It won't be long before they bring back the chain gang and force welfare recipients to do manual labour for welfare.

You mean us prisons? the largest incarceration rate in the world?

Yes. I would expect them to use prisoners to work picking fruit and vegetables

I'm old enough to remember when the Irish Car industry existed behind tariff and other walls, and the completely bad quality and choice which resulted. Tariffs may not be quite a dumb for a large country such as the US, but they are still pretty dumb all round, when applied in the way Trump is doing it.

I was thinking about the Ford plant in Cork this morning, cars essentially arriving like an Ikea kit off a boat in cork, assembled with tyres added on from the Dunlop factory and bingo, Irish made Ford cars. I can imagine Ford doing exactly the same for their models built in Mexico and Canada for the US market, crate them up and assemble them in the US.

More beautiful things:

JUST IN - United States has suspended financial contributions to the World Trade Organization — Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-financial-contributions-wto-trade-sources-say-2025-03-27/

can anyone explain this to dummy-me?

So they can apply tariffs wherever, whenever they want?