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

On salon.com article America university has hit Maga tipping point

Universitys have given in to trump policy's freedom of speech is in danger students are afraid to protest even immigrants with legal visa,s are afraid of being arrested by masked thugs and taken into a van

Big companies have bowed down to trump the justice department is being used to punish trumps enemys the system of checks balances that limit a president s power is breaking down

America is becoming more like Soviet Russia every day

Yes ordinary people can go to work and school and meet friends while 1000s of people lose their job the closure of Usaid will cost the lives of millions

Yes you can go on Irish tv and UK tv and criticize trump and Israel s war on Gaza but you may have a problem if you want to visit America in the future

Most companys are scrapping Dei policy's

Indeed it is -.it’s also very similar to America of the late 50s and the witch hunt on “reds under the bed” and the McCarthy trials - so they have form in this area -it’s just that their ability or motivation to go this route has been dormant for a number of years.

Watching Vance rage at Denmark while on Greenland/Denmark territory and surrounded by US troops was both chilling and maddening.

The US does not NEED Greenland for SECURITY or didn’t until MAGA entered the scene because
the US is in NATO - the hitherto protectors of the North Atlantic and Greenland via Denmark is also in NATO.

Greenland has for years facilitated a large U.S. military base where one is seemingly needed to protect the North Atlantic. Vance then lands uninvited and does a good impression of an elephant in a china shop.

Condemning Denmark and speaking down to Greenlanders while visiting Geeenland uninvited is clueless unwise and dangerous. From what Ive read the Americans in that base have had good relationships with the locals. I fear the vicePresident may have changed that situation irrevocably.

Trump want resources - He needs fast money to prop up the most indebted country in the world. Putin wants land- European land. Working together, and sending their chosen mouth piece - the vice President - possible future president to spread the word is both baffling and scary.

Baffling because it makes no sense to anyone else and scary because the speaker believes his given script.

I think Greenland will eventually side with America and will enter into some form of partnership or ownership or whatever it will be called.

There’s dissatisfaction with Denmark - that is clear. So there’s a wish to have “independence” but that’s just not an option as the country cannot in any way stand on its own two feet.

It will need either the support of the EU or America .

But if America, then that’s the end of Greenland as a habitable country - America will rape the land of natural resources and leave behind a toxic mess - the current inhabitants will likely be moved to USA, given a few million dollars each -likely leading to alcoholism drug abuse and depression . This will not end at all well.

This is assuming that Greenland stays as a Danish territory. The previous Greenlandic prime minister had said that an independence referendum could happen this year in tandem with their general election just gone. That didn't happen, but that does make it seem like it's entirely possible to hold one within the next couple of years. It's certainly something the Americans will try to agitate for, anyway. Trump's administration don't really do subtle charm - few of his cabinet are really likeable - but they can use the much more blunt approach of going, "We'll give every family on this island 10 million dollars and set you all up for life if you vote yes to independence and then vote to become our territory."

Will Musk transfer the money he withdrew from offer to voters in Wisconsin to affect the state supreme court election race there to Greenland citizens?