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

In this case first they came for anyone who is critical of trump or his policy's then they came for the protestors against Israeli Genocide in Gaza now they come for the universitys adopt or policy's against dei and protestors next they come for us citizens who are protesting against the government

See techdirt.com. Long article Harvard and other universities are standing up for free speech even though trump is saying he,ll stop billions of dollars of research funding if they don't follow his policy's on dei We can hope that a democrat will be the next president and restore federal agencys so they can serve the public as before

time for Starmer to bite the bullet and rejoin the EU in some shape or form

"Subhuman scum" is not my term, and I am not going to defend it. Nor have you any reason to ask me to.

The issue is not where people live or how they voted before; the issue is why they vote for Trump.

If they vote for Trump because they like the cruelty, the racism, the illegality, etc then, yes, they are depraved.

But I don't imagine that everyone who voted for Trump did so because they like those characteristics. I am sure there are many who voted for him despite those characteristics, either because they were blind to them or because they overlooked them in the hope of something else.

I have no way of knowing how many of Trump's voters voted for him because they are depraved, and how many voted for him because they are merely deluded. And neither, I imagine, do you.

Just want to point out that pond scum actually does something useful and produces oxygen and keeps insects happy, we ultimately evolved from pond scum (over billions of years, not 4000)

That’s more that can be said of MAGA cult members!

The word people are looking for is turd 💩

I’m a woman. I wish the Democrats hadn’t run a woman. It’s pathetic, but I genuinely think America won’t vote for a woman president. At the very least, she will be at a disadvantage to any male candidate who possesses the exact same traits and experience as her. People may dismiss that aspect, but it’s hard to conclude otherwise IMO.

Just run a straight white male with a vision and an effective communication style. I’d like to see Trump or his successor beat that.

Edit: and if you disagree, just ask yourself, is there a bigger element of risk for the Dems in running a man or a woman in 2028?

Its one thing to admit brexit was a mistake and deal with the fallout. Another thing entirely to get them to turn tails and beg to rejoin EU, even if circumstances put EU + UK against US, still an extreme bullet to bite. Especially when it took them nearly 10 years to realise brexit was a mistake.

To the surprise of nobody, it is reported that Trumps chief fangirl MTG "bought between about $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of Trump’s tariff pause announcement". NYT.

If you consume a lot of RW social media, then "DEI" was THE BIGGEST issue, cruelly crushing America.

I haven’t studied the figures in detail, maybe you have, but how many actually switched their vote from 2020 ? Is it not equally possible (maybe even more so) that more Democrat voters simply stayed home in 2024.? Then there are the reports of voter suppression, which it has been claimed led to millions of votes being discounted. I wouldn’t be so sure that America actually swung back to Trump in significant numbers. Wasn’t his overall vote pretty similar to last time, whereas the Democrat vote was down ?

I know of a few that would be happy for the US to have no federal government at all. Effectively split into 50 separate countries!

"Trump's voters are all older and will die off, so there isn't much chance of him being elected again."

Another absolute doozy said on here before the 2024 election. He actually increased his vote in each subsequent election from 2016.

Seems to be 50/50 to switching and turnout to me

2020, turnout was 155m. Biden got 81m, Trump 74m

2024, turnout was 152m. Harris got 75m, Trump 77m

Turnout was down 3m, so 3m switched between Dem and Rep

I think the libertarian wouldn't even accept state tax. The neo tea party fashioned themselves as fiscal liberators, but the original 13 colonies while not having state taxes did fund a federal government by duty on imports.

Tax paid to the king across the ocean stopped, but that didn't mean funding administration did.

Tax derived almost entirely from duty on imports worked fine as long as there was a constant demand for raw materials from the old world. One of New Amsterdam's main exports was beaver pelts.

In a time when it was foreigners who funded the US federal government I could well imagine how those in the frontier felt that individual taxation was unnatural.