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

if Trump is ‘removed’ for whatever reason and Vance takes over and follows the same strategies/policies/ behaviour will he BE THEN SUBJECT TO THESAME PrESSUREs and ‘ got rid of also’?

What is it with MAGA and capital letters? can you only type angry? or maybe you get off on copying the dear leader.

There is a tariff on braincells and caps lock keys

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c33zr4n8pm3o

Unbelievable

I think there may well have been a big amount of 'Cambridge analytica' going on with Trump support.

The social media machine that promoted him, showed a different version of Trump to people depending on who they are.

They showed the racist trump to the racists, they showed the 'Drain the swamp' trump to the people sick of 'the establishment' and they showed the 'I'll bring back jobs' Trump to the people who were feeling economically marginalised

We assume that US voters are well informed about politics. A lot of them are ridiculously uninformed about even the most basic facts and are very easy to manipulate if you have the ability to control what news and disinformation pops up on their phones when they're scrolling through facebook for hours every night.

Loads of Trump voters actually believed that there were invasive hoards of immigrants banging on the border wall waiting to be let in, they actually believed that they are 'eating the cats, and eating the dogs' they actually believed that the democrats mismanage the economy and caused the massive debt and the loss of jobs to China, and they believed that Trump, whatever about his flaws, had a plan to fix all of these problems.

My experience of boards is that it would be viewed very liberal - so “far left” in American terms by Americans - yes you’re correct.
Challenge of course is, if you move too far back towards centre, your marginal voters just won’t vote - or as we’ve seen, will get swept up in some religious crap and vote according to their stance on abortion.

The turnout figure only includes votes that were certified and counted. Not the number of people who actually turned out to vote.

Millions of voters were disenfranchised in the last election, and the GOP spent years laying the framework so that the vast majority of disenfranchised voters, were likely democrat voters especially in swing states.

According to Greg Palast
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f

— 

4,776,706 

voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.

— By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters 

challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. 

The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.

— No fewer 

than 2,121,000 mail

-

in ballots were disqualified

 for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).

— 

At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
—

1,216,000

 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.

— 

3.24 million new registrations were rejected

 or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.

Trump has to removed, so does Vance. There needs to be protocalls put in place to ensure that people like that are never allowed anywhere near positions of power. Trump is acting like a dog without a leash, that cannot be allowed.

Respectly I disagree. You can always fight fire with fire. Always.

Ha .. well now .. Irony at its very best

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blames Made in China while wearing a beautiful lace dress Made in China. Blaming Made in China is her job, enjoying Made in China is her life.

Interesting figures from Gavan Reilly with ref to Pharma

€10.45 BILLION of pharmaceutical exports from Ireland to the United States in February 2025 alone - compared to €1.87bn in Feb 2024. An increase of 461%

Pharma exports to USA were €19.9bn for the first two months of 2025. €44.4bn for the entirety of 2024, €6bn of which was Jan and Feb

Pharma exports to US account for 63% of all Irish exports in the first two months of 2025

So whats this big huge jump in the start of 2025?

Trump seeing this will make him apoplectic. Wait for lots of mentions of Ireland in the oval office pressers in the coming weeks and not in a good way I suspect

Surely Trump himself is the reason for such an increase. Firms are stockpiling because of his stupid threats about tariffs

If any industry has a good handle on how much longer the maga cult leader will live it's pharma.

And when the exports fall back, as sure as night follows day you'll have people claiming that the sky is falling in.

There is too much news