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

America is a full blown zoo now, always was been but now the crazy animals who were typically locked away where spectators could not view them have been let loose and taken control of the place.

Only difference is between a zoo and america is in a normal zoo when monkeys throw sh*t at each other passer by's are not hit. With america everyone gets covered.

Absolutely. In fact China's recent aggressive confrontational diplomacy was very Trumpian. But I think the Chinese are realising that their 'wolf warrior' diplomacy was counterproductive at the same time that Trump's USA is embarking on it's own version. It seems the Chinese are learning something at the same time that the US is being inflicted with amnesia.

Isn't it about this time 'someone' comes along and places the blame for Trump & Co's antics solely at the Democrats……

So the man that the government mistakenly sent to an El Salvador prison is alive and has met with Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen

Huge respect to Van Hollen for doing this - hopefully this news can give hope to his family and be the first step in getting him back in the country.

But of course the administration are already doubling down. Bondi released some “new” information on Garcia claiming he’s a criminal gang member, even though the words HAS NO CRIMINAL HISTORY were included in her information. Unsurprisingly, this part has already been edited out.

These people are as close to evil as you can get. If they succeed with keeping García out then there’ll be hundreds if not thousands more who will end up with the same fate.

This led me down the rabbit hole that he only has IVF babies because of a botched penis implant. And it reads as pretty likely based on this piece on it...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/musk-penis-implant/

Sam Harris has really been hitting the nail on the head recently about the pop culture players who have gleefully helped spread disinformation that has in turn facilitated Trump's comeback.

The various mega-podcasters who had Trump on the show like Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman and Theo Von - they all completely failed to hold Trump's feet to the fire on anything, even on highly contentious points. As Harris says, if you went on the Rogan podcast and started giving half-cocked opinions on MMA, littered with factual inaccuracies, Rogan would be on you like a rash, yet he would give Trump plenty of latitude to spread his nonsense even on points widely acknowledged to be shaky at best.

There is no downside for your Joe Rogans and your Dave Smiths - if they get something right then they are bringing you the facts that the mainstream media won't. If they get something wrong, they'll say they're just some knuckle heads hangin' out, smokin' a J and talkin' some shít. This is what you would call the 'non-expert defence' that allows them to popularise as much disinformation as they want with few, if any, hard penalties.

It also folds into the problem of the info-tainer. The info-tainer needs a steady supply of edgy takes to keep people engaged, and each one needs to be edgier than the last, giving us a race to the bottom, and there are plenty of bad actors ready to put out bad information that these edgy takes can be built off of.

He really is determined to destroy industry.

Why is it always about having a small peepee with these despicables

China should ban all exports to US for few weeks. That will show who will kiss who's ass. Those trillion dollar companies didn't become rich with American's sweat .

It’s been very clear from day 1 that Trump doesn’t want peace in ukraine- for whatever reason he wants to hand it to Russia - he’s made unrealistic demands of Ukraine and they unexpectedly after trying to negotiate different terms, said yes- so he couldn’t end up blaming them for not accepting his terms - but still there’s no peace- and Trump has remained silent on Russia- just what the fck is going on?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/us-ready-to-abandon-ukraine-peace-deal-if-there-is-no-progress-says-marco-rubio

The fact that one man can cause so much worldwide economic turmoil is crazy. If anything good comes from this sh*tshow it will be the rest of the world reducing its economic dependence on America and thus limiting the damage that a president can do.

The question isn't how good people have it with respect to the past. The question is how good should people have it with respect to total resources available in the present day?

After WW2 ended, there was a great boom of economic prosperity in the United States and optimism for the future was sky high. The view of the decades to come were summed up in popular TV shows like Star Trek and the Jetsons, where humanity ventured out into the stars and the problems of the modern age were mostly overcome.

But that hasn't quite happened. The size of the crumbs falling off the cake have got proportionally bigger, but it's not an invalid question to ask whether those with the knives and forks need to get so fat, i.e. if the system that enables that setup is a particularly fare/equitable one.

I don't know diddly squat about this Mr. García and he may well be someone that I wouldn't want to spend too much time with, but it's HIGHLY disturbing that this administration will not rectify this appalling situation. A situation that was a "mistake". Instead they choose to double down and try desperately to pin something, anything, on the guy despite the fact that he has "no criminal history" according to the administration's own files. And all merely to justify their own fu*k up.

Trump and his crowd have to be one of the most malign groupings of sick individuals I've yet seen in control of a major western nation. They are utterly reckless, beholden to an extreme venality, allied with some very malicious cronies around the world and they have an inbuilt terror of admitting their own shortcomings & changing them.

And that makes them truly dangerous to everybody, not only in their own nation, but outside of it as well.

There are too many of these Youtubers and internet talking heads yapping about important things that they have little understanding of full stop. Unfortunately, the naive think that they are hearing experts discussing topical issues and they come away with a head full of nonsense, thinking that they've got some inside scoop, when all these internet bozos are interested in is their attention, no matter what's being said and how much conviction it's being said with.