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

No, the ones who confuse voting percentages with population percentages qualify as dumb as stones.

Not deporting people without due process was one thing she was up to.

Probably not engaging in illegal policies... Any comment on the US citizens who have been told to leave the country including immigration lawyers and in one case a physician? The fact you seem to be actively avoiding the fact that he's constantly breaking the law including basic constitutional rights says a lot. You celebrate tyrants.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-email-immigration-leave-country-rcna201698

Is it though? Trump has succeeded in making the sweet pumpkin pie turn rotten and no one wants a bite of it anymore. Soon, he'll turn on his own and try to make them stay inside "the wall" and eat it lest the stench of rot become too overbearing. Who is going to farm the next pumpkin and bake the next crust so he can have his fill? It certainly won't be cheap imported labour. Will the locals do it for pittance?

I am scared by the strong possibility that Trump's gang can do that and install a dictator of their choosing. That's why I am hoping there is a constitutional blow-up between SCOTUS and Trump which will force Republicans to side with SCOTUS and the constitutional side of politics and oust Trump from power. Forget the TWO Trump camp followers on the SCOTUS bench, they have sunk their future into his.

I am hoping that Trump will continue to seek confrontation with many of the federal agencies [and their staff] who will end up with them having to choose between him and a prosperous future for them under an alternative management, that he continues to radicalize people all over the US against him and his swamp-gang. Watching him rowing with the Fed chairman should be enough to scare the bejasus out of the economists and the Wall St traders, making them accept that he doesn't care about anyone but himself, and that those he's brought into the White House to service his ego must also be got rid of, not left behind when he's ousted from power. No hangovers in positions like commissionerships of federal bodies to quietly restart the federal Trump family engine - lifetime bans from public office or back offices.

Pushing people to the extent that their only recourse is to use force to recover what he has taken from them, that is down to him alone. It's worth remembering that he has chosen to use words to incite people in the past to do so when he saw it as advantageous to him. There MUST be a punishment for him and his ilk, alongside a memorial to his actions so people DO NOT FORGET HIS CRIMINAL ACTIONS.

Don't most US presidents represent a minority of the US population when you factor in their vote count as an overall percentage of eligible voters?

Have you been keeping an eye on the US economy? The GOP and the US public are in a big mess long term if he keeps this up... You guys are very selective in terms of what Trump antics matter or not.

JD Vance was the last politician to meet the Pope ..

As a half-yank, I can vouch that we are indeed the dumbest, most insular people on the planet. We are cultureless, arrogant and obsessed with personal status and wealth from our earliest years. We are ridiculously racist and have zero consideration for those weakest in society.

Freedom? We swear the rest of the world are in chains while plenty of our own work three jobs just to try to cover rent. Get sick, you're f*cked. We have no concept of what Freedom means, only the propaganda drip-fed into us from birth. All those ridiculous school mornings that begin with a pledge to a bloody flag in the corner of a room. Ridiculous.

Kaepernick highlighted how 'conditional' the idea of freedom is. Absolutely 'conditional'.

Education is at best an afterthought, in most cases ignored. More emphasis placed on having dance moves than being able to critically think. Nonsensical. Cost of education alone is a further barrier to those with brains.

The continual regurgitation of the 'thank you for your service brigade' since 9/11 is nauseating and has further eroded any form of free-thought. Almost as disturing as the rise in scripture reciting half-wits on all platforms of social media.

I wouldn't bring my kids up there if it was the last bloody place on earth. It's a f*cking mess of a country.

They have not got it under control, its just that they have failed to catch as many as previously. And their ham-fisted efforts have caused the US tourist trade to tank. And its just a detail compared with the problems tariffs have caused and are causing, and Trump's determination to be at odds with and insult the rest of the world.

I think it’s inaccurate to deem this 49.8 % as out and out MAGAers. Would there not have a % of them floating voters voters at the time . Eg they ‘ weighed up’ the options presented to them at the time re what Trump was offering, what Harris was offering; some not happy with a woman president, the democrats late arrival with Harris and she not having enough time to ‘make her case’ , etc, etc, And in the end they ‘ reluctantly’ voted for Trump after a lot of ‘hedge scratching’ Probably a lot of this floating voters at the did not think TOO DEEPLY about the consequences of Trumps utterances during his canvassing eg he said that he would be a Dictator for ONLY ONEDAY - also maybe they had a very different idea as to what Trump ment when he said that he would ‘drain the swamp’, . Did they realise that he was going to close down departments, sack so many people- especially from provision of critical services, etc.

IMO a sufficient % of this 49.8% of this ‘MAGA’ voter would be floaters And would float back towards the DEMO side if any kind of a reasonable candidate was put forward

I ment to add that the mid terms will tell us a lot

But by using your own numbers and criteria, the vast majority of the reduction in apprehensions at the border happened under biden.

Its a sad state to be in when you think trump failing again is somehow winning.