Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

Edit: thank you. I let the article link and content pass by without reading it fully.

So basically the DOJ [with unidentified persons] tried to get Alito to work with it in getting an official notice of the deportation move unto the court docket in a way that would have slowed up an deportees appeal hearing but somehow Johnson became aware of the move and brought the court into sitting and hearing the appeal forthwith scuppering the deportation move.

It does mean that some people in the DOJ are working hand-in-glove to derail the deportation appeal process system legally and others in the SCOTUS [and maybe DOJ] apparatus are aware of the way things can be done to sidestep the appeal processes the law allows for and have taken active steps to ensure the appeal processes can be made to work within the SCOTUS system.

Lovely piece from Larry David about how meeting Adolf Hitler really changed his perception of him. It would be great if Adolf showed this more human side and we'd get to see he's not all so bad. We have to listen to the Nazi side cause they're not all bad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU8.Nd0x.T2OSvTnKflXq&smid=re-share

Tariffs impacting small businesses like restaurants - great, wake up America- you only have your president to blame

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/trump-tariffs-china-business

Yep plus Larry David is far more regarded than Maher, say it will piss off Maher to no end.

If one wanted to be really pedantic, the funeral is in Vatican City, not Rome

And some Trump supporter on this site called me a ghoul!

Wouldn’t it be a fantastic gesture by the Vatican to make it explicitly clear that Trump is not welcome at the funeral. Of course it won’t happen, but we can dream.

Maher wants the DNC to go for a trump type character but with DNC policies as that's what he believes would be successful at election time, he's been egging this on for a few years and has Kamala's failure as evidence of this, hence the day to day "normalising" of trump behind the scenes.

But, as you said, David just absolutely skewers him on it.

(Maher has been losing the run of himself the last few years, vaccinations during the pandemic as case in point).

If he is not invited he will find some pressing emergency (like the stock market tanking for example, or a crucial tariff that needs to be sorted) preventing him from going.

The US stock market is falling again. Whatever 'blip' was hailed previously as a great job by Trump is a distant memory.

Trumps ace was supposed to be his business acumen but the markets clearly rate him as being completely clueless and a danger to wealth.

Crickets of course from Trump supporters who now deem the stock market and interest rates as unimportant

I read there's chaos at the IRS. It's most qualified expert staff are leaving .Next year it's expected the tax collected will be 500 billion less than in 2024. They simply won't have enough expert staff to check that billionaires are paying all the taxs they should pay Rich people can use complex tax schemes to reduce thier tax bill Sacking it's staff makes no sense they bring in much more than they cost of their wages America is deep in debt heading for recession Consumer confidence is falling. The dollar is falling In a few months people will notice the cost of food and clothes is rising. Trump is reducing funds to medical centers who provide contraception and vaccines to the public

Since theres no proper logical pro vaccine policy on vaccines measles is spreading to states outside Texas

There's likely to be a backlash as the cost of consumer goods rise. . Republicans intend to cut

medicaid which is relied on by old retired people and people with disabilities and working people who need help to pay for medication

Loss,s in 401k funds mean Americans will have to put off retirement for years

Agreed. Seeing a fair bit of interest in Mark Kelly, who has lots of military bona fides (despite stupid Vance's statements), an Astronaut, a wife who survived a brutal shooting and is a strong gun control advocate from Arizona. My only knock against his chances is that he bald and doesn't look that great on the television imo. Of course, a toupee glued down and a liberal dusting of Dorito's dust might work /s.

I can see Kelly/Booker slug it out in the primaries in 2028, if there's any more elections at that point.

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