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

Local elections can rely more on grass root activism. After getting wiped out in the 2011 general election I think Fianna Fail won the most council seats. It was very much business as usual for at the parish pump.

There probably is a more significant shift at grassroots level in the UK, but I don't know if the success of Reform will just dilute the right wing vote again at the next election.

Or Trump's lizard brain tells him Canada may as well be part of the USA. it would chime with his MAGA rants, making America bigger again.

Invading Ukraine was never going to do anything to arrest Russia's demographic and economic decline but it was the most convenient thing to do to hold together a populist regime with no answers.

When the tariffs really hit home I won't be surprised if MAGA militias start preparing an invasion force.

And the right has nothing besides hate, racism and fascism. It's politics for hateful troglodytes who are anti democracy, equality, education or any kind of progress.

I roundly reject this notion of "it's all the fault of those people who dare to want to live in a functioning democracy". People didn't reject liberal values, they embraced fascism because of hate, stupidity and racism.

So you can stick your "critique" of whatever you see as "the left"

No surprise, same fundraising site raised millions for that murderer Rittenhouse.

What a truly bizarre thing for a leader of a country, any country, to post.

There really is something deeply, deeply, wrong with him. It's scary to think that this guy has access to the largest arsenal in the world.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/gold-card-residence-abroad/682103/

An interesting piece from back in March explaining how interest in an escape route from the USA is becoming common

Eric Major, the CEO of the immigration-advising firm Latitude, began his career helping rich Hong Kongers make exit plans to relocate to Canada or the United Kingdom ahead of the territory’s scheduled handover to China. Major went on to work mainly with clients from China, Russia, India, and the Middle East.

Today most of Major’s clients are American. Volek’s firm has more clients from America than from the next four biggest feeder countries (Pakistan, Nigeria, India, and the U.K.) combined. Fifteen years ago, the firm did not see much point in opening a U.S. office. This year, it’s launching its tenth. “I never would have imagined my No. 1 source market would become America,” Major told me. “But now the top brass of America is hedging.”

This bit is stark and reminded me of how super catholic some of my US relatives. Some of them would be fine with Trump as pope.

The couple had been looking forward to their homecoming, but it quickly became clear that the U.S. they’d left was not the same country that was waiting for them. Hsiao felt unsafe as an Asian woman, particularly when she went out wearing a mask. Carter’s family was divided along political lines. Even their church felt like a minefield. “We were hopeful until November,” Carter recalled. “But after I saw how many people voted for Trump, after the first term, after January 6—and people of faith in the church embracing Christian nationalism …”

“The Christianity that somehow has morphed in this country is not our expression of faith,” Hsiao interjected.

Spotted this on Reddit and had a good laugh. Trump truly does have the poorly educated under his spell, doesn't he.

A lot of poorly educated people do like Trump, I presume, but you'll also find that many people who've graduated high school, can read & write, hold down jobs, have a 3rd level qualification also support him. If you just slap a badge of 'poorly educated' on whoever likes Trump, then I don't think the psychology of MAGA is being fully explored.

I think there's quite a bit more to it in terms of the materialism, the tendency towards fervour and the brashness that exists in American culture. It doesn't matter how much education you have if your ego allows you to get locked into a particular idea and the resulting myopia shuts out basic common sense. Plenty of people with decent educations have got sucked into Scientology and plenty more have been sucked into MAGA. In both cases its a cult mentality.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes….

…but yes, Red Lightsabers are used exclusively by the baddies.

Them portraying the flabby Big Mac scoffing aul pig as some of muscular Adonis will never not be funny!

He doesn't seem to have much problem with the comparatively recent artificial line separating the US and Mexico. Funny that

Every time I see him say "Radical Left", my blood boils. The Democrats are not radical left!

He's very brave with the eagles behind him, didn't do so well with the one in the office!

I was going to tag you in the photo 😁

Kathy Hochul (Democractic - Governor of New York) has come out with the below tweet today:

https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1918785556810469770

However she has also received funding from EMILYs List  a left-leaning American political action committee (PAC) that aims to help elect Democratic female candidates in favor of abortion rights to office.

So having a joke about being the pope is offensive to Catholics but advocating for abortion isn't.

It appears for someone who claims to be a catholic she doesn't really follow the rules of it very closely.

This is the sort of bullshit that doesn't help the democrats pathetic posturing about a non issue that can be seen right through, there's loads of thing you can criticize Trump for this Pope picture isn't one of them.