Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

In fairness visa overstayers have being getting deported regularly since 9/11. What's alarming now is valid Green card holders being detained for expunged offenses. A parking violation would now be enough for ICE to determine a Green card holder be detained.

The distance to which Trump goes to thinking things through was explained earlier today with his musing "do I have to uphold the constitution" where some constitutional rights in it are guaranteed "or can I ignore them and rely on SCOTUS for guidance".

There are things he says publicly which are stupendous in their stupidity and there are things he says which should have his cabinet, the senate and the house of congress, en masse, shouting at him "You cannot be serious". His statement about the constitution and SCOTUS should be enough to have the constitution clause on standing him aside in favour of his V/P activated. If he actually tried to rule outside the constitution, it should be enough to have him impeached, tried and convicted of crimes against the US.

If he does succeed in getting SCOTUS involved to the extent of taking his question seriously enough to give it a reply, I sincerely hope SCOTUS tells him he swore an oath in Jan 2025 to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, with him ending his swearing-in with the words "so help me God".

If Trump is stood aside in line with the constitution, I hope the Chief Justice firmly tells Vance what the wording of the oath hold and oblige him to do without question, fear or favour.

I do not think Trump was in any way trying distraction tactics or ploys today. I believe he was actually speaking out loud on the thoughts of how he could act outside the constitution and the official duty limits SCOTUS laid down for him and other presidents.

How do you tariff a movie ?

Who pays and when.

Also I only today discovered his influencer debriefings. What a pathetic load of nonsense.

But pay for what. The distribution licence or physical DVD or download or what ?

This is just another on of those things he blurts that never actually happens I assume.

From what I can understand, production companies get tax incentives to film in certain locations, the new season of The Last of Us as an example, a lot of it was filmed here in Vancouver. The production company would be based in America, HBO in this instance, so when they file their taxes and incomes based off what they produced, if it is listed that they filmed here in Vancouver, the tariff would take the form of a tax on top of that.

At least, that is how it was explained to me.

Regardless of how they will be implemented, film stocks took a hit today.

So, when quizzed about the pope picture, this is what he said....

FOX NEWS: Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope

TRUMP: You mean they can't take a joke? You don't mean the Catholics, you mean the fake news media. The Catholics loved it. I had nothing to do with it. Maybe it was AI.

In other words...

a) the Catholics got offended by a joke!

b) no, the fake news media were offended by it

c) the Catholics loved it

d) I didn't post it

e) AI did it.

What a sniveling little weasel. If you post it - own it.

A profile in courage indeed...

What's most disturbing about that is the indication of the future of AI manipulation. It'll get to the point where we really will be completely unable to judge fact from fiction. And I don't think that that time is too far off.

I didn't buy a Ferrari yesterday and I saved like 250k. Gonna do it again today and double my savings. That easy.

The irony is that he's kinda gotta point! One that happens to be completely at odds with the consumerist capitalist model that has enriched the US over so many decades and infected the economies of so many other countries.

There was that story a few days ago of the woman who always has 20 or 30 Temu orders on the go at any one time, and how the tariffs are going to hurt her so badly. Well, she could save money by ordering less and do more/better with what she does order.

It's the same with the "thirty dolls" scenario. Mattel may not like it, but there's really no reason why a child should feel they need a collection of thirty Barbies, and no good reason for any parent to be buying them the hottest new variation every Christmas …

Not that I think Trump's reasoning is joined-up enough to be behind a crafty attack on manipulative advertising and the deleterious effects on the third-world workers who feed our Western consumerism.

Aka Marie Antoinette had a point when saying "let them eat cake".

This is exactly it, including Trump. People are looking at the end product when its a tiny fraction of trade. For example, the US still has quite a number of big Air conditioning manufacturers who do have facilities in the US, but I'd say 90% of their parts come from China. They're just assembly lines. So the tarriffs will not only shut these down, but it will also reduce the volume or replacement parts and those that do get through will treble in cost. So if the AC in your house or shopping mall in Florida or Georgia packs it in over the summer, you probably won't be able to buy a replacement and if you do it'll cost you treble what it did last year.

Its these kind of real world scenarios that are going to explode in the next 3 months. Barbie dolls are the least of their worries.