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

The flaw in the narrative is that, and I hope everyone can agree on this, a vote for Trump was a vote for radical change. A similar thing happened in the UK in 2016. I think the reasons behind both are very, very similar.

From this side of the Atlantic, it looks like anyone in the poorest socioeconomic strata of US society live miserably, purely in material terms of course. Healthcare is the most expensive in the world, the societal safety net is almost non-existent and anyone who might call this out is a tiny minority in a corporate oligarchy that likes things just the way they are.

not trump supporters don't usually post approving of statements, they just avoid criticising .

As another poster has recently pointed out, your posts are very difficult to read and interpret. While we're all prone to typos and punctuation issues with our posts, it can be helpful to run the text of posts through a spell/grammer checker before posting to fix a lot of the issues, as was already suggested.

Ireland has a small well educated population . The critical mass of thick people does not exist here in sufficient quantity currently. That is not to say that we have don’t have a significant population of thickos. We most certainly do. But the demographic situation currently favours moderate politics. Ireland is the equivalent of one blue state in America. There are many states in America that are similar to Ireland in education and politics etc that voted against Trump and where politicians like Trump will never gain traction.

"It wasn't my fault. It was the methamphetamine! If you ask me, that stuff makes you do suspiciously Nazi-like salutes…"

— Elon Musk.

To say that post is classic projection is to understate things quite a bit.

Is it possible to be at once moderate and vicious?

this can be one of the same thing, its also common for many religious followers to struggle with anxiety issues.

charismatic leaders tend to be highly narcissistic, including religious leaders, this can be an automatic magnet for such anxious followers, a leader that seems to know whats going on, has all the solutions……

She can only be leaving for the money cause everybody knows that Musk's nickname is "Plastic Mickey" !!!!!

I think they way trump works is they way the choose a job candidate is which person is very conservative who is popular in they state they started off in as a politician

who is good at raising money or attracting donors

who likes to appear on Fox news or joe Rogan and various extreme conservative podcasts .do they look good on tv . The result of this is the person who knows least about the area of expertise or is weirdo extremist who believes in conspiracy theorys gets the job So the person who is least capable with a mediocre intellect gets the job of manager of a government department .Being slightly racist or ignorant of how government works seems to be an advantage in getting a high profile job .

Theres an item on sky news today. Government spending has gone up since Doge started cutting jobs from all federal agencys .

I'm sure there are a number of people he'd like to pardon. A few months ago, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro was talking about pardoning Derek Chauvin. I had thought Trump would consider this as well, although it's been pointed out that even if Trump pardoned him, he'd still serve a state-level sentence.

Someone I fancy he'll consider a pardon for, if he does let Diddy off, is Ghislaine Maxwell. I remember when her arrest happened, a reporter asked Trump for comment and his words were - "I just wish her well, frankly…" That was as sitting president, talking about someone in the middle of a big sex trafficking case. 😮