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

He BOUGHT a few companies and then hired people to run them for him. When you're born into wealth that's the easy part.

There's a huge difference.

However, as we have seen over the past few years he has shown himself to be a wretched disaster and an active detriment to anything he touches.

It's a cult of personality that MAGA idiots only have in their heads. If one stands back and actually observes Donald Trump he really has nothing to offer. His only real skill is the ability to talk, and keep talking even when he enters the realm of absolute nonsense which is nearly always. MAGA has conned THEMSELVES in forgiveness mode where Trump is concerned and are willing to lower themselves continually for him and his demonstrable gibberish. They will consistently change the narrative, of their own accord, to protect him.

There was a piece on one of those American late night TV shows a couple of weeks ago where they did a little skit and sent an interviewer out onto the streets to talk to some MAGA clowns. The interviewer asked about Biden and his "bone spurs" and how it got him out of doing service during Vietnam. The Trump worshipper said how that was awful, and said other negative things about Biden when the interviewer mentioned other things that "Biden" had done, when they were really things that Trump had done.

Then the interviewer said Opps sorry, I said Biden when I meant Trump, can we do the interview over and asked the same questions but in relation to Trump this time. And bish, bash, bosh, the the interviewee's tune completely changed to one of making cheap excuses for Trump.

You simply cannot make people do that, whether you're a leader of a cult or not. People have to do that to themselves.

Even Hitler didn't enjoy that kind of hypocritical self deluded devotion.

He clearly has a great eye for spotting opportunities and emerging markets/trends and is very skilled at spinning a "vision" that investors buy in to.

Has he though?

I mean, you don't have to be a genius to see that EV's are going to be the way of the future, there's people without two shillings to rub together and just an inter cert that could tell you that. Space X already existed before Musk went near it and TBH fu*k what the end game of that is actually supposed to be, and he's made an absolute balls up of Twitter and turned it into a cesspool, not to mention the incredible loss maker that that pigsty now is.

I've never bought into the Musk myth. He's always seemed a bit off to me, which I put down to his autism. But it goes deeper than that. I genuinely think that there's absolutely nothing to the guy except the fact that he was born wealthy and has used that wealth to gain more. Other than that he endlessly spouts bollocks, has shown himself to be a complete spoofer with a fragile ego and has been easily played by MAGA, the obvious bad guys in the room.

He's an irresponsible manchild that has the luxury of immense wealth that allows him to do everything for shits and giggles.

It's a little bit telling how Trump and Musk's fans only seem to show in this thread occasionally these days and for most of the last six months.

It must be weird to be that Trumper who bought a Tesla just to "own the libs" and now needs to off load it.

Musk has done it before, when he was butt hurt with the number of his own interactions...

Thread has been an echo chamber for a lot longer than that, tbf

Bannon has played the waiting game, stayed in shadows, drinking, but now he is back and he is going all out to destroy Musk. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him back in the White House… and then thrown out again after a few months.

Musk's Dad doing the rounds. On LBC saying his lad doesn't use drugs.

Reminds me of Boris's Dad. That ended well.

Leaders of the Proud Boys now sueing for $100 million after they had their Jan 6th sntences squashed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5337375-proud-boys-sue-doj-jan-6/

Ashli Babbitt's family got $5 million settlement for her shooting

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-5-million-ashli-babbitt-jan-6-rioter-who-was-killed/

Trump's pardoning of all those rioters, is now turning into a money trough for them. I can;t imagine that going down well with the US Public, that 1st they were pardoned and now making millions of Jan 6th

Not disputing any of that tbh.

The absolute state of the US for workers. Land of the free my hole. It's a cess pit.

They don't care about Peter Thiel, the closest thing there is to an actual vampire, creating a list of Americans' data via his company Palantir. A greater violation of the rights of the citizenry one can't imagine short of concentration camps and nobody bats an eyelid.

They stood up to the most powerful empire there at the time 250 years ago (albeit with massive assistance from the French) and now they're so utterly servile. It's pathetic. Who exactly is the opposition? CNN, who waited until the day Joe Biden announced he had prostate cancer to release their grubby book about him? The Democrats?

Thank God for the Atlantic Ocean.

Thiel is as idiotic and invested in his own mind as Musk is. When it comes to Palantir; Karp is the one to watch out for. He truly does seem like the devil incarnate. That man wants a WW3 to happen tomorrow. His entire business model is built on the idea of it happening.