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

Imagine if he had a slightly better aim 🤔

Do we not already have flight logs showing Trump visits to his island?

In case there's any doubt as to Trump's plans, this article lays out what the goal is.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-los-angeles/?u=eb87ad0788367d505025d9719c6c29c64dd17bf89693a138a44670acfdc86a46&utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jun.9.2025_8.00pm

Possibly the most dramatic own goal in the entire thread. Fantastic.

Newsom is weak?

A new acronym has been coined for Trump, TACO, Trump always chickens out.
But Newsom is weak?
Nope. Just another example of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil when it comes to Trump - yet whatever flimsy pretext can be used to criticise Democrats, and suddenly out comes nonsense like that.

As for Orwell's remark - any objective assessment of what party that applies to in the US in 2025 is MAGA Republicans. Trump and his amoral power worshipping stooges like RFK Jnr and Vance openly lie, react with fury to being fact checked. But again, it is see no evil, hear no evil, see no evil when it comes to MAGA Republicans.
Completely self discrediting of any and all claims made.

I will try and ‘analyse’ the mind of the Voters eligible to vote in The US. Presidential elections.
just gone , the potential voters could be categorised as follows-:

(1) the 100% always MEGA voters who voted R

(2) the 100% Democratic voters who voted D

(3) those who did not vote for a mirad of reasons

(4) Those ‘independant thinkers who , in the end, and on balance voted R

(5) Those ‘independant thinkers’ who , in the end and on balance voted D

Given Trumps behaviour up to date and ‘ALL THE TOES ‘ that he has STAMPED on I could see a significant swing from 4 to 5 and I would also see a lot of 3 getting up of their ars-s and going out to vote - mostly because in discuss of what is going on

So unless Trump changes his ‘behaviour’ , IMO, I would be VERY fearful of the next round of elections ie mid term and the pres one

Since we are in the era of ‘POST TRUTH’ and throwing Trump into the ‘mix’ I can see ABSOLUTLY no difficulty in Trump deciding to activate the Insurrection Act. because he OPINIONS that it is justified to activate it therefor it can be activated - because Trump said it!!!!!!?

He won't invoke the Insurrection Act, because the civil rights groups will be in court in about 2 milliseconds to have it declared illegal, which it would be, and then he would be constrained in ever using it again.

But irrespective of invoking the IA, he's adding more than enough fuel to the fire by sending in the Marine Corps, which is a seaborne assault force to project American power abroad, and not a riot squad to be used on American soil.

Civil wars have begun over less than what is now happening on the ground in Los Angeles.

On the BbC last night circa 1145pm a Republican senator- 100%Trump mouthpiece- when it was pointed out to him that the national guard have been called up in California and why did Trump not call them up for the Jan 6th riot. His answer was that they were suggested by Trump but Nanci Polish ‘refused ‘ the offer. I do not know how true that is - as we are now in the era op ‘post truth’

Fake news peddled by the MAGA Republican party, who deal in lies.

It a lie so bad, when you dig into it, they implicitly would also be blaming a Republican.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-235651652542

Let’s suppose he does run, the elections are held , he WINS again, and let’s say the Democrats- or whoever - brings him to court , it’s kicked down to a lower court, kicked back up to the federal court and then over to Trump’s Supreme Court who then parks the challenge to examine the case further. Throw in a good dollop oh legal argument at all stages and by the time that is all done we are now ‘THREE YEARS ++++ into Trumps THIRD TERM

The man is EXPERt. At working this strategy. Look at the way he was able to fend off all of the cases against him until he got ‘out the gate’ by being elected president

If in Trumps that they should be cancelled then A RESOUNDING YES. To create the right circumstances When the time comes , pick a few states where there are even minor disturbances occurring and send in the national guard and AWAY WE GO.
Think Putin here - which Trump is an avid follower of- in Russia , if two people are seen conversing on the street they can be picked up because they were ‘ plotting something against the state’.

Just wait and see they said

Here's a quote from someone who lived through Nazi Germany.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D".

It's all being done to undermine law and order and provoke such an incident.

Straight out of the fascist playbook.

The Administration has so far largely ignored court orders because there's no one willing to enforce them. Civil rights groups can go ahead and take it to court, and win, but I doubt Trump will even acknowledge it.