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

I dont see Trump dragging the US into a war with Iran, it would be utterly reckless.

Bernie Sanders has issued a very good video on the issue.

In recent months the US has held 5 rounds of negotiations with Iran to resolve longstanding concerns.

A sixth round of talks was planned for Sunday so Israels attack was deliberately designed to sabotage American diplomatic efforts.

Sanders says there can be no use of military force against Iran without an explicit authorisation from congress.

He says Trump should remember his words "A peacemaker and unifier" and rein in Netanyahu and work with the international community.

Trump has the cards, he can threaten cutting off financial and military support to Netanyahu.

I hope he hasnt surrounded himself with too many lunatics though.

Firstly Im not a Maga follower.

Secondly I am on record as saying Trump became unhinged towards the end of his first term.

The weaponisation of the legal system against him over the next 4 years only made him more unhinged and emboldened.

I said 2 years ago that I didnt think Trump should run again for President, that he was too old, too unhinged and had too much baggage.

If Alvin Bragg and Letitia James hadnt taken those pathetic court cases against Trump and the Democrats hadnt tried to conceal Bidens cognitive decline, we'd almost certainly have a Democrat in the White House.

Not Kamala Harris, because she was a poor candidate, but a younger more qualified politician.

Instead they blew it and gave Trump every opportunity to win.

Trump has done alot of crazy and needless stuff so far in his term, to be honest Im sick of him on the news every night waffling on about this and that.

I'm sick of the unhealthy obsession about him that people have.

Would US foreign policy be much different if Biden was still there, it probably would be more warmongerish if anything.

Israel simply has too much influence in US politics.

Firstly Im not a Maga follower.

A laughable statement.

No matter how many times you claim that at this point or going forward, having read your posts here for years, I don't believe this. Not that you care, or that I care that you don't care. We saw this a lot in his first term, people coming on to these pages trying to shut down conversations which were critical of him by saying those talking were obsessed.

And we've seen more weaponization of the justice system by Trump than EVERYTHING that happened to Trump during the Biden admin. Conservatives claiming to be the party of Law and Order but being outraged at the thought that Trump should be held accountable for his illegal activities is is as laughable at your claiming to not be MAGA.

And for a hatrick of things that are unbelievable in your post is your claim that a Biden admin would be more warmongerish than this Trump one. I have no praise for Biden and his support of a genocide but if you added up all his rhetoric throughout his term, it wouldn't amount to what Trump has said in the past few months.

And finally, you might call people having an unhealthy obsession about him. Open your eyes and ears and look at the world and his involvement in the various points of note. Anyone who has an interest in current affairs who thinks Trump isn't the primary player in these topics at the moment has their head in the sand. And if anything, the obsession would surely be with the person who says they don't support him but has spent years on here defending him.

Sure the drugs stop being effective after a while.

This interview shows that actually he IS a journalist.

Just one with very few morals (which we knew anyway). He shouldn't be praised for pushing back on Cruz, he should be challenged for not having done this for so long.

Mehdi Hassan is one of the only journalists who asked questions like this on mainstream outlets, but they quickly learned to stay away from him and ultimately when he shone a light on Israeli hypocrisy, the network shafted him.

Society needs the type of interview Carlson gave Cruz, in full view, not just as an outsider somewhat on the fringes.

When the worst person you know makes a good point