Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Checks and balances will sort it out

The dollar at the lowest level in four years against the euro.

Winning 😂

To be fair, it's difficult if not impossible to be cognizant of and angry about 30 different things at once. It's just further proof that the 'flood the zone' strategy is working as well now, if not better, than when it was implemented about a decade ago.

But judge shopping was fine when it was a conservative judge in Texas in Biden's term though?

It may be unsustainable due to the sheer numbers of XO's Trump is signing that potentially violate the constitution.
Shouldn't the constitution be protected at all costs? If an XO potentially breaches the constitution, wouldn't the most rational option be, a federal judge issues an injunction until the supreme court rules on it? It's kinda like a presumption of innocence.

Maybe, just maybe if he issued legal XO's there would be no reason for federal judges to take a case and issue an injunction. Ya know if you're all for law and order and checks and balance etc…

Nothing sticks to Trump. There's always a new outrage to eclipse the old one. When everything is an outrage, nothing is an outrage because nothing particularly stands out.

That list of around 30 things that was posted - you'll have a group of people who have one issue on that list where that's there prime concern, but that has balkanised public backlash. Nothing big enough to reach critical mass. Hopefully I'm proven wrong on this.

It’s a good reminder of just how much religion dominates US politics- a greater bunch of hypocrites you couldn’t get - thankfully in ireland we’ve cut the umbilical cord to the Catholic Church in the main- American churches are simply money generating machines servicing a need to maintain certain “values” as the citizens see fit, usually discriminating against ethnicities and the marginalised of society - people pay good sums of dollars weekly to be a part of their “church” - it’s no different to a political lobby group. It’s got nothing to do with “God” and everything to do with keeping certain parts of society at arms length

Actually it's 6 out of 9.

It would appear that US Catholics are pretty mainstream on social issues. The real hardcore and oppressive approach to issues like abortion and gay marriage comes more from (Protestant) Evangelicals. Sure there is a strong conservative Catholic wing (think of J D Vance), but there is a liberal mainstream in US Catholicism (think of Pope Leo XIV),which is very active on issues such as opposing the brutal activities of ICE, the gutting of Medicare and Medicais, stc

Pardon my ignorance but how do Supreme Court judges get appointed, if there’s a vacancy can the sitting president just appoint anyone he likes?

What you are saying is that the Supreme Court Catholics are not representative of US Catholicism in general. Agreed.