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

Make America Great Again by whitewashing the past and rewriting history.

https://us.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-slavery-museum-smithsonian

@Manic Moran

Expressing concern about kids being injured against their will with FMG, while normalizing carrying a gun?

Pretty sure all those kids that suffered due to gun violence did so against their will too.

Better sales for arms manufacturers and more jobs. It's an abysmal trade off though. I'd rather have vastly fewer dead children.

I think this is a major point… Putin knows that having a refugee population all over EU is causing problems internally… Just look at the anti-migrants stuff in Ireland and we would be one of the more tolerant…

So using refugees to destabilise EU is now an aim (if it wasn't before)…

Personally I think we should:

1. Set up a Mercenary Airforce to give Ukraine Air superiority. This is done by loaning/renting them planes and allow there own pilots and ground crews to serve (on double pay) in Ukraine.
2. Get a mercenary army from third world to fight… Pay them well… I know the morals thing but the pay would be exceptional… So we are thinking the likes of India, Nepal, Bangladesh…. Someone in a military would know who would be suitable… Volunteers a Nepal Sargent makes 180 euros a month… We could pay a 1000 euros tax free..
3. Anyone buying Russian Oil will be tariffed into the EU from now on…
4. Bombard Russia in a cyber war… Hijack there Media and internet… Go on the attack… Constant undermining Russian leadership, use misinformation, AI generated videos and pictures… Make Putin hated in his own land.. And then keep that department for our Cyber warfare division, if there is an EU army this is the main one…
5. Explain when this goes bad, Putin we want you, personally… We ideally want you in Hague but if we have too we will be more direct. If he threatens Nuclear, say to every Russian he threatening the end of Russia and someone who loves their family knows what to do.

EU picks up the bill. Make it clear that the EU is not to be messed with… We don't stir easy but when we do we will finish it…

That was a bit different though.

He was found guilty by the Senate of causing insurrection by 57 - 43, but as it wasn`t a two thirds majority he was acquitted. So even if a stacked SCOTUS was only too happy to help him out then. For him to be eligble to even be on the ballot for 2028 would require a change to the constitution which would require a two third majority in both Senate and Congress or a two third majority of States, and SCOTUS would have no say in the matter.

Gun culture certainly is a US cultural distinction.

It might have made sense over two centuries ago when European monarchies and tyrannies controlled territories and peoples by force, like the Penal Laws in Ireland, but to accept regular mass murder in a modern democracy as a cultural norm to me is unpalatable.

I thought Sandy Hook would have been a water shed, a horror so dreadful to finally shift the debate about that gun culture into this century, but alas it did not.

In Texas, is this about some legislator failing to show up for a vote representing the constituents and thereby silencing the constituents OR about some legislator failing to show up for a vote representing the constituents and thereby preventing other legislators from silencing the constituents by changing the constituency boundaries with the intent to deny the constituents the right to vote for the party legislator of their choice?

Changing the constituency boundaries inevitably prevents Joe Bloggs and his wife living at No 12, Wiltshire Drive, from voting for their favoured party rep as they have been moved to another constituency by a vote from the legislators who did it for beneficial gain and not the gain of the voter.

The alternative to "vote for whom I choose to let you vote for where I choose to let you vote in" is that the voter could always move house and neighbourhood and constituency to vote for the legislator of choice. Its not really much of a choice for the voter AND yes it's clear that both main parties could engage in such activities purely for the benefit of the parties and not the constituents.

the man has no shame.

was it in relation to his "stopping" the wars in Africa?

I don`t know if it makes much difference.

Without a two third majority in both the House and Senate vote to change the Constitution he couldnot be ratified as President even if he won the ballot vote and the chances of that majority are slim to none existent. 34 states voting to change the constitution would also be slim, and to try for it and fail would leave him nowhere to go even before a ballot was cast.

I have no doubt that he will try anything he can get away with to hold on to power, but I believe even he knows there is no way he can do it democratically under the Constitution and the much greater liklihood of him attempting to do so is like all other dictators, through the military on some trumped up state of war scenario he is mumbling about lately. For me Los Angeles and Washington are trial runs based on that.

It is actually far far worse than that. He was talking about Netanyahu on the Mark Levin radio show. His exact quote is:

“I worked with your friend Bibi...He’s a war hero. I guess I am, too.”

What a repugnant sentence! Aside from Trump's shameless narcissism, Netanyahu is responsible for bombing hospitals and causing the deaths of 1000s of innocent children. Hardly worthy of being called a war hero.

I think you should check the laws in relation to those warrants. The warrants only remain in force during the session in which they were issued. Because the session has ceased the warrants have expired. A new session has not been declared so there are no new warrants in existence.

There is a lot of hand wringing going on in relation to this gerrymandering. It was decreed by Trump that Abbot get him 5 new seats from Texas and that is what Abbot is doing. He is abusing the power he has and not even trying to hide it.

Ulster Unionists don't have a culture. Deep down, I think they know this which is why they're so reliant on shows of force and state support.

At least red states probably have some local cuisines, country music and the like.