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

The frightening thing is that a significant part of the US population think that these people are 'Making America Great Again'

Looking at the BATF raid on the Hyundai battery production plant, I see the CNN report on it covers it as a raid looking for, as ICE would not have done, undocumented workers and mentions that U.S union representatives supposedly expressed concerns that jobs had being taken from U.S workers by foreign workers there. If one was to look at the raid from that perspective, and mention the report that South Korea's ambassador in the U.S had expressed concern to the Trump administration about it's nationals arrested in the raid, one might expect that the foreign workers would at least have lost their jobs.

Not good for the U.S unemployment returns this month, one might expect, unless one got tricksy with the way the matter was handled. Declare that the jobs were not lost, merely reassigned to other workers in the U.S who happen to be U.S born workers looking for jobs in the region and coincidentally union members as well. The two countries could forget the incident occurred officially if S/Korea took it's undocumented citizens home, keeping production rolling uninterrupted at the Hyundai plant with the new U.S staff workers, cold hearted as it might seem.

According to this article, the vaccination rate in Ireland amongst children is now below herd immunity level

"The HSE said the declining vaccine update in Ireland is falling short of the 95% coverage required to achieve herd immunity against key early childhood diseases.

Ireland's vaccination rate for nearly all vaccines administered to children was in the 80% range."

So just as bad, if not worse than Florida, which stands at 88.7% of kids vaccinated, but people on here are up in arms about de santis proposing to end mandates, while not campaigning for ireland to introduce them? I guarantee that not one child has ever been denied a school place due to their vaccination status, the parents just get exemptions or go to private school so the mandates are pretty pointless anyway.

People were also ranting and doomsaying about covid vaccine recommendations in the US being brought in line with those in Europe, including Ireland. Its pure selective outrage egged on by hysterical media stories.

You don't put all your eggs in one basket. Sure you get the multinationals in but you need to encourage more indigenous industry too. They've failed to do that and we're extremely exposed when they downsize/leave. And many of them will.

Nothing thrives in a monoculture. It takes very little to see the entire thing decimated.

Any responsible family would give Disney in Florida a skip until this is sorted.

Edit: wrong thread sorry.

WSJ says RFK Jr.'s Dept of Health and Human Services has released a report linking autism to the drug Tylenol in pregnancy, and also saying a lack of folates involved.

Given his unorthodox views on medicine, and his recent firings of CDC boss Monarez, is there a danger that HHS reports will not he trusted as much?

RFK Jr had a very tough Senate Oversight Committee hearing this week. Democrats criticised his vaccine-scepticism but there was also some criticism from Republican Senators, who are reportedly saying privately to Trump that RFK Jr is skating on thin ice.

Undercover conservative reporter James O'Keefe, who is certainly no friend of the Democratic party, has reportedly uncovered a plan to redact Republicans from the Epstein list, while keeping Democrats on it. In the video, the acting deputy chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations, Joseph Schnitt, also says Maxwell was moved to the lower prison in return for her "keeping her mouth shut".

DOJ admitting the video is real, but says the official on the tape has no role in the Epstein case.

The video is at this link.

Yahoo News confirming the story here.

Reports that at the "Coalition of the Willing" meeting with Zelensky, Trump didnt turn up even on video call as he previously said he would. He sent Witkoff instead. Then Zelensky had to phone Trump afterwards.

Also Reports Trump shouted at the European leaders for buying oil from Russia, and said "America is out". While I don't think we should buy oil from Russia, it's only Hungary and Slovakia I think that do so directly. There are some concerns about some of the 1% of Europe imports from India possibly coming from Russia though.

Paradoxically , Trump previously expressed sympathy for Hungarian PM Viktor Orban when the latter complained about Ukraine bombing the Druzhba pipeline through which Hungary gets Russian oil.

Trump recently imposed 50% tariffs on India to pressure them to stop buying oil from Russia. I sortof agree with that but China is a much bigger culprit in this.

I would be surprised if that wasn’t the case.

They truly believe MAGA are gullible twats

Let's not forget Sebastian Gorka...

I'll have to delve further into this raid when more info becomes available to see if the arrested workers were freed after documents were checked and findings revealed. Initial reports mention it was a long planned raid, whatever that means. I was surprised by the I/D of the agency (BATF) named as coordinator.