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

How can anyone be sure that the mid term elections will take place?

Or that they will be open

I have read of a few methods they could use to ensure "victory"

Could ice raids at polling time and provoking civil unrest (with agent provocateurs if necessary) along with putting their own people into the electoral commissions be part of their plan?

I think now that Trump's ICE trick has got people's backs up, if he tries anything around election time, it carries with it the risk that the result at vote centres and ballot count centres would put the Jan 6th Capitol event in the ha'penny place. Concerned citizens might take note of Trump's statement that he will "executive order" their mail-in votes rights vanish. Masked people showing up at voting centres and interfering with the average citizen ability to cast the vote might rue it.

As for Trump's cabinet members, I'm interested to know who the other member of the cabinet or White House backroom person Scott Bessent got aggressive toward in the past week. It's not the first time that he's threatened to deck some-one there.

At what point do we say the frog is dead, I wonder?

If the Supreme Court overrules every other court in the USA, then Trump essentially does control the courts, along with Congress, and all the erstwhile independent governmental organisations are being staffed with loyalists. So, Trump is far, far closer to total power than is usually said, in my opinion.

Opinion and reading of the law must come into it, otherwise these matters wouldn't be going to courts in the first place.

Technically speaking, you could give Trump a third term and say it abides by the US Constitution since the amendment usually limiting presidential terms mentions being elected to the office more than twice. There is a loophole that Trump could get a third term via becoming Speaker of the House and then having the sitting POTUS and VP resign. Or declaring some sort of emergency and trying some fúckery that way. Or just pulling a Musk and having a special advisory position created for himself, called 'The Real President of the United States'. None of these would technically violate the US constitution, it could be argued and assented to, but they would all very much break the spirit the laws laid out in that document.

Boring jobs stats /economics 😀…what do you have to say about the Epstein note from the Don?

The numbers that make Biden look bad are credible. The ones that make Trump look bad are fake.

HAH! Why is no one reporting on it…might it because the jobs numbers under Trump are tanking?

Within a month of Sundays it would never happen but humans do surprise. I'm waiting for some person of high rank within the civil side of Government to be driving home or going around town by car or other method to meet some ICE Reps and come out the other side pissed off at what happened.

Another Trump rig-the-vote case thrown out, this time as a Michigan judge dismissed criminal charges Tuesday against 15 Republicans accused of trying to falsely certify President Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 election, saying that because they seriously believed him, there was no intent to commit fraud.

Investigators said the group met at the Michigan GOP headquarters in December of 2020 and signed a document falsely stating they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified electors,” even though President-elect Joe Biden won Michigan by nearly 155,000 votes, a result confirmed by a GOP-led state Senate investigation in 2021.

Prominent Michigan MAGA activist and former Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock was one of the accused. Her attorney, Nicholas Somberg, told reporters after the hearing that the state attorney general’s office had engaged in a “malicious prosecution.” “There needs to be major consequences for the people who brought this,” he said.

Judge Simmons said she saw no intent to commit fraud: Whether they were “right, wrong or indifferent,” they “seriously believed” there were problems with the election, the judge said. “I believe they were executing their constitutional right to seek redress.”

The notion that doing what the president said is an excuse for what were clearly unlawful actions by a fake board of electors is then accepted by a sitting judge hearing the case against the accused as a genuine reason to throw out the charges case boggles the mind.

What if the charges had been murder or riot done on the say-so of Trump, would Judge Simmons have gone the same route in deciding how she should rule on the case.

How things have changed in the Oval Office.

I truly believe even if there is a video evidence of Trump raping children on Epstein’s Island MAGA would continue to support him.