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

They spent years whining about how they're just moderates, about how they have genuine concerns and how they don't want to be labelled as Nazis. It was pretty obvious what ideology they were supporting. All that's changed is that they've dropped the pretence. A few years ago, someone tried to do the both sides thing with World War 2 ffs.

There's a reason mainstream American conservatives want to end free speech. Unless you're in the top 1%, conservatism is just chains for the working and middle classes. It's about a law that restricts but does not protect.

I was being sarcastic, shielding a felon who is killing off free speech by using the death of kirk its a full on MAGA authoritarian take over of the US

The presser will be very tame questions screened I see Glen MTG boyfriend is inc

No free speech or epstein files questions sure

The cancellation of late-night chat shows =/= no comment being allowed. There's still plenty of anti-Trump comment around with podcasts and CNN and MSNBC and so forth. Maybe this will also decline, though, as Trump continues to consolidate power, but until then, the widespread cancellation of Trump-critical late-night talk shows could have more utility than detriment in the sense that it's a cultural flashpoint that really wakes Trump opponents up. There needs to be a grassroots fightback.

Kimmel wasn't cancelled out of any sort of morality by the Nexstar.

They did it out of fear and greed. They want their merger with Tegna to go ahead and the only way that can happen is with Trump's FCC approval so Kimmel is the pound of flesh they have to pay.

Trump really sees himself as some mafia godfather and all these private corporations has to pay tributes to him and give him what he wants first in order to get what they want in the private sector.

Its likely to make all executives worry about platforming anything negative for fear The Eye of Trump turns to them for cancelling.

Trump has discovered he now controls cancel culture yet his cultists think its "protecting free speech"

Potentially the most sinister move yet. Antifa it's not a structured organisation, it's a movement. So let's say you join in march that authorities feel as an Antifa element. You risk being arrested as a terrorist. What has happened to this country?

"yet" being the key word. Like everything else he's done and will do, it will be effectively normalised in short order and 'the line' will move a few feet forward. Rinse and repeat. The frog is dead.

This was all already shown with Musk's saving of twitter and turning it into an ideal of "Free Speech"

Did he say that? I didn't hear him saying that.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

That is a fact. First, they claimed he was a left-wing lunatic, then it morphed into the idea that, despite him being from a MAGA family and gun-loving, the left-wing college had brainwashed him. The point Kimmel was making was that they were all in on blaming the left rather than waiting to find out the real reasons or even understand his motivations.

And that is not the reason he has been cancelled. He made fun of Trump. He showed the clip where Trump is asked how he is dealing with the death of his friend, and he answered that he was doing fine, but look at all those trucks building my new ballroom. It was a clear insight into the lack of empathy Trump has.

And that is why Kimmel is being cancelled. For making Trump look bad. For showing Trump as the truly horrible, self-centred person that he is.

Starmer has been the greatest joke of a PM in living memory and I include the head of lettuce in that. At least she had some convictions. This lad is such a fawning, pandering lickspittle that its now crystal clear that the UK is virtually no more important in world affairs than we are.

Still hasn't put it up to the Israelis, spends his time kissing Trumps arse and has done little to nothing for Ukraine. All whilst keeping the illusion going that the UK can survive and thrive outside Europe.

Even if the democrats were to get the chance to get in next they're too spineless to truly actually go after anyone. It'll be a rerun of Bidens presidency where they'll tie things up in legalities until the next wannabe republican gets in and its open country again.

Unfortunately, though, due to the complete ineffectiveness of the American news media in countering Trump's daily load of gibberish, these late night talk shows are the only ones who are seemingly capable of doing that job.