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

lol

Rasmussen

1,325 people polled.

From 250 million.

About 0.00053% of "likely voters"

Oh and here the "poll"

1* Do you trust the political news you are getting?

2* How serious of a problem is “fake news” in the media?

3* Do you agree or disagree with this statement: The media are “truly the enemy of the people”?

lol

Based on facts. And facts don't care about your feelings.

It's a thing but it's not the thing MAGA types think it is.

MAGA can't actually defend Trump or their movement on any kind of moral or intellectual level. They know this on some level so it's just easier to invent a word to just dismiss any criticism rather than having to actually think about what they are saying and doing. Of course, most of them can't be bothered with a word so they go with the three letters and pronounce themselves the winner while they spend years of their one and only life defend a fascist who is almost certainly a rapist and paedophile.

It is utterly deranged, for want of a better word. They spent years going on about how they wanted to shut down paedophile rings (Pizzagate anyone?) and protect free speech but now they're perfectly happy to kill free speech and defend one of the worst human beings in history.

They're like water. They just mould themselves now into whatever the leader wants providing that he gives them that special feeling of legimising, in their minds, their hate and bigotry while tormenting people they hate. In return, they'll pledge their allegiance and souls to him.

It's 2025. We all know what MAGA is now and what American MAGA loons are. There's no more pretence or facade. They laughed when Democrats were attacked and murdered, they thought memes about Paul Pelosi getting attacked were hilarious but now we're supposed to be outraged because one of their favourite nazi grifters caught a bullet from one of their own. All they can do is pretend that people were celebrating this because it's what they do. They judge others based on their own morally repugnant standards. They use bad faith tactics to defend the indefensible because it's all they have.

I'd almost feel sorry for them but we know where fascism leads. Depending on the day, I could be persuaded that in 2016, people voted to reject the system. Not any more. They knew what they were voting for in 2024 and we should always remember that.

It is but its a snoozefest when 90% of the late night chat guys just do anti Trump stuff.

Would be the same for 90% on any topic.

What else are they supposed to do, though? That abomination is running their country into the ground. What else is there for them to talk about?

Jean Carroll still has not been paid.

Feel free to post all the good stuff that he is doing. People will happily debate on that.

To be fair, the media over there is pretty horrible. It's entirely corporatist and seems to exist in the same way that authoritarians use state media: To spread propaganda and legitimise the system while constraining the range of things that can be openly discussed. On the last of these, it's much harder since the rise of the internet.

Here's one example:

MAGA tells us that CNN is on the far left. It isn't. It might be socially liberal (I say might as I don't watch CNN so I've no idea) but it exists for the same reason that Fox News does: To promote corporate interests. The difference is that Fox News is regressively racist so they can pander to a different demographic.

Jake Tapper is another example. He withheld vital information about Joe Biden's cognitive capacity so he could crap out a book after the election.

None of them question billionaires' controlling so much wealth, why the healthcare system is so dysfunctional, why gun violence is so rampant, etc.. They're all responsible to varying degrees for the current situation.

Country is fine. Most people just going about their days. No different to any other time in America.

Its repetitive and boring. Supposed to be an entertainment show. Not a show about politics.

@FAILSAFE 00 posted "the thread is almost entirely Trump hate. Which if you want that maybe just a rework of the thread title to say what the thread really is."

Trump is dangerous and he is an idiot. A lethal combination. Even the folks in Aberbaijan would tell you that he is dangerous and that he is an idiot if there was a country called Aberbaijan. Trump apparently ended the war between them and Albania.