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

The H1-B visa causing a stirr. Lutnick stated in the press conference it was an annual fee of 100K but later the Press Secretary demanded people to re-interpret to a once off fee. Nobody knows if they leave the USA o a holiday and come back does the fee go from a few hundred dollars to 100,000. A typical shitshow.

Kamala Harris: "I will be a president for all Americans".

Trump: "I don't want what's best for my opponents".

Hillary called half the country a "basket of deplorables".

Democrats have a huge hand in all this.

Right, so shes still called 30 million people "deplorable". Not a good look. This is "we go high" party apparently.

Have to expect push back there and a further widening of the divide.

She didn't call half the country 'a basket of deplorables'. Here's the full quote:

We are living in a volatile political environment.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

I can't see anything wrong with that quote tbh. If it's her fault that America is fooked because she uttered those words then there was never going to be any hope for America if that's the case.

There is an old Irish saying that covers that.

Aithnionn ciarog ciarog eile.

The English version would be Birds of a feather…..

Consumer spending data being delayed. Comes after Trump fired the Bureau of Labour Statistics previous head. He has nominated a man who was present on January 6th (but not involved in the violence apparently) to replace her.

The Washington Post is saying RFK jr and Trump are going to announce today that pregnant women’s use of paracetamol is the cause of autism