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

YouTube says it will pay $24.5 million to settle Trump's lawsuit over the company's 2021 decision to remove his account after the Jan. 6 attack.

Jfc - the capitulation to a tyrant is sickening to see in real time.

F**king disgusting

Is that like googles revenue in an hour or something?

These numbers are like what they pay for a 2 week project that never sees the light of day.

Tariffs are the Trump pony's one and only trick.

Well I will shed not a tear for all those farmers if they lose their farms given their votes helped to install an authoritarian regime in the US that is not just destroying their own country but is an existential thread to the world.

Can anyone explain to me how democrats are the reason for a government shutdown when republicans control everything. I saw Vance lying that democrats want to give billions of dollars to fund healthcare for illegal migrants.

They're not responsible, but when has that ever stopped Republicans ?

I honestly think a shutdown might be needed to help many Americans see just what a massive clusterfuck MAGA is creating.

In the meantime, while the row over the Govt shutdown is grabbing the headlines, SCOTUS is to consider tomorrow whether it might hear a petition from Maxwell's lawyers over her conviction on child sex trafficking charges, as Epstein had an agreement with HIS prosecutors that no one else would be prosecuted in the case. The present DOJ is opposing the petition on the basis that Epstein's trial was on charges local to one court area in Florida and not Florida state or the U.S nationwide and therefor did not provide legitimate non-prosecution cover to Maxwell, who was convicted 2 years after Epstein died in prison.

If the Democrats can stay on message and not get involved in spates on Trumps efforts to distract this could play well for them.

Republicans have been getting it in the neck on Trump`s Big Bill, especially in relation to health care cuts. Republican reps knew that was going to be a problem for them so those cuts mainly would not come into force until after the mid-terms.

The Democrats are now refusing to sign on until the present health-insurance subsidies for low income individuals that are due to run out at the end of the year are renewed and a commitment that Trump will not come back and do what he has been doing. Ignore it and cut a Congressional agreement on the budget.

Cuts to health care and health-insurance policies will effect voter all over the political divide, but from the Republican reaction to holding these cuts until after the mid-terms it looks as if a lot more of their voter base will be hit by these cuts.

Not only should the Democrats be highlighting the present health-insurance subsidies running out at the end of the year. they should be using this impasse to also highlight how the Big Bill health cut spending will cost low income families

You got what you voted for luv.

Which is why I said Democrats should just stick to the core message and not let Trump do his usual by flooding the the zone with nonsense intended to distract. Health-insurance subsidies and especially health care budget cuts in his Big Bill, even while he has tried to disguise them by not introducing the full effects until after the mid-terms are causing problems for Republican members of the Senate and Congress now so Democrats should just pile more of it on them.

He can keep some services going but there would still be no wages going to the vast majority of federal employees as well as no payments to federal contractors.

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

Buddy, you might want to take a look at the commander in chief!