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

I'd really like to be able to read minds looking at Speaker Johnson and the other gent, Johnson glancing at Chip Roy and the other keeping his eyes front and centre all the time, just to see where they were focused thoughts wise at the time.

I'm minded that with winter coming up, seasonal illnesses will pop up and there may not be the illness cover from last winter available this season due to Trump's big bill cutbacks on ACA. The families of those who die due to Trump's inspired cutbacks know there is only one person to be held accountable, one person only seated behind the desk where the buck stops. It's up to them to make him pay.

That doesnt suit Trumps world view. In his eyes, Russia has every right to exert its power in Europe, China in the far east and everything west of Galway is Trump's to do with as he pleases.

Hes already trying to destabilise Maduro in Venezuela, eventually they'll go after the oil there. In just 8 months hes touched on annexing Greenland, Panama and making Canada the 51st state.

Trump doesnt think any of these countries have a right to self determination any more than he believes Ukraine should be independent from Russia. We're all just pawns in the chess game of superpowers.

If that is true it would mean he’s been stringing Zelenskyy on all along. That’s even worse than what was on offer 18 months ago almost

In April the first mass protest against Trump totaled 3 million people. The second was 5 million. This weekend was 7 million. It’s growing. Mobilizing and motivating people is the point. The low turnout in US elections is a symptom of how disenfranchised people feel with the two party system. So the ability to mobilize people is encouraging. Can this be turned into votes is the question.

The two party system/monopoly has left people effectively disenfranchised. You don’t like the main parties ? Give an alternative a first preference and then vote to keep the worst out of office. In the US progressive voters are almost always (unsuccessfully) voting to keep the complete nut jobs out. The “No Kings” protests offer an alternative and a forum for local organization.

One thing to note is that is not just in the cities. There were 2,700 protests. Towns, suburbs, and at least some rural gatherings. No need to travel any distance to attend which is encouraging people to come out. My small town of 4,000 people in a currently Republican congressional district had a turn out of 2,800.

Finally, the response from Trump and MAGA folk suggests that it’s having an impact.

Edit: The following link was mentioned on MSNBC last night.

This to me suggests Trump is just a stooge for Project 2025.

They have a "team" working on him being president for 2029. He'll be 82 years old starting a 4 year term.

Listening to Bannon, MAGA is a movement beyond Trump and it is the people in the background who really need to be flushed out and focused on.

They don't care about the White House being demolished. They'll let Trump have his little pet projects to keep him happy and following orders.

I mean how "open to interpretation" is Amendment 22. It's pretty fn black and white!

That doesn't sound like the work of someone who is willing to leave in 3 years.

A dead Bernie would have made for a far better Pres.

I'm waiting for him to start calling it the Trump House and MAGA normalising it

Yes. The famous "Trump discount".

Maybe still alive, but barely - in a state of near-death and living stasis on the Golden Throne (which functions as his life support system).

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If Trump ever learns about Warhammer 40k, he'll be looking for one of those to be built for him…

Yup, the only way Donnie will ever be stuck in stasis on a golden throne is if he somehow has a stroke while overly straining to push the remnants of half a dozen big macs out on the solid gold toilet bowl in Trump tower 😁

As in "Oh no, not more of the same" listening to Trump?