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

That may well be the next excuse he tries for not releasing the Epstein files, but it wasn`t why he changed his desperate attempts to block their release two days before the House vote.

It was the realization that so many Republican member were going to vote to release due to pressure from their own MAGA supporters. He went from leading MAGA too running to catch up.

I can't say I'm all that enthused myself. But the fact of the matter is that there's nobody else even close to being a realistic runner. Sure, there's some time yet. But at the moment he looks like the only real possible ticket.

Jesus focking christ, in a normal country that would see disbarments and possible prosecutions. These muppets will probably be promoted

on the who the dems should run talk, I understand they won’t and why but Pete Buttigeg would do a great job. He’s a great speaker, intelligent and witty and is likeable.
he’d make a very good clean cut president.

Fairly high one would imagine

Will be interesting to see if that is followed

Thing's is, you could see them full on shredding stuff prior to today. Plus knowing Trump, all kinds of rules are being flouted in terms of it being tamper proof.

The vast majority of people in the US don't want their state to become like California, let alone the country. The fact that California is seen as a bit of a basket case currently is the main thing going against him. I dont see how he can seperate himself from that, given that he is basically the poster child for so many policies that the average person sees as crazy.

Could the timing of the latest BS USA peace proposal for Ukraine be linked to these files?

Those figures must be diabolically bad

Which, to my mind, makes her knowingly and presently an aider and abettor to those who engaged in human trafficking for profit and to those who were convicted in U.S courts of rape and sexual assault. If Bondi wants to engage in the paid time as the U.S. Attorney General in that, and stand as a wall between Trump and the victims, then she is fair game for the victims of those convicted of the above offences.

Let the victims and their lawyers take her to court and fill her daily docket with criminal and civil charges against her on those charges and of dereliction of duty and misdemeanour charges relevant to her misuse of public office.

It's not that. Don't get me wrong, the US is obviously very, very diverse but that's not why the Democrats are fragmented. The problem with US politics is that it's a two party system and it remains so because of the colossal amount of resources, logistics and organisation required to run a national party there.

The Democrats and the Republicans were founded in 1828 and 1854 respectively. The Democrats were founded before the USA conquered several Mexican provinces, including California.

Each party is an impossibly broad coalition that you just wouldn't see anywhere in Europe. Their closest relatives are the Labour and Conservative parties of the United Kingdom.

With the Republicans, you have social conservatives, libertarians, capital, devout Christians and people who just want tax breaks. With the Democrats, there are LGBT people, non-white groups, socialists, the public sector, liberals and maybe some small c conservatives. Obviously, these are broad generalisations but the point is that they are massive entities and neither one will split. The problem for progressives is that their bloc is much more fragmented and less cohesive whereas the Republicans rarely need to worry about splitting their vote.

Starting a new party and taking it national is effectively impossible. If you can get Elon or one of the lads to cut you a check and you've a wide array of high quality candidates, you might make some inroads but too many stars need to align for that to happen.

Any kind of progressive change will come from the Democrats. It's just how things are and they're not changing.