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

You believe that Dems saying "don't obey illegal orders" is the same as your commander in chief saying "hang anyone who says that", so forgive me if I believe it's abundantly clear that your perspective on this, and probably any military matter, is absolutely skewed.

Regarding this particular event, you're like an American arguing for gun rights. The rest of us see how fúcking irrational it is to try to justify it, but they won't or can't see the words for the trees.

"I didn’t say they were the same, my verbiage was closer to that neither was helpful."

It was a ridiculous false equivalence, possibly the worst I've read here in 10 years, and absolutely farcical to mention each stance in the same sentence.

It was and is absurd - utterly absurd, and places your credibility on military matters firmly in the bin.

Your urge to appear impartial on this ironically reveals your blatant bias.

I suppose your silence on the topic of Trump sh1tting all over the military was the first sign.

Problem is, alot of this was happening before, only in the shadows, with people smart enough to make it look legitimate. The US is a murky place.

Only if their intention was to blow up the vehicle, the death of the occupants would incidental, am I doing it right?

The Supreme Court (in a huge shock I'm sure) has approved Texas' congressional map, allowing them to continue with their gerrymandering attempt.

Let's hope California then follows suit, as I believe their vote to make changes was contingent on whether or not Texas would do it.

Quality comment by Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show last night;

"The US Institute of Peace now has a new name, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.

Wonderful, wonderful.

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. I look forward to seeing you alongside the Benjamin Netanyahu Bureau of Urban Planning

and the RFK Jr. School for Singing."

Aren't Melania and Barron dual citizens?
The irony of Moreño immigrant politician being the one floating this effort to pull up the ladder should be lost on no-one.
Like Patel, Sunak and Mahmoud in the UK, the attempt to push through openly racist policy with the token brown folk near the top of the parties as the flag bearer is damned near them going full on Uncle Tom or Tio Tomaso as can be.

Well, Nigel Farage made sure his children all have German passports while Sunak and co made damn sure none of their racist policies would ever affect them or anyone in their class. In the UK, class is extremely important. Nobody has any problem with billionaires and millionaires from Asia and Africa coming in. It's only working class people who are acceptable victims of performative cruelty.

The Whitehouse has released it's security strategy and it's a doozie!

This is the most security, diplomacy and indeed historically illiterate "security strategy" I have ever read.

The USA has just announced and made policy the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine aswell as confirming (as Hegseth did prematurely) their beliefs that they own a hemisphere....

This is directly from Putin, it allows him to claim a free hand in "his" hemisphere.
Which funnily enough, given his threats of readiness for war with Europe, is also the hemisphere we inhabit.
It's a rebirth of the Cold War with the divisions recreated either by convincing an idiot that Russia has parity in anything other than nuclear forces.
Or using whatever Kompromat Russia may have over said idiot.
It does allow American Idiots to loudly embrace the colonial and racist tropes of Manifest Destiny, so there is that.

Also, the 1st chapter of this Doc and the dumbing of "What is American Strategy" is facile and almost laughable were it not so fúcking serious for the rest of the world.
This isn't just a rebirth of multi-polarity.
It is a rebirth of diplomatic Darwinism on a scale not seen since 1930s.

Lunacy.

Netflix is buying Warner Brothers studios, HBO Max and HBO for $72bn - though its $82 bn if you include agreeing to take on $10bn in WB debt. A major defeat for Paramount, which wanted it. Expected to raise anti trust issues, though conservative regulators before this one have been hands off about mergers and takeovers. However in his first term, Trump tried unsuccessfully to block the Time Warner takeover of CNN.

Note that CNN is not included in this sale. Paramount, largely owned by Larry Ellison, seen as an ally of Trump, wants to take over Time Warner. Its rum by his son David Ellison though. That could turn it into another Fox News.

CNN and other cable channels TNT and HGTV are not included in the deal and will be part of a separate company called Discovery Global.

Note how one of the plans in that document is literally them admitting to interfere in Europe's business.

Can Mexico also fire upon American approaching the border if they suspect that their consumption of drugs is fueling the cartels?

Would that be legal ,if unfortunate?

Can they designate the American cocaine head as a member of a terrorist group?

No they can not designate an American coke head as a terrorist.

But they can designate his car as one 😜