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

Nope actually I was wrong and while this vid takes a while to get going it makes ALOT of sense when you get to the end

How anyone can believe this liar is beyond me. Zelensky went through the 28 point peace plan line by line with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and also went into great detail with Vance and EU leaders. The problem is his idiot followers will believe him. Trump is setting up to sell out Ukraine.

The gap between the EU and the USA is widening with every day of the Trump presidency as he and his sychophants move closer to Russia and criticize Europe. The withdrawal of the US from NATO is where this may end up

The Irish government will likely be strongarmed in the very near future into finally replacing paper ballots with electronic voting machines - easier for the tech bros to fix election results here going forward.

relax, voting machines wont be here anytime soon, tis still too soon since the last e-voting debacle here

While I’m not up on the social media aspect that you’ve outlined, I have read the news and even the official statements and that document that was signed off by Trump was simply chilling- the sooner the EU can stand on its own two feet the better.
it feels like this is the start of the race to the bottom - US, China Russia controlling the world or something and the US are just speeding up the process to get there - we’re in extraordinary times - where are the democrats coming out and disowning this document? Is this a MAGA version of americas view of Europe or will it become a full on American policy regardless of who’s in power? That’s what I’ll be waiting to see

As have said before my belief is most American voters don't know (or care) very much about the foreign policy of their government.

Beyond maybe the fate of the "Holy Land", and bombing the Arabs every so often ("they did 911")?

Also the democrats are possibly like rabbits in the headlights with how fast all this is moving, and don't know what to do.

Also we know politics in the US is completely corrupted by money/vested interests + regulation there has been captured for a long time now.

I am not getting the impression that these wealthy interests (e.g. in the US tech sector) have any deep problems with what is happening, or the prospect of an aggressive new US autocracy, hostile to former allies, so long as they can pay to play with Trump, or whatever ghouls will come after.

would be lovely if it happened but of course highly unlikely - no doubt there’s a lot of money tied up in this erm, “agreement” with FIFA

Unfortunately I’m finding it very hard to disagree with anything in your post- it’s a feicing miserable situation isn’t it

Looks like the conservative majority on SCOTUS will expand Trumps powers to fire members of "Independent Agencies". This would partially overturn Humphrey Executor, a 1935 decision that ruled the president couldnt just hire and fire at will members of the FTC.

Of course the Federal Trade Commission will probably have a say whether to approve the Netflix takeover of most of Time Warner including HBO (CNN and some other channels are to be separated as Discovery Global next year). Trump commented on it today. Under the rules, a judge will decide. Its rare that conservative judges block mergers and takeovers. Their position since Reagan has been that "vertical takeovers" are okay. However with a rubber stamp SCOTUS, that could change.

Kelsey Grammer calls Trump ‘one of the greatest presidents we’ve ever had’ at Kennedy Center Honors. Oh dear. Cheers and Frasier are my favourite US sitcoms. Thankfully, I can usually separate the art from the artist. I knew Grammer had a lot of personal demons so I guess we can add MAGA to the list.

Seeing a lot of talk that there will be compulsory 3 minute "hydration breaks” midway through each half of every match at the World Cup next summer no matter where the game is or the temperature.

Gotta get those ad breaks in somehow.