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

Edit: Trump admin bans 5 European supporters of tech-regulation from the US including ex EU Commissioner Thierry Breton. X posted all their names, which shows us the coordination going on between X and the WH in my opinion.

Tuesday’s move is part of a Trump administration campaign against foreign influence over online speech, using immigration law rather than platform regulations or sanctions. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, those targeted will generally be barred from entering the US, and some may face removal proceedings if already in the country.

One of the benefits for the Digital Services Act is recourse when the likes of Twitter ban or shadow ban people. They have to give a valid reason and provide an appeals process (with an actual human checking it)

Once they make their decision they can become liable for any damages the user/customer faced. It's a pretty powerful act to protect the public/users and customers of digital platforms.

So in that regard it certainly helps promote free speech, so no wonder why the Trump administration dislikes it. It makes it harder to censor opinions that go against them.

If they had really wanted to save taxpayers money there was no need for Musk and his DOGE.

Blocking the big orange baby`s access to science fiction movies and taking away his crayons would have achieved more without all the hassle and increasing the unemployed numbers.

Musk has been actively promoting the idea of a UK civil war on X and yet the UK government continues to use X.

In the event of a world/regional war, the US will snatch Greenland before it can become a Russian base. This will be true even if the US President at the time is someone that Irish people consider "nice", or their friend, i.e. a Democrat.

Trump/Vance is just getting the Danes used to the idea now.

They didnt annex Iceland though. By then, the Wilsonian concept of self determination had entered the US political mainstream. Trump is really a creature of the 19th century in trying to impose border changes by force.

The Greenlanders are not cattle to be sold at a Trump auction.

No, you're not going to make this fascist willy waving from the Trump admin. and his techbros or whoever is pushing this coveting of Greenland sound reasonable.

There's no "World war" on at the moment, and if one should erupt for most of my life I would have believed Denmark (and the wider EU) and the US would all be on same side.

The US military would be given free reign to operate in and around Greenland if necessary.

They already have a base there.

Finally if there's regional war in the Americas in the near future, the most probable aggressor is the USA under its current leadership.

Don't they have more in common with Canada as they both have indigenous populations facing the same problems with Climate Change?

US would buttfucķ them without a second thought.(not that they may have the liberty to choose when the Land of the Avaricious comes calling)

It's more likely that Trump would offer Putin a naval base there as a birthday present.

Britain and the US occupied Iceland because it was a Danish dependency and Denmark was under Nazi occupation. It was granted independence before the war ended and joined NATO of its own volition when it was founded. There is zero comparison with what Trump threatening to do to Greenland, also a dependency of Denmark which since 1945 has been one its closest allies.

There ia 943 pages in that. Fecking hell. Any one who reads it just print whatever is said about or involves Trump please.