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

If Zohran Mamdanis win in the NYC mayoral race tells us anything its that progressive populist candidates are actually popular and can win elections easily even in the US. Unfortunately the Dems don't want to change so here we are.

Such nonsense. NYC is not representative of the United States electorate.

A progressive Democrat would have done even worse than Harris.

Sorry Luxxis, your reading comprehension is obviously below even that of the Grok LLM you fed my post to…

The US hasn't been as divided as it is now since the Civil War. It's institutions have failed (or more accurately, have been deliberately dismantled) to the point where the administration are breaking the law on a weekly, if not daily basis. The Supreme Court has been rendered useless, it's "law enforcement" just killed a civilain in cold blood, it's education system ranks among the lowest in the developed world in terms of literacy (yes, they have some excellent universities but their primary and secondary education has been failing for decades - arguably deliberately so: an ignorant population are easier to lie to). Sounds like a failed state or a tyrannical dictatorship to me.

As it stands, the US have a military base in Greenland. They've been told in the past by Denmark that they're welcome to have further military presence there since USA and Denmark are partners in NATO. Trump's administration claims they need Greenland for "defense", one has to ask who they need it to defend against? Russia? The country that in all likelihood control the US President? Even if they don't actually control him, every move he's made as president has suited their interests. Not even the most bloviated, vodka soaked moron in Russia believes the Russian Federation would last a week in a war with the USA (even without their NATO allies): it's been 4 years and they haven't even manage to take Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces are a pale shadow of the Soviet Red Army (whose out-dated arms and tactics they're still relying on).

The only logical reason for the US to invade Greenland is to dismantle NATO. Since Congress approved legislation that prevents any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress back in 2023, Trump can't pull out of NATO by means of an executive order. He can, however, as his actions against Venezuala have proven, order the military to carry out illegal acts of war and a strike against Greenland (whcih would trigger Article 5) effectively ends US involvement in NATO (and likely NATO itself until a European based defensive pact can be formed).

I did notice Thomas Massie introduced a bill to remove the US from NATO in December so perhaps they're trying the legislative approach too. I can't see it passing unless Trump uses similar threats against the lives of politicians and their families as he was reported to have done to pass his "big beautiful bill" but maybe it'd be for the best if it does: it would take Greenland out of his sights and it would put serious pressure on European leaders (and the leaders of the other free, democratic nations) to form a replacement defensive pact very quickly.

If you (or Grok) could understand English, you'd realise I was discussing Nuclear Deterrance when I said you only need 2 nukes to destroy Russia: i.e. having 2 or more nuclear weapons (France alone have 290) puts you in a position of mutually assured destruction with them. Since you have trouble with reading comprehension, let me make that clearer for you they can't nuke Europe without being destroyed themselves too. Thie mutually assured destruction (or M.A.D.) has been the backbone of global politics since the late 1940s.

Do you need anything else explained for you? Or should I get out the crayons?

Listening to Tim Walz here. He speaks very well. I don't know much about the guy but he seems high in common sense and empathy which is sadly lacking in USA politics.