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

Trump is still intent on stopping the postal vote, making people turn up with I/D to vote, cutting back the voting time period and blocking votes being accepted through the normal legal processes after the voting day is done.

@Manic Moran I know you get loads of questions but can you answer this…. thanks

He's not a 'fúcking moron', though. He is certainly massively ignorant of many things traditionally prized in a US president, but he doesn't care about those things. They're not his focus. His focus is upon accumulating personal wealth, adoration and petty vengeance. He correctly identified a dark undercurrent emerging through American society in the early 2010s and rode it to the hilt. Rode it to the presidency, then used it to protect himself during Biden's term, and then won the presidency again. If this makes him a moron, then I wonder what it makes everyone else - the Democrats who he's beaten twice and his own party who he has managed to purge of virtually all dissenting voices.

just a nutcase narcissist power-hungry man flexing his muscles. And as bad as he is, it’s his backers who are even worse!!!

When he invades Greenland he will also start WW3 as he will have to sink all those Russian and Chinese ships he continually goes on about hanging around Greenland in intl waters.

Is there any evidence of such ships hanging about or is Stephen Miller filling him up with s*** as usual.

Would need to bury Miller with him.

The environment? Really? 🙄

Yesterday, Kristi Noem was still not withdrawing her statement that Good was a domestic terrorist

US constitution isn't protecting its own anymore.

It depresses me to say it but, putting an American contextual legal hat on and not an Irish one, there is probably a legally-defensible case that can be made in relation to the first shot the agent fired. Don't get me wrong, in my own personal opinion it's clear to me from the first shot alone that this guy should never have been near citizens in a law enforcement capacity while carrying guns. But I'm applying what the defence argument would be (i.e. the split second in which an officer gets to assess whether he / others are in danger) and the permissive leeway that is granted to law enforcement. Were it that shot alone, I think the defence would be able to work with it.

I don't know if they will also use the narrative that he was involved in an incident before where he was dragged by vehicle. I've seen some commentators use that as a way of saying that this exemplifies the danger he 'knew' he was in — whereas I might be inclined to argue that it's indicative of an irresponsible officer who is getting himself into bad situations and not acquitting himself well in those situations (and that he was jittery and should not have been on duty).

It's the subsequent shots though where the narrative really shifts — and likely the defence will have to shift too. He was clear of the car when he fired those shots. He kept his gun raised, trained on the driver, and fired two further shots with no good basis for arguing that he feared the driver was armed in any way that would pose a threat to him out the side window. The defence which applies to the first shot would in my view be very weak as regards the second shot, so the defence I would imagine are going to have to roll with the argument that he reasonably perceived others were in danger (ie, she was going to mow people down). It's a weak argument in the world of the rational, but this is America and gun violence — rationalism can be in short supply.

But look, that's all the legal sh*te which ultimately masks the fact that these goons should not be anywhere near civilians while armed in a law enforcement capacity and being given seemingly immediate immunity by the top brass of government for all they do. And that's before we even get to the fact that they seemed to have denied a witness doctor to at least check her pulse. ICE seem to be becoming reminiscent of what the UDR were up North.

In connection with the Ms Good and Agent Ross occurrence, I'm going to write and post an observation on what I saw on the video. It is not a rebuttal, nor is it to be taken as one, of what I posted earlier about the occurrence. It became fairly obvious, from what Ms Good and her wife said to Agent Ross as he walked a full circle of her car, that she and her wife had spoken to ICE checkpoint agents previously.

1. Ms Good talking to Ross "I'm not mad at you" as he walked past her from the front of her car down the driver's side of it.

2. Ms Good's wife at the back of the car telling him that they didn't change the car plate while he was filming it.

3. the next part of Agent Ross's video where Ms Good's wife was standing on the passenger side had him moving behind her.

4. Back to the start of the scene with Agent Ross now standing again at the front of Ms Good's car, after which he shot her.

It's not made clear if the two had met before but it's reasonable to believe Ms Good was a regular local keeping an eye on what ICE agents were doing in the neighbourhood.

It's also reasonable to believe that it was not the first time that Agent Ross may have met people opposed to the ICE checkpoints being set up in their neighbourhood, given his "f***ing Bitch" comment after he had shot and killed Ms Good. From that, its reasonable to think Agent Ross was probably peeved at Ms Good and locals showing up at the ICE checkpoint for the purpose of letting the neighbourhood know they were there. He is a veteran of the ICE agency.

T.D.S afflicts everyone he meets.