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

the garbage man episode is probably the most prescient

Fox News will beat whatever drum sells. And right know what sells best (especially in America) is anger, rage, lies and righteousness, and Fox has cornered that market brilliantly by tapping into anger and stupidity in the US.

If Fox News thought for a second they'd make twice the money being the official spokesperson for Hillary Clinton, they'd all be wearing donkey badges and rainbow stickers, and attacking the conservatives for running the country into the ground.

Fox News are conmen pure and simple, crass political based rage entertainment passed off as discussion and news to make the sizeable moron population in the US feel smart and informed while they're being filled with utter sh!t and wound up until they explode with rage and fork over their cash. A factory of lies designed to fleece the pockets of the stupid.

They run a very lucrative "anger makes us money" scam. That's why they're so far up Trump's arse, he's the master of it. The evangelical preachers too, conmen the lot of them, especially the prosperity preachers. It's not a surprise the poorest and the dumbest support Trump and listen to Fox and these preachers.

And together they make more money than they thought they ever could off the stupid morons that listen to them and fork over the cash, in many cases right into the poorhouse.

Though in all honesty, if you're stupid enough to hand over your money to Donald Trump, Fox media or mega-rich preachers, they deserve to have your money, because clearly it was wasted it your pocket anyway, at least they'll make use of it.

The Leni Riefenstahl of Trumpism (there are other candidates for that too but she is the official spokesperson).

Yissir a left whining hack so yis is 😄

“OK, so you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion ... Because you’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter, you’re posing in this room as a journalist. And it’s so clear by the premise of your question. And you and the people of the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist, you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat.” She went on: “But you’re pretending like you’re a journalist, but you’re a left-wing activist. And the question that you just raised and your answer proves you’re biased. You should be reporting on the facts. You should be reporting on the cases.”

Yup….that's it…..all she was missing was telling him that he's a "very terrible" person!!!!

Virginia, a Democratic controlled state, putting a redistricting/gerrymandering measure on the ballot. Part of retaliation against Republican gerrymandering. The Democrats have a two thirds majority in the State House but only a small one in the State Senate because different electoral cycles for both houses.

Trump and cult leader Jim Jones compared.

Canada cutting it`s 100% tariffs on EVs to 6.1% with China expected to cut its tariffs on Canadian`s agriculture imports as both countries promise to tear down trade barriers and forge new strategic links.

Big orange baby aint going to like this.

The title image promised me Ben Shapiro crying, what an utter dissapointment!

It's quite stark how eloquent Newsom is compared to Shapiro when watching an interview like this. I honestly don't know how anyone can listen to Shapiro speak for more than a few minutes without wanting to claw their own ears off.

If it walks like a duck…

It sounds like she actively 'wants' to be a Trump puppet in the Venezuelan government.

It's not really. There's nothing normal about the way Trump is carrying on. Crucially, there's nothing stopping him either.

He's ignoring norms and eroding various institutions at a rapid rate. And with it, making them look limp and weak. They repeatedly look powerless to even calm him down, never mind reign him in.

And then there's the appointments, all of them sycophants to his will, or what passes as his will. There's more than enough institutions already with total sycophants in place to do whatever he wants them to.

He's already taking on the state governors with the National Guard/Ice moves. He's targeting political opponents with his goons in the DOJ. And the Supreme Court is essentially his rubber stamp.

It's not unreasonable to suggest he'd go whole hog on it and try and remove whatever impediment to his power there is, be that elections or otherwise. And if Trump doesn't, you can certainly see the likes of Miller try to via Trump.

We've seen this play out before in other countries. His pal Victor Orban has achieved something similar in Hungary. And given how divided the US is, you'd be a fool to think Trump wouldn't try it.