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

Yes. Trump is just the salesman. The people who are actually driving policy are the likes of Miller and the Project 2025 psychos. They've harnessed Trump's idiot following to gain power and are putting through their dangerous plans. Plans that they've been working on for some time now.

This is only the start of it.

But what I absolutely do not get at all are the Americans who are not out screaming for change and protesting

That is exactly what Trump and his handlers want. They're itching to use protests as an excuse to unleash the military on US citizens and declare a national emergency and possibly martial law or an approximation there of. Any excuse would give them a narrative to run with and as we see time and time again, he'll have millions who'll parrot their lies, even outside of the US.

The only hope for that place is that they lose in the mid terms, and badly so that some much needed brakes can be put on all of this nonsense. But even with that, the ball in is their court for another three years.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Bette Davis, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride."

What Trump will look for and what he will get is 2 different things.

You're confusing Kerry with Clare.

If you believe in democracy how can you support this?

As much as Newsom is correct here, if I was a European leader I would be reminding him that Trump is your country's fault not ours. It was your country, Gav, that put this monstrous 5 year old into power because you couldn't bear to see a black woman in the White House.

Thiel, by any chance?

Influential billionaires, including Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, and Jeff Bezos, are investing heavily in AI-driven mining for rare earth elements (REEs) in Greenland, primarily through KoBold Metals.

He never seems far from the roots of chaos.

Seems to be a question whether the group of 1500 men assembled supposedly for Minesota might in fact be for Greenland since they are Arctic specialists...

Already locked and loaded within the EU, rather them deal with Trump than MM, he can bring over the shamrock and laughed at/made an eejit out of, in a couple of months.

He has never held the cards.

Economically, America is so under water with its debt, if there was an invasion on Greenland, it could be over without a bullet fired. Sell the bonds, inflation would cripple America in hours.

In Davos, and currently posting about rigged elections

Every accusation is an admission, so they say....

To enlarge on my last post, I'm not sure his job will exist for much longer anyway.

There was something I read once about the nazi leadership. They were all incredibly incompetent but somehow stuff got done.

I'm not sure where you read that, but it would be far from the truth. In fact, the Nazi leadership was mostly made up of high IQ personalities who were quite efficient at their pursuits. Hitler's approach, however, was very hands off and he put people in charge of portfolios that he felt could do the job without his constant attention. This became especially so once the war started and he concerned himself almost completely on matters regarding it, while leaving everything else to others. However there was often a slowness to get things done because everything had to be approved by the Fuhrer.

At Nuremberg, the remaining Nazi leadership had their IQ's taken while they were in custody and it was revealed that most of the them were in the higher bracket. Goering, especially, surprised a lot of people because he was made out to be something of a nincompoop during the war. He, in fact, possessed an IQ of 138. But Goering's failures with the Luftwaffe were largely a result of that force being used for tasks that they were simply not designed for and also having to carry out those tasks under the most difficult of circumstances too. The fact that the Luftwaffe achieved what it did is actually extremely admirable, from a military POV. But Goering was under extreme pressure from his own leadership to get results that his air force was simply incapable of accomplishing. However, Goering was also very personable and used those skills to his advantage, even when he was imprisoned at the end of the war.

The likes of Himmler, who undoubtedly was a psychopath, was a master organiser and manager. Hitler recognised this in him and put him in charge of the endlosung, whereby Himmler had complete freedom to pursue it as he wished and to place whom he thought would be the best people for the roles under him. This is where Reinhard Heydrich of the SD comes into play. Another character with a deep psychopathy but also one who was very driven and a master of manipulating those who he wanted something out of.

The idea that the Nazis were just a bunch of buffoons is largely a result of British "black" propaganda, which devoted a considerable amount of resources to denigrating the Nazi leadership. But in reality these people were anything but. That was and is the scary part of the whole Nazi movement. These people were not idiots, nor were they incompetent. They had plans and they knew what they wanted. Unfortunately for them they didn't reckon on a world war getting in their way and thought that their "crusade" against the Bolshevism would be recognised by the rest of Europe, and especially Britain, as something agreeable and they were quite correct with regards to a great many powers in the west who considered Communism to be a bigger threat to their rule than Nazism.

it’s a wonder he hasn’t intervened in the beckham row. Would be another war stopped.