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

Instead I suspect this below probably representative of the prevailing opinion. My tiny survey of Iran ex-pats suggests strong suspicion of the US. Happy enough to see the regime damaged but no confidence that a US/Israeli attack will lead to a good outcome.

I'm pretty sure no poster views Bill Clinton to be particularly clean in the Epstein situation. He did follow through and answered all questions. Meanwhile Trump had a pretty similar relationship with Epstein and appears to have engaged in an invasion to dodge discussing it.

That is a very misleading statement. He actually said he had a neck massage. A very different meaning.

Best way is to be diplomatically impolite or insecure, accidentally let slip/say something bad about Trump so that he hears about it and puts you on the disinvited [you wont see Mikey again] list.

Has there been any verifiable accounting for this "30,000" figure that keeps getting bandied about?

At best, I've seen a verified figure of 7007 named deaths by HRANA by the end of February, the activist group on the ground in Iran who have been the only organisation that has been trying to get a real handle on the numbers by tracking the names of the dead.

And while 7000+ dead protesters is nowhere near this 30,000 figure, it's still a shocking number.

Far as I know the E.U. has more or less done that, but in a diplomatic manner.

They have suspended any work on ratifying the original 15% tariff deal until the U.S. clarifies exactly what Trump`s latest tariff brain-fart on imposing a 10% or 15% global tariff, (Trump himself doesn`t appear to know which), now that the Supreme Court has gutted his original Independence Day tariffs means as regards the E.U.

Bibi would want to pay heed, those calvinist type bible basher of which the US has plenty of only tolerate Jews as being necessary to the final judgement in the book of revelations.

St Patrick McGregor Monjaro.

Paramount not commenting on rumours 3 Arab states Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar are contributing to the money for the takeover of Warner Brothers.

In the Democratic Texas Senate primary, Talarico is only 69,000 votes ahead of Jasmine Crockett. Talarico is doing well in small rural counties while Crockett is doing better in the population centres. 60% of the vote is in. She is saying she will file a lawsuit to keep the polls open longer.

Talarico is a pastor and has been described as trying to revive the "Religious Left". He supports the separation of Church and State, but is also Bible-citing like Bill Clinton was (without the scandals).Hes currently ahead about 51.8-46.9. Talarico went on Joe Rogan's programme last June where Rogan said he should run for president.

Some Democratic primary voters were confused by rules requiring them to vote in their precinct rather than in a central location as normal in this primary. Some voters were turned away because of this. Crockett, a Black woman, is saying voters were "disenfranchised".

Crockett is seen as more outspoken. She said that Hispanics had a "slave mentality" if they voted for Donald Trump. Trump won most Texas Hispanics I think, including in the Rio Grande Valley. There was a generational divide, with older Hispanic women still voting for Harris and younger ones voting Trump. Talarico is doing better with Hispanics.

Texas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that allowed longer opening hours for voting. Looks like result of this primary wont be known tonight. The court has ordered that votes that came in after 7PM local time should not be counted.

The Senate Republican primary is headed to a runoff. Needs to reach 50%. Senator John Cornyn, seen as part of the Establishment, is ahead 43-40 over the more populist Texas State AG Ken Paxton. Paxton was impeached by the Texas State House over corruption allegations, but the State Senate did not and the State House was bullied by the WH into reversing the impeachment. A third Republican primary candidate Hunter got 12%. Cornyn accusing Paxton of "indefensible failures in office".

not unbelievable (unfortunately), sociopaths consistently rise to positions of power in society

Question is, did Clinton give all that cash to Iran because Epstein had something on him.?

All you can do is laugh at this really

Always be grifting

trumps war.
tariffs to be paid back.
Ballroom to be built
kennedy centre getting done up
could be an expensive time for Trump.

Texas State Supreme Court overturned a lower court order that allowed the public vote after 7PM to be counted in the count of votes cast, which means any votes cast after 7PM are not to be included in the count of votes cast. That is deprivation for no good reason, a judicial ruling telling the voter your votes don't count if you did not vote before 7PM.

Why do you keep mentioning ID? I heard it talked about only once in my US years. Standing in line in 2008 I think and a couple from somewhere like Georgia were loudly talking about how they couldn't believe you only needed your voter card. Who was going to stop the fraud? I had to bite my tongue not to engage and ask them why anyone would commit a serious federal offence to be one vote in millions? And of course also ask them if what they were really interested in was stopping minorities voting. Because we all know that is what it's really about.