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

Yes, he is. The serious negotiators love it, they will point to him, and say we need big concessions to calm him down.

Even if we were going to go full Agricultural, it would require years of initial hardship. Land isn’t really to yield produce from time 0. Would the citizens of Ireland accept the initial decade of economic hardship. Moreover, the labour required for agriculture is immense and backbreaking. People cannot take holidays. Their joints and backs are f***ed after ten years. Would people be happy to toil the land, day and night, for meagre pay?

All that sucking up to him last year to get concessions wiped out by his blanket 10-15% tariff on everyone.

Unrestrained he is gutting the White House literally, figuratively, politically, and spiritually. It's a big three ring circus with Bibi as ringmaster and Trump as Bozo the Clown.

The fly in the ointment is how would you confirm that the voter was in line before 7pm but unable to get inside the centre to vote until after 7pm.. The higher court ruling specified that the legal wrangling is over by it's setting aside the lower court order allowing the after 7pm votes to be counted.

The frontrunner to take over currently is the son of the Ayatollah. Plus the way he's approached all of this and other things, it's severely endangered the future of NATO. In relation to Gaza, he didn't really care when it ended, it ended when it suited Netanyahu and there's still issues there. He's attempted to humiliate Ukrainian leadership and has even contributed to conspiracy theories on the topic.

So the most substantial action which is Iran is entirely unpredictable in terms of where it's going and the consequences of it. Previous US intervention in the middle east has negatively impacted the entire Western world and not in a positive way. Basically it's a mix of the US being Israel's lapdog and distracting from the Epstein files.

Would the poll worker do that being aware that the higher court had issued a legal order that the after 7PM votes were to be discounted, decide to ignore it and allow people cast votes after 7pm?. There'd be no point in forming a new line, except to avoid a public brawl.

I'm assuming that the count centre party workers [both GOP & Dem] would have been informed ASAP of the higher courts order as the court might not accept an argument that the workers were blissfully unaware of it's order.

You described handing over your ID at least twice. Do you believe everyone should show ID to vote? If yes, do you believe the resulting disenfranchisement of minorities is a price worth paying?

But toothpaste could have flouride so RFK would just ban the toothpaste while Donny tries to put an extra tariff on toothbrushes while Karoline claims theres no such thing as toothpaste.

Michigan is literally a river away from Canada and yet many of the people are utterly clueless about their neighbour. It is extraordinary to witness. I just keep my mouth shut down there.

Crockett conceded in the Texas Senate primary. Talarico sounds fairly plausible as a Democratic candidate who can appeal to independent voters but it will be an uphill slog, especially if the Republicans see sense and go with Cornyn.