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

You talk about others and hyperbole and then you post links that belie what you are saying as you take sections out of context .

The headings of these links alone are a clue to what concerns are legitimately held about interference by Trump with the upcoming midterms .

Just one example here …

"Asked about Trump’s musings at an event sponsored by The Atlantic this week, Arizona’s top election official, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, said this:

“Look, you can’t cancel the election… We’ve got a whole bunch of scenarios that we’re playing through to make sure that we’re prepared for the types of processes that might be necessary to preserve our democracy so that if somebody tries to cancel something, if somebody tries to take some stuff they’re not entitled to, we can go to the courts, get the orders, and hopefully have the backup of law enforcement to make sure that we can move forward through this.”

"The fact that we’re running through these scenarios in the first place should tell you something about the health of our democracy,” Fontes added.

To that end, he would not elaborate on what scenarios they’re preparing for.

“I don’t want to give the bad guys any ideas,” Fontes said."

https://www.votebeat.org/2026/01/26/why-trump-cant-cancel-2026-midterm-elections/

Either you are not reading your own links or you are cherry picking from them .

The laws protect the elections and the states running them but Trump and Noem et al have spent the last year or so dismantling safeguards , to cyber hacking for one , not to mention all the threats to individual Democrat states about elector rolls and voter information .

If States election officials are worried about what" the bad guys " might do to the midterm elections , I can only wonder why an intelligent person like yourself isn't at all concerned.

You wouldn't be trying to handwave concerns away now would you or try to detract from a very real issue , would you ?

Or maybe you are secretly trying to send us messages about the dangers without it looking like you are ??

Certainly thanks for those links , very interesting to read .

Education is not a strong point across the board in America as it is in Ireland . Of the top 10 countries for education in the world , Ireland is a close second after Canada and the US for all its size and importance in the world is 8th. (Coincidentally Israel is just behind it at 9th ! )Apart from those that can afford Ivy League college education or get sports scholarships most Americans only get a high school diploma .

It has some bearing or it would not be a standard.

And yes . Agree with you about Fox News and Conspiracy SM displacing critical thinking .

Literacy is high but not so much maths and science and one would wonder what sort of history or geography or social science is being taught .

They have always had great universities plenty of money sloshing around for research and development but the falling level of education has caused concern that they will have to.impory more people and scholars to keep those standards going .

But what does Trump do ? He ensures that their best people are fleeing to other countries to study and do their research by closing off universities to anyone who might think differently .

Source: U.S. News & World Report https://share.google/f0kzz4XdiRDvHz9hD

Trump’s Higher Education Crackdown: Visa Revocations, DEI Bans, Lawsuits and Funding Cuts | National News | U.S. News https://share.google/Hof5tXPkcgG8aV9pHError

FFS, what an idiot

Problem now is that there is a bigger one in the White House that might think it's a good idea!!
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