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

It seems using a Sharpie wasn't exactly…subtle.

He has the handwriting of a ransom note.

So he's leaving the mess he created with Iran to anyone who needs oil from there.

Anyone want fries with their Taco?

Until they get sick of taking the pain and in 2032 elect a worse cabal of republicans then...from 2028 it might give the world sone breathing room to continue to disengage from the US and ensure they can never hold the world to ransom again economically or militarily.

Edit: Trump issues EO purporting to take control of mail in voting. States that want to use the US Postal Service will have to accept a barcode.

Exoect it to be challenged in court. The US Constututions Elections Clause leaves running elections up to the states, other than allowing Congress to "from time to time" regulate the "manner" but not the timing of elections.

There is a separate SCOTUS case going on right now. The Republicans are challenging the law in Mississippi that requires late arriving postal votes to be counted. Mississippi is a Republican state. Trump has encountered some resistance from his own party in pressuring states to change electoral law. In Indiana so far the Republican controlled state assembly has refused to gerrymander. There are also referendums coming up in Kansas and Missouri to block gerrymandering.

UK king confirms state visit to the WH i think is an insult to the British people and their democracy after all this insults.

It was my first thought also- however, it’s probably best that the UK keep the diplomatic lines of communication and “soft” influence open much as possible; it gives them a chance to outline their own approach to Iran (which will only be solved through diplomacy) and to try and influence the influencers.
I’m sure it’s distasteful - absolutely- but holding firm on diplomacy is better than shouting at each other on social media.

Worst you can to as a country is engage Trump on social media - let him shout at the clouds or whatever- just don’t reply- if you do, then it legitimises Truth Social as an official communication channel

Here we go again with woke and DEI sh*t brought to you by MAGA.

The Trump administration is suing a Coca-Cola distributor in New Hampshire for discriminating against male employees by hosting a women-only networking event in September 2024 – making it the first lawsuit related to workplace diversity, equity and inclusion in the second Trump administration

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-admin-sues-coca-cola-distributor-for-holding-women-only-retreat/ar-AA1ZQxWT?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=69ccd38f5bd440c99449279f47308797&ei=22

The US is the world's largest natural gas producer but can't ship it within the US because it lacks LNG ships.

SCOTUS struck down Colorado's ban on a type of conversion therapy known as 'Christian talk therapy'. This time the vote was 8-1, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (the Biden appointee) the only dissenter. The court found in favour of the plaintiff based on freedom of speech. However, the Colorado ban bans conversion therapy on minors. Of course in practice their parents are the ones sending them to these "therapists".

The plaintiffs said that this is only conversational, not shock therapy.

Ye may or may not have heard, but an apache helicopter did a fly by of Kid Rock's house.

Rightly, an investigation opened and pilots were suspended pending the result.

Well, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the investigation has been cancelled, suspension has been lifted and no punishment will be issued for the pilots who performed the unauthorized fly-by.

Man baby strikes again.

Trump withdrawal from NATO.

Israel still in the Eurovision.

How mad is that ?

The immediate and catastrophic impact that the withdrawal of the US withdrawing from NATO would have on US logistics and force posture would be catastrophic to their ability to project power into the M.E, South Asia and Africa.

The current US war machine is predicated upon pre positioned supplies, access to bases and logistics services in a friendly NATO and the confidence that those bases will remain safe, secure and defended by allies.
The US honestly cannot afford the costs that needing to withdraw from NATO bases would amount to.
Particularly now that the USD isn't the economic force it was.

Similarly with sea access to Europe, whilst the US has a large and capable navy.
When it comes to the Baltic, the GIUK gap, the Western approaches, The Channel and the Bay of Biscay, who does the ASW, mine countermeasures and escort work fall to in those regions?
Why does the USN have only 4 mine hunter capable ships, whilst NATO/EU navies have almost 150?

There genuinely can be no other reason for Trump's obvious and overt efforts to drive wedges between the US and the western allies other than he is a wholly compromised Russian asset.
That and of course a paedo who thinks the collapse of 80yrs of security, of western influence and of US hegemony is worth keeping the Epstein files out of the news cycles.

There are massive security implications for the UK, Australia and Canada that are looming here too.
From the UK's reliance on Trident for its nuclear deterrent, to its involvement in AUKUS which, if it is delayed, or even slowed by the US?
Presents huge risk to both the UK & Australia's future fleet posture and ability to defend both the UK's AOR and just as seriously, Australia's and their northern sea and ocean approaches.
Similarly for UK, Australia and those NATO countries who have positioned the F35 at the core of their Air Forces.
Even leaving aside the "kill switch".
The maintenance and operation of F35 require a degree of reliance on US that cripples operational independence.
This point scales to those reliant on patriot missiles too.
Just look at what US have done to Switzerland's Patriot missile order as an example.
Even Russia kept up S400 deliveries to India whilst their own Air Defence was being shredded by Ukraine.
The US has in the course of 30days destroyed it's credibility as a trustworthy source of weapons who will honour their contracts.

Then you have to consider the intel sharing that has boomed via 5 eyes and other groupings.
There is, as has been shown by the Ukraine war.
Very little possibility that any intel gained by a partner country and shared with the US?
Isn't leaked and likely leaked with the sources attributed, to Russia and from there onwards to who knows where.
GCHQ and the rest of the 5 eyes intel services are intertwined with and often reliant on a now wholly untrustworthy ally.

Russia isn't the boogeyman it once was.
As a conventional power?
It's a spent force, but it's now the tool China exploits for its own purposes.
Russia's intel gathering and it's spy networks are still large and influential.
It has to be understood that barring some very obscure niches and directly China opposing ops?
That Russia's intel is China's intel now.
Not quite a satellite state in the mould if Belarus, but not far off it either.

As the US is now on the same side as Russia Trump has surely already moved the US out of NATO .

The remaining members must now pull together and seal the leaks left by US perfidity.