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

I am not sure US got the first pilot they lie so much but if Iran get them the world has never hated the US since trump was elected it would be karma

Both horrible regimes and shoot there own protesting citizens

Surprised that Trump had God in capital letters beside his own name

I see Sky News also had 'reign' on their headlines - maybe they were getting a sly dig in or they have an editorial position not to correct mis-spellings. Or maybe because Trump spells it like that now we all have to. I've noticed that 'excursion' has been accepted by some as a valid description of this shitshow.

One would have thought a military base would be a secure and safe place outside of a war zone.

Apparently not according to Pete keg-breath.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/hegseth-allows-troops-to-take-own-guns-onto-bases-after-shootings/ar-AA203DR2?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=69d0fb63eaa14fca9ae6d02bdf623aaa&ei=97

In some ways people focus too much on individual "acts".

The overwhelming effect of Trump and what will be his very long legacy is that he has legitimised hundreds of millions of people, billions of people, to be absolute c*nts - to be obnoxious, hate filled, bigoted, thieving, violent blowhards. The glorification of ignorance, stupidity, boorishness, reality denial, crime, every type of the worst behaviour imaginable, it has all been given carte blanche by his example.

Hegseth is a MAGA child in microcosm. A liar, a bluffer, a spoofer, an arrogant, hate filled obnoxious c*nt.

Every awful, crass, c*ntish, evil thing we've seen everywhere since Trump took power, all of it has been legitimised by the behavioural example of this evil c*nt. Especially genocide. Russia and Israel have both taken inspiration from his behavioural example to perpetrate their own darkest genocidal fantasies. Now Trump is doing it himself.

Other US presidents have done very bad things. But the public behavioural example of leaders, even bad leaders, still matters. Bush II, even though he was horrific and launched the unforgivable Iraq War and opened a torture camp, he at least conducted himself in public with some form of dignity. If a leader doesn't do that, and Trump doesn't, the behavioural rules on which any form of decent society depends are thrown out.

The invocation, as it were, of the words God and Jesus, by Trump in connection with his activities has been regular lately: just short of his claiming that he is the right hand of God doing his bidding.

And he is residing on a military base for his own security while setting aside the rules on weapons availability to the troops on base. Access to unit armouries weaponry is restricted in order to prevent the casual human loss of life and attrition. Time for his close security team to put him as a fire-break between them and the locals on the base.

I don't think people realise how serious this is.

Let's just lay this out:- The head of the FBI is a Trump loyalist. The head of the USDOJ is a Trump loyalist. The head of the US military is a Trump loyalist. Six of the 8 members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been sacked and replaced during Trump's second term. Not sacked for any kind of misconduct but sacked in pursuit of this most vague idea of ridding the military of 'woke'. Head of CIA also pro-Trump. Head of the NSA is a Trump loyalist (Tulsi Gabbard).

All of the instruments of intelligence, justice and simple might have come under a Trumpian stranglehold within one year. This is not to mention all of the work done by Trump and co. to generally gut the executive branch, generally, and put in more Trump loyalists. We only hear about the more 'newsy' appointments and sackings. We're not hearing about the work being doing by MAGA throughout the whole pyramid of the US's system of government.

How are free and fair elections going to take place with respect to all of that?

More of a Leroy Jenkins vibe to me

You might need something stronger as that means Vance (and his pal Carlson).

 I thought the machinery of the state, so to speak would keep him in check and prevent him from turning the White House/Capitol Hill/the UN and many other places in to echo chambers of his worst practices

The much-derided Democrats and Kamala Harris did in fact warn otherwise during 2024 but were drowned out by a chorus of 'the price of eggs' and 'he couldn't be worse than Genocide Joe', depending on which side of the spectrum it was coming from.

I have been surprised by nothing that had happened over the last 15 months. The only thing that has surprised me is the fact that, up to now at least, things have continued to chug along more or less normally.