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

marks on his hands is from all the pussy grabbing.

When your famous you can do that.

he is very naughty.

Ya, I really liked Bottom growing up. I still watch it from time to time on Gold. The Young Ones was great too, though I was a way too Young One to even know of its existence. Rik Mayall was so funny, and died way too young. His Nintendo ads are hilarious.

More like the Muppets Bay of Pigswatch.

Can the world collectively sue trump for his reckless act of the epic fury operation that closed the straits

Ireland has lost 1/2 billion on fuel duty

Given his 10b from bbc that should be frozen if it is successful

Do you remember when Trump said immigrants were coming here from asylums, when he meant to say they were coming here for asylum?

Do you remember when he said the US were on an excursion, rather than an incursion.

Well, there may be like a similar reason for the latest f**k up. Sounds very plausible

(Edit - trying to find the original quote, so may not true)

Private Eye magazine front cover is 👌

This is a chilling insight into the totalitarian (not just the authoritarian) instincts of the Trump regime. Talk about re-writing history!

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/14/politics/national-archives-presidential-records-trump

The problem with the idea of the Democrats cleaning house is their abject failure to do so during Biden's presidency. The bigger problem, I fear, is the fact that the GOP is just more in tune with American culture than the Democrats. Americans come across to me on the whole as being extremely nostalgic, believe strongly in small government and Christianity, love overt displays of patriotism, cherish their rights to own firearms and cleave very strongly to the idea of the American Dream. Of course, there are millions and millions of Americans who would be exceptions to this.

The problem with this is that anyone on the left interested in workers' rights, the environment, economic equality or whatever can be very, very easily portrayed as killjoy, a big state commie, a loon or all of the above. This is why the left never makes any serious inroads and hasn't really held power for most of a century at this point.

Brexit is a good analogy. It was incredibly easy for the Leave side to make facile arguments that came apart with any degree of thought whatsoever. The problem was that they knew full well that few would think about the arguments and just take them at face value. Free movement of people from the EU to the UK was economically beneficial and was proven so by a research team at UCL. The problem is that the fallacies spread by the Leave side were convincing on the surface level and the UCL teams calculations would probably require at least a higher level degree in mathematics or economics to understand. Michael Gove was on to something when he said that people had had enough of experts and organisations with their acronyms.

Both US major parties are more like coalitions of very broad groups, especially for the Democrats who can look like a bag of cats at times. Republicans and their base are just more coherent and more unified. The problem with the US in my opinion is the system itself, from the unelected Supreme Court Justices who can arbitrarily award and strip rights to the two-party system to the gerrymandering to the lack of real debate in their political culture. For a country that brands itself as the land of the free, there's a lot of ossification and conformity in their politics.

There's one silver lining: It might make a return to the EU politically feasible.