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

but guys, paracetamol=lethal concoction

I don't think it's that. I just googled "Hinkley Point C" and Google's AI tells me that that cost £35 billion in 2015 money. The NIMBYism is everywhere but that kind of capital is a very tall order.

THIS WEEK ALONE we learned that

• The Head of the FBI is a drunk, who on occasion can't be reached or woken from a drunken slumber and on occasion, a SWAT team was needed to rouse him
• The Secretary of Health collected the dick of a dead animal on the side of a road
• The secretary of defence quoted pulp fiction thinking it was a prayer
• The president thinks of himself as Jesus, or he can't tell the difference between Jesus and a doctor

i miss when boring but competent people ran the administration and our lives weren't being f**ked over by degenerates cosplaying at their jobs

It's not personal yet is. As a citizen of a country whom Trump, with his style of trade dealing, has harmed, I sincerely hope that those Republican voters Trump is now running scared of dont fall for his lies again. Come November 2028, I hope that their memories are still strong enough that they will dump him in a landfill. I would prefer it to be mid-Atlantic from a C-130, live or dead, whole or decapitated, doesn't matter as long as the fish get a feast from him and nothing would be left for his fans to admire.

I think it will be the Iranians who will be trading they would have sold everything Friday only to shut the straits Saturday

The people who voted trump 3 time are stupidly more dangerous and lightly to have guns than isis supporters

its all well and good wanting to watch America burn but unfortunately it results in also watching the world burn too. Which isn't really all that great.

I'm more inclined towards a sudden wake up over there, a "WTF" moment when adult thinking returns with a bang and a majority snap out of the "rapture" thingy which influencers seem to be using on the MAGA fan-base, that some-one slaps an online dictionary with the page open at the word Rapture so they understand what it actually means, that its being used a tool for confidence tricksters like Trump.

A few weeks ago, SonNo.2 (seriously into his soccer) was saying to me (zero interest in soccer) that he thinks it is going to be a flop - at least the US part of the event. His reasoning is that the 'Mericans just don't understand the mentality of hard-core fans and how important it is for the teams to have those hard-core fans in the stadium cheering on their side and slagging off the other.

That's not something that fits with the commercial objectives of the typical "sport" in the US, which is essentially a giant party with a few lads somewhere in the middle occasionally kicking or throwing a ball at each other. Add in the current anti-foreigner hostile environment and the inevitable price-gouging (already forecast to have a catastrophic effect on ordinary US residents who use public transport) … well.

It'll be interesting to see how the economic windfalls are experienced by Mexico and Canada compared to the USofA.

One other big problem is that the ticket prices seem insane - they are charging $400 or $600 for bog standard seats in the group stages for teams that are not even particularly interesting. I've seen many English and European fans say they won't even bother travelling to such an extortionate tournament - it would literally set them back thousands of Euros.

If I remember rightly at the 1994 world cup in the USA there were a lot of tickets given away in the early group games.

If youre expecting to make it past the first group you'll be saving your cash.

Plus totally legal latam immigrants in the US will probably eschew free tickets if ice are looking to fill quotas.

haveing the Irish open in trumps spot is a terrible decision. Whoever gets to make it.