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

And so continues Trump threats of "only hiring the best"

Well, Jim Jones had cyanide-laced punch for his cult ....

Not wanting to distract from the physical act of destruction of the monument by the IDF member, but was that a solar power panel in the photo, and, if so; what use would it be attached to a still-life monument of JC?

Neoliberalism was merely a concept in the minds of certain types when the 1929 crash happened. These days it's the de facto state of modern government in the western world. If the last crash in 2008 thought us anything, it was that, when we saw banks and businesses get bailed out, but ordinary Joes get wiped out. Certain businesses were "too big to fail", but if Joe lost his mortgage, it was just too bad.

Understand this, the party won't end for certain people and you will not see wealth redistribution in the same manner as you did with the Roosevelt administration, no matter whether it's the Republicans or the Democrats in charge. Those days are long gone, whether it's in the US or over the other side of the Atlantic.

Who knows but Iran are claiming they have knew cards to play on the battlefield. I wonder if they're anti ship related and they could have been supplied by China.

It could be for internal reasons. The IDF has hundreds of Christians amongst it's ranks including several in special forces units.

There is, but the US is nowhere near the state that pre-Revolutionary France was at the end of the 18th Century so that guillotine is still a long way off. When the slow learners finally cop on to the fact that the people they keep putting into power and those that they look up to are the ones that are constantly fleecing them, then there might be some real social changes over there. But I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that to happen any time soon.

There's a flaw in your logic. Keeping vast swathes of America heavily armed and dumbed down has been central Republican policy for generations now. On top of this, MAGA knows full well what Donald Trump is. Even on this site, if you make the Epstein allegation against a MAGA poster, you get a snarky "Prove it" in response. As someone with a fairly positive opinion of Joe Biden, any credible allegations of the same nature would have me at least asking serious questions. I certainly wouldn't be spending years online dismissing the claims and pushing a conspiracy theory.

Unfortunately the type that are all gung ho for guns and the NRA are the very type that believe that there's some sort of "leftist" cabal in the wings that's waiting to…well…whatever, because it's never clearly expressed. Everything they hate is "socialism" or "Marxism", yet they have absolutely no actual concept of these things because they've never read a single book on them. But they're things they're told the have to fight against because…reasons. Apparently today being a "Marxist" means you're pro-trans or something, despite the fact that Marx wouldn't have known such people nor made any remarks on such. It's kinda funny to think that if these bozos sat down for a minute and read what Marx wrote they might actually find some agreement with him. For instance Karl Marx viewed immigration as a tool of the Capitalist bourgeoisie to divide the working classes. Although the immigration the American right are against has more to do with the colour of the immigrant's skin than anything else.

This is all the more hilarious because Socialism lost. The great strides in social changes that were made in the 20th Century are all being rolled back and the gap in wealth has never been wider. Yet these types think that someone like Donald Trump is a man of the people and will help them get out of their various hardships, whereas the likes of Bernie Sanders or AOC will…again I don't know, because it's never clear.

Seth Myers is back on air after 3 weeks, and the segment from 4m10seconds here, is hilarious.

What amazes me is that other governments, including our own, are not calling the US out on this. The Oil price rises, and the hole the government dug itself into, as well as the hole that Starmer finds himself in in the UK, are a direct result of Trump. And yet the silence is deafening. Why are the EU not demanding that the US sort this mess out? Why are they not launching legal cases against POTUS for the costs incurred by an illegal war?

The world seems to just be sitting by and letting the US do whatever it wants without even a complaint