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

Right but it probably led to massive benefits for everyone else. We see similar complaints about the EU and leaving that, as the UK did 9 years ago, did not lead to prosperity. Quite the opposite.

Protecting these sorts of stagnant industries harms Americans while creating a protected class within said industries.

The solution is to find some way to help people who lose out on change, not to stop change itself.

I'm just not buying your "racist deplorable" bit. Clinton was bang on when she made her basket of deplorables comment, just as Gordon Brown was with the bigoted woman incident. Pandering to these people achieves nothing.

Massie lost recently in Ohio. A vast, vast amount of money was poured into the campaign against him. It is not ideology that drives American politics. It is the lobbying and investment into a candidate. If you pay enough money, you can tailor the message to suit the campaign

I was speaking recently with my best-friend about why US politics is so broken. We concluded that proportional representation is great and having numerous parties representing different view-points is most conducive to society. The problem with a two-party system is that it lumps very disparate interest groups together. By US standards, most Irish political parties are left-wing. Imagine try to unify: FFG, labour, Greens, PBP and Sinn Féin under a single umbrella. It would lead to so much dissidence within the group. Sure, we all agree in the concept of a progressive taxation system, but the how it is achieved is wildly different and people will never agree. Right-wing politics used to incorporate a wide spectrum. Now it is just a “fu government, stay out of my affairs” tagline and unity can be achieved much easier. The chasm between Democratic and Republican policy is far too great and you need parties in between to represent the spectrum of political beliefs in between

Lunatic asylum of a country

Where do you even start with this errant nonsense

Well spotted, blessed are the fact checkers

Fairly sure that's Steven Cheung runs that, no danger of him passing a physical either

That's closer to the truth

I just watched that, came up on a tv I was a guest on, yes I thought it was good.

I would love some reporter on live feed to ask him if it is true then that his doctors, due to his excellent check-up result, have taken him off all the medications they were providing him.

If one were a GOP/Republican or a Democrat voter in the primary and the run-off is as defined in Google [a means of selecting a winner from amongst the candidates when none had gained the figure required to be declared the winner] why would a party adherent try to switch to the other side between the voting sessions?

I could see the benefit of a voter being able to do so if the candidate one voted for in the primary had done a u-turn on stated policies and bond to the primary voters and the nearest candidate to hold the wanted primary beliefs was in the other party. It would be a benefit not to be boxed in by a particular state setting its laws to suit the two major political parties.

It would also be something those parties would like to avoid, a RINO or DINO voter or their books, definitely something Trump would not currently like despite he being a DINO in the past and present.

How do you feel about having to show indications of poitical loyalty to some-one like Trump due to being boxed in by an individual state restricting one's vote freedom in it's laws between primary and run-off elections?

This is notwithstanding Trump's attempt to split the GOP vote in Texas for the purpose of malfeasance.

Inter alia: consumers opting to spend their earnings on luxuries instead of home ownership might indicate they see the advantage of being able to move/ing from one location/state to another without property bonds tying them down. Being boxed in by state politicians and "influencers" to state laws requirements would be an annoyance.