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

At this stage election denial is the equivalent of 6 7 for weirdo influencers.

I have that book sitting on a shelf, unread, is it a good read?

But you'd be fine about it if you weren't allowed to go by the Trump regime?

God forbid anyone thinking that Trump's comments about Great Military and highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters were cynical or sarcastic.

What’s wrong with spending money on dealing with the homeless?

That may very well be true but not wanting to see the state of what parts of Oakland, San Francisco and LA have become (despite the massive amount of money being spent) is not a bad thing and if it's not addressed by Democrats and treated as a non issue then they are shooting themselves in the foot.

What do you think they should do? Give them food, maybe provide homes? Drug treatment programs?

They would be lambasted by the right.

Those people who want the problem dealt with only mean they want the problem removed from their view. They don't want it fixed. Throw them in prison for all they care.

Doesn't benefit the wealthy. It's the same as why they don't have universal healthcare, despite being the wealthiest nation on earth. The entire system is run by billionaires and Israeli blood money.

Homelessness has to be addressed by providing education, healthcare, social welfare, you know, all that crap us woke looney lefties in the EU are doing. Like building an actual, functioning first world country.

In the US, they just make homelessness illegal and brush it under the carpet. And whatever money they're throwing at it doesn't seem to be a well thought out scheme if it's not helping. Either just something lazy and half-assed or it's percolating down into some offshore accounts.

Reminds me of the US military, just stomp in with your size 13s, lay everything to waste and fcuk off again without actually doing anything useful and leaving the place worse than before. The US has far too much money and they're just throwing it on to a giant bonfire of absolut brainless flailing around. We're seeing the demise of a once, if not great then at least alright country.

I will say this though, we are living through unprecedented times. We may well be witnessing the beginning of the end of American dominance as the world's sole superpower. In decades to come, children could be learning about this period in history books. "Chapter 11: The Decline of American Superpower Dominance."

I always enjoyed history at school. We learned about events through chapters in a book. World War I, World War II, The Great Famine and countless other moments that shaped the world. The strange thing is that we are now living through one of those chapters ourselves, even if many people, particularly those driving events, may never have the self awareness to recognise it.

You do not untangle yourself from a behemoth like the United States in a matter of months or even years. The shift began during Trump's first term. Biden's presidency slowed the process but did not reverse it. Trump's second term has accelerated it once again.

I recently saw an incredible car built in China. It looked like a Rolls Royce, had a range of almost 950 kilometres and cost around $30,000. That is power. China is producing vehicles at a scale and speed that would have seemed unimaginable not long ago. They are building highly autonomous cars, rolling off production lines every minute, built mostly by robots.

The European Union also has enormous potential that it is only beginning to realise. It is developing its own payment systems, investing in data infrastructure and slowly reducing dependencies that once seemed permanent. If those efforts continue, the dominance of the United States becomes less important with every passing year. The Euro also has the potential to play a much larger role internationally rather than so much global trade being tied to the dollar.

The UK, in my view, should find its way back towards closer cooperation with Europe to take advantage of that future. Whether that happens remains to be seen, in a post Farage world for sure.

What concerns me most is what comes after. If the United States wakes up in twenty years and finds a world of new partnerships, less reliance on American institutions, fewer invitations to key meetings and a weaker dollar, what does it have left to offer? America will always remain influential, but influence is not the same thing as dominance.

Even Hollywood may struggle. For decades it sold stories where America was the hero that arrived to save the day. Today, those stories feel further from reality than they have at any point in my lifetime.

Defeat jaws of victory etc.