[Politics] Donald Trump, US President

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There are mechanisms, but they’ve all been built around the idea of a batshit President being surrounded by rational actors. When the entire deck is stacked with fruitcakes and crazies there’s not a lot of places to go.

I fear the only way we will be rid of Trump is if someone chooses the John Wilkes Booth method of writing their name into history.

Join an orderly queue....

But sadly, there will be any number of cosplay Trumps to carry on the mission.

Large amounts of money to be made by rigging the markets by presidential decree, then pardoning one's self, is an attractive option.

To a certain type.

 

[Bodian]

Large amounts of money to be made by rigging the markets by presidential decree, then pardoning one's self, is an attractive option.

He won't have to pardon himself. Actions taken whilst president are above the law nowadays.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He won't have to pardon himself. Actions taken whilst president are above the law nowadays.

I was thinking of his successor.

After someone has shot him.

It's like a bad computer game.

Halfwit hydra.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

 

[birthofanorange]

f*** me - the sensible half of America has to get it's shit together before their whole country falls foul to this shite, and get rid of the evil and deranged orange freak asap.

 

[Cotton Socks]

Can anyone fact check if they are real pics? I'm not up to date with the conditions in El Salvador prisons but counting the toes of the people in the top pic suggests that that's not an AI generated pic, like the stupid ones of monorails etc that we put on here. That's made me feel ill.
I'm not a lefty that thinks criminals should have Xboxes & a Netflix subscription in their cell for rehab purposes. The Daily Mail has informed me via FB that this happens.
If those pics are real & the US government are deporting innocent people to those conditions, it is sickening.
We're f**ked, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

 

[Bozza]

Can anyone fact check if they are real pics? I'm not up to date with the conditions in El Salvador prisons but counting the toes of the people in the top pic suggests that that's not an AI generated pic, like the stupid ones of monorails etc that we put on here. That's made me feel ill.
I'm not a lefty that thinks criminals should have Xboxes & a Netflix subscription in their cell for rehab purposes. The Daily Mail has informed me via FB that this happens.
If those pics are real & the US government are deporting innocent people to those conditions, it is sickening.
We're f**ked, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

It's real.

 

[Bozza]

CNN if you prefer.

 

[Cotton Socks]

It's real.

That's not the answer I wanted! I'm going to bed in a min & want to be all cosy thinking that's some kind of AI crap!!

 

[Bozza]

That's not the answer I wanted! I'm going to bed in a min & want to be all cosy thinking that's some kind of AI crap!!

It's horrific.

I'm so horrified by everything going on in the US, I spend far too much time reading and watching (the YouTube algo knows exactly to feed me the shit I don't want to see, but want to see) for my own good.

CECOT is a death camp. It's Auschwitz-light.

Once you're checked in, you're never checking out. You have no contact with anyone, including family or legal representation. Inmates get little food, little water, no direct sunlight and absolutely no stimulation at all, ever.

That people are swept off the streets of major American cities and sent there outside of any form of legal process, and the political leaders of each country then play some sort of sniggering bullshit game when there's been "an administrative error" is simply unconscionable.

 

[Cotton Socks]

It's horrific.

I'm so horrified by everything going on in the US, I spend far too much time reading and watching (the YouTube algo knows exactly to feed me the shit I don't want to see, but want to see) for my own good.

CECOT is a death camp. It's Auschwitz-light.

Once you're checked in, you're never checking out. You have no contact with anyone, including family or legal representation. Inmates get little food, little water, no direct sunlight and absolutely no stimulation at all, ever.

That people are swept off the streets of major American cities and sent there outside of any form of legal process, and the political leaders of each country then play some sort of sniggering bullshit game when there's been "an administrative error" is simply unconscionable.

I've watched them, I don't think a guided meditation is going to help me sleep. It's so f**ked up.

 

[Zeberdi]

It's horrific.

Indeed.

Exactly like the horrific prisons under fascist regimes in South America which existed for decades under US-backed death squads ….. El Salvador prisons are now full of Salvadorans rounded up under the ‘emergency situation’ introduced by Bukele - the US and El Salvador are in a disgusting transactional relationship. And we thought shipping migrants out to Rwanda was bad.

Trump sees El Salvador as a convenient dumping ground for deported criminal migrant gangs operating in America
(.. and innocent people with no criminal record like Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who are protected under US law. )
- and El Salvador becomes a key ally of the Trump administration - just another dictator Trump is cosying up to underpinning his far right MAGA support base.

If there is ever a case for judging a man by the company he keeps, then Trump’s bromance with Bukele, a self-proclaimed dictator, is it.

 

[Klaas]

I saw Las Vegan had been banned yesterday which I'm a little disappointed about tbh. Be nice to hear what he thinks of all the disgusting shit that he voted for, I presume he's happy about it.

Unforgivable IMO.

 

[Klaas]

It's horrific.

I'm so horrified by everything going on in the US, I spend far too much time reading and watching (the YouTube algo knows exactly to feed me the shit I don't want to see, but want to see) for my own good.

Same. When he got voted in I decided to step back from reading about him, just no point getting worked up about it. BUT, up step the algorithms and, it doesn't matter how many videos you say you're not interested in, more keep coming, and little by little you start to click....

I will give Trump one thing though. When he won the election it did make me get my arse in gear and get my kids' second passports done. I figured if the world does get more and more dangerous over the next few years, you can never have enough places to escape to.

 

[Albion my Albion]

MSN

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Republican 2028 Primary Polls: What Early Surveys Show​

Several Republicans have called it a "mandate" from the American people to enact GOP-backed legislation and governance nationwide.

In a new poll released this week by Yale Youth Poll, 53 percent of respondents said they would support Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 primary, and 50 percent of those under age 30 would back him.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scored the second highest in the poll, with 8.7 percent, and 13.1 percent from those under 30.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in third with 7.5 percent of the vote, and 5.8 percent from those under 30 years old.

The poll was taken from April 1 to April 3 among 4,100 registered voters, with a 1.9 percent margin of error.


Trump will never let himself be pulled from the limelight. He will have to die or be dragged away kicking and screaming.

 

[Mental Lental]

 

[Albion my Albion]

Governor of Arkansas is Trump's former White House press secretary from his first term, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders - Wikipedia

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A member of the Republican Party, she was the 31st White House press secretary, serving under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. Sanders was the third woman to be White House press secretary.[3] She also served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Sanders became the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election and won, defeating Democratic nominee Chris Jones.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It’s absolutely obscene but certainly not on the scale of Auschwitz. But one death is too many.

What is the purpose of this place? Where do they go from here or is this some sort of indefinite incarceration?

I mentioned Bergen Belsen earlier. It didn’t have the ovens but it was a death camp, as starvation and disease took hold.

There are already unmarked graves, and indefinite incarceration is the only other outcome, at the moment.
No trial, no appeal.

 

[BBassic]

They're all just so callous. I don't get it at all, this unflinchingly cruel way to behave.

 

[raymondo]

Kinzinger is a voice of some reason amid the chaos.

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