Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

You are talking total MAGA bo**ox. You don't have to look very far for mud which should rightfully stick to Trump. His incitement of the January 6th mob is there for all to see. His call to Brad Raffensberger to find him a few thousand votes in Georgia is also there for all to hear. The real evidence against this dangerous, vindictive clown is overwhelming. Of course the Trump administration has attempted to suppress the evidence produced by Jack Smith, which you cannot undo just by putting someone like Kash Patel in charge of the FBI.

The administration literally said they deported him in error

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT HE ALLEGEDLY DID (see, I can do capslock too), what matters is that everyone is entitled to due process. It doesn't matter if he is a piece of ****. It doesn't matter what he is alleged to have done. If people can get not only deported but thrown into a permanent jail - yes its permanent, the people in that jail do not get out - just because he doesn't 'seem like' a good person, then where will it stop?

I gather he is in a different jail now, but it is only assumed that the rest of the people rounded up were guilty of gang membership and crimes. Bring them back, try them, then if they are guilty, deport or imprison them (or both). But they can't go around gathering up random people and exporting them with no due process.

Not necessarily.

4 years of being proven correct is how I'm looking at it.

An easy approach given the performance of the administration.

How're you dealing with having been wrong?

Maybe we have different definitions of waffling but to me it would be talking forever without ever making a point or any sense. I think he does that pretty well.

It has nothing to do with the tariffs; it relates to a change in the threshold above which imports have to be declared and have duties applied (or not, depending on the product). In this regard, the US is following in the EU's footsteps - we imposed more or less the same conditions on our non-EU trading partners four years ago and guess what: they all fell into line with barely a ripple felt by those of us who prefer to buy our cheap Chinese crap directly from the Chinese instead of Jeff Bezos.

As far as Temu, Shein, Alibaba/express are concerned, because they already had to modify their platforms to sell into the EU, it'll cost them nothing to include the US … but I'm sure the timing of the annoucement and the price rises will have been carefully planned to make sure their American customers make a connection with Trump's carry-on.

You're the importer though. Dunno how they'll sell anything if there's a 125% tariff.

errors were made lessons learned.

Yeah, sure.

I'd be more alarmed by you're misunderstanding and misrepresentation of their post to be honest

I have avoided the thread recently for a number of reasons. Work commitments being the primary one.

I havent had the time to keep up with even a fraction of all of the developments in Trumpworld. Its pretty much a full time job keeping up to date with what Trump has been doing since he took office. Despite what you and others believe I am not following everything Trump does 24/7.

I've largely tuned out as the flooding of the zone is overwhelming by design and has had the desired effect of causing perpetual outrage in the media and online.

Any time I have looked at the thread, there were hundreds of new posts, and I neither had the time nor interest to be honest to get up to speed.

I need to catch up on with whats been going on, but its early days yet in the term of office, I think 6 months is probably the earliest I would evaluate the performance, but so far it hasnt been good from what I can see. Trying to do too many things too quickly and its been chaotic.

You can't keep up with what is going on in worldwide politics but an AG being potentially commiting fraud and you not only are on top that but felt it was worth posting to a thread you are not reading?

I said I thought Harris would win, but wouldn't be surprised given 2016 if she didn't. How what was that wrong?

I listed ten examples of how Trumps admin has been a disaster yesterday, all things you accused Biden of being guilty of for the last 4 years.

By all means, respond to that post and tell me which of the things I'm wrong about.

It is hard to keep up as there is so much going on.

Sure you can keep up by turning on the radio or tv and listening to the anti Trump propaganda being spewed out on a daily basis.

But to actually study these issues in detail is time consuming and complicated.

There's no point in trying to understand detail as guaranteed Trump hasn't spent any time really understanding his whims, which he is as likely to reverse or doubledown on the next day.

The worlds markets drew a line under this admin once they saw in White House print that Trump was tariffing penguins.

This is real Mugabe territory.