Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Bwgmon]

Maybe he will put two and two together and realize less tariffs = more popular.

Fellas, is it a good sign that the best thing Trump has done for his popularity is walking back something that incompetent Trump did?

Wait, weren't you stroking your hog a few weeks ago about how good and smart tariffs are? Haven't you spent most of the year talking about how brilliant they are? A bit weird how malleable your opinion is, it's like a seal at the circus, made to blindly clap whenever your handler tosses a sardine at you.

[Kaleredar]

You forgot the primary objective which was shutting down all inquiries into Elon's businesses.

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Americans being dumbasses doesn't make kicking 10 million people off health insurance a good thing, fucking ghoul

He doesn’t care about that, he only cares about (the perception of) winning.

No number of elderly people kicked off health insurance or children with cancer deported or people incarcerated without due process or legal protesters arrested or Trump profiting directly from foreign bribes will ever matter to him.

He can’t think of it in any way beyond how a sports fan cheers on their team no matter what. And just like how a die-hard sports fan doesn’t care if the star quarterback beats his wife and the coach molests the cheerleaders and they’re taking bribes on the side while deflating the ball to cheat, so long as they win. it’s the exact same mindset here.

So you gotta point out how he’s losing! Because that’s the one thing he can’t counter. Stock market is down, trump approval is low, things are getting more expensive and Trump is losing tariff negotiations left and right.

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Fellas, is it a good sign that the best thing Trump has done for his popularity is walking back something that incompetent Trump did?

Wait, weren't you stroking your hog a few weeks ago about how good and smart tariffs are? Haven't you spent most of the year talking about how brilliant they are? A bit weird how malleable your opinion is, it's like a seal at the circus, made to blindly clap whenever your handler tosses a sardine at you.

The cackling muppet doesn’t know why its fat orange master laughs, it merely knows that when Trumpa the Hutt laughs, he must laugh too.

[Edge-]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...cretary-flight

US transportation secretary changed wife’s flight from Newark after ongoing issues at airport
Airport has seen multiple serious failures in past weeks while Sean Duffy has assured the public it’s safe to fly from there

Ed Pilkington in New York
Wed 14 May 2025 11.57 EDT
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Sean Duffy, the Trump administration’s transportation secretary, has revealed that he switched flights for his wife this week to help her avoid flying out of beleaguered Newark Liberty, one of the busiest airports in the New York area.

Duffy’s disclosure on Monday followed his repeated assurances to the American public that it is safe to fly from Newark, despite a spate of dramatic outages affecting the airport’s radar systems that is causing ongoing disruption and delays. On Sunday, the transportation secretary went on NBC News’s Meet the Press and insisted Newark was safe.

“It is,” he protested. “I fly out of Newark all the time, my family flies out of Newark.”

Hours later, speaking to the conservative radio host David Webb on SiriusXM, he said: “My wife was flying out of Newark tomorrow, I switched her flight to LaGuardia”.

Transportation Secretary uses his office to benefit his wife while every other American is left to deal with Donald and Duffy's disastrous FAA.

Very much the party of: I got mine, fuck everyone else.

Quite literally. He looked out for his wife, but fuck everyone else trying to fly out of Newark.

A spokesperson for the US Department of Transportation said that the flight was changed for scheduling purposes not for safety reasons. They added: “It’s safe to fly out of Newark. We are fixing the problems.”

It was not safe or else he'd have allowed his wife to fly out.

Just members of Donald's administration using their offices of personal gain. Nothing big here.

Hypocrites and awful people, the lot of them.

[Breccia]

Fellas, is it a good sign that the best thing Trump has done for his popularity is walking back something that incompetent Trump did?

You missed the important part. To a Trump worshipper, the key issue is popularity. That's immediately where he went, twice, including "44% isn't that bad, I cherry-picked 44% because the rest are lower!"

He didn't say "it would be good for the country"

He didn't say "it would be good for the economy"

He didn't say "it would be good for the middle class"

He didn't say "it would be good for easing world tensions"

He said "popular". Because that's what matters.

[Xyonai]

You missed the important part. To a Trump worshipper, the key issue is popularity. That's immediately where he went, twice, including "44% isn't that bad, I cherry-picked 44% because the rest are lower!"

He didn't say "it would be good for the country"

He didn't say "it would be good for the economy"

He didn't say "it would be good for the middle class"

He didn't say "it would be good for easing world tensions"

He said "popular". Because that's what matters.

And I can already imagine the snyde remark to this:

"Erm, don't you lefties always claim that your so-called policies are only valid because you say they're popular, hypocrit much??"

To which I answer, they're popular in the way that people generally like policies that benefit them and/or don't waste resources being shitty to people for no reason. Not popular in the same way you're relieved that the man who just spent the last three hours taking a bat to your car decides to pay off the wind-shield.

[Doomcookie]

44% in this day and age of polarization is pretty good! Will probably continue to slowly uptick. And still way more popular than Dems.

Maybe he will put two and two together and realize less tariffs = more popular.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...riff/?tbref=hp

You just spent months bragging about how great tariffs are. are you saying your days of a national socialist are finally over, and you're apologizing for spending years lying for a rapist?

[btlcryct]

One of my hobbies is flying drones for photography and video stuff. DJI, the biggest consumer drone maker, announced a new drone today. They're out of China and have said they will not be selling it in the US due to the tariffs, though some stores have managed to get some somehow supposedly. Thanks idiot....

https://www.theverge.com/drone/66642...orama-bh-photo

I have a feeling more foreign companies may follow, and I can't say I blame them.

[Moralgy]

Well that was fast.

I guess tariffs work for other things, too.

https://thehill.com/policy/internati...ation-flights/

Remember this post?

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Tariffs WORK.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-on-wednesday/

Or this post?

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Tariffs work.

"“He needed to break some guy in Ontario who said he was going to tax American energy 25 percent. The President of the United States, in the White House, says, ‘Oh no, you won’t,’ and breaks him. And you think that’s chaotic?” Lutnick said."

So far everyone has capitulated.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ffs-recession/

And this post?

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44% in this day and age of polarization is pretty good! Will probably continue to slowly uptick. And still way more popular than Dems.

Maybe he will put two and two together and realize less tariffs = more popular.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...riff/?tbref=hp

Now we have this post.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...stion-hearing/

When asked hypothetically if he would vaccinate his children today for measles during a House hearing Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said "probably," but added he doesn't think people should be taking medical advice from him.

"My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant," he said in response to the question from Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin during the House Appropriations Committee hearing. "I don't want to seem like I'm being evasive, but I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me."

When pressed, he repeated he didn't want to give advice to other people.

"But that's kind of your jurisdiction, because CDC does give advice, right?" Pocan asked. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is under HHS.

"I think what we're going to try to do is to lay out the pros and cons, the risks and benefits, accurately as we understand them, with replicable studies," Kennedy replied.

In which the head of HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES openly states nobody should be taking medical advice from him despite the fact that he heads a health department for a nation.

But "DEI hires" are the problem.

Wild there's still not a peep from that crowd about this unqualified shitgibbon who ignores public warnings and takes his family to bathe in waters contaminated by human waste - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...ria-rcna206416

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted photos of himself and his grandchildren swimming in waters known to be contaminated during a Mother’s Day hike in Rock Creek Park.

In one of the photos from Sunday, Kennedy is seen fully submerged in the water, with his grandchildren swimming, in spite of an ongoing National Park Service advisory against coming in contact with the water in the Washington, D.C., park “due to high bacteria levels.” The same notice says swimming and wading are not permitted due to the health risks.

“Stay out of the water to protect streambanks, plants and animals and keep you and your family (including pets!) safe from illness,” the advisory states. “Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health.”

Kennedy said in a post on X Sunday that he had hiked with his family and then went for "a swim with my grandchildren" in Rock Creek.

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A microbial source tracking report published in 2022 by the D.C. government said that ambient water monitoring for Rock Creek showed "chronic elevated levels" of E.coli. "Fecal coliform" bacteria stemming from sewage is also deposited into Rock Creek, the Potomac and other tributary waters from combined sewers during storms according to a 2002 report from the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority.

Wonder how many more kids will die of measles because our HHS Secretary who once almost ate roadkill bear cut doesn't believe in vaccines.

[Iliena]

This is a long and interesting video about forever chemicals used in making Teflon, cosmetic's, food packaging and waterproof clothes etc. The Trump regime are looking to remove the ban's:



There are useful links in the description for map's to check the level's in your area (it's world wide as well).

[Cthulhu 2020]

They knowingly voted for a: Convicted sex offender, liar, serial adulterer, fraudster, racist, dementia patient pederast with incest fantasies who bankrupted multiple casinos at once to Make America Great Again.
After he showed them who he really is already in 2016, AND after his terrorist attacks on the Capitol on January 6th.

They thought "This man, he really speaks to what I believe in!" and voted for him.
They KNEW what they were getting. They just thought they were leopard proof.

I've met a lot of these people, and while many of them are grown adults who believe they know how things work (spoiler: they don't) A LOT of Trump supporters are just young single men who feel targeted and threatened by equality. They have no money, shitty, jobs, their 401k is barely existent, and the system has failed them, so many of them are simply voting Trump because he's disrupting the entire system.

And all of that is extremely bad.

What's even WORSE is not only are Democrats not opposing Trump in any meaningful way (They keep letting him and his goons do illegal things with no consequences) THEY'RE CONSIDERING RUNNING MILQUETOAST WHITE GUY IN THE 2028 ELECTION. Another Democrat who will not accomplish improving the material conditions of American citizens even if they wanted to because the American right does not play by the rules. They obstruct as much as they can, and when it's their turn to govern they simply pilfer everyone's coffers and pockets while Democrats meekly go "You can't do that"


In 2028 I'm obviously voting against Trump (because let's be real, he's not joking about running again no matter how many people try to claim it's a joke) but Democrats are giant useless pieces of shit and need to start taking bold action.

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Now we have this post.

That poster doesn't actually believe anything they post deep down. They listen to whatever the current Trump opinion du jour is and if it changes the next day and completely contradicts itself, they don't care. They are the mindless sheep.

[Xath]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-...mpaign=us_main

straight out of p2025 but the dangerous part about this isn't that it will ban like 50% of the sites on the internet it's that they are going to try to redefine being trans a sex crime against children to be met with the death penalty. These people are evil and they want to suspend habeas corpus and make being trans a death penalty we are going to have a civil war or a steep descent into nazism.

[gondrin]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-...mpaign=us_main

straight out of p2025 but the dangerous part about this isn't that it will ban like 50% of the sites on the internet it's that they are going to try to redefine being trans a sex crime against children to be met with the death penalty. These people are evil and they want to suspend habeas corpus and make being trans a death penalty we are going to have a civil war or a steep descent into nazism.

While it is in Project 2025, the religious right have been trying to, and have been successful in the past in some fashion in some areas, to ban pornography for a very long time. Mike Lee has introduced that bill before and it went nowhere back in 2022.

It is in a LONG line of attacks on various forms of media that date back to early 1900s with attack on certain types of books, to music in the 50s with the banning of certain genres, to movies like Deep Throat that was the first case of banning pornography being shown in movie theaters to again, attacks on Dungeons and Dragons in the 70s and 80s with the "Satanic Panic" and music with groups like 2 Live Crew getting censored or outright banned and hearing in front of Congress(famous video here with Dee Snyder testifying in front of congress) to attacks on video games since the early 80s with in the 90s and Jack Thompson famously railing on GTA as a "murder simulator".

One of the reasons why the RIAA came up with the "Parental Advisory" sticker that was attached to any CD, Album or other form of media that has any "obscene" words, the ESRB was created to preempt government censorship.

[Azadina]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-...mpaign=us_main

straight out of p2025 but the dangerous part about this isn't that it will ban like 50% of the sites on the internet it's that they are going to try to redefine being trans a sex crime against children to be met with the death penalty. These people are evil and they want to suspend habeas corpus and make being trans a death penalty we are going to have a civil war or a steep descent into nazism.

No one is going to civil war over minority rights. It's the deep descent into Nazism option.

[Mazza]

In the wake of the Trump admins Birthright Citizenship courtcases, the Supreme Courts looks at Trumps lawyers claim that the decisions none SC federal judges take can only be applied to the people bringing the case as opposed to being upheld nationwide.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/14/p...nd-term-agenda

Which is bananas. In case of the birthright citizinship for instance, the administrations claim is that only children with at least one parent being a natural born US citizen or a legal permanent resident in the US as opposed to every child born in the US (barring some exceptions like children of diplomats) I would guess that there's ppl that are affected by that in every federal court district in the US. The amount of courtcases that would need to be had would get insane while they probably would all end up with the same result (the judges telling the executive that they are really bad at interpreting the constitution) until the SC rules on the matter itself.

[Poopymonster]

In the wake of the Trump admins Birthright Citizenship courtcases, the Supreme Courts looks at Trumps lawyers claim that the decisions none SC federal judges take can only be applied to the people bringing the case as opposed to being upheld nationwide.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/14/p...nd-term-agenda

Which is bananas. In case of the birthright citizinship for instance, the administrations claim is that only children with at least one parent being a natural born US citizen or a legal permanent resident in the US as opposed to every child born in the US (barring some exceptions like children of diplomats) I would guess that there's ppl that are affected by that in every federal court district in the US. The amount of courtcases that would need to be had would get insane while they probably would all end up with the same result (the judges telling the executive that they are really bad at interpreting the constitution) until the SC rules on the matter itself.

Yes that's the point. Slow it down and then they do what they want. In the interim between "kidnap and expel citizens" and judge says "Stop that shit", lots of people they determine as Undesirable have been sent to some hellhole prison.
Repeat.
When ordered to bring them back, stall, appeal, flat out don't. Draw it out further. Do everything BUT bring them back.
Make the process painful.
Make people fearful.

[Draco-Onis]

No one is going to civil war over minority rights. It's the deep descent into Nazism option.

They won't for minority rights, they will if republicans take away their porn. The bill basically attacks distributors of pornography in general which would basically ban all porn sites from the US under fear of prosecution. Aside from Christian nut jobs on the right most Americans would see it as a step too far and they aren't smart enough to know how to work a VPN.

[Belize]

They won't for minority rights, they will if republicans take away their porn. The bill basically attacks distributors of pornography in general which would basically ban all porn sites from the US under fear of prosecution. Aside from Christian nut jobs on the right most Americans would see it as a step too far and they aren't smart enough to know how to work a VPN.

I doubt it, a couple southern states implemented porn laws that made Pornhub withdraw from those states entirely, and we haven't heard a peep. While yes I'll agree there are plenty of other options still available within those states, Americans are very good at being complacent and letting their freedoms be chipped away at.
There would not be a mass upheaval if porn were to be federally banned, at best it'd be Prohibition 2.0 where everyone would know where and how to get it, and besides some performative arrests targeting easy culprits, the law would generally turn a blind eye.

[Kaleredar]

Hmm, yet more rights previously established by the constitution at risk of being eroded by a far-right aligned Supreme Court…

If only we could have elected presidents at certain times to have ensured that the composition of the Supreme Court wouldn’t be turned into a bunch of far right sycophants, and that that alone would have been important enough to vote for someone some might otherwise have found “just kinda boring”

Oh well!

[NED funded]

I watch Fox news cuz I am a masochist and it lets me keep myself grounded on what conservatives believe. And I have been noticing an uptick of conservatives arguing that giving immigrants a trial would be to bothersome? And some even implying that they do not need to since Obama and Clinton did it without trial. And like???

Conservatives (who actually hate America since they dont want to respect any of Americas founding values) are trying to build a case that they do not respect due process.