Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Kathandira]

Not sure it is completely fair to say 'democrats' as a whole pretend to care. There certainly are a group of them who feel strongly about climate change, and put forth bills and plans to combat it. If it was 100% lip service, I would agree. But there are attempts to take action.

[Flarelaine]

Democrats as a party do not care. Progressives do.

[Kaleredar]

Democrats as a party do not care. Progressives do.

But importantly… democrats don’t stand in the way.

I mean someone will probably try to argue “they get in the way of nominating candidates that are more progresssive and who actually care about it!” but historically when a climate resolution bill has been put to vote (under a Democrat president, let’s not kid ourselves)… democrats pass it.

[Paranoid Android]

But importantly… democrats don’t stand in the way.

I mean someone will probably try to argue “they get in the way of nominating candidates that are more progresssive and who actually care about it!” but historically when a climate resolution bill has been put to vote (under a Democrat president, let’s not kid ourselves)… democrats pass it.

You and others just getting fooled by the Democrats and thinking it's not what it is.

My biggest compliment to Democrats is they want to govern but that's about it.

First they really are not an opposition party. They still seem to love bipartisanship and believe in the institution. Second they have become a total Neo-Liberal party which means their policies are not much further from Republicans but more importantly Neo-Liberalism just squeezes the average person and generally their reaction is a turn to the hard right. Blame others. Third, they want to run policies that are a counter to Right wing. Taxing rich, government housing and building, Universal Healthcare, etc.

[Xath]

Disagree, in my country it is not customary to get seasonal flu vaccines, that doesn't make us anti vaxx. Though I'll grant you if one categorically refuses a vaxxine as opposed to boosters then that could qualify as antivaxx.

I am specifically talking about c19 which almost toppled the health care system.

[PfeffermintShake]

Democrats as a party do not care. Progressives do.

Isnt this the Trump thread?

Really, just start a "I Hate Democrats - Mega Thread". From a curatoring standpoint, it would be more honest for you guys.

[En Sabah Nur]

Not getting the covid vaccine doesn't make you an antivaxxer, I have all my pre-COVID vaccines.

Does qualifying as a "vaxxer" require 100% constant upkeep of every shot?

I'm just going to repeat my question, tbh.

Why didn't you get the vaccine, since you clearly view such people as detrimental to society?

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Isnt this the Trump thread?

Really, just start a "I Hate Democrats - Mega Thread". From a curatoring standpoint, it would be more honest for you guys.

It'd only be 3/4 people, tbf. With the occasional interruption to laugh at the shit they're saying.

[Ivanstone]

America never gave a fuck about climate change, democrats have gotten better at faking it but both sides very much do not care. Environmentalism and climate action, if we're lucky, gets answered in a side question during a campaign trail and never brought up again. It is and always was up to Canada and the EU. China and the USA will never care, but will improve on their abilities to pretend to.

The IRA is probably the best green investment bill ever made.

China has invested massively into renewables.

Srsly, pay fucking attention.

[Tech614]

Not getting the covid vaccine doesn't make you an antivaxxer, I have all my pre-COVID vaccines.

Does qualifying as a "vaxxer" require 100% constant upkeep of every shot?

The dude who thinks people should be forced to work for healthcare is also an antivaxxer.

LMAO you can't make this shit up. The mask is halfway off.

And yes, if you deny a vaccine in the middle of a healthcare crisis that is offered for free at every pharmacy in the country you are an anti vaxxer. LOL @ the other clown comparing it to the flu vaccine.

[Edge-]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tea...l?guccounter=1

did donald disappear a plane full of people?

it sure sounds like it based on his administrations legal arguments

“Where is the plane?” Murphy asked DOJ lawyer Elianis Perez.

“I’m told that that information is classified, and I am told that the final destination is also classified,” Perez responded, claiming that no court order was violated because the man wasn’t afraid of deportation.

But then Murphy asked Perez the authority the government was invoking to classify the location of the flight.

“I don’t have the answer to that,” Perez responded.

yeah donald disappeared a plane full of people in direct violation of court orders

Murphy had ordered the government in March not to deport immigrants to countries they aren’t from without allowing them time to challenge their removal in court. He warned the administration that any government official who took part in Tuesday’s flight and knew about the order, including the pilots, could face criminal penalties

don't worry

i'm sure tehdang will be around any moment to tell us how this is no different than biden seeking different avenues to forgive student loan debt and totally not brazenly ignoring federal judicial orders while doing more fairly explicit Nazi shit

[NED funded]

I think I am crashing out. Is the president of the US trying to "own" the president of South Africa?

[Edge-]

I think I am crashing out. Is the president of the US trying to "own" the president of South Africa?

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1...trump-tensions

After a cordial beginning, where Ramaphosa was at pains to stress his desire to improve relations with the U.S., things turned hostile. Trump repeated his false claims of a 'white genocide' in South Africa and then ordered the lights dimmed to play videos he said supported his allegation.

Ramaphosa attempted to correct the U.S. leader, but mostly got talked over. He explained the videos of opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called "kill the boer" – which means farmer or Afrikaner – did not represent government policy.

lmao donald turning these little media sessions into bully sessions where he bullies nations he thinks he can bully without consequence (because the us is bigger and more powerful)

In fact, Malema is a populist who was expelled from Ramaphosa's African National Congress. His Economic Freedom Fighters party won just 7 percent of the vote at national elections last year. "They are a small minority party," Ramaphosa said. Trump then asked why Malema wasn't arrested

Ramaophosa's Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, who is white, also tried to explain the facts for Trump. As did South Africa's richest man and a friend of Ramaphosa's, Johann Rupert, who is also white.

It was exactly what South Africans had been dreading, especially after Trump's televised hostility towards Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskky in the Oval Office earlier this year made headlines around the world.

just don't fucking accept invitations to meet this fucking retard in the oval office

fucking white supremacists in the white house are so fucking weird, they believe the dumbest, most racist fictions to justify their white supremacy

[alach]

That was an uncomfortable watch.
Trump just further pushed SA into the arms of russia and China. Is that what american diplomacy is now?
Every week america gets less safe and it's enemies stronger with trump in charge.

[Paranoid Android]

I posted this wrong thread. If you want more Aaron Ruper has multiple posts of meeting with South African President.

Trump: "Elon is from South Africa. I don't want to get Elon involved. That's all I have to do -- get him in another thing. This is what Elon wanted."

First thought elmo was out of politics, oh just doge. I guess his South African "expertise" was brought in.

Trump on current conditions in South Africa: "This is sort of the opposite of apartheid."

So wtf? Trump is saying everything All Good now? Opposite? Obviously he trying to say white genocide is happening. Moron.

So humiliating as a US citizen watching our President give white supremacy talking points in front of President of South Africa.

[Edge-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...plane_to_give/

RAMAPHOSA: "I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you." TRUMP: "I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it." RAMAPHOSA: "Okay."

lmao donald is just a wannabe mob boss trying to shake people down for personal gifts

this is the most pathetic shit ever, the weakest, saddest man put in one of the most powerful positions in the world and he's a racist, conspiracy theorist, narcissistic lunatic with no attachment to reality

this is exactly what tehdang continues to defend despite his cries that he doesn't support this kind of behavior, because seemingly there isn't a single reasonable republican/conservative left, really.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/trum...oeing-jet.html

Donald's administration has formally accepted the open bribe from the apparent funders-of-terror heading the Qatari government.

[zorkuus]

When will american reporters grow a goddamn spine and call out this pathological liar on his constant bullshit?

[Belize]

When will american reporters grow a goddamn spine and call out this pathological liar on his constant bullshit?

The American media is wholly owned by his billionaire friends.

So... No.

[Edge-]

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1...-6-white-house

Just months after being freed through a pardon from President Trump, two men convicted of felonies for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol scored visits to the secure grounds of the White House.

During their visit, the men took turns posing for pictures and videos behind the lectern in the White House press briefing room.

"Thank you so much President Trump, if you're seeing this, we appreciate you setting us free," said Shane Jenkins, in a video he posted on social media.

Jenkins, who had a criminal record before Jan. 6, was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting police protecting the Capitol and using a metal tomahawk to try to smash a window. The day after the attack, Jenkins wrote in a text message, "I have murder in my heart and my head."

"Never would have thought in only a few short months I would be going from the big house to the White House," said another pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, Dominic Box, who also recorded a video from the briefing room.

Box was convicted of felony civil disorder and nonviolent misdemeanor charges related to the Capitol breach. He had not yet been sentenced when Trump returned to office and issued mass clemency to all Jan. 6 defendants, including the most violent offenders. Separately, in 2023, Box was arrested in Florida on a DUI charge. According to the police report, while in the back of the squad car, Box used "various racial slurs," including the n-word. In a message to NPR, Box said , "I am not racist," and noted that he did not use "the hard r" when he said the n-word.

The circumstances of the visit to the White House were somewhat murky.

"An individual within the Trump Administration extended the invitation," Box told NPR, "but I am not at liberty to disclose their identity."

Assault cops, get pardoned and an official visit to the White House as long as you're a supporter of Donald Trump!

I continue to never want to hear Republicans talking about supporting law enforcement ever again.

[Draco-Onis]

When will american reporters grow a goddamn spine and call out this pathological liar on his constant bullshit?

CBS News president steps down amid Trump lawsuit

They are going in the opposite direction they are purging anyone with any spine so that they can twist and bend for him better.

[LeGin v4]

Well, that was unpleasant to watch

Genocide? No, Donald

D’ya think he’d try this shit with Xi? Xi would pulverise him