Don't get me wrong here, But I LIKE Donald Trump.

[old man emu]

54 minutes ago, red750 said:

What? Have him robbed again?    

Poor Donny! He can't help it. He's a serial victim.

[facthunter]

It's America that is the victim. It's been hijacked from within.   an INSIDE Job.  Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

I agree willedoo. Maybe the republicans have made themselves unelectable....   i sure hope so.

[willedoo]

What a crazy form of democracy the Americans have. In presidential elections, the states all have their own rules and legal interpretations applied. They have write-in candidates. In some jurisdictions a write-in candidate must be a registered candidate, but not so in other places. If you don't like the options on the ballot paper, you can just write in whoever you like, which would be an informal vote here and discarded. If Trump didn't get the Republican nomination, the MAGA crowd in some states can write his name on the ballot paper anyway and the votes count. Sometimes I wonder if the Americans are even capable of having a critical look at their flawed system.

[old man emu]

17 minutes ago, willedoo said:

Sometimes I wonder if the Americans are even capable of having a critical look at their flawed system.

Looking from the inside out, it's just fine!

 

Maybe the rest of the world should chip in a build a wall along the USA/Mexico and USA/Canada borders to keep the nutters from escaping

[rgmwa]

33 minutes ago, willedoo said:

 Sometimes I wonder if the Americans are even capable of having a critical look at their flawed system.

There are plenty of people even in the US who recognise the inherent flaws in their system - gerrymandering, the electoral college, state-based voting procedures and laws, first past the post voting rather than proportional representation, to name a few. The problem is it's almost impossible for them to collectively change anything.

[kgwilson]

In the world democracy index the US is not considered a full democracy but a flawed democracy and comes in at No 26 ranking below Chile and Spain and just above Estonia.

 

https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/most-democratic-countries/

 

The states stack their individual systems to suit their political and racial agendas, especially the Southern conservative mostly one eyed republican states. They have slowly garnered more and more hard line irrational republican politicians, local authority and community leaders who seem totally unwilling to find Trump has any faults at all. They seem quite happy to promote the undemocratic and authoritarian rhetoric Trump continues to espouse, and I think in the back of their suppressed sub conscious, knowing full well that the charges against him are all true. Their problem is they have no-one smart enough to challenge him. When anyone does he calls them horrible, bad and terrible (3 of the dozen or so adjectives in his entire vocabulary) and the MAGA clowns go gaga & throw him some more money.

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, kgwilson said:

In the world democracy index the US is not considered a full democracy but a flawed democracy

No wonder emerging countries don't want the Yanks coming in to fight for their Democracy.

[onetrack]

Trump is as cunning as the proverbial sh**house rat. He's now declared he's going to order the greatest migrant deportation the world has ever seen. He talks about how illegal migrants are nearly all criminals and are "poisoning the blood" of America.

 

All great "fear trigger" stuff, guaranteed to appeal to most peoples fear of foreigners and foreign cultures. He really knows how to work his audience, and appeal to the mob mentality.

 

Unfortunately, the Democrats are playing into his hands by entertaining the idea of introducing some of the GOP's hardline immigration policies, to ensure the current U.S. Govt gets further funding assistance for Ukraine. 

The problem of course, is that America is simply being overwhelmed by poor and desperate immigrants from the South, with most of them simply trying to get away from unliveable criminal-run regions.

 

Trumps idea of mass deportations of immigrants may sound good to many white Americans, but actually carrying it out is another exercise that is doomed to fail, just like Trumps exceptionally costly Wall. 

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-18/donald-trump-promises-largest-deportation-operation/103241936

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/title-42-steroids-democrats-migrant-deportations-rcna129530

[rgmwa]

23 minutes ago, onetrack said:

He talks about how illegal migrants are nearly all criminals and are "poisoning the blood" of America.

So says the criminal who married two foreign women and is trying to poison America himself.

[Marty_d]

Without cheap migrant labour, most of their service industry would collapse. 

[facthunter]

How many TRUMPS can one country handle? The red rotter couldn't cop  competition from a copy cat clone.

[red750]

He's such a gentleman.

 

Trumps Christmas message.

[facthunter]

And HE's PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL?   Nev

[rgmwa]

Should be interesting to see how the US Supreme Court handles this mess:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/26/trump-us-supreme-court-crisis

[facthunter]

Trump has already stacked it with 3 of his appointees. Nev

[red750]

British comedian and actor John Cleese has sparked controversy after comparing Donald Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

 

In a message posted on X, the Fish Called Wanda, Fawlty Towers and Monty Python actor wrote that there were six ways in which Hitler was preferable to Trump, who is seeking re-election to the White House.

 

“1. He fought for his country

2. He never used a teleprompter

3. He was nice to dogs

4. He wrote his own books

5. He never played golf

6. He wasn’t a big fat slob,” wrote Cleese.

 

He continued by listing five ways Trump is preferable to Hitler, writing

“1. doesn’t practice genocide

2. He has nicer hair,”

and leaving the other three spaces empty.

[Marty_d]

I like John Cleese.

[red750]

[nomadpete]

On 28/12/2023 at 7:42 AM, Marty_d said:

I like John Cleese.

I do too. But he's not running for pres.

[old man emu]

47 minutes ago, red750 said:

There's more substance in the slab than in the slob it represents.

[onetrack]

Trumps legal arguments are starting to show more holes than a rice sieve. What a total narcissist, demanding that he should be 100% immune from prosecution as President.

I wonder if he thinks Joe Biden should be 100% immune from prosecution for crimes, too? No, of course not, only poor old persecuted Don. He's a devious prick, and his arguments are so hollow.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/this-is-over-legal-experts-weigh-in-as-trump-lawyer-demolishes-own-immunity-case/ar-AA1mHpgH

[facthunter]

That self absorbed  poor excuse for a human is the LAST type of person who should be given ANY power, let alone be the POTUS.  Nev

[rgmwa]

That means that despite Trump routinely calling Biden a criminal, he would be happy for Biden not to be charged for ordering his assassination as a political rival.  I wonder if that's what he really meant?

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

He is mentally deranged and the sooner a psychiatrist conducts and examination and declares him fir for trial, but unfit for presidency, the better.