President Trump 2.0

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

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Go Trump.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Go Trump.

The mighty Venezuela, he is indeed a brave man. How about taking on Putin?

[thenry]

Originally Posted by Mr K

The mighty Venezuela, he is indeed a brave man. How about taking on Putin?

He is. Crying help me Ukraine

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Mr K

The mighty Venezuela, he is indeed a brave man. How about taking on Putin?

You don’t think he should tackle the illegal drugs entering the US ?

Are you concerned all the doctors and engineers, and social care workers currently trafficking the drugs will be impacted?

[jem]

Originally Posted by Pierre

You don’t think he should tackle the illegal drugs entering the US ?

Are you concerned all the doctors and engineers, and social care workers currently trafficking the drugs will be impacted?

But why are so many illegal drugs entering the US? Could it possibly be that there is a demand for them? So maybe look into and tackle the ‘demand-side’ of the issue?

Hypothetically the US manages to completely eliminate (literally) the smuggling in by boat - do you think that there still won't be a demand and all that will happen is that alternative methods will be found to get them in?

[Carth]

I reckon eliminating the drug demand in the USA would lead to a breakdown in the legal system, political system, law and order, sporting institutions, universities, the film & TV industry, technology companies, and anywhere else that seems to rely on a sniff of substances to work efficiently

Very good night for the Democrats, including winning the New York Mayoralty. Nothing to suggest there won't be a Democratic sweep in the midterms next year which would limit a lot of Trump's power.

A win is a win, however Phillips O’Brien (mainly talks about Ukraine and war) said this on his Substack this morning:

I personally do not know why everyone is obsessing about the New York City result. Mamdani actually underperformed as the Democratic Nominee, barely scraping 50% of the vote in a city that is overwhelmingly Democratic and which is not representative of US voting overall. In many ways his performance was unimpressive, and perhaps a warning to Democrats not to go too far to the left in the coming years. The Democrats have nominated Left-wing candidates in the recent past in New York. Bill De Blasio won in 2013 and 2017 with 73% and 67% of the vote respectively. As such Mamdani did rather poorly, despite all the histrionics of the press.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Chris

A win is a win, however Phillips O’Brien (mainly talks about Ukraine and war) said this on his Substack this morning:

Donny had a bit of a meltdown about it and its a significant win considering the money that was spent in an effort to stop him winning

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Donny had a bit of a meltdown about it and its a significant win considering the money that was spent in an effort to stop him winning

Yes, hes taken it very well I must say! He seems utterly confused as why he can't buy votes with money...

Originally Posted by Chris

A win is a win, however Phillips O’Brien (mainly talks about Ukraine and war) said this on his Substack this morning:

I think it's a bit misleading, or at least missing the point, to say he underperformed as the Democratic Nominee. This wasn't the standard two-way race between the Democrats and the Republicans. His main contender was also a Democrat, the DNC's preferred candidate to be the nominee, running as an independent.

I don't think there is a baseline to compare against previous elections as a result. It's someone who caused upset within the Democratic Party and then had to contend with some of them splitting off to stop him anyway.

It won't tell us much about wider America - there are results elsewhere that are a greater example of the trouble the Republicans are in - but it is a shock for the Democratic Party's leadership. This guy is very wing.