The Donald vs Big Tech

[Ollkiller]

Yeah trump is a real megalomaniac this time out, surprising even me tbh. A mad oul world we have now but then I was having the argument with the mother last night that if he puts a stop to a few wars, is he not then a good guy?

She was unmoved, and then lent me a copy of Hillbilly Elegy while demonstrating the bit of Russian she learned from youtube during the lockdown that she didn't believe in.

Haven't a clue how I became so contrarian...

He dosent give a shyte about wars. Sure he struck the houtis and let Israel go full mental again. Only wants a peace in Ukraine to start doing business with Russia.
But you're right about the meglomania.
He reigned it in last time. Probably thinking he'd be there for 8 years and could go turbo in his second term. Well he has his second term so all bets are off now.

[astfgyl]

Agreed. Some wars are seemingly fine but not others. Again, a mad oul world we are in. I blame the Internet, but I'd probably have blamed the telly or the radio before that

[Eoin McLove]

I despised Trump first time out but couldn't get on board with all the talk of him being a dictator. This time around I despise him again, but I'm also starting to think he might well have aspirations to becoming a dictator. Surrounding himself entirely with loyalists and yes men... spooky. I suppose we'll see how the next handover of power goes in four years, but if the last one was anything to go by, it won't be pretty.

I wonder is this just what we can expect from American politics from now on. Can it ever get itself out of this mire? Will the democrats have to try to up the whacky levels with their next candidate just to get a look in? Can they get their shit together and appeal to the centrists they lost this time around? Can the republican party get themselves back to some level of respectability again or do the MAGA heads now own the party completely (post-Trump II that is)...

[open face surgery]

I'd say he's looking at Putin and Bibi being in office for decades and liking the sound of that, one plus being he doesn't have decades left.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, I'm not quite mook enough to be wishing for him to be assassinated, but it's difficult to conclude anything other than the sooner he dies the better.

[The Heretic]

Yeah, I'm not quite mook enough to be wishing for him to be assassinated, but it's difficult to conclude anything other than the sooner he dies the better.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Tesla said on Thursday it is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck vehicles in the U.S. over an exterior panel that can detach while driving, after more than six call-backs for the pickups last year.

Tesla is recalling the vehicles over issues of the cant rail - a stainless-steel exterior trim panel - delaminating and detaching from the vehicle, it said.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/recalls/2025/03/20/tesla-cybertruck-recall/82561876007/

[Ducky]

Tangentially related to the orange man, but still hilarious/brutal.

https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/andrew-tayto-waterford-whispers-charity-t-shirt

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Have a feeling that one will get cease & desisted fairly rapid, lol

[Ducky]

Definitely. Plus it's not fair on Mr. Tayto, he has a stronger chin than Tate.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Andrew Tayto is McGregor though, no?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

MAGA fanatics:

A Trump voter whose wife was detained by federal immigration agents apparently still does not regret siding with MAGA in November.

Bradley Bartell, a Wisconsin Trump supporter, witnessed the arrest of his Peruvian wife Camila Muñoz last month. Muñoz had overstayed her visa during the pandemic, but had no criminal history and had recently applied for her green card—something that the couple believed could be enough to keep her from becoming a target of the Trump administration.

It wasn't. Instead, ICE agents tore her away from her husband at the airport as the couple returned from their belated honeymoon in Puerto Rico. But that hasn't hampered Bartell's opinion of Donald Trump.

"I don't regret the vote," Bartell told Newsweek Wednesday.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192989/donald-trump-voter-ice-detain-wife-regret-vote

[astfgyl]

Good lord. That's right up there with the time the lad died of covid and the daughter it would have been far worse if he hadn't took his vaccine. That level of stupid. Actually no, this lad is thicker again. I do somewhat doubt the absolute veracity of either of those examples but then, is there even an actual depth to how stupid things can get?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

If you insist on taking things in that direction, we've some of that too:

The Texas parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who died from measles Feb. 26 told the anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense in a video released Monday that the experience did not convince them that vaccination against measles was necessary.

"She says they would still say 'Don't do the shots,'" an unidentified translator for the parents said. "They think it's not as bad as the media is making it out to be."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/texas-measles-family-gaines-county-death/

[Emphyrio]

I find it hard to comprehend the levels of retardation some people reach. Like, how does one become so stupid. And it must be a learned behaviour cos if they were born that way they'd never have made it to adulthood.