Lowering gas prices and kicking out illegal immigrants, both directly help the poorest Americans more than anything Democrats/Liberals/Leftists have done in the past 20 years.
Gasoline prices are coming down, and President Donald Trump is happy to take credit for that. But he has little to do with it, experts say, and his policies could make it more expensive to increase domestic oil production from already record levels.
I would concede your point about immigration, except, kicking out undocumented immigrants without giving them due process violates the US Constitution. If thatās allowed to stand, itās a slippery slope. Already American citizens have been deported. So the courts have to reign the Trump administration in. I believe the president when repeatedly he said ā I donāt knowā about his duty to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the United States. The courts need to remind him and hold him responsible.
Even a broken clockā¦
OPEC a god send for Trump
Trumpās presidency is already failing. What happened this week including āthe dealā with the Houthis, and the fake trade ādealā with the UK are just among the many examples of Trump acting like someone who is desperate.
He knows heās losing. He knows heās failing. He knows his rotten regime is not working. His public performance is becoming wild and incoherent.
The Alcatraz prison non-idea, the tariffs on foreign movies feel desperate and pathetic. His interview performances have been even wilder and unhinged than in the past. He looks defeated and down and slurring his words.
Trumpās power is already ebbing in Washington. In polling heās in negative territory on every issue. He has no place to go to bring up his approval rating.
He tried to take credit for the truth between Indian and Pakistan. The last time I checked, Modi isnāt giving him credit for it. Heās all about winning and strength and he looks like heās losing and weak. Heās running out of steam.
Harvard defied the president. That may have been a turning point. A judge released Romesa Ozturk. The Vatican is joining the resistance. People are starting to realize Trump has far less power than it appears.
Heās already done a lot of damage to The ability of the federal government to serve the people that will be difficult to repair. The resistance must act with urgency to prevent further damage. But at the same time as he looks more and more crazy and people stand up to him, his power is fading. Obviously, heās still dangerous and we must keep fighting.
From my perspective your POV seems rather optimistic.
He has been able to wreak so much damage already.
I think there is now no way for the US is avoid recesssion, and it is highly likely that a more fundemental depression is on the cards.
The US legal system seem impotent to act on its findings; judges live in fear; the media has been attacked as have legal firms. Democrats seem cluless and without a plan or organised resistence and although there are many large protests, the media is making little of them.
Thankfully Carne did not take his bullshit, but other countries including the UK seem to be avoiding confrontation when they would do better to join together to consider joint action.
Meanwhile Trump continues his insane plans back up with disdirection and downtight lies which are not being properly challenged by the media.
Where is the end game to this regime?
Will the Feds and Marshals find excuses to shut down the mid-terms. Can the US even survive that long before civil unrest provides his raison detre to crush the opposition.
Even if the midterms are allowed and lead to a Democratic victory - Trump is already operating without consulting Congress, ; ICE, and Doge is the only effective branch of government power.
I do not like Starmer, but this fat git from the SUN has F all to say. There is nothing in his report that is worthy.
But then only an idiot would link a video from The Sun. You might was well link shit from The National Enquirer on aliens.
What is the matter with you.
You are acting like a UK MAGAchud
Not really.I think Trumpās popularity in America has peaked and is on the way down. But, he could inflict more damage on the way down than he already has. Heās just getting started. Heās still powerful, malicious and incompetent. And as you suggest he wonāt leave the stage quietly. As he has started to get desperate heās gotten even more crazy and reckless than usual and hence, more dangerous than ever.
Of course, much will depend on the challenges the world throws at him. After all, he richly deserves it. Unfortunately, we in America who didnāt vote for him and donāt support his policies could end up as collateral damage when his stupidity backfires.
Itās a stupid figure.
Already Doge has had to backtrack on many ācutsā, and itās beginning to look like the cuts that remain are going to end up costing more than has been saved.
With the sacking of thousands of Federal employees, especially the āpropationaryā staff (next decades workers). This means a massive loss of experience and expertise.
Now throw in the down turn in economic activity and the consequent fall in tax revenue, ask how is this going to be made up?
The is the fundemental fabric of US infrastructure.
I think Hitler only got around 30% of the popular vote..
Hang on
- 33.1% of the popular vote
- Which translated into 196 seats in the Reichstag (out of 584)
And yet this was enough to over turn the whole world.
did they have anything like the electoral college? would it have made a difference?
The voting protocol was on the basis of PR, with voters voting for one of many parties.
Nazis were the largest of many, but the President Hindenburg chose Hitler.
Hitler was Chancellor, Presidents presided and were elected every seven years, the Reighstag every four years.
Hitler concentrated his power with underhand tactics of the sort now used by Trump; arresting judges; threatening law firms; ignoring laws; etc..
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Is he wrong/immoral, to be doing so?
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The cost of living, in Australia, is one of the lowest in the Western world and yet theyāre complaining about Trump reducing the price of prescription drugs for Americans who have been paying through the nose for their medication for decades.
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Nazi tactics? That kind of sounds like how Kamala Harris Bugs Bunnied those who exposed the trafficking of live baby organs, and put adoptive mothers in solitary confinement (FACE act) for trying to rescue those babies.
I think this is right. And I donāt see strong leadership on the Dem side to counter it at this point. As I have said before, I agree with Bernie Sanders platform for America. Had the Dem party leadership not undermined his presidential bid in 2016 we might be in this mess.
But, thatās history. The way I look at it, the monopoly capitalist oligarchs won in 2024 with the help of both dominant political parties. So, the question is whether the people will rise up and take back the country. There are stirrings on the local level in many localities which is reflected in town hall meetings and demonstrations. But, thereās a long way to go.
To defeat Trump, the resistance must be strong at multiple levels including the courts and Congress. Trump is undermining the IRSās ability to collect taxes from corporations and billionaires at the same time as he is weaponizing it against his political enemies like any individual or institution that criticizes him.
Meanwhile, the world knows that Trump can be bought:
āQatarās royal family offered to donate a jumbo jet to the Department of Defense that could serve as Air Force One, but a White House official said the offer has not been accepted, Fox News has learned.
Earlier Sunday, ABC News reported that President Trump āwas poised to acceptā the $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet and would use it until the end of his term, when it would be given to his presidential library. Trump is believed to be frustrated with Boeingās delays in producing a new presidential plane.
This, it seems to me, is a glaring violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Emoluments Clause. This clause, found in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, prohibits federal officials from accepting gifts, titles, or other benefits from foreign governments without the consent of Congress.
Apart from avoiding standing trial for his crimes, Trump sought the presidency again for his own gain. He will sell America itself if he thinks it will profit him.
The first meme is no more than propaganda, or as Trump likes to call it āfake news.ā
As for the Mail Online article : āTrump has a long history in his first term of talking bigger on drug pricing than what his policies would actually do,ā Chris Meekins, an analyst with Raymond James, wrote in a note to clients Sunday evening. āThe more grandiose Trumpās proposed executive actions, the less likely they are to be implemented as successful court challenges will be much more likely.ā Trumpās credibility is tanking. People are finding out that most of his ādealsā are just stunts.
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..or maybe itās more about this..
The Administrative Coup
What Farage is about to faceāTrump is already fighting.
The British system still pretends it runs on elections. But Farage, if he reaches Number 10, will find what Trump discovered: power isnāt just wonāitās obstructed.
Not by opposition parties.
By the bureaucracy.
By unelected insiders who donāt need the publicās approval to delay, rewrite, or erase a mandate entirely.Trump isnāt fighting Congress. Heās fighting a machine that governs without permission.
This is what it looks like.āø»
Trump won. But the system didnāt yield. It hardened.
Heās not battling opponents. Heās battling an entrenched administrative classā2.2 million federal employees shielded from elections, immune to accountability (OPM 2025).
They donāt legislate. They stall. They rewrite. They erase.
They operate in silence, with paperwork and process, using memos and procedural sabotage to block reform at the root. They write policy without standing for a single vote.
This isnāt governance. Itās occupation.
They control everything:
ā¢ FBI narratives
ā¢ IRS targeting
ā¢ Environmental choke points
ā¢ Military contractsBiden didnāt run them. They ran him.
Trumpās return triggered their panic phase.Theyāve responded with lawfare, leaks, and bureaucratic sabotage.
ā¢ 6 prosecutions in 4 states
ā¢ 31 executive orders frozen by internal delays
ā¢ Leaked national security briefings to sabotage foreign policyThis isnāt disorganization. Itās deliberate. Itās a siege.
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Trumpās counterstrike is Plan C.
Not reform. Not messaging. A purge.
ā¢ Schedule F reinstatedā50,000 bureaucrats targeted for removal
ā¢ DOJ budget slashedā25% redirected to internal sabotage investigations
ā¢ Election control orders under federal review
ā¢ Tariffs on China and Canada generating $200Bāreplacing income tax, gutting the IRS surveillance state
ā¢ Energy roaring to 13M barrels/dayāchoking Europeās Qatar reliance, flipping geopolitical leverageThis is the systemās nightmare: structural reversal.
The elites arenāt fighting to win. Theyāre stalling for survival. Hoping to run out the clock. Hoping the public burns out before the purge is finished.
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And itās global.
China is calibrating in real timeātesting drones in Ukraine to prep for Taiwan.
Carney has flipped Canada into a WEF-CCP forward base, launching CBDCs as soft control grids.
Europeās industrial base is disintegrating under ESG pressure and energy shortfalls.The Western collapse isnāt theoretical. Itās engineered.
And Trumpāflawed, defiant, relentlessāis the last figure standing between the machine and permanent control.
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If Farage reaches Number 10, he wonāt be met with congratulations.
Heāll be met with policy delay, legal obstruction, and narrative warfare.Not from Labour.
From Whitehall.Because when the unelected decide theyāre the custodians of continuity, your vote becomes an inconvenienceānot a command.
This is what Trump is living.
This is whatās coming for Britain.The system isnāt collapsing. Itās consolidating.
And the only way out is through.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2050724/eu-refuses-migrant-data-sharing-deal-keir-starmer
āThis morning :āPresident Trump signed an executive order that asks pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily lower drug prices. But it was not clear what legal authority Mr. Trump would invoke, and he threatened to āuse the power of the federal governmentā if companies do not comply. The order was something of a win for the industry, which had been bracing for a much more aggressive policy.
As I predicted, this is basically a stunt to make it look like heās doing something about a campaign promise. Furthermore, Trump and Kennedy predictably lied about Biden who actually got something substantive done about it:
āBoth Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, have been falsely claiming that Democrats have done nothing about high drug prices. Democrats passed legislation to allow Congress to negotiate on the price of some drugs in Medicare during the Biden administration.
Right now heās playing Mr. Nice Guy with them. If they ignore it, itās going to get interesting.
ā¦just a hunch. (Mr. Putin might disagree.)