What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[viper37]

The over sensitivity and insanity of the outrage machine is ridiculous.

They're snowflakes.

[viper37]

I find it strange, weird and disturbing that an elected leader is officially rating half-time shows and officially disparages an athlete from one's own country that has won Olympic gold. Particularly when said elected leader's brain consists of gold and hamberder.

Well, you haven't read his latest rant about the Gordie Howe bridge between Ontario (Canada) and Michigan (US).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-9.7081924

[Syt]

Approval ratings for Trump and Putin in Europe per Gallup poll:

[Valmy]

It is funny since Kosovo was one of the countries Trump inexplicably banned from being able to immigrate to the United States.

[Maladict]

From the people I talked to while in Kosovo last year, they are not necessarily pro-Trump, but they are still very much pro-USA.

[celedhring]

From the people I talked to while in Kosovo last year, they are not necessarily pro-Trump, but they are still very much pro-USA.

Yeah, for the same reason I'm surprised by the Ukraine result. Not that they would like him, given his dubious stewardship of US support, just not 49 points underwater.

[Norgy]

Noldova seems a good place to visit. Right next to Gondor and Redania.

[grumbler]

It is funny since Kosovo was one of the countries Trump inexplicably banned from being able to immigrate to the United States.

But they are grateful that Trump ended the war between Kosovo and Wakanda.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The Serbs do like their genocidal russian maniacs though. When will they learn that Russians are useless to them.

[The Minsky Moment]

The affidavit supporting the Fulton County ballot seizure has been unsealed. 

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26927576-fulton-county-affidavit/

The affidavit states that the investigation is based on a referral from Kurt Olsen, Trump's "Director of Election Security and Integrity." Olsen was a private lawyer for the Trump campaign in 2020, and was sanctioned for submitting false allegations to a federal court in Arizona.

The affidavit states that the investigation is seeking evidence of possible election law violations that took place in 2020, pursuant to 52 USC 20511 and 20711. However, a five-year statute of limitations applies to those statutes, so that even if a violation occurred, no crime could be charged.

The core claim of the affidavit is that the allegation that Fulton County didn't retain all the electronic ballot images of the paper ballots. My understanding is that Fulton County has never contested this.  There was no legal requirement to retain the images, as the County (and the entire state) uses paper ballots and the paper ballots were retained (and were counted three times in 2020).

The conduct alleged, if proven, would not violate 52 USC 20511 and 20711, and even if a violation could be proven, it couldn't be charged in 2026. The referring official was sanctioned for dishonesty in connection with similar matters that are the subject of the purported investigation.  This warrant should never have been signed.

[Jacob]

I'm beginning to give credence to the notion that Trump is facing his own mortality as evidenced by his desire to put his name on every damn thing.

I wonder if he's going to survive his term?

[mongers]

I'm beginning to give credence to the notion that Trump is facing his own mortality as evidenced by his desire to put his name on every damn thing.

I wonder if he's going to survive his term?

Wishful thinking; my prediction he'll still be in you headspace 3 years hence.

[HVC]

I'm beginning to give credence to the notion that Trump is facing his own mortality as evidenced by his desire to put his name on every damn thing.

I wonder if he's going to survive his term?

I don't know, he's loved putting his name on things for decades. Trump towers, Trump Casinos, hell even Trump schools and steaks. Narcissists gonna narcissist.

[Syt]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no

Dad shot daughter after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard.

Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in Prosper, near Dallas.

Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old's death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.

An inquest into Lucy Harrison's death opened earlier at Cheshire Coroner's Court, where her boyfriend Sam Littler described the "big argument" about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office.

Littler, who travelled to the US with Lucy Harrison for the holiday, said she would often become upset with her father when he spoke about owning a gun.

The inquest also heard how Kris Harrison, who moved to the United States when his daughter was a child, had previously been to rehab for alcohol addiction.

Kris Harrison, who did not attend the inquest, admitted in a statement sent to the court that he had relapsed on the day of the shooting and had drunk about 500ml of white wine.

Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner had asked her father during the Trump row: "How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?"

Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much.

Littler said Lucy became "quite upset" and ran upstairs.

He told the court that later that day, about half an hour before they were due to leave to go to the airport, Lucy had been in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom.

Littler said he heard a loud bang about 15 seconds later and then Kris Harrison screamed for his wife, Heather.

Littler said: "I remember running into the room and Lucy was lying on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom and Kris was just screaming, just sort of nonsense."

The statement from Kris Harrison said he and his daughter had been watching a news item on gun crime when he told her he had a gun and asked her if she wanted to see it.

They went into the bedroom so he could show her a Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun which he kept in the bedside cabinet.

Harrison said he had bought the gun a couple of years before because he wanted a "sense of security" for his family.

He denied ever discussing it with his daughter before.

He said: "As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell."

Harrison said he could not recall whether his finger was on the trigger.

He acknowledged he had issues with alcohol in the past and said he "briefly lapsed" on the day of his daughter's death because he was emotional about her leaving.

The inquest heard police officer Luciana Escalera, whose evidence was read, noticed the smell of alcohol on Harrison's breath when he was called to the house after the shooting.

CCTV footage showed he had bought two 500ml cartons of Chardonnay from a 7-Eleven store shortly before 13:00 CST (05:00 GMT) that day.

Ana Samuel, representing Kris Harrison, made an application at the start of the hearing for coroner Jacqueline Devonish to recuse herself from the case, saying a fair-minded observer may conclude there was a "real possibility she was biased".

She said the inquest had been conducted "in a manner more akin to a criminal investigation than a fact-finding inquiry".

Lois Norris, representing Lucy Harrison's mother Jane Coates, said the application was an "ambush by Mr Harrison's legal team".

She said Kris Harrison was the "person in the room who shot Ms Harrison" and the only person in the room when it happened.

Devonish refused the application to recuse herself.

In a statement issued by his solicitors, Kris Harrison said he "fully accepted" the consequences of his actions.

"There isn't a day I don't feel the weight of that loss, a weight I will carry for the rest of my life," he said.

Coates said her daughter, who worked as a buyer for fashion brand Boohoo, was a "real force of life".

She said: "She cared. She was passionate about things. She loved to have debates about things that meant a lot to her."

The inquest was adjourned until Wednesday, when the coroner is expected to deliver her conclusions.

[grumbler]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no

Dad shot daughter after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

(snip)

An example of the actual Trump Derangement Syndrome?