In case anyone is interested in breaking news in America...

It surprised me too - there's a lot of factors in play, eg easier to get caught these day with stuff on camera, and young people going out less. If you're not going out in big groups of mates, less drinking, less likelihood of fights breaking out etc. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent in the UK but maybe that's because we don't have the same degree of prison as a profit industry, so we didn't have such a disproportionate rate of jailing people 30-40 years ago.

Most people on here are British. We think all of your politicians are a shower of shite. Slagging off Joe Biden isn’t the burn you seem to think it is, most of us probably agree.

Agreed

It's quite concerning, in the context of this regime, that prison numbers in the US are falling considerably - apparently younger people just aren't being arrested at anything like the rate of young people in previous decades so as older prisoners die or are released there's no one coming in. And prisons are Big Business in America.

I can see prison management companies complaining to this government they haven't got enough prisoners, so they need there to be more crimes and this lot would happily wave through prison for homlessness, protesting, criticising the government, made-up 'racism' against white people - anything they like basically. It's a bad combo.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5452417/lower-crime-and-birth-rates-mean-americas-prisons-are-emptying-out

Question is what will we do if he sends his troops into Greenland....what then.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/europe/denmark-summons-us-envoy-greenland-intl

Absolutely. He literally called himself a dictator.

He has no respect whatsoever for law and is perfectly comfortable with disorder when it's his own supporters breaking into the US Capitol, beating police and security officers, and holding Nazi-inspired torchlight rallies.

This is a dress rehearsal for a military takeover of Washington DC in order to prevent a Democratic Congress and Senate from being sworn in after the 2026 midterms, or the seating of a Democratic president in January 2029.

The threatened calling in of the Natiinal Guard to Chicago is a smokescreen and an effort to throw mud at Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been a vocal opponent of trump (and also Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson who represents verything trump hates). His main aim here is to see how easy it would be to take over DC.

Something is happening you can see it already. Universities are being ordered to curtail free speech, people visiting America are having there face book accounts scrutinized....it's very ugly to watch.

I can totally forsee the GOP regime next year going 'Ohhh no, we can't have midterms, there's a National Emergency we've been fabricating for the last year, look at all these troops we've had to put on the streets'

It's bluntly obvious he's no intention of stepping aside after his term. Plunging ratings approaching mid terms all this stuff that is happening is an attempt to rig the election. Masked ICE operations taking people from the streets and the threat of these operatives guarding polling stations will scare many from voting. Threatening to redraw state lines....again manipulation of an election.

Here is the thing he needs to refinance 3 trillion dollars worth of debt by December but with interest rates at 4.5% he can't do it. Inflation is now rampant and jobless totals are rising while is popularity is plunging....his answer arrests for staff at the federal reserve. He wants to control the interest rates....which is spooking bond investments.

Something is about to happen and it isn't going to be good.

He's a champion of law and order, except when he pardons convicted criminals:
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-donald-trump-pardons-second-term-2077874

Yet, using the flag as a weapon on January 6th to assault law enforcement officers was A-OK.

So much for the champion of free speech. It's going to be a crime to mess with the American flag. He also wants to increase the amount of people executed by the state.

I saw something the other day that said If we deported MAGA men age 18 to 50, and replaced them with immigrants, the violent crime rate would drop 76%.

Not to mention
By the numbers: Eight of the top 10 cities with the highest murder rates and populations of at least 100,000 were in red states — Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Louisiana.

So if Trump is doing this to fix the crime epidemic, why isn't he targeting the red states first??

The reason why Trump admires the war criminal and dictator Putin is that he envies the total control that Putin has. He would love to be in similar position where every order, threat and ultimatum he issues has to be obeyed.

He would love to have the same " free" elections that Putin holds where he apparently wins 95% of the vote. He also wants to treat his enemies the way Putin does, with utter contempt.

History will look back at this shameful episode in US politics and wonder just what the hell was going on.

Trump serves and cares for no one but his own huge ego.