Quote from: Abiky on June 12, 2024, 01:52:52 PM

Politicians are politicians. They usually lie just to get what they want. Would you imagine Trump not keeping his promises after being elected? Just like Javier Milei once he rose all the way to power. He forgot about abolishing the central bank and replacing the Argentine Peso with the USD or BTC. The same could happen with Donald Trump.

Exactly. And that's the flaw with democracy. Majority of the population are easily fooled by pretty words and vote for the one saying them. Then they forget those promises very easily as well! Today nobody really remembers what promises Trump gave in 2016 and how many of them he had broken by 2021.
This is also why people in Argentina are experiencing 270% inflation.

Quote from: temple on June 13, 2024, 12:30:46 PM

This is what I was just recently asked and I wasn't sure whether he could pardon himself. Can he literally do that or would he need some kind of majority vote from anyone, the congress I guess? Can he just take pen and paper and free himself of any convictions and sentences? It's absurd.

Technically Federal Crimes can be pardoned by the president without needing anyone else. For example Biden as the president in office can pardon Ulbricht who is someone convicted of Federal Crimes.
However, it is unprecedented for a US president in office to be convicted of such crimes himself to be needing a pardon from himself! So it's like a special case that the legal experts have to discuss when the time comes! AFAICT the law allows it.

Quote from: temple on June 13, 2024, 12:30:46 PM

What's your guess, will he win it? Or is this rather a 50/50 unpredictable thing? I have this feeling that this guy has some aces of all sorts up his sleeves.

It's unpredictable.
On paper neither of them should even run for presidency because neither are suitable. Both of them are extremely old and incompetent.

So when the choice is between bad and worse you gotta see who is worse, and Biden as the president in office has been messing things up a lot and Trump as someone who hasn't been in office (in past 4 years) can criticize it easily saying he'll do better while people don't even remember the mess he left America with 4 years ago when he left office Cheesy

For example one major thing is the two large conflicts (in Ukraine and Palestine) that has also affected US economy. Biden has been performing terribly there which is what Trump is using very well in his own favor. He simply lies to people that if he wins he'll end them quickly. Obviously the weary people who see Biden's failure, begin preferring that lie!!
It's unpredictable because although some are speculating that things could end in summer but for now the conflict is expanding (eg. Zionists are planning to attack Lebanon, and Russia just placed its nukes close to US mainland in Cuba).