Donald Trump the Megathread part II

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596188#Comment_123596188

Do they? It's always the same tedious fawning over the orange degenerate. Nothing new or interesting is ever offered.

Glencarraig

De Santis can hardly speak with all the brown stuff covering his nose and mouth in the presser with Donny Plump and Kirsty Gnome.

AbusesToilets

My only hope is that these ghouls are so gleeful in being openly cruel, when the wheels come off and they lose power, that they won't be able to escape accountability for their actions.

If they lose power.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596246#Comment_123596246

Not quite apples and apples but the 2010-2015 government here in the UK implemented austerity measures linked to almost 200,000 excess deaths (Source). Not only was nobody ever held accountable but David Cameron was ennobled and Nick Clegg is now one of the most powerful people in big tech.

I wouldn't be holding my breath in other words.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596107#Comment_123596107

Eau d'aiper

My name is URL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596214#Comment_123596214

I may have said 'listen' instead of 'hear'. Either way responding is like shouting into a toilet bowl

everlast75

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596036#Comment_123596036

I did. I saw the bit where you said

"And I don't wish any ill will towards Musk right now".

And my reply is that he's a scumbag and I do wish him every misfortune in life from that point on.

If he manages to take Trump down a peg or two fine, but he's still a scumbag who deserves disdain.

yagan

Sorry about the size but a rejoiner to an earlier comment about how bad the stock market is doing when valued in other currencies.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123593344#Comment_123593344

If he loved amphetamines he'd probably only sleep every second day

Economics101

Just another day in Trumpworld: first a racist zenophobic reaction to a recent New York Primary:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/trump-zohran-mamdani-citizenship

Second, Trump inspecting a facility of immigrant dewtainees in Florida, evidently relishing in cruelty:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/politics/alligator-alcatraz-trump-florida

looksee

Aligator Alcatraz - from the link above:

CNN reported in June that less than 10% of migrants booked into ICE custody since October were convicted of serious crimes like murder, assault, rape or robbery. More than 75% had no conviction other than an immigration or traffic-related offense, according to ICE data from October through the end of May.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596436#Comment_123596436

Trump inspecting a facility of immigrant dewtainees in Florida

Wow he's really going old-school right-wing there. Plenty of 'dews' in Florida who originally came from elsewhere in fairness…

aloyisious

So Vance had to use his casting vote to get the bill over the line for a return trip to the House. It seems to have been a close call but I expected the GOP cast to give Trump what he asked for even though it caused changes to the bill since it moved from the House to the Senate. Excellent staged performance. I expect there will be more changes to the minutiae of the bill, as Vance put it.

It's now up to those who'll suffer from the cuts who should apply the whip to the backs of the Senate and House GOP members: dig, baby, dig, when the GOP script gets the bill over the House line after a fine performance of members "reluctantly" changing their voting positions.

Economics101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596473#Comment_123596473

Sorry, it was just a typo on my part.😁 You can blame it on my outrage at this obscene policy.

aloyisious

The Trump performance on Truth Social should be good for the next week with the EU trade negotiators meeting him today and Netanyahu meeting him on Monday.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596479#Comment_123596479

Very few people have read the full bill the guts of a thousand pages of legalese. There's a lot hidden extras. It's not just a tax break for the very rich funded by the very poor.

At least the 10 year moratorium on states regulating AI was blocked.

Notably, Senate negotiations reduced the proposed moratorium from 10 years to five, and added exceptions for state rules that protect kids and copyrights, so long as the rules do not “unduly or disproportionately burden” AI systems and models.

So not blocked and no doubt the AI companies will ignore this until prosecuted and will drag their heels in court over and over again.

Section 70302 of the legislation— would severely restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt if they violate judicial orders. This will embolden "government officials" in spite of 170 rulings against this government.

But don't worry - the reconciliation bill would require anyone suing the government to pay a bond before the court can use its contempt power to enforce injunctions or restraining orders meant to halt illegal actions. Rich people won't be affected

Frank Bullitt

The poor idiots who voted for him…leopards are gonna be eating well.

extra gravy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596329#Comment_123596329

The Lancet did an article projecting the effects of defunding USAID:

"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."

Scumbag is too polite a word for the murdering Nazi.

Apple Dumpling

At this stage America and the American citizens deserve everything they get from Trump and his puppet master billionaire buddies. They the American voters had their chance to stand up but the large majority sat back when Biden got elected and said they did their job then. That was when Trump and and his puppet masters really started their job.

technocrat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596576#Comment_123596576

Delighted for them hope they get squeezed now till the pips squeak !

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596576#Comment_123596576

They wholly deserve it. All those lies about taking care of their own people first are well and truly debunked at this point.

aloyisious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123594142#Comment_123594142

Apparently the site has/is a landing strip, useful if you're transporting prisoners by air. As for the site, I can guess spreading the rumour that it's surrounded by alligators would have an effect on future inmates, as in: bef***ed if I'm going to be eaten by them, I'll be a good inmate.

It would put a different slant on Trumps (they're eating the….) quote, thought Ron DeSantis might not appreciate the electoral effect if it turned out the locals wildlife were doing that.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596436#Comment_123596436

He’s a fascist pig - there’s no other word for him - stick a semi-tash on him and he’s American Hitler 2025- this time the Jews get a reprieve (while it suits him)- the Jews have been replaced with pretty much every other ethnic minority - that’s the only difference between Trump and Hitler - I’m surprised he hasn’t proposed feeding the illegal imigrants to the alligators of Florida at this point on a pay per view channel and make some money out of it - but I wouldn’t put it past him to propose that sometime soon

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596710#Comment_123596710

Not just a landing strip, a 3200 metre runway with ILS, full taxiway system and an apron big enough to handle 747s. The site, Dade-Collier Training Airport, was originally aimed to be the first component of the planned Everglades Jetport, a massive airport up to five times larger than JFK and designed from the start to house the US Boeing 2707 supersonic airliner. When the 2707 project was cancelled, the whole airport project collapsed, leaving only the rump facility there today. I presume that the site was chosen specifically for the availability of that large runway. It’s remote and thus ideally suited for deporting people without scrutiny.

Ash.J.Williams

Wonder what vance made of all the free speech at Glastonbury at the weekend 😀

blackcard

Trump has stated today that the price of gasoline is less than 2 dollars per gallon in 5 states. No state has an average price of less than 2 dollars 75 cent. Trump stated that the price per gallon in California was 7 dollars 70 cent.

Everyone knows he is blatantly lying, no one challenges him. Bizarre

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596759#Comment_123596759

I'd say the exercise of said right at Glastonbury 2022 got his goat more

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/billie-eilish-glastonbury-abortion-supreme-court-b2109293.html

dogbert27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596772#Comment_123596772

That's what I really don't get with the reporters in the room. Just someone please shout "BULLSXXT" at the top of their lungs.

But they're afraid they'll never get back in the press room so they all keep their mouths shut and listen to the crazy and then afterwards go back to their echo chambers like CNN and NBC and talk about how stupid Trump is.

dogbert27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123596329#Comment_123596329

I think eagle eye is saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

It's funny to see the two MAGA Daddy's fighting again.

Won't they please think of their MAGA babies!!

nachouser

"Deputy State Secretary Christopher Landau confirmed Monday that the State Department had revoked U.S. visas for members of the band Bob Vylan over comments the group made at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts."

Free speech, yo.