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El Presidente Trump

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    And then we have a woman saying she most certainly didn't let him do it, he just did it.

    any proof of this happening? a police report or court records perhaps?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Easy Rod wrote: »
    Ha, what a source. Jesus.

    Did you read it?

    I did and I'm glad I did. It's put to bed one of my bigger concerns about his character. I didn't know anything about that reported and his condition, I didn't know Trump was making flustered gestures, I was led to believe he was mocking someone with cerebral palsy. People have no integrity. They will twist anything to suit their agenda.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    The people weren't left with much choice, it would be very hard to vote for Clinton given what she represents. Unfortunately Trump was the alternative :( The Democrats f*cked up, Sanders was the candidate to go with.

    So now we have 4 years of reality TV/soap opera style politics. I'm not going to right him off just yet, some of his policies make sense and he won't get dictated by the establishment. I'm just hoping that a lot of his nonsense and drivel that he has been bellowing was to get the large uneducated vote and that that was all it was. One can only hope.


    He said it best himself nearly 20 years ago, and not much has changed since then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    Who said anything about how women should act?
    You did. You said she was an "absolutely awful example of one (a woman)". I'm just wondering how a person can be a good example of a woman. Rather than simply a good example of a person. That's all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭NUTLEY BOY


    The dynamic that will be of great spectator value will be to see how Trump deals with those Republican politicians who did not give him support or public backing.

    Some of those Republicans distanced themselves from Trump once the campaign going turned rough and nasty. I think that once some of them perceived that he might be an electoral liability they backed away in order to protect their own electoral ambitions.

    Trump seems to have won twice. He beat Clinton and the Democrats. He also seems to have handed out a good thrashing to elements of the Republican party.

    Also, I was amazed and impressed to see voters queuing in long lines to go out and vote. I only saw long lines of voters once in Dublin a few years ago. They were on Ailsebury Road waiting to get in to the Polish Embassy to cast votes for a presidential election !


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    And then we have a woman saying she most certainly didn't let him do it, he just did it.

    Apparently two of the three alleged victims on the planes have withdrawn their previous statement according to some US commentator this morning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Christy42 wrote: »

    FYI the case about the 13 year old was dropped due to death threats.

    How was she threatened if she had anonymity exactly? SHE said she was threatened, it doesn't make it true.

    Personally I think it was a pile of ****. Those DNC agents were hiring mentally ill people to go cause trouble at Trump rallies, who knows what else they were doing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭dav3


    Yes it did. Thats why Trump kept going on about the wall.

    No, it really didn't. Immigration came down the list of issues people had, with the economy coming way ahead of everything else. Similar to this country, similar to nearly every western country.

    The racists that were mobilised came from states that were guaranteed to vote republican anyway.

    The vote was won by white people, 'blue collar workers', without a college education around the swing states in the rust belt. Trump didn't win the youth vote, nor the educated vote, there is no new movement. These voters have always been there and the clinton campaign failed spectacularly in reaching out to them.

    A republican winning the presidential election is not that big of a shock. The americans voted in w.bush...twice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I'd be very anti-Trump but I'm not going to call the American public a bunch of thicks for voting him in. I'd like to know more about what's going on at ground level in America and how does the average person feel let down by the political system that made a candidate like Trump an attractive choice for President. Dismissing these people as morons and bemoaning them on facebook is nonsense.

    The fact that Republicans have carte blanche to do what they want now that they control all the houses and will be appointing a new supreme court judge to be the more worrying issue imo.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    I am laughing so much at how people compared him to Hitler, absolute idiots who just created a group for Trump who would never leave him no matter what he said. Questioning his voters morals.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    the meltdown from Anti-Trump people is halarious.

    it does look like the polls and public opinion that put Clinton into such a commanding lead, were actually including those who had no influence at all in the vote and werent allowed to vote.

    the majority of people who were against him, arent even America.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    jester77 wrote: »
    The people weren't left with much choice, it would be very hard to vote for Clinton given what she represents.

    Let me guess, the establishment? :rolleyes: Or is it emails? Or Wall Street?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Christy42 wrote: »
    They were never debunked. Trump said he would sue the times over it. They are still waiting on that order.

    Unfortunately these are things that happened a while ago and so we're never going to followed up in the courts unless Don himself challenged the claims.

    FYI the case about the 13 year old was dropped due to death threats. Funnily enough Donald hasn't thought to bring it up again and sue. Realistically on that one I don't know who is lying given it has never gone to a court case but many are happy to assume Donald gets the presumption of innocence which for some unknown reason does not get extended to any of the women in question.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    The thing is, Trump voters know full well that: -

    a. He will not build a huge wall
    b. He will not deport 11m Muslims
    c. He will not bring back jobs to the rust belt

    They just want a change from the status quo and Washington clique which Clinton represented.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    George Hook on a roll this morning. In fairness the only contrarian view on Irish radio during this election.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭testaccount123


    dav3 wrote: »
    No, it really didn't. Immigration came down the list of issues people had
    You'll be on here saying the same thing with the NF are elected in France. People like you are causing this surge in support for the far right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    I am laughing so much at how people compared him to Hitler, absolute idiots who just created a group for Trump who would never leave him no matter what he said. Questioning his voters morals.

    Hitler wrote a book on the covetous Jew and the corrupting influence of the Jew.

    Trump wrote a book on how to negotiate business deals.

    Clearly Trump is Hitler 2.


  • Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can't wait to see what south park do this week :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Can't wait to see what south park do this week :D

    Mr Garrison going nuts in the White House is going to be fùcking funny out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business, complicated. Thank you very much.




    I've just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us. It’s about us. On our victory, and I congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign.

    I mean, she fought very hard. Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.

    I mean that very sincerely. Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.

    It is time. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all of Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country. As I've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement, made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and for their family.

    It is a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds, and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will.

    Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the American dream. I've spent my entire life in business, looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world.

    That is now what I want to do for our country. Tremendous potential. I've gotten to know our country so well. Tremendous potential. It is going to be a beautiful thing. Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

    We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none, and we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. We will also finally take care of our great veterans who have been so loyal, and I've gotten to know so many over this 18-month journey.

    The time I've spent with them during this campaign has been among my greatest honors.

    Our veterans are incredible people. We will embark upon a project of national growth and renewal. I will harness the creative talents of our people, and we will call upon the best and brightest to leverage their tremendous talent for the benefit of all. It is going to happen. We have a great economic plan. We will double our growth and have the strongest economy anywhere in the world. At the same time, we will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will be. We will have great relationships. We expect to have great, great relationships. No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

    America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our country's destiny and dream big and bold and daring. We have to do that. We're going to dream of things for our country, and beautiful things and successful things once again.

    I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America's interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone, with everyone.

    All people and all other nations. We will seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict. And now I would like to take this moment to thank some of the people who really helped me with this, what they are calling tonight a very, very historic victory.

    First, I want to thank my parents, who I know are looking down on me right now. Great people. I've learned so much from them. They were wonderful in every regard. Truly great parents. I also want to thank my sisters, Marianne and Elizabeth, who are here with us tonight. Where are they? They're here someplace. They're very shy, actually.

    And my brother Robert, my great friend. Where is Robert? Where is Robert?

    My brother Robert, and they should be on this stage, but that's okay. They're great.

    And also my late brother Fred, great guy. Fantastic guy. Fantastic family. I was very lucky.

    Great brothers, sisters, great, unbelievable parents. To Melania and Don and Ivanka and Eric and Tiffany and Barron, I love you and I thank you, and especially for putting up with all of those hours. This was tough.

    This was tough. This political stuff is nasty, and it is tough. So I want to thank my family very much. Really fantastic. Thank you all. Thank you all. Lara, unbelievable job. Unbelievable. Vanessa, thank you. Thank you very much. What a great group.

    You've all given me such incredible support, and I will tell you that we have a large group of people. You know, they kept saying we have a small staff. Not so small. Look at all of the people that we have. Look at all of these people.

    And Kellyanne and Chris and Rudy and Steve and David. We have got tremendously talented people up here, and I want to tell you it's been very, very special.

    I want to give a very special thanks to our former mayor, Rudy Giuliani. He's unbelievable. Unbelievable. He traveled with us and he went through meetings, and Rudy never changes. Where is Rudy. Where is he?

    [Chanting "Rudy"]

    Gov. Chris Christie, folks, was unbelievable. Thank you, Chris. The first man, first senator, first major, major politician — let me tell you, he is highly respected in Washington because he is as smart as you get. Sen. Jeff Sessions. Where is Jeff? A great man. Another great man, very tough competitor. He was not easy. He was not easy. Who is that? Is that the mayor that showed up? Is that Rudy?

    Up here. Really a friend to me, but I'll tell you, I got to know him as a competitor because he was one of the folks that was negotiating to go against those Democrats, Dr. Ben Carson. Where's been? Where is Ben? By the way, Mike Huckabee is here someplace, and he is fantastic. Mike and his familiar bring Sarah, thank you very much. Gen. Mike Flynn. Where is Mike? And Gen. Kellogg. We have over 200 generals and admirals that have endorsed our campaign and there are special people.

    We have 22 Congressional Medal of Honor people. A very special person who, believe me, I read reports that I wasn't getting along with him. I never had a bad second with him. He's an unbelievable star. He is — that's right, how did you possibly guess? Let me tell you about Reince. I've said Reince. I know it. I know it. Look at all of those people over there. I know it, Reince is a superstar. I said, they can't call you a superstar, Reince, unless we win it. Like Secretariat. He would not have that bust at the track at Belmont.

    Reince is really a star and he is the hardest-working guy, and in a certain way I did this. Reince, come up here. Get over here, Reince.

    Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. It's about time you did this right. My god. Nah, come here. Say something.

    [Reince Priebus: Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the united States, Donald Trump! Thank you. It's been an honor. God bless. Thank God.]

    Amazing guy. Our partnership with the RNC was so important to the success and what we've done, so I also have to say, I've gotten to know some incredible people.

    The Secret Service people. They're tough and they're smart and they're sharp and I don't want to mess around with them, I can tell ya. And when I want to go and wave to a big group of people and they rip me down and put me back down in the seat, but they are fantastic people so I want to thank the Secret Service.

    And law enforcement in New York City, they're here tonight. These are spectacular people, sometimes under appreciated unfortunately. We appreciate them. So it's been what they call an historic event, but to be really historic, we have to do a great job, and I promise you that I will not let you down. We will do a great job. We will do a great job. I look very much forward to being your president, and hopefully at the end of two years or three years or four years or maybe even eight years you will say so many of you worked so hard for us, with you. You will say that — you will say that that was something that you were — really were very proud to do and I can — thank you very much.

    And I can only say that while the campaign is over, our work on this movement is now really just beginning. We're going to get to work immediately for the American people, and we're going to be doing a job that hopefully you will be so proud of your president. You will be so proud. Again, it's my honor.

    It's an amazing evening. It's been an amazing two-year period, and I love this country. Thank you.

    Thank you very much. Thank you to Mike Pence.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    The problem is that, many women, including myself, did not like Hillary Clinton either.

    It was who is the lesser evil of two awful candidates.

    They are both terrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭Easy Rod


    So you've never sat around with some friends drinking beer and said something about a Woman in your entire life?

    Or Women after some Wine don't joke about Men they know?

    Let's be real.

    I'm starting a petition for your excellent username to be removed from you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,962 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    I'd be very anti-Trump but I'm not going to call the American public a bunch of thicks for voting him in. I'd like to know more about what's going on at ground level in America and how does the average person feel let down by the political system that made a candidate like Trump an attractive choice for President. Dismissing these people as morons and bemoaning them on facebook is nonsense.


    I personally like listening to alternative American radio stations like prn.fm and Kpfa.org, to get a feel for what's going on there. Some really good shows there and presenters


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You did. You said she was an "absolutely awful example of one (a woman)". I'm just wondering how a person can be a good example of a woman. Rather than simply a good example of a person. That's all.
    By being a good person?

    This is the exact baseless horseshlt that got him elected. You're trying to make something out of nothing and it's so obvious. I'm glad you're so butthurt you have to make up allegations of sexism to try and win this argument.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    The thing is, Trump voters know full well that: -

    a. He will not build a huge wall
    b. He will not deport 11m Muslims
    c. He will not bring back jobs to the rust belt

    They just want a change from the status quo and Washington clique which Clinton represented.

    yes , but then whats the point


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    RE the mocking a reporter's disability: We saw it live on ****ing stage. Don't try to rewrite the past, it bloody well happened!

    Yes, it's unbelievable. Yes, it's ridiculous. Yes, it's a thing that we all saw.

    I've only seen those videos in the link just posted. How did what you saw differ from what's shown and clarified in those ones?

    They also show him in another address, making the same motions when talking about an isis commander, with no disabilities. It genuinely seems to be a habit of his.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Meh, America was faced with Hobsons choice in many ways, two thoroughly disreputable candidates in many ways who each did their best to drive the other even further down. Couple that with a polarised media who happily played along.

    In one corner a "misogynist, racist liar". In the other corner a "misandrist, elitist liar"

    Quite understandably US voters looked to who from this bad lot might at least represent their concerns. It speaks volumes for the Democrats and Clintons campaign thay US voters felt a billionaire reality star connected more with their concerns.

    For what its worth, im not sure this will be the apocalype some are predicting. The US president has surprisingly limited ability to act in isolation. I think he may well end up being a bit of a Ronald Reagan type of president. Not a completely good thing by any means but equally not a disaster.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Ho. Lee. Shit. There actually is an English word for schadenfreude. Stunned. :eek:

    I'm pretty sure we're going to need a whole new dictionary over the next few years


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    So weren't there tonnes of Hollywood luvvies who said they'd leave the country if Herr Drumpf got elected? I doubt even one of them will. Just shows how shallow these celebrity endorsements were for Hilary.


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