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El Presidente Trump

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  • #1592
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Are these protests just a reactionary passing phase?

    It only lists "100s" of people protesting in various states, not 1000s

    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/us-election-2016/trump-is-not-my-president-windows-smashed-bins-on-fire-as-donald-trump-victory-sparks-protests-in-several-states-35203263.html


  • #1593
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    One thing is for sure the way America treats its war veterans is appalling. Literally living on the sides of the road in deserted rusty old towns. Trump had promised them the earth moon and stars if he got elected let's hope he commits


  • #1594
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Ah, the dead zone, that was a good film.

    I do wonder what way this will work out in regards to Trumps 15% corporate tax and 10% for companies that move back to the states, I'm sure it is enticing for some. Will have to wait and see if he actually does lower it.


  • #1595
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,816 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    G1032 wrote: »
    It'd take a fair few rogue electors so to vote Hillary in but technically possible?

    Technically, yes.

    Not in any other way though. Faithless electors are few and far between and have never changed the outcome of an election.


  • #1596
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    mikeym wrote: »
    Watching Fox News just now and the news presenters are feeling ecstatic.

    When a Democrat is in charge he gets constantly get slated by Fox News.

    When a Republican is in charge he gets no criticism from Fox News.

    Fox News is a toxic biased news station.

    In fairness CNN is the exact same towards the Democrats.

    Watching Wolf Blitzer last night was embarrassing.


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  • #1597
    beach_walker
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 976 ✭✭✭beach_walker


    Christy42 wrote: »
    Yeah stopping someone getting on the late late is really stopping free speech.

    ...Did I say that?
    People are free to complain how their taxes are spent. Not everyone can get on TV and so cuts have to be made and her career is passing people off and saying dumb things. Nothing special.

    Yeah right on. Lemme guess you were totally on board with Iona complaining about the "homophobic" accusations on RTE and getting their pay-out. I mean they were totally entitled because of their taxes spent right? Giving a career platform to "celebs" such as (business man) Rory o'Neil on the basis of saying dumb things is wrong, right?

    Oh.


  • #1598
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    anna080 wrote: »
    One thing is for sure the way America treats its ex war veterans is appealing. Literally living on the sides of the road in deserted rusty old towns. Trump had promised them the earth moon and stars if he got elected

    agree there, they've really been let down by the last few governments! its maddening to see the amount of homeless disabled vets they have, just cast out and forgotten about!


  • #1599
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    anna080 wrote: »
    Odds on him making it through his presidency without being assassinated? The secret service have their work cut out for them

    The exact same thing was said about Obama when he was first elected :rolleyes:


  • #1600
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    I blame the Democrats. They've consistently sold-out the American people for years now and they're reaping what they've sown. Trump's promises to 'drain the swamp' must be music to the ears of a large tranche of voters.

    The DNC anointing Hillary as president-elect was just another example of thier arrogance in pushing forward 'one of their own', a cog in business-as-usual machine.


  • #1601
    beach_walker
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 976 ✭✭✭beach_walker


    Venom wrote: »
    The exact same thing was said about Obama when he was first elected :rolleyes:

    I think lots of them are too young to remember. And indeed of GWB in this second term. I guess the youngins have to find these things as they come in cycles.


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  • #1602
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Depp wrote: »
    anna080 wrote: »
    One thing is for sure the way America treats its ex war veterans is appealing. Literally living on the sides of the road in deserted rusty old towns. Trump had promised them the earth moon and stars if he got elected

    agree there, they've really been let down by the last few governments! its maddening to see the amount of homeless disabled vets they have, just cast out and forgotten about!
    Trump won't change that.

    Ask McCain how he treats vets.


  • #1603
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Venom wrote: »
    The exact same thing was said about Obama when he was first elected :rolleyes:

    I don't remember this much anger and mass hysteria around Obama's election though


  • #1604
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    I see the markets where up in both the US and Europe at the closing bell.

    He's already having a positive impact.


  • #1605
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    I read one of that crowd earlier today say the election result made them feel the same way they did when the first plane hit the twin towers. You couldn't make it up. They are a parody of themselves at this stage. Most of them have spent the guts of two decades manipulating certain sections of society into seeing them as a victims and into seeing their 'issues' as being hugely important, when in reality, they are not and so when someone like Trump wins (who is pretty much the antithesis of everything they believe in and stand for) it blows their mind as they have had their fingers in their ears the whole damn time. Their facebook and twitter likes is what they have come to use as a barometer for whether they are wrongheaded or not. If an opinion wasn't expressed in their echo chamber and then back slapped by their followers / friends .. then they see it as beneath them to even acknowledge it with anything more than a sneer.

    These people don't just disagree with those that voted for Trump, they arrogantly don't even feel their views should be allowed to be aired. Look at how many Trump rallies were protested over the past year and how safe spaces were demanded when anyone was to lecture at college campuses that had a pro-Trump message. Milo Yiannopoulos (the most prolific of those perhaps) ended up kicked off Twitter for his support of Trump. Anyone who thinks the Leslie Jones debacle was what was the reasoning for that, wasn't really paying attention. They just used that as a stick to beat him with.

    Even now, even after Brexit and Trump winning these people are still trying to control the narrative by attempted to police what is allowed to be said on our airwaves, as I see that tonight there a campaign has been started to remove Katie Hopkins from this weekend's Late Late Show guest list. Don't have much time for her myself (an annoying bint at the best of times) but why are these people so intent on silencing opposing opinions. Surely someone like Hopkins hangs herself with her own words. From memory the last time she was here she made a show of herself and wasn't even applauded as she left.


    https://twitter.com/SiobhanFeely/status/796466043732586496

    https://twitter.com/nigelmconnor/status/796437910983757824

    https://twitter.com/griffski/status/796453688575401984


    You would hope (naively perhaps) that the liberal left would start to examine the way in which they conduct themselves. How many more election results flying in the face of their self indulgent pompous narratives will it take before they begin to wonder if maybe it's at all possible that someone outside their echo chamber could be right about something? Or is it much too late for that. Perhaps so as these people are no spring chickens, even if they behave so.

    Normally wouldn't watch the LLS but I just might this week to see what all the bruhaha is about.


  • #1606
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    anna080 wrote: »
    I don't remember this much anger and mass hysteria around Obama's election though

    It was there but the media didn't really cover it.


  • #1607
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anna080 wrote: »
    One thing is for sure the way America treats its ex war veterans is appalling. Literally living on the sides of the road in deserted rusty old towns. Trump had promised them the earth moon and stars if he got elected

    He promised a lot to a lot of people. Unlike a politician, there will be a lot of pressure on him to deliver to all the people he appealed to throughout the election. He made himself out to be "different"- a step above the ordinary politition. if he starts to complain now about a "corrupt System" getting in his way, he'll be found out very quickly. Pressure is on him now.


  • #1608
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I blame the Democrats. They've consistently sold-out the American people for years now and they're reaping what they've sewn. Trump's promises to 'drain the swamp' must be music to the ears of a large tranche of voters.

    The DMC anointing Hillary as president-elect was just another example of thier arrogance in pushing forward 'one of their own', a cog in business-as-usual machine.

    In hindsight I think they should have went Sanders instead of 'one of their own'

    The people wanted something different to the traditional Democrat or Republican candidate.

    Trump proved it.


  • #1609
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    anna080 wrote: »
    Odds on him making it through his presidency without being assassinated? The secret service have their work cut out for them

    The odds on him getting through his presidency without ending up in prison is the more likely scenario. The Trump University Fraud trial kicks off soon, then there's the dodgy Trump Foundation and I am sure the Democrats will be digging up every single bit of dirt they can find.

    It's more likely to be President Pence in six months time.


  • #1610
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    I see that the whingers of Clintons army are out now smashing the place to pieces over their Clinton loss, with no respect for the democratic decision.

    Fact: more US voters voted for Clinton than voted for Trump. Trump only won because of the distortion of that democratic choice that is the Electoral College. Supposedly "unpopular" Hillary Clinton won more of the popular vote than did Donald Trump. /end fact.


  • #1611
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I blame the Democrats. They've consistently sold-out the American people for years now and they're reaping what they've sewn. Trump's promises to 'drain the swamp' must be music to the ears of a large tranche of voters.

    The DMC anointing Hillary as president-elect was just another example of thier arrogance in pushing forward 'one of their own', a cog in business-as-usual machine.

    I feel really bad for Bernie Sanders. He would probably have won if they had ran him instead of Hillary, he'll be too old next time.


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  • #1612
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    anna080 wrote: »
    Odds on him making it through his presidency without being assassinated? The secret service have their work cut out for them

    That is a coincidence, I was just thinking of this earlier today, that he might need some serious extra protection as the amount of weirdo's out there now full of hate could be capable of an assassination attempt. Poor fuddled uneducated idiots that would be a threat to him and democracy. I think the man-haters feminists are the main threat. Some nut-balls out there indeed.


  • #1613
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,933 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Curious as to who the disenfranchised are going to turn to when they realise that trumps plans will simply make the rich richer and stuff like the mexican wall are all a fantasy.

    Only way trump can keep the ship upright once all this stuff eventually filters out is to continue blaming minorities and other scapegoats.


  • #1614
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    People here voted Finna Fail and Finna Lies back into power so how anyone can sit here and say Americans are stupid is beyond me


  • #1615
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Deleted User wrote: »
    He promised a lot to a lot of people. Unlike a politician, there will be a lot of pressure on him to deliver to all the people he appealed to throughout the election. He made himself out to be "different"- a step above the ordinary politition. if he starts to complain now about a "corrupt System" getting in his way, he'll be found out very quickly. Pressure is on him now.

    hopefully he will be pressured into getting something done, anyone who serves in the military should be given full health insurance disabled or not...and not the va bs either access to proper hospitals and treatments especially on the mental health side of things...the suicide rates in the military are a stain on the usa and nothing is being done about it


  • #1616
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    anna080 wrote: »
    I don't remember this much anger and mass hysteria around Obama's election though

    That's because most American's are not the racist, sexist, homophobic and redneck retards the media likes to portray Trump supporters are and also back then, the SJW crybaby crybully tossing their toys out of the pram movement, wasn't a thing unlike now and as can be seen with the Brexit results.


  • #1617
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,774 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Cory Booker for 2020?


  • #1618
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,233 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Well at least Trump is not a shape shifting reptile.


  • #1619
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's all downhill for Trump from here. All those inevitably broken promises are going to lead to much disillusion with him from the alienated fringes that voted for him.

    He should be afraid of the reaction of at least some of these people when it dawns on them that Trump, too, is a fraud. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

    It's far too early to even say that. It's quite possible he will follow through on his promises, give it time.


  • #1620
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,444 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Can't wait to see how he balances all these tax cuts with his massive infrastructure spending proposals or how he will get Mexico to pay for his ludicrous wall. Prepare for a massive ballooning budget deficit.


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  • #1621
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Can't wait to see how he balances all these tax cuts with his massive infrastructure spending proposals or how he will get Mexico to pay for his ludicrous wall. Prepare for a massive ballooning budget deficit.

    Trump doesnt care about deficits. Or taxes.


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