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El Presidente Trump

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  • #2252
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Water John wrote: »
    I think Laois Man, the truth of what you write is dawning on him already.

    Richard Osman predicted last night that he won't last four years. He'll be pissed off after 2.

    That's something that caught my attention in Trump's victory speech. He said he's here for the next 2 years or 3 years or 4 years or maybe even 8 years. Seemed a bizzare thing to say and I'm very surprised there hasn't been more commentary on it.


  • #2253
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    I read today that some f*ckers in Sligo are already working on inviting the Vice, Mr Pence over, because he has some ancestry from there. Why do you do this? It's so pathetic.


  • #2254
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    You know, they still could put Hillary in if they badly enough wanted to. The electoral college votes on Dec19th, and it was the Republicans who actually united as candidates in a campaign against Trump, so it wouldn't be impossible that they simply give their vote to Hillary, to keep the status quo.

    It's extremely unlikely, given the ****storm that will result, particularly given people's tantrums on the streets lately, but it's not impossible....
    Keep in mind, Trump has court cases coming too, one over the University and one much more serious allegation of rape of a 13 year old in 94.

    Worth bearing in mind.


  • #2255
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Water John wrote: »
    I think Laois Man, the truth of what you write is dawning on him already.

    Richard Osman predicted last night that he won't last four years. He'll be pissed off after 2.

    Wrong on Clinton. she is quite religous, Methodist, according to her biographer.




    That's something that caught my attention in Trump's victory speech. He said he's here for the next 2 years or 3 years or 4 years or maybe even 8 years. Seemed a bizzare thing to say and I'm very surprised there hasn't been more commentary on it.


  • #2256
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,838 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    That University thing, could work out quite dodgy for him.
    I think the word, fraud, may get mentioned a number of times.


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  • #2257
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    You know, they still could put Hillary in if they badly enough wanted to. The electoral college votes on Dec19th, and it was the Republicans who actually united as candidates in a campaign against Trump, so it wouldn't be impossible that they simply give their vote to Hillary, to keep the status quo.

    It's extremely unlikely, given the ****storm that will result, particularly given people's tantrums on the streets lately, but it's not impossible....
    Keep in mind, Trump has court cases coming too, one over the University and one much more serious allegation of rape of a 13 year old in 94.

    Worth bearing in mind.

    to be fair the rape case has been dropped as there wasn't a shred of reality to it, but that has been discussed here already so I wont go into it again. also the trump university case has very little meat to it and by all accounts is likely to be thrown out fairly quickly when it does make it to court


  • #2258
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,449 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Depp wrote: »
    think i saw something about ballots having the party rather than the candidate

    ..

    Just one example. Look on twitter for voting selfie or ballot selfie. Plenty from all over the country. Yet to see one with just party name


  • #2259
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    ..

    Just one example. Look on twitter for voting selfie or ballot selfie. Plenty from all over the country. Yet to see one with just party name

    i see, just going on a video i posted several pages back about the malfuntioning machines in pa...video seemed to suggest the problem was with people who were just voting by party


  • #2260
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Ray Darcy compared Trump to Alan Partridge today, oh the irony. He then went on to insinuate that Trump is a psychopath. Was Darcy sound asleep while Clinton was busy orcracrating chaos in the Middle East? He's a very stupid man.


  • #2261
    Flint Fredstone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭Flint Fredstone


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Ray Darcy compared Trump to Alan Partridge today, oh the irony. He then went on to insinuate that Trump is a psychopath. Was Darcy sound asleep while Clinton was busy orcracrating chaos in the Middle East? He's a very stupid man.

    Ah sure Ray will love him if he finds out about a bit of Irish ancestry.


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  • #2262
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Ray Darcy compared Trump to Alan Partridge today, oh the irony. He then went on to insinuate that Trump is a psychopath. Was Darcy sound asleep while Clinton was busy orcracrating chaos in the Middle East? He's a very stupid man.

    He should stick to talking about IVF and leave out the shrill hyperbole.


  • #2263
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    That's something that caught my attention in Trump's victory speech. He said he's here for the next 2 years or 3 years or 4 years or maybe even 8 years. Seemed a bizzare thing to say and I'm very surprised there hasn't been more commentary on it.

    He's made noises about auditing and reforming the Federal Reserve, so even two years might be optimistic...


  • #2264
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Manic Moran wrote: »

    In the meantime, my FB feed is finally showing articles from sites like Huffington Post (like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-democratic-party-deserves-to-die_us_58236ad5e4b0aac62488cde5 ) and Cracked ( http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ ) which, had anyone been paying attention to what they were saying a few months ago, may possibly have resulted in a different electoral result. The BBC news website four months ago put the nail on the head when they actually visited Trump-prone areas, and it wasn't about racism or mysogeny ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36752237 ) . Even though these articles in no way defend Trump or his positions, they explain clearly why the Democrats lost. Shame nobody in the American media or DNC reads the BBC.

    There seems to be a strange perception on the behalf of non-American right wing internet lurkers that Trump got elected because of all the things that are annoying them on the internet, that him being President is about 60% to do with transgender toilets or some shít.

    I would go out on a limb and say people living hand to mouth in the Rust Belt and all over America were more concerned about the decimation of US manufacturing, their taxes, feeding their children and so on than they were about Gamergate. There's definitely an element of 'things would be better if everyone was white and English speaking again' but Trump did not get elected because people were sick of political correctness, he got elected because people were sick of being hungry, poor and with no possibility of social mobility. That vote was misguided IMO but I can see how in a bad system it seemed like the best option to a lot of people.


  • #2265
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Depp wrote: »
    to be fair the rape case has been dropped as there wasn't a shred of reality to it, but that has been discussed here already so I wont go into it again. also the trump university case has very little meat to it and by all accounts is likely to be thrown out fairly quickly when it does make it to court

    Rape case was thrown out!? Jaysus that's the first I've heard of it, whoops :o


  • #2266
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,838 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    With his debt to the coal mine owners who financed him, he will renege on Paris Accord.


  • #2267
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Ray Darcy compared Trump to Alan Partridge today, oh the irony. He then went on to insinuate that Trump is a psychopath. Was Darcy sound asleep while Clinton was busy orcracrating chaos in the Middle East? He's a very stupid man.

    Did he threaten to leave the country if Trump won? He does have a track record of it...


  • #2268
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    GreenFolder2 wrote: »
    You have to remember that the US is still largely stuck in a kind of evangelical christian time warp outside of the big urban centres and away from the coasts. I find a lot of US politicians still pander to it, in much the same way as 1960s/70s Irish centrists used to piously demonstrate how close to the church they were.

    Even in Clinton's concession speech, she made references to scripture and you could tell it was all just a PR box ticking exercise.

    I still don't see how it would justify voting Trump, but if you were a genuine centre left voter, I could see exactly how Clinton would be off putting. You can see how she didn't enthuse a lot of voters who would have gone for Bernie.

    In an Irish context, she's more like a 1980s Fianna Failer,but so are most of the mainstream US politicians on the democratic side of the house. The republicans are closer to the DUP.

    Ireland's actually moved on a huge amount over the last 20 years, where as the US political system really hasn't. It has areas of enlightenment but it's mostly a very different, far more religiously conservative culture than we have here these days.

    Increasingly, I just find a lot of political culture in the US very alien and really regressive. We're definitely heading down two different tracks and perhaps had more in common 30+ years ago.

    With Clinton though I just felt like it was a case of "I passionately believe in whatever it is you believe in!"

    one question about this, while I'm by no means a devout catholic and disagree with a lot of religious opinions, do these people not deserve to have their voices heard in how their country is run? Isn't the liberal credo to love and respect people of all faiths? or is there an exemption for cases where said faith happens to be christianity?


  • #2269
    GreenFolder2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭GreenFolder2


    Feels great knowing I voted for anti establishment candidate ready to #MAGA3X I voted for America today.🇺🇸
    namloc1980 wrote: »
    ..

    Just one example. Look on twitter for voting selfie or ballot selfie. Plenty from all over the country. Yet to see one with just party name

    Ah yes, those old blue blood anti-establishment billionaires who run for the Republican Party...

    Vote Monty Burns - the people's champion!


  • #2270
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Did he threaten to leave the country if Trump won? He does have a track record of it...

    Didn't hear him say that, but if there was a collection to send him into space to reconnect with zig and zag I'd contribute. I only tune in to Darcy for the comedy every now and again, the guy is a parody of himself, who takes him seriously?


  • #2271
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    The hysteria will die down, once they come to terms that they lost and nothing they can do about it. Learn to live with it and stop crying about it like big babies.


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  • #2272
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    The hysteria will die down, once they come to terms that they lost and nothing they can do about it. Learn to live with it and stop crying about it like big babies.

    You have to admit that the likes of Darcy and all the other right-on spineless jellyfish in the Irish media embarrassing themselves is really funny. Fantastic entertainment these last couple of days as all the shrill nincompoops have their hysterical meltdowns.


  • #2273
    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,363 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    Depp wrote: »
    one question about this, while I'm by no means a devout catholic and disagree with a lot of religious opinions, do these people not deserve to have their voices heard in how their country is run? Isn't the liberal credo to love and respect people of all faiths? or is there an exemption for cases where said faith happens to be christianity?

    The election was extremely sectarian. Both sides trying to win Muslim, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Lutherans all in the name of their cause.


  • #2274
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Depp wrote: »
    one question about this, while I'm by no means a devout catholic and disagree with a lot of religious opinions, do these people not deserve to have their voices heard in how their country is run? Isn't the liberal credo to love and respect people of all faiths? or is there an exemption for cases where said faith happens to be christianity?


    Sure, but the problem is when certain religious people want other groups, such as women and LGBT people, to have their human rights taken away from them.


  • #2275
    GreenFolder2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭GreenFolder2


    I'm convinced it's going to just turn out like Berlusconi's Italian days.
    The US will be left internationally embarrassed by his antics and with a massive national debt in a few years time due to populist and failed economic policies.

    Then naturally enough, they'll blame the incoming Democratic president for not fixing it in 3 weeks.

    That or, he actually does try to do some of the stuff he promised and causes the whole country to become unstable. I doubt he will though.

    Still 70 days to go before he actually redecorates and installs those TRUMP neon signs on the Whitehouse lawn.


  • #2276
    AnGaelach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭AnGaelach


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Sure, but the problem is when certain religious people want other groups, such as women and LGBT people, to have their human rights taken away from them.

    Why not just say Islam and Christianity instead of pussy-footing around it?


  • #2277
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    How are these lawsuits going to play out for Trump? Are there papers lodged with the courts etc?


  • #2278
    GreenFolder2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭GreenFolder2


    AnGaelach wrote: »
    Why not just say Islam and Christianity instead of pussy-footing around it?

    Don't use the words pussy-footing around Trump...It means something else.


  • #2279
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GreenFolder2 wrote: »

    Still 70 days to go before he actually redecorates and installs those TRUMP neon signs on the Whitehouse lawn.

    Or Trump Tower relabelled President Trump Tower- that and the Trump Wall suits his narcasistic tendencies


  • #2280
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    GreenFolder2 wrote: »
    I'm convinced it's going to just turn out like Berlusconi's Italian days. The US will be left internationally embarrassed by his antics and with a massive national debt in a few years time due to populist and failed economic policies.
    I am convinced we would be heading into WWIII if Clinton was elected.


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  • #2281
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Deleted User wrote: »
    narcasistic tendencies

    If anyone in recent history has a right to be narcissistic it is Donald ****ing Trump.

    "He's a complete joke, he won't get the Republican nomination"

    /get's the nomination, is still rejected by his own party

    "He's a joke. Hillary will destroy him because he is patently ridiculous and his party aren't backing him."

    /becomes 45th President of The United States of America

    He is probably legitimately one of the most inspirational figures in recent history regardless of how you feel about his views.


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