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What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Why won't he release his tax returns if he is so successful? Would shut his detractors up once and for all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Tippex


    All of those are essentially property businesses born out of daddy’s business.

    Trump models a success come on he closed that 5 years ago and if it was doing anything other than having access to gorgeous women it would still be going.

    the apprentice - he was a reality tv star it was not created by him



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,333 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Yeah Trump Tower Chicago is so successful that its known as Chicago retail's biggest failure and had over 200 million of debt forgiven when he sued his bank. I'm sure you can provide evidence that the rest are "highly profitable".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,054 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    I'm not disagreeing with all of what you say, but social justice needs to be a core guiding principle of a political party. The alternative is a political party supported by useful idiots drunk on populism and a misplaced sense of entitlement.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,507 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Looked at old poll data



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,507 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    wrong poll, mea culpa



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,914 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Trump playing second fiddle to Putin for 4 years, really ?

    Remind me again what aggressive actions Putin took in Trumps 4 years of office ?

    Remind me what President urged the other countries in the Nato alliance to increase their contribution to 4% of GDP ?

    In 2016, non-U.S. NATO members spent $262 billion on defence; in 2020, they spent $313 billion. I wonder why that was ???

    Remind me who told Putin that he would bomb Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine ?

    Remind me who supplied lethal weapons support to Ukraine, a move that former President Barack Obama had been unwilling to take ?

    Who added further sanctions ?

    Who expelled dozens of Russian diplomats ?

    Despite Trumps public admiring words for his Russian counterpart, his administration held a tough line on Russia.

    Had there been no Mueller investigation, Trump may have had more leeway to make overtures to Putin, but it would still have taken a drastically different Congress and major changes in staff appointments to make it a reality.

    Remind me who removed the sanctions on the Nord 2 pipeline last year, who shut down the Keystone pipeline and increased the US dependancy on Russia for oil ?

    Remind me who made a complete balls of the Afghanistan withdrawal and demonstrated to the world what a pussycat the US was ?

    Remind me who inflammatorily called Putin "a Killer"

    Remind me under what president the military has wasted 6 million man hours on "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” training, including critical race theory.

    There is only one thing a bully is afraid of that and thats a bigger bully, Putin did nothing on Trumps watch because of Trumps unpredictability. He was after all viewed as mentally unstable by the KGB.

    He waited for Joe 101 to take over.

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  • Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Also worth remembering that Trump actively attempted to extort Zelensky by withholding arms for his own personal gain. It's pure fantasy to claim Trump took a hardline on Russia. He fawned over Putin.


    Also that rant about diversity training etc is just random. The military is notorious for harassment including sexual, it seems like a pretty good move to counter those issues. A few hours of training is not gonna amount to some supposedly less effective military and also has feck all to do with the situation. Just shoehorning your pet topics as per usual.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Also remember when trump displayed his invertebrate nature in Finland when, despite all his intelligence agencies confirmed it, he wouldn't say that it was Russia that influenced the 2016 election. You could say he's hard on putin, but that would be a different kind of hard



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,779 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Just a reminder since this is the 'what will the future hold,' stuff is stirring around in #2xIMPOTUS land (where, despite being such a great businessman his accounting firm just invalidated 10+ years of his tax records). Debts are coming due.


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    #2xIMPOTUS does have all the grift he's gotten from his sheeple donating to his campaign. Apparently has raised millions (like you can trust any numbers from him) and doled out around $350k of it to campaigns. Wonder where the rest of it is going?


    Nice little summary of the state of things a few weeks ago in Trumpworld. https://www.salon.com/2022/02/12/under-investigation-your-guide-to-whos-probing-what-and-how-its-going/


    Also, the ex-FLOTE (First Lady Of The Evening) is under investigation too. https://www.salon.com/2022/02/13/melania-under-investigation-related-to-florida-charity-laws_partner/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I simply ignore the ramblings of people who pull out the "woke" card. It's the laziest, easiest comment to pull out and seems to cover everything. It's almost like that episode of The Simpsons with Lucy Lawless at a comic-con:

    Well what about... "A wizard did it"

    And this? "A wizard did it"

    Well what about your opinions on.... "Woke culture distorting facts"

    And on this totally unrelated and diametrically opposite situation? "Woke"

    Watch:

    • Trump's support of Russia? "Woke"
    • Trump's support of invasion of Mexico? "Woke"
    • Trump's sexual assault of women? "Woke"
    • Trump's instigation of terrorist attack on Capitol? "Woke"
    • Trump's statement that POWs are "Losers"? "Woke"
    • Trump's statement that white supremacists are "Fine People"? "Woke"

    See how easy that is? So instead of coming out with any sort of thought out POV, they bring out this universal, lazy, catch-all phrase that they don't even understand.


    I mean we won't get their opinion on trump's history of sexual assault. We won't get an opinion on trump's (A draft-dodger) belief that American Prisoners of War are "Losers". We won't get an opinion on trump's suggestion that the US send tanks into Mexico. We won't get an opinion on his support of white supremacists or his terrorists who stormed Capitol building.

    Instead they will go "Are you STILL on about that?" while also spouting proven lies about the election being stolen. They will point to allegations of Ukrainian money going to Biden (And trump's attempt to halt the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Let's also remember trump has blood on his hands. Denied Ukraine assistance and cheered on Putin. What happened to trump then? Oh yeah...... . While also not mentioning trump's HUGE reliance on Russian banks.

    You woke libtards are the wokiest bunch of woke libtards who ever woked a woke

    So yeah: Woke Card=Idiot Card



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Detritus70


    He would either be a sleazy small-time insurance salesman or dodgy second hand car dealer with several convictions for sexual assault to his name and a few bankruptcies. And anyone who knew anything about him would know better than to have any business or personal dealings with him.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Detritus70


    You may not be surprised in the slightest to hear that this is exactly Tucker Clarson's sentiment:

    Quote:

    Carlson was roundly condemned, but he wasn’t alone. Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s sometime adviser turned podcast host, has praised Putin for being “anti-woke”, for not flying pride flags, and for his hostility to trans people.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,105 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Trump threatened to cancel NATO unless it did what he wanted. He continually talked about the US no longer being involved in the defence of the Europe. He called out NATO allies, praised Putin, dod nothing about Crimea, sided with Putin over his own security services. He withheld defence assets from Ukraine unless they delivered dirt on his political rival.

    And some posters here really want people to believe that Trump was strong against Russia or that he did not play a significant role in embolding Putin?

    It seems, at least at this stage, that Putin has misjudged just how much damage Trump was able to cause in his four years. It appears now, thanks to Biden taking control, that NATO has got stronger, that the resolve of the West has grown and that at last they can stop making excuses for Putin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,310 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    He also flipped out when Obama dismissed a number of Russian diplomats.

    Let's not forget Helsinki of course. Such a beaten and whipped man....


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    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,333 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Still waiting for the proof for your claim that several Trump businesses are "highly profitable".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,105 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Yeah, Helsinki was a disgrace. Obviously, because Trump kept everything secret we will never actually know what was discussed or agreed, but his body language was very telling. Compare his body language with Putin with how he pushed past the Montenegro PM at NATO.

    One was clearly alpha male, I'm the most important and with Putin he was head down, subservient and whimpering. Even to the point that when asked about who he choose to side with, his own country and fellow Americans, or the leader of one of their main advisories, he couldn't bring himself to stand up for either himself or his country.

    And yet there are posters on here trying to claim that Trump was anything other than a complete failure, and in fact probably worse. You can forgive someone for making wrong decisions, for not being good enough, but to blatantly side against your own country should have been the final straw.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Respectively I disagree. I have bootstrapped three successful businesses and I can say for certain that there are only two reasons why trump is 'in business'.

    Either he's an bullsh!tter with a lot of money to burn, or he's laundering money. On the first point, Tv is very good at portraying someone who isn't what they are, have you ever seen Donal Skehan chop something? The guy hasn't worked a day in his life in a professional kitchen. But he's on tv because he makes for 'good tv' not by any virtue of his abilities.

    The same can be applied to trump if you listen to any of his 'business advice'.


    On the second point, there is no proof that any of trump's businesses have been shown to be profitable, even his accountancy firm will not stand by any of his accounts. So how has he still is business? Ever seen those retail businesses that pop up yet never seem to have any customers? Well considering he's been bankrupt several times then where is his investments coming from? Well then just let his son highlight that point and then wonder why he's so 'hard' on putin.



    He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ 




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Well, if you are going to believe that a (dead) JFK Jnr is going to run as running-mate with Trump in 2024. If you are going to believe that Covid vaccines inject nanobots so Bill Gates can track you. If you are going to believe that 2020 election was stolen.... Then you are going to believe fox news and its partners such as RT. This is their core audience (Certainly fox's)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭BruteStock


    "It's pure fantasy to claim Trump took a hardline on Russia"

    Yet under 4 years of Trump , Putin was kept docile and peaceful. One year out of office and not only has Putin created a lethal humanitarian crisis , but has also hinted at the possibility of nuclear deployment. Do you have any idea just how utterly insane you sound with that comment? You and the other cult members here are far to deluded to ever think rationally , simple as that.

    Fact is , this is Biden's fault- you better believe that . Because Trump isn't responsible for any of this. Putin was unsure how to proceed with Trump who is a loose cannon. The weakness of Biden however is to blame , hence why Putin immediately tested the waters by sending troops to the border back in spring of last year. This seems to be a pattern under Obama and Joe. Putin steamrolled both of them, yet attempted nothing under Trump.

    Nobody agrees with what Russia is doing despite your delusions , not Trump , not Tulsi , not Tucker or Hannity. They all condemn this terrible act.

    The issue here isn't TRUMP , its that the current President is such a feeble imbecilic weakling with an idiotic VP and that US politicians have been caught up in a fervor for the last half decade, so much so... they've been unwilling to take proactive diplomatic measures or even to talk with Putin. At least that would've provided opportunities to talk some sense into him, or if that failed.... instill the fear of God in him. But that's what refusing to talk to your political foes leads to. But as it is now, Putin realized he's got nothing to fear from Europe and America so has has free reign to commit war crimes. Putin had legit concerns with Ukraine joining NATO, and had the west acknowledged that, and taken a another approach, maybe things would be different. But Biden refused to mandate peacekeepers so this is where we are now. A world away from geopolitical stability under Trump.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,333 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Kamala Harris the intelligent, well educated, successful woman called "idiotic" by a some random Trumpist on boards 😂 The comedy never ends with you guys.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,735 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    If he was still in office this wouldn’t have happened.

    If Covid hadn’t of happened he’d still be in office.

    I’ll give him this he can sell any aul crap to those who want to buy regardless of the product.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,105 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Trump does agree with Putins actions, he said so. To think this is Bidens fault one has to think that Putin only thought of this recently. Yet, he invaded Ukraine before.

    Trump gave him all the encouragement he needed. He created a rift in NATO, he showed that he was more than happy to withhold weapons to Ukraine, he bloody well handed over intel directly to Russia for goodness sake from Israel.

    Trump had already agreed on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, so Putin already knew that America was pulling back, and Trump continued to drive the narrative that the US no longer cared about European defence and that American needed to bring all its troops home.

    All of that tells Putin that America is not ready for a fight. That it will give in. Couple that with Trump given NK pretty much everything they wanted (international recognition, direct negotiation as equals) without them having to give up anything and Putin can see that America is weak. Putin assumed that Biden would be too, probably believing all the Fox News nonsense about him being senile, and that Europeans were completely divided.

    Putin didn't have to attack Ukraine during Trump time, as he knew that Trump would never do anything to cause him any trouble. This war is all about Putin trying to get what he can to stop the stronger US/European alliance from reforming. Why would Ukraine want to join a NATO being attacked by Trump. But now they see Biden is leading a stronger US, a stronger NATO and a more aligned Europe, he needs to do something.

    This line that Putin didn't attack while Trump was in office is not the win that you seem to think it is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,914 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Disengenuous and insulting as usual but I wouldnt have expected anything less.

    Your absolute hatred for Trump has clouded your judgement, you can see absolutely no redeeming features in the man, I can.

    He is a blockhead and a buffoon at times, he made a complete ape of himself last week with his comments but Trump and US policy was hard on Russia during his term in office, to say otherwise is false.

    By and large, U.S.-Russia policy was on autopilot since the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act was adopted.

    What does anything I said have to do with Qanon ?

    Most of it is fact.

    Deflect deflect deflect and go off on a tangent is what you are a master of.

    What aggressive actions did Putin take in Trumps 4 years of office ??

    Did Trump urge the other countries in the Nato alliance to increase their contribution to 4% of GDP ?

    Did they increase their contribution ?

    Who told Putin that he would bomb Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine ?

    Remind me who supplied lethal weapons support to Ukraine, a move that former President Barack Obama had been unwilling to take ?

    Who added further sanctions ?

    Who expelled dozens of Russian diplomats ?

    Who removed the sanctions on the Nord 2 pipeline last year, who shut down the Keystone pipeline and increased the US dependancy on Russia for oil ?

    Remind me who made a complete balls of the Afghanistan withdrawal when it was clear that the Taliban werent keeping up their side of the agreement ?

    Remind me who inflammatorily called Putin "a Killer" ?

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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,932 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    This argument that Putin was concerned about Trump because he "unpredictable" or whatever is just nonsense.

    Putin didn't invade Ukraine over the last ~10 years because he wasn't ready to , he was upgrading the military and putting in place the structures to allow him to attempt to ride out the sanctions he knew were going to be coming.

    When Trump came to Office, Putin was perfectly happy to allow Trump to be Trump and do all kinds of damage to the relationships in NATO and generally piss all over US Foreign policy and relationships.

    For Putin , this was manna from Heaven. Trump was , in Putins view laying the ground work for his expansion plans in Eastern Europe by weakening NATO and making it less likely that the US might get involved.

    Trump after all, told the world that Crimea was Russian and that he had no problem with it's annexation.

    Trump then bent over for the Taliban and left Biden with a poisoned chalice of an exit (that he admittedly didn't do a great job with) further making Putin believe that the field was open for him.

    What Biden has managed over the last month or so will on reflection be seen as one of the better pieces of International diplomacy in a very long time.

    He has facilitated the pulling together a fractured NATO and EU - mostly by allowing them the space to make decisions and not making it all about the US (or him) . That coupled with the actions of the Ukrainians in defence of their country has done more to re-establish NATO and to get the EU to step up to the plate than any other actions in the last 30 years.

    If Trump was in charge , Putin might have done things a little differently - He'd still have gone into the Donbass & Luhansk and Trump would have simply let him and said nothing and Putin would have just chipped away at the Ukrainian Government. Trump wouldn't have supported the level of sanctions in place today and Putin would have gotten what he wanted.

    Because Trump wasn't in charge Putin had to go all in as he knew the sanctions were going to come in hard (although probably not as hard and fast as they have) so that he could have a bargaining chip to negotiate with.

    Tl;dr

    Putin decision to wait until now had absolutely nothing to do with him being in any way shape or form worried about the draft dodging coward that is Donald J Trump.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,914 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Yet under 4 years of Trump , Putin was kept docile and peaceful. One year out of office and not only has Putin created a lethal humanitarian crisis , but has also hinted at the possibility of nuclear deployment. Do you have any idea just how utterly insane you sound with that comment? You and the other cult members here are far to deluded to ever think rationally , simple as that.

    This is effectively the I hate Trump thread, you arent going to get rational and objective discussion on here from those guys.

    Trump= bad is all they see, he has no redeeming factors and did nothing positive whilst in office .

    This despite the fact that Trump was a Democrat for most of his life and alot of his policies were similar to those of the Democrats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,779 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Actually, this is the 'what does the future hold for Donald Trump.' So, what do you think it holds for him and why? Personally, rehashing what he did isn't interesting, no more so than rehashing GWB or GHWB or Obama for that matter.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    No, because then he would have to deliver to lizard people elitist Satan-worshiping democrat pedophiles.


    To be honest, I don't even think fox would take him. Not because they don't agree with him (Hell, they MADE him). But simply because he is incapable of talking about anything but himself. Even in that puff-piece where he suggested invading Mexico, he started his reply with his BAU lie about the election being stolen.

    How could trump have a show that wasn't 100% about the election being stolen?

    "Well President Trump, what do you think about these uppity homosexuals? Should they have rights? "Well, let me state that the election was stolen by woke homosexuals"

    "Well President Trump, what do you think about the fine people of "Unite The Right"? "Well, let me state that, despite, y'know, these fine people, they tell me... I don't know... I'm just saying... despite these fine people voting for me, maybe they should have voted in other states, there are ways, I'm just saying, Hilary did it and Obama and Sleepy Joe, they, y'see, the election was stolen. I have MANY people saying, you don't, you can't, my people, they say it was stolen, OK"

    "Well President Trump, can you give us your opinion on Northern Ireland?" Well, the Irish, they love me there really, they really do. I have golf courses there. You should see them. Wonderful. Their president, he said they were the best courses in Europe. He said that! But y'know, they, love me too because I bring so many jobs there and brought peace. You don't see Hilary bringing peace there. Or Obama Or Sleepy Joe. I, well, the Irish are ungrateful, they, y'see, their groups, you know who, they rigged the Irish American vote against me. And Johnson, a very good friend and handsome man. Models himself on me. He told the Irish, you vote for trump or there, y'know"



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