Back peddled? Gays in the military also supported by Trump. Just 3 years earlier Biden voted to veto gay marriage and was anti abortion up to 2016
In other Trump news , he is now suggesting that he won't attend the E Jean Carroll case because "he'd be too much of a disruption to Manhattan traffic and doesn't want to put people out"
Former President Donald J. Trump wants to come to a Manhattan trial over allegations he raped a woman nearly 30 years ago, but he may stay away to spare New Yorkers the traffic jams, blocked streets and high security that would inevitably accompany him, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
He also wants the Judge to instruct the jury not to think badly of him because he isn't there either..
Should Mr. Trump not appear in court, Mr. Tacopina said, he would ask that Judge Kaplan instruct the jury that while no litigant was required to appear at a civil trial, Mr. Trump’s absence, “by design, avoids the logistical burdens that his presence, as the former president, would cause the courthouse and New York City.”
He really really really doesn't want to have to be there does he??
Nope. Terrible optics. He even sent the inventor of world peace and commander of 6 Apollo missions George Santos to come save him from New York Hates You chants and Jordan Klepper scared them off with basic questions.
And the court art? Probably the greatest salt to ever rub Trumps perpetually wounded ego. Must be a great repellent to seeing Trump in a courtroom
Well @greencap doesn't want to discuss trumps policies ,nor do they know of of them, so you're right, there is no rational discussion of them
I dont like the guy but that art is just terrible.
I think it’s perfect
People talk about Democrat run cities. Aren't most of the big cities in the US Democrat run? When you look at the election maps, urban districts tend to vote Democrat and the hillbillies go Republican so I would have thought most cities would be Democrat run. And homeless people tend to be in cities. Right?
Correlation v causation yes. Republican policies do not do well in the inherent populism and multiculturalism of most metropolitan areas.
Im not here to discuss the Donald. I dont care about the Donald.
Im here to discuss the possible future effects of the Donald, or any potential isolationist US pres in Europe.
We Europeans need to know that an isolationist US pres is always a distinct possibility. And this was evidenced by DT hinting at moving funding from Ukraine to domestic issues if he wins. (In the forbes link i provided).
And may he win, or lose, I dont care. Flip a coin, see if I give a shyte.
Well you might want to start a new thread then because the topic of this thread is clearly about the man himself, politics forum thread on him sounds like it might be more what you are looking for.
But you do care, you say it yourself that Trump is saying that he would pull aid from Ukraine. That will effect Europe as a whole.
So you do you Trump pulling funding from Ukraine or Biden continuing to help Ukraine is best?
No, its about what the future might hold for him.
And that future may affect us over here.
Take the forbes link as you will. Forget about me. Just look at the link.
So what do you think of trump's isolationist policies then?
So his plan is just end homelessness by building tent cities uhm
and where do all the doctors and psychologists come from? Post pandemic there are no doctors and psychologists to spare if they aren’t burnt out or early retired they’re booked already.
All the hallmarks of campaign bullshit. Not anything to be taken as a serious or effective policy matter. Before you even get into the legal challenges of forcing relocation on the homeless to glorified internment camps.
how does this bullshit policy proposal affect you
I think that Europe is subject to the risk of any US president, present or future, dem or rep, deciding to be more isolationist.
As evidenced above. An unreliable situation.
And that to hedge this risk we need more strategic autonomy.
Go back a page or two.
Except that we know that Biden is actively supporting Ukraine and Trump is openly talking about pulling aid from it.
Yes, the future is of course unknown, but you have the evidence in front of you.
You said to forget you and just consider the post.
How does this proposed homeless policy affect Europe.
At approx 01:15 a potential future u.s. pres (*Donald Trump*) with a history of appealing to the isolationist 'america first vote' hints at redirecting funds spent in Ukraine to domesic issues.
Which may lead one to conclude that the u.s. could very well become more isolationist in the *future*.
This has implications for Europes policies.
That’s a very tenuous and nebulous linkage to homelessness though. Happy to acknowledge Trump is an america first windbag but he will find any excuse not to help Europe/help Russia etc. no matter what the fiscal reality. It’s really not as if a bill to address homelessness would be tied to provisions to defund the Ukraine war. Even when Ukraine was happily funded and congress was sending them weapons, again, Trump ordered a freeze on the weapon deliveries then immediately got on a call with Zelensky to strong arm him into capitulating to helping Trump out with some election interference against Biden if he wanted the missiles in so many words. Not a jot to do with canceling those missiles to tent the homeless.
The point is valid to a degree , but Trump has throughout his entire life, been all talk and no action.
He failed to pass a single piece of legislation from his "agenda" during his 4 years in office outside of giving the ultra wealthy a tax cut.
He is incapable of building consensus or making compromise to get anything done , he's also supremely lazy and has zero interest in the actual work of government.
Were he to be elected , his entire tenure would be consumed by petty grievances and revenge.
He will be far too busy firing people and engineering "investigations" into all and sundry to bother himself with anything so mundane as actual policy.
Where he will do damage globally will be in his rhetoric and support for genocidal despots and his general lack of anything approaching a coherent set of ideas about what he's trying to do.
He'll bounce along from idea to idea based on who was most recently nice to him or based on who will make him most money.
His lies alone about a "stolen election" should be enough to abandon all "neutrality". The fat lump of shit has openly and continually spread an egregious lie, and he knows it to be a lie. A lie which led to Jan 6th and people being killed. A lie which he still peddles today and one which will form the basis of his next presidency bid.
One cannot be "neutral" about that.
But, let's be honest here. Anyone saying they are "neutral" about Trump is probably just spoofing at this stage. Being neutral about such a character is impossible because of the actions of said character. More than likely, a person saying they're "neutral" is just afraid to say that they are in "favour". Because if they say they're in favour, they'll have to answer a lot of questions about the state of their own character.
There you go then, one of the front running candidates for the whitehouse "will do anything not to help Europe".
As again evidenced, by the link I provided.
Thus we cant reasonably rely so much on the u.s. as an ally.
And so must become more strategically autonomous.
Easy.
To be fair it would be more accurate to say that Trump will do nothing to help anyone but himself.
Europe doesn't come in to it , just as most Americans don't either.
Every single thing he does is about making him feel better about himself or making him money.
He might very well stop or limit funding for Ukraine were he to take office , but it absolutely won't be because he has diverted it to help the homeless.
It will be because Putin has called him "strong" or because the money will be used to fund tax cuts or grants to businesses that benefit Trump.
Wow - what a reaction to a gif.
You know, you could respond in a rational and calm way.
As has been pointed out by others, trump is truly marmite. You don't know much about him? Absolutely fair enough.
There are a significant amount of posters who start with "well, I'm no fan of trump but...." And then go on to prove they clearly are within the next three posts.
Anyway, the facts about the guy are plain and accessible. He was twice impeached, he is racist, he hates the poor. He is an isolationist, he cow-tows to Russia, he rubbished the U.N. etc etc etc
So, that is important in the context of what he says.
The Chair (seen in clip, risibly pissed at being schooled on the rules) is reportedly still fuming at Marjorie Taylor Greene following this utterly derailing and embarrassing display during one of their own hearings. Reportedly the chair would prefer McCarthy boot her off his cmte if he cannot guarantee his chihuahua can compose herself.
“The outburst took up considerable time during the hearing and threatened to overshadow Mayorkas’s testimony – to the frustration of Republican committee members.
A source close to Green said the chairman was furious with the congresswoman’s behavior and planned to privately reprimand her, and also said he would encourage Speaker Kevin McCarthy to remove her from the committee if she ever had an outburst like that again.”
Well trump was an 'america first' president with isolationist policies in his first term, you can see the effects on europe then, if he is to use them again should he get into office, how can europe counter that?
You say you "don't care", but you're on a thread about Trump and also trying to promote a video you found in a positive way. However, in the space of a few pages, you've been given reasons to care by other posters.
I don't care about baking, which is why you won't find me on threads about baking.
Trump may spout a lot of shit about the homeless and isolationism, etc. But his past has proven that what he says doesn't translate into action. You may not know it, as you've said you're ignorant of such matters, but he tried to position himself as the man of the poor before in his previous Presidential bid. And did fuck all for poor people when he got in.
With that in mind, do you REALLY think he's going to do anything, anything at all, for the homeless in America if he gets in again.
As for his isolationist drivel, America has its hands in too many pies to ever be truly isolationist. That type of guff is said to appeal to redneck idiots who have no idea just how far flung America's influence on the world truly is. America first fantasists have no idea just how difficult it would be for America to pull out of every nation it has its paws in. And into the bargain, America Inc doesn't want to to do that and that includes Donald Trump.
You may have been self admittedly ignorant about the guy before, but how's that "neutrality" going now after hearing people here?
Nope. It doesnt matter whos in the whitehouse.
The risk of an isolationist u.s. pres still exists regardless.
If Merkel herself was somehow voted into the white house it wouldnt matter. The electorate of the u.s. has the potential to elect an isolationist president (and this is a realistic prospect as evidenced again by an isolationist candiate making isolationist hints pre election).
Therefore more autonomy is Europes best option.
By focusing on autonomy. By developing an alternative 'nato without the u.s.' defense.
