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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: 14,673 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Hoping my post is reinstated as I meant mods actually posting on this thread not the moderation of the thread, I want to make that clear!

    To answer your question I think when he announced he was running again but he keeps looking backwards about the last election rather then say what he will do to fix the country and the childish digs at Ron, when he could have probably had Ron as his running mate. But who knows maybe he did ask and DeSantis turned him down and thats why he attacks him. Also I think he will be to old.

    Finally I just like Ron DeSantis I think he has done a great job in Florida doesn't get dragged into petty arguments and carries through on promises that he makes.

    I hope that answers your question



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,374 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    The truth is that the Trumps aren't really Pro or Anti anything.

    They go where the money and the votes are , simple as that.

    So whilst members of his family are Jewish , the only thing that matters to Eric and Daddy is that these people are influential with a group that might vote for Donald in an election so they will not say anything to dissuade them from that possible action.

    They are self-serving Grifters , nothing more nothing less.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,374 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Finally I just like Ron DeSantis I think he has done a great job in Florida doesn't get dragged into petty arguments and carries through on promises that he makes.

    Except for the massively petty argument he's having with Disney - An argument that so far he is losing and losing badly.

    Disney are making him look like a fool.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal



    @Snake Plisken


    Finally I just like Ron DeSantis I think he has done a great job in Florida doesn't get dragged into petty arguments

    except petty arguments like bussing migrants from not florida to not florida and the entire stupid saga of Disneygate you mean?

    You didn’t really answer how you think he’d be any better than trump.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,412 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Finally I just like Ron DeSantis I think he has done a great job in Florida doesn't get dragged into petty arguments

    Apart from arguing with Micky Mouse. 🙄

    Meatball Ron is a one trick pony, "call everyone that disagrees with me woke."

    That won't work on the Sex Abuser so he will have to come up with a new tactic.

    I doubt Biden will even have to campaign after those 2 are finished with each other.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Pro trump jurors confirmed

    and it was still a unanimous decision.

    “Carroll’s lawyer insisted that the juror should be dismissed, having gotten his news from a “virulently extremist podcast,” while Trump’s lawyers argued that the juror should stay for being candid and honest.”




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Interesting article here

    Two of Erics fellow speakers...

    One, Scott McKay, claims that Jews were behind 9/11 and the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, that they set up a banking system “in exchange for the blood sacrifice of a child,” among other wild assertions, and he’s praised Hitler for “actually fighting the same people that we’re trying to take down today.”

    Another unsavory character, Charlie Ward, similarly praises Hitler for “warning us” about Jews, regularly posts antisemitic garbage, and has alleged that the so-called Jewish media lied about the Holocaust.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,370 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Losing the argument with Mickey Mouse!

    The problem with the MAGA types is that there aren't enough of them to win even a rigged game like the presidency and as time goes on, the quality of candidates is somehow going to get even lower. Sure, Trump is an abysmal human being but he at least can attract crowds. DeSantis has none of that and making the supporters feel good is the whole point, not signing legislation or demonising the state's largest employer.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,673 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Lol Tim runs a great show extremist podcast my arse



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Fact check : the impeachment process proved he didn't blackmail Ukraine. Not only that but zelensky himself came out and said it wasn't true. Like I said earlier, people believe whatever they want to believe.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,412 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The mob want soundbites not costed policy that could have some effect on their miserable lives.

    "We are bringing back coal". 🙄

    The problem with Meatball Ron is he lacks anything resembling a personality.

    He will have to out Trump, Trump in the childish name calling.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,488 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    I know right its perfectly normal to have frequent guests that espouse pizzagate, antisemitism, qanon, stop the steal and antivax on a non extremist channel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭Run Forest Run


    It's not that the issues are trivial, but rather that many people are of the opinion that certain bad actors both engineered this conflict from the beginning in order to "take out" Russia... and also combined with several factors like the military industrial complex, there is significant motivation to keep it going and resist any attempts at a negotiated settlement.

    If Trump is of this opinion, and figures that there is actually excellent scope to make a deal, but certain people are blocking any such deal from happening... then it would be understandable that he is confident of getting such a deal done. After all, he prides himself on being the guy that gets difficult deals done.

    My guess is that he knows exactly what is blocking a peace deal from taking place. He'll likely tell the Zelensky regime, that they can take a slightly crappy deal... or they can take a VERY crappy deal. Their choice. Either way the blank cheque book for Ukrainian military aid will be over the moment Trump gets into office. He's definitely not the type of leader that will continue to sign off on such madness, especially considering we are all being made to play Russian roulette with nuclear war, while some tinpot dictator in Kiev tells everyone what he wants.

    It's bad news for all the people pretending to care about Ukraine, but who really just want to defeat Russia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,412 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Of course he would, he was still being blackmailed for military aid as Russia were posturing to invade his country.

    Anyway we have been through all this, he was impeached.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Fact check : the impeachment process proved he didn't blackmail Ukraine. Not only that but

    slow down there: what evidence was shown at impeachment that proves he didn’t blackmail Ukraine?



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,374 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    So you think he does have a solution? - Well everything about everything he has ever said and done in his entire life would suggest otherwise , but we can agree to disagree on that point for the moment.

    So what you are saying is that he has a solution , but won't share it unless he gets back into Office and as such is happy to allow thousands of people to die just of he can be the hero of his own story if he were to be elected?

    And that's a good thing is it??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,412 ✭✭✭✭Boggles




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Donald's creams the cnn panel after Trump pasteurized the network. No wonder the left are having a meltdown for alowing him to speak. This is why Democrats support deplatforming over free and open debate.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,370 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Another dump. No thanks.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    "Debate" involves decorum.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭Run Forest Run


    No, I would say whatever solution he has in his mind probably hinges on whether he gets elected.

    Like I said, if certain bad actors don't want this conflict to end... then it would take someone very powerful to stop them. I don't think it's as simple as saying, do this and the conflict will end. It's more a case of forcing certain people to do what he wants. (or perhaps firing certain key leaders)

    People predicted all sorts of conflicts happening under Trump's presidency, and none of them materialised. That was the biggest fear when he initially got elected, that he was a hot head who would start multiple wars. And yet the opposite happened. Biden was supposed to be the sane and respectable anti-Trump candidate, yet his administration has the world closer to nuclear Armageddon than we've ever been. And very close to what would be a catastrophic conflict with China as well.

    I think there are a lot of Americans who will be desperate enough to hedge their bets with Trump and hope he can steer the ship away from the rocks. The alternative is to cross all your fingers and toes, and hope Biden has a better 2nd term. But I don't think there is much confidence of that happening. I think the democrats made a huge mistake not giving their voters an alternative to Biden.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,370 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Biden hasn't done anything to bring us closer to nuclear conflict. Trump on the other hand legitimised fascists and tyrants all around the world and behaved obsequiously with regard to many of them including Putin and Xi. If you're highlighting his failure to cause WW3 as a success, I'm not sure what to say to be honest.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭Rawr


    It’s surprising to find anyone extoling the Orange Dimwit’s ability to «make a deal» of any kind.

    Sure, being a «Dealmaker» has been part his branding for years. There was even a book on the subject that got ghostwritten for him. (I wonder if he ever read the whole thing himself).

    But Trump’s relationship with deals seems to mostly involve blagging himself into the room, tricking some banks to give him credit (in the 80s) and then proceed to break every «deal» by routinely not paying for what was agreed.

    He was so good with «deals» that most major banks will no longer give him a line of credit. His ability to «deal» resulted in damage to US bilateral relations for much of his time in the White House.

    The bell-end has no way to actaully strike a deal regarding the Ukraine War, beyond surrendering the place to his buddy Putin. He wouldn’t care less about the Ukrainian people. None of them are named «Donald Trump» and none of them are overweight self-obsorbed pilloks with a bad spray-tan. Otherwise, he might care.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭Christy42


    There are no rocks. The world is no closer to nuclear war than it was 3 years ago.


    The easiest way for the war to end is for the Russian army to go to Russia. However Trump seems unlikely to have that power and therefore the war will not end with Trump in power. All any Trump deal will do is encourage the Russians to rearm and invade whatever remains of the Ukraine or Georgia.


    Plus Trump came off badly in every 1 on 1 meeting he had. From backtracking meekly from comments about Theresa May, having the EU explained to him like he was a child, love letters to Kim or Putin securing exclusive chats without any records on the US side.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,393 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Iirc at the manafort trial, there was literally a maga cap wearer on the jury, but still was convinced of his crimes.

    Hope springs eternal I guess

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,393 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,134 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    So Trump could end the conflict if he was re-elected, it seems after years of nonsense we have arrived back at a form of he’s playing 4D chess.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    The claim that Biden is down in approval rating is the claim I made- that’s public knowledge anyway I couldn’t be arsed debating that at this stage- it’s clear you and others are only interested in an echo chamber



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    You've yet to provide a link or citation on any of your claims today, 'that's public knoledge' is just 'do your own research'



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    People predicted all sorts of conflicts happening under Trump's presidency, and none of them materialised. That was the biggest fear when he initially got elected, that he was a hot head who would start multiple wars. And yet the opposite happened. 

    That's funny because blackmailing Zelensky was one of many of the impetuses for the invasion of Ukraine, ie. the overwhelming propaganda from Kremlin that the Ukrainian government was irredeemably corrupt.

    He also refused to condemn the invasion of crimea as a candidate and sought to recognize it as Russian territory. The emboldened Russia further, clearly.

    During his presidency he had his own 'shadow administration' (ie. his team of personal lawyers) engage in Ukraine with previously deposed and provably corrupt russian sympathizing political officers to the benefit of Russia. Shortly after meeting them those former officers engage in partisan op eds in the hill nakedly accusing the then Ukrainian government of election interference in 2016 linking the embassy in Kiev to the DNC. While this campaign of undermining the ccredibility and stability of the Ukrainian state was going on, Trump ordered military aid approved by congress to be suspended indefinitely, and at least a week later he has the infamous shakedown call with zelensky, asking him for the same type of political assistance he had Giuliani apparently advising Lutsenko to accuse the DNC/Ukrainian government of doing.

    And we haven't even discussed the abandoning of the Kurds (led to more war and bloodshed) this only helped perpetuate a war that has now lasted 12 years. He called that "strategically brilliant"

    He also unilaterally negotiated with the Taliban through his subordinate Mike Pompeo, signing an agreement with a literal terrorist organization, an agreement that was not co-signed or consulted on by the lawful Afghanistan government, which unconditionally released at least 5,000 taliban terrorists back on to the battlefield, while at roughly the same time drawing us down to just 2,500 troops in theater and creating a situation with such chaos and glee that the country has backslid into a taliban controlled state. He was very proud of the fact that Afghanistan was careening down that road:

    Nevermind that he completely scrubbed a nuclear proliferation agreement with Iran because he was simply mad that Obama could take credit for it IG, and lo and behold, Iran is proliferating weapons again (ie. bringing us closer to nuclear war). Trump engaged in new conflict by assassinating at least one of it's military leaders by drone strike as well. And quite flauntingly I have to say - whereas the GWB/Obama administrations still haven't acknowledged stuxnet was a US operation IIRC.

    Oh - he also, domestically, incited if not coordinated and planned a seditious and violent effort to overthrow our democracy, actively stage-set by Trump's election denialism and refusal to participate in the peaceful transition of power. Leading at least a few people to worry about, the hanging of vice presidents and such.

    All sorts of conflicts did happen under Trump, and he was proud of them on more than one occasion - where were you?



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