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

Overheal · 14-09-2023 09:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121109639#Comment_121109639

Some who watched it found it more than interesting they found it potentially incriminating

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/will-see-this-played-at-trial-megyn-kelly-praised-for-letting-trump-confess-during-interview/

banie01 · 14-09-2023 09:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111299#Comment_121111299

That particular comment from Sagan and Frank Zappa's prophetic comments in '86 on the real threat to the US being "fascist theocracy" are points that will long abide. That at the very peak of the Cold War, Zappa foresaw where the GOP was heading and called it out, and it is veering ever further into Christo-fascist blonde gun totting Jesus territory was IMO a very astute observation.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/frank-zappa-democracy-fascist-theocracy/

Agent Coulson · 14-09-2023 09:59PM

Fascist Theocracy

Jaysus he was spot on and called that right.

amandstu · 14-09-2023 10:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111471#Comment_121111471

Unless it would be Theocratic Fascism.

(Trump,like myself don't give a shyte about religion,surely )

silliussoddius · 14-09-2023 10:37PM

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

HL Mencken (applies universally)

briany · 14-09-2023 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111299#Comment_121111299

They don't care that he lies. They like that he lies, in fact. They like the outrage and chaos his lies cause. The more chaos the better because it may end up upending an American political system that is working less and less well for the more extreme variant of American Conservatism. Trump is just the latest and best cudgel to this end.

Rawr · 15-09-2023 04:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111501#Comment_121111501

If Trump were installed as essentially a King of a Theocratic American nation, you just know he’d accept and play half-hearted lip service to the extreme Evangelical Handmaids Tale religion that would rule life there. Hold a bible occasionally, let a group of people touch his back while they mumble nonsense. Easy.

Also, since some of these people are finding Jesus to be a little too «woke», there may even be a desire to make Trump the new messiah, as some of the more forgone MAGA zealots had already started doing.

I doubt Trump would have any problem with a religious state, so long as he gets to be the most important part of it.

ancapailldorcha · 15-09-2023 07:14AM

Disturbing stuff:

They clearly don't believe in democracy or the constitution. It has no place in a democracy.

Flaneur OBrien · 15-09-2023 07:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111904#Comment_121111904

All they care about is ruling and power.

Rows Grower · 15-09-2023 07:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111389#Comment_121111389

Megyn totally outwitted him, he's kippered.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1702398553426108520

everlast75 · 15-09-2023 07:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111973#Comment_121111973

LOL -

Megyn - asks a straightforward question.

Trump - *brain fart*

Trump - Plays accordion with his hands for a bit.. "These are democrat fascists..."

An utter joke of a man. Anyone can see it.

pixelburp · 15-09-2023 08:08AM

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For context: Romney is retiring so all this sudden garrulous nature is entirely down to knowing there's no longer any blow back. Like John McCain, Romney was a lone voice of sobriety when it suited him.

But yes, the GOP in its modern variant views the Constitution as it does the Bible: a useful tool to wave around when it suits, and one to ensnare the more dogmatic cohorts of its base - but fundamentally the party takes actions that contradict or spit in the face of both documents.

ancapailldorcha · 15-09-2023 08:12AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112016#Comment_121112016

Oh, sure. He's only slightly better than the MAGA crowd. I still remember his appalling rape comments for one.

This is the GOP in 2023, where Romney and McCain are saints by comparison to the rest of the party.

Quin_Dub · 15-09-2023 08:46AM

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Yup - Like Jeff Flake before him.

Keep quiet until it can no longer hurt him and then speaks up.

Although in fairness to Romney he did vote to impeach him but still.

Tell me how · 15-09-2023 08:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112016#Comment_121112016

To be fair, Romney called out Trump from way back and was one of the few Senators who voted to convict him at his impeachment trial.

He's of the John McCain mould, he was responsible for the introduction of a state-wide healthcare program for Massachusetts which was the template for Obamacare.

I'm fundamentally not a Republican, but have a lot of respect for some who are. When I lived in the US, it was in a blue state with a Republican governor, and I had no issue with how he performed, or what most of his policies were. No surprising, he didn't get on with Trump either.

Trump has taken the worst of the party and expanded it massively in crassness, bitterness and selfishness. We all laughed at Sarah Palin in 08 (who McCain picked and later regretted apparently), she is a moderate by todays standards, both in policy and behaviour.

amandstu · 15-09-2023 02:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121111988#Comment_121111988

Would it be a good play for the next interviewer to ask him with a straight face "About your visit to Fulson Prison ,many people have been asking me if you posed for that picture or was it your natural look?"

Would Trump know if he was being piss taken or being flattered?

ancapailldorcha · 15-09-2023 02:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112195#Comment_121112195

I'm fine with people being republican. One of my favourite Youtubes is a massive Trumpanzee who apparently thinks the West Coast isn't really American.

It's the ocean of disingenuous drivel I take issue with. The pretending to care about racism and homophobia that as pathetic as it is deceitful. I just wish people would be honest instead of hiding behind these transparent masks.

Cody montana · 15-09-2023 02:53PM

BREAKING: Married South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has been having a years-long affair with married Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski.

The governor has frequently touted "traditional marriage" and her "family values."

Her chances of being trumps vice presidential nominee have gone up?

everlast75 · 15-09-2023 02:54PM

Didn't he have a fling with Hope Hicks?

Trump told him he was boxing well above himself iirc

silliussoddius · 15-09-2023 03:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114237#Comment_121114237

Shirley, not another virtue signaling hypocrite? No, she’s a victim of gay marriage.

Overheal · 15-09-2023 03:09PM

Hunters gun form and Cornels tax evasion and a phony impeachment in exchange for stealing classified docs, RICO, and coup.

Yeah I think we will pass.

Cody montana · 15-09-2023 03:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114249#Comment_121114249

Thought he groped a few people?

ancapailldorcha · 15-09-2023 03:19PM

It's weird reading that sort of stuff as a European. Like, why would I want to see any politician or their relative escape justice? Partisanship must be a heck of a drug.

Economics101 · 15-09-2023 03:59PM

TFG up to his usual obstructionist tricks in the NY Fraud case:

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0915/1405384-donald-trump-fraud-trial/

I love the last few lines of this report:

Mr Trump holds a dominant lead in the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination.

He has denied wrongdoing and called Ms James' case part of a Democratic "witch hunt."

In January, Justice Engoron said the "witch hunt" argument did not justify a dismissal and said some defence arguments were "borderline frivolous even the first-time defendants made them."

silliussoddius · 15-09-2023 04:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121114331#Comment_121114331

So that’s what drain the swamp means.

Overheal · 15-09-2023 06:19PM

Just in from CNN: in the sealed matter between the DOJ and Twitter, Twitter ended up handing over 32 responsive direct messages from his Twitter account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzo-LgEyXVo

Itssoeasy · 15-09-2023 07:43PM

So Donald trump from his interview with Megyn Kelly is trotting out the line that he was entitled to keep the documents he took and that they were his to keep. The reality is no he isn’t and wasn’t and if he’d complied with the subpoena he wouldn’t have had had the FBI in his home.

amandstu · 15-09-2023 08:15PM

"Above the law" comes to mind.

"Entitled" too.

And "cornered".

Overheal · 15-09-2023 08:46PM

Romneys texts and new bio reportedly show that the GOP were too terrified of their violent base to impeach Trump after January 6, something which would have immediately put to bed any chance of him holding office again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqn7WZdTGJY

Cody montana · 15-09-2023 09:18PM

Theatergoer Describes ‘Outrageous’ Lauren Boebert ‘Beetlejuice’ Encounter

Check out the new footage. 😬

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