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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: 21,371 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    he probably only remembered it because they broke out the crayons and explained it via a drawing.

    Remember, he is Mr. Quid Pro Quo. You bet your ass that if he thought he could monetize information, he absolutely would!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Have to give Putin credit, he certainly got bang for his buck. Not alone with undermining the US elections he’s got them threatening civil war as well as a large proportion of the GOP now activately supporting Russia and withdrawal from NATO

    He must be p1ssing himself laughing, even yesterday’s targeted slaughtering of the funeral party has made no difference to them .

    Some difference to the Reagan years



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    He has done the same in the UK the Tory party are just as bad after nearly two decades of taking oligarch money.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    I imagine he was getting briefed on something by the Joint Chiefs or the Secretary of the Navy, and submarines were mentioned but weren't the focus and he went down a rabbit hole asking questions about subs completely derailing the briefing. After it was all over, all he remembered was that he, not the US, HE had the best submarines.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,103 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Yeah. They're the "we're behind you guys! All the way"

    About 3000 miles behind.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    That's true to a point - it's worth remembering that half the reason Trump has his cult in the first place was because there's a huge swathe of white, uneducated unemployed or breadline level people in these states with nothing to lose. A demographic derisively - if sometimes accurately - described as white trash. They put their lot in with Trump because of the grift, because he was a poor person's idea of a rich man and promised them opportunity. Or just revenge against the Swamp that made their towns die, closed the mines, etc etc.

    Their lot has not improved - has probably gone backwards - and the cult is strong enough they might just throw their lot in with another go at the rebellion they would still sing of anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,371 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Fox and conservatism in the states is diminishing.

    People realise that gay people have rights, can get married, racism is bad and abortion is expected in the US.

    So their demographic is getting older and will die out, literally.

    There'll always be the "deplorables", but overall, they know their audience is dwindling, and democracy will do away with them in government.

    So, what you have here is them desperately hanging on to control, and if they will lose it via democracy, then fascism will do just fine thank you.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Trump has offically backed Jim Jordan for speaker.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,334 ✭✭✭✭briany


    They've been saying that since the 1960s, at least.

    (hits doobie) "Man, when all these squares die off, the future will be far out!"

    But the problem is that this assumes that political stances do not change as a person ages and their life circumstances change, and that's not how things generally work.

    And the other thing is that if mainstream Western culture accepts gay rights and racial diversity and other things that would be called socially liberal, then the only place for the counter culture to go is into the opposite, and that leads to a sizable group of younger people advocating for intolerance and hatred of minorities, even if just to rub The Man's nose in it.

    I think what we've been seeing in quite a lot of the history of civilisation is a constant lurch between ideas that could be currently described as socially liberal or conservative, with the only real change being the speed at which this lurch is now happening due to the flow of information.

    So, no. I don't think conservatism of any type will be dying off any time soon for these reasons and more, although the contentious points may change, as might the kind of people talking about them.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,967 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Will be interesting to see if that has any actual value for Jordan.

    Will Reps vote for Jordan now because they don't want to draw fire from the MAGAs in any upcoming primaries?

    OR will they ignore Trump and vote however they were planning to - Which for a large cohort will not be for Jordan.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,334 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Not every Republican representative is from a MAGA stronghold, so drawing criticism from that cohort might not make a difference.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,120 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    This Trump Jordan backing is almost certainly a loyalty (fealty) test for the Republicans



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,967 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    It absolutely is.

    It's also a test of the test as it were.

    Does Trump still have the hold over them that he had before?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,839 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    In Trumpian parlance: the pussy grab of death.



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


    Jesus, well and truly f3cked. Question is if tump doonbeg is owned by any of the trump based new York businesses, it will more than likely be sold. I wonder if he'll still garner support in West clare if they're all out of a job?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,994 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    That particular rule is much more recent. Definitely post 2020.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,371 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Screenshot_20231006-205058.png

    Trump denies the latest scandal.


    If only we had some sort of precedent to guide us as to whether, in light of this denial, the story is true or not 🤔🤔

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Pretty sure Trump actully lost more jobs than he created which was the first for a US President in a 100 years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,928 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” - Joseph Goebbels



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭delusiondestroyer


    Lets go trump! hope he gets elected again i think he is the last of the real presidents and possibly could resolve the situation in Ukraine, make the tough calls.

    I think he is hated mostly because of media spin and snowflakes who are sensitive and offended by everything.

    From what i gather he is aiming to stop the indoctrination of children with inappropriate LGBTQ, Racism, Political material.

    He will allow parents to control what there children are thought which is fantastic parents of those that want to have there children learn about trans and 72 genders ect and the likes are more than welcome to volunteer there children for it but those that do not want to they have the right to opt out of it.

    I think that's fantastic! Making LGBTQ topics optional is a great thing.

    All the above is what Donald Trump has said in various interviews.



  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,567 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Donald Trump trying to "stop racism"

    LOL

    thanks for the laugh



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭delusiondestroyer


    I think he meant like the movements and all the extremism like BLM and all that in schools. Basically stuff kids should not be worrying about.

    Racism is monetized now you cant stop it, they make money off the people that get up in arms over stuff the media milk it for all its worth. People are going in circles over racism and cant see the forrest for the trees, Racist event -> magnified by the media -> massive views for media --> isnpire "change" . Rinse and repeat.

    its in the "Good Guys" best interest to keep Racism going.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Honestly, I think history books will end up include bizarre soundbytes like this. He's not comparable to any previous president and it's not a virtue, he's a dangerous ignoramus. So you might be fond of him but it's like being fond of a very dumb Enoch Powell. 😉



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    "He will allow parents to control what there children are thought which is fantastic parents of those that want to have there children learn about trans and 72 genders ect and the likes are more than welcome to volunteer there children for it but those that do not want to they have the right to opt out of it."

    After reading that, I just hope someone is teaching the children some basic spelling and punctuation. But you carry on whining about genders and woke stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭delusiondestroyer




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Historically, Trump is an incompetent President that got away with a lot thanks to incompetent branches of government that protected him. It's not good leadership. That's about it.

    Post edited by eightieschewbaccy on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    What happens when the parents that are against LGBTQ topics have an LGBTQ kid, and they or the kid, hasn’t any idea of how to deal with it as they have never accessed information about it?

    Do you think they can just pretend their kid is straight? Do you think that’s healthy for the kid?


    (kid, meaning offspring. They could be any age at all when they come out)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    Apologies. What I meant to say was everything in your post was a load of bollocks and has been countered and disproven dozens of times in this thread. Better?



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