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Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,023 ✭✭✭✭briany


    My question is would anything ever happen in the world if it weren't for this small collective of people pulling all the strings?

    Because they're what every notable event is blamed on by someone.

    Do any wars, weather, famine, emergence of disease, emmy nomination, cultural movement or price hike happen just because of a natural sequence of events?

    Yes? No?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,930 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,023 ✭✭✭✭briany


    It's usually hard to tell just through text, yes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,867 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    The ultimate in conspiracy theories: the secret cabal. Everyone knows THEY exist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,930 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,930 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    My personal favourite is that George Soros is pretty much behind everything with his riches.

    Yet…Elon Musk is for Free Speech so it is ok that he is part of the deal now.

    Makes sense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,867 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Now if you could only slip that partnership rumour into MTG's mind and have her spread it as gospel, it would be delightful.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,930 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    She is doing fine work with hurricanes and raw milk lately.

    At this rate, the electorate who listen to her will be dying from e.coli and dysentery, all while shouting at the weatherman.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,032 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    I'm old to remember when the guys were laughing at the chap who put a round wheel on his bicycle up the road.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,032 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    As I said earlier, I was reared on it, would I buy it in supermarkets not a hope even though it's perfectly legal here.

    This is probably drifting a bit close to the green party for me but I just pulled it out of the fridge for a photo shoot. That's what I drink these days and so do my kids. We're all healthy in case anyone is wondering.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭accensi0n




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    There will never be a more pathetic, attention seeking, brazen liar of a public official again.

    GZkdgqXXcAQLJBC.png

    How can anybody, and I mean anybody respect this man?

    I can't fathom.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,032 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Well it's GMO free. I'm not sure it's worth paying a premium for but her In doors thinks I'm a marketeers wet dream.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    A direct quote from Miley...

    "Mark Milley to Bob Woodward: Trump “the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked… about his mental decline & so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.

    “A fascist to the core.”"

    And before his bona fides is questioned...

    Special Forces Group throughout the last 44 years to include command of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division; the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division; Deputy Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Commanding General, 10th Mountain Division; Commanding General, III Corps; and Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command.

    While serving as the Commanding General, III Corps, General Milley deployed as the Commanding General, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command and Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Forces Afghanistan. General Milley's joint assignments also include the Joint Staff operations directorate and as Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

    General Milley's operational deployments include the Multi-National Force and Observers Task Force, Sinai, Egypt; Operation JUST CAUSE, Panama; Operation UPHOLD DEMOCRACY, Haiti; Operation JOINT FORGE, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Iraq; and three tours during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan. GEN Milley also deployed to Colombia, Somalia and served two years on the DMZ in the Republic of Korea.

    In addition to his bachelor's degree in political science from Princeton University, General Milley has a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University and one from the U.S. Naval War College in national security and strategic studies. He is also a graduate of the MIT Seminar XXI National Security Studies Program."

    So I'd say he knows a fascist when he sees one.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ok. So you do believe that there is a weather control device.

    This Isn't going to help you convince people that Trump and his supporters are very rational.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭ghostfacekilla


    I believe at this point of the game, and what is in the public realm and known about Trump, that the overwhelming majority of his supporters, both inside and outside the US who argue in his favour, do so to mask one or two fears that isn’t acceptable to say out loud. One is that a vote for Harris is a vote for a woman to have the most powerful job in the world, and there is a genuine fear amongst swathes of men about women having more power, and as a result they have less control than ever before, and fear that slipping further. The fear that if ‘we’ let women become more self-sufficient, then the easier they’ll toss us aside if our behavior or attitude is poor, whereas up until recently in this country, women were stuck with men, regardless of their behavior. They were dependent. The fear of abandonment. The answer to that in their mind, is control. The second pertains to race. Bar Obama, Biden and Kennedy, every US President has been a white male of some protestant variety. There was a foot on the neck of the non-white and it’s slipping in the US and here at home. There is a mindset amongst many that is afraid of a system of merit, where qualifications and work ethic is what your judged on, and that your skin colour is no longer going to get you a job over someone who is better qualified or a better or more reliable worker. This is the quiet part, the fears that aren’t said out loud, that lie behind the constant argument that Trump is a better pick than Harris. She is a normal human being, qualified and a person of integrity and he, everything that is wrong with the human race, but people are afraid of losing their advantage of gender and/or race.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,457 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    So you are telling me go to a barber that you won't name, but I can find by going 20 minutes South of Doonbeg which I am pretty sure will land me in the middle of the Shannon Estuary where I have to ask at a bar which I presume will have to be staffed by Mermaids.

    You can't tell me who or where because you were at Trump's inauguration.

    I'll think we will leave it there. 😏



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Detritus70


    So, normal milk you can buy in a supermarket, pasteurised, homogenised, fairly standard stuff.

    The non GMO label is just tinsel for dummies.

    You don't seem to know the difference between raw milk and this stuff.

    Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    At this point, his zealots don't care what he is.

    Racist - no problem

    An idiot - no problem

    A fascist - no problem

    Hypocritical - no problem

    An egregious liar - no problem

    Makes policy that will hurt them - no problem

    That's why you will never get one of them to admit they're wrong. They simply don't care.

    They believe all the bad stuff he says, or enough of it, to justify in their world, supporting him.

    warned and 1 week forum ban applied

    Post edited by Beasty on

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,027 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,343 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    His so called speeches back in 2016 were novel and new - his shock jock tactics just about worked their magic helped along by the announced FBI enquiry of Hilary’s emails towards the end.

    He’s got to shout a lot louder to be heard this time hence, this vile racist sh1te. However I reckon there’s an equation that fits these type of speeches - essentially the more the Trump back office boys and girls think he’s sliding downwards in the polls, the more blatant the racism will be over the coming weeks. Watch this space I guarantee it

    This to me is desperation nothing more- had Biden been still in the race I’d doubt he would be going this route because he’d likely have a strong enough lead anyway - this sort of speech reaches your extreme MAGA fans- the ones who will take up arms if he doesn’t win. It could be argued very clearly, that he’s inciting people to “take back the school places and the hospital beds” by force if necessary- he’s just stopping short of saying that.

    Disgusting yes- but really this is just Trump 2024- there’s absolutely no surprise here -what’s more worrying for me is that millions of people are still willing to have him as a president -I’m glad I’m not living in America right now- it’s the voters of this person who I actually despise a lot more



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭ronjo


    Yes Drunkmonkey I am terrified of Trump winning again.

    I live in a country that borders Ukraine… My kids are born here and their mother is from here.

    I have no idea what Trump is gonna do if he gets in but it certainly has me worried.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Economics101




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Trump: “Would you rather have the black president or the white president, who got $1.7B off the price? I think they want the white guy”

    https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/zJ1Qj2g89R

    Now, Snopes wants you to know this quote recirculated last night from February “lacks context” but the context is no less racist:

    While telling a story about Air Force One and the call sign for when a U.S. president is aboard the aircraft, Trump referenced its age and also former President Barack Obama, telling the BCF audience, "I love this great equipment. Although the plane's 32 years old, I ordered new ones, and I saved $1.7 billion from what Obama was willing to pay. I have to tell you, [he's a] Black president, but I got $1.7 billion less. Would you rather have the Black president or the white president who got $1.7 billion off the price? I think they want the white guy right now. Got $1.7 billion off the price."

    If this is the guy you think is somehow going to pull better numbers with Black voters this go around, well… I wouldn’t bet the house on that.

    https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/10/11/trump-black-president-white-president/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,023 ✭✭✭✭briany


    It isn't really mind-blowing that the polls are so close. Trump's base had been waiting for him before he ever decided to run for president, at least as far back as the so-called Palin phenomenon and that woman who said to John McCain at a town hall that Obama was an Arab.

    Besides which, America has a two party system and an electorate which is deeply divided. You could have a sensible, sane human on one side and an angry swarm of Africanised bees on the other and at least 40 percent of the electorate would vote for the bees. Maybe more would do so just as a protest vote.

    I think, actually, to say that it's mind-blowing that Trump is still in contention for POTUS shows that the political centre has little understanding of why Trump is even a thing, still. Trump got laughed at (rightly) for saying he had 'concepts' of a plan for healthcare, but nobody is talking about the apparent fact that the political centre hasn't even a concept of a plan on how to actually defeat Trumpism. This isn't true just in America but pretty much everywhere throughout the Western world that is dealing with burgeoning reactionary right-wing movements. Basically, it's just a case of hoping to win the next election by increasingly narrow margins, and hoping the other crowd just go away. I think history will judge that as a very, very, very poor and cowardly course of action.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭combat14


    trump is far from desperate he is almost neck and neck with harris in the polls despite him being derided and despised on a regular basis here

    Trump Has Clear Edge on Handling Israel, Ukraine Wars, WSJ Poll Shows

    By double-digit margins, swing-state voters prefer the former president over Harris when it comes to dealing with both conflicts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,343 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    There’s definitely lessons to be learned here - we’re seen far right movements in Europe too and to be honest Ireland is at far more threat than it realises - our accommodation crisis is proof of that - I guarantee there will be a huge increase in voting for more extremist views - the likes of SF vote will collapse as they don’t have a clue what they stand for - and their voters clearly want more radical action so they’ll be off voting for anyone who is even just looking in the direction of the right.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    You not gonna address the fact that you've just posted pasteurized milk? 😂

    He's behaving like a desperate man, since Harris entered the race he's come across as intimidated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    I was listening to the Americast and they were talking about Harris' lack of fight in this race. She's not taking the race to Trump. It's almost like she's hoping he goes away. They said on the cast that when she does interviews, she's always getting asked questions, but never asking them.

    Never turning the answers back on Trump. Barely mentioning him, and his "old, tired playbook". She needs to be harder on the press for not holding him up to the same standards. She needs to remind people how he is not some annoying tick that can be batted away.

    It's all too softly, softly, nicey nicely and she's running out of road with a little over 3 weeks left.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,343 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    I take posts deriding Trump here with a pinch of salt - if someone wants to post such text heavy wall to wall essay type posts day in day out fine if that rocks their boat but jezuz don’t expect me to read them coz I won’t . life’s way too short for that b0ll0x

    But- I don’t think he’s doing as well as he hoped - yes I agree “neck and neck”- you’re spot on- but that really isn’t where he needs to be- and I’ve seen his rhetoric increase in racist and hate intensity even over the last week - that means he’s rattled - if the Dems can bring out the ethnic vote on the day they have this election - it’s a big “if” though



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