Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

Supposedly it dates back to the first settlers from England. They brought with them the accepted norm of a Royal Pardon from the King/Queen and it got incorporated into US government culture.

(So a bit of a 'Protestants up to no good as usual' thing, just to keep the Father Ted joke per page going)

Thing is it worked, until it stopped working. You used to have presidents nominating people based on ability not loyalty and congress not rejecting people who were qualified. When Reagan nominated the Nixon stooge Robert Bork this changed, on both sides

The key point also is "anything they can characterise as liberal or progressive". Whether its actually liberal or progressive doesn't matter. If they oppose it it will be characterised as woke or liberal or communist, choose as appropriate. Many traditional conservative or republican values are often now characterised as liberal

The video of Trump talking about Gaza in the Oval office as he signed Executive Orders is chilling, he's talking about it 100% from a commodity perspective.

I'd be very worried if I was Palestinian and the whole world should support the ICJ in their prosecution of Nethanyahu and should call for USA to stop funding the Genocidal acts of the Israeli government.

Israelis will watch that video and start thinking of how to do a deal with Trump for a Mediterranean resort if they allow them to finish what they started. Horrific stuff.

I wonder how long Trump and Musk will be best mates.

Ii can see a falling out to end all fallings out there.

St Brigids Day.

The thing is that when Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Similar to people from Cork.

I'm sorry but there really isn't anything to be said for financially supporting Musk to "challenge him". The reality is people who challenge Musk and have Twitter accounts have help put Musk where he is. They are just as responsible as the people who love him. They are the ones who give him attention and project his messages by retreating just as much as the people who love him.

Maple Syrup cannons at the ready 🤣

This thing that you keep doing based around your username

Very cringy

Trump's decision to strip away the citizenship of children born in the US should be something, on the face of it, that federal courts all the way to SCOTUS should declare to be an act outside his powers. If he gets away with it, no one's children would be safe from the president, setting a precedent that would put any parents children at risk of denial and expulsion.

Well the whole Canadian trade excess with the US consists of oil and gas.

Trump is bluffing when he says that he wants to reduce that, he simply cant.

Canada only refines about a quarter of the oil it produces, the rest is exported to the US at low rates.

Canada could threaten to stop the exports, or tell Trump they will refine the oil themselves instead.

They will come to some sort of a deal, but Canada holds alot of cards.

Pretty grim start by Trump ,those policemen who some were badly assaulted must be feeling very let down .To think almost all his voters would go along with what he is doing males me wonder how bad things might get and the damage he can do to American society over the next four years .

the police men and women who spent countless hours going through video footage, Facebook and endless online investigations must be feeling pretty unappreciated right now. Whatever about the couple of month sentences. The 20 year + sentences for sedition been wiped out is going to cause a backlash hopefully.

True. Cork keeps its best.