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

So that's a town the size of Portlaoise that needs to be housed.

60% increase in the Irish population in the past 30 years is definitely having an impact on our housing situation.20% or more of our population being born overseas is certainly having an impact aswell.

Never occured to me how good an analogy for MAGA supporters Donovan's Mother was.

For those who haven't watched V (or don't want to) Mike Donovan is the hero of the story, while his own mother is very much a supporter of the The Visitors' facist regime. In fact she's so much of a supporter that she publically backs them to the point of gleaning clout from her association with them. She's got what she wanted, and to hell with everyone else. That very much seems to be the MAGA way.

But in addition to that, Donovan's mother fails to notice that her new friends fully intend to eventually kill her. So in the quest of gaining temporary cudos, she's insuring that she has no future….just like MAGA.

I awoke to the news that the Rapist Connor Mcgregor was invited to the White House... guess he was going to compare notes with the other Rapist Donald Trump.

Not even hald a year into his 2nd term and we are already seeing crap like this. We live in the worst timeline.

The McGregor incident was toe-curling. He got a lot of time on the Sky News report last night to spout his BS.

This autopen thing is completely bizarre though. Whatever about using it to sign letters to citizens (which was probably the original purpose), the fact that Obama used it to sign legislation when he wasn't even in the country, is incredible. Maybe the courts there would allow that, but I seriously doubt they would here. It completely misses the whole point of signatures on important documents.

Understandable that we focus on the McGregor visit, but the casual ignoring of court orders over the weekend is a much bigger deal.

There's a slippery slope there - to an extent the court system has always been powerless of itself and relies on the good faith of people with actual power to follow and/or enforce even when they actively dislike what the court has directed. If that changes, then you are definitely heading into a whole new ball-game. The parallels with various 1920s European events would be fairly stark.

True, but when push comes to shove, the important people (like army generals, and it seems so weird pointing this out wrt to the US) take an oath specifically to defend the constitution, rather than to the commander in chief personally.

Does Trump actually have to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll? Not immediately, at least

Before Donald Trump delivers any amount of monetary damages to E. Jean Carroll, he could engage in a long appeals process.

theconversation.com

"With Trump in particular, who is well known for drawing out legal processes, the appeals process could take a long time. It just depends. It could take years.
And the $65 million of punitive damages, in particular, is not about how much Carroll was harmed. It is about punishing Trump’s bad behavior and getting him to stop doing it".

Does seem Carroll could be in for a very long wait to get paid, Trump will employ the delay, delay tactics and might well be lying beside Ivana before this gets settled, imagine having to go after Trump's estate as his vulture family come to pick his bones.

I signed for my mortgage digitally… I've signed my work contracts digitally.… Plenty of things are viewed as credible signatures. Trump just thinks the performance of signing is work.

And the complaint coming from Trump who never signed any instructions to declassify the documents he stole but used the defence that as POTUS once he thinks it and orders it is official.

So it's just rubbish about Biden digital signatures

President of what though? Suggestions please…..

Yesterday was an embarrassment to Ireland, the office of the U.S Presidency… and to anyone with a hint of decent moral standards…

The only way that Circus show in the Oval office could have been any worse was if Harvey Weinstein, Jeffery Epstein and P.Diddy were there also…

He might be voted in once as a protest vote, but there's not a chance he'd get voted in twice.

First of all you'd have to turn up, and he's highly unlikely to do anything other than threaten to hit someone.

Secondly, you'd have to do something for your constituents, and the only thing he does for his constituents is keep the drug suppliers busy and punch old men in the face for refusing whiskey.

And third, there's every chance he'd be arrested for possession while entering the Dáil, and he'd be banned from it.

As for the Presidency, I'm not joking, as a general rule he's so despised in Ireland in the main that I would probably stand a better chance if, and my sole reason for campaign for running would be for letting an ordinary lad have a much fancier gaff than he currently has and free tickets to major sports events.

After The Monk fiasco I don't think McGregor is as far away from the Presidency as people here think.

SInn Fein are populist and do extremely well here. A right wing populist hasn't done well here (bar Casey) because so far we haven't had one with charisma or one which the media becomes totally obsessed with, when that happens everything will change here

He's very far from gaining any public office position, it's just not how politics works over here.. Maybe Trump can give him a job over there, and maybe citizenship so he will never come back to Ireland..

As for Sinn Fein, they're very much a left wing party so wouldn't go anywhere near the likes of McGregor.