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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭amandstu


    Is Roberts speaking for Roberts or is there an implication that he is speaking for the majority of SCOTUS?

    Also is there a chance that they have cottoned on that they are in the firing line along with the rest of the judicial system ?(the 3rd branch of government?)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Why do you think they are horrendous people?

    You keep making claims about people, like activist judges, how Biden was awful etc, but never give any details.

    You say you dislike Trump. Are dems really worse than a convicted fraudster and sexual assaulter who tried to overturn democracy and has pardoned those that led the attack against the capital and the police.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭maik3n


    Unfortunately, I can't envisage this ruling making a blind bit of difference to our situation.
    I can just imagine the posts from Trump on TruthSocial and Lord Elon on Twitter shouting about ''activist judges'' trying to stop them keeping US money in the hands of Joe and Mary Sixpack and away from foreigners, lol.

    On a brighter note, the 2 astronauts are home now.

    I wonder will Trump be organising a reception at the White House for them though.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Their taxi arrived at the ISS last September. Nothing to do with this administration.

    Did Boeing foot the bill ? Will they pay to get the Starliner certified on a new rocket for the remaining flights contracted by NASA seeing as how no ones making the Atlas V rocket anymore ?

    Trump et al. are muzzling the FAA that should be holding Boeing accountable over the 737. There's also the 777X delays. Boeing are burning through billions.

    Which leads us on to the refitting of the 747's for Air Force One that might not get done during Trumps term. What idiot signed that deal ????



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Trump's got great people , the best people.

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/doge_treasury/

    DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people's private information to two Trump administration officials, according to a court document filed Friday. … Elez, who had been granted access to BFS systems and equipment in January and early February, resigned soon after when evidence emerged linking him to a Twitter account that had pushed for hate against Indian people, advocated for a "eugenic immigration policy," and boasted: "I was racist before it was cool." …. "It was not sent encrypted, and he did not obtain prior approval of the transmission via a Form 7005, describing what will be sent and what safeguards the sender will implement to protect the information,"

    Slash, burn and pillage. Not sure I like the idea of private data being handed over to those in contact with the billionaires who are already monetising personal data and targeting social media.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    I'd say Roberts sees the monster his court has created and is now trying to reign him in as the top justice on the 3rd branch of government.

    Firmly believe he will side with the liberals now when it comes to the most meaningful decisions. Just going to be interesting if he can bring Amy Coney Barrett with him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭briany


    People are putting an awful lot of faith in the US courts stopping Trump while seemingly ignoring the fact that he is steadily eroding the capacity to actually enforce rulings against him.

    When the head of the US department of Justice is a Trump loyalist, as is the head of the FBI, what are the real chances of the Trump administration actually being bound by the law?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,942 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    If the court begins to provide no survive to Trump, watch him start talking about dismantling it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    I suspect that Roberts is only protecting his own neck and those of his cohort. If Trump were to set precedent by getting judges that don't agree with him impeached, then why couldn't a dem president down the line do the same and set their sights on the Supreme Court Justices,some of whom (cough, Thomas, cough) probably merit it already.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    BBC few weeks ago discussed what are criteria for constitutional crisis

    Point one was Trump and co ignoring judges

    And like clockwork

    But hey “checks and balances” /sneers



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,058 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Two screen grabs from the same interview…

    IMG_20250319_071728_671.jpg IMG_20250319_071725_821.jpg

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Putin has played Trump like a fiddle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,058 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Screenshot_20250319-073219.png

    https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/gop-state-sen-justin-eichorn-arrested-for-suspicion-of-soliciting-sex-with-a-16-year-old-girl/

    Later, in the same article...

    Eichorn also co-authored a bill to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    100%. After all the bluff and bluster and lets face it the bullying, the silence from Trump and Vance after Putin basically told them to do one is is defening.

    This was the guy who would end the war with one phone call. Now he has been forced to do everything Putin wants and Putin still wouldn't agree.

    Trump look even more weak and pathetic than he did before. Imagine the vitriol if Biden or Obama was such a lapdog to Putin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    On the face of his statement, Roberts is acting as defence for the independence of the judiciary against another vile attack on the constitutional boundaries of presidential authority by Trump. He's probably more aware now than ever of the damage Trump will inflict on the US rampaging through the federal government if the law does not reign him in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    First time around he was a useful idiot for them.

    Now he's a dangerous idiot



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Exiled Rebel


    100%. Nirvana for Russia would be to see the likes of California and other purple states seceding from the Federal Republic.

    Just wait till he turns his attention to California. There'll be a massive backlash in the state.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭Field east


    if one of the key objectives of the army - re issues on US soil is to uphold the constitution- what kind of ‘ things’ might Trump do for the army to ‘be called in’ ?

    And who gives the army the instructions to ‘ACT’?

    And if the army is called in what are the options re ‘ Handling’ Trump? . EG. House arrest ,; same treatment as is netted out to those ‘criminals from eg Venezuela, etc.’ - just because they entered the US illegally and have otherwise no criminal record



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭Field east


    I’d be 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure that if I asked a typical Irish person with only a ‘ pass primary cert from a national/primary school’ at most about the outcome re those two pictures , they would clearly state that the Russians would would have him ‘wipe their a—e and have enough paper left over - from the one roll- to do it several times.

    The GUY gets more unhinged day by day if the comments are true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Probably slim now. It might be that Roberts is trying to put steel into peoples spines, trying, as it were, to let people know he has their backs. If a majority of the SCOTUS bench were to arrange for Live-On-Air interviews by the media [including Fox] to tell the public that they were damn angry with the attacks on the courts by Trump and they weren't going to take it any more, that they were will take him on full face.

    The media is there not solely for the benefit of Trump, Musk and the W/House weasels. Trump wants a fight, give it to him where it hurts, his ego. On the next verbal attack impugning a judge by him, order him to appear in court to explain his words and actions there. No representation by a go-between lawyer or laptop dog, he himself must attend in person. Follow it up with an order to Trumps W/House media Rep to not make any statement to the media or face contempt charges.

    IF the head of the FBI were to order action against any judge on the basis of Trumps "Henry II" rants about troublesome judges, it's up to Roberts to call the SCOTUS bench together and remind them it's them Trump is really after for the elimination of constraints on him. Its either them and the constitution or the contents and intent of a Trump-altered constitution. Cut out this **** of the appointees having loyalty to Trump above the constitution. If they are to go down, go down in flames with Trump, be remembered for what they were and not for what they did on Trump's orders.

    Damn, that thing in the oval Office has really got up my nose now.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭Field east


    Would are away out there . He actually is being played ‘ like a well tuned violin. The flow of the music flows ‘ swimmingly’ no breaks, no scratching and you just lye back and absorb it all in while the ‘world burns’ unbeknownst to you Mr Trump



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    One way to fix his wagon is for the parents of the child to go media on him, destroy any standing he has before he uses whatever reach he has against them. Get the message out to any person likely to provide references for him to use in court that it will hurt them big time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Oh. Trump knows it. He just doesn't care. Or more likely he cares that he achieves a peace deal because he promised he would and he knows Putin won't give in so the easiest path is to crush Ukraine.

    Then Trump can get his Noble Peace prize and unlock all the Russian money. Pity about Ukraine but he doesn't play golf there so who cares.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭thatsdaft




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,614 ✭✭✭✭Penn




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    Great film

    Hopefully we get another film with Margot Robbie in the bath 😂

    Except this time explanation will be short

    “Trump did it”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭Field east


    The ‘ Anti- Trump ‘ world should concentrate on implementing ‘PLAN B’ immediately rather than waiting for the end of the Trump presidency and implementing PLAN A in the meantime. The eg. COLLISION of the WILLING is concentrating on the ‘ here and now’ which is important to address. We have to just ‘suck up ‘ the impact of the Trump behaviour and the effect his decisions are having on on Gaza , Ukraine , Yemen, Russia, world stability or absence, international uncertainty, international / domestic trade, quality of life in the US, relationship with traditional Allies, etc, etc., and ‘do what we can’ to minimise its’ impact’



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭randd1


    The Republicans are quickly becoming the Paedophile Party, there's some amount of them getting involved with underage kids that it is at a point now where they are a genuine danger to children.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭randd1


    A ho' bitch don't never talk back to her pimp daddy. A ho' bitch waits for her pimp daddy.

    And Putin is very much the pimp daddy and Trump is very much the ho' bitch in this relationship, emphasis on bitch with Trump.

    Alpha male indeed. Trump is the Smithers to Putin's Monty Burns.



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