No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

thats some statement by you in fairness… Trump wants to end a war… he is very clear he wants it to stop… he is not interested in people being killed…. Varadkar Martin McDonald and that creep of creeps Harris have never said anything bout the war ending.. they also all pushed hard for the abortion referendum to be passed… Mcgregor is not a nice person but he is not a convicted rapist and i dont think Trump is a convicted rapist either… stick to the facts

my only worry with Trump is Putin definitely has a grip on him..

 but what i do like is he makes decisions

Just making decisions and ploughing ahead regardless is not a good thing. Like firing off a load of people to make it look like he was solving waste only to find out they were critical to the nuclear security and they had to attempt to rehire them three days later. Action for the sake of blame/appearance. He also wasn't long in actioning the purchase of $400 million worth of his mate Musks EV's even though they are complete dog shite.

He also just gives the impression of making decisions; he signed a flurry of executive orders making it look like things were being done; in actuality they're tied up in legal challenges and chunks of them not going through. But, it looks good and that's what matters to him and MAGA.

No cameras on at least two if nor three roads out of there. Those roads would be very quiet in the evening/night.

I’m not going to bog down the farming chitchat by getting into it all here but all I can say is you’ve a lot to learn yet.

Ya it's a bit of a shock alright. America was seen as the big boy in the school yard, protecting us from the bullies, ie Russia China ect.

Now it's after turning away, we might have to fight our own battles.

Money is where the ruling class in America feels it. They won't be long turning on Trump if there is a long term downturn in the markets

I guess it answers my question that there are still some people that can't see the clown that he is. The language out of him alone like. How could anyone take him seriously.

I was having a conversation with a mother on the school run about the lunatic just there, but there was another mother there listening in and saying nothing.

A toddler also makes decisions, doesn't mean its a good idea.

Just to note, under Biden US manufacturing reached a 35 year high. Now thanks uncertainty due to trumps "decisions" manufacturing is decreasing.

Also the US unemployment rate is 4%. who is going to fill these jobs? Maybe immigrants? ….. Oh, hang on, they are forcing those guys out, so imports with tariffs are going to get more expensive and locally produced is also going to get more expensive due to lack of competition and a depleted employment base. I see a spiral effect happening here.

Anyone who thinks he has a plan are giving him way too much much credit.

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/news/mike-gaine-search-several-weapons-among-items-found-on-kerry-farmers-land-as-investigation-continues/a1920278425.html

That's an interesting link, but it showsmore that his economists might have the start of a plan, but Trump may well muck it up. It's all the one anyway to him, disgruntled and unhappy voters are easier to manipulate and he'll just blame the rest of the world anyway. The current world trade system has a lot of negative trade offs anyway so maybe a bit of disruption and reappraisal is no harm.

He's only after power and glory, this OP is probably a better explanation of where his head is at.

Not by me anyway, but probably someone (possibly his wife, one of his sisters or a neighbour did) I'd be surprised if they didn't. He lived his own day and life, I never met him out with his wife, much like a lot of us, but I believe they were very close, and I'd say someone would have driven the 10 minutes up the road when he didn't come home or answer the phone. They would have seen the car and (I assume) the wallet, phone and chicken roll in it.

As I said in an earlier post, I would have been an acquaintance, - always chatted when we met, but not a close friend. Despite this, I'll miss him, - he always had a slightly different and ironic take on circumstances, life and farming. A character.

That's not fair, Tom plays his part - he's head of Pest Control according to Bord Bia's list.

The Mart would be familiar with his sale pattern over the years, selling his weanlings every Spring. Probably a few dry cows also.

Will you stop for God's sake 🙄 tumps a complete loose canon who is in debt to Russian interests........