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

Cars and trucks and computers made in America use parts from china chips cpus and other electronic parts. Cars now use chips electronics sensors than ever before .If the us stopped imports from it would be a disaster for us business .Trumps tariffs have crashed the stock market and seriously weakened dollar . The dollar is no longer the default safe haven for investors .They can buy gold or other currencys .if you buy gold for 1000 euros you,ll make s profit I'f you sell it in 3 years from now .

unless trump reverse,s his tariffs stance he,ll cause lasting damage to the American economy

Watch this video. Its a decent dive into the huge US law firms kissing the kings gold ring, bending the knee & rolling over. And as if this were not enough there is the amount of pro-bono / free work they are going to be doing for trump admin over next 4 years, its astonishing. Quiet terrifying to be honest

Seems these pharma tariffs are imminent .. from the horses mouth, vid below.

Elsewhere reported Trump as saying:

“Yeah, we’re going to be doing that, that’s going to be like we have on cars,” Mr. Trump said seated next to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. “We, as you know, have a 25% tariff on cars, we have a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum, and that’s what that category fits right now.”He said the tariffs would be placed “in the not-too-distant future.”

So 25% looks like the Pharma tariff too - what does this do to Ireland PLC?

Interesting way to bring down the costs of guarding long sentence violent prisoners - they’ve already outsourced prisons to private companies in America - it makes total monetary sense to outsource it to another country paying a fraction of what they would in the USA .

I anticipate a massive increase in executions on death row for similar reasons - human rights have essentially been suspended in America that’s for sure -

Language sounding a bit tougher.

Perhaps realisation that plamás and kissing Trump's "ass" (as the great man himself put it) at best grants reprieve for a time, before the bully will come after you yet again for something else.

In other words there will probably be no good options available, only bad (responding at some stage) and worse (lying back, and taking the abuse).

Post Leaving Cert 😁

I think it's something like a third of Irish made pharma goes to the US anyway. Probably just open new markets.

Also, does the American workforce have the expertise to work in large extra numbers in the pharmaceutical industry? That would require a lot of people not currently involved in pharma with degrees and masters degrees in pharmacy, chemistry, biology etc.

An excellent point also that major industries are not going to make long term investment decisions based on the whims of a flaky nutjob in the White House who performs about 10 U-turns a week.

By any chance did the US staffers offer to provide you with a list or summary of what they alleged were your improper documentations so as to be of proper assistance to you for the future?

Somehow, given the guidance they are getting from their feuding seniors, I doubt it.

Trump meter so far:

Greenland, I want it.

Panama, I want this too.

Canada, 51st state.

Russia, my old friend Putin.

Ukraine, you owe me 300b, time to pay.

Syria, made president from one of the most wanted terrorist.

Israel, you better clean out Gaza.

Gaza, my future casino project.

Yemen, I am sending my bombs to you.

Iran, I will unleash hell on you.

China, still waiting for the phone call.

Rest of the world, come kiss my @$$ or else.

What will he do in 6 days. Will he activate the insurrection act on April 20?

Basically taking full control over the police and armed forces and authorizing himself to deploy the military on American soil against US citizens

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-may-impose-martial-law-type-order-on-april-20-what-we-know-8162828

Trump said on jan 20th that he would declare a National emergency over the southern border within 90 days

No. Nothing. When you get an L1 visa, you get the sticker in your passport. And some big print out book with regulations or conditions for the visa or something. There is also some form that the embassy staff have told us to bring with us when first travelling on a new first time issue of the visa, or a renewal. Which I have done multiple times. I can't remember if they give it back. But I've never been asked for it before, other than above scenarios.

I told them that their embassy is not listing this as a requirement and if they could tell me the name of the form and where it is stated I should have this form with me, as I'll need to inform my employer. But they didn't tell me. Just told me that I should have got it with my visa. They didn't really listen to any explanation or questions I had. Outside of their questions, they interacted with me to the bare minimum.

He's as rude as anything (to Kaitlan Collins of CNN this evening):

He is a nasty, vintictive buffoon which was amply demonstrated over the decades yet the American people elected the fwit to represent them across the whole world….

Sadly, this could be appropriate for the times we are in, maybe not so much as didn't speak out but didn't speak out loudly enough.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller