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

In fairness, don't think the public wanted him to crash the economy and seems to be lots of buyer's remorse on show.

Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"

She is one disgusting piece of shït.

The war in Ukraine and conflict in Gaza are still going on. He said he'd end them rapidly when in office. He has launched attacks on Yemeni citizens, he said he wouldn't start any new conflicts. He said the stock market would soar if he won, it's seen record losses. He said he'd stop the weaponisation of tthe DOJ, he's escalated that like never before. He has created strife and acrimony against many countries after he said that he would be the great negotiator.

His actions with respect to immigration and tariffs are the closest he has come to his campaign promises. In both cases though it has profoundly more problematic than he thought it would be. China is taking him to school on tariffs and a small few immigration cases are steeling the judiciary to push back on him.

With many of his campaign supporters already saying they regret voting for him, it's a long long way from what he promised.

Meanwhile his opponents last November said he would bring chaos and the subjugation of democracy. Both of which he has done in abundance. He has signed an executive order direction the DOJ to launch investigations in to two Republicans who tentatively opposed him or spoke against him since 2020 for no other reason than they did so, that's a dictatorial move if ever there was one.

Looking back at the campaign rhetoric of both Trump and his detractors last year, it's his detractors which are much closer to having been proven correct.

I get what you're saying, but Ryanair has been, shall we say less than satisfied, with Boeing for some time now. The company relied massively on the 737 MAX to update its current fleet, much of which is made up of older Boeing 737-800s that were delivered in the early to mid 2000s. However, the ongoing issues with the 737 MAX, combined with the FAA-mandated reduction in aircraft production at Boeing's facilities at Everett and Renton mean that Boeing is significantly behind in aircraft deliveries, which has hobbled Ryanair's growth plans. So while O'Leary is a wind-up merchant of the highest order, there's some real beef between Ryanair and Boeing.

That being said, I don't think there's much that Ryanair can do. Airbus doesn't have any spare capacities on their assembly lines, Toulouse, Hamburg and Mobile are flat out. What's more, the company has it's own set of headaches, namely in the shape of one of the engine options for the new Airbus A320neo, the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine, also known as the GTF or Geared Turbofan. These engines have significant reliability and vibration issues, leading to aircraft groundings, excessive engine changes, etc..

Meanwhile, the COMAC C919 mentioned in one of the articles linked above hasn't even started the EASA certification process required for the type to be operated commercially in Europe, not to mention that there's absolutely no maintenance or spare parts infrastructure for it outside of China. And beyond that, there aren't really any options. The only other airliner in that size range is the MC-21 by Yakovlev, a Russian manufacturer, and that one is still undergoing flight tests & certification in Russia. And while I have no doubt that O'Leary wouldn't give a rodent's behind about ordering from Russia if it weren't for the sanction, he'll be keenly aware about how Irish airline Cityjet and Mexico's Interjet fared with another Russian airliner, Sukhoi's Superjet 100, whose reliability, maintenance issues and spare parts availability were so bad that the aircraft were dropped from operations after only a few years.

So it looks like Ryanair is shackled to Boeing regardless of Trump's tariffs, not because O'Leary doesn't want to move away from them, but because he simply can't.

None of them have a 'proper pair', they lost the election as they would not play dirty like he would… fight fire with fire and all that. Need to beat him at his own game.

Notice how nobody is talking about Signal gate anymore?

Trump's America is so fxxked up that a real national security issue is soon forgotten about in a matter of days with nobody being made accountable and we just carry on to the next sxxt show from the Administration.

Nobody is talking about Trumps failure to stop the war in Ukraine? When Trump couldn't blackmail Zelensky to take half a country's rare earth elements he abandoned Ukraine.

Now China have suspended their exports of rare earth elements to America it looks like Trump may have had an actual plan in what he was demanding and reduce dependency on China.

As always though, it's his failure to understand in politics he can't describe himself and America as winners and his allies as losers and think that this works in the geo-political sphere.

It works in American politics but not with the rest of the world.

Reading back the last few pages a see a lot of positive comments regarding Sanders and AOC.

They both have good messages but unfortunately Sanders has been at this so long he can be seen as the old man shouting at clouds.

I listened to AOC yesterday for about 10 minutes and I had to turn it off. Her voice was hurting my ears and as much as she was saying the right things eventually I didn't want to hear it. Kamala Harris had the same issue.

These two are currently being championed to fill the void in the Democratic leadership but they just won't get the numbers to back them.

I like Pete Buttigieg but again while he delivers a good message he comes across as too mild mannered.

I don't see anybody yet in the Democratic party that has the charisma to lead an opposition and the MAGA republicans.

I think it's more that America didn't want Kamala Harris so he won by default.

The democrats should have accepted long before that Joe Biden was not fit for a second term and had a younger more relatable candidate ready to run.

It came across that Harris was thrown in a the deep end and she really wasn't prepared for running.

This may have legs as a theory, but who exactly is that better candidate?

Unless they have 2 Queens!

The trouble with Trump is that he thinks that the King is the most powerful piece and spends all his time going back and forth to the same few squares, letting other pieces get obliterated and ruining the game for everyone else.