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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: 11,200 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    The military parade for his birthday is some serious dictator ****. Surreal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,111 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,133 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Not get the reaction you wanted from the first post?

    This has nothing to do with Catholicism.

    This has everything to do with a demonstrably amoral sex fiend and fraudster holding himself out to be the saviour of Christianity.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,884 ✭✭✭yagan


    Wasn't there some RCC priest down in Kerry who was very vocally pro Trump, I wonder what he makes of his new boss.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,832 ✭✭✭threeball


    "The President", he's not our president. I hope you're not Irish coming out with bootlicking waffle like that.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    This post lol .

    'its nothing to do with catholicism..... But Christianity..'

    My word



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,078 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Which should lead us all to the natural question:- what crazy shít is his administration attempting to get through while this kind of fluff poisons the news cycle?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I'd say it's as much to do with how he's conducting himself as a leader. I couldn't care less if a comedian does it but if Micheal Martin did it, it would be entirely inappropriate for his role..

    Also pretty telling that you're not addressing the fact he's threatened the security of nations and called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians... Instead you just resort to "poor Trump being unfairly criticized"... You're also one of many posters that has ignored his draconian threats towards Americans to leave the nation and jailing of judges....

    What I've learned over the years with Trump is the fall towards fascism can happen incredibly quickly and will get inevitably get praised by people who don't actually like the concept of democracy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    What Americans were told to leave ? I think a Judge aided an illegal criminal escape out of her chamber.

    But that's probably ok from your end. Maybe play the ball instead of the man like an adult.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Economics101


    So now the Australians have done a Canada: re-elected the centre-left, rejected the centre-right, and turfed the opposition leader out of his parliamentary seat.

    Call it the Trump Effect: like Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.

    The term "Liberal" is used for the centre-right party in Oz and the center-left party in Canada. This must tax the limited mental capacity of many of the MAGA crowd.😀



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,027 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Pretty telling that you didn't answer a direct question about being American



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/us-citizen-immigration-lawyers-being-asked-to-leave-country/3813464/

    Immigration lawyers have been told to leave the country or face deportation. They're mainly US citizens… Sounds pretty draconian to me but I'm sure you'll justify that too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭lostboy75


    Dr. Lisa Anderson, for one.

    I'll admit this now, I'm not certain I'm correct, but being deported is a civil matter not criminal? Therefore that person would not necessarily be an illegal criminal?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,753 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    "Critics erupt"

    Mission accomplished by Trump so.

    Its a joke, a poor one, yet people never fail to take the bait.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Relentlessly attacking state sponsored institutions that could hinder the great steal. The heads of many state organisations are appointed by you know who so they owe their allegiance to him , not to the organisation. Given the calibre of the typical appointee it's doubtful that allegiance to the state is their top priority.

    The land of the free™ now has less press freedom than places that Trump would refer to as "shíthole nations" like Liberia.

    Banning non-sycophantic press from the White House, cracking down on places that train or employ journalists. Remember that the vast majority of spending on Advertising was stolen from the traditional medial by the social media companies , the ones that are almost certainly targeting misleading political lies ads based on individuals profile.

    The US Government Accountability Office is on the hit list.

    Any regulatory organisation. Including the ones where the regulations are written in blood. Expect lots of selling off stealing of state resources. You don't need to buy the land, just get the mineral rights, You don't need to get all the rights to water, just the plot where the source or bottleneck is.

    It's relentless. Even where it's been rolled back it's not a win , the best is the status quo and they will circle back later after removing other defences.

    There's a ridiculous theory that if you make peoples life hard while promising to make things better they'll have more reason to support you, until the wheels fall off. So far it's hard to distinguish that from Trump's behaviour. Of course the attacks on healthcare will result in excess deaths and it's pre-meditated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,884 ✭✭✭yagan


    The bait?

    I don't think people outside the US fully understand that he means for Canada and Greenland to be "liberated".

    Even if he had a stroke in the morning we'd still be left with antagonistic loons with zero sense of either history and proportion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    So, that dips*it posts a picture of himself as pope. Now I wonder what heinous authoritarian crap his administration has done in the last 24 hours that hasn't received much media attention. They are like conmen at tourists spots. One person makes a big distraction while his accomplices pick pockets everyone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,884 ✭✭✭yagan


    If blowback from his tariffs gets hot he'll try to provoke a unifying war.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,973 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Maybe it's a test of JD's Catholic loyalty 😀 Not a whisper about the colour of the suit.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 7,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Mod warning:

    @Sweet.Science

    You are a whisker away from a ban. You need to cut it out NOW.

    2025 gigs: Selofan, Alison Moyet, Wardruna, Gavin Friday, Orla Gartland, The Courettes, Scissor Sisters, Nine Inch Nails, Rhiannon Giddens, New Purple Celebration, Nova Twins



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,973 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,753 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Exactly. Hey look over there…

    I don't think people outside the US fully understand that he means for Canada and Greenland to be "liberated".

    No he doesnt, its all bluster.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,973 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I have concluded that Trump has decided to keep stretching the borders of the SCOTUS ruling on what are his Official Presidential Duties by using the Alien Enemies Act as a tool to test how far he can lawfully push things. I reckon that there are senior members of his White House team, along with members of his Admin cabinet, who are offering him advice to carry on doing so, as it is him, and not them, who will be held accountable should he go too far outside the limits of official duties.

    They are using him to deliberately cause a rupture between the lower federal courts and SCOTUS. Their plea will be that they were only advisors and are sorry that they erred in understanding what SCOTUS and the constitution's wording actually meant. I include his present AG, Pam Bondi, in that group of advisors.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,973 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Reading an article in the papers about Louis Theroux's "The Settlers" documentary, the last few lines were a quote from Edward Said "In the history of colonial invasions, maps are always first drawn by the victors, since maps are instruments of conquest". Reading that puts me in mind of what Trump said questioning the validity of the US/Canadian border calling it "an artificially drawn line".

    The least risky manoeuvre would be to deploy extra personnel to the US bases in Greenland, leaving the Danes with a fait accompli and end up with a withdrawal of X amount of the newcomers back to the US in exchange for a favourable bonus for Trump on the political front at home.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,133 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Do you think the president of the United States should be spending his time posting stupid ****ing stuff in order to bait people on social media, or perhaps focus on what he is being paid to do, lead the country, solve the Ukraine conflict, deal with the Israel conflict, sort out healthcare, infrastructure, the economy?

    Of course you don't.

    Because no matter what he does wrong, you will never, ever take issue with it.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,055 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Remind me, what happened the last time JD met the pope?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Regarding Trump's dismissal of the US-Canadian border as an "artificially drawn line", one can't help noticing that many if not most borders between US States are artificially drawn lines. Would the Orange Clown support Nebraska or Kansas if they treid to adjust the straight-line borders they have with Colorado and reduce the size of a Blue state?

    There could be no end to this chicanery.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,884 ✭✭✭yagan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,055 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    It’s still so weird that his supporters call this all “bluster”.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,973 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Umm…. shades of "The Pope Must Die" with Robbie Coltrane. JD's trip took hours longer, in either direction, than the audience with the Pope did.



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