Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Jaysus, that's mad 🤣

Yes. That's the best idea.

Ignore everything he says and does and therefore ensure he won't be held accountable for any of his despicable behavior and acts.

Gotcha.

He wants to reopen Alcatraz.... It would take 1-2 years to assess and plan all the fixes and construction required let alone actually doing all of it to the point it could be reopened as a functioning prison. Also it's a very popular tourist destination currently so all the direct and indirect jobs there will be wiped out… so much winning.

The solution is probably the US offering tax breaks for productions. Most US shows seem to be generally made in Canada for example and just tend to pretend they're in the US.

US states have done similar incentives and they've worked btw. Eg Ironman 2/3 and the hunger games were filmed in North Carolina due to similar schemes.

Also if I'm reading it right, a Spanish movie faces tariffs when it gets released in the US?

I'm sure one reason for opening Alcatraz may be sticking it to California and San Francisco in particular. Anything to hurt the tourist industry in that Liberal hellhole.😁

The return of the zoot suit

I was startled back in the day to discover that the USA I thought I was seeing in most of the episodes of the 'x-Files' was really Canada.

The Irish economy will collapse without Rob Lowe.

What are the real issues?

They don't want to work in nursing homes and crop harvesting so deporting irregular immigration that's been normal since WWII isn't going to magic a solution.

I've heard young Irish look down on agri, the trades and care work as immigrant jobs.

I'm sure we'll have our entitlement politics as some stage.

It's not really that, though. The real issues IMO are climate change, increasing wealth inequality, unrepresentative politics, vast amounts of political and economic power in the hands of unaccountable corporations and the media which has gone from holding power to account to getting in bed with it. These things are either never discussed or only ever discussed in a superficial manner.

Look at birth rates. We've taken the hardest, most expensive thing people do and made it a preserve for the wealthy or those in the middle class and then we act surprised when birth rates plummet. Remember when Visa and Mastercard threatened to boycott OnlyFans. We've allowed two companies the power to delete any website or business and nobody says a single word.

As for agricultural jobs, they're sh*t. I know because my childhood was spent working on a farm. It's backbreaking work for virtually nothing with a high risk of injury. The question isn't why people aren't doing it, it's why those who do bother at all. Common sense is not the same as entitlement.

absolutely, and this admin hasnt a clue whats its doing, and wont give a flying fcuk about those negatively impacted from their actions

Excellent, rationing of COLORED lights from China - ten per household saving the planet from all the energy waste and pollution from festive season lights on lawns and rooftops. Customs checks on sleighs flying in from the Greenland direction; "sorry Santa, its from the great leader"….

Sounds like the federal government telling people how to live their lives

I thought the right were against that type of thing 🤔

I heard on rte radio there's 1000s of Irish people working in America. with no visa some they get married to an American citizen they apply to be a USA citizen while the papers are being processed they go to government office

Some people are being arrested and deported for not having a visa . America is becoming a fascist country .ice have quotas they need to arrest and deport x no of people per week. This is happening to people from many country's .

If I married an Irish woman the chances of being deported in Ireland is close to zero unless I commit a crime one of the things that makes the economy boom is immigrants who came to work and make a new life

The American economy was literally built by immigrants