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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,787 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    The thing Americans do not realise, is that this budget bill is another incredible transfer of wealth from the poor to the ultra rich

    Cutting social spending takes money and resources directly out of their pockets.

    Cutting taxes for the wealthy gives that money back to the wealthy

    It also increases the budget deficit which is the wealthy lending that money the government just gave them back to the government at higher and higher interest rates

    Its a shockingly corrupt administration

    Take from the poor

    Give more back to the rich than you're taking resulting in an increased budget deficit

    Borrow from the rich to cover the tax cuts thereby committing to giving those lenders billions more on state funding for decades to come

    Use the higher budget deficit as a reason to reduce spending on services even more in the future

    Its a kleptocracy putin would be proud of

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,301 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Some detail on the new powers CFTrumps admin will gain if the Senate passes the Big BS bill as is; government officials can ignore those pesky contempt citations.

    " A provision in the proposed spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders.  Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored."

    (https://archive.ph/G8QHx)

    As the gov't has been ignoring judges warnings wrt to the expulsion of immigrants who shouldn't have been expelled, the courts next step would be to cite the officials (lawyers) who ignored the rulings. Now, they won't be able to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,787 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    If this bill passes, Trump lawyers will be turning up to court dressed like this

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    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The whole point is to move the goalpost between goods and services. So the bare minimum of an iPhone is "goods".

    The capital costs of Foxconn's production equipment is included in the price of the phone. If Apple were to buy that equipment for several billion and instead charge Foxconn a fee per phone then the price goes down.

    The total spend is the same, but it's now split between production assets that stay where they are and the phones that attract tariffs.

    I don't know how Apple will workaround Trump but they will to a greater or lesser degree.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,401 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Although it's common to set a tariff as a percentage of the value/price of the product, it doesn't have to be set that way; you can set tariffs as a fixed amount per tonne, or as a fixed amount per unit (and there are tariffs set on both of those bases in force right now) or whatever.

    An iPhone 14 currently retails in the US at US$730. There's nothing to stop Trump setting a tariff of $182.50 per iPhone. Then Apple can monkey around all they like with production assets and licence fees and rebalancing payments between goods and services, but the tariff will still be $182.50 per iPhone, because the amount is not dependent in any way on what Apple pays for the phone, or who they pay, or how that payment is characterised. It'd just the amount that Trump has decided to impose by way of a tariff on every iPhone imported.

    (That's if Trump really wants to do this, obviously. History suggests that there's a sporting chance he'll be talked out of it. But, if he does change his mind, it won't be because this is a tariff that Apple could easily avoid. If governments want to impose effective tariffs, they pretty much always can.)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭Qaanaaq


    Your posts get more hilarious over time. The EU including Ireland are playing a blinder. As is China.

    The only reason he is so angry is because nothing is going his way. He hates that the EU is so strong as a bloc and he can't bully individual countries.

    All he is able to do is bark insults like a mad dog but with no teeth to bite. He is full of shite and everyone bar his followers know it.

    The EU and our own gvmt are obviously playing very diplomatic publlicly even though I would love to hear them come out and insult him back. But I guess that's part of the strategy to not play his public game.

    Just keep doing as we are doing . He will just flip flop like he always does.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-trump-boost-nuclear-energy.html Trump denied that speeding up the regulation process could compromise nuclear safety. "We're going to get it very fast and very safe," Trump said. "It's time for nuclear and we're going to do it very big."

    Deregulation so big business and grifters can continue to make the rich richer.

    The history of nuclear power in the US is that over the last 38 years 50% of reactors were abandoned after construction started. For Gen III reactors it's 50% abandoned and the other 50% were 50% over budget and years late, and Westinghouse went bankrupt and nearly pulled Toshiba down with it.

    For Small Modular Reactors the adage of Cheap, Fast, Good - pick two applies.

    Good, Fast = Western naval reactors.

    Fast, Cheap = Soviet naval reactors. Widowmaker etc.

    Good, Cheap = 70 years after the first nuclear submarine there's nothing but requests for yet more funding, even from companies like Rolls Royce who've been making them since the 1960's.

    The ban on uranium imports from Russia pulled the rug under a lot of the new pump n' dump startups so it's now time for a new cycle of fleecing investors.

    /RANT



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    There have always been "Kermits" out there in the wilderness.

    I can just imagine Conor Cruise O'Brien's Sunday Indo columns if he was still alive. He would be lapping all this Trump tariff stuff up like mana from heaven.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,458 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Bring the illegally removed immigrant back ? You were serious about that ?



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    How can anyone do a deal with someone who signs stuff he hasn't read ?

    Longer version - https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-president-trump-signs-executive-order-on-nuclear-power/5163936

    About 2:20 mins in they are turning electricity into intelligence to win the AI arms race with China , I gave up shortly afterwards as there were no longer empty squares on my BS Bingo card.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,694 ✭✭✭✭martingriff




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,119 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,091 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Cyril Ramaphosa called Trump's bluff in their face-to-face meeting in front of the world's media without a blink, giving the world a class on how to negotiate with a bluffer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,091 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Possibly one good thing came out of this. The chefs and staff at the White House got off without blame for the catering. It's a good thing that the pasting he's got lately about using the White House as a personal marketing venue may have sobered him up a bit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,347 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    O`Brien was a self serving dyed in the wool unionist, who like our wilderness friend would have had us back singing good save the King and saluting the Union Jack.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,168 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    This is f**king outrageous stuff

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    What a massive failure by the press.. yet again.

    Soft selling chaos and racism instead of calling out trump for what these planned ambushes really are, is why America is doomed until the press (if ever) gets its act together

    Post edited by everlast75 on

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,173 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Yep.

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    Always makes me cringe when people say that CNN is woke or something when all of these awful organisations have been doing their best to promote Trump. Had they actually called him out instead of pandering, things might be different.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,142 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Think that's crazy? Hold my beer.

    This lad is talking to God and compares to Moses.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 32,354 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Semantics perhaps but they can still hold people in contempt. They just can't enforce that contempt order. For at least a sizeable proportion of people being held in contempt, even if not enforced, would be enough to correct their actions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Detritus70


    What's crazy is, what the hell is that doing on IMDb?

    Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,787 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Those people are not the people we need to worry about

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 32,354 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    A fair point. I do think it would still have a significant effect on a decent cohort of the Administration's lawyers and officials, but they'll always find someone who doesn't care.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    The eu does not want the dollar to fall , bond traders hate this new beautiful bill , billions of cuts to medicaid ,rural hospitals closing , more unemployment , this bill does nothing for middle class workers ,it increases debt by about 3.5 trillion . It gives tax cuts to the top 10 per cent .it will cause interest rates to rise of you live in a rural area you may have health insurance but your local hospitals will close .it s an insult to old or retired veterans who depend on Medicare. America is at risk of ever increasing costs as the bond market will be reluctant to pay for American debt . More tax's will go to paying off 40 trillion national debt



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    If America go,s into recession it effects the whole world economy Trump is proof you may be rich but you have no class or good taste

    Republicans say we want people to have more kids as they cut medicare and the services that family's depend on and close down hospitals



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,722 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Imdb News ..probably the only news outlet that can get away with publishing it now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭Infini


    In truth and at this point the Republican Party is nothing more than a bunch of sadistic, sycophantic, corrupt wasters and grifters out to enrich themselves and their friends at the expense of the rest of society. It only got this far because of factors like the enshittification of the media sphere along with recommender systems social media to funnel people into echo chambers and to fuel discord so they fight one another and get riled up into taking feelings and beliefs over facts and not focusing on the real corrupt degenerates that have wormed their way into power. You can also add the piss poor education system that failed people in the US as well that has far too many at an extremely substandard level of intelligence.

    The other factor of course is Citizens Fúcking United, the most regressive decision by the US supreme court that effectively legalised pay to win politics in the US. Trump of course is an opportunist who jumped on the train for his own benefit and the sooner he shuffles of this mortal coil the better the rest of the world will be for his absence but the danger of course is and always has been the absolute corrupt filth he dragged into power with him expecially the likes of the Heritage Foundation. People like them are absolutely unfit to have any influence or power and their corrupt idelogies ultimately weaken and fracture societies. These will be the people that need to be dealt with long after the Orange Bollocks has checked out of this existence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,974 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    So you are not a fan of US right wing politics then?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    We were speculating how many F16s Ukraine has received last week from various countries as figures are not often advertised

    Netherlands to send last batch bringing their total to 24 tomorrow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,142 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    There is at least some organised resistance to the Republican's. They put pressure on their local member of Congress to block Trumps bills. Apparently there's millions of them, don't say how many millions,but it's a big country.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,558 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Trump extends the deadline for tariffs with the EU to July 9th.

    Announcing it…just before the markets open again. America getting fleeced in broad daylight, what a sight.

    Another walk back from Trump, again.



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