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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,414 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    I saw a headline the other day about the US partially evacuating their embassy in Iraq because of escalating tensions in Iran.

    They knew this was coming.

    After backing Israel's destruction of Gaza, re-introducing the travel bans and turning up the heat on Iran, anyone who believed he would be a friend to Muslims is an idiot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,187 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It was obvious to anyone paying attention Trump would be orders of magnitude worse than Democrats for the Middle East. Anything else flew in the face of all objective evidence.

    I'm reminded of the Arab Americans in Michigan voting for Trump.

    In some cases, it was just a lie they told themselves to excuse themselves from voting for a woman.

    That or some of them were paid off mouthpieces.

    Leopards eating face moment here:

    "This is the reward to the community that defied everybody else?" asked Wali Altahif, a local activist who advocates for Yemeni and other immigrant communities. "That said, 'No, we're going to support you, we going to vote for you'?"

    Many in the community are reluctant to talk openly about the new travel restrictions for fear of retaliation, even if they are U.S. citizens or green-card holders. Others are reluctant to leave the country for fear of being held up by border agents when returning home, something Arab and Muslim Americans already report dealing with at airports.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/travel-ban-arab-americans-michigan-impacts-trump/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    People are easily manipulated.

    Trump x2 and Brexit



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,431 ✭✭✭Field east


    this strategy is around for a loooooooong time. Just look how Putin operates Eg he creates lots of percieved enemy’s, ; he is constantly blessing himself, lighting candles - apparent signs of a very good Christian ; a strong man - riding horses bareback, deep sea diving ; if a Russia is thinking of publicity an alternative viewpoint then they better keep away from ‘upstairs windows’ ;etc;etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,187 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Especially when it feeds into their prejudices.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭yagan


    Looks like the USA, Russia and Israel are the new Axis of Evil, needing war to distract from domestic failings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,340 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Trump is so powerful that he could prevent Putin from attacking Ukraine, an enemy being scared into submission by Trump's big dick aura

    But he can't even stop his own ally from attacking Iran, with weapons he provided them.

    Trump is such a cuck, and his supporters are even weaker

    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 Posts: 23,340 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    @Manic Moran Shouldn't every single one of those 4000 national guard soldiers in LA return back to their homes or bases immediately?

    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 Posts: 29,868 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The decision does not take effect until today, give Trump chance to appeal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭yagan


    Russia probably has footage that shows Trump does not have a big dick.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,198 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Probably all bluster, but not denying they have contingency plans to take Canada and Greenland by force is somewhat disturbing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,431 ✭✭✭Field east


    there has been a number of votes taken since Trump came to power but they are all on specific issues. Such as (1) immigration policy

    (2) method used to activate it

    (3) the economy

    (4) the big and beautiful budget

    (5) climate change actions

    The two questions that I have not seen re the ‘mood’ of Americans are (a) support for Ukr re the SMO by Russia and (B) if the clock was would back , then which canditate would you vote for as president?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    One might look at US anti-drone defence missiles [20,000] intended for Ukraine being rerouted by the Pentagon to the US military forces [USAF] in the Middle East as they thought they could be more useful there and just say it's mere coincidence, and that the US did not have the slightest suspicion that Israel was about to make a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Its probably a hard-won sign of close co-operation between the two states.

    The Israelis do not always co-operate with the US when it comes to its national defence. The USN has an anniversary around this time of year to the 34 US Navy Pers killed, 134 injured, by an Israeli Air Force fighter Jets and Navy torpedo boats [08 June 1967] attack on a US Navy signals surveillance Star and Stripe flagged ship [USS Liberty] during the 6-day war. The Israelis claimed it was a case of mistake identity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    And two weeks ago re-routing 20,000 anti drone missiles to Israel that were originally meant for Ukraine.

    At the time I just assumed it was just the usual Trump being hateful and spiteful to Ukraine, but he knew Israel would need them pretty soon too. So Israel got them instead.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,634 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Even if they didn't require any support, assistance, materiel or information from the US, the Israelis will have told the US about this in advance because why wouldn't they?

    (I mean, obviously, these days there's a sporting chance that if you tell the US about a forthcoming military operation, Pete Hegseth will share it on a WhatsApp group that includes his brother-in-law, his manicurist, his wife, his wife's manicurist, his wife's tennis partners, and his wife's tennis partners' manicurists. But that wouldn't greatly bother the Israelis, because the world and his dog knew this operation was coming anyway. So the Israelis will have told the US to avoid any possiblity about the US getting miffed because they weren't told.)

    And, when the Israelis did tell them, the US will not have been in the least surprised, because an operation of this kind was widely expected. If the operation had happened without prior notice to the US, the US would not have been taken by supriise by the operation, but they would have been suprised that they weren't told about it beforehand.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,217 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Just watching Elton john getting inducted to the library of Congress a few years ago and when he praised the librarian and thanked her family and now they've been removed by trumps anti dei



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,249 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    DEI is just a way for employers to create more welcoming spaces for women and people from ethnic minority and LGBT+ communities. The right despise it because it's what they do. They project when they use lies like "diversity hires" as they know the idea is to hire on merit on not based on who someone is. We can see the proof of this in the promotion of barely sentient hams in suits such as Pete Hegseth.

    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: 591 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    Am with Stormy on this one, it's a stub with a mushroom like head……



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,868 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    This is hilarious! From 4.50 in the video, an ad on Craigslist looking for people to fill seats at the birthday parade, including 'people of color and ethnic groups for maximum perception control…' You could not make it up!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,103 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    To remember that yesterday, a US senator was dragged to the floor and handcuffed for daring to ask a question during a press conference.

    A clear silencing of a politician for daring to question a government official.

    It was a shocking episode, and every security detail member should be asking themselves how they can continue to work for such an administration. An administration that pardons those who attack the capital but looks to arrest anybody who dares to raise a question.

    No doubt this will be glossed over as a mistake, some people jumping the gun, a misunderstanding. It may well be part or al of those, but it is also a direct consequence of this administration purposefully going out to silence critics, to demonise the press, to label any protest as Anti-American (read Anti-Trump).

    I recall in 2016 a picture of some guys wearing "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat' t-shirts. Well, it seems they are very much going to get their way.

    And before any comes back saying that it is hyperbole, ask yourself exactly what line would need to be crossed for you to see what is actually happening? What thing could he actually do that would make you think that there is something wrong here?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Snopes haven't been able to verify whether the content of the ad is real. The ad did appear in Craigslist but the organising firm doesn't appear to exist

    https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/12/trump-craigslist-ad-dc-parade/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭TalleyRand83




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,249 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Both sides again.

    Of course they do but not to this level and not for such evil ends.

    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: 21,204 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Reems and reems of examples of egregious behaviour by Trump and his gang and rather than pick any one to address and push back on, by pointing out errors, the best you can muster is lazy false equivalence.

    Would you care to comment on the ten ingredients of fascism I posted above and point out where I'm wrong, or where the Dems tick all those boxes?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,868 ✭✭✭✭looksee




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,244 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    So peaceful, so anti-war.

    I can only assume Trump is trying to save face, but he really is a hopeless idiot.

    US president Donald Trump called the Israeli strikes on Iran “excellent” and said there were more attacks to come, in an interview with ABC news.

    “I think it’s been excellent. We gave them a chance and they didn’t take it,” Trump told ABC on Friday morning.

    “They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you’re going to get hit. And there’s more to come, a lot more.”

    In a further post to Truth Social, Mr Trump added: “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’”

    “They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭Escapees


    Hold your horses. There's often manipulation or propaganda to some degree on both sides. The video clip posted initially of the senator getting removed did not appear to show what led up to it. There's nothing wrong with applying critical thinking and simply looking for a source that showed everything, which AbusesToilets did and I thanked them for that.


    And for what it's worth, the senator didn't just ask a question when invited to do so, but interrupted the speaker. Was he justified in doing so, given the radical statements she had just made? - Of course! Was he then manhandled and inappropriately removed? - Clearly so. And was there justification for this? - Of course not!


    The point is that things are not always black and white, yet some posters here are so anti-Trump (albeit justifiably so) that they take issue with anyone who questions something that is worthy of questioning or clarification. That California Governor comes to mind here - what he said the other day in relation to Trump's mishandling of the protests is justified, but at the same time the guy comes across as disingenuous to me and most likely is trying to use the situation for his own or his party's agenda.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 903 ✭✭✭orourkeda1


    I think he's neither the worst nor the best U.S president there's ever been.

    He's just the latest in a long line of ineffectual u.s heads of states masquerading as the "leader of the free world".

    https://www.orourkeda.blog



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 903 ✭✭✭orourkeda1




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭yagan


    Trump is his own greatest abuser. He said in his first term he couldn't send in the national guard without a governors permission.

    He wants to be king.



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