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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: 13,550 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    I suppose the hope is that bringing it to light now, gives time for states to investigate and safeguard. If the evidence is solid, then it becomes increasingly hard to ignore the necessity of action. Even for Republicans.



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


    You find Newsom the Governor of California disingenuous. Is that to a lesser degree or more than Trump, Noem or any of Trump`s cabinet ?

    What I found disingenuous was your original post where had you taken half the time you took to write it you would have found the proof of how despicable an act it was from Noem`s goons while she at the same time was threatening a coup d`ètat.

    If anybody deserved being dragged to the ground, handcuffed and arrested it was Trump`s Barbie doll cosplay warrior.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,788 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Fake news.

    Those magic words that allow them to ignore anything that they do not want to see

    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: 5,923 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    First of a long line of car parts manufacturers files for bankruptcy. Marelli is one of the biggest car parts manufacturers.

    They were hit hard by the uncertainty of Trumps idiotic on/off tariffs.

    And now because of this, the car manufacturing supply chains are hit even harder. What a complete and utter clueless moron.



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


    The last time a U.S. President went over the head of a State Governor on calling out the NG was 60 years ago, and to compare that to today is a case of comparing apples to oranges.

    The Governor in question was George Wallace of Alabama who in his inaugral address in 1963 stated "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". He subsequently refused to recognise the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and refused to comply with Supreme Court rulings.

    Johstone sent in the NG so people could protest peacefully rather than be assaulted, snatched of the streets and made disappear by masked thugs backed by the Governor of Alabama.



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


    Barbie never missed a beat. It's as if nothing was happening.

    Stone cold.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,489 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    The US government has supported right wing governments for years, from Chile to Nicaragua, now Trump has decided to become the leader as he campaigned as per project 2025



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


    In fairness, she's incapable of any facial expressions anymore, so…

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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


    the family were under the impression that upon their arrival, they would be provided with comprehensive assistance including housing, jobs, and healthcare.

    Unfortunately, their experience has been marred by the harsh reality that few have the resources or network to facilitate such support in a new country.

    ‘They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance,’


    I don’t even know where to begin, my sides hurt laughing



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,543 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I'm not attempting to make any equivalence of the moral purpose, I'm looking at the legal authorities. The bottom line is that in both cases, the Guard was federalised despite the non-assent of the governor. There are presumably differences in the legal environment or processes supporting this move. If not, then Judge Breyer has just declared that the activation in 1963 was also illegal, which I'm willing to accept even if I don't like it. I think it would be a good thing for the future if we were clear where those legal differences lie.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,617 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Bishop takes King

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/pope-leo-to-speak-virtually-in-chicago-and-it-will-happen-right-when-trump-military-parade-rolls-out/articleshow/121805509.cms?from=mdr



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,302 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Well, there's been a lot of discussion about the behaviour the US military, especially Marines and National Guards deployed in LA should follow. One thing seems certain - they shouldn't listen to the idiots at the top of hierarchy in the Pentagon. To call Hegseth useless is being generous, he seems as nutty as a fruitcake and not good at anything at all. Hopefully, as this article predicts, we'll soon see the end of him at the helm.

    "Playing Secretary As war looms, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by his man?"

    Yes, socks. Apparently there's concern that Hegseth's former chief of staff is a drug abuser and doesn't dress the job.

    Also, despite claiming an investigation into 'leaks,' it just looks like internecine office squabbly led by that CoS.

    Definitely worth the read, showing how bad things are in the DoD

    (https://archive.ph/eIo90)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,687 ✭✭✭threeball


    Someone needs to treat her like she treated her puppy. Evil vacuous wench.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,409 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    the family were under the impression that upon their arrival, they would be provided with comprehensive assistance including housing, jobs, and healthcare.

    Should have come to Ireland...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭storker




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭storker


    "The chocolate ration will be increased from 20 grammes to 15 grammes…"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭storker


    Trump & co aren't even bothering to hide their reacism and misogyny behind a veil of process. They didn't even look at the hiring process that got people their jobs, or evaluate their skills and abilities; they just jumped straight to the conclusion that someone who is female, non-white, or LGBT cannot posibly have obtained a job on merit, regtardless of what those people may actually have achieved in those jobs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭storker


    I think you haven't been paying attention. How many previous presidents have….

    • Refused to accept an election result and fired up a mob to attack the Capitol?
    • Killed over half a million Americans by botching the response to COVID?
    • Been convicted of 32 felony offences?
    • Put an anti-vax conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health?
    • Cosied up to totalitarian dictators?
    • Threatened to withhold disaster funding for political reasons?
    • Threatened to annex the territory of allies?
    • Informed Vladimir Putin that he can help himself to anywhere he wants?
    • Torpedoed the US arms industry by declaring the US to be an unreliable ally and weapons supplier?
    • Torpedoed the US tourist industry by alienating visitors from hitherto-friendly countries?
    • Torpedoed US agriculture through mass deportations of people who are actually necessary.
    • Authorised a gutting of public services that was supposed to save trillions but actually saved bugger all?
    • Authorised the kidnapping of people, even American citizens?
    • …etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,015 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Just a slightly better aim



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


    He wants a trade deal with the EU. What are the odds it turns out to be worse than what was already there?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,788 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    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: 14,559 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    The EU will maul him, it would like literally like flipping a coin in a game of chess.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭storker


    Possibly one in which the EU runs rings around him. With Trump it's always about the drama and fanfare of the deal, the bringing home of the bacon, even if he's been sold a pig in a poke. To him that's uninteresting detail, and when it turns out what a bad deal it was for the US, he'll blame it on the Democrats. He has form here already.



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


    Far as I know Federal District Court Judge Breyer did not make any reference to the National Gaurd being deployed in Alabama in 1965. If the final result of this appeal is that both were/are unlawful, then although I would see them being diametrically opposed, it would at least stop, not just Trump`s attempt at using the military to achieve his aims, it would prevent any future President from attempting the same using a pussy-whipped majority party and a stacked Supreme Court by any means other than a change to various Constitutional Amendments.

    Johnston deployed the National Gaurd in 1965 not simply because he disagreed politically with the Alabama Governor Wallace, a self declared racist who refused to recognise The Civil Rights Act or Supreme Court rulings. He did it because of America`s own "Bloody Sunday" where Wallace`s racist police force, aided and abetted by civilians of the same ilk with a long history of disappearing those whose skin colour they didn`t like, attacked a peaceful demonstration in Salem 7th. March 1965. Johnston sent in the National Gaurd on 20th. March to protect future protestors from Wallace and his goons.

    I cannot think of a more diametrically oppposed examples when the National Guard commander in California has admitted that not only has his troops trained to assist a people going around in plain clothes, showing no ID, armed to the teeth bundling civilians into unmarked vehicles and making them disappear, they have also been assisting them in doing so. I makes me wonder just what training those Marines have been receiving, and just what their role was being envisaged as.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,841 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    1st US detention of a citizen by the USMC.

    The Posse Comitatus Act (1878) Prohibits the use of the U.S. military (Army and Air Force, and by extension Navy and Marines under DoD policy) to enforce domestic laws without explicit Congressional or constitutional authorization.

    In other words, Trump is breaking the law once again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Turns out he was a veteran on his way to the VA office. The regime can't go a day without embarrassing themselves. Tomorrow should be fun.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    This guy said he was warned by his liberal friends that Trump would go after all immigrants not just criminals, but he voted for him anyway, and now he's crying foul that his law abiding immigrant employees have been deported. I feel sorry for his employees but f*ck him. He was warned.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/CSPy4FmbMFE?si=DqoRwxSM8aVLBz2J



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,365 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Are we there yet?

    Looking forward to seeing where the goalposts relocate to next. Do we go from “well they haven’t detained anyone yet” to “well they haven’t shot anyone in the head in the middle of LA in front of the tv cameras yet”?

    Interested in your take on this latest development @Manic Moran



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,015 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Maga: " oh everyone look a 17 year old trans girl won a highschool race in a town you've never heard of, it's clearly the most pressing issue in Murica"



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,543 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I strongly doubt it was the first time a US citizen has been detained by Marines in the US.

    Perhaps a more balanced view can be found from Reuters?

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-allowed-keep-national-guard-los-angeles-more-protests-planned-2025-06-13/

    There is no debate that Marines can be used to secure federal buildings. He crossed over some no-entry tape to make a shortcut. He was picked up, handed to DHS, released, and said he was treated fairly and that the Marines were doing their job. Nowhere near the problem some are making it out to be.



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