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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 Posts: 22,143 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Think I saw a figure of four million for the No Kings across America.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,059 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Temu military parade😀

    Im no military expert but I think Trump had N Korea and Russia scale parades in mind when he ordered this, it actually made the us army look weak



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,550 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    What are your thoughts on his speech at Bragg last week? I thought the political screening of personnel and explicit partisan talk in his speech was shocking and extremely worrisome. Having soldiers booing political opponents is such a violation of every norm that is supposed to exist between the military and the civilian authority. I took the day off instead, rather than deal with that ****.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Glencarraig


    The Chump must be pissed off that Pope Leo attracted a bigger crowd in Chicago.



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


    Extremely poor form by Trump to make a speech of that partisan a nature at a military base, IMO. Even worse to be handing out the MAGA/Trump memorabilia. I have less issue with asking if folks don’t want to attend Trump’s speech or ensuring they are not outside of height/weight standards. I can’t blame the Joes for cheering/booing, they’re Joes, but they shouldn’t have been placed in that position in the first place.

    Maybe someone had a word with Trump after that. His speech last night was far more appropriately apolitical.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,275 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    That Parade was an utter embarrassment to the US. While it is fun to laugh at Trump, serious questions need to be asked about how such a farce was allowed.

    Who directed the parade?

    Was the military actively involved in getting their soldiers to look like they were on a nature walk? Where was the discipline, the marching in time?

    It made the military look no better than the weekend militia.

    As for Trump, he obviously takes ultimate responsibility for this shambles and the embarrassment he has brought to the US. Yet again, he has proved completely incapable of leading anything.



  • 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: 2,701 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    You'd think he would have went for a day long session down the local with the lads, just like any other fella, sitting in the beergarden enjoying the sunshine, instead of being a giant toddler.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Trump administration mulling over adding another 36 countries to the banned-from-entry list.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0615/1518586-travel-ban/

    A rough count shows that about 24 of the 36 are African countries . I wonder could skin colour possibly have something to do with this? Ths list includes Ghana, which has a vibrant democracy, a large diaspora in the USA (and en even lerger one if you include the legacy of slavery), and is basically pro-Western.

    I see the evil hand of Steven Miller in this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,130 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Racial Profiling on the streets of America, how long before some of the ICE agents get a sever beating or even worse

    WARNING

    Lots of swearing in this clip



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,275 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Because in his head this was like Bastille Day, Russian May Day, NK parade. He thought he would be gleaming tanks and perfectly insync divisions marching past and saluting the dear leader.

    He envisaged roaring crowds and afterwards all the vox pops and tiktoks showing everyone how Trump had saved the day and everyone loved him.

    It turned out very different but that is what he thought it would be like.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭briany


    What's the story with Musk/Trump, now? Musk fairly climbed back into his box after that salvo the previous week. Is it just a case of him lowering his dosage?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,143 ✭✭✭✭kneemos




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭briany


    It's not as if vilifying Latinos is a policy unique to his second term. The sentiment about people coming over the southern border was largely the same in his first run for president and his resulting administration. Arguably, he couldn't go as far with it, then, only because he was surrounded by relatively sane people who were more interested in upholding the checks and balances than kow-towing to his dictatorial whims.

    If Latinos were going to know what he was like, they would have known then, and many still voted for him last year. Given that, I believe he could wipe his arse on every flag from central and south America and many of that demographic would still edgelord themselves into voting for him.

    They don't seem to get it through their heads that the white Tucker Carlson cult of the USA are deeply prejudiced towards minorities of all kinds in the US, no matter if they're legal or not or are from families that have been citizens for several generations. They want them all gone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,038 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Both of them are capable of doing a 180 at any time. They both think they're the genius pulling the strings and manipulating the other.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-857815

    What to read into that ? Trump being respected or Israel throwing him a bone ? Or does it really matter when someone else is yanking his chain.

    Trump also remains open to Russian President Vladimir Putin taking a role as a mediator between Jerusalem and Tehran, saying, "He is ready. He called me about it. We had a long talk about it."

    TACO



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




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,094 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    A part of Trump's life education [unfortunately-missing] was lost when he didn't serve a couple of years in the US military, even as a reserve Nat Gds-man. It would have given him a more rounded view of life and possibly done him service in his later years when he took up public office as the reservists have lives and employments which always ensure the Gd Units have a right mix of people with actual experience of life and the essential trades the public needs outside the Bks walls.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,978 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I wonder why the marching at his parade was so shambolic? We used to do a better job of marching when I was in the Girl Guides many decades ago. Marching may not be high priority in the US army but any one could do better than the casual stroll they were doing, they could not even stand up straight.

    Why were they not instructed to salute or even acknowledge their President as they passed the reviewing stand?

    Was it apathy, was it the normal state of the army, or were they making a statement?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,907 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    It reeked of the image of what an uptight committee of bores would perceive as jovial. It's the time old attempt of conservatives trying to "have the craic"

    It's a pity this was done for Trumps birthday and heavily politicised because seeing a full history of an armies uniforms and equipment would be quite cool if done well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,576 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    What Krasnov got for his birthday was 3.5% of the population protesting against him.

    The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against
    it during a peak event.

    Here's hoping the rule is confirmed in Russia's most recently acquired puppet state.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Glencarraig


    My bad, I just saw the headline and assumed but I suppose its even worse when a cardboard cutout of Leo attracts more than The Chump !!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Notmything


    I've attended events in the past with the US military and tbh their drill has always been less than perfect.

    I remember years ago at the UN school in the curragh a visiting American officer put it down to the difference in pageantry and display between European militaries with their history and the Americans who didn't have that.

    I watched some of the parade and yeah, it didn't have the "snap" you'd see on Bastille Day or Trooping the colours, but they are also very different events.

    Normally it's whoever is leading the body of troops who salutes and everyone else turns their head to whoever is taking the salute unless America does it different but I haven't watched any videos of that bit

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,982 ✭✭✭yagan


    I wonder if the lacklustre performance has more to do with defence being increasingly subcontracted out to the private sector, which really seems to mushroomed during the Iraq occupation.



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


    Those numbskulls deserve everything they get. Voting off the back of macho bullshit from Dana White and Joe Rogan despite knowing damn well Trump was a racist POS and how he treated Mexicans and those of Latin heritage first time out. Same for all the young black men who voted for him. Idiotic beyond belief.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I'd really like to think that "they making a statement".

    Apparently one lad was strolling along, hat pushed back and chewing gum. Give that guy a promotion…stat.



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


    It does seem awfully like a statement. I remember from St. Patrick's Day parades in the 80s that even the part-time soldiers of the FCA looked very competent at marching. I can't help thinking that if the members of the US military couldn't manage a smart march-past, it was because they didn't want to.



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