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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

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  • #36932
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963558#Comment_123963558

    So, the facts appear to reveal that "transgender for everybody" and other culture war bullsh1t doesn't make a f*** of a difference to the average American when times get tough huh?

    Interesting....

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #36933
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


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    ....

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #36934
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    The McNuggets will be flying around the oval office today.



  • #36935
    Mike Murdock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭Mike Murdock


    Meh…New York previously elected that workshy clown de Blasio for two terms so Mamdani winning doesn't surprise me. Cuomo was a terrible opponent as was Sliwa (who looks like an extra from a Ninja Turtles movie).

    The Jersey election - a Democrat replacing a Democrat in a state that has had 1 Republican Governor since 2002..yeah, earthquakes with that one….

    As for the Virginia Gubernatorial race? 4 of the previous 6 Governors have been Democrats so is it really a surprise they flipped back?



  • #36936
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,688 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    as was Sliwa (who looks like an extra from a Ninja Turtles movie).

    Lol, when all else fails, make catty remarks about appearance! Taking lessons from the master.



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  • #36937
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,186 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963757#Comment_123963757

    Do you know where and when I can watch the livestream?



  • #36938
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,962 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963757#Comment_123963757

    Untitled Image

    Scarlett's ready.



  • #36939
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,226 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Trying to win over the Jewish vote yesterday, Trump posted this on his pretend social network…

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    Trump knowing that the elections weren't going the way he wanted came out with this nonsense…

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    In his speech after winning Mamdani said…

    Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up!
    If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.

    As ever, the felon is ungracious in defeat…

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  • #36940
    Economics101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭Economics101


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963849#Comment_123963849

    Your reaction to the election is almost as hilarious as the now totally propandagistic Daily Telegraph:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/11/05/rip-new-york-city/



  • #36941
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963911#Comment_123963911

    Trump had dinner in Mar A Largo with Nick Fuentes, a self proclaimed jew hater

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/conservative-reaction-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-interview

    Fuentes – who used to be ostracized by the mainstream right for his views, including support of Hitler and claims that Jews run the country – said on the podcast that “organized Jewry” held outsize influence and said he was a fan of Joseph Stalin.

    A man in sunglasses speaks.


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  • #36942
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,837 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Listening to Bill O’Reilly on CNN waving away last nights results and saying they will have no bearing on the midterms. He says the Supreme Court will rule in favour of the Trump Tariffs and when they come into effect the prices for consumers will crash through the floor and the Republicans will sweep the midterms.

    Completely deluded stuff. Republicans are sleepwalking into electoral armageddon if that's their strategy. His commentary was laughable but worryingly you get the impression that he believes what he is saying. I don't think we have ever seen a situation in economic history where tariffs have resulted in drops in the prices that consumers pay.



  • #36943
    Greengrass53
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Greengrass53


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963849#Comment_123963849

    Ah yeah it was a great evening forTrump/ maga. Well done. Enjoy the celebrations.



  • #36944
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,280 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963636#Comment_123963636

    Biden openly participated in a genocide. He should be in a jail cell, not the White House. Trump has done the same and deserves the same.



  • #36945
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,688 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964015#Comment_123964015

    Biden isn't in the White House?



  • #36946
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,280 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964019#Comment_123964019

    Yes?



  • #36947
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,337 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963984#Comment_123963984

    O'Reilly? The lad who paid out 45 million to several women he allegedly abused?

    Why are CNN having that scum turd on?



  • #36948
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,864 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964026#Comment_123964026

    Probably because they know he will make a fool of himself and Republicans by claiming things like tariffs will lower grocery prices.



  • #36949
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963961#Comment_123963961

    there seems to be a consorted effort to make this guy mainstream. He has been doing the rounds on the rightwing podcasts , getting softball questions, having his image softened, made more presentable. Do the republicans see him as part of the future of the party ? A cornerstone ?



  • #36950
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Mamdani offers a much needed counter to the prevailing Democratic wisdom. While his exact Democratic Socialist platform or approach obviously can't be replicated 1:1 across the entire US, his focus on hope, confronting people's actual everyday problems with compelling solutions (really the vital central message he was out there with) and openly challenging the increasingly destructive power of the ultra-wealthy is really something that could be translated on a broad scale to very different electoral races. You don't have to be an open socialist like Mamdani to see the benefits there.

    'Better things are possible' can be a winning, popular platform. Whether Democratic leadership learns that lesson… well, I'm not entirely optimistic, alas. I think they clearly have a path to power again going by last night's overall results, but it will be squandered once again if they just passively ride the inevitable anti-Trump wave rather than genuine forward-looking reform of their platform. You can already see warning signs in the way the likes of Chuck Schumer - a New Yorker himself! - clearly refuse to even acknowledge Mamdani or his success.

    Again, the New York mayoral race isn't a US presidential or general election. But it does show the Democrats can look forward, if only they're brave enough to do so.



  • #36951
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,850 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964067#Comment_123964067

    Unfortunately too many of the higher-ups in the Dem Party seem content with being "Less bad than the GOP" rather than "Good", and will go out of their way to stifle or downplay the success of any Democrats who go outside of that.



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  • #36952
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,837 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964067#Comment_123964067

    There were vibes of the Obama 2008 campaign coming off the Mamdani campaign. A winning formula for the Democrats it seems.

    Aside from the NYC Mayoral race some of the other elections spell big trouble for the Republicans. Democrats winning by huge margins in races that are usually fairly close. Republicans could be facing a wipeout in the midterms.



  • #36953
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,588 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Is it of any import that the GOP won the Pa Commonwealth Attorney General post from the Dems? The Dems won the Virginia post and retained the Nth Carolina post. There were other seats, including state supreme court seat wins for the Dems, even if they included retentions.



  • #36954
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964015#Comment_123964015

    I'd suspect a lot of the reason you were favourable towards Trump was because of Russia. You are okay with certain genocides. Pretty confident you don't believe Putin should be in a jail cell.

    I pretty much hate the US's position on Palestine. Equally I recognize that Trump was always a far more dangerous individual who puts no real value in human life. He was already pals with the tyrants in his first term. He admired them. The way he is behaving now is like a tyrant. He threatened New York to try to influence an election, it thankfully failed.



  • #36955
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,438 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964015#Comment_123964015

    Both sides nonsense.

    Biden did what he could within the absurd American foreign policy Overton window to save Palestinian lives.

    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



  • #36956
    ilkhanid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963757#Comment_123963757

    Get the popcorn out, and a can of beer.



  • #36957
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,588 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    In other Trump-related U.S activities, the USS Gravely has left Trinidad and Tobago's Port Spain a few miles away from Venezuela's Caribbean coast. No info on where it's going at the moment. The Euronews video, from 15 hours past, covering it's departure, with pilot boats assistance, had the profile of the ship show two heliports next to a helipad deck by it's stern with a one-gun turret forward.

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  • #36958
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Biden is a better man than me..

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    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #36959
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Shot

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    Chaser

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    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #36960
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,805 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123964005#Comment_123964005

    That comment you replied to sounds like 'Pfff, I didn't even WANT to win this stupid election!'



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  • #36961
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    US is becoming a real fascist state. ICE agents ram a car driven by a woman going to work not involved in any protest and drag her out by her legs.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-woman-dragged-her-car-201100192.html

    “I was in shock and terrified. The video evidence is clear: Agents crashed into me. I was not involved in any protest or related activity, and I intend to seek justice for how I was treated,” Figueroa told the Tribune.

    For hours, her family couldn’t locate her. Only after coming across a video online did they realize that Figueroa had been taken by masked federal agents through video circulating the web. They were able to ping her through her iPhone location at the ICE processing center in Broadview.

    Update on US citizen in Chicago, rammed by ICE and dragged off in unmarked vehicle

    Post edited by Patrick2010 on


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