Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

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

1130513061308131013111869

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    It has Steve Bannons dirty pawprints all over it.

    And what Brexit advocating for see you next Tuesday is he good friends with?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    SCOTUS agrees to hear Trumps attempt to limit birthright citizenship.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,586 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.

    1000026347.jpg 1000026348.jpg

    So, this evidence establishes what was reported the first time around - Hegseth *did* order the killing!

    This evidence also confirms

    1. The men were unarmed
    2. The drugs (if there were any) were not going to the USA. How the f*** can they be killed using the justification that they were a threat to Americans?

    He says they were on a list? Fine - release the list.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,541 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Every 4 years, the Grindr servers in the city hosting the RNC crash. You can look it up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,291 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Pretty much that

    1000090409.jpg


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,602 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Misleading graphic. There should be a zero line somewhere accross about the height of Leg Lamp. The FIFA award should thereby have a significant negative value. 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,396 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    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: 3,613 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    Micheal dell and his wife The Joker getting in on the scamming.

    IMG_1815.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    It will be interesting to see if SCOTUS is consistent on gerrymandering, given the Trump DOJs challenge to California's new maps. If its allowing it in Texas they should - to be consistent - allow it in California. If they dont its just more evidence the majority on SCOTUS are party hacks. 2 members were accused of sexual misconduct years previously during their confirmation. This means they could be compromised.

    The US National Security Strategy reads like Kremlin propaganda. It describes the EU as a threat to democracy, but not Russia and China.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,356 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I was wondering if there actually was a defined plan by some in the Trump Admin [if not Trump himself] who have decidedly made moves to disrupt the EU as a business and social entity.

    I see Orban of Hungary as a willing partner in such a plan with his Pro-Russian, satellite nation, sabotaging of the EU's continuity. The sooner he is side-lined by the other EU countries, the better it is for Europe.



  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭amandstu


    "When asked Saturday whether he plans to release the full video, Hegseth said, “We’re viewing the process, and we’ll see.” The defense secretary’s noncommittal answer differs from comments from President Donald Trump, who told reporters earlier this week his administration would “certainly” release video." (Cnn)

    Taco Trump the Puppeteer?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,356 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I guess the pair are trying to run down the clock on the killing hoping their GOP partners lose interest in it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,729 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    The US has been meddling in European political affairs and trying to influence elections since WWIi. It's nothing new.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Flex


    Looking on social media pages today Musk and the US administration didnt waste any time; the amount of bots and accounts out posting on French, Polish, Irish, Romanian, German, and so on, pages about how Musk is right, the EU is the new EUSSR, warmongers, things were better before the EU, dont want peace with Russia, dictatorship controlling, oppressing, and suppressing us…. is incredible Some pages must be 95%+ anti-EU, anti-Poland (their Foreign Minister criticised Musks remarks), and people posting to the contrary are pounced on en masse.

    This is the perhaps the 'end of the beginning' now, things are going to escalate further, next November 2026, regardless of the US mid-term results, the Republicans will not give up any power, early 2027 then the US withdraws from NATO, and everything else in between until then



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Yes but this time they want to do it while also walking away from its security commitments to Europe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭mollser


    Well I genuinely think it's time for the EU to simply ban social media companies which are owned by US corporates. Simply using the same line the US used in the tiktok dispute, I.e. they are being used to meddle in European politics and democracy. Fk em, those companies need the EU market more than we need them. Offer to buy them for €1. It's beyond parody at this stage what these fkers are at



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    I think I need to get out of this thread. Not due to anyone in particular, but it’s depressing as hell. I hate what the supposed civilised world is coming to and I think it’s messing with my head.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    Reality is only a few short steps away from becoming one of these dystopian movies that are so popular these days. Next step, Fox becomes the actual government and deadly games are shown on TV and streaming. I only learned recently that when Stephen King wrote 'The Running Man' back in 1982, he set it in 2025.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,356 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I note with interest the wording in one of Hegseth's video latest statements on the boat sinking and shooting, this one referring to President Trump: "He is entitled to give the order".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Texas Republican Senate primary a battle between Establishment Republicans (Senator John Cornyn) and controversial Texas AG Ken Paxton.

    Paxton is a close ally of Trump. He actually was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives, but then they reversed the impeachment under pressure from Trump.

    2026 Texas Senate - Republican Primary | RealClearPolling



  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,729 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭thenuisance


    They need to be made responsible for the content that they publish. They hide behind American legislation which has no jurisdiction and no equivalent here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭amandstu


    The natural assumption is that Trump was all over it and wrote his directives on toilet paper if humanly possible.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,356 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    "the ingrate" is Trump's latest opinion of Henry Cuellar, the democrat congressman he gave a pardon to. It seemed that Trump believed that Cuellar would not get a fair trial after he was indicted on charges of bribery and money laundering and accused of taking roughly $600,000 in total from two banks in Mexico and Azerbaijan. Trump wrote on Truth Social early Sunday: “I signed the papers, and said to people in the Oval Office that I just did a very good, perhaps life saving, thing. God was very happy with me that day!”

    “THEN IT HAPPENED!!! Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be “running” for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison - And probably still do!” Trump complained, bemoaning, “Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like.” He added: “Oh’ [sic] well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!”

    The nature of Trump’s remark insinuates that the president aimed to convince Cuellar to abandon his party or his congressional seal in a show of gratitude for the pardon. Instead, Cuellar filed for re-election the same day the pardon was granted.

    "Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,330 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Maybe so, but how many previous presidents have tried to persuade everyone that Putin was someone to be favoured? How many have been quite so blatant about how Europe is falling apart and needs America's help and advice? They are talking out of the top of their heads, but they (think) they are paving the way to using their existing presence in numerous European countries - though especially Germany - to interfere more directly than they already do. Trump/25 has three more years, even if he is a corpse propped up in the Oval Office chair, to do whatever the 25 want, and no-one will nay-say them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    Put pressure on Switzerland to close off their no tax status in Zurich.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Paramount, owned by Trump pal Larry Ellison, is lobbying Trump officials to try to block the sale of much of Time Warner to Netflix.

    Reports Trump starting to tire of the Hegseth controveries. Will he be thrown under the bus? Will Dan Driscoll, the Army Secretary and ally of Vance, be his replacement.

    Anne Applebaum explaining (3 months ago) why MAGA dislikes Europe. On the Russia issue draws parallels between the Far Rights admiration of Russia, and the Far Left's admiration of the USSR during the mid 20th century.

    Post edited by Ozymandius2011 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭aero2k


    Even if I don't always agree with your posts, I respect the effort you put into them, particularly your precision in language. I'm interested though that you include vaccine changes in your list and I'm wondering why: as I understand it the changes made just bring the US closer to European protocols.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭somenergy


    Europe needs MAGA like Ukraine needs russia

    The absolute hypocrisy of US far right being the most corrupt, incompetent, undemocratic and lawess bunch of goons ever to get away with lie after lie.

    What happened to Newsome gone very quite lately



  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,534 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    I see Trumps trying to scupper the Netflix WB deal, which honestly I've no problem with as mergers like this never work well for consumers however it's as plain as day the only reason he's getting involved is Ellison has been whinging in his ear. I will bet money the issue Trump claims to have about market share will magically disappear if Ellison, who owns Paramount Skydance who the EXACT same market share problem exists for, was to be allowed buy WB.



Advertisement
Advertisement