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

US constitution is in the same bin as those 'checks and balances' - the bin is labelled 'For show and worthless'

In other news, the EPA will only classify the cost to businesses when setting pollution limits. The human cost through illness or death will no longer factor in. The pro life party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Ross's veteran status is probably relevant as is his previous incident in June where he suffered a substantial arm injury. The pre shootings exchange seemed unnecessarily charged for an interaction where there should be no threat

Interesting study below in relation to Law Enforcement officers recruited from the military.

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article-abstract/41/3/e245/5114353

Ten years of data were extracted from Dallas Police Department records. LEOs who were involved in a shooting in the past 10 years were frequency matched on sex to LEOs never involved in a shooting. Military discharge records were examined to quantify veteran status and deployment(s). Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of veteran status and deployment history on officer-involved shooting involvement.

Results

Records were abstracted for 516 officers. In the adjusted models, veteran LEOs who were not deployed were significantly more likely to be involved in a shooting than non-veteran officers. Veterans with a deployment history were 2.9 times more likely to be in a shooting than non-veteran officers.

Conclusions

Military veteran status, regardless of deployment history, is associated with increased odds of shootings among LEOs. Future studies should identify mechanisms that explain this relationship, and whether officers who experienced firsthand combat exposure experience greater odds of shooting involvement.

The boycotts of the US seen in Canada over disapproval of Trump and annexation threats do not appear to be taking root here. Travel from Ireland to the US is down 6.2% this year, which isnt as high as 17% from Canadians.

Will be interesting to see if the demand for 5 years of social media will change that. Its reported they even want travellers DNA. I dont trust this administration with our dna.

Successive Irish governments have put too many eggs in the one basket. We need to grow trade with China to balance things out.

Also, Irish indigenous companies have not made as much progress increasing trade within the EU market. Multinationals account for much of our trade within the EU.

that’s his MO, every time something happens that he wants to avert the gaze from he deflects with Greenland. Same this time, woman killed by ICE.. he goes at Greenland so it’s all deflecting, people now in uproar about that rather than the killing.

Best thing to do with him, is just stop posting anything about him.

Trump seems nervous about the upcoming ruling. The argument seems to be that if he did something illegal, it would be more expensive to fix it, so best leave it alone??

I would be worried he might do something re Greenland. Maybe announce more troops being stationed there, to escalate the situation further. Or could get lucky and have another legal ICE killing.

The push to remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is gathering pace and has provoked vigorous criticism:

The Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is sparking backlash from former Federal Reserve and Treasury officials as well as current members of Congress, including those in President Donald Trump's own party.

A bipartisan group of top economic officials released a blistering statement on Monday calling the probe an "unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine" the central bank's independence.

You know it's serious when there is a glaring lack of CAPS in his posts.

Janet Yellen, Powell’s predecessor at the Fed, is not happy with this criminal investigation:

Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday condemned an investigation into her successor, Jerome Powell, saying it compromises the central bank’s independence.

Yellen, who served as Treasury secretary after leaving the Fed, added that she thinks financial markets should be more concerned about a situation that she called “extremely chilling.”

“I’m surprised the market isn’t more concerned. It seems to me that the market should be concerned,” Yellen said, according to CNBC’s Sara Eisen.

Yellen said using the Fed’s key overnight borrowing rate to manage the debt is irresponsible.

“You have a president that says the Fed should be cutting rates to lower rate payments on the federal debt,” Yellen said, adding she “completely [disagrees] with that. It is the road to a banana republic.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/yellen-says-powell-probe-extremely-chilling-for-fed-independence-market-should-be-concerned.html