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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,740 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    The US did $838m with of trade with iran in 2024, the latest year stats are available...

    Is he going to tarrif himself?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Democrats get good news as Mary Peltola, until 2024 the Congresswoman for Alaska, is to run for the Senate.

    The EU should sell US treasuries if the US invades Greenland. Eisenhower selling the Pound Sterling is what forced the UK to back down in the Suez Crisis.

    Also we need to reduce our dependence on the US economically. We have tied ourselves potentially to the Titanic.

    Canada says the future of Greenland is a matter for Greenland and Denmark.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,750 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    "Why is ownership important here?" Timesnational security correspondent David E. Sanger asked.

    "Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success," Trump, 79, replied. "I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base."

    "Psychologically important to you or to the United States?"

    “Psychologically important for me," Trump answered. "Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything."

    Me…not the country, for him. Not that we didn’t know, this selfish moron is a disgrace to the presidency.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Far Right Republican Congressman Randy Fine (Florida) has introduced a bill to annex Greenland and make it a state.

    17 Republicans in the House voted with the Democrats to restore Obamacare subsidies. Now it goes to the Senate. Trump threatening a veto.The veto would probably stand because a two thirds vote is needed to over-ride it in both houses.

    Remember the bills on water in Colorado and an Indian reservation? Trump vetoed them even though they were passed unanimously. But when they camed back to the House, only 24 Republicans voted for one of the bills.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,442 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Just one problem. The US holds 3 times more EU debt

    The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Field east




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    In a speech yesterday, Trump hinted at cancelling the next election. Also says "there's going to be a constitutional movement". Says the "he's a dictator" if he does run again.

    The Constitution was changed after FDR to ban third terms.

    What does that mean? Changing the constitution to allow a third term?

    "I won't say cancel the election; they should cancel the election,” Trump said, adding that the “fake news” would label him a dictator if he openly called for it. "Because the fake news will say, 'He wants the elections canceled. He's a dictator."

    Trump openly acknowledged that the Constitution does not allow him to serve a third term but continued to speculate aloud about running again. He told the room that if he were allowed, he would win, before adding ominously, “There's gonna be a constitutional movement.”

    He repeated claims that he is unfairly labelled a dictator, stating, “They always call me a dictator. Nobody is worse than Obama and the people around Biden.” "I don't think it was Biden. I don't think he even knew what was going on, ok?"

    "I could have the most unbelievable four years—and I guess I'm not allowed to run. I'm not sure,” Trump said. “Is there a little something out there that I'm not allowed to run?” "But let's assume I was allowed to run. There's gonna be a constitutional movement," as per a report by The Mirror.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Field east


    As the saying goes “ A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Field east


    So, MM, having said all of that and you , I assume, having seen all the videos, what do you now think? If you were the judge in the case what would be your ruling with regards to each shot. ?I understand that you may change your ruling as the full forensics are made public



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Field east


    hascRoss been suspended WITHOUT PAY or/ and do these 11,000 diners think that he will have a big pay out the Good’s family of and when found guilty?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,392 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    I don't think the killer was justified in what he did but just because you didn't see him writhing in pain after the incident doesn't mean he wasn't possibly injured. I was involved in a head on crash a year and a half ago where I managed to scramble out the passenger side after I was unable to open the mangled driver side door. I was up and walking around straight after the accident, rinigng emergency services and talking to anyone that stopped. Once the adrenaline wore off, I was in a lot of pain and still have ongoing issues with my back and neck to this day. While the adrenaline was flowing, I didn't feel a thing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Slideways


    My Aunt once swallowed a spider. It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 45,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    If any part of his body interacted with the vehicle, it was his left hand which was holding out his phone.
    Whatever contact occurred was not sufficient to cause him to lose balance, wasn't enough for him to drop his phone or to stop filming. It also wasn't enough to distract him from being able to point the gun in his right hand at Ms. Good's head in a moving vehicle. He also had a perfect view of Ms. Good moving her vehjicle by initially reversing it and then turning to her right - why did he not step out from its path to protect himself?
    If Adrenaline was a factor, it wasn't as a result of a collision but more likely down to the excitement of the situation. I would also make reference to his phone moving from his right to left hand before he finally moved in front of her vehicle. This allowed him to have his right hand ready to remove his gun from its holster. Why did he feel the need to prepare his gun hand when none of his colleagues appeared to feel threatened in any way?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,601 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    I wouldn`t hold my breath waiting on the full forensics. Not after the FBI cancelling the initial agreement to carry out a joint investigation with the state authorities and Ross being deemed innocent by Trump, Vance and Noem before the poor woman`s body was cold.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,392 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    I'm in complete agreement with everything you're saying. I was merely pointing out that in high adrenaline situations, which that was, a person mightn't exhibit signs of injury straight away. That's all I was pointing out. Like you said, at most, it was probably his left hand that got hit by the car. I wasn't defending the killer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,348 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Bill Ackman, the billionaire who was p*ssed off that Mamdani wouldn't make time to sit down with him before the election in New York has donated 10K.

    I hope Mamdani manages to maintain his morals and dignity and never caves in fully to the "might is right" crowd.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,341 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    If the issue of Illegals Immigrants in the U.S and how the DHS is handling them and the issue was not important enough, Fox News Columnist David Marcus comes up with his opinion that "Organized Gangs Of Wine Moms" are using Antifa tactics impeding and harassing federal agents, described it as criminal behaviour and they should knock it off as it got a woman killed, referring to Renee Good and her wife as smug.

    This is when Trump is winding up people with talking about taking Greenland by force if it is not sold to the U.S. and slapping a new 25% tariff on any country which trades with Iran. I guess Trump knows China is probably the largest country which trades with Iran on oil, which might throw the recent U.S/China trade deals into a heap.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 45,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    But it wasn't high adrenaline until he had shot her. There was no risk from Good towards ICE so much so that one of Ross's colleagues was reaching into Good's car through the drivers window.
    I'd also point out that he verbally interacted with the victim and the victims wife and with both interactions, there was no hostility expressed towards the agent.
    If the build up to the shooting was enough to fill him with adrenaline to the point that he would fire his gun at point blank range into a suspects head then that agent should not have been provided with a gun.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,222 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the ICE agent is found to have previous trigger-happy incidents on his record. Or excessive force. Time will tell.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Frostybrew


    I doubt that there is much 'thinking' involved. It's probably a cynical tit for tat reaction to a similar page that's been set up for Renee Good.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,222 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Tell me this. If ICE were more "productive" during the Obama administration, what exactly has changed to make them so hated? Is it new tactics or them focusing on Blue states. And why did their productivity wane during the first Trump presidency? Genuinely curious. I haven't been watching American politics much over the past decade.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,392 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    I would argue that it turned into a high adrenaline event when the two arseholes came running at her, telling her to get out of the car but there's no argument from me that Ross was not capable enough to be in a situation like that with a gun in his hand.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,348 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    That incident in which Renee Goode lost her life was like a scene from South Park where the town residents shout "It's coming right at us" before shooting an unsuspecting deer or other animal.

    And not just by the shooter, but JD Vance, Noem and all the rest of them.

    Did any reporter ask Trump why did he say that Ross was seriously injured and was lucky he survived?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Frostybrew


    Going forward this will be very difficult. What the last week has shown is that we now have a cohort of people who think it's perfectly fine to murder someone if they are not on the same side as you. This is very dangerous, as law abiding citizens will now need to take steps to defend themselves.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Frostybrew


    This is not about immigration. It's about taking a legitimate arm of the government and repurposing it as a military force to subdue your opponents using terror tactics, while hiding in plain sight under that organisation's historical legitimacy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭somenergy


    Blue states are under iceis attack and other funding programs as they are the wealthy it was an expected outcome as rep try to avenge the opp

    The red states and the ones closer to the Mexican border have a bigger immigrant problem but no harassment there more lightly republicans are carrying guns and might shoot back if threatened.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭scuba8


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    Ice barbie has gone full Nazi. The words put on the front of the podium are not there by accident. They are a not so subtle warning of things to come.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,534 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    If there is a reasonable investigation, I'd agree. Any run by the Feds has had the outcome decided already.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,595 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    there should be some rule that the go fund money is held up, and if the person is convicted of a crime in relation to what the moneys been raised for is convicted.

    I’d safely say that if ted bundy had a go fund page after killing all those women. Stupid Americans would have donated money to him.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,288 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    It is what Israel does as well (and gets away with)



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