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

Manic Moran · 23-01-2026 02:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124171422#Comment_124171422

So this bit is not entirely settled law and is probably going to have to go to the court system to sort it out.

It is absolutely true that ICE has no authority to force open a door, and start searching a private area to see if the person listed on the warrant is there just because they have an administrative warrant. To my knowledge, only a judicial warrant will allow that.

However, this info primer from the National Immigration Law Center has a couple of very notable caveats on pages 8 and 9.

https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-Subpoenas-Warrants_.pdf

The one about 'opening the door' is arguably pushing it a bit, but the probable cause thing is a bit harder to argue against. In extremis, if the police knock on the door, and the person on the warrant answers it or ((s)he's identifiable in the background), then it's not exactly a search. Similarly, if they watched him enter the property, there's a good argument for 'probable cause.'

I have a little experience with non-judicial arrest warrants since I used to have the authority to write one in Nevada (and did so occasionally). (Technically, in Texas, I currently have the authority to verbally order the arrest of certain individuals, but I find police prefer to have a paper trail.. and I've not needed to order it yet anyway). I fully expected the police to act in accordance with the 'plain view' idea: The first port of call was going to be the home of record. If the subject was there, I expected the police to arrest him/her, and they never gave me any indication that there may be a 4th Amendment implication and instead just went straight to knocking on the door. If there was no indication that he was present, I did not expect the police to enter the premises to search for him, but instead try the listed place of employment: Normally another private property.

I mean, it's entirely possible that, after judicial review, it is determined that I and the police were acting unlawfully, but it's also entirely possible that we were not. Certainly we didn't think we were (The thought honestly hadn't crossed my mind, as far as I was concerned the statute indicated we were fine). But the argument can very definitely be made, and it seems now that it is.

10000maniacs · 23-01-2026 03:03AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124169637#Comment_124169637

At the very least we should be heavily patrolling the Irish Atlantic waters ensuring that rogue Russian vessels don't get the opportunity to cut the cables that carry the entire Irish and European digital communications infrastructure.

charlie14 · 23-01-2026 03:06AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124171897#Comment_124171897

Would someone please tell him the Titanic sank.

Or better still tell Karoline Leavitt to tell him and then listen to her looking all wild eyed and demented saying it didn`t sink but turned around and is still sailing.

charlie14 · 23-01-2026 03:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172007#Comment_124172007

It`s not difficult to read between the lines and see they are embarrassed that he has been forced into another, not just a TACO, but a monumental TACO, after shooting himself in both feet and are scrambling around trying to find grains of comfort.

Well tough titty folks. This week he showed he is as mad as bag of cats.

sligeach · 23-01-2026 03:44AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172038#Comment_124172038

I don't know how realistically feasible that is, I would guess it's not. It's a massive body of water and we've feck all navy ships.

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JPCN1 · 23-01-2026 03:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172053#Comment_124172053

and the fact that most are tied up in Haulbowline because we can’t crew them…

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 04:02AM

Most of these Greenlandic politicians seem to be trilingual or at least well able to make themselves understood in their third language of English. Of course many of the Yanks don’t notice that. I’d like to see Dear Leader trying his hand at some rudimentary Kalaallisut given that he’s so anxious to take over the place.

sligeach · 23-01-2026 04:06AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172047#Comment_124172047

"This week he showed he is as mad as bag of cats."

I see your bag of cats and raise you a box of mad frogs.

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 04:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124171855#Comment_124171855

That’s how friends should behave. Let’s be nicer than the other guy.

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 04:18AM

One might see a trajectory in America's heroes: from Shane to Dirty Harry to Tony Soprano and Walter White. Is it a desire for more realism or are people giving up on playing by the rules?

RoyalCelt · 23-01-2026 04:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124166675#Comment_124166675

Would quick selling the bonds not ultimately lead to the holders underselling and whoever buys eventually getting a very good deal when the US recovers?

Frank Bullitt · 23-01-2026 04:38AM

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trump-withdraws-canadas-invitation-to-board-of-peace/

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, due to Mark Carney making a show of Trump, and getting the standing ovation at Davos, Canada is uninvited to the board of peace.

Oh no…I hope Canada will recover from this.

Proof yet again, Donald Trump is a baby.

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 05:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172069#Comment_124172069

Carney’s CV was sorely lacking in the crime department for Thugs’R’Us. Not a murder in sight. He just didn’t measure up.

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 05:27AM

Trump is a yellow pack huckster with nothing useful to contribute. There’s no imagination about governing there. While China road-tests the future he continues to turn the clock back by focusing on oil, tariffs, real estate, very exclusive clubs and keeping the Epstein files under wraps.

FAILSAFE 00 · 23-01-2026 06:24AM

Trump showing very strong leadership only highlights how weak the EU is. Pathetically so.

There needs to be a shift to the right in the EU leadership and ideology to do better on the world stage.

Timberrrrrrrr · 23-01-2026 06:35AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172086#Comment_124172086

"There needs to be a shift to the right in the EU leadership"

Yeah, cos that worked out soooo well the last time 🤣🤦‍♂️

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 06:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172086#Comment_124172086

Once Trump got in and changed the game we drew the opposite conclusion in Canada. Suddenly, our Tories who were cruising to a landslide victory looked too Trump-friendly to be trusted and were dumped for the Liberals under a new leader. Even today with all the problems Canada has, the Conservatives are still seen as having a credibility problem when dealing with American aggression in all its forms.

MayoSalmon · 23-01-2026 07:46AM

Looks like Donnie has gotten the EU to double its current funding for Greenland.

Another W

everlast75 · 23-01-2026 07:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172086#Comment_124172086

Trump appeared at Davos and effectively shat the proverbial bed. He lied through his teeth, showed his complete ignorance of history, confused the name of the country he wants to take over four times and then f**ked off.

And that's your idea of strong leadership?

Ardillaun · 23-01-2026 08:13AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172104#Comment_124172104

If true you are cheering for extortion. What does that make you?

Jelle1880 · 23-01-2026 08:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172104#Comment_124172104

How is that a W for him or the US? Greenland stays with Denmark and Europe hates him more than before. Also, are you sure he's not talking about Iceland?

MAGA really believes everything he says, it's mental.

bog master · 23-01-2026 08:45AM

Trump rewriting and sanitizing American History once again.

https://billypenn.com/2026/01/22/presidents-house-exhibit-slavery-dismantled/

The President’s House came under scrutiny after President Donald Trump signed an

executive order in March, titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history.”

It called for the removal from federal monuments, memorials and similar sites of displays that “contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” Instead, it said, those sites should showcase “the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people or, with respect to natural features, the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of the American landscape.”

Jelle1880 · 23-01-2026 08:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172138#Comment_124172138

The 'you can't tear statues down' crowd is awfully quiet.

Akrasia · 23-01-2026 09:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172069#Comment_124172069

If Carney had paid the billion he couldn't be uninvited.

threeball · 23-01-2026 09:03AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172063#Comment_124172063

The likelihood is that the US doesnt recover from this. Its not just the EU looking to sell their bonds. Japan is exiting the US bond market. China has already had a major downsize of their position. So they're really only left with the ME to pick up the trillions they need. Or else they're printing everything. Massive devaluation, spike in interest rates of bonds which hits everything else in the chain like business borrowing, mortgages etc. Massive inflation spike and complete loss of trust in the currency. And that's before you add in Trumps messing with the Fed.

I think it will lose the reserve currency status in the next few years and you'll see a huge drop in living standards in the US. He can add bankrupting the most powerful nation on earth to his CV. He's going out with a bang. What a legacy.

astrofool · 23-01-2026 09:08AM

The Davos visit has set a new low bar for this presidency that few thought was possible to reach.

venit vidit fugit

PropJoe10 · 23-01-2026 09:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172086#Comment_124172086

If Trump is your idea of "strong leadership" then I truly hope I don't know you in real life.

riddles · 23-01-2026 09:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124172086#Comment_124172086

I’d prefer a shift to the right things rather than a shift to the right.

DJT is a self servicing narcissist whose primary focus is himself. I’m not sure bullying, name calling and tantrums are historically synonymous with strong leadership.

He is though extraordinary in the true sense of the word. Incredible self belief and a well honed personality as a strategy. He managed to plug into a want and make enough people believe he gives two sh1ts about them. Add in being able create a cabal of money makers who are clearing up in his slip stream and he gets the kicks backs.

somenergy · 23-01-2026 09:23AM

Board of peace life long chairman let hope a short 1 convicted felon and pedofile presents

Comes with a 1 billion$ grift to the crime family it guest are some of the worlds worst glad ireland and uk said no and other respected democracies.

It on wikapedia its george orwell stuff.

bog master · 23-01-2026 09:23AM

Deja vu strikes again.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/two-weeks-trump-strikes-again-reveals-alleged-timeline-for-greenland-details/

“Two weeks” has been Trump’s go-to self-imposed deadline dating back to his first term, when in 2017 he said he would present a “phenomenal” tax proposal in two weeks

. Regarding the Paris climate agreement that year, Trump said he would decide whether to withdraw within two weeks

. In 2020, the president said he would sign into law a new healthcare bill that never happened in two weeks

. That same year, Trump promised action on a potential minimum wage increase within two weeks

. Last June, he said he would decide whether to act against Iran within two weeks

, before ordering strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities two days later. And on trying to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, Trump has repeatedly given two-week deadlines to achieve various milestones to stop the war, which is ongoing.

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

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