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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 Posts: 28,132 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    He won't be in it for long. Andy Burnham will be an MP before the Spring, Starmer will be gone before the Autumn.

    Burnham is a serious operator.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,992 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    You'll notice Trump made the tariff threat around Greenland on a Saturday when the markets were closed. A week later, on a Saturday, he does it again with 100% tariffs for Canada if they do a trade deal with China. Yeah right. Canada is the USA's second largest trading partner. The markets and especially bond markets will decide the matter. I think the markets had learned to ignore Trumps lunacy over the last few months but the Venezuela attack actually happened and subsequently spooked them re the Greenland tariffs (they knew invasion was highly unlikely). They know he is back to TACO now and his wings were clipped last week. Credibility at an all time low.

    Meanwhile flood the zone.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,243 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Good shout.

    As ever, he will just back down on this. Retaliatory tariffs from Canada on things like oil, minerals and metals would hurt America a lot.

    This also proves carneys speech was spot on, the world has to make moves without America.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,301 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    That's if Labour allow Burnham to run as a Labour candidate in that constituency



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,301 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    Of course Trump will be looking to shake down Micheal Martin for $1 billion on his March 17th visit.

    Under no circumstances should Martin pay that amount of money to the US for essentially nothing in return.

    We need to bite the bullet for the next three years and refuse to brown nose the orange idiot on any more occasions.

    Look where endlessly brown nosing Trump got Keir Starmer this week.

    Martin's Paddy's day visit was embarrassing last year. Don't put our country though that again.

    Cancel the visit if you have to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth 8-bit


    ^^^^^^^^ The main operative -

    "

    Look where endlessly brown nosing Trump got Keir Starmer this week.

    "



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,366 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    It looks like the victim was disarmed well before he was executed.

    20260124_175729.jpg 20260124_175732.jpg

    As per the attached tweet.
    "The officer in the grey jacket enters the altercation unarmed, reaches over the man as others hold him down and then walks away with a pistol in his hand.

    It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots."

    Another extra judicial murder carried out by Temu SturmAbteilung.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,992 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    That's exactly why Trump is making the threat - Carney spoke very well at Davos. Trump spoke like an imbecile. Jealousy.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 4,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    I think Trump might lose the SCOTUS case on Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook's firing, judging by the tone of even some conservative judges like Roberts and Kavanaugh.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,243 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Trumps thin skin is his ultimate weakness, hence his brutal business record.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭PixelCrafter


    Just had a look at the Minnesota and Minneapolis forums on Reddit and it really looks like something you might have seen at the start of a civil war. I don't see this ending well. The level of brutality is off the scale and the public over there is very heavily armed if really pushed.

    The US media seems to be playing it down with the pro-MAGA side being fully on board with ICE and the rest of them trying to be 'fair and balanced' and just normalising and sanitising it.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 4,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Edit: I think the conservative Establishment and the MAGA crowd is going back to its attitude to protests during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Era. The Kent State demonstration were fired upon. The Peoples Park protest in Berkeley was suppressed on Edwin Meese's advice (he was Reagans Chief of Staff in Sacramento), with California Governor Ronald Reagan's permission.

    Separately, should Ireland join the so-called Board of Peace? I consider it illegitimate, but also think maybe if we have a seat at the table, we can have some input?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭PixelCrafter


    You're looking at an even more polarised US, a president and government who both hate and are hated by more than half the population, and it's an era of social media.

    I strongly suspect this has the potential to just turn very nasty.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,326 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    He was more interested in looking successful than putting the work in to run a successful business.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,326 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    He sees Canada as a colony that must obey America in everything. The fact that Canada still has an independent parliament and a prime minister who can speak freely enrages him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,243 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭threeball


    And yet people will argue that this lad is smart. Thick as shìt any time I've seen him talk. Plenty of neck though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭briany


    @PixelCrafter

    I strongly suspect this has the potential to just turn very nasty.

    It's already very nasty. It's hyper-normalisation / boiling frog syndrome to think the very nasty bit is around the corner. America's already in it.

    Not to say it couldn't turn nastier, though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭threeball


    Quick, what can we all hedge against on Monday and claim our winnings by Thursday when he backtracks.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Beyond that, he has all the money, but no genuine friends. A profoundly unlikeable and lonely man. His great outlet is sounding off on a platform that he can't be banned from.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,326 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    His hatred for Canada is genuine. It’s one of his core beliefs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,683 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    TThe Issue with the militia act is there is no organised militia's under any state control. Its the insurrection act he is hoping to use it allowstge federalising of the National Guard andor State militia's. The other part of the planning us I suspect to suspend Congressional and Senate elections in a few blue states this would allow Trump to continually control of both houses

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,366 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    With the Militia act, The Government can issue a call for volunteers as well as federalising Militias in other States to operate in any State they wish to target.
    In conjunction with the Insurrection act it gives MAGA the opportunity to make whomever they wish the "Militia" rather than relying upon the NG



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    it really looks like one of the ICE agents were celebrating the murder, clapping his hands as if they had just scored a goal.
    The objective is clearly to instigate civil unrest and cancel the elections.
    I always thought gun ownership advocates talking about owning guns to protect themselves against the government was a crazy argument……but I’m starting to see their point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭briany


    And you'll get the usual wag line of "He really will do anything to distract from the Epstein files…", as if his goons murdering people in broad daylight wouldn't be enough to take him down. If that's not enough to take him down, then nothing is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭midlander12


    You seriously think Trump, Orban & co would pay the slightest bit of attention to what Micheal Martin or Simon Harris would say? Of course we shouldn't join, never mind pay the billion dollars allegedly payable at the door. Martin is of course keeping the door open to joining because he doesn't want to jeopardise his St Patrick's Day gig. Sometimes I wonder if he's looking to nick Starmer's brown-nosing gold medal should it become available. Harris (whom I generally have little time for) has been a lot more direct, and rightly so.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 34,095 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    It is amazing to me that supposed "anti-big Government" conservatives and staunch defenders of the second amendment just abandon all pretence of principle under Trump.

    "This US citizen wasn't carrying ID and had a gun so we murdered him" is suddenly completely acceptable to them. Bootlicker is just not a strong enough term for how pathetically obsequious they are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,243 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    I made the big error of watching the video of the shooting.

    If anyone really tries to justify this, you’re a vile human. Simple as that.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭midlander12


    …..and doubly embarrassing when McFarage showed up in Oval Office on the feast-day itself.



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