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

So of all the countries in the world it's ranked 3rd? And someone here tried calling it a 3rd world **** hole. Wow!

Boston is considered safer then Dublin so in terms of safety it's pretty irrelevant to the decision. I guess Dublin is now a 3rd world **** hole. Certainly closer in the rankings then Boston.

If it is such an attractive destination why for 2025 was it the only country out of 184 where international tourist numbers fell resulting in a loss of $12.5 Billion in tourist revenue ?

I did actually.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings.jsp?title=2025&displayColumn=2

Qualify of life Boston ranks 124, Dublin 198.

So in terms of Irish going abroad Boston is more then good enough unless you consider Dublin a 3rd would **** hole like a poster suggested with America.

Vancouver 137! Toronto 140!!

Nonsense you say? Let's not argue over a few dozen places on the rankings because there all first world cities by our standards. Plenty of American cities are extremely attractive to Irish who travel and emigrate and that was my original point!

Goodnight.

”as an Irishman…” who care?

What reach would that be? The mammoth list of benefits of being a member of the largest single market on earth? Yeah terrible.

My friend, your ignorance must be terminal.

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It’s not even peer reviewed. Heavens sake.

Sleep well now.

As someone who spent plenty of my youth over there, it is indeed a sh*thole.

Obsessed with wealth, status and orthodontics from an early age.

Teachers are treated like pariahs. As history has shown - Brexit being a closer to home example - it is easy to sway the uneducated.

Up until 9/11, veterans treated like dirt until the well calculated swing to thank everyone for their 'service'. That new patriotic fervour has removed any line of alternate opinions/views against the system and completely eroded the concept of 'free speech' (Colin Kaepernick says hello).

The greatest country in the world which for decades has been unable to look after it's most needy. The idea of freedom for many is the right to work three jobs just to meet rent.

Some wonderful people, yet an absolute self-indulged, self-serving mess of a country.

My only worry is how its downfall is going to impact the rest of the world.

It would be too embarrassing to be there while Green Day play American Idiot with the changed lyrics.

Wow. Thats quite the u-turn in the direction of a post.

Feel free to provide your peer reviewed stats on how Boston is a 3rd world **** hole and not attractive to Irish people. I've a feeling I'll be waiting a while.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2025/11/10/100-best-cities-in-the-world-rated-in-a-2025-report/

Two US cities ranking above Dublin here with New York at number 2. An extremely popular Irish destination as we know. Not 3rd world.

It's above Dublin on the happy index too.

https://happy-city-index.com/

Since he was a nurse the nursing unions should go on strike for elective procedures only.

Jesus.

I'd imagine the veteran and military community is pretty pissed off too.

You're the person who claimed Boston is safer. It's got a murder rate of 5.29 per 100k. Dublin is at 1.8. Boston is most definitely one of the safer US cities but the US is by default less safe for any major city. Plus we don't have to worry about authorities performing executions…

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/boston-broke-a-record-last-year-for-fewest-homicides-its-on-track-to-do-it-again/

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rcd/recordedcrimedetection2020/regionalanalysis/

I’m just waiting on Trump to press the nuclear button and declare a national state of emergency and cancel all elections 😀

Joking aside, I’d say that’s an absolute wish by MAGA and Trump - they’re still trying to figure out how they can orchestrate such a situation - they’ve spouted the threat of WW3 since day 1 in office, getting people into fear mode where there was no sound reason to begin with. But that’s their MO- watch out for plenty more fear mongering- but as the months go by, they are starting to sound more and more comical - Europe standing up to them over Greenland and now criticising the remarks of Trump about NATO soldiers staying away from the front lines has essentially been a diplomatic 2 fingers to America - more of this is needed.

In negotiation, if you keep making idle threats and don’t carry through, you lose total credibility - it’s best to assertively respond to all of trumps threats and derogatory comments about Europe.

On the issue of things that keep gifting, does anyone know if this is a genuine image and comment passed by Vance at what seems to be a law enforcement media event [given the uniformed people in the background] or is it an AI attack-image?