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

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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    So how many times has it been explained at this stage? Do you need it explained using pictures, or what?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,358 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    He was found guilty of a sexual assault, which by the extremely narrow definition of rape in that jurisdiction did not constitute rape, but would have in most other jurisdictions and which was acknowledged by the courts as being what would commonly be regarded as rape.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,982 ✭✭✭yagan


    I wouldn't be surprised if the "assassin" was an Mossad asset, especially after his IDF hoodie pic got around.

    I had thought initially that he could be a zionist like the one that killed Rabin, unhappy with any compromise with those they're trying to exterminate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,291 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It wasn't.

    I find the triumphalism of posts like this quite revealing. You're not remotely concerned about Trump's racism, his misogyny, his treatment of women, destabilising the world economy, best best friends with the world's most famous child sex trafficker, his grifting or his abuse of his office to relentlessly line his own pockets. You just take a technical detail boast about it, intersperse with TDS.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,587 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Excellent article by Matthew Syed on Trump.

    https://www.thetimes.com/article/04bafe28-5ebf-48a8-b823-634bbac4ada1

    I abhor Trump but he’s a genius
    The president’s cunning and skill at exploiting his enemies’ vanity have gained him vast wealth and power. Who else has bent history’s arc like him?

    I cant believe people still think Trump is an idiot and unintelligent.

    He is cunning as a fox.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,078 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    You conveniently ignoring the multiple posters who pointed out how Trump is very much so a rapist? Just moved onto a new topic of praise, eh?

    All those years of claiming Harris and Biden were the warmongers too... Strange the moving on from old positions when trump turns out to be a warmonger.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    More ignoring previous questions directed towards you and more "isn't Trump great" nonsense despite your repeated denials of being a supporter of him! 🙄

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    I like how he used a photograph of a Medodist church for the cover of his new book 'Communion' about his conversion to Catholicism

    Trying to widen the net? But likely will backfire as people can be closely tied to their own denomination



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,291 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    He really isn't. He's just reaping the rewards of decades of anti-intellectualism, desperation for nostalgia and a propensity for cultish fervour.

    Release the Epstein files.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    nah, it’s just that half the American public are as dumb as rocks. He inherited a fortune, went bankrupt multiple times and most of the money he did actually make he made through fraud and theft.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,943 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    "I can't believe people still think Trump is an idiot and unintelligent"

    there's your problem

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,078 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    We're at a point in history where people will declare Joe Rogan to be a genius while medical experts and scientists are part of a grand conspiracy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,291 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I was watching an episode of Seinfeld the other. Amazing show. In it, there's a bright light which disrupts Kramer's sleep. He worries about the effect it's having on his rods and cones. Wonder how many people over there would know what those are now if you removed the context.

    But are more than happy to take medical advice from a lad who snorted cocaine off a toilet seat.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,943 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I mentioned earlier Clinton's "i did not have sexual relations with that woman", and a comparison was made to where we are now in terms of the acceptance of Trump's depravitity.

    To use another comparison to see how far America has strayed, we had Clinton saying "I did not inhale" cannabis and it being a scandal, to RFK Jnr admitting to snorting Columbian marching powder off a toilet and there isn't a peep!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    What ever you want to say about the venue for the WHCD or the Secret Service processes, they surely have to look at the fact that they had the President, the Vice President and the Speaker of the House all at the same black tie gala dinner in the same room.

    Anyone working for any sort of big company likely knows that there are business continuity plans and policies that prevent e.g. all C-Level executives being in the same building or travelling in the same car/plane etc

    For the US government it's the same. Obviously sometimes you need the President in the same room as the Vice President, or the Vice President in the same room as the Speaker, etc, for them to work together.

    But at essentially a social event to have all 3 just seems a bit mad. If the President dies, the Vice President takes over, if he dies the Speaker of the House takes over.

    If, God forbid, something happened in that room on Saturday that incapacitated all 3 of them, suddenly Chuck Grassley, the 92-year old President Pro Tempore of the Senate would have been elevated to be President as 4th in line

    But even then, outside of him, there were 12 people in the Presidential line of succession at that dinner on Saturday total.

    Did they really all need to be there?

    This is exactly the point US and Israel have been making about the Iran leadership after they all gathered in the same building to discuss the negotiations in February and they all got hit with the same strike that started the war. Since then US keep talking about confusion about who's in charge because they killed so many at the same time and the current supreme leader hasn't been seen in public because he requires prostethic leg to replace the one that had to be amputated and plastic surgery to help repair his face following injuries in that same strike.

    Just seems like such a risk for a social event



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    'He only sexually assaulted her, he didn't rape her' isn't the flex you think it is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Found this one funny :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,851 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I don't understand the constant mention of a ballroom. I know Trump is building one at the White House but what is the significance? Why does he want it? For security reasons? Which events would take place there? Please enlighten me.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,333 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭Resplendent Moose


    Vanity, insecurity and narcissism.

    Have you ever been in his hotel in Doonbeg? Everything is gold and has his name on it. The guy just loves having monuments to himself, and the ballroom is just another.

    A personal invitation to dance, as Nero plays for the last time
    Tonight you will mix with the prophets without honour...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,623 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    "Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest"

    "I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit).…"

    Yeah, some gotcha..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,649 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There is a difference between

    'He was not found guilty of rape by the court'

    and

    'He was found not guilty of rape by the court'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,809 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Because it'll be "his" ballroom. The biggest change to the White House in decades, one which will then be used by future Presidents long after he's gone, but will always be the one "he" was responsible for. Plus it means he can hold special events for his donors and make one last big push for people to give him money before he leaves office.

    He is an absolute narcissist, and he loves building tacky sh*t. Making such huge changes to the White House (and his proposed "Triumph Arch", remodelling of the Trump-Kennedy Centre, refurbishment of the Washington Reflection Pool) is all because he wants to make lasting changes to these important structures and areas in his own manner because he knows they'll be there after he's gone. The ballroom will be a hugely significant change to the White House which he will have created.

    It's not about a need, it's just his want, and he has no other reason for it (even after the events of the WHCD this weekend) other than he just wants it.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,337 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Yeah, security reasons. 😂

    "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself — because no one else will"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,851 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Thanks for the Ballroom responses. So it's not really to do with security. He just wants to create his own monument.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,913 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    He is claiming there is a plan/ need for a security bunker underneath the ballroom.

    The ballroom had fallen foul of x planning processes and approvals and Trump has been trying to use the bunker as a justification that he can build the entire ballroom/ bunker in contravention of x processes approvals as if it is a 'matter of national security', they may not apply.

    This apparent attack is now being used as a further argument by his administration for the need for the ballroom/ bunker combo, which is of course very convenient. His AG is now on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,337 ✭✭✭✭Boggles




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,851 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I had to Google it to make sure but the WH already has a function room (East Room, 200 capacity). He sounds like he is replacing it with a larger venue. Strange priority.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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