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

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    #61712
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,654 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124548678#Comment_124548678

    In a strange way, you'd have to almost admire the way he has managed to con so many millions of people over such a long period. It's quite a remarkable feat.



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    #61713
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,054 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    1000045612.jpg

    Looks like a pride event to me.....

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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    #61714
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    In honour of Don's 80th birthday, a present.

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    #61715
    Stanley 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124550849#Comment_124550849

    Bibi has got Trump by the short and curlies, Epstein/GMax gave Mossad compromising files on Trump and he is now effectively blackmailing Trump, several Presidents refused to bow to Israel ambitions but not Donald.



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    #61716
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124550983#Comment_124550983

    It's the same in every country. People just want to live their lives and politics stresses and confuses a lot of people. I believe that's intentional.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj0grpyg4v1t

    GREAT NEWS AT LAST!

    "Let the oil flow" says Trump.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61717
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124550986#Comment_124550986

    The pride movement was ecstatic when the WH was lit up in rainbow.

    In terms of America it's very prestigious to get your product there. The UFC is going to be at it's absolute peak tonight, to think where it came from.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61718
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,939 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551286#Comment_124551286

    So can anyone tell me what exactly is different from before he started the war on Iran?



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    #61719
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551297#Comment_124551297

    The bank accounts of Trump's buddies have increased with amazingly prescient bets.



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    #61720
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551297#Comment_124551297

    Iran's military facilities have been badly damaged or destroyed. Their nuclear program set back many years. Was it worth it? I've no idea but the future years will be telling.

    Added bonus. The weapons they were selling to the Russian rats has either stopped altogether or seriously diminished.

    It can't be a coincidence Ukraine have achieved massive drone superiority since this war broke out and for the first time in years, Russia is stalled.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61721
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,121 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551297#Comment_124551297

    Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of expenses in munitions, deployments lost assets and damaged infrastructure to the US, Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman, Saudi and Iran and the global economy forced to endure huge inflation, oil prices increasing and potential food shortages due to lack of fertilisers which will drive up food prices globally and cause millions to go hungry and thousands of lives lost and many more ruined through displacement, injury and economic impact. Not to mention the environmental impact of America and Israel blowing up oil refineries and other infrastructure and Iran retaliating

    So, thats whats different

    Edited to say I underestimated the cost, its closer to 1.3 trillion USD

    Economic impact of Iran War

    Ban billionaires



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    #61722
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,316 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551347#Comment_124551347

    Are you serious?

    Or are you admitting that Trump's previous obliterating of their nuclear capabilities was in fact more of his lies?

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    #61723
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    According to Trump's people. the deal with Iran is done and the Hormuz Straits are open, the U.S Navy blockade is lifted. Peace in Trump's time, though the virtual signing of the document is not done yet and the IRG are denying there's a deal.



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    #61724
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    What a failure by the US. **** all achieved apart from more destruction, and by all accounts Iran will maintain control over the Strait.



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    #61725
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551355#Comment_124551355

    Trump and lying/over exaggerating is like the bear **** in the woods. Doesn't need further analysis.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61726
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,686 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    While an end to the war is to be celebrated, we shouldn't forget who caused this.

    The cynic in me is this is a ruse. Spike inflation with a war, end the war and then spread a narrative that you are responsible for falling prices.

    I fully expect the US to fall for this ****.



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    #61727
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124550949#Comment_124550949

    I rather preferred the thought of plague like swarms of mosquitos and gnats descending on the likes of Trump snd his entourage ....I'd like the extended highlights package please!



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    #61728
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,939 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551351#Comment_124551351

    Well I was looking for the good points, but there isn't any



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    #61729
    MONarmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭MONarmy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551347#Comment_124551347

    It's such a strange world we live in. No such thing as truth or facts anymore, just narratives that people spin. The lads who like to suckle on Trumps balls are experts at turning black and white facts where Trump has erred completely into some sort of win for him. It's astonishing to witness in real time for all these years.



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    #61730
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,121 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551347#Comment_124551347

    America's bases in the region have been obliterated
    Iran's military has been dug in to underground bunkers to pop out, fire and retreat so that the US standard blitzkrieg style of aerial assault was not effective.

    Iran's airforce was 'destroyed', but Iran were not relying on an airforce, they relied on Mobile SAM batteries and 'loitering' defences.
    Iran's 'navy' was sunk but they were not relying on battleships or aircraft carriers, they have backup plans of small fast boats that can launch drones or mines, and their drone launchers can pose enough of a threat to the US that their carriers haven't entered the Persian gulf and are launching attacks from the Arabian sea reliant on mid air refuelling.

    And their offensive capacity hasn't been destroyed either. They can make more drones per day than they have fired.

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    #61731
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551384#Comment_124551384

    I watched the footage of strikes on Iran daily. They were set back quite a bit. The satellite images are there to see.

    Likewise Russia has appeared weakened since their ally Iran started to get bombed.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61732
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551390#Comment_124551390

    There offensive capacity has been severely degraded and that was seen in the big reduction in strikes as the war dragged. Their nuclear facilities hit extremely hard. They don't have the ability to open the straight militarily either.

    People rightly take issue with Trump's use of the word obliterate but you use his favourite word to describe largely empty American bases which were damaged.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61733
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,121 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551409#Comment_124551409

    Trump was also impressed by the pictures of craters on the ground, but Iran has their most important infrastructure in underground facilities.

    Underground factories, America bombs the entrances, but the facilities are full of excavators so they just dig their way out in a few hours.

    The Vietnamese worked this out generations ago. America carpet bombed Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia but those bombs can't reach the underground tunnels.

    A country that is prepared for an attack from the air, which is basically all America is prepared to do anymore is not militarily vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. America ran out of military targets and started attacking civilian infrastructure yet the Iranian military is still intact and able to shoot down Apaches and retaliate to US and Israeli strikes

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    #61734
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,744 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124550903#Comment_124550903

    American ufc fans are, by and large, fairly right leaning. Hardly a surprise they (and you) are happily gobbling down trump’s excrement



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    #61735
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,744 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551347#Comment_124551347

    But their nuclear programme was destroyed last year according to your orange oracle. You’re not telling me he wasn’t telling the truth are you?



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    #61736
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551425#Comment_124551425

    They had a huge amount of infrastructure on the ground and a lot which wasn't deep enough either. They stored and produced a bit deep underground but the majority was indeed hit.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61737
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551438#Comment_124551438

    According to who?

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61738
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,744 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551440#Comment_124551440

    Your hero, Trump. Was hardly that difficult to work out?



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    #61739
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551444#Comment_124551444

    It's difficult to work out because you know I'd vote against him.

    It's crazy to think Trump is in the Whitehouse, conducting a deal with Iran and in 1-2 hours his UFC event is starting.

    It's been pushed back an hour, not sure if it's related to the deal or the weather. Apparently it's absolutely pissing down in Washington.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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    #61740
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551426#Comment_124551426

    There was a ufc journalist on the indo Sport daily podcast last week and he made the point that the fan base of ufc has shifted massively right in the last few years, so now most ufc fans (not all, he did say that) are trump fans (in America at least)



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    #61741
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124551453#Comment_124551453

    Most UFC fans would generally not be enough into politics to be a fan of anybody . Trump gets way too much credit in this regard.

    I'm on the verge of a site ban. Please don't rage bait me, I'm easily triggered especially late at night!



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