The Many Faces of US Politics...

[Captain Scarlet]

But it's not 1% screaming at each other on social media. A woman was just shot dead and you have the President and his minions saying work away.

Owning the libs is more important to them than people's rights and many of them delight in all. Fox mentioned she had pronouns in her social media bio...clearly not one of the folks that US politicians speak about, so fair game.

The USA has messed up so many countries I do think they were due some blowback, but 20 years ago not many would have thought it would come from the White House.

Like as I said before you'd be frazzled. All this is going on while Venezuela is in limbo and people in Greenland are expecting an invasion. This is all in one fuckin week!!

[trueblue1234]

1930s Germany reborn in the Thug States of America.
The SA now ICE, Jews now anyone that looks like an immigrant, dictator ruling by decree, howling mob of fanatic supporters......

When people say stuff like this, I always wonder have they actually read what 1930s Germany was like.

America at the minute is crazy. And a complete tinderbox. While there has always been differences between Reps & Dems, there was never the level of hate and hostility between them as now. Trump is acting with no international regards, and that can only be a bad thing for everyone. Surely you see the potential for this to get much uglier.

It's not though. There are 300 million people in it, 99% of whom are going about their daily lives, going to work and looking after their family, the other 1% are screaming at each other on Twitter like maniacs.

Do you not notice it's the same 4 or 5 people posting in this thread relentlessly?

Well going on the posters here who live over there, and from the media that's not the picture I'm forming at all. I think you're trying to minimise the impact Trump has had on politics, not just in the US but in the world. It's is now completely toxic. Trump is not the only one to blame, by any stretch of the imagination, but he's certainly the biggest.

[Orior]

Apparently María Corina Machado is meeting Trump next week. She will donate her Nobel prize to him.

He will accept it and then immediately install her as president of Venuzuala.

Are there any Trump supporters on GAA Board?

[Armagh18]

Apparently María Corina Machado is meeting Trump next week. She will donate her Nobel prize to him.

He will accept it and then immediately install her as president of Venuzuala.

Are there any Trump supporters on GAA Board?

Whitey, but hes fair quiet these days

[J70]

Apparently María Corina Machado is meeting Trump next week. She will donate her Nobel prize to him.

He will accept it and then immediately install her as president of Venuzuala.

Are there any Trump supporters on GAA Board?

Has Trump no self-awareness whatsoever?

Is he really that narcissistic and clueless that he doesn't see how pathetic and needy he is behind all the cruelty, bigotry and corruption?

Such a small man.

[Banks of the Bann]

I wish Barack Obama would do the world a favour and hand back his Nobel Peace Prize.

Ironically, doing that that might actually be something worthy of a peace prize.

[Captain Scarlet]

I did say to family that the Venezuela thing coud honestly be down to your one winning it. You honestly would believe it with him.
Can I ask how many of the World Cup cities will have ICE running around this summer? Because that is scary stuff for any fans from around the world.

[Look-Up!]

Must have been one contrary toddler. Now, no means NO Donnie!!!!!

[Armagh18]

I did say to family that the Venezuela thing coud honestly be down to your one winning it. You honestly would believe it with him.
Can I ask how many of the World Cup cities will have ICE running around this summer? Because that is scary stuff for any fans from around the world.

Hitler cleaned up his act for the Olympics more or less didn't he? Probably see the same here.

[Eamonnca1]

Just breezed through preclearance in Dublin. No issues. No questions. Not very 1930s Germany

Well that settles it then. All is well with the US.

[Puckoon]

It's not "nonsensical propaganda." It's all completely verifiable.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) significantly reduced certain recruitment standards in 2025 to meet hiring goals, including removing age limits, cutting training time in half, and dropping the Spanish language requirement, while also offering large signing bonuses and student loan forgiveness to attract officers amidst an aggressive expansion. These changes have drawn criticism from lawmakers concerned about increased misconduct, with ICE reportedly doubling its workforce in 2025.

Sources:

Secretary Noem Unveils No Age Limit for Patriotic Americans to Join ICE Law Enforcement to Help Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/06/secretary-noem-unveils-no-age-limit-patriotic-americans-join-ice-law-enforcement

^ That's from the horse's mouth. They're not confessing. They're bragging.

Durbin Presses Noem On Lax ICE Hiring Standards, Inflammatory Recruitment Messaging
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-presses-noem-on-lax-ice-hiring-standards-inflammatory-recruitment-messaging

As ICE boosts recruitment, critics concerned over changes to hiring and training standards
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-ice-boosts-recruitment-critics-concerned-over-changes-to-hiring-and-training-standards


Just because the right spews fact-averse crap doesn't mean everything coming from the left is equally false.

What's stunning is that they exist and that they killed a woman. Their reading and writing doesn't factor into it, at least for me. I mean it is in no way surprising, let alone stunning.

[lenny]

Just breezed through preclearance in Dublin. No issues. No questions. Not very 1930s Germany

No direct flights out of glasgow or Edinburgh?

[DaleCooper]

Bodycam footage now out[from shooters POV].

The ICE agent will have his case dismissed as justifiable self defence.

Children are deprived of their mother.

Tragic and pointless.

[Milltown Row2]

Bodycam footage now out[from shooters POV].

The ICE agent will have his case dismissed as justifiable self defence.

Children are deprived of their mother.

Tragic and pointless.

Hopefully he made it out of surgery..

[trueblue1234]

Bodycam footage now out[from shooters POV].

The ICE agent will have his case dismissed as justifiable self defence.

Children are deprived of their mother.

Tragic and pointless.

Have you a link?