What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

He probably thinks that if he says he would be happy to go to jail, citing virtuous reasons, the courts will not put him in jail just to spite him, because that is what he would do.

Exactly. Trump won't be seeing any orange jumpsuits, although they would go lovely with his complexion. But house arrest and a complete marginalisation from US politics will do just nicely, and would serve as a warning to any other wannabe tin pot dictators in the future.

But, yeah, there are many tiers to American "society" and when your in the moneyed bracket the same rules don't apply to you as they would to someone else of lesser means.

What can be noted is that tech investors and indeed most business people don't make good political leaders or decisions. Politics is a totally different craft.

Above all the mindset and decision making process are totally incompatible. Even if Trump was a successful businessman he would still make a poor political leader.

Also the way the US is setup can unfortunately enable people who aren't even great business people to succeed. Somebody like Trump if he had been based in Europe wouldn't have survived wealth wise beyond the 80s imho. Also obviously, none of them are generally suited to politics.

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I know. You can barely walk down the streets of Dublin these days without stepping in Ho Gnome Sh*t.

Trump on response to Hamas attacks:

Mostly predictable stuff, but then there is this gem:

Trump said Monday that he would implement “strong ideological screening of all immigrants to the United States” and said the US would block “dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots and maniacs to get residency in our country.”

I hope every other country uses precisely this against him, even if he should make it to the White House.

It’s your wild assertion that California officials named the wall the Tortilla Wall?

The derisive name was given to it by Mexicans.

Trump killed his own border wall when he initiated the 2018/19 shutdown because Ann Coulter called him names for letting Congress reach a bipartisan deal for immigration reform and government spending that included $28Bn funding for walls. Your allegation that Democrats stopped him is not supported by the record. Trump told Mitch to kill the bill before it was allowed on to the Senate floor for a vote.

the problem with trump and his cheerleaders is that they don't usually have the brain cells to sit down and think something through.

Firstly national security lol. Anyone dodgy enough isn't walking over the border they are coming through the cartel tunnels. So wall or no wall they aren't being stopped

Secondly a wall isn't going to stop anyone going to the border. A majority of the people who arrive at the Mexico/US border come up through central and south America. Those that come through south America, pass through the Darien gap. you should have a read up on what goes on in there. It might open your eyes a little bit. then if they manage to get through that alive they then spend weeks travelling through central America where they are hassled by police and gangs, get fleeced for every penny they have, then have to deal with the Mexican and American authorities.

Yet for some reason you think a wall, least of all trumps **** wall that isn't deep enough or tall enough or sturdy enough to actually be a deterrent, is going to stop them after all they have been through is beyond laughable.

Then you have the fact that those that are picked up by border patrol and detained, a lot are released because they cant hold them all and Mexico will only accept so many back. Even when they are returned most just wait to cross again.

Biden nor America have an open border policy never have, never will. When people are willing to die for an opportunity to make a better life in America there is pretty much nothing that is going to deter them.

Now if trump actually had a plan, like a wall with increased surveillance and border agents, along with co operation with countries to return people to their home countries along with economic programs in the countries in central and south America to give them an option of a life in their own countries. After all, a lot of the problems there are from American foreign policy

But he didn't, because that would have taken brains and a bit of effort. Along with it being to complicated to reduce it to a three word slogan to throw at the clapping seals. Also a lot harder for his buddies to enrich themselves.

What cities are on the verge of collapse?

Which billionaire voters and donors are admitting trump was right?

Can't the Republicans just keep holding votes until they get Jordan in? what's the limitation here?

The hold outs are not the crazies but Reps in Democratic districts who will lose the next election if they vote for Jordan. They'll be very difficult to win over.