USA 2024 presidential election

you’re better off staying away from YouTube if you find videos that upset you

Seriously

YouTube?

He cares more about jobs in the US, while Ireland is merely a tax haven to avoid high corporate taxes in the USA. Even if he will drop the corporate tax rate to 15%, it is unlikely to cause mass redundancies; more likely, it will just lead to a reduction in investments. The government has plenty of time to consider how to stop wasting money

You seem like somebody who isn't informed enough, so maybe try reading the news once in a while

Ireland gives companies the ability to hold European HQ and pay lower corporate tax in Europe

Most of the companies have HQ dotted around the World. Very few have shut their HQ in the US and moved to Ireland. Aptiv and maybe Accenture are the only ones?

Even if he drops the corporate tax rate its not going to kill Ireland overnight as some will claim. Companies will not shut down their European HQ and for the companies with the HQ in Ireland it takes years to move a HQ around.

Plus why move it if in 4 years someone walks in and moves the tax rate back up in US?

Regardless how well they may or may not be doing, they won't have been issued with a social security number. So if they are doing well, then they are doing so illegally.

You don't need an SSN to file and pay your taxes in the US. Anyone can get an ITIN.

Ironically, you have many people who are paying into the system there to fund future social benefits which they themselves cannot avail of.

May I remind you what he said two months ago at a rally.

" Ukraine should have ceded territory to Russia ahead of the invasion. The worst deal would’ve been better than what we have now.”

Trump also accused Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of making “little nasty aspersions toward your favorite president, me.” 

Bodes well for negotiations with Ukraine.

He talks out of both sides of his mouth, you know he's done it for years.

I was only reading an article an hour ago were he slated Megyn Kelly a few years back, best mates now

Ye, you could put it like that, or , that he just says whatever comes in to his head before he thinks about the impact. He's a liability and extremely erratic but i don't think he'll want to be remembered as somebody who made massive mistakes when it comes to Global events. He's a narcissist, he'll want to think he'll be remembered as one of the all time greats.

I can't see him boycotting Ukraine, I have no idea what he'll do though and it's just hopeful on my part, but i am very confident that there'll be no trade wars with the EU, or that any multi's will be leaving Ireland

You need a SSN to be able to work in the states. (Taken from one of their gov websites)

Foreign Workers and Social Security Numbers Social Security numbers (SSN) are used to report a person’s wages to the government and to determine a person’s eligibility for Social Security benefits. You need an SSN to get a job, collect Social Security benefits, and receive some other government services

The undocumented Irish that have lived in the states might have something else to say on that.

Exactly, they would be shutting down access to the European market which is massive for these companies, in reality for some of the MNC's the European market is bigger than the US market to them.

Nice measured considered post.

The only thing I'd pull you up on is the peaceful time bit, Ukraine was fighting Russia by it's proxies (the same ones who shot down that Malaysian Air flight), Putin merely dropped the mask in 2022.

Syria continued to fester and the yemeni crisis saw thousands starve.

Plus the doha agreement with the Taliban happened under Trump's orders yet Biden got the blame when the US withdrew.

Even Biden carried over the MAGA cause and Chyna bashing. His chips act was a two fingers to Taiwan!

Not at all it's quite scary the amount of people who consider the likes of them to be brave and noble freedom fighters. The second coming of Donald Trump will be brilliant for Israel, and very bad news indeed for it's enemies and haters.

Domestic or not, i was responding to the point that he didn't get much done in his first term but they were huge shifts in the american socio political landscape, which lay the groundwork for a more organised Trump to be much more effective and radical this time around

What is your point? You should never challenge fascists because it only makes their supporters feel victimized?

Or you shouldn't tell the supporters of fascists that they're being stupid for voting against their own interests?

Or you shouldn't try to inform voters that their preferred candidate is a fascist by pointing out all the things he actually says himself that are objectively fascistic?

Maybe the problem is that the 'liberals' were too nice and allowed the takeover of the institutions that protect democracy out of politeness and meekness.

Trump lied pathologically. The 'liberal' judges and officials were too busy respecting democracy to prosecution Trump for the many many many many crimes he is guilty of, the 'liberal' Barack Obama could have insisted on filling his supreme court vacancy but didn't out of 'respect' for democracy, Biden could have ended the Filibuster or stacked the SCOTUS but didn't....

But most of all, the DNC membership rolled over and watched as their primaries were hijacked by corporatists, twice against Sanders, and a third time when they didn't bother to even have proper primaries.

The left, or the excuse for a left there is in America are weak because they're not fighting hard enough for the things that matter.

It seems like the tipping point is way past being exceeded. There is no 'path to victory' for the left in Trump's america

2016, Make America Great Again

2020, Keep America Great Again

2024, Make America Great Again Again

2028. Keep America Great Again Again...

This post aged well.

Listened to a lot of very downbeat US citizens in Washington today on Irish radio vox pops.

"Democracy died yesterday".

How did it? Surely that's Democracy at work, no? People get to vote for whoever they want to.

Just because they didn't vote for your man/woman.

Someone posted this on X and got 60K likes:

“Our side lost because of the intolerance of the tolerant left. If you don’t see that, then we will keep losing.
People didn’t vote for Trump, they voted against you.
They voted against your “if you don’t agree with me then you’re my enemy” mentality.
They voted against your need to have an echo chamber or risk being canceled.
They voted against being attacked for a difference in opinion.
They voted against being called pedos, racists, homophobes, Nazis simply for disagreeing with you.
They voted for the right to keep YOU out of decisions for their children.
They voted against having to walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone.

I don’t care who I piss off by saying this, step out of the tunnel vision and have a civil conversation with folks and take responsibility for your part in pushing people, who are on the fence, to vote against you.”