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General Irish Politics Thread

Discussion in 'Current Affairs' started by babbsnads, Feb 7, 2020.

  1. babbsnads

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    To be fair to Niall,he's very vocal about his commitment to women and children's safety. So naturally he spends his time online fanboying for a rapist, and has decided to run for a party whose leader wrote a character reference begging for leniency,for a garda who molested a boy in state care. Looking back, the days where his main goal was to demonise social welfare recepients, were his best ones.
     
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    Aontu getting monstered by a lot of their supporters(or former supporters now) on social media for announcing a non white,non Irish candidate. Theres no half measures with those loons,you're all in or you're the enemy.
     
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    Correction, the candidate is actually an Irish citizen.
     
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    https://x.com/FineGael/status/1782807876043416044

    I'm telling you,absolute no brainer. Once a year,go out and find a down to earth, even mildly intelligent Joe Soap. Offer them 80 grand for a years work as an advisor, and just run shit like this past them before you do it. Leave them outside the politics bubble, don't even bring them into the office. Just let them assess communications before you put them out.It would be the best 80 grand they'd ever spend.
     
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    I had to log out of Twitter to see what it was as I blocked them last year as was getting a load of promoted tweets
     
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    I think they'd just tell them to sod off and post it anyway because what would a Joe soap know about hilarious electioneering! That's a pretty grim post to have actually made public.
     
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    I know for a fact Simon Harris would have found that post funny.
     
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    It's a very popular meme at the moment, so that's probably what they are going for, try to lure in the younger crowd. This isn't a..... look between H & L on your keyboard for the rest of my sentence!
     
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    Oh,im well aware of the meme and I dont think I've ever seen one die on it's arse so quickly. So not only are they indicing world record levels of cringe by trying to be like the younger crowd,they're doing it with a meme thats already driving everybody mental. The good news is them using it, will probably kill it.
     
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    My point exactly.
     
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    Boylan has categorised the letter for the sex offender as an "everyone makes mistakes" kind of thing.
     
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    Seen this earlier, pretty embarrassing for mcentee.
     
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    https://x.com/sinnfeinireland/status/1783064829806146006

    Are Sinn Fein jumping on the bandwagon?
    The only open border we have is with the north, so whats the play here? They're definitely not calling for a hard border there. And that rhetoric won't attract any of the Ireland is Full crowd,anybody SF lost to that movement is gone. What it might do though is spook voters like me because I've fuck all time for dog whistle politics. If you've a case for stronger immigration controls, make it in a genuine way,and not with dog whistle phrases like open borders. Leave that to the far right and Peadar Tobin.
     
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    Your man has some head of hair on him. Superb
     
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    He looks like the committee ordered Jay Leno from Wish.

    He destroyed her though.
     
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    he must be using Dimoxinil!

    stunning….absolutely stunning
     
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    Yeah as a balding man I have to say that's an incredible do! Absolutely ruined Helen too but with hair like that it was inevitable.
     
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    The 2 helpers behind her updating LinkedIn, knowing they're the dole by the end of the day.

    In all seriousness though, how is she so prepared, I was expecting her to scream Sinn Fein at some stage.
     
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    Am I thee only one that sees the resemblance to Michael collins?
    McNamara not mcentee.
     
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    I have changed the name of this thread to the General Irish Politics Thread, seems more fitting.
     
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