The Many Faces of US Politics...

Started by Tyrones own, March 20, 2009, 09:29:14 PM

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J70

Quote from: Denn Forever on April 19, 2019, 01:53:17 PM
The Democrats should play the ball rather than the man.   They don't have enough experience .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk

You may be right. The expedient approach would be to move on, if only because so many people so focused on defensive voting that they'll accept their own guy/gal over the perceived apocalyptic possibilities of the other side no matter how dirty their own side appears to be.

You do have to wonder though what would be happening if the roles were reversed. What if Trump was a Democrat? (I'm talking purely about his personal corruption, lack of morality and utter contemptibility as a human being. His repugnant, callous, ignorant policies are a separate issue).

Eamonnca1

If Trump were a Democrat he'd have gotten nowhere near the presidency because Dem voters would have laughed him out of the early caucuses. Only in the hateful GOP could such a clown have got the nomination.

fearbrags

Trump wouldn't have won the presidency  If the the Clintons hadn't hijacked The Democratic Party  ""Between the super delegates and getting the questions before the debates"" This  just meant a lot of Sanders supporters stayed at home ;)

Hardy

I hadn't come across this before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxxQOGGl2Jc
- from two years ago, an eloquent condemnation of Trumpism and an excoriation  of the collaboration of Irish Americans with the far right excesses of the Trump regime by Aodhán O'Riordan. I didn't know he had it in him. It deserves a wider audience, particularly to contrast with the paddywhackery in Clare last night when locals behaved like peasants who will dance for beer.

J70

Quote from: fearbrags on April 20, 2019, 07:22:26 PM
Trump wouldn't have won the presidency  If the the Clintons hadn't hijacked The Democratic Party  ""Between the super delegates and getting the questions before the debates"" This  just meant a lot of Sanders supporters stayed at home ;)

Bernie supporters stayed home because Clinton was told beforehand that the literal raging topic of that very week in Flint (location of  the debate) and a major national news story (i.e. the scandal about the elevated lead in Flint's water supply caused by local and state politicians) might come up in the debate?

(On a similar level of underhanded cheating, I believe someone let it slip to Declan Bonner that he might be asked about Mickey Harte and Tyrone when he talks to the press this week.)

And of course they ignore the fact that the right wing machine had not even begun its assault on the Bernie the "communist".

seafoid

It looks like Trump has dementia.
Presidential historian Jon Meacham said the president's tweets had become impossible to ignore, and his apparently declining mental health "posed a real danger to the nation."

His interview with Piers Morgan showed that his brain can't construct an argument

https://mobile.twitter.com/DMR09/status/1136379716708028416
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/05/ireland-visit-donald-trump-arrives-leo-varadkar-discussions

Sean cox's wife Martina says that Sean struggles with words and especially with his short term memory
but that he can remember things from the past and has no problem cursing.




"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

seafoid

Doonbeg golf course was a victim of the crash
Trump bought it for EUR 15m after the crash


https://www.irishtimes.com/business/doonbeg-golf-club-sells-units-for-41m-1.1020241

Doonbeg Golf Club sells units for €41m
Wed, Oct 25, 2006, 01:00
Gordon Deegan


One of the State's most exclusive golf clubs at Doonbeg, Co Clare, has confirmed that it has secured €41 million through the sales of luxury suites at its €150 million golf resort on the west Clare coast.

Accounts for the venture returned to the Companies Office show that in 2005, Doonbeg Golf Club recorded a loss of €1.2 million. A spokesman yesterday attributed the loss "to the development and preparation costs associated with the opening of the five-star lodging, golf and hospitality facilities".

The accounts also show that the US investors behind the project have injected €48 million into the resort, which employed 270 people over the summer months this year.

A spokesman said yesterday: "Doonbeg Golf Club and its US developers, Kiawah Development Partners [ KDP], are delighted with the progress of the club."

He added that sales contracts for 32 units at the Lodge had been entered into last year, worth €27.6 million. The remaining 15 suites, worth €13.4 million, were sold during the early part of 2006. Almost all of these sales are expected to close by next month.

The opening of the Lodge has also led to a substantial increase in golf rounds.

Last year, golf rounds remained at about the same levels as 2004, but with the opening of the Lodge, the spokesman said: "golf rounds have dramatically increased by 40 per cent for the current year to over 20,000 rounds".

With green fees for the Greg Norman-designed course at €185 during week days and €195 at weekends, the club accumulated an estimated €3.7 million in green fees last year.

The spokesman said club membership sales continued to be strong, with 2005 being 39 per cent ahead of the sales levels achieved in 2004.

That trend has continued in 2006 with membership sales levels being another 44 per cent ahead of the 2005 levels, he said. There are now 430 members, approximately 40 per cent of them Irish.

"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

J70

Apparently the club applied for planning permission to build a sea wall to offset the threat of climate for change.

Hopefully for them it will not be needed as, according to the owner, climate change is just fake news made up by the Chinese.

Eamonnca1

The amount of cap-doffing and forelock-tugging in Doonbeg was cringeworthy.

Gmac

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on June 06, 2019, 05:12:31 PM
The amount of cap-doffing and forelock-tugging in Doonbeg was cringeworthy.
don't believe what the locals think believe the guy 5000 miles away

DrinkingHarp

Trump's visit to Ireland for talks with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar was limited to the Shannon airport. But that still left enough time for raised eyebrows.

With Varadkar's face frozen in astonishment, Trump initially appeared to indicate that Ireland wanted a wall on its border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, as he wants with Mexico.

Ireland, which is deeply concerned by the effects of Brexit and the risk of a hard border, has insisted on the need for freedom of movement between the sides.

"I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border," he said. Varadkar responded: "I think one thing we want to avoid, of course, is a wall or border between us."
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J70

Whatever you can say about him, he is consistent in his utter ignorance and lack of interest in the details of policies and issues.

Milltown Row2

Listened to him while he was over in the UK and Ireland and the Piers Morgan interview, does anyone tell him he talks complete crap when doing interviews? I'm actually embarrassed for the guy, he seems bullet proof, nothing fazes him.
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

tyroneman

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 07, 2019, 08:25:19 AM
Listened to him while he was over in the UK and Ireland and the Piers Morgan interview, does anyone tell him he talks complete crap when doing interviews? I'm actually embarrassed for the guy, he seems bullet proof, nothing fazes him.

Morgan or Trump?

Eamonnca1

Quote from: Gmac on June 06, 2019, 07:12:05 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on June 06, 2019, 05:12:31 PM
The amount of cap-doffing and forelock-tugging in Doonbeg was cringeworthy.
don't believe what the locals think believe the guy 5000 miles away

What?