Gemma not taking enforced retirement too well

gmisk

Peter from Gort wrote: »

I think Gemma actually did very well in the elections that she ran in considering that the internet is her only platform and of course because how wacky her views are. I was expecting her to do William DJ Gorman bad and only get about 20 votes but 1200/1500 votes is not to be mocked, remember Richard Boyd Barrett got 800 votes the first time he ran in 2002 and Luke Ming got 500 votes the first time he ran in 1997

She got 1.97 percent of the vote....1600ish after transfers etc and she had bus ads etc..who knows where the money came from...
Not exactly a ringing endorsement from the electorate.
There will always be a few protest votes and eejits who she will resonate with on conspiracy theories, xenophobia, homophobia etc take your pick.
She has also ran multiple times and done extremely poorly. The national party did even worse thank feck for that.


So by your logic in 18 or 23 years Gemma will be topping the polls?...I think its more likely she will lose her Twitter platform after over stepping the mark yet again. Go further down the rabbit hole ranting on her own website about foreigners conspiracy theories and the rest to a captive but thankfully limited audience.

Guy:Incognito

Mad_maxx wrote: »

all political party leaders belong to the WOKE faith

How dare they be "alert to injustice in society, especially racism" . This can only ever end in disaster. We must maintain a healthy appetite of racism and injustice in our society. :rolleyes:

Peter from Gort

gmisk wrote: »

She got 1.97 percent of the vote....1600ish after transfers etc and she had bus ads etc..who knows where the money came from...
Not exactly a ringing endorsement from the electorate.
There will always be a few protest votes and eejits who she will resonate with on conspiracy theories, xenophobia, homophobia etc take your pick.
She has also ran multiple times and done extremely poorly. The national party did even worse thank feck for that.


So by your logic in 18 or 23 years Gemma will be topping the polls?...I think its more likely she will lose her Twitter platform after over stepping the mark yet again. Go further down the rabbit hole ranting on her own website about foreigners conspiracy theories and the rest to a captive but thankfully limited audience.

25 years ago if someone had said Mick Wallace wearing pink, Luke Ming and Gerry Adams would be in the dail, it would have sounded far fetched. I do think there is a good possibility of a far right person or persons being elected to the dail in the future, not necessarily Gemma as the look of scorn she gives everyone(even John Waters) is very off putting.

gmisk

Peter from Gort wrote: »

25 years ago if someone had said Mick Wallace wearing pink, Luke Ming and Gerry Adams would be in the dail, it would have sounded far fetched. I do think there is a good possibility of a far right person or persons being elected to the dail in the future, not necessarily Gemma as the look of scorn she gives everyone(even John Waters) is very off putting.

I am not saying there won't be some far right numpty who gets in, it has happened in plenty of other places. But I doubt it will be either of the above, can't see her getting in as a TD even at 76...

Mad_maxx

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

How dare they be "alert to injustice in society, especially racism" . This can only ever end in disaster. We must maintain a healthy appetite of racism and injustice in our society.

Hardly a mature reply

davedanon

The "WOKE" concept really gets up some people's noses, doesn't it? You can feel the sneery contempt coming through your computer screen when they bring themselves to type it.

AndrewJRenko

gmisk wrote: »

I am not saying there won't be some far right numpty who gets in,.

You've met Noel Grealish then?

Mad_maxx

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

You've met Noel Grealish then?

so Noel Grealish is far right ?

Hangdogroad

KiKi III wrote: »

Gemma had numerous Dublin buses with her face plastered all over them. Her campaign was very well funded and far from just her own platform organically campaigning.

It'd be interesting to know exactly where that funding is coming from.

MrMusician18

Mad_maxx wrote: »

so Noel Grealish is far right ?

I suppose it depends on your frame of reference. I wouldn't consider Grealish to be far-right (in the flag waving, anger as a policy, loonie sense) but he and the rural independents are as right-wing as the mainstream currently goes.

He would probably be considered the member of the Dail that's furthest to the right.

sabat

gmisk wrote: »

..who knows where the money came from...

...There will always be a few protest votes and eejits who she will resonate with on conspiracy theories, ...

...Go further down the rabbit hole ranting on her own website about foreigners conspiracy theories

You literally just theorised a conspiracy.

Ash.J.Williams

America has lost control of covid 19 to put it mildly, we took precaution to keep our hospitals ticking over, Americas hospitals are now over capacity, Johnny nd Gemma wanted us to be like America

Odhinn

Mad_maxx wrote: »

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i ask now , why is it a good thing that the african population in ireland continues to increase ? , what would be so problematic about putting a stop to this ?

Why is it a problem for you?

davedanon

Odhinn wrote: »

Why is it a problem for you?

Because he's a bit of a racist?

Mad_maxx

Odhinn wrote: »

Why is it a problem for you?

That sounds quite close to personalising a debate ? , it can never be about one individual

I'm posing the questions, why is it assumed to be wrong to wish to limit the level of diversity, why is diversity viewed as inherently a good thing?

Mad_maxx

davedanon wrote: »

Because he's a bit of a racist?

Any supportive evidence for that charge?

brightspark

Mad_maxx wrote: »

its not unreasonable to question why we need or should want to increase the african population in this country , at this stage its received wisdom that its both the right and obvious thing to do , no one ever says " wait a minute "

that reservations are expressed by uncouth , unsophisticated and uneducated people , does not negate this

i ask now , why is it a good thing that the african population in ireland continues to increase ? , what would be so problematic about putting a stop to this ?

If you go back far enough we are all descended from someone from Africa, just because we got here first is that a reason to stop others from coming here?

MrMusician18

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Any supportive evidence for that charge?

Of course he hasn't. Dave just likes to cast aspersions on people, entirely groundlessly I might add. Says more about him tbh.

davedanon

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Any supportive evidence for that charge?

Your original post.

davedanon

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Of course he hasn't. Dave just likes to cast aspersions on people, entirely groundlessly I might add. Says more about him tbh.

There's nothing quite like the frustrated ambitions of would-be, can-do bigots.

MrMusician18

davedanon wrote: »

There's nothing quite like the frustrated ambitions of would-be, can-do bigots.

So, considering no mainstream Irish party to be right wing makes you a bigot these days?

Wow.

Quantum Erasure

brightspark wrote: »

If you go back far enough we are all descended from someone from Africa, just because we got here first is that a reason to stop others from coming here?

yes. it is.

go back further we came from Eurasia, further again and primates may have originated on North America...

but we're here now, we have our country and our laws, and we get to decide who can join us, that's the way it works

brightspark

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

yes. it is.

go back further we came from Eurasia, further again and primates may have originated on North America...

but we're here now, we have our country and our laws, and we get to decide who can join us, that's the way it works

Our laws (and the laws we agree to as part of our membership of the EU) allow for immigration...that's the way it works.

Quantum Erasure

I know that, but i took from your post you'd be in favour of completely open borders, or should we have any say at all?

Mad_maxx

brightspark wrote: »

If you go back far enough we are all descended from someone from Africa, just because we got here first is that a reason to stop others from coming here?

not sure what your point is beyond a philosophical one

TaurenDruid

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

I know that, but i took from your post you'd be in favour of completely open borders, or should we have any say at all?

But we don't have completely open borders. Far from it.

I took from your post that we should have no emigration and you'd be in favour of immediate repatriation of everyone of Irish descent.

That's how it works, isn't it?

:rolleyes:

LollipopJimmy

She's going after the army now, posting a picture of a rainbow makes the sick apparently

Quantum Erasure

TaurenDruid wrote: »

But we don't have completely open borders. Far from it.

I took from your post that we should have no emigration and you'd be in favour of immediate repatriation of everyone of Irish descent.

That's how it works, isn't it?

:rolleyes:

i think what i said is clear

just because we got here first is that a reason to stop others from coming here?

versus

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

we're here now, we have our country and our laws, and we get to decide who can join us

davedanon

Why Africans in particular? It seems like textbook racism on its face.

KKkitty

Since Hazel Chu has been voted in by a strong majority to be Mayor of Dublin we can expect someone to be more Gemmented than usual.