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.ak · 11-05-2017 10:05AM

Let's not go down the road of discussing another poster's ban or DRP.

11-05-2017 09:46PM

Looking forward to the big final on Saturday.

Moldova clearly the pick of the bunch so far.

DGRulz · 11-05-2017 09:48PM

I love Eurovision. It's a melting pot of mental and tacky with some music thrown in.

Stheno · 11-05-2017 09:55PM

aww they just had a proposal live on Eurovision

11-05-2017 10:03PM

Me nerves. Is Brendan going to make it to the final?

Teferi · 11-05-2017 10:04PM

Ireland were garbage.

awec · 11-05-2017 10:05PM

Ireland need to enter Jedward really. The pride of Dublin.

11-05-2017 10:06PM

Running out of spots for Brenners

irishbucsfan · 11-05-2017 10:07PM

awec wrote: »

Ireland need to enter Jedward really. The pride of Dublin.

Are you allowed do it more than once? I suppose its a song contest so you should be able to (and I have some feeling that we've already done this)

Teferi · 11-05-2017 10:08PM

Ireland didn't go through. I blame Joe.

Schmidt out.

DGRulz · 11-05-2017 10:08PM

Yea .. we're not getting through.

11-05-2017 10:08PM

Last spot.....

11-05-2017 10:09PM

DGRulz · 11-05-2017 10:11PM

Right, time to pick the girl with the shortest dress and vote for that country on Saturday.

Bridge93 · 11-05-2017 10:11PM

In fairness I don't have much of an ear for music but we've had better songs than that not get through before. That was a ****ing terrible song

molloyjh · 12-05-2017 08:00AM

Read The Economists interview with Trump there last night. Mother. Of. God. It might actually be worse than I thought.....

http://www.economist.com/Trumptranscript

12-05-2017 10:03AM

molloyjh wrote: »

Read The Economists interview with Trump there last night. Mother. Of. God. It might actually be worse than I thought.....

http://www.economist.com/Trumptranscript

Absolutely nothing at all in that surprises me.

I've certainly increased my consumption of US based news over the last 9 months but by all accounts every policy now is explained to Trump on the basis of how much it "wins" and then things move forward.

Same laws, same ideas just contextualised to feed one persons ego.

I've a lot of friends state side and everyone seems extremely pissed off and embarrassed from R to I to D.

Bazzo · 12-05-2017 11:43AM

I'm finding it hard to make myself actually read his egomaniacal waffle these days(unless it's particularly off the wall). It's just repetitive rambling. There's only so much you can listen to someone bull**** about how great they are before it gets extremely tedious.

12-05-2017 12:59PM

Bazzo wrote: »

I'm finding it hard to make myself actually read his egomaniacal waffle these days(unless it's particularly off the wall). It's just repetitive rambling. There's only so much you can listen to someone bull**** about how great they are before it gets extremely tedious.

If only everyone would ignore him, he might just f off

stephen_n · 12-05-2017 01:29PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

RIP Robert Miles

Survived by his children.

You forgot the badum tish at the end!

molloyjh · 12-05-2017 01:39PM

Kailani Dirty Teenager wrote: »

If only everyone would ignore him, he might just f off

Tough to ignore the US President in fairness.

stephen_n · 12-05-2017 01:42PM

Bazzo wrote: »

I'm finding it hard to make myself actually read his egomaniacal waffle these days(unless it's particularly off the wall). It's just repetitive rambling. There's only so much you can listen to someone bull**** about how great they are before it gets extremely tedious.

Repetition with purpose, it's not rambling. It appeals to his voters and reinforces his message.

irishbucsfan · 12-05-2017 01:42PM

Bazzo wrote: »

I'm finding it hard to make myself actually read his egomaniacal waffle these days(unless it's particularly off the wall). It's just repetitive rambling. There's only so much you can listen to someone bull**** about how great they are before it gets extremely tedious.

I start to tune it out and then I hear about comments like this one from that Economist interview:

Trump: That all goes into tax reduction. Tremendous savings.
Interviewer: But beyond that it’s OK if the tax plan increases the deficit?
It is OK, because it won’t increase it for long. You may have two years where you’ll…you understand the expression “prime the pump”?
Yes.
We have to prime the pump.
It’s very Keynesian.
We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have you heard that expression before, for this particular type of an event?
Priming the pump?
Yeah, have you heard it?
Yes.
Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just…I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.
It’s…
Yeah, what you have to do is you have to put something in before you can get something out.

He's by far the dimmest world leader I've ever seen.

irishbucsfan · 12-05-2017 01:43PM

stephen_n wrote: »

Repetition with purpose, it's not rambling. It appeals to his voters and reinforces his message.

More like it appeals to his inability to hold more than a couple of concepts in his consciousness at any point in time.

stephen_n · 12-05-2017 01:48PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

More like it appeals to his inability to hold more than a couple of concepts in his consciousness at any point in time.

It won him an election, maybe it's his voters that can't hold on to more than a couple of concepts at once.

It also worked for UKIP in the Brexit vote, it's not accidental.

Now there is a good chance it also suits Trumps intellectual abilities too.

Buer · 12-05-2017 01:48PM

He has gone on a bit of a Twitter rampage in the past hour....seems to be threatening Comey in it and suggesting he has taped their conversations.

It's utterly bonkers. The most influential office in the western world is a complete soap opera.

scrights · 12-05-2017 01:51PM

reflects the demise of the US well.

irishbucsfan · 12-05-2017 01:53PM

stephen_n wrote: »

It won him an election, maybe it's his voters that can't hold on to more than a couple of concepts at once.

It also worked for UKIP in the Brexit vote, it's not accidental.

Now there is a good chance it also suits Trumps intellectual abilities too.

I very much disagree that his style of rhetoric won him the election against Clinton.

Also to say anything worked "for UKIP" in the Brexit vote is a bit of a stretch, Vote Leave's campaign was far more influential than the Leave.eu one.

Podge_irl · 12-05-2017 01:57PM

stephen_n wrote: »

Repetition with purpose, it's not rambling. It appeals to his voters and reinforces his message.

Theresa May's "Strong and Stable" shtick is repetition with purpose.

This is just jibbering stream of consciousness nonsense vaguely related to a topic he is trying to focus on. He is incapable of actually stringing together a coherent sentence. It's insane.

stephen_n · 12-05-2017 01:58PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I very much disagree that his style of rhetoric won him the election against Clinton.

Also to say anything worked "for UKIP" in the Brexit vote is a bit of a stretch, Vote Leave's campaign was far more influential than the Leave.eu one.

Both campaigns were based on repetition of headline points and a refusal to enter into substantial debate. The belief that if you say it enough times it becomes true.

Having Clinton as his opposition made it easier, but his appeal was based on the repetition of certain statements, that's undeniable. It certainly wasn't his ability to put forward coherent policy options.

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