jm08 wrote: » Hang on a second there. You forgetting that Leo has an Irish mother whose family have strong war of Independence credentials (and for the record Sinn Fein had nothing to do with 1916. On Leo's father's side, were not two of his uncles imprisoned by the British Inthe fight for Indian independence? Worth noting that Leo's father supported Fianna Fail As well, not Fine Gael! It's pretty pathetic of you to accuse others of dog whistling using Leo's Indian heritage while completely ignoring his Irish heritage from his mother's side. There seems to be a touch of misogyny here in your post. Has the PAC asked him to resign?
blanch152 wrote: » The point is I don't care about his family background or his heritage. It is not an issue for me.
IAMAMORON wrote: » The reason why they like to get at his personal life and his heritage is because he is a brilliant and brave politician who is extremely smart and puts it up to their crap and lack of invention everyday.
FrancieBrady wrote: » That explains it! His brilliance and bravery has led him to achieve one of the worst results in an election for the FG party in history.
blanch152 wrote: » With the flak rightly now on Mary-Lou, a sacrifice is needed. Brian will volunteer.
Humberto Salazar wrote: » Will they visit his house to ask though?
IAMAMORON wrote: » I think it is slightly patronising to Sinn Féin membership when accusing them of bigotry towards Leo because of his heritage or lack of relationship with older republicans, or in fact his sexuality and lifestyle around it. That is not the reason he is being slurred in the media by Sinn Féin members, its' politicians and other supporters. The reason why they like to get at his personal life and his heritage is because he is a brilliant and brave politician who is extremely smart and puts it up to their crap and lack of invention everyday. They cannot fault his politics so they resort to insults and personnel jibes. He is the only politician amongst them that has delivered proper change to Ireland in the last 10 years, including marriage rights for LGBT and birth rights to women, at long last. They cannot stomach that deep down, that Leo delivered those. Leo brought change to Ireland, he delivered and gave thousands of our citizens fresh hope. Leo actioned change. Sinn Féín hate that. That is the real truth behind the hate campaign and just about sums up the height of Sinn Féin political manoeuvres. Find the enemy, look for weaknesses, begin flinging mud based on some moral polarising aspect to their personality, try to pick up the pieces with some form of virtue signaling after. When they can't attack the politics they attack the person, that is the modus operandi. They have been at it for years and it doesn't exclude their own members who don't toe the line.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Correct, I,instead of moving our country forward these folk want to live in the past, instead of letting sores heal, these simpletons want to keep opening them, instead of being or trying to be inclusive, these bhoys and girls want to be exclusive, instead of working to help our country progress,these folk are more interested in coat trailing and sword rattling. y
FrancieBrady wrote: » Sounds exactly like what you would do to lead your party to one of it's worst performances in history.
IAMAMORON wrote: » Hard to argue with Francie. But he has had his lickin now? He is human, so he can make mistakes. But I doubt he makes them twice and he is the type to learn from them. He hasn't gone away you know?
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Correct, I,instead of moving our country forward these folk want to live in the past, instead of letting sores heal, these simpletons want to keep opening them, instead of being or trying to be inclusive, these bhoys and girls want to be exclusive, instead of working to help our country progress,these folk are more interested in coat trailing and sword rattling. God help us all if this bunch of losers and negativity experts #notanormalparty
blanch152 wrote: » The nasty ideology of exclusionary nationalism is the common thread that binds Trump, Brexit (Johnson) and Sinn Fein. They can mutually hate each other because of those similarities, but they are all poison. #notanormalparty
FrancieBrady wrote: » Take a look at FG's Twitter account for the last couple of months. Attack dog, gaslighting politics based on half truths and cliches. Straight out of the Trump playbook. Supporters of FG at it here too.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Don’t tell me you are all over Twitter too.....!!
Bowie wrote: » Weren't SF actively and openly criticising government over the treatment of immigrants and direct provision centers? Don't SF advocate for anyone born on the island being Irish? Wasn't it FG courting the woman who wanted re-education centers for immigrants for support? I won't get into the similarities between Trump/Johnson and FG, (such as FG using the Tories very own election PR team).
McMurphy wrote: » I see #LeoTheLeak is trending on it today again.... What's he done now Brenner?
blanch152 wrote: » In advocating for anyone born on this island to be Irish, Sinn Fein are doing so to deny the rights of others born on this island to be British (or indeed something else). That is the very epitome of exclusionary nationalism - the denial of rights to others. You just have to see the pathetic posturing of posters on these boards around this issue that all born on this island are automatically Irish, despite the laws, North and South, saying something completely different. The labelling of unionism as extremist, the derogatory references to partitionism, despite it being a legitimate political position, and finally, not to mention the divisive references to events of the recent past, they are all symbolic of the same nasty ideology of exclusionary nationalism. Either you are Irish on our terms or you are not welcome, that is the Sinn Fein ideology.
blanch152 wrote: » What has any of that to do with the ideology of Trumpism being so close to that of Sinn Fein? Just look at Sinn Fein's continuous rejection of the EEC, then the EC and the EU, to see a mirror of Trumpian withdrawal from international co-operation.
FrancieBrady wrote: » ^^^ That post is Trumpian in itself as it relies on half truths and hopes that it is read without the reader being aware of the history. Exactly what FG are doing on Twitter for several months...referenced on Claire Byrne's show on Monday. They are fooling nobody, not even RTE, so crude a copy of Trump tactics is it.
Bubbaclaus wrote: » I assume this is in the twitter trends tailored for you section, which is based on your own interests and what you are commonly searching for, because this isn't trending at all in the regular trends. I see people using their tailored twitter trends a lot to show how "viral" something has got, not realising that it is trends tailored to their own Twitter usage.
McMurphy wrote: » You'd assume wrongly so. I'm not sure how you post to what was trending earlier in the day on twitter, but #Varadkar and #LeoTheLeak were both trending earlier in the day.
Bishop of hope wrote: » This one isn't anyway.https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1334596162897272834?s=20
McMurphy wrote: » A twitter account isn't a twitter trend FFS. Jeez bish, pretend to know what you're talking about at least when attempting a funny one.
Bishop of hope wrote: » Well it was trending strongly then whoosh, gone.
