Sinn Fein will don an 18 inch strap-on, smear it in Sriracha sauce, then dip it in a bucket of glass splinters and give FFG a serious dicking over the next two elections.
I have popcorn ordered 
Thatâs gas. Itâs the second time Philip Ryan has caught FG in the crossfire when focusing on SF. I also see some journalist with The Journal tweeting about Fianna FĂĄil paying him and his pals to do it when he was a student.
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On what basis is this a no brainer? On the basis that youâd like it to be true? OBroin may have penned a pamphlet but he didnt know his arse from his elbow on it when debating James Lawless, some ff dregs. Like messi getting schooled by a lad whose peak was a Bob Mortimer cup 20 years ago. For 2 days he floundered. It was frightening.
Iâd still like to see SF in government. Its win/win for the country. But to assume their tds are competent is lunacy.
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EOB is a spoofer. His quotes on prices for building gaffs are funny.
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I think itâs a no brainer because the only way the situation is going to improve is with a serious change away from what weâve been doing. O Broin is the only one with the desire and a bit of vision to do that and SF are the only party that will have the will and the mandate to do that. There is simply no way FF or FG will solve this crisis by tinkering around the edges of it.
This is a helluva paragraph mate. How is it a win win?
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Scenario 1. SF Go into government. They do even a third of what they say they can an Ireland becomes a better place with more affordable housing and a less divided society.
Scenario 2. SF go into government and turn out to be as shit as FFG. The emperor does indeed have no clothes. Then the electorate realise there are no magic beans and all parties are judged on their merits rather than horseshit they pretend they can or will do.
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Youâre giving alot of credit to the electorate there. Recent history tells us if the electorate are wrong they double down
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Heâs the kind of lad a stupid lad thinks is intelligent. Must be the glasses.
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Heâs a very slick politician in fairness. Heâd make an effort at building a load of houses for cheap and run into the problems everyone else has though.
The use of that housing scheme in Poppintree should set alarm bells off about his real competency but he will likely get his turn.
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Scenario 2 is highly unlikely to work out as you expect. If a Sinn Fein led government goes badly, they will blame everybody else except themselves, they will deflect, they will spin, and they will very likely be successful in that, because they have the essential shamelessness that is needed to pull these tactics off. And they have another thing which goes hand in hand with shamlessness and which is even more potent â nationalism.
Look around you â pretty much everywhere, shameless nationalists are doing very well. And in most places, theyâre either a disaster waiting to happen if they havenât taken power or a disaster already in place if they are in power.
And yet them being a disaster seems to make no difference. The Tory governments of the last 11 years have demonstrably been a disaster, and this present incarnation is the worst yet, but it makes no difference. The Thatcher government of 1982 were a disaster and looked set to be turfed out. Then the Falklands War happened and they romped in again at the next election.
Trump and Bush were demonstrably disasters, grotesque disasters, but their nationalism increased their votes considerably.
Putin is a useless leader yet is highly popular because of nationalism. Orban in Hungary. Erdogan in Turkey. Netanyahu in Israel. Modi in India. All use shameless nationalism to benefit them. Bolsonaro in Brazil should not be written off because heâs a shameless nationalist.
The DUP and Unionist parties in general have been plainly useless for their entire existence yet held a fanatical, captive vote, because they were nationalist to their core.
Fianna Fail in this country played the nationalist card for nearly 80 years and won on it despite most of their governments being useless.
Low information voters love nationalism, and they love victimhood.
And you might say, but Sinn Fein don 't have the media like Trump and the Tories do. The rules of the game in Ireland are different to what they are in the US or UK. The Irish media doesnât work like the US and UK media. We donât have naked propaganda rags outside of the fringe loony stuff like Grift. We donât have an imperialist history so the media canât go all imperialist and white supremacist like they do in the US and UK. The populist turn in this country is anti a largely centrist, fact based media, whereas in the US and UK there is a massive swathe of media which is itself anti the idea of journalism.
In Ireland, a bad Sinn Fein government would likely be able to hold steady or even increase its vote in the same way the likes of Chavez in Venezuela or Correa in Ecuador were able to do so, by playing the âeverybody is out to get me cardâ.
With populist, shameless nationalism, somebody else is always to blame. With populist, shameless nationalism, you leave your critical faculties at the door.
There are some crazy anti-SF nuts out there who badly need to be sectioned 
Do bad FF and FG governments by and large hold steady or increase their votes because of nationalism too?
Philip Ryan must work for SF.
Fianna Fail did for years. Fianna Fail are no longer the nationalist party. Fine Gael were never seen as nationalist and thus were largely a failure electorally given where they started off from.
FF under Haughey is the space SF are aiming for and will end up in, perhaps very soon. A cultish, shameless, corrupt, very often incompetent rabble of a centre right party which pretends to be left, and rabble rouses about the North while getting precisely nowhere on the issue.
Confession: When I was about 11, a well known Wexford town car dealership owner pulled up (in his expensive car) alongside where we were hurling on the road. He had boxes of flyers advertising his business and asked us to deliver them to the houses in our estate and several other named housing estates in gritty Wexford town. He said heâd come back at a designated later time to give each of us 10 Irish pounds for completing the task. We accepted his offer and took the boxes of flyers from him. He drove off and, once we were satisfied heâd gone, we carried the boxes of flyers to a tree covered area and fucked them in there. We resumed our hurling and waited for him to return as promised. He never showed up.
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Both FF and FG are actually partitionist parties and have failed northern nationalists for decades.
I see itâs the resident loon youâve quoted so itâs likely nonsensical tripe.
Sinn Fein literally administer British rule in Ireland.