50 thoughts on “Saturday’s Papers

  1. f_lawless

    Dear Angela,

    I need advice on how to escape a toxic relationship. My abusive partner won’t stop tormenting me. He’s incapable of accepting any responsibility for the consequences of his own destructive behaviour. Instead he tries to shift the blame for everything that goes wrong onto me and all those around him. I think he’s a manipulative control freak. The demands he’s making upon me, dictating what I have to wear, who I can see and where I can go are getting increasingly absurd. I’m very worried that the more destructive his behaviour gets, the more extreme his demands upon me are going to become. I don’t know if you’d call it narcissism, psychopathy, sadism – maybe it’s all of those things – but he’s showing no signs of changing his ways. His relatives are part of the problem too. They should stand up to him and yet they won’t.

    Last month he pretended he was finally going to go away and leave me in peace. No such luck. I never really believed it anyway. Now, whenever I turn on the news or open a newspaper, there he is again up to his same old tricks. How can I stand up to this bully and free myself once and for all from our abusive relationship?

    Distressed Irish citizen

    1. bisted

      Dear f_lawless

      You have taken an important first step by realising you are in a toxic relationship and being manipulated. You must leave immediately and seek help. Any of the many healthcare professionals should be pleased to provide reliable advice but beware of charlatans. They are easy to recognise since they tend to congregate in echo chambers, wear tinfoil hats and repeat the same mantra over and over.

      Good luck in your future journey.

    2. Tinytim

      One notes that your partner has always identified as a female goddess. Your failure to recognize this may be in some part why she has started treating you this way?

      The last I looked ( this morning ) she was still as challenging,beautiful, inspiring as ever.

      Not all belligerents are male.

        1. Gabby

          Forget about the agony aunts and pseudo-psychological sex and relationship therapists, and consult the horoscope-astrology feature at the back of your favourite newspaper. Then amuse yourself doing the crossword.

      1. Poor oul divil too

        Yes indeed
        It would be terrifying for example if we are able to completely eliminate scumbags from the Dart

        1. E'Matty

          Or if the government could track your every move, know where you visit and with whom, exactly what you purchase at all times and can remove your access to society, restrict your movements, deny you the ability to purchase etc all at the flick of a switch. Are you absolutely sure every government elected in the future will definitely not abuse such a system of control? Can you not see the threat this poses to each and every one of us.

          1. ce

            We can’t build a metro, which is 19th Century technology….

            Until the GAA is put in charge of this project, I’m not worried…

          2. Tom J

            I am aware of proof of vaccination cards, I’m still able to buy food and whatever else I need without one.

          3. Tom J

            I am able to extrapolate but I like to keep things short and to the point. When this is all over you will still be talking rubbish I assume.

          4. Chris

            ‘When this is all over’ when do you imagine that will happen? If you read the article you’d understand that this is only going to get worse.

    1. SOQ

      Excellent article- this jumped out at me.

      (Italian philosopher Giorgio) Agamben pointed to a sinister agenda behind the official rationale for vaccine passports: “It has been said by scientists and doctors that the Green Pass has no medical significance in itself but serves to force people to get vaccinated. Instead, I think we must say the opposite: that the vaccine is a means of forcing people to have the Green Pass. That is, a device that allows individuals to be monitored and tracked, an unprecedented measure.”

  2. ce

    Meanwhile – since dealing with a very dangerous but not catastrophic disease seems to be going well I thought I’d throw another bit more oil on the fire…

    HEPA filters…

    info-warless, SoQ, Micko, et al….. any issues with these or are you going to stick with the Ivermectin?

    How might these be a sign of the NWO?

    Will siri be embedded into them so it can spy on us?

    1. E'Matty

      No problem with HEPA filters. Would be a good idea in many places. The fact the government isnt particularly interested in mitigating measures like this and is obsessive in its focus on vaccines is actually just another of the many red flags in this pandemic response.

    2. Zaccone

      A government program to fund/install HEPA filter air conditioning systems in every nightclub/large pub/restaurant/school in Ireland over the last 20 months would have done wonders to our transmission rates. And obviously cut down on other disease transmission too, not just covid. And improved the quality of life in many schools across the country. It also wouldn’t cost that much in comparison to the tens of billions spent on lockdowns.

      We know it makes a huge difference on planes, the science is there. But our government has no interest in mitigation measures. It went all in lockdowns resulting in zero covid, and then went all in on vaccines…both of which have failed miserably.

      1. Pat

        ‘Mashed’ LOL. Bored more like, wiping the floor with the daily dullards and narcissists on here. It was entertaining but I’m glad he’s taking a break. There’s only so many times you can watch the anti-Nigel posse fail to know when they’re beat. And they were. Roundly. Patiently. And politely. Every single time.

        1. Chris

          Bless, his nonsense arguments certainly had fans among the dullards with no critical thinking skills.
          Why think when Nigel can not think on your behalf..

          1. Chris

            There’s the realists making sense of our objective reality, the cowards defending the status quo – and the people on the sidelines taking it all in.

            Doesn’t make for much craic I’ll admit but neither does our present situation.

  3. johnny

    The Malta Cross.

    -some new and exciting tactics by NY lenders,additional weapons in the arsenal.

    “Capital pains: How lenders are getting creative to get paid
    With Covid laws protecting delinquent borrowers, lenders find new tactics to maintain leverage.”

    ..is this what Big Spender Barrack just did to Ronan,oh no….under his bail terms he wont be spending any time in Malta:)

    huh…HARDBALL thanks FFG there goes that much heralded,so called 3 Billion in investment in Irish RE and Irish homes by ‘investors’.

    “This has opened the door for a different class of lenders who relish the chance to play hardball. Distress specialists such as Maverick Real Estate Partners, who move to foreclose on the loans as soon as one day after purchasing them, function as a trash compactor for debts that banks don’t see improving and no longer want.”

    https://therealdeal.com/2021/11/02/capital-pains-how-lenders-are-getting-creative-to-get-paid/

  4. johnny

    “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin

    ..legendary takedown of Kopell,this may help unpack the lies in venerating deKlerk.

    https://twitter.com/jiggsauce/status/1458918241733160961?s=20

    yeah RTE should,he get credit for rectifying his own injustice and enforcing apartheid ?

    https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1111/1259259-fw-de-klerk-obit/

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