“The richest guy on the 2021 Forbes 400 owns the Washington Post. Number 2 now owns Twitter. Number 3 owns Facebook. Numbers 5 and 6 started Google. Numbers 4 and 9 started Microsoft. Number 10 owns Bloomberg. Free speech? You decide.”
It will be pretty easy to see how much Muskrat really values free speech.
Just call everyone a paedo guy. According to him, that’s perfectly reasonable, rational behaviour.
TenPin Terry
It’s a high price to pay for triggering boneheads like you but Musk’s purchase has got the Smugeratti in a right old state and it’s a joy to watch.
Peak Woke™
Micko
Well the majority shareholders in Twitter before Musk weren’t exactly a great bunch of independent lads that had anyones best interests at heart, so let’s see where it goes now ;-)
“ The other top shareholders of the social media company were asset managers Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock and State Street.”
Musk has ran a very effective PR campaign and while he may loosen the political agenda behind Twitter but I very much doubt he is the good guy he is presented to be.
Behind all the drama, Twitter was heading the same way as Facebook, and needed a face lift.
Verbatim
I betcha he woke up this morning and said, ‘What have I done?’ happens to me all the time! I know him, I’m a friend of his (on Twitter)
Ian - oG
Totally agree Micko, I just find it hilarious to think his motivation to spend all that money is simply to allow people say what they like.
I presume people get the ‘paedo guy’ reference though?
K. Cavan
If someone is a paedophile, it seems labelling them as such is a Good Thing. People like Nigel, for example, who denounces De Santis in his efforts to ensure primary-level schoolkids are not introduced to issues like Transgenderism, clearly supports the advancement of the paedophile agenda that lies at the heart of Queer Theory. He is in favour, as pointed out succinctly by Chris, of institutional grooming of children & the premature destruction of childhood innocence to benefit the advancement of extremist dogma on sex & sexuality & deserves the label “groomer” as do all who support such perversity.
Nigel
And of course if you successfully smear people you disagree with or dislike as pedophiles and groomers, it’s easier to suppress them and criminalise them. Free speech everybody! It’s a good fallback if labelling them as traitors to humanity over the vaccines doesn’t catch on.
K. Cavan
Nigel, your support for the sexualisation of children has led you to be labelled a groomer, not a paedophile & not just by me.
Unlike you, I believe in the principle of Free Speech, you might criminalise me for my opinions, I would never even consider doing the same to you.
You would ban from Twitter anyone ACCUSED of being Nazis, sexual harassers, racists, abusers, threateners, Holocaust deniers or homophobes. You then added to this list anyone who ACCUSED someone else of being a paedophile. So you ban the latter accuser, along with all the former accused?
Imagine Twitter under your stewardship, it would be empty of commentary, everyone having been banned for being accused of something or for accusing someone else of something.
What a very confused person you are.
I still wouldn’t consider banning you, though, because if you don’t believe in Free Speech for people who’s views you find reprehensible, then you don’t believe in Free Speech & unlike you, I do believe in Free Speech.
Vlad X. Novichok
Still astonishes me that even today, people rationalize that their notion of free speech should somehow protect them from the consequences of their words.
Nigel
If you are labelling me a grromer you are by definition criminalising me, since grooming is a criminal activity, unless your freedom of speech absolutism is so absolute you believe that grooming children for sexual abuse is a form of free speech which, frankly, would not actually surprise me.
Kin
The richest write what is free speech
K. Cavan
Well, you’re describing the current situation, so you know that most of these people have exactly the same political beliefs or, at least, project the same political beliefs & are fanatical in repressing all other points of view.
Elon Musk has, for some time, extolled values that are more in line with Classical Liberalism & democratic norms, namely, Free Speech. Therefore, anyone who believes in these Liberal values will be delighted with his purchase of Twitter & those of a more anti-democratic, totalitarian mindset will find it dismaying.
Which are you, Ferg? You decide.
Kin
Ah well China in crises a property crash over there that will spark a crises especially as western companies jumped in like a hot snot to enjoy the fruits of the so called property boom that fuelled their economy
Now whole new cities with millions of homes with no buyers as they are unaffordable
Maybe our housing minister will relocate our homeless there to solve our housing crises
With interest rate hikes covid wars in Ukraine the crash is coming pretty soon
We never learnt from the last crash and unlike the last crash ireland had a boom from the Celtic tiger
stephen moran
But everyone here told me the $ was doomed and the CNY was going to replace it as the global reserve currency next Monday – I laughed so much I nearly chocked – shame they never heard of the Triffin Paradox – with the JPY about to break 130 and the BoJ caught up a box canyon things could get ugly – the PBOC has more mundane things to think about like an imploding property market, a dodgy under capitalized shadow banking system, a stock market that’s play catch a falling knife and a useless currency that fails to meet any of the basic definitional requirements of an anchor / peg for anything.
K. Cavan
Stephen, the US dollar IS doomed, it’s fate now sealed & the collapse of the Chinese property market has been predicted for many years but has failed to materialise, because those making the predictions exist in entirely different economies & systems than that which exists in China. The CPC will decide if & when their property market collapses, because they control their entire internal market & as the supplier of consumer goods to the rest of the world, their international position is now that formerly held by the, now flailing, Americans.
You seem to be stuck in the past & have failed to realise that we are at a tipping point, which, once passed, will make its inexorable progress to its conclusion, no matter what happens in stock markets or wherever else, in the intervening period.
The game’s up, son & all the waffling in the world won’t change that one iota.
Kin
Much like Ireland did during the Celtic tiger until the crash
K. Cavan
This upcoming “Crash”, Kin, has been deliberately engineered, as a prelude to The Great Reset. Sanctions never end wars or ensure the “Regime Change” that those imposing them claim to desire. Decades of sanctions haven’t worked on a tiny nation like Cuba, so are not going to be effective against the largest country in the world, especially when imposed by only a tiny minority of states.
The leaders of The West know this very well, the target of their sanctions & those most likely to suffer negative outcomes from their imposition is not Russia, it is their own citizens. The EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand have all clearly demonstrated a desire to harm the health & well-being of their own populations, over the last few years & the introduction of food & fuel shortages, in support of an illigitimate, corrupt, Nazi-infested regime, ruling over a destitute dump like Ukraine, is just the latest in a series of assaults on Human & Civil Rights they’ve engaged in, as they attempt to impose a series of agendas which will culminate in a Dystopian nightmare which they, alone, envision as the way forward.
anti bot
Well done horrid man. You posted 3 comments without mentioning Nazia. Hoe can you conflate trans right people with being peados? Explain again why it is acceptable to invade another smaller nation?
Kin
The problem with the Irish protocol is moving a border from across this island to the coast and as such annexing Northern Ireland from the UK
that’s how the unionists see it
A BORDER IS WHERE ONE JURISDICTION ENDS AND ANOTHER STARTS
war are fought over borders as we see in Ukraine and the problem with Russia annexing crimea
The fact is that brexit is unworkable unless the border magically moves to the coast
It is the elephant in the room
The only solution is no border checks and they are not needed as trade now is electronic not bags of cash transported to pay for things and constant checks needed to ensure either sides are fiddled
Even down to criminal smuggling
The cost in paperwork and pettiness costs far more than the odd bit of dishonesty that will happen
But politics want to be spiteful and poor Ireland pays the price as the EU and UK bicker
Just continue as before with Ireland having a special agreement re trade that’s what all of Ireland north and south want and the only solution
What do they think Ireland will be ? the back door into the UK
Well if that’s the case we will see a traffic jam from cork and Dublin and Wexford to Belfast to the ferry crossing that can only send 5 ferries a day loaded with trucks with smuggled goods in ferry ports jammed to the gills
And total gridlock in all honesty this will not happen
Fearganainm
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states of which Ireland is but one. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is the legal framework which applies, not ‘side deals’ to please the UK that have no validity.
stephen moran
There simply have to be SPS checks on live animal and meat products etc. coming in from GB – BSE and Foot and Mouth were both imported from GB into Ireland – there were punitive bans for over a decade on Irish beef exports etc. to many countries as a result.
So we should have a single market on the island of Ireland then yea?
Mad
Why do you think British livestock management standards are lower than they are here stephen?
stephen moran
Technically their standards should be exactly the same given there hasn’t been any regulatory any regulatory divergence (notwithstanding Reek-Smirks self delusional exceptionalism fantasies ) .I’d guess the enforcement regime has been at times very lax given farming is perceived as a hobby rather than a livelihood (that they are willing to sacrifice for asymmetrical trade deals with far flung former colonies and a few cheap headlines in the Redtops) by successive governments of both hues in the UK as it accounts for a tiny percentage of GDP. Recall the less than reassuring sight of John Selwyn Gummer force feeding his hapless daughter a burger in a tabloid photoshoot in denialism over the reality of BSE. In short GB cannot be trust to uphold SPS standards unless they are rigorously policed by the EU. https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/bse-crisis-john-selywn-gummer-2122969
Mad
And our fellas are different some way?
Grow up FFS
stephen moran
Well when you can trace mass outbreaks of BSE and Foot and Mouth disease etc. directly back to Ireland as opposed to the UK mainland do come back to me with the evidence
We have skin in the game in ensuring the highest standards prevail- GB does not and cares even less – you’ve clearly never worked with the Irish Agri-Food sector
Cú Chulainn
We have to have the border in the sea, otherwise those caterpillars are going to get us. Simples.
Mad
It’s tiresome debating with you / a. you know it all already b. You regurgitate press releases as fact.
You seem like a very simple minded lad and your remark that we have “skin in the game” equally adds up to incredible incentives to game the system as we’ve seen in the horsemeat scandal.
Again, other than racism and raiméis you’ve provided no evidence to show that our standards are any better ( or worse) than those in the UK
K. Cavan
I did work in the Irish “Agi-Food sector” & you’re just waffling, again, stephen.
Nigel
Someone hired you to spit in people’s food?
stephen moran
No just tiresome irksome things like facts – the incidences of BSE and Foot and Mouth in the Republic of Ireland were caused by live imports from the UK mainland via Northern Ireland. Fact. when you’ve lost the argument you resort to petty jibes. This is not racism, its fact. As I said if you can disprove the facts then I’m all ears but please refrain from fact free editorializing
Mad
I didn’t dispute that at all Stephen.
I asked you to give some evidence and you give one or two examples, to subsidize your own argument – ok fair enough- but when you refuse to accept that we have had lots of similar scandals here – horsemeat, pigs etc- your style of debate loses lustre and makes you look like (only) a mildly risible fool. These are not petty jibes – I am just calling it like it is. Sorry your skin is not thick enough to take constructive criticism. Take care.
Mad
Yeah
Unreadable
Fearganainm
Boris Johnson is flailing – so he is reviving his Brexit greatest hits
“One day, when Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister and the full catalogue of his frauds is compiled, a special place will belong to one that got him elected in the first place. Before he attended any lockdown parties, before there were pandemic rules to break or lies to tell about the breakage, there was the promise to Get Brexit Done. It is not done. That is why Johnson’s government is drafting a law that would give ministers the power to override the Northern Ireland protocol of the Brexit deal. This is the very treaty that Johnson hailed as “great”, “excellent”, a fulfilment of all his negotiating ambitions. If that were true, he would not now be planning to set it on fire…”
SOQ
The cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss proposals that would see vacant social housing used as accommodation for Ukrainians.
Why wasn’t those vacant social housing units refurbished before now?
Why is the refugee’s welfare more important that the already homeless in Ireland?
We will now have a two tier homeless system from a government who refuses to set limits- it stinks to the high heavens.
TenPin Terry
Questions the Irish media should be rigorously asking this government but won’t.
I’ve been quite taken by surprise on my return from foreign climes by the yawning gap between the official state-sponsored version of Ireland’s Ukraine response and what ordinary folk think.
They are rightly getting very pissed off.
And this is after only a few weeks.
Wait till it stretches into months and years.
SOQ
You can see those boarded up council flats all over the city. When there is people living above, below, and on either side, the issues are clearly not structural, so why is it taking to long to repair them?
We are talking about a new kitchen / bathroom kit out and maybe some damp proof and plastering- for 20 grand a half decent builder would be in and out within a week. The councils have a lot to answer for.
Maintaining social housing is something the north does really well. Then again, 16% of all housing stock are social in NI- as opposed to about 3% in ROI. There is no equivalent of the Northern Irish Housing Executive in the south.
And it shows in the property prices too.
Johnny
That’s a lie.
All day.
Every day.
It’s wrong.
You made up the 3%
You have no source.
It’s just another lie.
K. Cavan
Shut up, Johnny, shut up, you silly man.
K. Cavan
We pay taxes to local Government, in the form of the illigitimate Home Tax, SOQ but our elected representatives to those bodies have no power, it’s one of the clearest cases of taxation without representation you’ll ever see. City & County managers, who are unelected Public Servants, rule these authorities as dictators. Most people don’t understand that our central government has no legal or political power over these individuals or their councils & the ensuing level of incompetence in Local Government makes the Civil Service look like a Japanese car plant.
They have managed to snarl up every attempt to build Social Housing, by constant flouting of EU-imposed rules on the awarding of contracts, leaving central government as a piggy in the middle, caught between Brussels & Ballydehob.
K. Cavan
How our government takes care of Ukrainian refugees will be of interest to the media in Ireland, SOQ.
The fate of Irish citizens will not.
Irish politicians serve the interests of the Globalist Oligarchs & their power bases in the US & Brussels, not Irish citizens.
NobleLocks
Delighted to see a free speech absolutionist take over twitter. Now he needs to fire the board, fire EVERY SINGLE one of the so called moderators (or ultra left political activists as they should be known) and then buy out Disney next.
Cancel culture cultists. just as ye sow ye shall reap :)
SOQ
It appears like a number of accounts have been reinstated already. I am not sure it was just the ‘woke’ losing the run of themselves, or direct instructions from those who owned the company?
Nigel
Let tha Nazis back on! Sexual harassment! Racist abuse! Threats! Holocaust denial! Rampant homophobia! Calling anyone you don’t like a pedophile!
Won’t twitter be fun!
Chris
OK groomer.
Nigel
To a casual onlooker that may seem juvenile and asinine, but he’s Saving Free Speech.
TenPin Terry
Tbh I’d rather have all that than some Twitter drone cancelling accounts because their message doesn’t sound right in the woke echo chamber.
The funny thing is for years the Smugerattis have been saying if you don’t like Twitter go and get your own social media company.
Someone has done just that and now they’re wailing like banshees.
Top work Elon.
Nigel
I know you would! Without the Nazis, the sexual harassment etc then it really is just a woke echo chamber, that’s right!
What an accurate asseessment of twitter!
NobleLocks
You you don’t seem to mind when the sexual harassment, racial and sexual abuse, homophobia come from your side of the line? You definitely don’t seem to mind when JK Rowling and all of the other women out there are given appallingly graphic and serious death threats especially when it’s your precious, “100% victim trans men” issuing these death threats… yeah, men issuing death threats to women for daring to have an opinion, that’s all fine!
You’re going to sow what you reaped and in your galactical narcissism, you STILL think it’s someone else’s fault. Like screaming infants you wail ceaselessly while striking out at everyone in reach. There are simply no words to describe how contemptable your vacuous extreme leftist nonsense is.
To quote the Joker Meme: You get what you effin’ deserve.
Nigel
Don’t I? Let me make it clear – sexual harassment and absue directed at anyone, including JK Rowling, is bad and shouldn’t be allowed. How’s that? I hope you think the same about abuse directed at trans people.
You clearly have a lot of resentment and hostility built up since some idiot got banned for saying the N word, the Day Free Speech Died, murdered by wokists.
K. Cavan
Nigel does his Chicken Licken act, declaring that the sky is falling down. To extoll the virtues of the current regime at Twitter is to support Political Censorship, the act of a Totalitarian, to do so on the basis of denouncing the content of posts not yet made, by persons unknown is hysterical, ranting lunacy.
As we’ve come to expect from Nigel.
anti bot
You do realise that Twitter is a private company and can edit whatever comment is mage. It’s not an elected. Sorry, I forgot caven soq are not into elected governments. also you posted without mentioning Nazis.
bWildered1
Just how far to the right do you have to be to believe those who value decency and truth are somehow far left?
No, there aren’t Jewish Space Lasers.
No, there isn’t a pedophile ring in the US Democratic Party.
No, this ‘ring’ doesn’t eat babies either.
No, the Ukrainians are not NAZIs – that’d be Puntin’s Russians
Yes, you should really consider psychological help if you believe these or any of the other myriad nonsense that comes from these right-wing nutjobs.
SOQ
If you think there is no Nazis in Ukraine then I have a very nice bridge to sell you. The place is teaming with them and no, not all are Azov.
K. Cavan
Since the current staff at Twitter oversaw & instigated the current politically biased regime there, Musk will have to do a clear-out of obese, purple-haired activists. On the other hand, many of them, forced to allow Free Speech on the website, will probably exit, anyway.
TenPin Terry
I’m struggling today.
I still can’t erase the image of Angela Rayner’s ginger growler from my mind.
Even thinking about V’s creamed horn isn’t helping.
Lawks.
andrew
I would not object to a quick gander, I confess
GiggidyGoo
Love and Marriage – Charger and Andrew. You can’t have one without the other.
andrew
You alright?
K. Cavan
The sight of Rayner’s pudenda would obviously lead to TPT & andrew ejaculating into their rancid underwear.
Rayner is a moron, it’s a love triangle made in Hell.
Mad
Dream on. Fatties don’t get birds like that
Chris
Hepatitis outbreak in children linked to lockdown? Yes, sitting alone in your room gives you infectious diseases. It’s growingly apparent that people’s tolerance of Stockholm idiots is wearing very thin.
Anyone defending the narrative at this point is a callous traitor of humanity. Shameful stuff.
SOQ
The media are wildly speculating as to what is causing it without actually defining what it is.
It is not the usual- A.B,C and cannot be D or E without the first three- so what is it? There is talk of a cold like virus and of course questions about a potential vaccine side effect, but it is unlikely that those children were jabbed.
Potential side effect of shedding or spike maybe? That is now accepted as a thing, so who knows. It is very serious if so many are in complete liver failure however. There is a number of recorded cases of reactived Hepatitis C after vaccination.
Why so many in the UK?
bWildered1
“Potential side effect of shedding or spike maybe? That is now accepted as a thing”
By whom?
QANON?
SOQ
Many reports of unvaccinated women having heavy periods after being around recently vaccinated people. Of course even vaccinated women having irregular periods was dismissed as ‘silly women’- until the evidence could not be ignored.
Pharma funded ‘fact checkers’ can scream ‘no evidence’ all they want, but most unvaccinated people know exactly what ‘spiked’ means- myself included.
Tom J
Many reports of women being spiked after a night out.
andrew
This comment must be read in the context that 90% of SOQ’s comments are complete lies, and the other 10% are unfounded speculation and conjecture
Me So Harney
As oppose to yours which are plagiarism.
SOQ
Interesting how it is always the abusive shills who accuse others of lying.
Tom J
@ SOQ, you are the biggest shill on Broadsheet.
SOQ
I don’t accuse others of lying- it is a professional comms trick to discredit, and a red flag in the shill department.
As Woke gets flushed down the toilet of history, it would’ve taken Twitter, in its current incarnation, down with it. Now, with a more open, democratic & free speech-based approach, it has a good chance of surviving the upcoming bonfire of luxury beliefs.
TenPin Terry
Imagine this happening at your local kids GAA training. https://twitter.com/ABCNews4/status/1518774952324911105
Bros being bros and continuing to blast the crap out of each other.
The biggest single killer of black men in America today is other black men.
Fearganainm
Robert Watt refusing to respond to Dáil committee investigating Holohan’s botched Trinity secondment
“The richest guy on the 2021 Forbes 400 owns the Washington Post. Number 2 now owns Twitter. Number 3 owns Facebook. Numbers 5 and 6 started Google. Numbers 4 and 9 started Microsoft. Number 10 owns Bloomberg. Free speech? You decide.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1518670485202128898
It will be pretty easy to see how much Muskrat really values free speech.
Just call everyone a paedo guy. According to him, that’s perfectly reasonable, rational behaviour.
It’s a high price to pay for triggering boneheads like you but Musk’s purchase has got the Smugeratti in a right old state and it’s a joy to watch.
Peak Woke™
Well the majority shareholders in Twitter before Musk weren’t exactly a great bunch of independent lads that had anyones best interests at heart, so let’s see where it goes now ;-)
“ The other top shareholders of the social media company were asset managers Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock and State Street.”
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/060916/top-3-twitter-shareholders-twtr.asp
Musk has ran a very effective PR campaign and while he may loosen the political agenda behind Twitter but I very much doubt he is the good guy he is presented to be.
Behind all the drama, Twitter was heading the same way as Facebook, and needed a face lift.
I betcha he woke up this morning and said, ‘What have I done?’ happens to me all the time! I know him, I’m a friend of his (on Twitter)
Totally agree Micko, I just find it hilarious to think his motivation to spend all that money is simply to allow people say what they like.
I presume people get the ‘paedo guy’ reference though?
If someone is a paedophile, it seems labelling them as such is a Good Thing. People like Nigel, for example, who denounces De Santis in his efforts to ensure primary-level schoolkids are not introduced to issues like Transgenderism, clearly supports the advancement of the paedophile agenda that lies at the heart of Queer Theory. He is in favour, as pointed out succinctly by Chris, of institutional grooming of children & the premature destruction of childhood innocence to benefit the advancement of extremist dogma on sex & sexuality & deserves the label “groomer” as do all who support such perversity.
And of course if you successfully smear people you disagree with or dislike as pedophiles and groomers, it’s easier to suppress them and criminalise them. Free speech everybody! It’s a good fallback if labelling them as traitors to humanity over the vaccines doesn’t catch on.
Nigel, your support for the sexualisation of children has led you to be labelled a groomer, not a paedophile & not just by me.
Unlike you, I believe in the principle of Free Speech, you might criminalise me for my opinions, I would never even consider doing the same to you.
You would ban from Twitter anyone ACCUSED of being Nazis, sexual harassers, racists, abusers, threateners, Holocaust deniers or homophobes. You then added to this list anyone who ACCUSED someone else of being a paedophile. So you ban the latter accuser, along with all the former accused?
Imagine Twitter under your stewardship, it would be empty of commentary, everyone having been banned for being accused of something or for accusing someone else of something.
What a very confused person you are.
I still wouldn’t consider banning you, though, because if you don’t believe in Free Speech for people who’s views you find reprehensible, then you don’t believe in Free Speech & unlike you, I do believe in Free Speech.
Still astonishes me that even today, people rationalize that their notion of free speech should somehow protect them from the consequences of their words.
If you are labelling me a grromer you are by definition criminalising me, since grooming is a criminal activity, unless your freedom of speech absolutism is so absolute you believe that grooming children for sexual abuse is a form of free speech which, frankly, would not actually surprise me.
The richest write what is free speech
Well, you’re describing the current situation, so you know that most of these people have exactly the same political beliefs or, at least, project the same political beliefs & are fanatical in repressing all other points of view.
Elon Musk has, for some time, extolled values that are more in line with Classical Liberalism & democratic norms, namely, Free Speech. Therefore, anyone who believes in these Liberal values will be delighted with his purchase of Twitter & those of a more anti-democratic, totalitarian mindset will find it dismaying.
Which are you, Ferg? You decide.
Ah well China in crises a property crash over there that will spark a crises especially as western companies jumped in like a hot snot to enjoy the fruits of the so called property boom that fuelled their economy
Now whole new cities with millions of homes with no buyers as they are unaffordable
Maybe our housing minister will relocate our homeless there to solve our housing crises
With interest rate hikes covid wars in Ukraine the crash is coming pretty soon
We never learnt from the last crash and unlike the last crash ireland had a boom from the Celtic tiger
But everyone here told me the $ was doomed and the CNY was going to replace it as the global reserve currency next Monday – I laughed so much I nearly chocked – shame they never heard of the Triffin Paradox – with the JPY about to break 130 and the BoJ caught up a box canyon things could get ugly – the PBOC has more mundane things to think about like an imploding property market, a dodgy under capitalized shadow banking system, a stock market that’s play catch a falling knife and a useless currency that fails to meet any of the basic definitional requirements of an anchor / peg for anything.
Stephen, the US dollar IS doomed, it’s fate now sealed & the collapse of the Chinese property market has been predicted for many years but has failed to materialise, because those making the predictions exist in entirely different economies & systems than that which exists in China. The CPC will decide if & when their property market collapses, because they control their entire internal market & as the supplier of consumer goods to the rest of the world, their international position is now that formerly held by the, now flailing, Americans.
You seem to be stuck in the past & have failed to realise that we are at a tipping point, which, once passed, will make its inexorable progress to its conclusion, no matter what happens in stock markets or wherever else, in the intervening period.
The game’s up, son & all the waffling in the world won’t change that one iota.
Much like Ireland did during the Celtic tiger until the crash
This upcoming “Crash”, Kin, has been deliberately engineered, as a prelude to The Great Reset. Sanctions never end wars or ensure the “Regime Change” that those imposing them claim to desire. Decades of sanctions haven’t worked on a tiny nation like Cuba, so are not going to be effective against the largest country in the world, especially when imposed by only a tiny minority of states.
The leaders of The West know this very well, the target of their sanctions & those most likely to suffer negative outcomes from their imposition is not Russia, it is their own citizens. The EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand have all clearly demonstrated a desire to harm the health & well-being of their own populations, over the last few years & the introduction of food & fuel shortages, in support of an illigitimate, corrupt, Nazi-infested regime, ruling over a destitute dump like Ukraine, is just the latest in a series of assaults on Human & Civil Rights they’ve engaged in, as they attempt to impose a series of agendas which will culminate in a Dystopian nightmare which they, alone, envision as the way forward.
Well done horrid man. You posted 3 comments without mentioning Nazia. Hoe can you conflate trans right people with being peados? Explain again why it is acceptable to invade another smaller nation?
The problem with the Irish protocol is moving a border from across this island to the coast and as such annexing Northern Ireland from the UK
that’s how the unionists see it
A BORDER IS WHERE ONE JURISDICTION ENDS AND ANOTHER STARTS
war are fought over borders as we see in Ukraine and the problem with Russia annexing crimea
The fact is that brexit is unworkable unless the border magically moves to the coast
It is the elephant in the room
The only solution is no border checks and they are not needed as trade now is electronic not bags of cash transported to pay for things and constant checks needed to ensure either sides are fiddled
Even down to criminal smuggling
The cost in paperwork and pettiness costs far more than the odd bit of dishonesty that will happen
But politics want to be spiteful and poor Ireland pays the price as the EU and UK bicker
Just continue as before with Ireland having a special agreement re trade that’s what all of Ireland north and south want and the only solution
What do they think Ireland will be ? the back door into the UK
Well if that’s the case we will see a traffic jam from cork and Dublin and Wexford to Belfast to the ferry crossing that can only send 5 ferries a day loaded with trucks with smuggled goods in ferry ports jammed to the gills
And total gridlock in all honesty this will not happen
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states of which Ireland is but one. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is the legal framework which applies, not ‘side deals’ to please the UK that have no validity.
There simply have to be SPS checks on live animal and meat products etc. coming in from GB – BSE and Foot and Mouth were both imported from GB into Ireland – there were punitive bans for over a decade on Irish beef exports etc. to many countries as a result.
And can they be trusted with TB in cattle?
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/my-life-was-hell-whistleblower-tamara-bronckaers-exposes-top-civil-servants-conduct-41583565.html
So we should have a single market on the island of Ireland then yea?
Why do you think British livestock management standards are lower than they are here stephen?
Technically their standards should be exactly the same given there hasn’t been any regulatory any regulatory divergence (notwithstanding Reek-Smirks self delusional exceptionalism fantasies ) .I’d guess the enforcement regime has been at times very lax given farming is perceived as a hobby rather than a livelihood (that they are willing to sacrifice for asymmetrical trade deals with far flung former colonies and a few cheap headlines in the Redtops) by successive governments of both hues in the UK as it accounts for a tiny percentage of GDP. Recall the less than reassuring sight of John Selwyn Gummer force feeding his hapless daughter a burger in a tabloid photoshoot in denialism over the reality of BSE. In short GB cannot be trust to uphold SPS standards unless they are rigorously policed by the EU.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/bse-crisis-john-selywn-gummer-2122969
And our fellas are different some way?
Grow up FFS
Well when you can trace mass outbreaks of BSE and Foot and Mouth disease etc. directly back to Ireland as opposed to the UK mainland do come back to me with the evidence
We have skin in the game in ensuring the highest standards prevail- GB does not and cares even less – you’ve clearly never worked with the Irish Agri-Food sector
We have to have the border in the sea, otherwise those caterpillars are going to get us. Simples.
It’s tiresome debating with you / a. you know it all already b. You regurgitate press releases as fact.
You seem like a very simple minded lad and your remark that we have “skin in the game” equally adds up to incredible incentives to game the system as we’ve seen in the horsemeat scandal.
Again, other than racism and raiméis you’ve provided no evidence to show that our standards are any better ( or worse) than those in the UK
I did work in the Irish “Agi-Food sector” & you’re just waffling, again, stephen.
Someone hired you to spit in people’s food?
No just tiresome irksome things like facts – the incidences of BSE and Foot and Mouth in the Republic of Ireland were caused by live imports from the UK mainland via Northern Ireland. Fact. when you’ve lost the argument you resort to petty jibes. This is not racism, its fact. As I said if you can disprove the facts then I’m all ears but please refrain from fact free editorializing
I didn’t dispute that at all Stephen.
I asked you to give some evidence and you give one or two examples, to subsidize your own argument – ok fair enough- but when you refuse to accept that we have had lots of similar scandals here – horsemeat, pigs etc- your style of debate loses lustre and makes you look like (only) a mildly risible fool. These are not petty jibes – I am just calling it like it is. Sorry your skin is not thick enough to take constructive criticism. Take care.
Yeah
Unreadable
Boris Johnson is flailing – so he is reviving his Brexit greatest hits
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/26/boris-johnson-northern-ireland-brexit-protocol
“One day, when Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister and the full catalogue of his frauds is compiled, a special place will belong to one that got him elected in the first place. Before he attended any lockdown parties, before there were pandemic rules to break or lies to tell about the breakage, there was the promise to Get Brexit Done. It is not done. That is why Johnson’s government is drafting a law that would give ministers the power to override the Northern Ireland protocol of the Brexit deal. This is the very treaty that Johnson hailed as “great”, “excellent”, a fulfilment of all his negotiating ambitions. If that were true, he would not now be planning to set it on fire…”
The cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss proposals that would see vacant social housing used as accommodation for Ukrainians.
https://www.newstalk.com/news/vacant-social-housing-likely-to-be-used-for-ukrainians-1335036
Once again the obvious questions-
Why wasn’t those vacant social housing units refurbished before now?
Why is the refugee’s welfare more important that the already homeless in Ireland?
We will now have a two tier homeless system from a government who refuses to set limits- it stinks to the high heavens.
Questions the Irish media should be rigorously asking this government but won’t.
I’ve been quite taken by surprise on my return from foreign climes by the yawning gap between the official state-sponsored version of Ireland’s Ukraine response and what ordinary folk think.
They are rightly getting very pissed off.
And this is after only a few weeks.
Wait till it stretches into months and years.
You can see those boarded up council flats all over the city. When there is people living above, below, and on either side, the issues are clearly not structural, so why is it taking to long to repair them?
We are talking about a new kitchen / bathroom kit out and maybe some damp proof and plastering- for 20 grand a half decent builder would be in and out within a week. The councils have a lot to answer for.
Maintaining social housing is something the north does really well. Then again, 16% of all housing stock are social in NI- as opposed to about 3% in ROI. There is no equivalent of the Northern Irish Housing Executive in the south.
And it shows in the property prices too.
That’s a lie.
All day.
Every day.
It’s wrong.
You made up the 3%
You have no source.
It’s just another lie.
Shut up, Johnny, shut up, you silly man.
We pay taxes to local Government, in the form of the illigitimate Home Tax, SOQ but our elected representatives to those bodies have no power, it’s one of the clearest cases of taxation without representation you’ll ever see. City & County managers, who are unelected Public Servants, rule these authorities as dictators. Most people don’t understand that our central government has no legal or political power over these individuals or their councils & the ensuing level of incompetence in Local Government makes the Civil Service look like a Japanese car plant.
They have managed to snarl up every attempt to build Social Housing, by constant flouting of EU-imposed rules on the awarding of contracts, leaving central government as a piggy in the middle, caught between Brussels & Ballydehob.
How our government takes care of Ukrainian refugees will be of interest to the media in Ireland, SOQ.
The fate of Irish citizens will not.
Irish politicians serve the interests of the Globalist Oligarchs & their power bases in the US & Brussels, not Irish citizens.
Delighted to see a free speech absolutionist take over twitter. Now he needs to fire the board, fire EVERY SINGLE one of the so called moderators (or ultra left political activists as they should be known) and then buy out Disney next.
Cancel culture cultists. just as ye sow ye shall reap :)
It appears like a number of accounts have been reinstated already. I am not sure it was just the ‘woke’ losing the run of themselves, or direct instructions from those who owned the company?
Let tha Nazis back on! Sexual harassment! Racist abuse! Threats! Holocaust denial! Rampant homophobia! Calling anyone you don’t like a pedophile!
Won’t twitter be fun!
OK groomer.
To a casual onlooker that may seem juvenile and asinine, but he’s Saving Free Speech.
Tbh I’d rather have all that than some Twitter drone cancelling accounts because their message doesn’t sound right in the woke echo chamber.
The funny thing is for years the Smugerattis have been saying if you don’t like Twitter go and get your own social media company.
Someone has done just that and now they’re wailing like banshees.
Top work Elon.
I know you would! Without the Nazis, the sexual harassment etc then it really is just a woke echo chamber, that’s right!
What an accurate asseessment of twitter!
You you don’t seem to mind when the sexual harassment, racial and sexual abuse, homophobia come from your side of the line? You definitely don’t seem to mind when JK Rowling and all of the other women out there are given appallingly graphic and serious death threats especially when it’s your precious, “100% victim trans men” issuing these death threats… yeah, men issuing death threats to women for daring to have an opinion, that’s all fine!
You’re going to sow what you reaped and in your galactical narcissism, you STILL think it’s someone else’s fault. Like screaming infants you wail ceaselessly while striking out at everyone in reach. There are simply no words to describe how contemptable your vacuous extreme leftist nonsense is.
To quote the Joker Meme: You get what you effin’ deserve.
Don’t I? Let me make it clear – sexual harassment and absue directed at anyone, including JK Rowling, is bad and shouldn’t be allowed. How’s that? I hope you think the same about abuse directed at trans people.
You clearly have a lot of resentment and hostility built up since some idiot got banned for saying the N word, the Day Free Speech Died, murdered by wokists.
Nigel does his Chicken Licken act, declaring that the sky is falling down. To extoll the virtues of the current regime at Twitter is to support Political Censorship, the act of a Totalitarian, to do so on the basis of denouncing the content of posts not yet made, by persons unknown is hysterical, ranting lunacy.
As we’ve come to expect from Nigel.
You do realise that Twitter is a private company and can edit whatever comment is mage. It’s not an elected. Sorry, I forgot caven soq are not into elected governments. also you posted without mentioning Nazis.
Just how far to the right do you have to be to believe those who value decency and truth are somehow far left?
No, there aren’t Jewish Space Lasers.
No, there isn’t a pedophile ring in the US Democratic Party.
No, this ‘ring’ doesn’t eat babies either.
No, the Ukrainians are not NAZIs – that’d be Puntin’s Russians
Yes, you should really consider psychological help if you believe these or any of the other myriad nonsense that comes from these right-wing nutjobs.
If you think there is no Nazis in Ukraine then I have a very nice bridge to sell you. The place is teaming with them and no, not all are Azov.
Since the current staff at Twitter oversaw & instigated the current politically biased regime there, Musk will have to do a clear-out of obese, purple-haired activists. On the other hand, many of them, forced to allow Free Speech on the website, will probably exit, anyway.
I’m struggling today.
I still can’t erase the image of Angela Rayner’s ginger growler from my mind.
Even thinking about V’s creamed horn isn’t helping.
Lawks.
I would not object to a quick gander, I confess
Love and Marriage – Charger and Andrew. You can’t have one without the other.
You alright?
The sight of Rayner’s pudenda would obviously lead to TPT & andrew ejaculating into their rancid underwear.
Rayner is a moron, it’s a love triangle made in Hell.
Dream on. Fatties don’t get birds like that
Hepatitis outbreak in children linked to lockdown? Yes, sitting alone in your room gives you infectious diseases. It’s growingly apparent that people’s tolerance of Stockholm idiots is wearing very thin.
Anyone defending the narrative at this point is a callous traitor of humanity. Shameful stuff.
The media are wildly speculating as to what is causing it without actually defining what it is.
It is not the usual- A.B,C and cannot be D or E without the first three- so what is it? There is talk of a cold like virus and of course questions about a potential vaccine side effect, but it is unlikely that those children were jabbed.
Potential side effect of shedding or spike maybe? That is now accepted as a thing, so who knows. It is very serious if so many are in complete liver failure however. There is a number of recorded cases of reactived Hepatitis C after vaccination.
Why so many in the UK?
“Potential side effect of shedding or spike maybe? That is now accepted as a thing”
By whom?
QANON?
Many reports of unvaccinated women having heavy periods after being around recently vaccinated people. Of course even vaccinated women having irregular periods was dismissed as ‘silly women’- until the evidence could not be ignored.
Pharma funded ‘fact checkers’ can scream ‘no evidence’ all they want, but most unvaccinated people know exactly what ‘spiked’ means- myself included.
Many reports of women being spiked after a night out.
This comment must be read in the context that 90% of SOQ’s comments are complete lies, and the other 10% are unfounded speculation and conjecture
As oppose to yours which are plagiarism.
Interesting how it is always the abusive shills who accuse others of lying.
@ SOQ, you are the biggest shill on Broadsheet.
I don’t accuse others of lying- it is a professional comms trick to discredit, and a red flag in the shill department.
So why do you keep calling people a shill.
Do you have a link to this outbreak.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
I know this was Chompsky’s thing but I highly recommend today’s post.
Thanks Millie, great link!
Smirking Happy Pair. https://twitter.com/lucyoshea/status/1518533719501508609
Vegward.
Hummus Deadwood
Child grooming gang jailed at Bristol Crown Court
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-04-25/men-abused-girls-as-young-as-seven-45-times-over-seven-year-period
As Woke gets flushed down the toilet of history, it would’ve taken Twitter, in its current incarnation, down with it. Now, with a more open, democratic & free speech-based approach, it has a good chance of surviving the upcoming bonfire of luxury beliefs.
Imagine this happening at your local kids GAA training.
https://twitter.com/ABCNews4/status/1518774952324911105
Bros being bros and continuing to blast the crap out of each other.
The biggest single killer of black men in America today is other black men.
Robert Watt refusing to respond to Dáil committee investigating Holohan’s botched Trinity secondment
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/robert-watt-refusing-to-respond-to-dail-committee-investigating-holohans-botched-trinity-secondment-41589064.html
Blood biomarker could identify people at high risk of dementia before they develop symptoms
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/blood-biomarker-could-identify-people-at-high-risk-of-dementia-before-they-develop-symptoms-41589885.html
Ex-Tory MP guilty of molesting boy was on panel advising on grooming gangs:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/26/ex-tory-mp-guilty-of-molesting-boy-was-on-panel-advising-on-grooming-gangs
Around 190 unexplained cases of severe hepatitis reported in children around the world with one death
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/around-190-unexplained-cases-of-severe-hepatitis-reported-in-children-around-the-world-with-one-death-41589978.html
“…Ireland is one of at least 12 countries which have reported the severe liver inflammation in young children, with less than five patients here…”
Eamon Ryan accused of threatening stability of Government at heated meeting with Fine Gael TDs
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/eamon-ryan-accused-of-threatening-stability-of-government-at-heated-meeting-with-fine-gael-tds-41590541.html
More turf wars…
Bread and circuses
Gardaí appeal for ‘victims of a crime’ to come forward after violent eviction video circulates
https://www.thejournal.ie/gardai-enquiries-video-tipperary-eviction-5748257-Apr2022/
The video:
https://twitter.com/IrlagainstFash/status/1519021073941118976
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres met with Russian president Vladimir Putin today.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRSnH6yXIAETEDe?format=jpg&name=large
Well, kind of ‘met with’