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Gemma not taking enforced retirement too well

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    #7772
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Your argument also plays nicely with Trump supporters, he tells them he wants those manufacturing jobs moved back to the US, if that is a consequence of his stance on China, he wins again. His supporters also like what they hear when he says that Apple, Google etc should pay tax in the US instead of Ireland and that Amazon should be broken up. American tech might be fine with using China for cheap manufacturing, but to say they are fine with intellectual theft and counterfeiting is nonsense.

    It is only by listening to people that you get to grips with why ordinary Americans like him and why they vote for him. You and I might despise the man, but only a moron would think that his policies are without merit and that his supporters should be silenced, just because we don’t like the man. And again, just to bring this back on point, his supporters are not like Gemma, just because they vote Trump.

    Where did I say they were fine with intellectual theft or counterfeiting?! Or that his supporters should be silenced?!

    I listened to the MES interview out of genuine interest as to why people who voted for him in 2016 - many of whom are now worse off than then - might still be voting for him in 2020. I didn't get that from her praise-piece.


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    #7773
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Ironically this is one of the points Mary Ellen Synon made in her interview, ordinary Americans were tired of establishment know-all’s tell them that they were too stupid to know what was good for them. They felt they were no longer being listened to, and Trump tapped into that.

    So instead of voting for "establishment know-it-alls" they voted for a (paper) billionaire who inherited all of his wealth...


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    #7774
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,065 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    humberklog wrote: »
    One of her more interesting statements is that "Cycling is part of the UN globalist conspiracy". Unfortunately she left that nugget floating in the breeze and never fleshed out that theory any further, at least not that I'm aware of.

    I think eveything is now a UN globalist conspiracy with her.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #7775
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,518 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Poor people in Middle America have voted against their best interests for decades, Trump just swung some of the Democrat voting Union Class.

    Voting against their best interest isn’t the preserve of the US electorate, you could argue the same happened with Brexit in the UK and on successive elections here. But I don’t want to debate politics, my point is, Mary Ellen Synon was brought onto TLW to give the perspective of a Trump supporter and to explain why Americans vote for him. That does not make her a whack job like Gemma.


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    #7776
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,518 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    TaurenDruid wrote: »
    So instead of voting for "establishment know-it-alls" they voted for a (paper) billionaire who inherited all of his wealth...

    Hey, we voted in a party who helped to plunge us into recession only 13 years ago, and a significant percentage voted for a party associated with terrorism, we can hardly hold ourselves up a model for intelligent voting.


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    #7777
    Nexytus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Nexytus


    Gemma needs to organise a protest.
    The orange man bad crowd have taken over her thread.


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    #7778
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,427 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    wond up?

    tumblr_ley7lv3UmE1qbxrc3o1_500.png

    two days later and i'm still laughing at my own joke


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    #7779
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,427 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Do you still have to order the chicken nuggets when you go to the Dalkey Freemason Luciferian pub she mentioned?


    I think she said Dalkey is a freemason luciferian HUB

    well that would explain why i didnt get my drinks for free when i did the special handshake.


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    #7780
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,777 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    The video of her mate Dee wall harassing a man trying to pick up his kid from a crèche...while accusing him of being a paedophile...classy
    Bunch of fecking loopers.
    Thankfully there was less than 10 at her massive protest at rte.


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    #7781
    [Deleted User]
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    well that would explain why i didnt get my drinks for free when i did the special handshake.

    You need to expose your left breast, actually. :P


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    #7782
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    well that would explain why i didnt get my drinks for free when i did the special handshake.

    You need to expose your left breast, actually. :P


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    #7783
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    Until I hear directly what her beliefs are, what her policies are if she is pursuing a political platform, I'll assume she's a run of the mill conservative person. Any interview Ive seen with her, she is nothing like the person shes made out to be in social media. But I would still like to hear more from her.

    Seems she is like an Irish Katie Hopkins, who in a lot of instances does makes sense, even if her views are disagreeable upon occasion.

    Until then I'll continue to poke fun at lefties. They are such an easy target.


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    #7784
    Penfailed
    Registered Users Posts: 7,585 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Biker79 wrote: »
    Until I hear directly what her beliefs are, what her policies are if she is pursuing a political platform, I'll assume she's a run of the mill conservative person. Any interview Ive seen with her, she is nothing like the person shes made out to be in social media. But I would still like to hear more from her.

    Seems she is like an Irish Katie Hopkins, who in a lot of instances does makes sense, even if her views are disagreeable upon occasion.

    Until then I'll continue to poke fun at lefties. They are such an easy target.

    "Disagreeable upon occasion". Yeah, I agree. Every occasion in which she speaks.

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    #7785
    timetogo1
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭timetogo1


    Biker79 wrote: »
    Seems she is like an Irish Katie Hopkins, who in a lot of instances does makes sense, even if her views are disagreeable upon occasion.

    Can you post a video where she's not being disagreeable? I've only seen the ones that make her look like a lunatic.


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    #7786
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,785 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    timetogo1 wrote: »
    Can you post a video where she's not being disagreeable? I've only seen the ones that make her look like a lunatic.

    And this is her BFF.

    https://twitter.com/annie_1butTrump/status/1312653723315974149


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    #7787
    TheRepentent
    Registered Users Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    The Nal wrote: »
    And this is her BFF.

    https://twitter.com/annie_1butTrump/status/1312653723315974149
    fizz is sist :pac::pac:

    Wanna support genocide?Cheer on the murder of women and children?The Ruzzians aren't rapey enough for you? Morally bankrupt cockroaches and islamaphobes , Israel needs your help NOW!!

    http://tinyurl.com/2ksb4ejk


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes

    https://www.btselem.org/



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    #7788
    brightspark
    Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭brightspark


    timetogo1 wrote: »
    Can you post a video where she's not being disagreeable? I've only seen the ones that make her look like a lunatic.

    I don't think such a video exists.


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    #7789
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    timetogo1 wrote: »
    Can you post a video where she's not being disagreeable? I've only seen the ones that make her look like a lunatic.

    Who ...Katie Hopkins or Gemma?


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    #7790
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,847 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Biker79 wrote: »
    Any interview Ive seen with her, she is nothing like the person shes made out to be in social media.

    So provide some links then.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #7791
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,847 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Hotblack Desiato was posting about Mary Ellen Synon’s interview with Matt Cooper on The Last Word rather than Gemma, the inference being Donald Trump’s supporters are just as mad as our Gems. He/she said the reasons MES (a US reporter living in Ireland) gave about why she supports Trump and why she thinks he will be re-elected is “outrageous crap” and should have been challenged, but it wasn’t, she articulated the reasons why Americans voted/will vote for DT and this should not be compared to the crap Gemma spouts.

    :confused: If you have some sort of a problem with my post then use the report post button. Hard to tell what your point is though, there's no need for you to "repost" what you think I said when it's there in black and white for everyone to read themselves.

    I was responding to another poster, sorry if you feel butthurt about Trump's supporters but I said nothing about them - the person who brought Trump supporters into the discussion was you, nobody else had mentioned them.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #7792
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    So provide some links then.

    How dare you ask someone to back up outlandish claims with links and proof.


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    #7793
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,518 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    :

    I was responding to another poster, sorry if you feel butthurt about Trump's supporters but I said nothing about them - the person who brought Trump supporters into the discussion was you, nobody else had mentioned them.

    Eh, nope.
    davedanon wrote: »
    Not strictly speaking on-topic, but I heard Matt Cooper announcing that Mary-Ellen Synon was going to be on his show. Anyone listen in? I can't stomach her. Ireland's Laura Ingraham. Apparently she's a hug Trump fan. Quelle surprise.
    DubInMeath wrote: »
    She's a representative of his supporters all right but those with a few quid, as for the rest, they tend to be arseholes, conspiracy theory believers etc. Same as gems really..

    I responded, I didn’t bring it up. Just as I responded to your assertion that MES spouted outrageous crap, I may not agree with her, but if you listen to the podcast, you would get some insight into why Americans vote for Trump and why what she was saying was nothing like what Gemma spouts.

    Back on topic though, we all agree Gemma is at best nuts, at worst dangerous, but was there a time when she was a good reporter? She worked for the Indo at one time, was she always bonkers?


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    #7794
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,777 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Biker79 wrote: »
    Until I hear directly what her beliefs are, what her policies are if she is pursuing a political platform, I'll assume she's a run of the mill conservative person. Any interview Ive seen with her, she is nothing like the person shes made out to be in social media. But I would still like to hear more from her.

    Seems she is like an Irish Katie Hopkins, who in a lot of instances does makes sense, even if her views are disagreeable upon occasion.

    Until then I'll continue to poke fun at lefties. They are such an easy target.

    Her videos make no sense...at all...honestly she is off her rocker. If you watched any of them you would know.


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    #7795
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,541 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    gmisk wrote: »
    Her videos make no sense...at all...honestly she is off her rocker. If you watched any of them you would know.

    If she saw a lollypop lady/man she'd say she's start yelling that they were controlling traffic and children and that she was live streaming to thousands of people.


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    #7796
    brightspark
    Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭brightspark


    gmisk wrote: »
    Her videos make no sense...at all...honestly she is off her rocker. If you watched any of them you would know.

    MI5 is the IRA and the IRA is MI5!


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    #7797
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,518 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    brightspark wrote: »
    MI5 is the IRA and the IRA is MI5!

    Sitting in her car in crossmaglen I think, she must have lost a dare.


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    #7798
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭Odelay


    https://www.rte.ie/culture/2020/0929/1168164-fantasy-island-inside-rtes-outrageous-new-animated-comedy/


    When she sees the new promo for the new RTE animated series Fantasy Island, she will freak.


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    #7799
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,967 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I think she said Dalkey is a freemason luciferian HUB


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    #7800
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    gmisk wrote: »
    Her videos make no sense...at all...honestly she is off her rocker. If you watched any of them you would know.

    Ive yet to read anything remotely interesting from a leftie, so I'll remain sceptical about all of their claims.

    Katie Hopkins is actually a fine person with decent values, IMHO. My guess is that Gemma is too. She has certainly a respectable body of investigative journalist work ( unlike many other click bait/ opinion piece journalists )

    She has been crucified by the twitter woke mob, it would appear.

    However, I am open to correction on this ( Note: juvenile sarcasm is not a persuasive argument )


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    #7801
    Penfailed
    Registered Users Posts: 7,585 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Biker79 wrote: »
    Katie Hopkins is actually a fine person with decent values, IMHO. My guess is that Gemma is too.

    Ha! They're both abhorrent people.

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