Leo and his working of movie lines into his speeches

ronivek

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

The snowflake generation has awoke.

Thanks Greta.

Not sure what way you meant that; but I'd be tempted to say quite a few people who aren't fans of Greta are equally not fans of Leo. Chomping at the bit to criticise over anything.

Jinglejangle69

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A bit of a giggle then throwing in movie quotes for a fifty quid wager and hits on social media. Meanwhile there have been 1700 fatalities under his watch. You are seriously deluded if that's how you appraise his leadership.

Probably about 299,097 deaths under his watch if we're been honest.

I blame him for murdering them all.

Jinglejangle69

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I'm sure the families of the 1700 dead citizens find it hilarious

Don't you support SF/PIRA?

Delicious irony.

Jinglejangle69

ronivek wrote: »

Not sure what way you meant that; but I'd be tempted to say quite a few people who aren't fans of Greta are equally not fans of Leo. Chomping at the bit to criticise over anything.

Exactly.

Permanently outraged.

Tommybojangles

Brought a smile to my face anyway. I enjoyed this thread before bed, high quality outrage and excellent repetition of the number of deaths.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

So many anti free speech snowflakes on this thread.

ShineOn7

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

The snowflake generation has awoke.

Thanks Greta.

cannotlogin

Liked Leo before he became Taoiseach. I think it's gone to his head and he's become very contrived and is obsessed with his image.

Not much of a fan now but preferable to Michael Martin, Mary Lou or even Enda Kenny.

Kermit.de.frog

cannotlogin wrote: »

Liked Leo before he became Taoiseach. I think it's gone to his head and he's become very contrived and is obsessed with his image.

Let's go back to simpler days

walshb

cannotlogin wrote: »

Liked Leo before he became Taoiseach. I think it's gone to his head and he's become very contrived and is obsessed with his image.

Not much of a fan now but preferable to Michael Martin, Mary Lou or even Enda Kenny.

Same.

Lined and rated him pre taoiseach. But comes across a bit immature and rash as leader. Thin skinned as well..

Can’t put my finger on it, but there’s no real rapport and gusto..

storker

beggars_bush wrote: »

A child in school would not be let away with plagiarism from the internet. Copy and paste

That's basically what he is doing

Ah, but copying from several sources isn't plagiarism, it's research.

Maybe there should be a thread on which quotes people would like to see Leo slip into his speeches. Most popular lines to be sent to the Taoiseach's office with the challenge to include them over the next few weeks.

buried

Let him do this wan next time if him or his civil servant speech creator thinks he's all that

storker

Some lines that might feature in the next FG heave...

James Brown

It's not the biggest deal in the world. It is embarrassing for the country to be led by such a person and disrespectful to anyone who had a relative die, couldn't visit family, lost their job, lives in Ireland.
If it doesn't bother you that's cula bula, but if you're not Leo and you have empathy and integrity you could see how some mightn't like it. No need to get all FG/Trump about it with talk of snowflakes and being triggered.

ShineOn7

I didn't see his speech today, but I'm guessing from this Tweet there was none of his usual movie quote nonsense



https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1276213226603241472

buried

Lets see in a few years when he gets his job over in Europe if he incorporates any stupid smartarse movie lines into his speils over there? Will he f**k. Spent his entire political career looking down his nose at the very country and people what pay him his wages and his pathetic fans lapped it up like he's some minstrel at the electric picnic.

smurgen

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Yesterday was supposed to be upbeat

Some people just love to be miserable

It’s not our fault Leo Varadkar and FG are depressing.

Madeoface

Leo has shown scant leadership - pubs open before schools even have a plan, the Leaving Cert debacle, non covid heathcare obliterated and the dishing out of €350 p/w to tens of thousands of people who were earning far less (through p/time work).....Plenty of cringey speeches though.

Wait a few years until this seat of the pants decision making is analysed and we'll see how bad exactly it may have been.

Cracking in jokes while adopting a 'lets watch what the others do and copy them' governance strategy. Arse.

Jinglejangle69

Madeoface wrote: »

Leo has shown scant leadership - pubs open before schools even have a plan, the Leaving Cert debacle, non covid heathcare obliterated and the dishing out of €350 p/w to tens of thousands of people who were earning far less (through p/time work).....Plenty of cringey speeches though.

Wait a few years until this seat of the pants decision making is analysed and we'll see how bad exactly it may have been.

Cracking in jokes while adopting a 'lets watch what the others do and copy them' governance strategy. Arse.

Lets hear your plan Einstein.

We're patiently waiting???

We've had our share of crooks, con men and gombeens as Taoiseach but we haven't had a more self-aggrandising one than Mr. Socko.

buried

When he was over in the States and he actually said that he rang Clare County council to deny the permission of the proposed wind farm near the Doonbeg resort he showed up exactly what he is. A hypocrite of the highest order. Tried then to pass it of as a "joke". F**king joke is right. If Greta Thunberg flew in the next day he'd be advocating wind farms all over the shop. Whoever he thinks is a global celebrity or bigshot, that's who he wants to look after, not his own people, nah he'll hit us with lines from Lord of the Mean Girls. He's a joke and good riddance to the twank. A perfect example of how not to do it.

Jinglejangle69

buried wrote: »

When he was over in the States and he actually said that he rang Clare County council to deny the permission of the proposed wind farm near the Doonbeg resort he showed up exactly what he is. A hypocrite of the highest order. Tried then to pass it of as a "joke". F**king joke is right. If Greta Thunberg flew in the next day he'd be advocating wind farms all over the shop. Whoever he thinks is a global celebrity or bigshot, that's who he wants to look after, not his own people, nah he'll hit us with lines from Lord of the Mean Girls. He's a joke and good riddance to the twank. A perfect example of how not to do it.

Ah what's wrong with Greta:)

Jinglejangle69

The bots have arrived:)

buried

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Ah what's wrong with Greta:)

Nothing wrong with her man, she's a global celebrity brand, she's doing her job, unlike Varadkar.

buried

buried wrote: »

When he was over in the States and he actually said that he rang Clare County council to deny the permission of the proposed wind farm near the Doonbeg resort he showed up exactly what he is. A hypocrite of the highest order. Tried then to pass it of as a "joke". F**king joke is right. If Greta Thunberg flew in the next day he'd be advocating wind farms all over the shop. Whoever he thinks is a global celebrity or bigshot, that's who he wants to look after, not his own people, nah he'll hit us with lines from Lord of the Mean Girls. He's a joke and good riddance to the twank. A perfect example of how not to do it.

It was quite incredible. Even Trump had a momentary "steady on there Leo".

Jinglejangle69

buried wrote: »

Nothing wrong with her man, she's a global celebrity brand, she's doing her job, unlike Varadkar.

She's doing her job?

There I was thinking she was doing it for no money because she cares so much about the planet??

buried

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

She's doing her job?

There I was thinking she was doing it for no money because she cares so much about the planet??

I never said anything about money man, that's you saying that. Your job shouldn't be about money, it should be about what you care about doing, so fair f**ks to her, I'm the same. But I do mine without being a global celebrity. I like my job same way she does.

Pity the last leader of our country didn't feel the same way about his job though isn't it?

Gregor Samsa

Madeoface wrote: »

Leo has shown scant leadership - pubs open before schools even have a plan

The two aren't in any way related or dependent on eachother. Why would pubs have to wait to open until there's a plan in place for schools? The schools are off until September anyway. :rolleyes:

Jinglejangle69

buried wrote: »

I never said anything about money man, that's you saying that. Your job shouldn't be about money, it should be about what you care about doing, so fair f**ks to her, I'm the same. But I do mine without being a global celebrity. I like my job same way she does.

Pity the last leader of our country didn't feel the same way about his job though isn't it?

My job shouldn't be about money that puts a roof over my kids head?????

OK cool, can you send me your bank details so I don't have to work anymore:)

Jinglejangle69

Jesus I genuinely fear for the future of this country.

Soon there will be no obligation for anyone to go to work unless you are 100% happy everyday!!!!

Bishop of hope

buried wrote: »

I never said anything about money man, that's you saying that. Your job shouldn't be about money, it should be about what you care about doing, so fair f**ks to her, I'm the same. But I do mine without being a global celebrity. I like my job same way she does.

Pity the last leader of our country didn't feel the same way about his job though isn't it?

How do you know, how he feels, he looks happy to me.
If you enjoy your work and aren't getting paid for it fair play to you.
Money is the root of all evil isn't it.
Are you getting paid?

weldoninhio

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Pure harmless. I think it's funny, and I actually like him a lot better for it.

If he was making horrible decisions in all of this, and endangering lives, I'd probably have less patience for jokes. But the fact is, he's actually handled the entire crisis extremely well. Other countries could learn a lot from his actions. So I think he's entitled to the odd movie quote, if that's what he chooses to do.

Like, say, refusing tests for those most vulnerable to the disease?

joe40

weldoninhio wrote: »

Like, say, refusing tests for those most vulnerable to the disease?

Widespread, speedy testing is vitally important to understand how the disease is spreading throughout the country. In terms of an individual though, it won't affect the treatment they receive. If symptoms are mild you stay at home if they become serious you are admitted.

There is no point testing symptom free people.

Everyone working in nursing homes patient and staff need to behave as if the are positive, you can't assume you don't have the virus even with a negative result.

weldoninhio

joe40 wrote: »

Widespread, speedy testing is vitally important to understand how the disease is spreading throughout the country. In terms of an individual though, it won't affect the treatment they receive. If symptoms are mild you stay at home if they become serious you are admitted.

There is no point testing symptom free people.

Everyone working in nursing homes patient and staff need to behave as if the are positive, you can't assume you don't have the virus even with a negative result.

They REFUSED to test anyone in nursing homes. Treated them like second class citizens.


I hope I'm Taoiseach when Varadkar and Harris die. I've a cracking Samuel L Jackson quote I'd love to use.

"Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell".

Cuddlesworth

weldoninhio wrote: »

They REFUSED to test anyone in nursing homes. Treated them like second class citizens.


I hope I'm Taoiseach when Varadkar and Harris die. I've a cracking Samuel L Jackson quote I'd love to use.

"Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell".

If you can't understand the context around a global lack of testing and the hard choices that have to be made during that, god help us all if you ever became Taoiseach.

flazio

weldoninhio wrote: »

They REFUSED to test anyone in nursing homes. Treated them like second class citizens.


I hope I'm Taoiseach when Varadkar and Harris die. I've a cracking Samuel L Jackson quote I'd love to use.

"Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell".

Says more about you then it does about them.

weldoninhio

flazio wrote: »

Says more about you then it does about them.

It's a quote from a movie. Quotes are fun. Or is that only when over 1000 people are dead??

joe40

weldoninhio wrote: »

They REFUSED to test anyone in nursing homes. Treated them like second class citizens.


I hope I'm Taoiseach when Varadkar and Harris die. I've a cracking Samuel L Jackson quote I'd love to use.

"Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell".

Jaysus easy on there, that's a bit strong.

The big issues in nursing homes was the lack of PPE and the lack of proper procedures. I don't know about the quality of medical treatment but that is down to the doctors not the politicians.

Mistakes were definitely made, but testing alone won't save lives.
The UK didn't even count nursing home deaths for a long time.

Why is it an issue? who cares what quote he uses.


Its fascinating the amount of rage and hatred extrapolate on politicisations, they have never met the politician yet they can weave a whole fantasy around them.

Its possibly because the politician is both remote and public they can be made to fit any narrative that suits.

Gregor Samsa

weldoninhio wrote: »

They REFUSED to test anyone in nursing homes. Treated them like second class citizens.


I hope I'm Taoiseach when Varadkar and Harris die. I've a cracking Samuel L Jackson quote I'd love to use.

"Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell".

My Dad was in a nursing home. He was tested twice, both times as soon as he showed symptoms (he was prone to standard chest infections). The first test (March) came back negative, and he and everyone else in the place were quarantined in their rooms anyway around this time. The second (mid April), came back positive.

He died from it. There are questions to be answered. But he didn't die because anyone refused him a test.

Hoping death on anyone is a despicable thing. And even more despicable when you're using the death of people like my dad to justify your ignorance and hate.

weldoninhio

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

My Dad was in a nursing home. He was tested twice, both times as soon as he showed symptoms (he was prone to standard chest infections). The first test (March) came back negative, and he and everyone else in the place were quarantined in their rooms anyway around this time. The second (mid April), came back positive.

He died from it. There are questions to be answered. But he didn't die because anyone refused him a test.

Hoping death on anyone is a despicable thing. And even more despicable when you're using the death of people like my dad to justify your ignorance and hate.

Firstly, I never "hoped" death on anyone. Everyone will die some day. I hoped I was Taoiseach on the day they die.

Your dad was lucky to get a test, considering the HSE had banned testing of nersing home residents. The virus went through a nursing home close to me, anyone with symptoms were taken off the testing list without their GP being informed. He re-referred some and was told that no one from the home would be tested. He has made the document stating this public. He asked for extra oxygen and end of life medications, was told only empty oxygen bottles would be replaced and no extra would be provided. No extra end of life medication was provided. The government left these people out to dry. Their blood is on the govt's hands.

keano_afc

Its cringy and utterly pathetic. People have died and he's making bets with radio presenters about the contents of his speech.

Imagine the reaction from our own media if Boris was doing this.

joe40

mariaalice wrote: »

Why is it an issue? who cares what quote he uses.


Its fascinating the amount of rage and hatred extrapolate on politicisations, they have never met the politician yet they can weave a whole fantasy around them.

Its possibly because the politician is both remote and public they can be made to fit any narrative that suits.

I think there is a big distinction between using quotes to elaborate or emphasise a point. The LOTR quote for example. I have no problem with that. He did say it was a quote.

Shoehorning movie lines into serious questions from journalist or speeches is totally different and a bit childish.

joe40

joe40 wrote: »

I think there is a big distinction between using quotes to elaborate or emphasise a point. The LOTR quote for example. I have no problem with that. He did say it was a quote.

Shoehorning movie lines into serious questions from journalist or speeches is totally different and a bit childish.

Yes a bit childish but that is it.

IvoryTower

It was pretty funny tbf

Madeoface

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Lets hear your plan Einstein.

We're patiently waiting???

Einstein? Thanks. I'm educated alright but not to that level...

Who's the 'we' in your quote - you?

Here's two starters for ten - don't pay people €350 who were earning €150 as it provides an economic disincentive to work and start a recovery. Its probably the one bad policy decision himself and the Shinners have common ground on.

Enable early testing in vulnerable centres like nursing homes as even the earliest of stats was showing the elderly to be particularly vulnerable.

If you think he's done a great job - good for you. The Go'vt got some things right for sure - like the lockdown on Padddies but whether you think Leo is displaying good / great leadership depends very much on your own circumstances.

This thread is about his 'jokes' which if you think he has reason to be cheerful / smart about given the state of the nation - then fair play to your peculiar sense of humour. I find it distasteful no matter who would have tried it, no matter what party.