Socialist throws a smoothie on Varadkar

feargale

Suckit wrote: »

Which posts lauded it?

You haven't been paying attention to this thread, have you? I'm damned if I will do your work for you to pick out the schoolboy posts that demonstrate that the idiots who posted them are greatly entertained. Mr. Stack, when he publicly confronted McGuinness about the murder of his father, didn't stoop to the same level of idiocy as that arrogant little bitch.

Suckit wrote: »

One of theirs?

You know damn well what I mean. Stop pretending to be stupid.

Suckit wrote: »

The rest is equal babble.

What a profound analysis. :rolleyes:

Suckit

The first quote isn't mine, I have no idea where you puled that text from, with the exception of the initial question which you failed to answer. Posts or posters.

feargale wrote: »

You know damn well what I mean. Stop pretending to be stupid.

I know what you meant, but you are referring to people that you haven't identified (as per the first 4 words of the first quote), so

a: Who are 'theirs'?
b: Is Leo one of 'yours'?

feargale wrote: »

What a profound analysis. :rolleyes:

I thought so. As I found it described it well.

feargale

[ quote="Suckit;114681503"] The first quote isn't mine, I have no idea where you puled that text from, with the exception of the initial question which you failed to answer. [/quote]

Your post at 656:

Suckit wrote: »

Which posts lauded it?
One of theirs?

The rest is equal babble.

Suckit wrote: »

ollI know what you meant, but you are referring to people that you haven't identified (as per the first 4 words of the first quote), so

a: Who are 'theirs'?

Stop pretending. That's not smart. Remember the gob****es who attacked Joan Burton and the president some time ago? You could include their great leaders for a start. Watch how the gob****es react if their leaders are treated thus.
Of course, you probably weren't born when the scum of Belfast attacked Gerry Fitt and his home in a most sinister and life-threatening way, causing damage to his wife's health. And lots in between. There are always assoles who, with zero mandate, want to rule the world.

Suckit wrote: »

b: Is Leo one of 'yours'?

Nope. I can't say I've never given no. 1 to a FG candidate but very seldom, and not at the last election. Sorry to disappoint you in that. I don't think I ever voted FF either. And I've voted in a lot of elections. One tends to do that if one doesn't carry a gun to impose one's views on others. The scatter gun response of the idiots who find attacking elected politicians hilarious has been this: "We're all FG." You don't have to be FG to behave half decently and to respect the will of the people.

Suckit wrote: »

I thought so. As I found it described it well.

No need to get stroppy just because, contrary to your expectations, you are the one who is sucking it since the present government was formed.

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markodaly

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Could have been acid. For someone so senior Leo should really look at getting a proper security detail.

The thing here though, if Leo had security, the same malcontents and whingers would be using it as a stick.

It is odd though, there is lots of talk that this is staged.

Never under-estimate the foolishness and lack of intelligence of people.

markodaly

Bowie wrote: »

You're familiar with the housing, homeless, health crises? 'Very little to irk them? They may not affect you or you might have lost interest but they are issues and they are there.

Ah yes, the usual bluster and bull****.

The trifecta of housing, homeless and health.

You do know that FG fully backs Slainte-Care and in government started its implementation?

What is Slaintecare?

A universal healthcare system will provide population, promotive, preventative, primary, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health and social care services to the entire population of Ireland, ensuring timely access to quality, effective, integrated services on the basis of clinical need.

— Committee on the Future of Health, Sláintecare Report

FG right wing? Please!

James Brown

markodaly wrote: »

Ah yes, the usual bluster and bull****.

The trifecta of housing, homeless and health.

You do know that FG fully backs Slainte-Care and in government started its implementation?

What is Slaintecare?



FG right wing? Please!

Truth hurts

Slainte...when?

Yurt2

markodaly wrote: »

You do know that FG fully backs Slainte-Care and in government started its implementation?

Slaintecare stemmed from the FG-LAB coalition (white paper 2014) where it was a red-line condition from Labour that progress would be made on a single-tier service.

The committee that hammered out the finer details was led (superbly) by Roisin Shortall and she fought tooth and nail to make sure it was a genuine single-tier plan, with a few bored looking FG deputies hanging around.

FG have consistently long-fingered the strategy and it's implementation in government.

"Fully-support" is - on the evidence - simply not living in political reality.

old_aussie

Hope Leo's not lactose intolerant.

Redgirl82

old_aussie wrote: »

Hope Leo's not lactose intolerant.

What difference would that make?

Necro

Bowie wrote: »

severe I know but would it look like a councillor admiring the blueshirts, or a party favouring private business while exacerbating societal crises?

Seriously, you haven't a clue what right-wing is if you want to continue that comparison.

One needs to only look to our neighbours in the UK to see what damage actual right wing zealots do to a country, through conservatism and hardline policies such as Brexit.

Beechwoodspark

Just anecdotally from talking to 20/30 ppl over the wkend and discussing this

99% said the girl was completely wrong and I would estimate 75% have a higher opinion on LV due to this.

Make of that what you will

Wanderer78

Beechwoodspark wrote:

99% said the girl was completely wrong and I would estimate 75% have a higher opinion on LV due to this.

Completely agree with the 99, disagree with the 75, nothing personal against Leo, I'd like to meet the chap, sounds very approachable

Tombo2001

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Could have been acid. For someone so senior Leo should really look at getting a proper security detail.

Thats an interesting question and obviously he has made a choice here, which is weighing up the risks against the intrusion on his life that a larger security detail would bring.

I would think he's done the right thing. If we are in a situation where politicians need multiple minders to their days work in Dublin or elsewhere, then we are in a bad place.

Almost feel sorry for the girl - I can see whats happened here, she's confused all the bull **** opinions from internet forums with the real world, she probably thought this would make her a hero.

Tombo2001

The irony of this for me - when I was a kid we had real dubious politicians, Charlie Haughey, Ray Burke, Sean Doherty and so on. And yet by and large they were greatly respected by the wider public, specifically they were treated with great respect. Nobody ever threw anything at Charlie Haughey.

The politicians we have today are much more civic minded, they are not out to line their own pockets - compared to the crowd that went before - and I mean that across the board, Martin, Varadkar, Donohoe, McDonald, and so on.

But people have zero respect for them, treat them with contempt.

CrankyHaus

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Just anecdotally from talking to 20/30 ppl over the wkend and discussing this

99% said the girl was completely wrong and I would estimate 75% have a higher opinion on LV due to this.

Make of that what you will

It's another encouraging sign that, so far, we've managed to avoid the morass of political polarisation that the US and UK are bogged down in.



When milkshaking popped up in the UK it was approved of by newspapers such as The Guardian, which is a reflection of how a significant amount of people viewed it.



Here unprovoked assault on people for their politics is almost universally opposed, even by people like me who wouldn't vote for the victim. I'd say decades of experience with where that can lead to makes us a bit more chary of childish LARPing as violent revolutionaries than the Brits or Yanks are.



There is still a double standard on reporting political violence though. Just the day after this happened the Irish Times cover story on its Weekend Review was on the rise of the violent far-right. While the people involved are scumbags the article studiously failed to mention the violence on the far-left that is a mirror image of those thugs.

StackSteevens

CrankyHaus wrote: »

There is still a double standard on reporting political violence though. Just the day after this happened the Irish Times cover story on its Weekend Review was on the rise of the violent far-right. While the people involved are scumbags the article studiously failed to mention the violence on the far-left that is a mirror image of those thugs.

Yep - I noticed that too. But at this point, it's exactly what I'd expect from the Irish Guardian.

silverharp

has she been found yet? seems easy enough to identify

StackSteevens

Tombo2001 wrote: »

The irony of this for me - when I was a kid we had real dubious politicians, Charlie Haughey, Ray Burke, Sean Doherty and so on. And yet by and large they were greatly respected by the wider public, specifically they were treated with great respect. Nobody ever threw anything at Charlie Haughey.

I can vaguely remember a retired waiter throwing a handful of loose change on the ground in front of Haughey as he walked into Dublin Castle for a Moriarty Tribunal hearing!

It was a marvellous gesture; far far better than the witless smoothie stunt.

Gregor Samsa

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Nobody ever threw anything at Charlie Haughey.

They tried, but they missed:

1981: An attempt is made to throw paint over An Taoiseach Charles Haughey while on a visit to St Michael’s Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0519/789604-paint-thrown-at-haughey/


Threw coins at his car in 2000 too:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/protesters-throw-coins-at-haughey-s-merc-1.295287

Also, someone literally danced on his grave:

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-literally-dances-on-haugheys-grave-to-protest-ff-corruption-21077-Sep2010/

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Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Threw coins at his car in 2000 too:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/protesters-throw-coins-at-haughey-s-merc-1.295287

Sure that was probably Ben Dunne. Was it a bin liner full of pound coins by any chance?

Rodney Bathgate

StackSteevens wrote: »

I can vaguely remember a retired waiter throwing a handful of loose change on the ground in front of Haughey as he walked into Dublin Castle for a Moriarty Tribunal hearing!

It was a marvellous gesture; far far better than the witless smoothie stunt.

I hope Charlie hoovered up the free money.

blanch152

markodaly wrote: »

The thing here though, if Leo had security, the same malcontents and whingers would be using it as a stick.

It is odd though, there is lots of talk that this is staged.

Never under-estimate the foolishness and lack of intelligence of people.

There were plenty of posters who ranted on and on about Coveney retaining his Garda driver. There was a coterie of them going on about the trappings of office.

Suckit

feargale wrote: »

Your post at 656:

You edited that after I replied. You had added a load of horsecr*p into the quote as well you know, and you still didn't answer.

feargale wrote: »

Stop pretending. That's not smart. Remember the gob****es who attacked Joan Burton and the president some time ago? You could include their great leaders for a start. Watch how the gob****es react if their leaders are treated thus.
Of course, you probably weren't born when the scum of Belfast attacked Gerry Fitt and his home in a most sinister and life-threatening way, causing damage to his wife's health. And lots in between. There are always assole who, with zero mandate, want to rule the world.

Pretending what? You are very desperate to go off in a tangent. You still haven't answered.
You seem to be fairly adamant that you know who did this.
I was of the opinion it was a stupid kid, with no real agenda behind it. Maybe you can prove otherwise.

feargale wrote: »

Nope. I can't say I've never given no. 1 to a FG candidate but very seldom, and not at the last election. I don't think I ever voted FF either. And I've voted in a lot of elections. One tends to do that if one doesn't carry a gun to impose one's views on others. Sorry to disappoint you in that. The scatter gun response of the idiots who find attacking elected politicians hilarious has been this: "We're all FG." You don't have to be FG to behave half decently and to respect the will of the people.

My response to that was purely as a response to your 'one of theirs'... Again, who are you referring to without going off on another whirlwind unrelated post.
I don't care (I'll elaborate - I really don't care) about any of the other sh*te you posted, and tbh, I probably don't really care that Leo was splashed with a smoothie either, but I find it comical that you get so stirred up and go into a tirade about it.

feargale wrote: »

No need to get stroppy just because, contrary to your expectations, you are the one who is sucking it since the present government was formed.

I definitely haven't got stroppy about it, actually, I'm not even miffed.
You on the other hand...

keano_afc

Its probably been said, but the reason this is seen as acceptable is because it was lauded and approved of when the target was someone not liked.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin showed her approval when Justin Barrett was pelted with a milkshake. Conor Gallagher wrote a hilarious article at the weekend about the "far-right" and used a woman who's thrown liquids over people as a source. The hypocrisy of these people is astounding.

feargale

Suckit wrote: »

You edited that after I replied. You had added a load of horsecr*p into the quote as well you know, and you still didn't answer.

I quite honestly haven't a clue what you're on about. Kindly quote the relevant post numbers and say how I have misquoted you. Maybe there was a typo. I don't know.

imme

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

They tried, but they missed:

1981: An attempt is made to throw paint over An Taoiseach Charles Haughey while on a visit to St Michael’s Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0519/789604-paint-thrown-at-haughey/


Threw coins at his car in 2000 too:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/protesters-throw-coins-at-haughey-s-merc-1.295287

Also, someone literally danced on his grave:

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-literally-dances-on-haugheys-grave-to-protest-ff-corruption-21077-Sep2010/

Thanks GS.

Re the Charlie Haughey paint attack.

Great to see Frank Dunlop getting caught in the crossfire.

Some of the nurses and nuns sporting FF stickers, more innocent times. :pac::rolleyes:

No mention or indication of what the person was protesting at etc.

Suckit

feargale wrote: »

I quite honestly haven't a clue what you're on about. Kindly quote the relevant post numbers and say how I have misquoted you. Maybe there was a typo. I don't know.

Of course you don't... You probably don't remember editing it either.

feargale wrote:

You haven't been paying attention to this thread, have you? I'm damned if I will do your work for you...

Dyr

Tombo2001 wrote: »

The irony of this for me - when I was a kid we had real dubious politicians, Charlie Haughey, Ray Burke, Sean Doherty and so on. And yet by and large they were greatly respected by the wider public, specifically they were treated with great respect. Nobody ever threw anything at Charlie Haughey.

The politicians we have today are much more civic minded, they are not out to line their own pockets - compared to the crowd that went before - and I mean that across the board, Martin, Varadkar, Donohoe, McDonald, and so on.

But people have zero respect for them, treat them with contempt.

Charlie took a hiding off a fella cos Charlie was riding his missus. CJ said he busted his face after falling of his horse but it wasnt riding horses that caused it

StackSteevens

Bambi wrote: »

Charlie took a hiding off a fella cos Charlie was riding his missus. CJ said he busted his face after falling of his horse but it wasnt riding horses that caused it

Are you suggesting that Leo may have taken an unauthorised ride on that young lady's skateboard?