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Would you vote for Conor McGregor if he entered politics?

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  • #202
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439803#Comment_121439803

    The biggest blow to democracy in any democracy is those who literally try to overturn democracy because they don't like the outcome of democratic processes. That's what Trump came remarkably close to doing.

    'Undemocratic' doesn't mean 'policies I don't like'.



  • #203
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,778 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439940#Comment_121439940

    Anarchists!!



  • #204
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,396 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439803#Comment_121439803

    How is that a blow to democracy? You will still have the ability to democratically vote for someone else when the next election comes around so therefore democracy has not suffered one iota.

    Like @AndrewJRenko pointed out you are equating a blow to democracy with you simply not liking what the government is doing.



  • #205
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,280 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121435157#Comment_121435157

    Really? Dustin seems the obvious best choice in that list. He certainly has the lowest number of court appearances / convictions...

    Personally, I'd love to see McGregor run. Assuming he ran in his home constituency of Dublin South-Central who do any of his supporters see him taking a seat from out of the current batch?

    • Aengus ó Snodaigh (SF)
    • Bríd Smith (PBP)
    • Joan Collins (I4C)
    • Patrick Costello (GP)

    It's a notoriously left-wing electorate and a right-wing, cokehead thug isn't likely to get past the first count. His reaction in the count centre would be priceless though. Probably get himself arrested for a drug-fueled assault on the returning officer when he's eliminated! 🤣



  • #206
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,657 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121440935#Comment_121440935

    No I am not, how did you come to that conclusion?

    I said quite clearly a threat to democracy is when both govt and opposition (and 99% of media) align on a certain pathway for an entire country whether that be the current immigration crisis (not work immigration) or anything else that causes huge disruption to a nation whether I agree/acquiesce or not with what the thing is that the govt are doing.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • #207
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121441236#Comment_121441236

    The threat to democracy is something that interferes with democracy. We still have a high degree of democratic power here. Despite your own personal views, poll after poll after poll tells us that the vast majority of people will be voting for the govt or opposition parties that you're complaining about, and not for the tiny number of crank candidates pushing their anti-immigration politics of fear.



  • #208
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,396 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121441236#Comment_121441236

    You have yet to show any direct threat to our democracy. You simply disagreeing with the majority of our politicians and media still has no impact on our democracy.



  • #209
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,266 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121441116#Comment_121441116

    He'd be like the guy rte that ran for fg, he'll realise its a very long working day with little reward and few holidays



  • #210
    orangerhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭orangerhyme


    Not a hope.

    He's a complete scumbag.

    It's possible he could get elected though. I'm not sure.



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  • #211
    SharkMX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,457 ✭✭✭SharkMX


    There are two parties he would fit in with his brain cell. SF or the GP.



  • #212
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,110 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    He doesn't take criticism very well at all, in person or online.

    Just imagine him in any political setting, he would lose the rag at someone asking him the time.



  • #213
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,118 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I see he wants to run for President

    Hilarious. All the Brits and Americans thinking it means Taoiseach. Him thinking he could get the nomination. He definitely wont. Its all good comedy.

    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



  • #214
    TokTik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭TokTik


    I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s playing this for publicity in the US. One of his latest posts is in relation to the ages of Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny. Saying that Ireland needs a fresh young president like him to lead us.

    Everyone in Ireland knows the president has zero power and leads nothing. More self serving publicity from the clown.



  • #215
    celticbest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭celticbest


    Not even if he was the only person on the ballet, I'd spoil my vote....



  • #216
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Absolutely not. A truly horrible human being. A genuine scumbag.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



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  • #217
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,118 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453598#Comment_121453598

    Publicity for what?

    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



  • #218
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,945 ✭✭✭growleaves


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453778#Comment_121453778

    A UFC fight



  • #219
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,118 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453788#Comment_121453788

    Is he not retired? Hasn't fought in 2 years

    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



  • #220
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,945 ✭✭✭growleaves


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453803#Comment_121453803

    He's coming out of retirement as far as I know (a friend was telling me). He has nostalgia appeal for MMA fans.



  • #221
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1731745629842366574

    He's winning. Twitter though is not reality, even if many based their societal views on Twitter reach.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




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  • #222
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    I wouldn't give him the steam off my piss.



  • #223
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121455674#Comment_121455674

    The Venn diagram of those who voted for this twat in the Twitter poll and those who are eligible to vote in an Irish presidential election is two non overlapping circles.



  • #224
    BagofWeed
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭BagofWeed


    It's real life Father Ted stuff nowadays. This could steamroll into something really crazy yet.



  • #225
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,396 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    There's no way he manages to get a nomination out of enough councils and no party will touch him



  • #226
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,110 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    He only does things for attention, in this case he might have a fight on the horizon and he is selling this new stout.

    That is all he wants, attention. Plain and simple.



  • #227
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,151 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    I wouldn't pi** on him if he was on fire let alone vote for him



  • #228
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,320 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121455674#Comment_121455674

    Wow, he's winning a twitter poll visible to most of his supporters from outside Ireland.

    Absolutely meaningless.



  • #229
    Iker Odd Martian
    Posts: 0 ✭ Iker Odd Martian


    It's a real threat that no one should take lightly at all. See Trump as a prime example. Its all a laugh until he's in power. (Thankfully presidential powers much more limited)

    Anyway - McGregor has been latched onto by the far right. They are feeding his ego and he is too stupid to realise. He is loving it and this will snowball. He will run with it i have no doubt.



  • #230
    Declan05
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Declan05


    Not a chance, an awful individual.



  • #231
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,731 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121455811#Comment_121455811

    If he wants to go the Dail route, no party would touch him. If he goes independent and he is just some random angry backbencher - he would be like the anti- Danny Healy Rae. He wouldn't even get onto a sub-committee for hedge cutting

    If he wants to be president he needs the nominations of 4 county councils, or 20 members of the Oireachteas. Again, never going to happen.

    Even if he does get in one of these ways he will be a small cog in a large machine, with zero power to do anything other than cause loads of noise. Unlike Trump, there is no faction of any established party who will emerge to support him.

    As he'd say himself, he'll do nuttin'

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


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  • #232
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,945 ✭✭✭growleaves


    He can't win a national election.

    If he ran in Dublin 10/12 constituency - forget what it's called - he could perhaps win a seat there.

    Sometimes a new Government needs Independents or small parties to make up the numbers, which is how McGregor could gain some real influence. That's a lot of ifs!



  • #233
    Questions about jury service.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭Questions about jury service.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439612#Comment_121439612

    So female politicians than assault men are okay? Gotcha!



  • #234
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,396 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121455811#Comment_121455811

    Its not a real threat due to our presidential nomination process, he either needs 20 TDs/Senators or 4 county councils to nominate him, neither is going to happen.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #235
    Hyperbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    It's all hot air and self promotion. He's a master at it. It's literally made him a multi millionaire. All this bullshít is more aimed at the American culture warrior contingent who follow him online, than any real plan for "change" in Ireland.

    My thinking is, he would never actually run for an elected office because he knows he wouldn't win. Also, does anyone seriously think he would restrict his extravagant lifestyle one iota by shackling himself to a job in Dublin? In his arrogant head, Ireland is small time and I'm sure he has big plans for more big deals in the US and further afield. If I had to guess, I'd say he wants to be the new Dana White. I could see him starting a new more violent variant of UFC in the Middle East, full on gladiatorial combat possibly!

    If he decides to go into politics anywhere, it will probably be America. I'd be certain he'd have plenty of success there as a MAGA candidate.



  • #236
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,741 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121424950#Comment_121424950

    Trump caused more problems, and didn't fix any


    also our government is different. you need to be in a party that's in government before you can do anything



  • #237
    Glencarraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Glencarraig


    Not if he was the last politician standing in the Dail offering me massive payouts in every budget for the next 20 years. I despise that excuse for a man and would be perfectly happy if he disappeared off the face of the earth never to be seen again.



  • #238
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,161 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    Saw an ad for Neil Prendeville there. Funny how the world has changed in 15 odd years. He was heading from great things until he exposed himself on a plane while on ‘prescription’ medication. Stuck on local radio forever now.

    This lad, multiple criminal charges in multiple countries, rumours swirling around him (if even a quarter of them were true, he should be cancelled), arrested in Italy for indecent exposure and it all just adds to his following. The mind boggles…

    As I said before in this thread, this lad wouldn’t know how to get a broken streetlight fixed.

    The media need to call out that if he entered politics, he would be a puppet for nefarious, multinational interests. And you’ll still be waiting for him to fix that streetlight.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #239
    tom23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭tom23


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121455674#Comment_121455674

    Where's the option of I'd rather stick my hand in a fire. Though Enda Kenny? Christ. Id rather vote for Putin.



  • #240
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121456022#Comment_121456022

    I've no idea how you got that from anything I said. Have there been many cases of female politicians assaulting men in Ireland?



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  • #241
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,110 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    ah-no-****-off-conor-v0-k4a9pbigog4c1.png

    Good lord...he couldn't run a bloody bath if he tried.



  • #242
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,151 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


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    Nope. 😕



  • #243
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121458448#Comment_121458448

    Your link's broken, try this:

    https://i.imgur.com/qisHZDq.png

    I have to give Danny Healy-Rae credit for his response to another of that clown's Xcretions:

    image.png




  • #244
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    No. He is a thug. All he has shown, in the last two weeks or so, is that he has a skill for riling up gurrier thickos



  • #245
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,706 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121459362#Comment_121459362

    "There'd be votes every week".

    Just what we need, a President who has zero clue about the Constitution.



  • #246
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,110 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121459372#Comment_121459372

    This just all speaks of a clown who wants attention, We are worse for giving it to him.



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  • #247
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,046 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    The guy is thicker than Trump. That takes a lot of doing.



  • #248
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    I've heard that his new stout is like Porterhouse Plain. He bought the Porterhouse Brewery. Plain was a lovely pint of stout, so it would have been nice to get some alternative to Guinness or Beamish in pubs. Won't be giving a penny to the scumbag though.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • #249
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121459372#Comment_121459372

    Obviously not aware that The President needs the permission of Government to even leave the country. Council of State need to be informed as well.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • #250
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,161 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121459748#Comment_121459748

    But as the old saying goes ‘A pint of plain is your only man’

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #251
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,118 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Apparently he has hired political advisers who worked in UK with ties to Brexit, Conservative European Research Group etc..

    It's already noticeable. His tweets are actually knowledgeable.

    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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