Conor McGregor Megathread *Mod Warning in OP Updated 20th April*

…except that never happened

Not sure about that one tbh

He did claim he has relatives in Castlebar who said the Burke family are highly respected in the area 😂

We can agree the diversion into Rosie o donnell (who apparently moved here because of Trump? - I don’t care about either way) and the road traffic policing criticism were silly and insignificant compared to the extremely serious issues of wider society he raised.

I fully accept he is a rapist, who trades in violence and aggression, and uses very uncouth language. I wouldn’t want to have a beer with him. He does that stupid monkey walk in badly fitting suits and he was put off the road and rightly so.

Now - to the interview - From what I watched, he is not the most articulate person but his point on democracy is that there are constitutional obstacles stopping individuals from running for President - it is a “closed shop” where the big establishment parties control who enters the race.

And that is correct.

Well then, that group is full of thickos. Mcgregors verbal vomit was littered with disinformation.

That's if it ever happened of course, and going by your record it's probably fiction.

The "local GAA club WhatsApp group" is probably the comments section on YouTube or Facebook

Politicians ruining a once great country, did he wear a MIGA hat? Did he give a time frame for Ireland’s golden age

Ever since the inception of the state people have left Ireland in their droves and unemployment was always a problem , from the mid 90’s onward the country started to get things going right. Then came the property bubble and it’s aftermath. The politicians didn’t just waltz in, gombeenism and family politics have always been the norm. There is always some kind of perpetual victim hood with a lot of Irish people, be it from the English, the EU, the Church, Thierry Henri or the politicians that they elect.

You’re forgetting his friendship with what was one of the world biggest drug pushers and murderers, the Kinahan gang.

Most people tend to avoid murderous members of an international cartel.

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He doesn't even have a clue about the actual role of the President. He keeps banging on about disbanding Tusla, stopping immigration and vaccinations etc when the President has no such authority to intervene. Having some safeguards in respect of ensuring the qualification of candidates is necessary to stop the office being turned into a complete joke.

Nope - our system is miles better than the US one.

It’s not a closed shop, he’s free to try and run if he wants, there’s simply rules he has to follow. If he wants a spot on the ballot, he has to convince our elected representatives that he’d be a good candidate, that he would represent all of Ireland well and would fulfil his duties well. We’ve had people like Dana and Sean Gallagher secure nominations so it’s not like it’s impossible for non-politicians.

This system allows us to limit the amount of candidates and has them pre-vetted by our elected representatives. How is that a bad thing?

McGregors actions and his purposeful misunderstanding of the role of the president here are the reason he shouldn’t be considered. He has no experience in public service, spends most of his time partying in the US and has no understanding of global politics. He would be a dreadful figurehead as he only represents an extreme minority of the country.

But I don’t think he actually wants the job. He’s a tool of the US authoritarian right so show people there of a disunited Europe tearing itself apart. The pathetic costume he wears - green suit, flat cap, Irish flag pin - a caricature of imagined irishness to sell to Irish Americans who will be convinced their ancestral homeland has been robbed from them.

The US system of allowing anyone to run has found them with a dangerous charlatan in charge, maybe if they had some additional processes in place like us it would have been more difficult for him to take power.

I watched the entire McGregor / Carlson interview. I've no issue at all with him being given such a platform and even instigating a debate around the issues, but he is just regurgitating numerous talking points from the Irish "far right" or right wing populists or whatever you want to call them ; claiming an elite cabal are running the country against the wishes of the public and trying to make Ireland less Irish than it was previously (for some unknown reason).

He either misunderstands the role of the President or is pretending to do - he wants the presidency to be highly politicised and partisan, as if a Nigel Farage type figure assumed the role.

Is he seriously going on it?