It is, in essence, an administrative usurpation of political power.
We didn’t just get a Chinese virus. We also got Chinese censorship
But the image of Fine Gael’s 35 TDs fighting a valiant rearguard action against the horde of 12 Green TDs doesn’t really make sense, unless you assume that each Green TD has the talent and capacity of three Fine Gaelers.
But it is fairly obvious that if the likes of Pence or DeSantis want to beat him for the nomination, they cannot continue to rush to his defence every time he gets into trouble.
“It is the kind of thing that only a fundamentally unserious party, or country, would do.”
The truth, I am fairly sure, is that he is no longer as certain as he once was that he is, in fact, in the majority.
The only question is how long, and how hard, it will have to be.
No, I’d never kick you up the arse. Sure I think you’re gggrrrreeat!
One might be forgiven for thinking that his concerns, sending that tweet, were not to express outrage on behalf of Ireland’s unmarried mothers, but to use them as a sort of meat shield for his own interests.
The system also dislocates talent from the appeal of a career.
This, presumably, is one reason these particular figures have hardly been mentioned.
It is not the “far right” that is creating these winners and losers, but our own Irish Government.