A stark image here, via Gavan Reilly: pic.twitter.com/QxyaTuWiLy — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 7, 2020 This is, of course, an absolutely terrible development, but most people seem incapable of understanding why. That’s largely because attitudes to Trump fall into two camps, and they are almost irreconcilable. The first camp includes almost every Irish journalist, and […]
One of the noticeable aspects of the Trump campaign, which Irish people would not have noticed inside the echo chamber of the lazy and biased reporting of RTÉ and other D4 emigres in Washington, was the prominence of non-white people among Republican candidates and supporters of the President. When it seemed that things were going […]
What will change over the next day or two? Who can say? Will we wake up to the smile of a victorious Joe Biden (likely)? A chastened and contrite Donald Trump (unlikely)? A messy and disputed election (O, please, God, no!)? What will not change is the groupthink at America’s leading newspaper, The New York Times. […]
Last night, President Trump took to the podium at the White House to claim that the US Election was being stolen from him by voter fraud in several key states. Online, several theories have been floating around as to how this theft might be happening. It is worth, therefore, looking at the evidence for each […]
It’s everyone’s nightmare scenario: an electoral stalemate; two men all but claiming the presidency; and a likely legal battle that may extend into December. So much is yet uncertain as the final ballots are counted, and as some jurisdictions prepare to pause counting while the courts have their say. Through the frustrating murkiness, however, there […]
No such thing as a shy Trump voter this time’, said Mark Little, RTE’s former US correspondent. Everybody in the studio chuckled in agreement. The polls must therefore be accurate. Biden was heading to a landslide. You don’t have to be a pundit to see how daft that view was and is. This is Hillary’s ‘deplorable’ […]
On November 3rd, 2004, as the votes were counted across America, the picture became very clear: George W. Bush had won Florida, and had a 200,000 vote lead in crucial Ohio. In Boston, where a crowd was waiting hopefully to hear from John Kerry, his vice Presidential candidate, John Edwards, took to the stage. There […]
After four long years in office, each day of which brought some new dramatic declaration of a crisis from the self-styled resistance, Donald Trump went before the American people on Tuesday night and won – at the time of writing – four million more votes than he had in 2016. Republicans were supposed to lose […]
In referenda run alongside parliamentary elections last month, two thirds of New Zealanders voted to legalise euthanasia, while a small majority voted against legalising marijuana. Results from a further 480,000 special votes, to be published on November 6, cannot change the euthanasia outcome and so the End of Life Choice Act will come into effect a year from now. […]
On September 13th, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former Mayor of New York and former Democrat candidate for US President, made a big announcement: He was going to spend one hundred million dollars of his own money to swing the state of Florida for Joe Biden. Last night, President Trump won Florida going away, significantly increasing […]
It looks as if the Race for the White House will go down to the wire. At this point, here’s 5 things we know about what has been revealed by the U.S Election 2020 so far. 1. The polls were wrong about Trump – again Win or lose, this is no landslide for Biden. Most […]
Several Western governments, including Ireland’s, have taken it upon themselves in recent weeks to legally incapacitate a large number of citizens – in Ireland’s case, those unfortunate enough to work in the retail or pub and restaurant sectors – from opening the doors of their businesses. The rationale for such prohibitions is that we must […]