Sometimes it’s in moments of triumph that a person’s real character is revealed. For some Democrats in the US, vengeance is always the first item on the agenda. McCarthyism had nothing on these people and their new definition of un-American activities. First up, of course, was Democratic Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of a host of well-heeled political operatives […]
To be fair, they didn’t say the first bit. But it’s hard to argue that politics didn’t influence the timing, for reasons we’ll come to shortly. But first, the news: As I type these words, stock markets are surging globally. And why wouldn’t they? A 90% effective Coronavirus vaccine means, well, the end of the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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 […]
I was in Washington DC this time four years ago — a week before the 2016 election. The mood was eerie, not in the least because of all the morbid Halloween decorations. With skeletons hanging from trees, carved pumpkins on porches and fake gravestones littering front yards, the suburban vistas felt strangely like a scene […]
The New York Post, one of America’s oldest newspapers has said that Twitter is a “clear threat to healthy democracy” after the social media platform locked the paper’s account for publishing a major story into Hunter Biden. “Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you,” the paper wrote in a headline story accusing […]