Media
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It is pointless to ask, as Macdara did recently, whether the squabble between Zelenskyy and the inhabitants of the grotesque underworld that is the Oval Office, were staging their recent confrontation. Such a question is the mark, your correspondent admits, of an old-fashioned mind. It is not that Trump necessitated that Zelenskyy engage in reality…
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Macdara has been on hiatus, but only on this first day of spring has he been able to reflect fully on the ideological reasons behind his torpor. To recap: the Party of permanent power in Unoccupied Ireland has undertaken a round of negotiations that took far longer than it should have, given that the outline…
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III The Liberal Media has not been shy about expressing its disappointment that the Far Right has had such a poor showing. The Irish Times podcast the day after the election was titled first counts trickle in and anti-immigration candidates falter. In fact the exit poll that that paper had co-commissioned had already shown that…
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I God knows there was nothing to cover in the campaign itself. Granted, An Taoiseach being caught out as a rude and cranky rightwinger was good, but who didn’t already believe that to be the case? It was an underwhelming few weeks, a dull end to a shoddy Government that had not a single accomplishment.…
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In any case, the polls showed a tie, and Trump had outperformed his polling by several percent last time around. Yet the Democrats gathered around to assure each other that Harris was in the stronger position. The elite—with a tiny number of exceptions, like Trump himself, with his grip on a kind of perverse populism—only…
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This writer can recall a Kamala shill saying in an interview a year or two ago that Harris had had many accomplishments as VP, though he declined to name a single one. Her office had a culture of bullying, that was one thing that did become public knowledge about her. As the sudden candidate, she…
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It became clear to your correspondent that the new media to which he is addicted could not correctly call the US presidential election. The descriptions of Trump exaggerated his physical frailty: on one podcast the hosts said he had faltered—almost fallen—during one of his stunts, but the video showed barely a wobble. His rally attendees…
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I The English language is a rented tool; this could be viewed as a problem, as the Irish elite know that they can be well understood if anyone elsewhere is paying any attention. In fact they have turned this situation into an opportunity, acting at all times to appease the imagined observer in London, New…
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The representatives of the Liberal Right expect to be judged on their exquisite feelings, not their murderous acts; they expect to be commended exactly for this gap between what they would like to do (nice things), and what they believe they must do (nasty things). It is mark not only of a lack of imagination,…
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What better evidence of the base nature of the Imperialists than the following response to the Foreign Minister, which begins with a rote expression of support for genocide and then wanders into a bizarrely non-commital humanitarianism. This is from a Labour Party politician—like the man she is responding to, she is Black, but is thoroughly…