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I was trawling through the Podesta e-mail dump on WikiLeaks looking for something else. Then, out of the blue, I stumbled on an e-mail chain between Bill De Blasio, John Podesta and the Hill columnist Brent Budowsky from 2016. It reminded me, once again, how many similarities the Deplorables and Bernie Bros share in common….
As a week goes , the one just past, has been a very good one for President Trump. It started badly for the President though, with a slew of polling pointing and painting a darkening picture, in his Presidential match up with Joe Biden. However as the clock ticked into July the fortunes of the…
Someday, hopefully, the victims of the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile pyramid will find some peace on this earth. Unfortunately, before then, and before we promise cheques to them that our bodies can’t guarantee – we must find all the perpetrators. Wherever they might creep. And regardless of whose toes we may need to step on. The…
Tucker Carlson made a very powerful point, a couple of nights ago, that got me to thinking. The observation was that many Republican politicians are not doing enough to convince America to vote for Donald Trump or indeed to Vote for themselves, the Republican candidates. They are not working hard enough. The reason that 4.3…
An unexpected democratic explosion occurred in Colorado last night, that may be the harbinger of things to come. Low on the Richter scale perhaps, but The New York Times was sufficiently worried to cover it in detail this morning. While the Colorado 3rd congressional district has swung decidedly to the right for the past 10…
In 2019 the second most populous country in the world went to the polling booths. 911 million Indians were eligible to vote. Despite, mass poverty and deprivation, in large parts of that country, 67% of that number managed to discharge their right to vote. 7 rounds of voting. 5 weeks to complete and count the…
I am delighted to publish the first in our series of Interviews with ‘Deplorables’ from around the United States. No single group are more overwhelmingly misrepresented in modern mainstream media. For one, how diverse the range of people that are in the movement, is never quite accurately captured. Hopefully this series of pieces will help…
Vox Deporables – Number 1 Buckle up. It’s time to have a big boy and girl talk now. There’s a lot going on in the world, numerous distractions, some legitimate more illegitimate. You are smart enough to discern the wood from the trees with regard to all that good stuff. Out there in the big…
Pew research has some interesting polling out today from findings made early in the pandemic. It centres on the medias relationship with the general public. Pew Research Center found that 59% of American’s feel that the media do not understand them. No surprise there I hear you say. What might be surprising is that African…
The world has a trust problem at the moment. Institutions and even private companies and individuals that we generally had public goodwill towards no longer seem trustworthy. You may have wandered into this article and quite rightly the first question any sensible person would ask is: Can I trust what this guy is saying? I’m…
Finally, the long arm of the law has caught up to Ghislaine Maxwell today. To be frank, I didn’t think it would when I wrote my original piece on her two weeks ago. Let’s hope authorities do a more robust job of keeping her alive than they did with her boyfriend. Maxwell was arrested in…
I wanted to write a short introductory note now that I have left the toxicity of Twitter and replaced it with the social media platform Parler. It’s been quite a few day’s hasn’t it? The whole world now knows the name, George Floyd. The only issue left for the living is whether it’s a murder…
I guess the best place to start this story is in February 1994 when I made the executive decision to quit University College Galway and take a mooch out into the world. At some point I will meander into David McWilliams latest, excellent podcast episode, on the evils of conventional thinking in the midst of…
” When will the lesson be learned? When will the lesson be learned? How many more dictators must be wooed, appeased – good God, given immense privileges – before we learn? You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth ” – Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill – The Darkest Hour…
I spent last night reading the minutes of the National Public Health Emergency Team’s meetings, published to date, on the GOV.IE website. There is a certain morbid fascination in reading documents from late January and early February knowing how it all kinda ends – but legalistic language can wear you down – even with subject-matter…