'It's a warning to Ireland...' | Joe Brolly on the White House, UK and Ukraine | OTB AM 

What lunatic conspiracies would you be referring to? Unsuitable ones I suppose

we already have. Fianna Gael reduced everything to money. No money no health care. No money no house. NO money no college and the list goes on.

He is completely wrong .

@@sonnyirish3678 how so ?

He thinks Paddy isn't ran by the same elites. Come on now. Ireland is hook line and sinker a globalist haven.

This is an utterly bizarre statement. The republicans are nothing like the Democrats. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorne Lauren boebert Roger Stone matt Gaetz Rudy Giuliani Donald Trump Paul Gossard Jim Jordan and more. Absolute lunatics varying from qanon to religious bigotry and racism to plutocrats and the simply insane

@@adrianmacgrath5814 ah right yes. What did the blue pill taste like Adrian? 😁

Partially true, and a common apologist position. It's a bipartisan instinct to dismiss criticism of the one as support for the other.

Democrats have gone completely to the extreme left with the POTUS giving in to the extreme leftists in the party. Policy’s adopted by the Democrats has led to probably the worst sitting of a President ever, one disaster after another. They now blame Russia/Ukraine war now but as everyone knows the Democrats policy’s is crippling people, high inflation, Gas and food prices, not to mention the car crash that is the border and the Afghanistan debacle. Crime has risen rampantly in major cities, defund the police has been a disaster. People are struggling to get by but the Democrats couldn’t care less...

What is the actual point in the end? It feels like joining dots and doing it for the sake of history. The Irish nation is essentially lost to history already in the era of globalism and their enthusiastic embrace of such.

He is wrong on so many levels.

@@sonnyirish3678 maybe about Ireland, but he is 100% right about here

They are so Irish that the Government objected to them paying their back taxes!

@@sonnyirish3678 You keep repeating this assertion that Joe Brolly is wrong, but you fail to provide any example when asked to do so. Now be a good lad and either provide the examples to which you refer, or, well you know the rest. Awaiting details of these "so many levels" of examples that you are keeping to yourself.

@@cormchm2853 Well now you can read all about it..Joe you should really learn about the USA,the "elites" are in 4 bubbles in that country.Number 1 LA the home of Hollywood.2 New York,the home of Wall street.3 San Francisco the home of big tech,the most dangerous group in the western world.4 Washing ton ,the swamp. These are coastal elites who have nothing in common with middle America.The working class vote republican thanks to Donald Trump.The democrats hate white Americans and have allowed the country to be swamped by illegal immigrants.The number is now 7 million illegals that have come into US since Biden got in. In the USA the democrats are seen as the party of CRT,BLM,ANTIFA,affirmative action and pure swamp sleaze all back up by Fake news CNN,MSNBC,New york times,Washington post and all the other progressives news organs.These people have run cover for the US kleptocracy class like the Biden's,Clinton's Pelosi and all the other criminals who run wall street.The wall street thieves stole left right and centre and only "one" went to jail.No wonder they voted Trump. Add to that the Bidens crime family shenanigans and maybe you might learn something.The left in America has destroyed its cities.And the left in Ireland is destroying Ireland by importing the third world.And now we have a hate speech bill that is only designed to stop a debate about immigration.Ireland will follow the lead the US sets because we are occupied by them.

These lads are pompous

What is global, telling blatant lies in parliament, and everywhere else without so much as enough time to challenge the lie or lies before there is another one told, and people getting snow-blind to the continuous barrage of lies? You see, I think that what Joe is saying here is that we need to ensure that we do not reach that level of depravity in our region, and that we should not be so complacent as to believe or be convinced that it could never happen here. Surely you can not deny that there is more bullshizzle told to the people in Britain that there is to the people in Ireland, and by the same measure that the rest of the European states in general are less burdened with this problem than Britain currently? I am saying that by any standard, the EU in general, and Ireland in particular ARE much better than Britain in this regard, and you have agreed to this yourself above I believe. So, it appears that your problem is one of cognitive dissonance. Fortuitously for you, that can be addressed by examining your own thought process.

Europe doesn't have the same levels of poverty that Britain now has. Britain is far less equal than practically every country in Europe. There is no reason for it except British elites want it that way. EU poverty is at about 15%, still way too high and unnecessary. In the UK it's about 18%. The major difference is that most of the UKs 18% are in Employment whereas in the EU just over half of those in poverty are employed.

As a natural born American citizen, I think Brolly was under-stated in his assessment.

The American ruling class hates working class Americans.

@@sonnyirish3678 not hate, but contempt, yes.

You are wrong about this bc of the fact that the US plays down it’s stats through % play. Did u know if your out of work for more than two years you’re not counted as unemployed but not looking for work. Stats from the US govt can be misleading, particularly about money. Many people who work full=time for the richest corporations here qualify for financial assistance. Walmart, healthcare, any service industry, etc.

@@MrOliverwoods My friend ,whats the difference.

Might be better to start the critical thinking practice as early as possible, which is what Mr. Brolly is getting at. Also, I personally would not take any lessons on critical thinking from Mr. Peterson, at least not between his drug addiction and his mental breakdowns, but hey, maybe that is just me.

Dublin will still be easily reaching semi finals every year

@@anthonym3351 But if they come up against Kerry, Mayo or the winners of Ulster in the Semis then Dublin have NO chance of winning

@@rayfootblogs maybe not this year, dubs dominance is over but that can easily win all irelands in nxt few yrs mainly due to lack of competition. Dublin have reached every semi for 12 years, and I think kerry and mayo have been in 10 and 11 semis in past 12 years. So these 3 teams will be in semis again over nxt few yrs, if dublin fail this year they may have Jim Gavin back or someone else to improve them. Look at kerry, the last 13 yrs one of the worst by there standards yet there always contenders, I think how kerry have been in recent years will be new normal for dublin

@@anthonym3351 But all great sporting empires eventually crumble at some stage, what makes Dublin any different? Even Dessie Farrell admitted the Dubs are in transition following their relegation from Division 1 this year. All of their top players like Fitzimons, McCarthy, Fenton, Kilkenny, Rock etc are all a year older meaning they either stagnate or go downhill. In recent years, Dublin lost too many players and Cluxton is a body blow. Dessie Farrell hasn't the same level of discipline on the Dubs as Jim Gavin did. The fact the Ulster teams have significantly improved like Armagh and Tyrone recently and Mayo are getting Killian O'Connor back from injury meaning there are a few teams that have currently passed Dublin by in terms of All Ireland contention. Even if the Dubs do retain the Leinster Championship, it's a weak province and they'll get no further.

@@rayfootblogs Yes I agree with almost everything you said. However I still wouldn't write dublin off winning more all irelands in the next few years, certainly not at the rate they were winning, but they will easily be reaching semi finals every year. As a dublin fan I enjoyed the good times but am hoping Sam Maguire gets shared around a bit, people were bored of Dublin and we were almost apologetic winning all irelands.

You ought to know 😹

@Mr Mac, pray tell us, what hard questions would that be now?

I'm alright Jack, is it?

@@cormchm2853 who

@@sesh1255 Leave the big dog to eat the wee dog is it?

Big time,hasn't a clue politically also.

@@paul85439, you said Brolly "...hasn't a clue politically also." you say? This coming from the person who has as their Icon, a quote erroneously attributed to George Orwell (as can be seen on Paul's user-icon itself), which is not actually a quote from George Orwell, but is actually a quote from Selwyn Duke, the contemporary American writer. That is, It reads: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” All this from @Paul, who presumably does have a clue politically. LOL. ejit. How embarrassing it must be for you.

@@cormchm2853 A fanboy for Brolly,now that is embarrassing for a grown man.

@@paul85439 What a witty and very original retort, from such a political genius like yourself LOL.

Aye that's right John, because it is not as if anything that England does, directly impacts the lives, livelihoods, life or limb of anyone from Ireland now does it /s Have a wee think to yourself there John, like a good lad.