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Episode One is available on Youtube: John's Resignation, Fianna Fáil's troubles, the fuel protests, and Tommy Fleming leaves the closet: youtube.com/watch?v=b1WoBtY2…

Episode One, coming tomorrow:

Link: butthistime.com/p/mind-the-g…

Fuel Protest Spokesman Christopher Duffy speaks about Helen McEntee, his local TD, who he knows since she was a child.. Well worth a listen 💥👇👇

The fuel protests have significantly weakened Sinn Fein. They will try to frame it as SF leading a takeover of government. In fact it is Aontu/Independent Ireland etc leading a takeover of the opposition.

IRELAND PROTEST ANALYSIS Is this the beginning of the end for the hundred years of FFFG hegemony? The disconnect between the nation and the state has never been greater. The protests and their handling reflected many things for me; 1. Our model of taxing and taxing and taxing working people into oblivion is not sustainable and never was. 2. Coupled with all the craven virtue-signalling, cronyism, and waste of public money, this is unforgivable. 3. Our politicians simply take their orders from Europe hence throwing money at Ukraine without receipts and in contravention of our neutrality, climate policy, immigration policy and trans, none of which we got to vote on, or want. 4. Ireland is a country of insiders and outsiders and those on the inside offer a veneer of democratic process hence the government’s unwillingness to speak to protestors and preference for representative bodies who do their bidding. 5. This is not a political observation but a cultural one. The protesters modelled more masculinity, the good sort, the kind we need more than ever, than I’ve seen in the past ten years in the public sphere. Despite the smears and switch and bait, they remained calm, centred and authentic in the media, they escorted people going to hospital, kept the bus lanes open for emergency vehicles and generally showed a level of respect, restraint, leadership and organisation that was unprecedented for a grassroots, organic movement. Unsurprisingly this was very attractive to young women who joked on social media about going to support the protest, asking what they should wear and that not even the army could keep away a generation of women “battle-scarred by the Apps.” Society needs to differentiate between toxic masculinity and good masculinity and we need more of the latter. Men need to take note and take heart.

FF and FG have largely infantilised their cumann structure, and reduced them to raffle ticket sellers. The parties are run by taxpayer-funded advisers beholden to NGOs, zero connection to grassroots. That’s why they’re tone deaf to wider unease, and see the far-right everywhere.

Sinn Féin takes a stand (after seeing an opinion poll).

This is a must read from @davidmcw “Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe?” The figures in this article are mind blowing . No accountability in the Senior echelons of Public Service. No wonder people are angry. #fuelprotests

'F***ed off and f***ed over': Fianna Fáil backbenchers furious over handling of fuel protests jrnl.ie/7009143

This is a super explanation of what is currently happening.

We are now entering the smear campaign part of the Irish govt approach to the fuel protests. Aided and abetted of course by the MSM. Neither the Irish govt nor MSM get to define what a protest is. Interesting that activities interfering with lawful arrests by ICE agents were ‘protests’ but Irish fuel protesters are a ‘blockade.’ When BLM burn down local neighbourhoods, they are mostly “peaceful protests.” If foreign celebrities talk politics while accepting their ridiculous awards, they speak truth to power. But ‘far right’ agitators who dare to comment on the fuel protests are a ‘malign influence.’

A bit of humility & a lot less arrogance from our government would be welcome. Calling out the army, blaming the far right and foreign actors while ignoring the genuine grievances of those protesting is appalling. It’s time to listen to the concerns of workers & small businesses

Please share this Poll to show the government how out of touch they are with the working citizens of this country. #ToneDeaf Do you support the peaceful fuel protest happening throughout Ireland? #FuelProtest #PeoplesPoll

Hard to disagree with any of that

The disconnect between the State and the Nation has never been greater. Deploying the Defence Forces is unprecedented. Rebranding political protest as blockade will not work. Attempts to emotionally blackmail the people about missed hospital appointments will not work. The same government that cancelled cancer appointments during Covid and forced the longest, hardest lockdown needlessly onto the people to satisfy their greed for power. The fuel protest is about greed too. The working people are treated with such contempt and they have had enough. Enough of extortion by the State. Enough of corruption, cronyism, incompetence. Enough of forced immigration against their will. Enough of trans and gender and all the weird and unwanted ideologies. Enough. #IrelandHasHadEnough x.com/OldNormality/status/20…

This is a very good read.

Incredible use of taxpayer’s money….watch this will not be called out by one politician left, right or centre 😡

How hard is it for the bbc to get it? I want biological males out of all sport for biological females because it’s unfair & often unsafe. Women get less than 5% of the cash in sport, then a few years ago they were told, without consultation or permission, they were no longer allowed or worthy of fair sport. Which males still get. That’s a hard NO from me & actually most of us! Find other ways to be inclusive without destroying women & girls sports & opportunities. They belong to females