Rob

Social Care Worker | Working in adult Disability Services | Autism Advocate | (he/him) #actuallyautistic #BetterwaysthanABA | AuDHD |Rude people will be blocked

[Rob @GymRobcom]

Because journalists are too busy coming up with hypothetical scenarios and trying to manufacture gotcha moments for Catherine Connolly, I put together a list of some of her work 🧵 #Aras25

[Rob @GymRobcom]

Because journalists are too busy asking Heather Humphreys where she puts her toaster and her party just keep vaguely saying she’s “a candidate for all” I put together a list of some of her work 🧵#Aras25

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The 11 House Democrats who missed the vote that killed Thomas Massie's Hegseth impeachment resolution have all received significant pro-Israel AIPAC money in Congress.

Just seven of them voting against the referral motion would have flipped the 211-204 result.

Haley Stevens (MI): $15.9M
Laura Gillen (NY): $551K
Marilyn Strickland (WA): $371K
Steven Horsford (NV): $214K
Nancy Pelosi (CA): $166K
Julia Brownley (CA): $134K
Brittany Pettersen (CO): $125K
Lou Correa (CA): $80K
Frederica Wilson (FL): $39K
Melanie Stansbury (NM): $28K
Jonathan Jackson (IL): $21K

Haley Stevens is the highest AIPAC recipient in Congress.

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@AngloIrsh_Rebel I don’t know how you got there 😂 but if you’ve such a narrow understanding of social and economic policy theres zero point in talking, it’s not my job to educate you

Majority of countries operate within capitalist systems, and neoliberalism is an approach within that

[Rob @GymRobcom]

1. Reliance on FDI and multinationals and away from public sector

2. Maintaining low corporation tax

3. Austerity and cutting public spending

4. Cutting salaries of new entrants to public sector, changed pay increments

5. Brought in Irish water and tried to tax water

[Coimisiún na Mad @Phucking_Based]

@higginsdavidw Please name one right wing policy Fine Gael has implemented in the past decade.

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@colmtaylor @SimonHarrisTD @rtenews @Independent_ie @sinnfeinireland @labour Is this a satire account?

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@AngloIrsh_Rebel Yes they’re all neoliberal centre right policies

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@dlLambo @Wombat636363 Also they’ve nothing to decrease disability unemployment gap, and because of awful policy there are several disabled people who don’t qualify for DA but are also unfit to work who end up long term SW.
The answer is to make work accessible not demonise vulnerable people

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@AngloIrsh_Rebel Agency staff has destroyed health and social care sector as well both for staff and people receiving care. Social care is all about building a trusting relationship with someone but with agency you could have a different staff every week.

It also costs significantly more to fund

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@Phucking_Based Corporation tax only increased marginally for some, it’s still 12.5% for most, and it was an EU directive not FG policy

Public funds go to private orgs and agency staff. While frontline staff get little

State owned enterprise exists with capitalism. Taxation isnt socialism

😴

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@CelticSceptic @thejournal_ie I don’t respect you and I’ve no interest in talking to you. You made a statement that FG are “loony lefties” and all you’ve done since is show you don’t understand basic politics or economics. There’s no point in continuing

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@Irishgeezah Help to buy scheme increased house prices, maintained direct provision including using private accommodation for asylum seekers, landlord tax relief and tax credits, increased horse/greyhound race funding, made WRC hearings public which can blacklist employees etc.

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@CelticSceptic @thejournal_ie Umm public services aren’t for profit 🥴 it’s very funny that you think our government are loony lefties but you only understand the right wing economics they use 😂

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@CelticSceptic @thejournal_ie What argument are you trying to make here?

Your original argument is that “FG are lefty loony”, how does your current argument prove that, or are you just unemployed and spend all your time arguing online? 😂

[Rob @GymRobcom]

14. Job bridge - subsiding employers with cheap labour

15. Reliance on agency staff in health and social care

16. Recruitment freezes in public sector

17. HAP - using public money to subsidise private landlords

18. Varadkars anti-fraud welfare cheats strategy

Etc. etc.

[Rob @GymRobcom]

10. Brought REIT’s into Ireland

11. Tried to bring in tiered disability support

12. Continued means tested disability allowance

13. Expanded the institutionalisation of behavioural approaches in disability services, even knowing they don’t align with the UNCRPD

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@CelticSceptic @thejournal_ie Yes so I’m saying the reason all this happens is because of decades of government policy, and you’re describing the symptoms of this same policy.

Invest in FDI, underinvest in public services, import cheap labour - all textbook neoliberal policy

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@CelticSceptic @thejournal_ie Actually we don’t HAVE to import workers, it’s largely because of government policy and private for profit orgs that we import workers that will work for less.

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@AlanKennedy194 @ConorKellyPBP Are you dumb or trying to be dumb?

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@CelticSceptic @thejournal_ie Demonising disabled people, going after people on unemployment, advocating for private for profit and data centres is loony but it ain’t left wing

[Rob @GymRobcom]

@GMbunchanumbers @SimonHarrisTD My profession isn’t accessible if you’re AuDHD unless you can mask. If I ask for accommodations I won’t be hired, if I ask for them after I’m hired I’m let go before I pass probation.

No employment protections, high criteria for DA, and now we’re punished for being on SW

[Rob @GymRobcom]

They’ve made it really difficult for disabled people to qualify for disability allowance, now they’re going to penalise disabled people on social welfare.

FG and especially @SimonHarrisTD hate disabled people.

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Tánaiste Simon Harris has pledged to penalise long-term unemployed people who refuse to engage with services to get them back to work.

The Fine Gael leader told his party's Ard Fheis in Cork, that it was not acceptable for people to be out of work at a time of full employment, adding that "the dole is a safety net, not a way of life".

In his main speech this evening, Mr Harris said: "At a time of full employment, it is simply not acceptable for any person to remain on the Live Register year after year after year."

#FGAF26 #FineGael #SimonHarris #SimonSays

https://t.co/ggPeYg7rJ4