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[zerohedge @zerohedge]

"We Should Not Have Done It": Thiel Breaks With Trump Over Iran War, Warns America May Not "Have The Hard Power" https://t.co/P3Qb720LHI

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@PaulTreyvaud Remember when Claire Byrne moved to Newstalk saying she wouldn’t be afraid to discuss trans, all changed I. Her first interview w Brendan Gleeson she did a complete 180!

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

You’re going to see a huge shift in MSM in the next 12 months or so

The left and woke nonsense is over. It’s killed the viewership. If it wasn’t for government funding, they’d all be gone bust by now

They’ll put up a fight for the next 6 months but it’s done.

Their big problem is that they’ll have to bring in a whole new set of hosts because no one will listen to the same ones now all of a sudden changing their tunes

Watch what’s about to happen

It’s over

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@sapphyreblayze

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@EO_Halloran Imagine the ad had been about women having to give consent to men in women’s changing rooms, imagine something been featured that is a real & serious issue

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Why didn’t they make the ad about a women’s football team coming back into the their changing room and finding a man in there ‘identifying’ as a woman?

Now that would have been a good consent ad

But you lefties would have been up in arms over that I guess

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

I'm on a plane to Ireland tonight. Tomorrow a man goes on trial for a tweet.

I'm writing this from the airport. In a few hours I'll be in the air, and tomorrow morning I'll be sitting in the public gallery of Bray District Court, south of Dublin, for the trial of Kirk Loco.

You may remember Kirk. He's an ordinary Irishman. Two years ago someone in that group posted a warning: a migrant man had exposed himself on a public bus, in front of a 14-year-old girl. The bus driver stopped the bus. There were half a dozen witnesses. It was on CCTV.

Kirk did what any of us would do. He reposted the warning so other parents would know.

The migrant wasn't charged. Kirk was.

The Irish police charged him under a so-called "fake news" law, Section 12A of the Criminal Justice Act, 1976. It was passed during the Troubles to fight terrorist propaganda. It had never been used against anyone, in fifty years, until they used it on Kirk. He is the first and only person in Irish history to be prosecuted under it. They picked him because of his politics: he's a critic of mass immigration. They are making an example of him.

Here's what has happened since. Kirk has been dragged into that courtroom in Bray again and again, almost ten times, for a single retweet. Each time he takes a day off, each time his lawyers prepare, each time the Gardaí (that's what the Irish call their police) turn up and the thing gets put off again. I've flown over for one of those hearings myself. In May the judge lifted an outrageous bail condition that had banned Kirk from attending any protest, anywhere in Ireland. That was a real win. But the same judge refused to order the police to hand over the bus CCTV or the names of the witnesses. The people who saw what happened on that bus could clear him in five minutes, and the state won't tell his lawyers who they are.

Kirk said it best himself: "I just can't believe that I'm eight court appearances in for a retweet." That was in May. There have been more since.

The process is the punishment. Even if Kirk wins tomorrow, he's already been punished for two years: the stress, the lost days, the cloud over his name, the ban on protesting. That's the point. It's not really about convicting Kirk. It's about making sure every other Irish person who sees something on a bus thinks twice before saying a word.

Tomorrow is finally the trial itself. A full day. Kirk's barrister, Laoise de Brún, and his solicitor, Padraig Langsch, will fight it in open court. They are principled lawyers who refused to do what Irish legal aid lawyers do, which is tell you to plead guilty, pay the fine and go home. Kirk won't plead guilty to telling the truth.

And then I'm staying on. Because four days later, on Tuesday, the same two lawyers are back in court in Wexford, for Hugh Fagan. Hugh is the man I wrote to you about this week: he sits quietly on a bench in his town square with homemade signs, wearing headphones, and for that he's charged with a public order offence. Same country, same pattern, same week. One man for a tweet, one man for cardboard.

I'm going alone this time, no videographer, economy flight, cheap hotel, to keep the costs down. I'll live-tweet from inside both courtrooms (I'll be the only journalist there; RTÉ never shows up) and I'll film my own reports outside on the courthouse steps and send them to you the same day.

Ireland's "fake news" law had never been used on anyone until Kirk Loco. If they get a conviction, it becomes the template. That's why this one trial matters far beyond one man.

Kirk's trial is Friday, October 23 in Bray. Hugh Fagan's is Tuesday, October 27 in Wexford. One trip, two trials.

REPORT by @ezralevant:

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@DavQuinn The default position of humanity is poverty, only thanks to freedom do we have prosperity

[karldeeter ⭐ @karldeeter]

The NGO industrial complex needs a severe overhaul in transparency - all of their bank account's should be made public.

[Dr. Ribena Berry: You’re All Afrophobic @OldNormality]

In Ireland, the sick and twisted cockroach regime really want us to believe that strange, random autogynophilic men aren’t a threat to children, while their grandparents are.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

The granny consent ad is the ideal vehicle for @aontu and @independent_ire to drive for radical funding cuts to hyper-partisan, social justice theory-driven NGOs.

The CUAN/DRCC advert is not a once off. It is symptomatic of radical institutional capture in NGOs and certain sections of public employment.

Ireland is now an international laughing stock because of the granny consent adverts but the underlying theory that is behind this advert is being taught in schools and universities at the behest of the state and is seeping into all media via the state's funding of Coimisiún na Meán whose Mission Statement and funding provisions are grounded in social justice theory.

Charlie Flanagan told the public in 2024 that these same radical NGOs have more influence on government policy than he did as a government backbencher. It's time too root it all out.

Normal people do not want radical social justice theory rammed down their throats. The only reason it is happening is because the state keeps using taxpayer funds to do it.

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@cox2_edel @OCallaghanJim

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@RealEddieHobbs The socialists never come proclaiming destruction but equality but destruction & tyranny is what they bring, this witch would have us all put against the wall…

[Seán Ó Morchoe @JohnMurphy51]

Better to have cross-dressing perverts reading stories to children in bookshops and libraries than their grandparents giving them a hug when they visit.

That's where we're at now.

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

🚩LOOK WHO IT IS!...Is anyone surprised that the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has run an advert attacking grandparent hugs, when Eoghan Cleary sits on its board?

Cleary travels the country preaching online child safety, yet has co-authored several schoolbooks that raise serious concerns about highly sexualised content and ideological influence. Having children talk about masturbation, gender ideology and forced painful violent sex. Really Eoghan?

Perhaps it’s time we scrutinised those who claim to protect our children just as closely as everyone else.

[David Thunder @davidjthunder]

If the aim was to get publicity, this ad has certainly done the rounds. It has apparently been taken down after a backlash against it. There is a moral and philosophical confusion embedded within the narrative: it assumes there is some sort of wrong or violation involved in a grandma or grandpa giving their grand-daughter a kiss on the cheek without getting their prior consent. It is turning spontaneous and quite natural public affection within a family into a matter upon which lawyers should pronounce, or contracts be signed. It takes a truth that is obvious - that certain boundaries must be respected at all times, and trust must not be abused - and twists it into the idea that a hug or kiss from grandma without prior consent is some sort of immoral imposition.

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@SophieMcDLaw Good work pretending you don’t understand the issue to stay on side w the NGO parasites

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@eoinmauricedaly Just looked up this guy’s bio, not surprised he’s in academia, things so stupid only any academic can believe them - communism

[Smith @Smithmfmoae]

@eoinmauricedaly Oh I don’t know maybe it doesn’t work in practice, 20th century history, it’s legacy of destruction and poverty, academia is truly in deep trouble

[SK @KnigSunny]

Notice all the palestine flag, trans flag waving nutjobs defending the 'white grandparents bad' ad