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[Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - Dartz - 03-20-2024
We're going to be having a general election at some pint before next February. It has to happen because requires by the constitution. And whomever is helming the Titanic that is Fine Gael is going to lose it spectacularly. An implosion that'll make Oceangate seem like a 'pop' in the ocean. It seems to me then that Varadkar has decided it's time to go down with the ship like the Captain of the Costa Concordia.
His legacy includes being Irelands first openly classist Taoiseach. Overseeing the continued successful inflation of housing prices into stratospheric unaffordability. Gutting of frontline military, healthcare and policing services to the point where the State can maybe get one ship to sail. And the creation of a rent-seeking economy that has seen one of the States primary export be well-trained and motivated people who just can't take the sense of being utterly leeched of life anymore.
And, begrudgingly, significant successes in navigating the waters of Brexit and the first few months of Covid.
It seems the final straw was the utter lack of a bloodbath over the Ides of March. Not even You, Brutus?.
There isn't even a fart of a squabble to take over. That seat's fucking glowing radioactive, ready to burn the next poor arse to sit on it to a crisp. Malcador had an easier time on the Golden Throne. The next election will be bloodbath enough. It doesn't matter how great the economy is on paper, everyone's fucking misereable, the gloom-times are getting gloomier and maybe Bertie had the right idea all those years about what we should go do about it. Nobody sane will touch it, lest their career be tainted forever.
I don't give a fuck. I'm voting Social Democrats. They'll never win anything but I can't bring myself to vote for the others.
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - Labster - 03-21-2024
New York Post hot take: Irish PM Leo Varadkar’s career ended because he went woke
Of course it’s wrong, all of the major parties supported the amendment that voters called a big no-no.
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - Labster - 04-14-2024
Isn't the new Taoiseach some 20 year old intern? Er, 37 year old education minister... yeah same difference. Is the job that toxic that they gave it to the new guy?
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - Dartz - 04-14-2024
He's hated by his constituents and is an utter tosspot. He's on fucking TikTok. His sole function is to splatter against the wrath of the electorate at some point next year.
On the other hand, we've managed a stable handover of leadership multiple times within the life of this government - which is something our neighbours have certainly struggled with. It's almost mundane that the occupant of the hotseat changes without fuss or furore.
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - classicdrogn - 04-22-2024
By the by, how is "Taoiseach" supposed to be pronounced? My instinct is that it's like "Trous-itch" without the R, but my brain has a strong impulse toward picking the funniest way to interpret that sot of thing. Like, after seeing them in a USENET post thirtyish years ago, I still have to fight not to hear "ho-meow-ner" instead of "home owner" when it's presented as a single word, or "cow orker" for "co-worker."
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - robkelk - 04-22-2024
(04-22-2024, 08:25 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: By the by, how is "Taoiseach" supposed to be pronounced? My instinct is that it's like "Trous-itch" without the R, but my brain has a strong impulse toward picking the funniest way to interpret that sot of thing. Like, after seeing them in a USENET post thirtyish years ago, I still have to fight not to hear "ho-meow-ner" instead of "home owner" when it's presented as a single word, or "cow orker" for "co-worker."
According to Wictionary, it depends. If you're a posh Brit, it's /ˈtiːʃəx/; if you're a Yankee, it's /ˈtiʃək/. (Which leaves us Canuks with two options...
)Oh, and "taoi‧seach".
(pronunciation key)
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - Dartz - 04-22-2024
Tea-shock is generally the appropiate pronunciation.
Most people just use 'The Irish Prime Minister'
RE: [Ireland]Leo Varadkar Quits - classicdrogn - 04-22-2024
Got it, thanks.