And in another tweet the RNC blames the Irish for the Great Hunger, praises British landlords for taking their land as well as lecture them about it being the fault of the "takers not the makersâ.
They also give a shout out to the Unionist and notorious anti Catholic bigot Reverend Ian Paisley who received an award from Bob Jones University and was a frequent guest of Senator Jesse Helms.
This is College Republicans-grade thinking right here . . . and, more to the point, a game that can be played with Trump in ways that would be, you know, embarrassing as all get-out.
But, you know, GOP: You do you.
But did he rape anyone with a friend named Squi? Moralizing doesnât fit easily with the Party with no morals.
Serious question: Do people of Scotch-Irish background consider themselves Irish at all, or is it more Scottish? Itâs a huge ethnic group, very influential on the culture of the U.S., and highly represented in the West and South. Just one more reason for them to have thought about this a bit more.
Iâm quite honestly surprised they didnât delete the tweet after a couple of hours and blame it on an âinternâ. Instead they doubled down and followed up with another tweet basically talking about what a horrible person he is.
The GOP has decided to emphasize how much Beto scares them.
They should be⌠The guy who could deliver the services of a couple generations of black-hat hackers? Hoo-boy, this election cycle could be a real doozie.
A really cheap shot, but then it is certainly not beneath the GOP and their embarassing so-called âpresident.â
On St. Paddyâs Day, I presume a green one?
Yesâwhich strikes me as strange. (Full disclosure: I like OâRourke, but I wish he werenât running for President.)
Iâm just going to list some bulletpoints (some admittedly trivial, some less so) that the GOP might find scary about him:
Young and dynamic; skateboards; once fronted a punk band. (Trumpâs entire manner radiates âGet off my lawn!â)
Centrist/Center-left. (In other words, not too threatening to Trump voters who might be regretting their vote for him in '16.)
Speaks Spanish and has an intimate understanding of border culture, but isnât Latino. (So they canât dog-whistle the usual xenophobic stuff.)
Better choice in fast food. (Beto is a Whatburger guy all the way. 'Nuff said.)
Male. (They canât tsk-tsk (as much) about how he dresses or wears his hair, or wonder if, as a woman, he will be ruled by his emotions.)
Any others?
Keep in mind, race and ethnicity are social constructs, but Itâs a bit more complicated than that genetically.
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that:
There was no single âCelticâ genetic group. In fact the Celtic parts of the UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Cornwall) are among the most different from each other genetically. For example, the Cornish are much more similar genetically to other English groups than they are to the Welsh or the Scots.
There are separate genetic groups in Cornwall and Devon, with a division almost exactly along the modern county boundary.
The majority of eastern, central and southern England is made up of a single, relatively homogeneous, genetic group with a significant DNA contribution from Anglo-Saxon migrations (10-40% of total ancestry). This settles a historical controversy in showing that the Anglo-Saxons intermarried with, rather than replaced, the existing populations.
The population in Orkney emerged as the most genetically distinct, with 25% of DNA coming from Norwegian ancestors. This shows clearly that the Norse Viking invasion (9th century) did not simply replace the indigenous Orkney population.
The Welsh appear more similar to the earliest settlers of Britain after the last ice age than do other people in the UK.
There is no obvious genetic signature of the Danish Vikings, who controlled large parts of England (âThe Danelawâ) from the 9th century.
There is genetic evidence of the effect of the Landsker line â the boundary between English-speaking people in south-west Pembrokeshire (sometimes known as âLittle England beyond Walesâ) and the Welsh speakers in the rest of Wales, which persisted for almost a millennium.
The analyses suggest there was a substantial migration across the channel after the original post-ice-age settlers, but before Roman times. DNA from these migrants spread across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, but had little impact in Wales.
Many of the genetic clusters show similar locations to the tribal groupings and kingdoms around end of the 6th century, after the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons, suggesting these tribes and kingdoms may have maintained a regional identity for many centuries.
But on a broad level the white population of the British Isles including Ireland are all one genetically.
Me? Iâm a happy pagan.
ETA From the NYT article:
âThe Celtic cultural myth âis very entrenched and has a lot to do with the Scottish, Welsh and Irish identity; their main identifying feature is that they are not English,â said Dr. Sykes, an Englishman who has traced his Y chromosome and surname to an ancestor who lived in the village of Flockton in Yorkshire in 1286.
Dr. Oppenheimer said genes âhave no bearing on cultural history.â There is no significant genetic difference between the people of Northern Ireland, yet they have been fighting with each other for 400 years, he said.
As for his thesis that the British and Irish are genetically much alike, âIt would be wonderful if it improved relations, but I somehow think it wonât.ââ
The Party of âyouthful indiscretionsâ is now against youthful indiscretions. Who could have predicted?
It is worthy of note here that the charges for which Beto was arrested, Trespass and DUI when he was in his mid-twenties, were both dismissed.
When considering this, one should also consider charges, both civil and criminal that have been brought against Trump and his organizations, as cataloged by Huffington Post, which can be found here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-bartick/trumps-criminal-history-s_b_11983400.html
But then, of course while there were some settlements regarding some of these, Trump was never convicted and has never acknowledged any guilt.
Barf and Squi drove to the beach for their summer parties. Iâm certainly glad to hear that they always made sure to have a designated driver on handâŚ
Racist insults! The repug conservatives idea of a hilarious joke.
Beto should simply endorse the message. And suggest Kavanaughâs picture be used as well.
On this particular day in the USA, you can be from any background at all and think youâre part-Irish. Itâs in the rules.
As a more serious answer, the people I know from Scots-Irish background where the family has been in the USA for generations are pretty flexible about it. Youâre Scottish when you go to a Burns Night supper, and Irish on St. Patrickâs Day.
Trump doesnât drink (he just uses Adderall and cocaine), so why not attack an Irishman?
Is âmulliganâ an irish word? Cause these Gopâers seem ever-ready to give them out to certain folks.