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If Ryan was ambassador to Ireland heâd probably lecture them about the Great Hunger being the fault of, in his words the âtakers not the makersâ
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[Raises hand]
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When I first saw this headline I thought it was The OnionâŚ
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This fookinâ disgrace has about as much in common with âthe Irishâ as John D. Rockefeller or J.P. Morgan. And I say that as someone whose Irish ancestry is 100%.
How does one say âShanda fur di goyimâ in Gaelic?
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Ambassador to Ireland? No. Ambassador to North Korea? OK with meâŚ
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I saw footage last night showing ICE / Border Patrol officers emptying water caches left in the desert. It made me physically ill â I lived in the Chihuahuan desert for 27 years. Even this time of year itâs not a place Iâd care to be without water.
If I were in charge, Iâd find out who made the decision to empty the caches when they are found and Iâd put them and every subordinate out in the desert in high summer for 12 hours without water.
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More Irish folks in the US? Iâm all for it if I get to listen to them talk.
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Wasnât so long ago that the Irish werenât considered the right people.
So Latinos hang in there as this too will pass.
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How about that agent being dropped off at the Guatemalan border with only the clothes on his back and then told to fucking walk home and it better be under 12 weeks. Guatemala to Tijuana in 84 days? Only about 21 miles a day, thatâs doable. Then when he reaches the border he hasta wait until they get around to stamping his passport and they hasta show up at a legal crossing point. Too bad if the port of entry is closed. Oh and the time frame is not adjustableâŚ12 weeks. Or his family loses every last fucking dime and their kids get thrown in jail when he starts this journey. And the kids are put in a 4 by 4 cage with a mylar âblanketâ and a used bag of chips like this kid who seems to be enjoying his stay courtesy of the United States GovernmentâŚleader of the free world and who offers the âAmerican dreamââŚ
Canât ya tell that kidâs just brimming with joy?
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My dog whom I love lives a far better life. This is just FUCKING WRONG!!!
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Donât kid yourself with the Brexit vote Ireland and Northern Ireland just might end up with one.
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THe famine was the end result of the English land owners wanting to depopulate the countryside. During the famine Ireland exported food.
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Sadly hilarious, since if Ryan knew anyone actually living in Ireland, a progressive society when compared to the US, theyâd rightly look at his politics and tell him to feck off.
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My grandmother came to the US from Ireland in 1881 and my grandfather in 1890. I have his citizenship document dated July 25th 1900. Hibernians have a proud history building America and fighting in itâs wars. The Irish keep coming and since they speak the language and have so many work opportunities from their their countrymen,they fit easily into our cities especially on the East coast. What Ryan probably doesnât know is that many Irish come back and forth without any paperwork but a temporary visa. 5 hours on a plane itâs around the corner.
Donât let Paul Ryan stop anyone from making a visit. Itâs a fascinating country.
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These days, with Ireland doing so well, adding thousands of new work visas for Irish nationals is a relatively minor thing. Well-educated young people coming from a prosperous western country is no threat to the USA.
Insofar as Ryan is Irish, he is a disgrace. But Ryan is American, not Irish. He is a poseur and, as Krugman says, a flimflam man, with his green tie and sad pint of Guinness.
But the real traffic might well go the other way: Soon, American women could be flying to Ireland to have abortions.
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The are not his people, however much he wants to claim otherwise.
Find a bunch of lying assholes: those are his people.
Even? Especially if you are religious at all, very much including Catholic, dishonesty and deviousness should be expected.
I disagree. American craft beer is superb. 20 years ago the situation was different. Forget about the common watery stuff â doesnât even count.
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80s and 90s, same thing. Irish illegals all over the place. Some landlords used to like them particularly because they wouldnât complain about code violations like no water.
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Ryan would probably not approve of my grandmother coming to this country. Her Irish parents moved to PEI, and she was born there. I have no idea if she lived the rest of her life undocumented in this country. Mom once said something that made me think she was in the country illegally. What a racist, anti-Semite she was, my grandmother. So maybe Ryan would be okay with her.
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fun fact, LBJ once courted Gregory Peck as ambassador to Ireland. Peck even said he might have seriously taken it. As if Peck wasnât awesome enough.
Also, as someone of Irish descent whoâs actually had Guinness there is no fucking way Ryan could last past the first sip. Itâs too rich for his system. Itâs like if someone liquefied bread itâs so dense
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A story in my family concerns a local famine in Ireland. We were forced to watch the English drive our beef and dairy cattle down a road to a waiting ship bound for England. We were left with cabbage, some carrots, grass, and tree bark. That was the impetus for my relative starting a riot in Dublin in 1816 in front of the Post Office building and that was the reason he left for America. Seeing as he was a wanted fugitive.
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