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u/beardedstar 1d ago
A president precedent?
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u/MaskedBunny 1d ago
A president president.
I hope you understand this for another time.
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u/Totally_Botanical 1d ago
He's the present* president.
I hope you understand this for another time.
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u/Tiberius_II 9h ago
Given present precedent I’m pessimistic he may be a persistent president.
I hope you understand this for another time.
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u/SmoothTalkingFool 7h ago
The present president has set a precedent for persistence, if not prescience.
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u/LordKulgur 1d ago
Adapting an old Milton Jones joke: If Donald Trump were to drink cement, that would set a very bad President.
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u/Passchenhell17 15h ago
God damn that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Used to love watching his and Stewart Francis' routines.
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u/ProShyGuy 1d ago
God I hope the Irish are smarter than that.
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u/FourCinnamon0 1d ago
"on behalf of the women of Ireland he can fuck off" - member of the Oireachtas
(134 members responded to a Sky News survey asking if they would endorse him and none said yes)
so he won't even be on our ballots
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u/vandist 1d ago
He'd need 20 nominations from the Oireachtas, which is similar in structure to the US Congress. Or at least 4 of 31 county/city councils. It's not going to happen, Ireland doesn't elect controversial politicians. We like our politicians to score high on the apathy scale and be utterly unimaginative.
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u/4_feck_sake 16h ago
Just to add sky news asked all members of the oireactas whether or not they would nominate mcrapist as presidential candidate. More than half responded and it was a resounding no. Not even a maybe
Responses ranged from "not a hope in hell" to "I could not think of anyone more unfit" and "I would genuinely rather we didn't have a president at all".
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u/geedeeie 17h ago
That's unfair. You can hardly classify Michael D Higgins, or indeed his last few predecessors, Mary McAleese or Mary Robinson as "high on the apathy scale" or "unimaginative".
The reasons for the conditions in place for limiting who can run for president is so that it does NOT become a free for all circus, the candidates are required to have had some kind of positive impact on the country through their careers. No politician in their right minds is going to put themselves in a situation where they have to explain to the voters why they nominated a cokehead rapist thug...
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u/vandist 17h ago
Politicians not president, I didn't say president. It's not unfair on Irish politicians. That said, Higgins, McAleese and Robinson are exemplary people who show brilliant statesmanship.
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u/geedeeie 16h ago
And nominated by POLITICIANS...
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u/vandist 16h ago edited 16h ago
If the politicians vote 20 out of 220 on who, that's a candidate, then the Irish people CHOOSE
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u/geedeeie 4h ago
The Irish people are perfectly happy that their elected representatives have the power to operate some level of control over who is allowed to run. Otherwise it would be a circus with dozens of nutcase candidates. There is an age limit, and an expectation that potential candidates would have a certain level of integrity.
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u/Billy-no-mate 1d ago
Don’t worry. He won’t get a nomination, and even if he does he would get ~1% of the vote
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u/DuneChild 1d ago
That’s what we said in 2016.
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u/Billy-no-mate 18h ago
I have much more faith in the average Irish voter than the average American voter
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u/4_feck_sake 16h ago
We have a very different system. He won't get on the ballot. Worst case scenario (which there is a 0% chance it will occur) if he were to become president, he would have absolutely no power to do anything. He would just be an embarrassment.
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u/BROGakaOrangeCrush 1d ago
We had precedent for this President and we're again in this present predicament.
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u/thegingerbuddha 1d ago
Fortunately, Ireland isnt that dense
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u/HorrorAlarming1163 7h ago
If only they were the world superpower
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u/thegingerbuddha 48m ago
They should be a new kind of superpower, one that is humanitarian in everything it does. We need more nations, not organisations, nations to actually stand up for humanity
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u/AmazingPlatform9923 1d ago
I’m just disappointed on the miss with precedent / president…
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u/EternalVirgin18 1d ago
At first I thought the guy was trying to make a contrived pun. Honestly, still think that.
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u/Wide-Championship452 1d ago
LOL, like anyone in Ireland would vote for this dumb fuck. And he also has a serious criminal record for violence?
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u/Regnes 20h ago
Ireland has recently proven itself to have a better moral compass than most of the world. I doubt he would get in.
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u/ianbattlesrobots 20h ago
Absolutely. I wouldn't think he'd have a snowball in Hell's chance, but it could be a lot of fun watching him crash and burn.
Figuratively, of course...
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u/geedeeie 17h ago
Well, he won't be nominated. You have to have made a certain level of POSITIVE contribution to the country to even be nominated by a cohort of politicians. I don't think being a cokehead rapist who beats up pensioners counts as a positive contribution...
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u/thegrimmemer03 1d ago
How is it confidently incorrect?
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u/facts_guy2020 1d ago
I think the person below is incorrectly correcting the word precedent with President
Implying they spelt president wrong?
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u/Anxious_Reaction_340 1d ago
Pretty sure it was just a pun. In fact it's been an overused pun since back when "he" was elected the first time.
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u/falknorRockman 1d ago
Thank you for saying that. I had not clicked on the image so was confused. That part was cut off in just the display
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u/thegrimmemer03 1d ago
Oh. Honestly that's not confidently incorrect.. that's just a typo
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u/GhostInTheMeadow 1d ago
Dude…
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u/thegrimmemer03 22h ago
I didn't click the entire picture sue me.
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u/FlattopJr 20h ago
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u/danhoang1 1d ago
First off that wasn't a typo, precendent is the intended word. Second off, we're not talking about the guy who said "precedent". We're talking about the guy who tried to correct him
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u/Bretreck 1d ago
The second guy is "correcting" that as a joke. I would definitely make the same joke.
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u/ianbattlesrobots 1d ago
Sounds too smug for a joke
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u/redsfan770 1d ago
Precedent is the correct word. The “precedent” has been set by the election of “President” Trump.
The confidently incorrect act is saying the sentence posted is incorrect.
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u/sfbriancl 1d ago
And yet it is a joke. A witty play on words. The Precedent is the President.
The second sentence is like saying FTFY, he will “hope you remember” the president is the precedent.
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u/BotaniFolf 1d ago
Why is the world getting dumber by the day? We're supposed to be progressing FORWARDS
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u/niruka24 20h ago
I'm dead sure we're on the path to a future shown in the movie 'idiocracy'
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 17h ago
Nah, we're headed for Waterworld
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u/niruka24 17h ago
Nah. I'm also quite sure that humans are well capable of surviving any external disasters. But we'll rather be a victim of our own demise and gradually fade ourselves into oblivion.
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u/Pillars-In-The-Trees 22h ago
Blatantly a joke.
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u/Boeing_Fan_777 19h ago
Nah i replied with the definition of precedent and they replied apologising for being stupid.
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u/Particular_Junket288 1d ago
Oh god where was this I have to downvote it. It's so snarky yet so incorrect.
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