2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFrom Irish Times: Aodhan O' Riordain: 'America has just elected a fascist'
A video of Labour senator Aodhán Ó Riordáin reacting to the victory of US president-elect Donald Trump has gone viral after being posted on a number of US based websites and Facebook pages.
In the speech delivered in the Seanad on November 10th, the former equality minister and now senator Mr Ó Riordáin described Mr Trump as a fascist and said he was embarrassed by the Irish Governments reaction to the election result.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/aodh%C3%A1n-%C3%B3-r%C3%ADord%C3%A1in-america-has-just-elected-a-fascist-1.2873621
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)when they see it
rurallib
(62,423 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)I wish we had some more like that over here.
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)in the last General Election, I'm sure it won't be long before he's back there. (The Senate in Ireland is far less powerful than the Dail or Parliament)
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)but if the majority of the people here have anything to say about it, he'll be the most pathetically brief and ineffective loser of a fascist the world has ever seen
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)They are just getting warmed up.
This is Germany 1933.
With the FBI in line what hope is there to investigate anything drumph does.