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Trump at a WH event tonight celebrating Irish heritage: They are brutal enemies, right? So you have to keep them as your friend. Always keep them as your friend. You dont want to fight with the Irish. Its too tough, too bloody."
What the hell is wrong with him?
yup
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)First it's the bikers, now the Irish. Trump, of course, doesn't do the fisticuffs thing, but he sure seems eager to watch other people duke it out.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)Give him a "time out" like you would any bratty kid who is a trouble maker but give him his "time out" in a jail cell.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)I cant get mad at a rabid dog for biting me, but I can get mad at the owner for enabling him to do so.
rump is the dog
deplorables are the owner
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Just...damn.
Maine-i-acs
(1,499 posts)(Yes Wallace was Scottish but this movie had some Irishmen involved as well)
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MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Sorry, but the Irish ☘️ have suffered enough.
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:00 PM - Edit history (1)
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)will correct
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)an island in the Hebrides.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)In what universe are the Irish our enemies?
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Thugs dont like cops.
blugbox
(951 posts)If you make enemies with an Irish person, they are brutal enemies, so keep them as friends.
It took me a while to decipher his usual incoherent language
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Mess with one, you mess with them all.
underpants
(182,829 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Either way...well he's a dumbass
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)They've been hammering on Beto since before he announced.
area51
(11,910 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Link to tweet
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)My ancestors are all saying he can kiss their Irish arses.
☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That would be my dream match-up. The bloody coward would probably wet himself before he even got into the ring.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)to SHUT UP. He just keeps yakking away, mesmerized by the sound of his own voice. He only stops after his foot prevents him from saying more.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Now go fuck yerself.
Fullduplexxx
(7,864 posts)Ligyron
(7,633 posts)They're like actual smart people and the Irish recognize an oppressor and would-be-kingo when they smell one.
bottomofthehill
(8,334 posts)Irish President Michael Higgins. You have to love the guy.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Let alone the Irish.
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)ananda
(28,866 posts)OK, let's get brutal.
Lock him up!!!
Botany
(70,516 posts)The man is not all there.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)and worse. I'm Irish too.
Cha
(297,317 posts)idiot
rurallib
(62,423 posts)am I confused or is he?
He sounds fucked up in the head, really, really fucked up.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)It's the trump way of diplomacy.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)demigoddess
(6,641 posts)Scottish and French Huguenot.
Progressive dog
(6,905 posts)who spouts meaningless nonsense. That is a small part of what is wrong with him.
An easier question would be "What is right with him?".
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)And some....
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)wth?
eta - and can't tell the difference between Irish and Scottish and those with both heritage.
oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)Demonaut
(8,919 posts)cadaverdog
(228 posts)To hell with king Donny and God save the Pope.
If that doesn't do, we'll tear him in two,
and send him to hell with his red, white and blue.
littlemissmartypants
(22,692 posts)To Love is to hurt. End of conversation.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Their home base was Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. There weren't very many of them, but they were pretty violent: they supposedly killed dozens of people during that short period. They had an alliance with the Gambinos for a time.
Like the some of the NYC Mafia families, Westies had influence over unions in the construction trades: Trump would surely know of them for that reason, whether or not he had ever encountered them directly.
If anyone here is a fan of Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series, Matt's friend Mick Ballou was a Westie. (Ballou carried around a bowling bag for a time, which was rumored to contain the head of a rival he had killed.)
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)St. Patrick's Day.
Have there ever been Irish mobs? Italian/Sicilian? German? Lithuanian? Egyptian? Albanian? Russian? Moravian? Beninian? Cote D'Ivoirian? and on and on and on.... Undoubtedly.
Do you smear an entire people on a day and at an event to celebrate their heritage?
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)There are some posts above about where he came upon the 'vicious enemies' shit. I was merely making an observation regarding that.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)As my Italian heritage former boss said, two generations ago they wouldn't even let Kavanaugh into their clubs.
anarch
(6,535 posts)"...am I right, my mick friends?"
what an asshole.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)☘❤️☘❤️☘❤️☘❤️
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)It's a small variation on his core racism. Race, nationality, religion, gender, economic status -- Dumb Donald simply prejudges all people and drops them into the tiny, fetid pigeonholes in his (alleged) brain.