Posted on 03/16/2024 5:51:01 PM PDT by Twotone
Late on Friday Steyn's lawyers filed three new motions in the District of Columbia Superior Court. You can read them in full here...
~There is not a lot of good news around as western civilisation floors it off the cliff. The last such in the anglosphere came last autumn, with the Australian people's coast-to-coast rejection of the proposed "Indigenous Voice to Parliament". In the face of suffocating universal support for the yes side from the political, legal, cultural and media establishments, Oz voted it down 60-40.
Well, this weekend the Irish just upped the Aussies, and rejected overwhelmingly two constitutional amendments designed to advance the country's progress upon what the Taoiseach calls "the pathway of liberalism". As in Australia, everybody who matters was in favour of both proposals: all the governing parties - Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Greens; all the more or less viable opposition parties - Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats; all the media except our friends at Gript; and all the taxpayer-funded NGOs bar two. Every opinion poll this last month indicated that both amendments would pass - Ipsos for my old paper The Irish Times back in February: Yes 60 per cent; no 12 per cent.
Instead, the margin of rejection was even bigger than Down Under. The first amendment was defeated 68-32, and the second 74-26. The latter is the biggest ever failure of an Irish constitutional referendum, and the former the third-biggest. The first amendment lost everywhere except for a narrow win of 50.3 per cent (or 255 votes) in Dún Laoghaire - Gateway to Wales, as my childhood self still thinks of it, just south-east of Dublin city centre. On the second amendment, rejection was total: even the decadent burghers of Dún Laoghaire wouldn't go for it.
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I read through the article and couldn’t figure out what the two referendums were about. Though I do get the point - the media and political intelligentsia are in bed together, and completely out of touch with the people. Even worse, the polling was so far off you can’t even trust those. They were probably fake polls or push polls, if not wildly improperly sampled then simply engineered or made up out of whole cloth to try to convince people to vote yes because that was the cool thing to do.
But on what, I don’t know. They voted no on something.
But at least we can see that the voting system is still somewhat accurate. Unless the whole thing was a giant head fake for some reason. That’s sad that one even can imagine that the media and politicians rigged the whole debate and outcome just to advance a totally different agenda. It’s how little faith I have in the processes I used to trust. I used to believe the government had the nation’s best interests at heart and that the media was the people’s watchdog against government abuse and that elections were fair and square.
The referendums were to change the verbiage in the Irish constitution to remove “mother” & “family” & make it more progressive. Nice that the Irish had the good sense to reject the changes in basic & traditional terminology.
Ah I see. Silly virtue signal stuff that wouldn’t actually change the way laws are applied or interpreted. Like Canada calling a rape victim a “person with a vagina” because “woman” is too confusing. Even though she is a woman and identifies as a woman.
The Irish need to dump this guy as PM route suite.
And how the hell did a gay Hindi get elected PM of Ireland?!
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By design. It is the sociopathic uniparty/globalists who are tired of dealing with elections.
How did a Turnip with an IQ of a ventriloquist dummy get overwhelmingly elected by 10 million “votes”?
I think it’s a bit more than that. Leftists love to change the definition of everything, which in turn makes many terms meaningless. Family is no longer man/wife/children, but whatever anyone chooses. Your entire commune plus your pet crocodile. Just a way to destroy western civilization.
Dominion?
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