Just a few random points on the past few days. Trump winning for Ireland opens up a number of different scenarios. First on the multinational/economy question. I've talked about this at length in previous posts/livestreams etc. It's a mainstream topic now, which is good and I'm glad people are finally talking about it. First, lets not scaremonger here; its not like its going to cause economic Armageddon or anything like that that immediately. Just that the potential is there for some major damage that could both be very sudden and prolonged over the rest of the decade. But where the mainstream is wrong is how this is set to compound with other issues at hand. Throw in the IDA complaining about how companies are getting pissed off at Irelands infrastructure being bad, and the US getting jumpy about the Digital Services act stuff as well and John O Brennan types not knowing what they are doing other than just shout racist and nazi at people, and its a bit of a perfect storm. It's not just the tax rate, its the crumbling infrastructure and Europe coming into collision with the United States on the DSA as well. So Trump is quite bad in this way for Ireland. You might want accelerationism but that in turn means more economic issues and all the problems associated with it; unemployment, young people leaving etc. Fine Gael's foreign policy in relation to this has been utterly abysmal. It's what happens when the ivory tower of student union politics gets control of the country and you put your fingers in your ears. There's also Ukraine. Depending on how that goes, that could mean more instability in Eastern Europe, with more people coming here, which in turn means far more of the chaos which we have seen over the past few months. Again, this is somewhat up in the air, but I don't thin its good for us either. Having said that, Vance/Musk etc openly speaking out about Ireland and Fine Gael in relation to hate speech laws is a very good thing indeed. And of course, this election has shown, more than any other I've seen, the emergence of alternative media in order to fit the gaps left by terrible mainstream media coverage. That trend is happening in Ireland and will continue to make more and more strides here. So overall, mixed. Positive for America but of course, this is an Irish channel and theres a lot of thing that don't look as good here. Wait and see I suppose. I'm more interested to see how Fine Gael use this in the lead up to November 29th as well. Overall, they'll lean into the "put more money back in your pocket/we're not extreme like the orange man" marketing like they've done before. It will work, but ultimately, whatever happens in the General Election one thing is clear. They are throwing the kitchen sink at it. I'll go into that in another post but ultimately, its going to involve shutting down as much as possible.