Dark leprechaun Conor McGregor: MAGA’s latest manfluencer

During the ritual humiliation of Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin Pre-St. Visit Patrick’s White House – which I wrote about here Last week – Donald Trump He was asked to name the Irish favorite. The president looked shortly for a while, and intelligence flowed for the next day or so on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. (Is Sean Hanity considered the “Irish”? Is Shakil O’Neil?

Martin assembled and laughed, but he said nothing, which is the primary principle of his entire performance. As he and Trump alike were familiar with, the former MMA champion McGregor was recently I found an official in a civil lawsuit in Dublin For sexual assault on one of his acquaintances for a long time in December 2018 – the same charge was found in Trump Jean Carroll case. Although cases are widely similar, the two men’s copies of the events are different: McGregor admits that he had sex with women in a hotel room but he says he was mutual consent; Trump says that the Carroll incident, in the changing changing room, has never occurred at all.

In the past, the moment of “Connor” at the Oval Office on March 12 appears to be a somewhat preparation, such as the twisted and Simeri work in Chicainry Maga-World. Five days after Martin’s visit, on St. Patrick himself, McGregor himself appeared in the White House-which is very similar to the evil leprosy in his excessive excessive suit-the series of photographs with Trump and Trump Elon Musk And “meetings” are supposed with the Minister of Defense Higseth House And other employees. Three days after that, McGregor announced his intention To run in the presidential elections in Ireland this fall, something that was threatening it for several months.

This is a strange and terrible idea from each side, and it will certainly not succeed – we will reach that. (Looking at the modern history, the factional predictions are not wise.) The appearance of McGregor was framing in Washington to look like Irish era Clear, nothing was like that.

It is clear that McGregor’s visit was scheduled weeks ago, a long time before Martin received an invitation to the traditional meeting of St. Patrick between Irish Taoiseach (literally, “the leader”) and the American president, who aims to celebrate the intimate historical relationship between the two countries. In other words, Trump knew that he would see “Connor” within a few days, and his administration has already chosen strong celebrities for Maga without any official status and a generally distorted public image as a favorite avatar in Irish, on the leader of the Republic of Ireland.

Given the Trump regime’s comprehensive assault on freedom of expression, higher education, legal profession and courts, the McGregor case was not even the largest story in Washington the day when it happened, not to mention last week. Not a little surprising that McGregor – like Andrew TateAnother rapist accused, “Manfluencer” and cartoon of poisonous masculinity – appeals to Trump, and there is no doubt about many of his followers. But the fact that Trump, musk, or any person close to them disturbed the organization of this event is to clarify the vision of Maga to dominate the full spectrum at work.

First of all, this was a transparent attempt by Trump’s reputation of a global star fading (who is still a very well -known character for millions of fans of MMA) by linking him to the right “issues”. It is not clear what McGregor and Hogseth discussed at their alleged meeting-perhaps impressive tattoo, which appears to be shining Donald Trump slightly-but the Pentagon later issued an empty press statement, “the United States, Ireland alike suffers from the effects of illegal immigration.” (I could not tell you about the relationship of the defense minister and the semi -retired fighter to this, even by default. But nothing is logical anymore.)

This indicates us towards the second goal of the Trump-McGregor Tryst, which was undermining the elected government of a small nation that depends almost completely on American trade and is considered clearly not subject to sufficiently subject and wake up excessively. It was absurd to claim the latter from Ireland even 15 to 20 years ago, but this is now true: In the wake of the sexual assault surrounding the Roman Catholic Church, Ireland has clarified divorce and abortion and a full set of LGBTQ+rights. Of course, there is racism, hate women, and homosexuals, but the expression of these opinions is generally seen as socially unacceptable; In spacious strokes, Ireland has become one of the most open and tolerant societies in Europe.

Over the past few years, Connor McGregor has tried to put himself as a spokesman for “sound instinct” (i.e. reactionary) against these dramatic changes, especially as a spokesman for the anti -immigration feelings, and the largest source of social friction everywhere in the Western world. Ireland is almost unique among European countries in the absence of a political movement from the extreme and anti -migrants of any result, due to the fact that Irish nationalism is historically linked to anti -colonial and anti -imperialist positions, and is often with socialism. McGregor would like to be the man who creates and leads such a movement; The Trump Musk team seems to be eager to help.

However, the McGregor presidential campaign is likely to end before it begins, not because it is ignorance, a liar and hatred for women-we now understand that these are not obstacles-but for baked structural reasons. It may be a media play aimed at the American market more than anything else. First of all, the Irish presidency is a largely and non -partisan position with a little or non -political power; She disturbed the retirement of prominent figures, such as being the Queen of Denmark more than the President of France. The current and widely beloved president, Michael Higgens, was more popular than being a politician.

Second, Irish citizens cannot decide to run for the presidency and then pour millions of dark funds in a frightening attack advertisements for converted people (for example). It simply does not work in this way. The presidential elections are really closed store; The candidates must be nominated by at least 20 members of Oilachtas, the National Legislative Authority, or by four of the elected local councils in Ireland. It is almost impossible to imagine the quantity of Trambens’ trimbensy talcine, as well as a catastrophic loss of Irish national confidence, which could cause this to Macgrigor.

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Social world Claire Morarti I noticed an important topic in the White House notes in McGregor, which indicated that his real fans were not the people of Ireland – who is very close to an unwanted person these days – but their distant cousins ​​on this aspect of the blessing. McGregor has a standard cage on how Ireland immersed with immigrants to the point that it no longer felt “Irish” (categorically false statement, by the way), but added a special development on St. Badi’s Day in the capital:

There are rural cities in Ireland that were crossed in one blow, which has become a minority in one blow, so issues must be addressed and Irish American 40 million need to hear this because if there is no place to return home and visit.

As Moriarty Acronly notes, the argument here amounts to “to stop migrate so that the descendants of migrants can get a suitable holiday destination for nostalgia for the visit.” But to some extent, this is exactly the point: Conor McGregor only pretends to run for the presidency of Ireland, a job that cannot be for it, and it cannot definitely perform. He really runs to be the symbolic president of Irish America, or at least from millions of conservative Irish Americans who do not deepen with contemporary Ireland and contemporary America, and who dream of making past that has never existed. This syndrome, barely needs to be added, is more general, and is at risk of limiting the rest of our civilization to self -body and self -destruction.