The Politics Thread

Hey, remember what I said about how obviously dodgy the Italian televotes looked?

 

And on the subject of obvious corruption...

Funny how he doesn't mention what the UN Charter says about things like this

 

And now the entire population of Finland is Hamas


But remember, telling a Swedish journalist to "**** off" is grounds for disqualification...

 

WTAF is going on here???
This is a ****ing dress rehearsal...and they are fixing the result....

 

And just when you though it couldn't get any worse, ABBA are threatening to make an appearance

Apart from being about the worst reading of a room since that one time the RNIB tried a karaoke night, is it really wise to draw attention to Sweden getting such an absurdly disproportionate jury vote that just so happened to make it that they would be hosting the event for the 50th anniversary of ABBA winning and thus ruining literally every party I've been invited to since 1998?

 

Just a reminder: filming people without their permission is illegal under Swedish law

So I'm sure the Swedish police will be investigating soon, what with the Israeli delegation so keen to share the evidence with the world on their socials...

For (yet another) example...

 

Just ban the ****s. They are clearly acting to some sort of plan. Maybe to get rejected so they can play the persecuted victim. But you know - if they want to be that then let them gloat...all the way from Malmo to Tel Aviv

 

...so here's something interesting: I reported KAN's tweets that were just videos of them stalking the Dutch, Greek and Irish contestants expecting the usual Twitter Bot brushoff that I get for 99% of the stuff I report for blatant racism/transphobia/homophobia/misogyny/glorification of an ongoing genocide

Instead I just received an email saying that an investigation is being launched

 

Well done

 

So just to be clear: the Dutch entrant telling a female journalist to **** off is reason for disqualification, but being the poor, sweet, innocent Russian angel literally being included on a list with Russian terrorists is not reason to boot her and her rancid delegation into the Baltic

 

Vote Green

 

I find that quite obscene. While they continue killing.

 

Eurovision has always been political, so it’s just continuing that theme.
But is Israel even in Europe?

 

Here's the thing: they are in the European Broadcast Area, as are countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Palestine

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This is where things get...okay, probably not interesting, but decent for a pub quiz: Morocco have participated in Eurovision (just the once, in 1980), Tunisia were slated to participate in 1977 but pulled out, while Lebanon were set to compete in 2005 but withdrew because the poor, innocent victims who never do anything wrong ever who Lebanon share a border with stamped their feet

 

Not what has been broadcast and certainly the RTE programme failed to even comment on the reaction, but this just reinforces the malign influence that Israel has over the transmissions.

 

That was from one of the rehearsals on Thursday

That being said, it's like the poor, sweet, innocent Russian angel who is somehow a 20 year old newborn continues Israel's constant trolling of everybody around them, almost as if she's spent the last three days rehearsing her "surprised" expression when the result comes in and even Greece and Cyprus gave her 12 points...


On the other hand, this does appear to be footage from tonight

 

Apologies - should have checked that.
Not sure how it came across on BBC, but the transmission in Ireland was very muted. Background of boos, but very low level of applause. So I'm guessing the actual responses was pretty deafeningly negative...