Most Americans hold two caricatures of Ireland in their heads. One is a picture of a Guinness-chugging, ginger-haired, joker. The other is a picture of stone churches and strong families, rooted in tradition and Catholic social teaching.
Those familiar with the annual Eurovision Song Contest will be surprised, therefore, to see Ireland represented by neither of the aforementioned and instead by a screeching they/them in the likeness of a literal demon.
Ireland's representation at Eurovision 2024: Demonic!
pic.twitter.com/ID3SAWVwyB— Tanya Tay Posobiec ☦️ (@realTanyaTay) May 8, 2024
Eurovision, which has been running since the 1950s, is organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which includes America’s ABC, CBS, NBC, CPB, NPR, and APM as associate members. It is a bizarre artifact, supposedly an apolitical song contest, but long a proxy for nations to signal diplomatic and cultural allegiance to one another. Greece and Cyprus frequently cast their votes for each other, for example, and Britain placed 24th out of 26th in 2016, not coincidentally as the country was holding a vote on leaving the European Union.
It has also long been wildly popular in the LGBT community and as a venue for pushing weird transgressions of social norms. But while Austria entering drag queen Conchita Wurst, whose name is a side-splitting pun on the German for “sausage,” was considered avant-garde in 2014, a simple bearded lady is passé just 10 years on.
And so, it has fallen to Ireland to up the ante in 2024 with “Bambie Thug,” a self-described “witch” who describes her genre as “ouija-pop,” screaming about being queer in a transgender bikini while a man with a horn emerging from his head whoops beside her.
WHY IRELAND?
You might expect this sort of thing from the Germans, whose taste for sexual deviance is well-documented. But the Irish? The land of the Counter-Reformation and Catholic schools run by ruler-wielding nuns?
Well, there is still some trace of that Ireland — although only a relative handful of the probably unfairly stereotyped nuns remain, with an average age of 80 and rising. But globalism has hit the country harder and faster than probably any country in the Western world.
Politically, the indomitable spirit that characterized the Gaels through the long centuries of British rule was knocked out of them by the European Union. After voting against a new European treaty empowering the bloc at the expense of national sovereignty in 2008, they were forced to vote again, meekly acquiescing to their new masters on the second asking in 2009.
Economically, Ireland underwent a similar process of submission a year later, with the European Central Bank bullying the country’s elected government into debt slavery with a threatening letter the public didn’t get to see until years later. They had little scope to fight back — they had given up their national currency for the ECB’s euro long ago.
But socially and culturally, the changes have been far more dramatic, with “Bambie Thug” – real name Bambie Ray Robinson, a former choir club member and ballet dancer — the inevitable consequence of this cultural shift.
OUTSIDE INFLUENCE.
Certainly, poorly handled scandals within the Church, whose influence was responsible for much of Ireland’s constitutionally enshrined social conservatism post-independence, robbed it of some moral authority. But it was radical malcontents, often funded by outside actors, who ruthlessly exploited those moments of weakness to tear down the old social order.
Readers of The National Pulse will likely be unsurprised to learn that George Soros, the nonagenarian plutocrat whose metrosexual son seems to treat the Biden White House almost as a second home, had a hand in it.
In 2015, constitutional protections for traditional marriage were overturned in a referendum on homosexual unions. Soros’s Open Society Foundation explicitly celebrated this initial sea-change as a triumph over “a Catholic stronghold” that has “rapidly evolved into a much more socially liberal place.” The words “Brave New World” were used without irony.
Through his Open Society Foundation, Soros bankrolled groups such as Amnesty International Ireland, the Abortion Rights Campaign, and the Irish Family Planning Association as they lobbied to remove pro-life protections from the Irish constitution two years later. Despite some of this funding being deemed unlawful foreign interference in Ireland’s internal affairs, the abortionists ultimately had their way, and Ireland, where even contraception had been illegal until the 1970s, approved lifting abortion restrictions by a surprisingly wide margin.
Most recently, Soros and his organization are accused of giving aid to nonprofits and politicians pushing for sweeping hate speech legislation, which would wipe away what little freedom of expression is left to citizens, and outlaw even having problematic memes saved on your phone. The legislation is so egregious that Elon Musk pledged X would sue Soros over it late last year – although whether anything comes of this is anyone’s guess, given his platform’s ongoing issues with WEF staffers and shadowbans.
And, of course, Soros is just one malign actor among many — Ireland is one of the countries where the Biden regime, i.e., you, the American taxpayer, is directly funding queerness and transgenderism initiatives — he just happens to be the most recognizable.
BEGINNINGS OF A FIGHTBACK?
It’s not all doom and gloom in the Emerald Isle. While the political class, perhaps surprisingly, given its roots in nationalist terrorism, is almost entirely in hock to globalist ideology when it comes to mass migration, supranational government, and wokeness, the public is by no means all the way there with them.
Yes, they approved the legalization of same-sex marriage, and even approved liberalizing abortion — but their rulers pushed them too far in their most recent referendum on constitutional change earlier this year.
Now-ousted Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar, the openly gay son of an Indian migrant, wanted to strip the document of wording offering special protections for mothers who wish to be homemakers, and defining marriage as the foundation of the family. This was too naked an attack on the old values — an attempted negation of “history, God, and family,” as The National Pulse’s own Raheem Kassam put it — and the people voted heavily against the changes, despite their near-unanimous endorsement by the establishment.
The Irish are also mounting perhaps the fiercest grassroots resistance to mass migration of any Western nation.
While their British neighbors have voted for politicians who have claimed they would slash immigration while delivering the opposite for 14 straight years, Irish politicians have not hidden their hunger for open borders — so they are facing resistance on the streets rather than at the ballot box.
Large-scale protests are held regularly; roads have been blockaded; and in some instances, people have gone so far as to burn down hotels earmarked for migrants before they could be occupied, transforming long-settled communities out of all recognition. UFC star Conor McGregor has even hinted at a run for the Irish presidency to stop the rot.
In an era of unprecedented demographic change, the conventional wisdom that the political pendulum always swings back eventually no longer really holds true. But if this resistance keeps building, Bambie Thug may only be Ireland’s present, and not its inevitable future.
