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Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

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  • #10532
    ATR72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭ATR72


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181882#Comment_118181882

    The Republicans keep winning elections so obviously a lot of people agree with them. Also, you need to calm down and cut the swearing out. None of this affects your life. The obsession with what Republicans do is unhealthy.



  • #10533
    ATR72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭ATR72


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181973#Comment_118181973

    There are illegal aliens and 75 million people voted for Trump and the GOP will likely win the midterms. I see Boards has turned into another crap social media site where the left whines about how the right are on the verge of ending the world whenever they speak.



  • #10534
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118182471#Comment_118182471

    Except the democrats won the presidency and senate a year ago and still hold the house.



  • #10535
    Andrea Strong Rodent
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Andrea Strong Rodent


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118182471#Comment_118182471

    A truly dozy post.

    Things that happen in America affect the entire planet.

    I have plenty of friends and family across America, and even if I didn't, I'm human. I've never met a saint nor sinner from Yemen but I'm not emotionless when I see or hear about the latest horror story from there.

    Last summer I had to send a friend money when she lost the TWO jobs she was working due to COVID and was getting f*ck all support.



  • #10536
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,019 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118182471#Comment_118182471

    It's been a long time since the Republicans win the popular vote, so you're categorically incorrect that they represent the majority of Americans



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  • #10537
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,068 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181741#Comment_118181741

    How popular though is your pure free market approach on this?


    It looks less and less so each passing year.



  • #10538
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118175980#Comment_118175980

    Don’t forget that Donald Trump himself was a donor for her AG election campaigns, twice.

    So clearly he thought she was more than qualified.



  • #10539
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,875 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181767#Comment_118181767

    Are you on about Ireland? They take nearly everybody in.



  • #10540
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118182601#Comment_118182601

    What are you talking about? What “pure free market approach” ? On what issue?

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • #10541
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Perhaps it might be best to familiarize yourselves with the process to confirm a vacancy for the Vice President in the House and the Senate, in short order.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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  • #10542
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,875 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118183475#Comment_118183475

    No need because it's not going to happen.


    Stop being delusional.



  • #10543
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    The House has voted to censure Republican Paul Gosar, 223-207. He has been removed from his committee assignments.

    (How matt gaetz still has his I don't know.....)

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #10544
    Andrea Strong Rodent
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Andrea Strong Rodent


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118183475#Comment_118183475

    Why, is Harris ill?

    A vice-president has never been impeached and, to my knowledge, only two have ever resigned.

    Now, I'm no fan of Kamala but she doesn't strike me as impeachable and I don't foresee any resignation worthy offences on the horizon...



  • #10545
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I suggested a while back that biden should own that weak "insult" and see how many people drop it.

    We're about to find out

    https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1461160351282581504?t=3y91Ucly3e1jsl6-ZgjB1Q&s=19


    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #10546
    Tippex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Tippex


    this is funny. It's also true

    https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1461024607700463630



  • #10547
    Andrea Strong Rodent
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Andrea Strong Rodent


    Did the Democrats hire a new social media department?

    That is quality memeing.



  • #10548
    Andrea Strong Rodent
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Andrea Strong Rodent


    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/581317-omar-offers-joint-resolution-to-block-650-weapons-sale-to-saudis

    Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Friday introduced a joint resolution aimed at blocking a $650 million U.S. weapons contract to Saudi Arabia authorized by the Biden administration. 

    The Minnesota lawmaker said she introduced the resolution in opposition to Riyadh’s offensive operations in Yemen’s civil war and crackdown on dissidents at home and abroad. 

    “It is simply unconscionable to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia while they continue to slaughter innocent people and starve millions in Yemen, kill and torture dissidents, and support modern-day slavery,” Omar said in a statement.


    Needs a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate. The fact that there's even such a deal in place is utterly unconscionable.



  • #10549
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118186158#Comment_118186158

    I highly doubt the dumbest bartender in Congress's bill will get any serious attention.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #10550
    extra gravy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,323 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118188617#Comment_118188617

    You calling someone else dumb when you still believe the lies peddled by the conman is pretty hilarious.



  • #10551
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118188617#Comment_118188617

    I’m pretty sure she went to a better college than you man. Why the petty insult? It’s easy to disagree with someone’s ideas without putting them down.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



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  • #10552
    extra gravy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,323 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1461165197553553411?t=9hf3JK8DU41k7U2GWdCQ_g&s=19

    Some line up of grifters and nutjobs, all it's missing is the cult leader.



  • #10553
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Bill Maher was on with Fredo last night and he spelt out a few truths for the Democrats.

    "Anyone with a D next to their name is just completely toxic" to ordinary Americans, particularly in the age of wokeism. 

    "Woke -- I don't remember the day the term was born, although I hear AOC says, ‘Only old people use it now.’ Well, you gave it to us. Like five years ago. So sorry we didn't get the memo,"

    "In its best sense, if we're talking about being aware of things we should have always been aware of more, reckonings that we've had… but there's a reason why the term ‘woke’ has come to signify going too far. And doing things that don't make sense."

    "I keep saying this to the Democratic Party. The reason why you're so toxic is because you've become the party of no common sense. And people see this on their newsfeeds," Maher said. "They see things on their phone or on their Facebook page, people pass things around and it's a constant drip, drip, drip of ‘Oh, these people are nuts' in a way -- they're not oblivious to the fact that Trump is nuts.

    He also called out what he sees as clearly shifting editorial decisions by cable news outlets, and was less than charitable towards MSNBC.

    “Something like Hunter Biden, I mean, if Don, Jr. had done what Hunter Biden had done, it would be every night, all night on MSNBC,”

    “But the fact that it’s hunter Biden and Joe’s on the blue team, that’s the problem with America, everything is so binary,” Maher continued. “Everything that the red team doesn’t like goes in the blue bin and vice-versa.”

    “So, you know, every democratic politician has to wear on his sleeve every silly, stupid woke thing that the fringe left does,” he continued. “And the red team has to wear kids in cages and, you know, lock her up and all that kind of stuff.”


    He also made some good points on Critical Race Theory

    https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1461162923259215877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1461162923259215877%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2021%2F11%2F18%2Fbill-maher-rails-against-critical-race-theory-argues-its-just-virtue-signaling%2F




  • #10554
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118189071#Comment_118189071

    Bill Maher rips into both parties.

    That's his thing. It isn't news.

    He has a hot take on "woke". He said himself - the term is 5 years old. Not exactly fresh material bill.

    He says tv stations are biased. No sh1t.

    He says that if donny jnr did what Hunter did, tv stations would be all over it. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out one of them is a private citizen, the other very active in political circles.


    Lenny Bruce he ain't.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #10555
    markodaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,459 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


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    Heading to sub 40% soon...

    Hard to see him turn around the negative momentum.



  • #10556
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,875 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118189118#Comment_118189118

    He's right though about a lot of stuff. Both parties are in a bad state.

    The woke thing is stupid. I've always been of the opinion that you can do what you like if you aren't hurting anybody else. I'm not woke, I don't want to be woke, I live using common sense and cop on.

    I don't care if you are gay, hetero or transgender or anything else, if we can have a good chat we'll be friends. If I don't like you or you don't interest me it's got nothing to do with your choices as regards sex and gender.

    I certainly don't believe I have to speak up for these people because imo that's the issue is people speaking for and against it. Just shut up and live your own life and be happy.



  • #10557
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,875 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118189316#Comment_118189316

    It really isn't a big deal at all and it's easily turned around too.



  • #10558
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,767 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Biden’s main problem is that he is boring. All he does is his job. No daily controversies. No frequent scandals. No hiding his tax returns. No childish name calling of opponents. No frequent campaign rallies of adoring fans. No racist comments on Twitter. No bromances with Putin or Kim Jong-un. No bad mouthing of former aids that disclose what happened in the Oval Office. No bragging on hot mike about grabbing women in their private parts. No shoving foreign leaders aside to be front and center in a photo op. No pitting one party against the other. No fanning the insurrection flames to hide the fact that you are a poor loser.

    If Biden wants to improve his Telly ratings, have the news media following his every word and tweet, and win 2024, he needs to learn from the masters.

    Biden needs to read the about The King Fish. To paraphrase Huey Long: Good news is the best news. Bad news is the second best news. And no news is bad news for a politician.

    Also from a ghost written best selling book about the art of a deal: Saying and doing things “sensational” and “outrageous” like things mentioned above would draw the news media to their mutual ratings benefit, and make Biden an entertainer and not boring.



  • #10559
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118186158#Comment_118186158

    I am curious how Greene would vote on this. After the Jihad insult on Omar it would not be surprising to see Greene turn around and do more to support Islamic terrorism. I disagree with the Biden administration on this deal and Obama had the right idea banning them even if it came far too late in his term.



  • #10560
    Melanchthon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Melanchthon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118189359#Comment_118189359

    Actually here's something that seems to be very absent from this thread.

    How's Biden going to turn it around.

    - More voters than not are worried about Bidens mental fitness. He's not getting younger, people don't really believe some of the "stutter" stuff, and he gives the appearance of being very manager when he speaks.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/poll-biden-mental-fitness-job-approval-522785


    -The inflation thing


    *Addition* The race stuff, he's had a number of items blocked by courts due to discriminating against whites

    -The culture wars stuff, Republicans aren't going to stop talking about it and Bidens administration keeps taking on people (national school board member got a role) and taking stances that mean those attacks land.


    Anyway what ways can they turn it around keeping in mind the polling and the fact that it doesn't matter what pro Biden posters here think about the mental fitness thing, it's a voter concern.



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  • #10561
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,019 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118190031#Comment_118190031

    Do you agree with them? Can you supply your professional qualifications that allow you to dignose someone by just viewing media clips, because absolutely no professional is or ever would



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