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Biden/Harris Presidency Discussion Thread

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    #452
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Rand Paul on Fox News now complaining about the EOs.

    Good god.

    Let me guess he didn’t have the same issue with the trump administration.


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    #453
    Itssoeasy
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    Here we go. Double masks.


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    #454
    BonnieSituation
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Let me guess he didn’t have the same issue with the trump administration.

    Shocking isn't it?


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    #455
    Itssoeasy
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    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Shocking isn't it?

    I’m so shocked I’d nearly take a pint. I’ve heard the new press secretary before in her previous role but even in a few minutes here it’s clear that the press briefings will be far less confrontational than the last four years.


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    #456
    Itssoeasy
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    The reporters and the press secretary exchanging “thank you” is weird to hear. It was only four years right ?


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    #457
    BonnieSituation
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    Just listening here.

    I'm so excited about how boring politics is about to get.


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    #458
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,113 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Psaki kicked that Covid Relief budget Q well. What part of the relief do those objecting want to cut?


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    #459
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Water John wrote: »
    Psaki kicked that Covid Relief budget Q well. What part of the relief do those objecting want to cut?

    Republicans supposedly very concerned about the "price tag" of economic relief. They are so predictable at this stage.


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    #460
    Itssoeasy
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    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Republicans supposedly very concerned about the "price tag" of economic relief. They are so predictable at this stage.

    They are NOW concerned about money and spending.

    Also, all the EOs that were signed today were run through the proper channels. So rand Paul might like them but it seems they checked all the boxes.


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    #461
    Larbre34
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    Water John wrote: »
    Psaki kicked that Covid Relief budget Q well. What part of the relief do those objecting want to cut?

    She's no daw. Former Director of White House Communications and Deputy Press Secretary under Obama.

    The press corps must think they've woken up in Kansas again.


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    #462
    jimmycrackcorm
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    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Republicans supposedly very concerned about the "price tag" of economic relief. They are so predictable at this stage.

    I wonder if Biden would suggest the cost could be covered by reversing Trump's tax cuts.


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    #463
    Itssoeasy
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    She's no daw. Former Director of White House Communications and Deputy Press Secretary under Obama.

    The press corps must think they've woken up in Kansas again.

    Well she didn’t get the job by going on TV. She has done the job before. Imagine that novel concept. I see ted cruz is complaining about the Paris climate agreement, where Cruz seems to imply that the agreement is slanted towards people in Paris when it’s called that because of where it was signed.


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    #464
    BonnieSituation
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Well she didn’t get the job by going on TV. She has done the job before. Imagine that novel concept. I see ted cruz is complaining about the Paris climate agreement, where Cruz seems to imply that the agreement is slanted towards people in Paris when it’s called that because of where it was signed.

    He didn't say that did he?


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    #465
    extra gravy
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    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    He didn't say that did he?

    https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1352040800646029312?s=19


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    #466
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    He didn't say that did he?

    He tweeted it. Paris vs Pittsburgh was reference.


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    #467
    extra gravy
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    He tweeted it. Paris vs Pittsburgh was reference.

    He's so concerned about the people of Pittsburgh, he tried to have their votes thrown out.


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    #468
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    extra gravy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1352040800646029312?s=19

    Republicans back to their same old nonsense again. They're just awful.


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    #469
    Water John
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    extra gravy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1352040800646029312?s=19

    The subtext is; them foreigners.


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    #470
    BonnieSituation
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    Water John wrote: »
    The subtext is; them foreigners.

    Wait 'til he finds out that he's Canadian!


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    #471
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,023 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    dont see how a presidency can be good based on this:





    lets be honest, us in ireland dont really give a **** unless it affects our pocket.


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    #472
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    y0ssar1an22 wrote: »
    dont see how a presidency can be good based on this:

    lets be honest, us in ireland dont really give a **** unless it affects our pocket.

    Even those clips tell us it will be better than the last.


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    #473
    marno21
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    StringerBell wrote: »
    Manchin will have his sights set on a run in 4 years, to do that he has to walk a thin line of showing enough independence from Biden to not be too easily tarred with the radical left brush but also not so much that he completely alienates the democrat vote.

    If he can figure a way to thread that line he would be a good candidate but it won't be easy.

    Exactly this. Manchin retained his seat in 2018 after voting for Brett Kavanaugh. Sens. Donnelly (Indiana), McCaskill (Missouri), Heitkamp (N Dakota) and Nelson (Florida) voted against him and lost their seats. These are red states and their constituents would have been in favour of his appointment. Manchin will act similarly here. Stuff that’s unpopular in his State he will act cautiously around. He’s not going to be sharing a 100% voting record with Bernie Sanders or members of The Squid for instance.


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    #474
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,141 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    This thread is about Joe Biden's presidency. Please take discussion of Donald Trump to the relevant thread.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #475
    pottokblue
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    I listened to it on the radio last night and great speech by Joe Biden unifying not dividing now hoping his administration follows through on the values of the speech...


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    #476
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,130 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    y0ssar1an22 wrote: »
    dont see how a presidency can be good based on this:





    lets be honest, us in ireland dont really give a **** unless it affects our pocket.

    2020 called, they want their debunked and irrelevant talking points back


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    #477
    Government buildings
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭Government buildings


    pottokblue wrote: »
    I listened to it on the radio last night and great speech by Joe Biden unifying not dividing now hoping his administration follows through on the values of the speech...

    Then he proceeds to the White House and cancels all of Trump's work.


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    #478
    6541
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭6541


    Hi All - Do you think Biden can / will do anything to open a legal migration route for Irish people to get to the states ?
    We really need this. It is a determent to Ireland that we can't get access to America.
    This route has been closed for the last 20 plus years. Ireland needs access to America otherwise over time our influence will wane.
    We should encourage our kids to get setup in America. Get new blood into the Irish areas in NYC and Boston.


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    #479
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,002 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    6541 wrote: »
    Hi All - Do you think Biden can / will do anything to open a legal migration route for Irish people to get to the states ?
    We really need this. It is a determent to Ireland that we can't get access to America.
    This route has been closed for the last 20 plus years. Ireland needs access to America otherwise over time our influence will wane.
    We should encourage our kids to get setup in America. Get new blood into the Irish areas in NYC and Boston.

    There was a piece a few days ago about a new immigration bill that would allow citizenship in 8 years for people who are currently undocumented (illegal).
    It would be 5 years of a Green Card and then 3 years to apply for citizenship.
    Now it obviously has to pass congress which is far from guaranteed

    Actually here is a story about it, Google search will get you more
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-pitch-year-pathway-citizenship-day-immigration-reform/story?id=75333490

    You are incorrect in what you say the we (Irish) cannot get access to American and that our route has been blocked for 20 years

    Irish people can apply for the DV lottery, the H1B lottery and other various visa types like the L1 which involves a transfer to a US site by your employers.
    Now while the numbers of DV and H1B available to Irish people has been reduced over the years they are still available.
    And the Trump administration wanted to change the immigration process to favor well educated , English speaking immigrants, which would have been more beneficial to Irish people than the current system.

    However saying that anyone who has been in the US illegally since the mid 90s has had no amnesty, which is something previous illegals could have availed of from time to time.
    Unless you married an American or were fortunate enough to have your status altered some other way they are as illegal today as they day they arrived a quarter of a century ago, even though they may have been working, paying taxes and raising kids throughout the whole period.
    Many have lived most of their lives there illegally.


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    #480
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,704 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    6541 wrote: »
    Hi All - Do you think Biden can / will do anything to open a legal migration route for Irish people to get to the states ?
    We really need this. It is a determent to Ireland that we can't get access to America.
    This route has been closed for the last 20 plus years. Ireland needs access to America otherwise over time our influence will wane.
    We should encourage our kids to get setup in America. Get new blood into the Irish areas in NYC and Boston.

    I doubt it. Why would Irish people have priority? We are a European country with lots of options of where to emigrate to.


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    #481
    hotmail.com
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    6541 wrote: »
    Hi All - Do you think Biden can / will do anything to open a legal migration route for Irish people to get to the states ?
    We really need this. It is a determent to Ireland that we can't get access to America.
    This route has been closed for the last 20 plus years. Ireland needs access to America otherwise over time our influence will wane.
    We should encourage our kids to get setup in America. Get new blood into the Irish areas in NYC and Boston.

    Surely it would be better to keep our kids in Ireland with well paid jobs rather than some imagined influence in America?


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