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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Identity politics in full swing for the Biden campaign
    Appointing a qualified candidate to a suitable role. Clearly this man's wokeness knows no bounds.

    How much of a fuss did you kick up when Ivanka Trump was sent to rub shoulders with world leaders on behalf of the United States despite having exactly zero qualifications?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Newuser2


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    COVID-19 can be airborne, in certain circumstances. But not normally.


    https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/how-coronavirus-is-spread.html

    On Airplanes mainly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    sabat wrote: »
    Looks like Danny DeVito dressed up for a skit.

    That probably sounded funny in your head. Any contribution about whether she's qualified for the job or are you just here to make stupid remarks about her appearance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Best of luck President Joe Biden.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    you are criticising him because he wants everybody to have equal access to assistance. think what that says about you.

    No he doesn't. he said his priority is to black people, latinos etc. Leaving out ofcourse white people. As such he is not looking for everyone to have equal access.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,038 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    <24 hours.


  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭bewareofthedog


    Overheal wrote: »
    <24 hours.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    Some serious grasping here. Evidence?

    Get a serious grasp on this, so https://covidactiongroup.net/

    A new group have set themselves up and are seeking to add additional guidance to Biden’s Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board from a wider array of public health experts, including pandemic and aerosol experts.

    As a science-based effort they aim to debunk falsehoods, from the downplaying of the pandemic to the undermining of the role of masks.
    Overheal wrote: »
    Perhaps by scientific committee he means the CDC, and by whispering he means public disclosure, and by new means from september/october?

    That would be a no, no and no and easy off on presuming I'm a bloke!
    BattleCorp wrote: »
    COVID-19 can be airborne, in certain circumstances. But not normally.

    https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/how-coronavirus-is-spread.html

    HSE guidance is out of step, surely no need for me to provide a link/evidence for that.


    Biden is airborne in less than 24hrs, that's what the thread is about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    I just think of this:

    “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

    -Donald Trump

    Is that an actual transcript. It does sound like him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,218 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Some great points made by Michael Moore on the latest episode of his podcast - those on the side of the people who invaded the Capitol on 6/1 will feel they got a victory in the war they're fighting. They may not have gotten all their objectives but today the Capitol is under tight lockdown, with 20,000 troops deployed, with those troops having to be vetted by the FBI to make sure none of them are closet Trump cultists. Security chiefs have been fired, or resigned, over their inadequate response, and the Confederate flag was flown inside the Capitol. They have to feel like they really rattled the country and made it very nervous, and have to be feeling mighty smug about it right now. Yes, those arrested by the FBI might not be feeling as smug, but I'm talking more about the movement in general.

    So the takeaway is that violence, intimidation and just flat terrorism work, which I suppose is obviously why they're used. However, I think the inauguration will be a pretty quiet affair. They won't be dumb enough to try and attack the most heavily guarded place in the USA right now. The question is what they try next, because a lot of them have to be feeling rather emboldened to top what they did on 6/1.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,538 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Seanergy wrote: »
    Get a serious grasp on this, so https://covidactiongroup.net/

    A new group have set themselves up and are seeking to add additional guidance to Biden’s Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board from a wider array of public health experts, including pandemic and aerosol experts.

    As a science-based effort they aim to debunk falsehoods, from the downplaying of the pandemic to the undermining of the role of masks.

    Where does it say they're cutting off vaccines to developing nations?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    That probably sounded funny in your head. Any contribution about whether she's qualified for the job or are you just here to make stupid remarks about her appearance?

    I'll pass on the healthcare advice from a man who chopped of his own penis thanks.

    thread banned


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    sabat wrote: »
    I'll pass on the healthcare advice from a man who chopped of his own penis thanks.

    Christ.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    joe40 wrote: »
    Is that an actual transcript. It does sound like him.

    It's real.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    Where does it say they're cutting off vaccines to developing nations?

    I never said anything about vaccines, are you going to keep riding me for no reason?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,755 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    sabat wrote: »
    I'll pass on the healthcare advice from a man who chopped of his own penis thanks.

    Don't post in here again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Overheal wrote: »
    "Levine was accused of removing her own mother from a personal care home, after creating a policy whereby nursing homes throughout the Commonwealth would readmit residents testing positive for Coronavirus after they were declared healthy enough to leave the hospital. Levine has stated that personal care homes (as opposed to nursing homes) do not fall under the jurisdiction of her own agency." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine

    Can you refute the above?

    According to your own link, "She won confirmation by the Republican-majority Pennsylvania Senate and has emerged as the public face of the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic."

    Are the Republican-majority in the Commonwealth guilty of the same identity politics, or just Joe Biden? Why? What is your evidence beside the mere fact of her being transgender (assuming that is the 'identity' you are taking umbrage with, and not that she is a woman, or white, or blonde)?

    Plenty to be concerned about. This person also supports giving puberty blockers to children. Thread below is worth reading.

    https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1351552566161625090?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,038 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Plenty to be concerned about. This person also supports giving puberty blockers to children. Thread below is worth reading.

    https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1351552566161625090?s=19

    So according to that thread she had the audacity to share a third party’s research indicating that it may be more beneficial/less-traumatizing to begin hormone therapy before the teen/pre-teen begins their puberty cycle.

    Actually doesn’t that make intrinsic sense? You’re putting the person through one puberty instead of two, one of which is to transition into the gender they already identify as.

    Other than that a couple complaints from former patients. And by a couple I mean, 2, in that thread. I’d be shocked if any doctor who has been in the business for decades hasn’t racked up at least a handful of complaints from dissatisfied patients. I don’t see any indication from the thread you linked to either of these cases resulted in malpractice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    No, I don’t think it makes sense to give drugs to children that will make them sterile and cause issues with bone development, especially when the vast majority of gender dysphoric children grow out of it.

    But I guess I’m old fashioned like that.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 897 ✭✭✭nolivesmatter


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Plenty to be concerned about. This person also supports giving puberty blockers to children. Thread below is worth reading.

    https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1351552566161625090?s=19

    That tweet says "Trans-identified male". Is that term considered interchangeable with Trans-woman? Google search results aren't clear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,038 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    keano_afc wrote: »
    No, I don’t think it makes sense to give drugs to children that will make them sterile and cause issues with bone development, especially when the vast majority of gender dysphoric children grow out of it.

    But I guess I’m old fashioned like that.

    Another topic for another thread methinks.

    By all means, academia will explore many of the factors involved, the one she shared appeared to especially regard psychological trauma of going through what amounts to two puberties. Sterility and bone complications may be another. Doctors will surely consider all factors when working with their patients, and consult them accordingly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,877 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson




  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Overheal wrote: »
    Another topic for another thread methinks.

    By all means, academia will explore many of the factors involved, the one she shared appeared to especially regard psychological trauma of going through what amounts to two puberties. Sterility and bone complications may be another. Doctors will surely consider all factors when working with their patients, and consult them accordingly.


    Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be the case in an alarming number of examples, but I agree with you that this discussion is not for this thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,038 ✭✭✭✭Overheal



    We speculate about it idly but yea, there’s at least a chance he never lives in Deleware ever again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    I present to the world, the new Messiah!

    https://streamable.com/hxjon

    Metoo, feminists and any one with a shred of human decency or integrity should be appalled by this absolute creep!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,063 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    theguzman wrote: »
    I present to the world, the new Messiah!

    theguzman don't post in this thread again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,877 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 284 ✭✭DraftDodger



    Not a good look tbh.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Not a good look tbh.

    Why not?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Not a good look tbh.


    You need a new tune.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=114770759


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Not a good look tbh.

    It's a great look, that's what a real 'alpha male' looks like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    Thread's not even 12 hours old and two bannings already :pac: :pac:

    Donnie's disciples just can't help themselves icon9.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Gradius


    When someone needs a million troops to protect them when taking a job on day one, it's not confidence-inspiring as to where the "company" is headed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,930 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    As somebody who was initially concerned about Joe Biden and even when those concerns were obviously not an issue I didn't consider him a good candidate. What I've seen of him since the last debate has changed my mind completely. I think he'll be a great POTUS. I think he'll reunite the country, I think he'll do a lot of good and I'm looking forward to the next four years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Gradius wrote: »
    When someone needs a million troops to protect them when taking a job on day one, it's not confidence-inspiring as to where the "company" is headed.

    You mean the protection he needs from Trump supporting terrorists?


  • Registered Users Posts: 897 ✭✭✭nolivesmatter


    eagle eye wrote: »
    As somebody who was initially concerned about Joe Biden and even when those concerns were obviously not an issue I didn't consider him a good candidate. What I've seen of him since the last debate has changed my mind completely. I think he'll be a great POTUS. I think he'll reunite the country, I think he'll do a lot of good and I'm looking forward to the next four years.

    Hmm..blink twice if you're in danger eagle.


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    After his speech today, and the live commemoration of the 400,000 American citizens who died of covid, currently on CNN and other channels, Joe Biden- ROCKS!

    America has its President back-and he hasn't even been sworn in yet.

    He's beyond name calling now- and today has proved that.

    The 400 candles representing 400,000 dead Americans is very moving.

    I've nothing more to say- the "Sleepy Joe" term has been nuked - it's absolutely confined to history - honour, empathy- remember that?

    Joe Biden- President of the United States of America.

    God Bless America- we missed you. !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,038 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Ho! Ho! Ho!



    Thanks, Ulysses S. Grant.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    After his speech today, and the live commemoration of the 400,000 American citizens who died of covid, currently on CNN and other channels, Joe Biden- ROCKS!

    America has its President back-and he hasn't even been sworn in yet.

    He's beyond name calling now- and today has proved that.

    The 400 candles representing 400,000 dead Americans is very moving.

    I've nothing more to say- the "Sleepy Joe" term has been nuked - it's absolutely confined to history - honour, empathy- remember that?

    Joe Biden- President of the United States of America.

    God Bless America- we missed you. !


    This is worse than the Trump fanatic rhetoric. I'm not sure if this is a joke or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Gradius


    You mean the protection he needs from Trump supporting terrorists?

    You mean large swathes of the company's employees? Yes, I do.

    Pretending that this is all normal or going to become normal over time is ridiculous. The country is on a slide, regardless of who is supposedly in charge.

    You can't run a country when one side believes in martians and the other side doesn't believe gravity. Stark raving lunatics left, right and center. It's only going to get more violent, and that's hardly a long shot prediction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,015 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Overheal wrote: »
    Over 400,000 Americans have died under his tenure and care, due to a pandemic he himself declared a 'war' and he a 'war time president.' We haven't lost that many Americans to a tragedy since the Civil War. He tried, in vain, several times to deploy the military in US Cities, and at our southern border. He was simply too busy waging wars at home and on television to give a toss about the rest of the world, and even at that he still has dropped more bombs than any other President save for FDR during WWII. Easily dropped more than Bush or Obama. https://www.2lt.com.au/trump-who-vowed-to-end-wars-has-dropped-more-bombs-than-bush-or-obama/

    I'll be keeping count on Bidens death toll on Americans due to Covid seeing as you want to play that game! We will also see how many armed conflicts Biden gets involved with. As for the appointment of health secretary...
    https://twitter.com/mary89299980/status/1260789830012882944?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    I'll be keeping count on Bidens death toll on Americans due to Covid seeing as you want to play that game! We will also see how many armed conflicts Biden gets involved with. As for the appointment of health secretary...
    https://twitter.com/mary89299980/status/1260789830012882944?s=19

    And I'll be ignoring such facile and irrelevant posts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,218 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Very tough ask for Biden to reunite the American public. The only thing I will say is that at least he won't actively prey on division like Trump did as a cynical and utterly reckless tactic to grow his base, and can at least be sane and try to seek something resembling a consensus.

    But, but, but...

    Sam Harris discussed this on his podcast, and I think it's a good point - Biden had a speech planned to talk about his COVID relief proposals, including a plan to prioritise minority-owned businesses. You can see how this could be perfectly well-meaning yet be an own goal and something that feeds into the increasing paranoia across the whole spectrum of the American Right. The Right will see it as blatant favouritism, exactly the same way as Donald Trump had been accused of favouritism towards white people, Biden/Harris would be accused of favouritism and it just rives that divide, even if it's a more innocent way to do it. I would take the point that minority-owned businesses do need the help more if you look at the economic statistics, but I don't think that all those white people from the left-behind wastes of the Rust Belt take that point in the same way.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    I'll be keeping count on Bidens death toll on Americans due to Covid seeing as you want to play that game! We will also see how many armed conflicts Biden gets involved with. As for the appointment of health secretary...
    https://twitter.com/mary89299980/status/1260789830012882944?s=19

    Covid deaths aren’t going to magically stop tomorrow.
    They could hit half a million next month.
    The opportunity to somewhat control it was wasted months ago.

    Also this person is nominated for Assistant Health Secretary.
    Not the health secretary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Covid deaths aren’t going to magically stop tomorrow.
    They could hit half a million next month.
    The opportunity to somewhat control it was wasted months ago.

    They know that. The truth doesn't suit the mindset and the agenda.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Gradius


    briany wrote: »
    Very tough ask for Biden to reunite the American public. The only thing I will say is that at least he won't actively prey on division like Trump did as a cynical and utterly reckless tactic to grow his base, and can at least be sane and try to seek something resembling a consensus.

    But, but, but...

    Sam Harris discussed this on his podcast, and I think it's a good point - Biden had a speech planned to talk about his COVID relief proposals, including a plan to prioritise minority-owned businesses. You can see how this could be perfectly well-meaning yet be an own goal and something that feeds into the increasing paranoia across the whole spectrum of the American Right. The Right will see it as blatant favouritism, exactly the same way as Donald Trump had been accused of favouritism towards white people, Biden/Harris would be accused of favouritism and it just rives that divide, even if it's a more innocent way to do it. I would take the point that minority-owned businesses do need the help more if you look at the economic statistics, but I don't think that all those white people from the left-behind wastes of the Rust Belt take that point in the same way.

    That's just it, I'm not half as optimistic as you. If you have two distinctly opposing groups of people, everything done/undone, said/not said, implied/ignored just adds fuel to one or the other (or both!)

    It's well and easy to see the United States as an experiment, but how you can see it as anything other than a failing experiment, in real time, requires some serious jam-jar glasses.

    Look at what the United States has done in the last 10 to 20 years as a society, learn the lesson, and avoid repeating it like your countrys existence depends on it.

    I wouldn't even blink if government/opposition members started getting knocked off. It's that close now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,015 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Covid deaths aren’t going to magically stop tomorrow.
    They could hit half a million next month.
    The opportunity to somewhat control it was wasted months ago.

    Same can be said about leaders of all countries where the numbers have increased. Can we blame our leaders for the massive spike in cases across Europe? Covid is not something to be controlled. I suppose Biden could lockdown the country down until numbers start to drop. Plus he has the added advantage of there being vaccines now


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,895 ✭✭✭Polar101


    While the country is very divided, I think Biden's job might be "easy" - if he doesn't do anything that's too dramatic, he'll be compared favourably to Trump. Outside the US, it will be very easy for him to improve relations and do better than Trump.


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