A senile old yank referring to Ireland as home. FFS! The old cretin has never been near the place before and only has Irish blood on his mother’s side going back three generations or so. About the same as mine, then, and I don’t consider myself Irish, because I’m not. The feeble old moron was born in Pennsylvania. He isn’t Irish, but these IRA loving scrotes always try to play the homeland schtick and it sticks in my craw.
Like millions of other Americans, Biden’s ancestors set sail from their home at the peak of the Great Famine at the end of the 1840s.
Yeah, about the same time one of mine crossed the Irish sea to England, but I don’t go all misty eyed about the emerald isle even if I do like visiting from time to time – and I’ve been there more times than this half baked old lackwit. This isn’t about homelands or heritage, it’s about politics and anti British politics at that.
But his speech may be remembered best in Ireland for an unfortunate gaffe as he introduced his cousin Rob Kearney, who played international rugby and was part of a team that beat the world-dominating New Zealand side in Chicago.
‘Was a hell of a rugby player, beat the hell out of the Black and Tans,’ said Biden, referring accidentally to the brutal, hated police constables recruited to keep republicans in line during the War of Independence, rather than the All Blacks, as New Zealand are known.
That’s the quality of ‘mercan president these days. At the time, Ronnie Regan was accused of being a bit doolally. At least Ronnie Regan could tell a decent story and get the punchline right.
And the state of American politics is such that many Democrats would vote for Biden if he stands again for President. Sheesh.
You literally have to be an idiot to consider yourself a democrat these days.
I can’t remember which US politician it was that said, in a discussion about teaching foreign languages in state schools, “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ it’s sure as hell good enough for me”. The moron thought that Jesus used to quote the effing King James Bible.
Every day that this chump is in the Oval Office leaves me increasingly convinced that there were serious shenanigans going in the 2020 election. There is no way in hell that Biden beats Trump in a free and fair election. He was lucky that Covid had hit the planet at that time. People were distracted by it. And if he stands again, which is looking likely, Trump will absolutely destroy him.
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While I agree with you that Trump one fair and square in 22 what has changed that the democrats won’t use the same strategy in 2024? Pallets of ballots. Ballot harvesting of dead voters. MS13 bringing in ballot boxes. Massive intimidation of judges if cases of vote rigging are brought. The ingredients are all in place for a repeat. The Deep state will stop at nothing to stop him…
I would like it explained to me how the Donald won the two big bellwether states Ohio and Florida and lost the election in 2020. He actually won Ohio and Florida by bigger margins than when he won them in 2016. Also, of all the bellwether counties in the US, the Donald won 82% of them in 2020. That kind of thing is unprecedented. In the last 60-65 years of US presidential elections, no candidate has performed that well in bellwether states and counties and gone on to lose the election.
So, I’m convinced there was jiggery-pokery by the Democrats in the 2020 election – probably a load of invalid postal ballots.
Trunp should still be in office as far as I am concerned.
He’s always been an idiot. The difference now is that there are no longer enough brain cells left to cover it up.
wasn’t it obama who said not to underestimate bidens ability to fuck things up and robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.
Both quotes are accurate. One favorite of mine /s so to speak: he had to drop out of another Presidential campaign back in the ’80’s after he was caught plagiarizing others’ speeches. One ‘victim’ was Neil Kinnock. Trump has been called the Teflon Don but that would be far more accurate applied to Biden.
That’s hilarious, Lirio!
Brings truth to the old saying, ‘You couldn’t make it up’!
I thank God he is completely bonkers. If he ever remembers the Big Red Button I hope he can’t work out how to press it
Biden’s father’s family come from Westbourne in West Sussex close to the Hampshire border, I hope he doesn’t come down here to find family. Silly me, he’d have to admit to being English.
How influential are the Irish in the states these days? Boston, New York, wherever probably bear more of a resemblance to Somalia than Sligo!
And how many “Irish” actually are there?
My grandad was a bog trotter, but I don’t consider myself any more Irish than I consider myself Italian or Indonesian.
That’s by the by really, but there seems to be some almost Pavlovian response from those with political ambitions in the US to prove their “Irish” credentials, and the most graphic way seems to be to go out of their way to stick their snouts into Ulster in the most crass and stupid way imaginable.
I do recall seeing O’bama with the ubiquitous pint of Guinness on a visit, but for fucks sake, O’bidens performance will stand for all time!
If this country were one day quietly slide beneath the waves, there would still be some moronic plastic paddy yank politician shedding a bleary eyed tear.
I was curious myself, looked it up. About 10% of US population–that includes Scots-Irish and partial Irish descent, mostly in New York and New England. Numbers wane the further west one goes. The percentage of German descent is higher but that population never had the concentrated power on the east coast. Odd fact–New York had the first St. Pat’s parade in 1762, whereas Michigan (where I’m from originally) didn’t have one until 1958.
I think the Kennedy ‘cabal’ was the high point, Biden first entered federal office in 1971 when the influence was still strong. Obama is an odd case; he ran for office on being black but in my opinion probably felt he had to pay lip service to older traditions, as it were.