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 Teddy Eagle  26 Mar 21 7.09pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
I enjoyed the clip of Biden blaming the Brits for driving his ancestors out of Britain. With Johnston's very unappreciated comments on Obama, it has all got off to a spiffing start. How many people can include an ancestor who left Ireland more recently than 170 years ago? Not exactly an exclusive club.
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Stirlingsays  26 Mar 21 7.12pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
How many people can include an ancestor who left Ireland more recently than 170 years ago? Not exactly an exclusive club. Yeah and Biden's ancestors have worked in the British Army so they couldn't have hated the British that much. And did I hear that Biden didn't visit Ireland until he was in his seventies? Biden is full of it.....still waiting for Cornpop to show up personally.
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 Hrolf The Ganger 26 Mar 21 7.13pm |
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All you Biden fans enjoying the chaos on the Mexican border and the support for the Saudi bombing of Yemen's main airport? Good to know we are cementing good relation with a lovely humanitarian nation like China too. Yeah, it's lucky they got rid of Trump.
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cryrst  The garden of England 26 Mar 21 7.17pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I remember when Trump was elected all the left wanted the UK to cold shoulder him and criticise him whenever possible. How that Biden somehow finds himself there, it's suddenly important that we have good relations. Rest assured srirling, the veil will slip soon.
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| Teddy Eagle 26 Mar 21 7.27pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Yeah and Biden's ancestors have worked in the British Army so they couldn't have hated the British that much. And did I hear that Biden didn't visit Ireland until he was in his seventies? Biden is full of it.....still waiting for Cornpop to show up personally. The Biden family originally came from England anyway. Obviously not a vote catcher.
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| Stirlingsays 26 Mar 21 8.09pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Rest assured srirling, the veil will slip soon.
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| SW19 CPFC Addiscombe West 26 Mar 21 9.31pm |
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Originally posted by davenotamonkey
Nothing on Biden's first (softball) press conference? The guy is losing it, and fast. I think most worrying for me (beyond the complete brain-fade moments) was (on North Korea) literally eyes down, reading from his crib sheet. He can't even store and articulate his foreign policy in his head. It comes from a pre-canned script, to a pre-selected media. On engagement with a hostile, potentially nuclear power. Reading from a bloody cheat-sheet, size 14 font. f***. I don't know how long they can keep up this pretence. Here's Hannity's response on the presser (of course, Fox were given no questions to Biden... might have asked about the pandemic or something): Putting the partisan angle aside, cue cards and notes being used by presidents, or, frankly, most people in high level, time poor roles are not exactly unusual. Things usually go south, fast, without some form of notations or reference. Hell, even Trump used them.
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| SW19 CPFC Addiscombe West 26 Mar 21 9.31pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I think that's an inevitability regardless of who is in the white house. It's more a question of how and when, than if.
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| Stirlingsays 26 Mar 21 10.48pm |
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
I think that's an inevitability regardless of who is in the white house. It's more a question of how and when, than if. I'd say relative rate in relation to competitors. In that sense I view the Democrats as almost comic as guardians.....but yeah, long term it probably doesn't matter that much who heads it up. Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Mar 2021 10.50pm)
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 26 Mar 21 11.01pm |
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
I think that's an inevitability regardless of who is in the white house. It's more a question of how and when, than if. I was about to make the same point. All Biden can do is try to mitigate the impact of the pandemic and the way the Trump administration failed to treat it seriously enough. That on top of the need to reverse some of the more crazy Trump policies. Biden was always a stop gap. A safe pair of hands who wasn't Trump. Someone to provide a period of peace to allow the country to draw breath, reflect and recover. The less we see or hear of him the more successful that will be. The real problem is, it seems to me, that the US is in a long term relative decline but seems incapable of either recognising it, let alone reversing it. That decline wasn't Trump's fault. He just made it worse. It isn't Biden's either but don't let that stop the cheap geriatric digs and blame game.
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| Spiderman Horsham 27 Mar 21 7.16am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I was about to make the same point. All Biden can do is try to mitigate the impact of the pandemic and the way the Trump administration failed to treat it seriously enough. That on top of the need to reverse some of the more crazy Trump policies. Biden was always a stop gap. A safe pair of hands who wasn't Trump. Someone to provide a period of peace to allow the country to draw breath, reflect and recover. The less we see or hear of him the more successful that will be. The real problem is, it seems to me, that the US is in a long term relative decline but seems incapable of either recognising it, let alone reversing it. That decline wasn't Trump's fault. He just made it worse. It isn't Biden's either but don't let that stop the cheap geriatric digs and blame game. TBF you spent years having digs at and blaming Trump. Now the boot is on the other foot, seems only fair for those that wish, to have a dig at Biden. Let’s be honest, he is in the habit of leaving himself open to this at the moment
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| Badger11 Beckenham 27 Mar 21 7.31am |
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Hmmm the Democrats were outraged that President Trump dared to interfere in how the states ran their election process, each state is responsible for it's rules. Biden is now moaning that the democratically elected state legislature of Georgia is changing the rules mainly to ensure that people who vote are who they say they are. And it's not just Georgia many other states are looking to do the same. I don't see the problem myself then again if you are not legally entitled to vote you might be a tad upset.
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