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LAST NIGHT, MEMBERS of the Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
This formality was especially noted this year because of Donald Trump’s refusal to concede after he lost his race for re-election last month.
Biden has spoken in the past about the importance of keeping the Irish border open after Brexit and respecting the Good Friday Agreement.
With his inauguration due to take place in January, do you think his term as president will be beneficial to Ireland?
Today we’re asking: Do you think Joe Biden’s presidency will benefit Ireland?
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It already has. The Brits have backtracked on the controversial parts of their Internal Markets Bill because of it.
@Handsome McWonderful: With three words:
“BBC? I’m Irish!”
Perhaps it already has even before he took office. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Tories recently took the clauses that ignored the Northern Ireland provisions out their Internal Markets bill.
@Mick Tobin: Nothing to do with Biden.
@Maurice O Neill: a lot to do with biden. They were literally told no trade deal with USA if they ride roughshod over NI agreement
@Maurice O Neill: It’s 100% to do with Biden, the Brits have changed their tone entirely since the day he won.
@Maurice O Neill: hard luck mister. Massive fail there. The brits have blown their assumed trump favours on many levels. Bojo thought that he and trump would do great things together…..even though the Americans under Trump would have walked all over the UK…..and now with Biden…..there will be Karma!
@Paul Furey: Karma Harris
@Maurice O Neill: completely wrong.. no surprise as you are a Trump supporter.. Biden bluntly told them no deal if Good Friday agreement harmed and Nancy Pelosi.. also told the BBC reporter.. “I’m Irish”… Trump has no good intentions towards Ireland….or anybody in general…what an ar#e..
@Maurice O Neill: Trump, worst one term president ever.
@John Bathe: There was never going to be a UK US Trade deal the only likely one on the horizon is the UK joining the trans pacific free trade area.
Totally the greatest benefit to Ireland and mankind will be not hearing his precessor’s name being mentioned everyday 5 times a day.
@DJ Dave Wexford #WearAFeckingMask: *Predecessor
No. We were doing great under President Trump and its a pity he did not get another term.
@Maurice O Neill: Prison term you mean?
@Maurice O Neill: explain please?
@Ron: Economy
@Maurice O Neill: You mean the economy he torpedoed by ignoring the pandamic and prolonging the crisis?
@Mark V: You do know that the Country with the worst numbers per head of population is actually in the EU
@Maurice O Neill: That doesn’t make around 2000 deaths a day and 200 000 cases a day OK. Loss or no loss, any decent human being who was President would try and do something to reduce harm to the people they’re sworn to serve. Instead, he self serves, politicises mask wearing, and berates scientists, when he has little to no understanding of basic medical principles.
@Maurice O Neill: The EU is a country??!
When did that happen and why wasn’t I informed?!?!
@Maurice O Neill: so we should ignore the Trumpanzee’s failings because someone did worse? That the standard for the US nowadays?
@Maurice O Neill: This isn’t over… USA is only getting started with the virus… Unfortunately, It has a long way to go.
@Maurice O Neill: The Orange Clown did more harm to America than than many wars.
@Maurice O Neill: lol….as they say!
@Maurice O Neill: haaaaaaa. Haaaaaa
@Maurice O Neill: We? Do you mean Ireland?. our economy had no help from Trump..
As for america. Obama and Biden provided jobs and growth..all trending well before Trump arrived…check the economic stats for those 8 years.. turned the crash around…
@Maurice O Neill: l’d love to know 155 that support your comment regarding Mr Trump. He was hell bent on making any American Company located in Ireland suffer. Can’t wait for President Biden to take over – the sooner the better can’t come quick enough.
@Maurice O Neill: You do know the EU isn’t a country?
@Maurice O Neill: Millions of jobs lost because of Covid and the biggest US debt since WWII. Next question.
@Mark V: So wrong. Trump was right to resist the shutdown of the economy. This is proven as now Dem states, who continue to enforce strict lockdowns, are begging the feds to be bailed out and their death rates are higher.
Think it will benefit the entire planet. Finally someone with some intelligence behind the podium.
@Euge80: You do know he has been a Politician for over 40 years
@Maurice O Neill: Ah yes because a Senator has the same power as a President.
After seeing his speech last night, I can’t imagine he will be President for long.
@Elle: Once he gets the present joker out he will have done the country a great service.
@Elle: did you ever get a cough?
I seems from this poll that the majority of people believe that a change of branding or figurehead actually changes anything.
That’s why the merry go round of politics keeps going in the USA and globally in “democracies” and people always hope that the current election they voted in will actually delivered the promised improvements…
Yet despite the new logo or soundbites one constant persists, the rich will be protected and get richer, the most vunerable will be demonized and neglected and those in the middle will be kept struggling and enslaved by the illusion.
@David Van-Standen: Luckily there’s still hope for change though when we have people like you to explain reality to us and how stupid we all are for failing to see it. Any suggestions as to how we can escape from this horror you see all around you and that the rest of us are seemingly oblivious to? I for one eagerly await enlightenment…
@The Alchemist’s Head: it’s no secret that repeating the same actions never delivers different results, no matter how hopeful we are..
Modern national politics is cynically marketed to appeal to our collective hopefullness for the future, with the promise of change that appeals to most people in the centre, but delivers little in the way of change.
Probably the only way we can hope escape this loop, is through some thing which unifies the majority of people, either through a planetary threat such as a clear and present environmental breakdown, off world exploration or external planetary threat. (I’m not wearing a tin foil hat, lol)
The present health crisis has focused many people on what’s important in life for them and its not maintaining the status quo to support the super rich.
The important thing is that Trump departs, time for a fresh start then.
It won’t make any difference unless he serves a full term which I honestly believe seems unlikely. Kamala Harris has no ties to Ireland so presumably is not going to look upon us anymore favourably than any other country she has no ties with…
@The Alchemist’s Head: i believe she has irish on her fathers side
@Jack Creegan: Richard Harris?
It’s a very sad time for the unborn with those 2 in charge
The only difference between this one and the last one is that children will be asked for their preferred pronouns before they’re caged at the border.
At the very least, he is a president who understands the sensitivities and injustices that come with the partition of Ireland. He will have our back against the U.K. if they ratfuk with the GFA.
@LangerDan: Tell that to the Syrians.
@Robert Clifford: Biden was a passenger on that one, that was Obama’s call and it was the wrong one.
@Fred the Muss…: Well they’re two cheeks of the same a*se quite frankly. Nothing will change. There hasn’t been a decent US president since Kennedy. And they had him whacked.
Delighted to see a non-inane, non-Christmas Journal poll topic today. Biden talks pro-Irish, but that does not mean he will do as he says. The US-UK bond is still stronger than the US-EU one. The first 6 months of the new presidency will probably tell us what we need to know.
@Dick Barrett: this US-UK bond you talk about is practically non existant…..even trump was ready to walk all over them in their future trade talks.
Harris Presidency. No chance Biden lasts 4 years
Is there any difference here between “no” and “it won’t make a difference”?
Louth and Mayo next year.
No, our corporation tax will revert to pre-Trump levels.
@Daniel Dunne: Irish Corporation Tax has been 12.5% since 2003 .
i hope he makes it to jan 20th , but just sounds like a mild cough , from doing a lot of talking lately. i wish him the best.
Of course he has a soft spot for Ireland and Mayo and louth where his ancestors came from. If MAYO win Sam Maguire on Saturday it would be an added bonus if the cup got the green card and light to be in the at Joe Bidens inaugural ceremony on January 20th…..
It’s good news for all those villages and towns that nobody ever heard of before falling, over themselves to claim Joe as one of their own.
Would probabley benefit the world.
Better than the yellow man for Ireland
and that is for certain.
Bugs me when the yanks think that there the centre of everything… he’ll have no influence in Brexit because team Trump already made a deal with the UK.
@Eddie Michael: What US-UK trade deal’d that be https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/02/uk-hopes-of-early-us-trade-deal-dashed-by-biden-warning
People here expecting trump fanatics to give a logical answer to a question.never going to happen
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