Lads, @Fitzy especiallyâŚwho did joe put in charge of agriculture?
You literally couldnât make it up.
Since before the founding of our Nation, Irish immigrants have arrived on our shores with an unyielding spirit of determination that has helped define Americaâs soul and shape our success across generations. Driven by the same dreams that still beckon people the world over to America today, so many crossed the Atlantic with nothing but the hope in their hearts and their faith in the possibility of a better life.
Thatâs what brought the Blewitts from County Mayo and the Finnegans of County Louth to the United States. For years, they brought Ireland into their homes in America. Working hard. Raising families. Remembering always where they came from. By 1909, my grandparents Ambrose Finnegan and Geraldine Blewitt met and married in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and passed on to my mother, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, a pride and a passion that runs through the bloodstream of all Irish-Americans.
The story of the Irish the world over is one of people who have weathered their fair share of hard times, but have always come out strong on the other side. From often humble beginnings, Irish Americans became the farmers, servants, miners, factory workers, and laborers who fed our Nation, kept our homes, and built our industry and infrastructure. They became the soldiers who won American independence, died to preserve our Union, and fought in every battle since to defend America and its values.
Irish Americans became the firefighters and police officers who have protected us. They are the activists who organized unions to give voice and strength to Americaâs workers. They are the educators who taught generations of American students and the public servants who have answered the call to service in the halls of the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the Irish-American inventors and entrepreneurs who helped define America as the land of opportunity. Irish-American writers pollinated Americaâs literary landscape with their love of language and storytelling, while Irish lyricism has brought poetry, art, music, and dance to nourish our hearts and souls.
As I said when I visited Dublin in 2016, our nations have always shared a deep spark â linked in memory and imagination, joined by our histories and our futures. Everything between us runs deep: literature, poetry, sadness, joy, and, most of all, resilience. Through every trial and tempest, we never stop dreaming.
The fabric of modern America is woven through with the green of the Emerald Isle. This month, we celebrate the sacrifices and contributions that generations of Irish Americans have made to build a better America, and we renew the bonds of friendship that will forever tie Ireland and the United States.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 2021 as Irish-American Heritage Month. I call upon all Americans to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Irish Americans to our Nation with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
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Fuck it, Iâm in tears here.
We are the hands that build America.
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Ooooooooops!
Lols
He has a lot of work done. He can be forgiven for a little stumble.
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Nor as convincing as the tom cruise one, the stumble was a nice touch by the animators
The doddery auld bastard! âWho put that crab there?!â
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What a recovery. That would have been curtains for most fellas half his age
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Could they not put a stairs lift in for the poor fella, and put an auld blanket over him.
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Murica
Irish run the game
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Very embarrassing for all the sleepy Joe supporters
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Heâs absolutely right of course, and obviously a white supremacist and racist.
Or an Uncle Tom
But itâs not an uncommon view among a lot of black people. Not the ones that CNN and MSNBC have on obviously, but 80% of blacks want at least the same level of policing or more, so the people who want to defund or even disband the police are a much smaller group. Why do you think that is? Because they are far more concerned about violent crime in their neighborhoods than they are about police brutality. Both are issues for them, but violent crime is the much bigger issue.
Iâm not saying police brutality doesnât need to be addressed, it does and across the board. But the level of crime and murder in particular has been rising sharply in American cities over the past year (33% more murders in 2020 than 2019), so those that say the solution to police brutality is no police and no prisons need to be excluded from the conversation, as they are clearly insane. Obviously both violent crime and police brutality need to be addressed, but itâs not an easy problem to solve, and I donât think it will be solved by putting all the blame on police.
He is also correct about Joe Biden unfortunately, as any remaining systemic racism can be traced back to segregation which Biden supported (âI donât want my kids schools becoming racial junglesâ) and the crime bills of the 90s (âwe need to get the predators off the streetsâ). Now itâs good that Joe has matured but it might be helpful for him to admit his racist past rather than pointing the finger at the country.
Agreed but I wouldnât agree with everything he says. Yes, blacks may commit more crime but considering how they have been treated in that country, while not justifiable itâs understandable. Itâs easy for us to judge from our positions of privelage
Lads love to trot out that 50% of murders in the US are committed by Blacks who only make up 13% of the US population, as if it is some justification for how black people in general are often treated by the police, and that they have only themselves to blame.
Those crimes are committed by a small, very small, percentage of black people (yer man acknowledges this in the video).
During the 70s through the 90s, almost 100% of all bombings in the UK were carried out by Irish people.
We didnât appreciate it when English cunts treated us (Irish people n general) like shit or harassed us, both officially and unofficially, because of something carried out by a very tiny percentage of Irish people. Back in those days you could very well get hassled on the streets of London, or hooked coming of the boat in Holyhead and held for questioning by the special branch, for no other reason than you were Irish.
On the whole, cops in the US do interact differently with black people than they do with white people. On the whole. Some of it is intentional, but a lot is probably unconscious. But either way it is racist, whether intentional or not, because you are treating someone differently solely by virtue of the color of their skin.
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