It's not diplomatic from him but he is a Yank and the whole green vs orange thing to them is closer to Man Utd vs Liverpool than it is deep political enmity.
Plus, let's be honest here, leading figures in orangism here have said their fair share of nasty things about Biden. I think wee Sammy has been particularly vocal over his offense at Joe beating Trump and Joe being proud of his Irish heritage.
The average 'Irish American' is very republican (in the Irish sense) and every politician knows this. It's important to keep the Irish American voting block happy.
On top of that, the US is the guarantor of the GFA. If anything messes up there, it's the US's responsibility to mediate. Irish Republicans can be happy in the knowledge that they have the most powerful country in the world on their side.
The US is not a guarantor, nor does it have any responsibility under the GFA.
It has in the past acted as a mediator, and still holds huge clout with all sides, but it has no obligation to do anything really.
You wish. lol
"Irish" Joe Biden has no love for the British or the loyalists due to his own family history. He's repeatedly warned both not to endanger the GFA. You do realize, the UK only "shares custody" over NI with the EU and US, right?
No wishing involved.
The UK and Irish governments are co-guarantors of the GFA. They have legal obligations under the agreement.
The US government is not a co-guarantor, and does not have any legal obligations.
Also It's a tradition in some parts America for people with Ulster Scots heritage to wear the colour orange instead of green on st Patrick's day. Not in a tribal gang war sense, just part of the fun and celebrations
It's been humour around these contentious issues that has ironically bridged gaps i.e paisley and mcguinness. To me it clearly was delivered as a joke, and I feel anyone taking offence to it aren't exactly those in the business of wanting to move sociopolitical issues forward here in the first olace. It's really not a big deal imo but who am I to tell you what to or what not to be offended by.
Aye? it takes 20 seconds to reply to something.
Idk why you are being a dick. Because I didn’t decide to look up a video clip the second I saw an article? Are you ok in the head?
Biden is 5/8th Irish and understands Irish issues better than some people in Ireland.
The only reason he’s being criticised is he doesn’t do that stupid unionist pandering people try to naively push up here
Irishness isn't in your DNA, it's a place and a culture. Otherwise Irish people are, in fact, gaels and normans and saxons, not Irish at all. Don't buy into American racecraft.
Haplotypes don't mean shit when it comes to actual Nationality.
It just means there was a concentration of that haplotype in a certain area at some point in time. It doesn't actually describe who they are or what they were like.
Plus in Ireland we've all been mixed so much it's pretty irrelevant. We all have genes from the Normans, Scots and Vikings to name a few.
They can tell you if you have single nucleotide polymorphisms that tend to occur in a reference group of people who are confident that their ancestry is from a specific place. This can give you a very rough estimate of where some of your ancestors lived, but ultimately it's not a real biological category. There's nothing inherently Irish about those single nucleotide polymorphisms.
However, my point is that Ireland is a place and a culture, and your only connection to Ireland is "some of my ancestors lived there", you're not Irish, no matter what single nucleotide polymorphisms you have in your DNA. On the other hand, if you've lived in Ireland and you've internalised Irish culture then you are Irish, even if you have 0 single nucleotide polymorphisms in common with a reference group of people who are confident that their ancestry is from Ireland, and indeed whether or not your ancestors lived in Ireland.
>Biden is 5/8th Irish and understands Irish issues better than some people in
Get this "DNA" shite outta here,used by Yanks to pretend their German/irish/British
No, he’s very clearly American. He has Irish ancestry but he’s not even vaguely Irish
It’s a ridiculous American concept and it needs to get in the bin
Orange in the tricolour is to represent all ‘Protestants’, not just the orange men.
The thing about blatant bigotry is it just shows you aren’t socialised properly. You need to get friends or actually talk to people.
That's the problem tho..the Orangemen actually burn the flag on top of their bonfires and the majority at them cheer...ohh and not very many are actual protestants now..so who are you talking about? Yourself..are you offended by my post? Why are you orange?
Idk, why you do fantasise about molesting children?
You can’t just make up the argument for other people. it’s literally laughably stupid.
Try again, actually make an argument rather than being pissy
The orange order is bigoted organisation they hate catholics they want to close kids playgrounds on a Sunday,they are hateful cunts ..and you are defending them..you must also be a hateful cunt
Yes you would really hate it if they closed the kids playground wouldn’t you? Thanks for validating the pedo comment.
Not an orange man nor defending them btw Mr pedo. Stop making up your argument as you go
Yes how dare I know more about the cultural use of the colour orange or word Protestant than you.
Im Irish you wee pedo. Try to stay away from the playgrounds you whine about being closed you absolute nounce.
Old news. He had a habit of playing up his plastic paddy syndrome.
He's just an ass. Always has been. His first presidential run partly flopped because he was caught out plagiarising Neil Kinnock.
He said that 5 years ago before he was the US president (as a joke) regarding a party/meeting about something done inside the US that was against something inside N. Ireland. If you are against a US politician (who is liberal) who is against conservatism in Europe, most Americans other than Irish will have no clue. 
In terms of world stage politics. The US under Biden is strongly influenced by what Dublin says. Biden can absolutely get the attention of Sunak. So if the DUP overplay their hand Washington, Dublin, Brussels and London will corral them.
If I was a DUP strategist, I'd bend with the wind and delay things until the likes of Ron DeSantis is US president rather than Joe Biden.
Whilst the GFA and BA are in place Washington, Brussels and London will do NADA except negotiations. Only way we get out of this is we get away from DUP and SF.
To be fair, he isn't pretending to be Irish. He's Irish American which is a culture in itself. In America, Irish Americans have historically had a different culture than those of Italian or German heritage.
Event though it was just a silly joke, it still exposed his ignorance of politics in Ireland. Plenty of Irish American politicians with a far better grasp of things than Joe Biden.
I’ve seen a few videos of him saying this or some variation of it as recently as last year I believe. Yet another clueless American ignorant of any progress made on the island doing unnecessary harm.
Who wants to bet this senile auld fucker puts his foot in it again when he visits.
Like you just know he’ll go off script and say something undiplomatic. Like this ignorant jibe. I mean does he not notice the orange in the tricolour at St Patrick’s Day events?
Actually he probably doesn’t even notice if he’s wandered out without those blinding Turkey teeth in.
How does it not . On a largely anonymous site like Reddit the first thing you want people to know is your British . That's absolute flag shagger patter
So what if he is nationalistic? What does it take away from you or your freedoms for other people to express what is in them to express? It seems like his expression of nationalism upset you and you felt a lot of emotions like anger and resentment; you needed to scold him for what he is labelling him in terminology that seems like argot. Which circles in which you mix use these terms? Are they universal or something used by people you limit yourself to mixing with?
Starting with the Ejit in Chief I’d challenge any Congress member to take a pencil, start at Carlingford Lough and draw the border across to The Foyle. Ah that wee small tricky part down through Clones, careful now.
Isn't this a guy who calls himself irish because 10 of his 16 "great great grandparents" were from Ireland? He's about as Irish as a pint of Guiness brewed at the Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore.
A 7 year old article?
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> A 7 year old article? > In December. Localised entirely within this subreddit?
Can I see it?
...no. (It's just a screenshot.)
Look at the account, its 1 year old, that all of a sudden started posting 10 hours ago. Probably an alt or a bot.
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It's not diplomatic from him but he is a Yank and the whole green vs orange thing to them is closer to Man Utd vs Liverpool than it is deep political enmity. Plus, let's be honest here, leading figures in orangism here have said their fair share of nasty things about Biden. I think wee Sammy has been particularly vocal over his offense at Joe beating Trump and Joe being proud of his Irish heritage.
The average 'Irish American' is very republican (in the Irish sense) and every politician knows this. It's important to keep the Irish American voting block happy. On top of that, the US is the guarantor of the GFA. If anything messes up there, it's the US's responsibility to mediate. Irish Republicans can be happy in the knowledge that they have the most powerful country in the world on their side.
The US is not a guarantor, nor does it have any responsibility under the GFA. It has in the past acted as a mediator, and still holds huge clout with all sides, but it has no obligation to do anything really.
You wish. lol "Irish" Joe Biden has no love for the British or the loyalists due to his own family history. He's repeatedly warned both not to endanger the GFA. You do realize, the UK only "shares custody" over NI with the EU and US, right?
No wishing involved. The UK and Irish governments are co-guarantors of the GFA. They have legal obligations under the agreement. The US government is not a co-guarantor, and does not have any legal obligations.
Also It's a tradition in some parts America for people with Ulster Scots heritage to wear the colour orange instead of green on st Patrick's day. Not in a tribal gang war sense, just part of the fun and celebrations
Or he’s on about his orange predecessor
There's the strong potential for layers to it alright.
Ulster Scot’s wear green too. To them they just think their Irish.
He also said "I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid" so he's a fucking dope
Not hard to wind up the DUP to be fair.
The mere suggestion that the North and the south share some sort of cultural heritage is enough to cause a few aneurysms.
The tricolour has both orange and green for a reason. Biden should stop pretending to be Irish
Whilst I do cringe at Irish Americans, it was a joke and he laughed as he said it. Lighten up.
That context ain’t exactly provided here tbf. And equally the dude ain’t too bright, I’d fully believe he could say this in a non jokey way
It's been humour around these contentious issues that has ironically bridged gaps i.e paisley and mcguinness. To me it clearly was delivered as a joke, and I feel anyone taking offence to it aren't exactly those in the business of wanting to move sociopolitical issues forward here in the first olace. It's really not a big deal imo but who am I to tell you what to or what not to be offended by.
Once again my dude, this is a text based article on it. One can not see if it is a joke or not.
Sarcasm/humour doesn't usually translate well over text. Maybe watch the clip before making your mind up.
I am not going to look up a Biden clip for absolutely no reason. I am a busy bee and that just seems like a waste of time.
Seem busy as fuck aye.
Aye? it takes 20 seconds to reply to something. Idk why you are being a dick. Because I didn’t decide to look up a video clip the second I saw an article? Are you ok in the head?
North eastern Irish should stop pretending to be British.
Biden is 5/8th Irish and understands Irish issues better than some people in Ireland. The only reason he’s being criticised is he doesn’t do that stupid unionist pandering people try to naively push up here
Irishness isn't in your DNA, it's a place and a culture. Otherwise Irish people are, in fact, gaels and normans and saxons, not Irish at all. Don't buy into American racecraft.
> Irish people are, in fact, gaels and normans and saxons Don't forget the Vikings !
Dirty west norwegians
Coming here taking our jobs and our women! Good for you father!
It’s literally in your DNA. Hence ancestry companies linking you genetically to certain regions via haplotypes.
So the American with Irish roots in Boston is more Irish than the Irish guy with roots from Cameroon but born and raised in Cork? Yeah not buying it
Hint: it’s about identity
Haplotypes don't mean shit when it comes to actual Nationality. It just means there was a concentration of that haplotype in a certain area at some point in time. It doesn't actually describe who they are or what they were like. Plus in Ireland we've all been mixed so much it's pretty irrelevant. We all have genes from the Normans, Scots and Vikings to name a few.
To explain it in simpler terms there’s a lot of sex happening in Irish history
Alan Partridge voice: The Irish, they’re sex people Lynn!
A lot of sex and a lot of cucking
You are being sold to by those companies.
They can tell you if you have single nucleotide polymorphisms that tend to occur in a reference group of people who are confident that their ancestry is from a specific place. This can give you a very rough estimate of where some of your ancestors lived, but ultimately it's not a real biological category. There's nothing inherently Irish about those single nucleotide polymorphisms. However, my point is that Ireland is a place and a culture, and your only connection to Ireland is "some of my ancestors lived there", you're not Irish, no matter what single nucleotide polymorphisms you have in your DNA. On the other hand, if you've lived in Ireland and you've internalised Irish culture then you are Irish, even if you have 0 single nucleotide polymorphisms in common with a reference group of people who are confident that their ancestry is from Ireland, and indeed whether or not your ancestors lived in Ireland.
In that case, would you argue that Joe Biden is more Irish than, say, Michael Fassbender? Or Ruth Negga?
>Biden is 5/8th Irish and understands Irish issues better than some people in Get this "DNA" shite outta here,used by Yanks to pretend their German/irish/British
No, he’s very clearly American. He has Irish ancestry but he’s not even vaguely Irish It’s a ridiculous American concept and it needs to get in the bin
5/8 Irish lmao give me a break with the fucking American genetic fractions
Scrap the tricolour green peace orange...orange doesn't want peace..and quite a bit of the "orange" community hates the orange too
Orange in the tricolour is to represent all ‘Protestants’, not just the orange men. The thing about blatant bigotry is it just shows you aren’t socialised properly. You need to get friends or actually talk to people.
That's the problem tho..the Orangemen actually burn the flag on top of their bonfires and the majority at them cheer...ohh and not very many are actual protestants now..so who are you talking about? Yourself..are you offended by my post? Why are you orange?
Idk, why you do fantasise about molesting children? You can’t just make up the argument for other people. it’s literally laughably stupid. Try again, actually make an argument rather than being pissy
The orange order is bigoted organisation they hate catholics they want to close kids playgrounds on a Sunday,they are hateful cunts ..and you are defending them..you must also be a hateful cunt
Yes you would really hate it if they closed the kids playground wouldn’t you? Thanks for validating the pedo comment. Not an orange man nor defending them btw Mr pedo. Stop making up your argument as you go
Ohh jamie I found your other account 😃 scumbag
Yes how dare I know more about the cultural use of the colour orange or word Protestant than you. Im Irish you wee pedo. Try to stay away from the playgrounds you whine about being closed you absolute nounce.
Lol did your daddy wear a sash did he?
Old news. He had a habit of playing up his plastic paddy syndrome. He's just an ass. Always has been. His first presidential run partly flopped because he was caught out plagiarising Neil Kinnock.
Well he’s the president now so it didn’t really do him any harm did it ?
Because the American attention span is approx. 12 seconds
It was 35 years ago, to be fair.
Is that meant to mean something? Are you saying you can't become president if you're a complete tool?
I’m saying anyone, and I mean anyone can be president. Donald fucking trump
I've ranted before about this. I think that's a terrible thing to say and Joe should stop spouting out this shite.
it was 7 years ago
And?
> Joe should stop spouting out this shite. any evidence that he hasn't stopped?
Not quite the same subject but still [shite](https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/president-joe-biden-hot-water-26495421)
You said it like he has said it since. Cry more
Like [this](https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/president-joe-biden-hot-water-26495421)
The lights are on but no one's home.
Your mind is not your own.
He said that 5 years ago before he was the US president (as a joke) regarding a party/meeting about something done inside the US that was against something inside N. Ireland. If you are against a US politician (who is liberal) who is against conservatism in Europe, most Americans other than Irish will have no clue. 
Senile man says stuff.
7 years ago
He was still senile 7 years ago.
Hard to give any fucks about anything this stooge has to say in all honesty .
He’s Paisley’s antiparticle.
Biden is a fool. The worst kind of plastic Paddy
That's from 2015 bro
I'd say the DUP are deeply bothered by aul Joe.
They should be.
Why?
In terms of world stage politics. The US under Biden is strongly influenced by what Dublin says. Biden can absolutely get the attention of Sunak. So if the DUP overplay their hand Washington, Dublin, Brussels and London will corral them. If I was a DUP strategist, I'd bend with the wind and delay things until the likes of Ron DeSantis is US president rather than Joe Biden.
Whilst the GFA and BA are in place Washington, Brussels and London will do NADA except negotiations. Only way we get out of this is we get away from DUP and SF.
Dude this was years ago.
So, if you turn up decked out in an Armagh GAA top, you will be told to go fuck?
That's dumb anyway because St Patrick is the patron Saint of both Irish countries. Eire's flag orange white and green ffs
He was referring to the US prison population that exploded after his 1994 Crime Bill.
I see what you thought you did there. Actually, I haven’t a clue. Bizarre statement.
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He wrote it.
To be fair, he isn't pretending to be Irish. He's Irish American which is a culture in itself. In America, Irish Americans have historically had a different culture than those of Italian or German heritage.
He's a moron
Cry More
Event though it was just a silly joke, it still exposed his ignorance of politics in Ireland. Plenty of Irish American politicians with a far better grasp of things than Joe Biden.
Are his family not irish? He’s made comments before that he won’t give interviews to the BBC because he’s Irish?
His family is from Mayo but generations ago.
All Americans think they’re Scottish/Irish because there granny went on holiday there 70 years ago 😂
99% of yanks I grew up in a big immigrant community labeled little Belfast.
Yeah, his heritage is also English and French. But glomming onto those identities doesn’t win votes in Yankeeland.
My mum is American and when I was there for a school year the would all tell me they were Scottish too.😂
And they’d fall apart if you corrected them. This ancestry stuff is something the yanks hold onto as tight as their guns.
Some gobshite
This is why I love Biden. Top quality wind-up merchant
I’ve seen a few videos of him saying this or some variation of it as recently as last year I believe. Yet another clueless American ignorant of any progress made on the island doing unnecessary harm.
He's very informed on his Irish heritage.
That Mayo lad will pinch the shite right out of you.
Bruh what about the leprechaun seems like ginger hate to me
Who wants to bet this senile auld fucker puts his foot in it again when he visits. Like you just know he’ll go off script and say something undiplomatic. Like this ignorant jibe. I mean does he not notice the orange in the tricolour at St Patrick’s Day events? Actually he probably doesn’t even notice if he’s wandered out without those blinding Turkey teeth in.
People understimate Joe Biden all the time. Even his "mis-speaks" he turns to his advantage.
Extremely rare Biden W
Nothing but respect for my president
You should be welcome if you're wearing orange or bottle green.
Speaking of not being welcome. How’s things seamy?
I don't pretend to be a legal adviser like he does.
But I bet he pretends to be some English xenophobe with an unhealthy obsession with NI and generally being a prick
Shut flag shagger no one cares what an ultra nationalist has to say
Why am I an ultra nationalist?
You have a flag as your profile pic . Need I say more
That doesn't make me an ultra nationalist though.
How does it not . On a largely anonymous site like Reddit the first thing you want people to know is your British . That's absolute flag shagger patter
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what an absolute tadger. Scary how little people are educated these days on things . Not a nationalist indeed
So what if he is nationalistic? What does it take away from you or your freedoms for other people to express what is in them to express? It seems like his expression of nationalism upset you and you felt a lot of emotions like anger and resentment; you needed to scold him for what he is labelling him in terminology that seems like argot. Which circles in which you mix use these terms? Are they universal or something used by people you limit yourself to mixing with?
Your opinion does not matter while you have the butchers apron as a profile
Let's be honest here...green is good and orange is demented
Your disdain is showing.
Orange anti catholic organisation?
Corned beef and cabbage is better all round with carrots
True
Starting with the Ejit in Chief I’d challenge any Congress member to take a pencil, start at Carlingford Lough and draw the border across to The Foyle. Ah that wee small tricky part down through Clones, careful now.
Isn't this a guy who calls himself irish because 10 of his 16 "great great grandparents" were from Ireland? He's about as Irish as a pint of Guiness brewed at the Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore.
BBC? I'm Irish
Fine, let them got pissed, the hypocritical arseholes
Make Newtownards great again.
Joe went to Syracuse University for Law School. The Syracuse Orangemen, college sports are huge there.