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'America can't lead. They can't even even get their arms around COVID': Irish prime minister Micheál Martin's 'devastating' comment to Biden that prompted his fears the world is 'beginning to look to China'
2021-05-22
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • President Joe Biden said it was a stinging comment from Irish prime minister Micheál Martin that got him seriously concerned about China

  • Biden spoke by phone this week with The New York Times' David Brooks for an interview that was posted late Thursday

  • Biden told Brooks Irish taoiseach Micheál Martin told him: 'Well, America can't lead. They can't even get their arms around COVID'
    Whatever you need to tell yourself so you can sleep at night, dude.
  • 'We're kind of at a place where the rest of the world is beginning to look to China,' Biden said was his takeaway from the remark

  • In the interview, Biden talks about his worldview and how it differs from his party's progressive left
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  The Irish are as Woke as they come. Bleeding edge of white masochism...

Today's Ireland would be a third world economy if it weren't a tax haven for US multinationals
Posted by: Black Bart Gritch9499   2021-05-22 16:14  

#10  He’s got a point re: our handling of COVID. Really could not have been worse.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874   2021-05-22 15:56  

#9  Not getting enough Tax Breaks on Irish-US Trade, pipsqueak?
Posted by: magpie   2021-05-22 14:23  

#8  Says one of the most heavy handed lockdown fever governments.

These people and their post November applause can piss right off.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-05-22 10:48  

#7  Red #6: Subtle, but well spoken.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-05-22 10:24  

#6  'Well, America can't lead. They can't even get their arms around COVID'

Which country came up with all the vaccines, asshole? It wasn't done from a pub in Dublin. Go shove a hurling stick up your ass.
Posted by: Raj   2021-05-22 08:47  

#5  To PM Martin: So?
Posted by: Clem   2021-05-22 07:35  

#4  PM Martin should only be allowed to get the Chinese Vax
Posted by: Frank G   2021-05-22 06:11  

#3  Go home Yank and raise tariffs to that of Europe + VAT.
Posted by: Glaitch Ebbineck4182   2021-05-22 04:25  

#2  Good! We need to work on ourselves, we're a mess. Ireland can go to the Devil, who cares? Their population is doomed by demographic collapse anyway.
Posted by: Albemarle Hitler9781   2021-05-22 03:47  

#1  Election coup d'é·tats can do that...
Posted by: 3dc   2021-05-22 02:15  

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