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SECOND: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
*yawn*
Get a life, loser.
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The Untold History of the Biden Family
(The final sentences in this long story, from Biden’s cousins: “They ended up in the White House. We ended up in the trailer park.” Other choice quotes from Biden’s poor white trash relatives: “I used to stop and think a lot, What in the world ever happened to all the money? And there was never anybody to explain it to me.” and “I’m so glad that Bill died of pancreatic cancer and not alcoholism. I feel like the chain was broken.” )
Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol.
By Adam Entous
August 15, 2022
Joe Biden, Sr., revealed little about his tumultuous personal and business dealings with his cousin Bill Sheene, Jr.
In 2019, I wrote a piece for this magazine about Hunter Biden, the younger son of the current President, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Hunter, describing his childhood in Wilmington, Delaware, told me that after church his father would sometimes drive him and his brother, Beau, through wealthy neighborhoods, where they would sneak onto empty estates that were either abandoned or on the market. If the front door was locked, the boys’ father would hoist them through a second-floor window, and they would run downstairs and let him in. If a real-estate agent arrived when they were there, Biden, who at this point was a senator, would charm the agent into giving them a tour.
Hunter insisted that he grew up middle class, but his family lived on an estate of their own—a ten-thousand-square-foot mansion with a ballroom. (His father, on a tight budget, would close off large sections with drywall to save on heating costs.) “Even as a kid in high school I’d been seduced by real estate,” Biden wrote in his 2007 memoir, “Promises to Keep.” The fixation seemed anomalous, almost self-defeating, for someone who wanted to be known as Middle-Class Joe.
One of Biden’s skills as a politician is his ability to connect with working-class and middle-class Americans. In speeches, he often emphasizes his modest upbringing. “I grew up in a family where, if the price of food went up, you felt it,” he said in his 2022 State of the Union address.“I remember when my dad had to leave our home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to find work.” And yet the anecdotes I heard about Biden’s father, Joseph Robinette Biden, Sr., told a different story. He was working at a car dealership when his son was elected to the Senate, in 1972, but according to Jimmy Biden, one of the President’s younger brothers, his father’s idea of casual attire was a sport coat and an ascot. Biden, in his memoir, wrote about opening a closet and finding his father’s polo mallet, equestrian boots, riding breeches, and hunting pinks—items that suggested a past life of privilege. At one point, Biden, Sr., had a lot of money, but he lost it all, for reasons that went mostly unexplained. “I never asked him much about his life, and he didn’t offer,” Biden wrote.
On top of the family’s fraught relationship with class is a tragic history with alcohol. Hunter has had issues with drinking and substance abuse, which, along with his controversial business dealings, have been weaponized by his father’s political opponents. If Republicans take over the House of Representatives in November, they plan to hold more hearings focussed on Hunter.
The President considers alcoholism a kind of family curse. After growing up around hard-drinking relatives, he chose to abstain from alcohol. He also urged his siblings, and, later, his children, not to drink, although all of them eventually did—some in moderation, others to the point of addiction.
Relatively little has been written about the life of Biden, Sr., or about the Biden family’s history. The earliest and most detailed study is in Richard Ben Cramer’s 1992 book, “What It Takes,” a lengthy, character-driven account of the 1988 Presidential campaign. But Biden, Sr., wouldn’t speak with Cramer, and the journalist relied mostly on interviews with Jimmy Biden—who shared family s
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What, are you Joe*'s fluffer now?
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Quote:The amusing part of that Biden story was that Biden's relatives are angry poor white trash. They are angry because they believe America owes them a better life, but alcohol and being obnoxious got in the way of them rising in America. If only they weren't addicted to many common substances, they would be President, too.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What, are you Joe*'s fluffer now?
The final sentences in this long story, from Biden’s cousins: “They ended up in the White House. We ended up in the trailer park.” Other choice quotes from Biden’s poor white trash relatives: “I used to stop and think a lot, What in the world ever happened to all the money? And there was never anybody to explain it to me.” and “I’m so glad that Bill died of pancreatic cancer and not alcoholism. I feel like the chain was broken.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20220819040053/https://www.newyorker.com/m
agazine/2022/08/22/the-untold-history-of-the-biden-family
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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President Biden @POTUS tweeted:
It's now law that big corporations pay a minimum 15% tax on the profits they report to their shareholders, instead of getting away with paying zero dollars in federal income taxes.
6:00 PM · Aug 18, 2022·The White House
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1560401151941611528
Joe Biden stated on April 7, 2021 in remarks at the White House:
“A new, independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations used various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/12/joe-biden/fact-check
ing-joe-biden-corporation-taxes/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
President Biden @POTUS tweeted:
It's now law that big corporations pay a minimum 15% tax on the profits they report to their shareholders, instead of getting away with paying zero dollars in federal income taxes.
6:00 PM · Aug 18, 2022·The White House
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1560401151941611528
Joe Biden stated on April 7, 2021 in remarks at the White House:
“A new, independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations used various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/12/joe-biden/fact-check
ing-joe-biden-corporation-taxes/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Joe Biden* didn't tweet shit. Joe Biden* doesn't even know what a computer is.
Maybe he should have Hunter give him lessons. Hunter knows a lot about computers except for security.
Oh... and P.S.
The corporations won't be paying shit either.
You and I are going to foot that bill. We'll just call it yet another example of Joe Biden* lying to Americans when he said that anyone making under $400k per year wouldn't pay any more taxes under his administration. There's a lot of examples of that already. This is just another to add to the list.
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The Last Straw for people with marginal incomes (Versus the Plentiful Life of a Capitalist)
The first to suffer the consequences of the most recent round of inflation were those who had been subsisting on marginal incomes. This was a lot of Americans. Before inflation, they were barely making ends meet because too much of their too little income was going towards housing. In a more balanced economy, housing would cost about one-third of one’s income. Today, it is often one-half and more. Fair to say that too many Americans are not being paid enough; that their wages need to go up substantially. Also fair to say that, even if the minimum wage was doubled, housing would still be too high for many working class Americans. Fair to say that too many retired Americans are paying twice as much and more for rent than they can afford.
‘Supply and demand’ is the explanation usually given for how the housing market works. Given today’s disparity between incomes and rents, for many renters, obviously, neither ‘supply and demand’, nor the ‘market, are ‘working’. ‘Supply and demand’, as per usual, at best, describes the after-the-fact; not the cause. The term itself implies a market solution is at hand when there is little evidence of markets ever being the solution to housing. If they were, it was by happenstance, and then, usually too late. There is a lot more evidence that housing is a necessity, and thus shouldn’t be a commodity. That housing is one of those basic necessities which an economy should provide.
Of late, the role of markets in rental housing is a highly manipulative one being manipulated by financialists like Stephen Schwarzman, et al, who buy up rental units (gain control of supply), then raise rents. For these financialists, the applicable market is one of getting the most for rentals. Hardly a market at all, it is more a game in which they, the financialists hold all the cards. They have no interest in providing renters a fair shake. There being no shortage of renters; they tell the renter; if you want to rent, you rent from me at my price. For the financialists, it is all about squeezing the last drop of blood from the turnips. Let’s don’t even call it a market; it isn’t. The buyer doesn’t get to choose between suppliers. First your money, then your clothes; first your housing, then your job. Many of America’s homeless are so because of this manipulation of the rental housing ‘market’ by very wealthy financialists.
This financialization of rental housing combined with the feudalistic economic model of the south that has now spread across the Nation has created a modern version of sharecropping. A combination that has become a nightmare for so many American workers. They were imprisoned in this endless cycle of poverty. Then, along came inflation. Exorbitantly high rents and low wages/incomes were the reason so many Americans are marginalized; the reason for their being so vulnerable to this round of inflation.
The financialization model for rental housing is now in the U.K., Ireland, Portugal, …. In these countries, as in America, millions of seniors are being evicted because they can’t afford the ‘new’ rents.
For many of America’s marginalized, this most recent round of inflation was the straw that broke their backs. Only in America would it be OK for the Oil Companies to rake in record profits while so many working people couldn’t afford gasoline for their cars so that they could get to work. Only in America would it be OK for the price of groceries to double, suppliers’ profits to soar, while people go without food because they can’t afford to eat after paying the rent. Only in America would it be OK for pharmaceuticals to rake in record profits while so many must decide between their prescription medicines, paying rent, and feeding their families. Only in America would it be OK for financialists like Stephen Schwarzman to make $billions off people who are struggling to make ends meet. Only in America could these things be happening and the media would only talk about inflation.
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Oh. Rents are high?
I didn't notice. 
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Quote:You would be able to experience what it feels like to be a true Capitalist if you were a landlord. Twelve month leases with an automatic increase of 20% in rent when renewing would give you the experience of seeing desperation in the faces of your tenants confronted with the choice of either moving out or going hungry.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. Rents are high?
I didn't notice.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You would be able to experience what it feels like to be a true Capitalist if you were a landlord. Twelve month leases with an automatic increase of 20% in rent when renewing would give you the experience of seeing desperation in the faces of your tenants confronted with the choice of either moving out or going hungry.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. Rents are high?
I didn't notice.
Don't pretend to care now. I'm making fun of YOU here.
I've been talking about rent prices along with all the other ways Americans are being financially fucked all year long.
You're only finally piping up about it because your Legacy Media Masters have conceded that it is a problem and they finally put together a list of apologistic propaganda for idiots like you to parrot.
I figured out all of this was coming decades ago. I didn't know when, but I knew it would. One might argue that I did too good in preparation, giving me a means to destroy myself for 5 years without being thrown out on my own ass without a nickel to my name.
But I woke up earlier than most. I'm hoping now that a lot of others are finally waking up they don't go right back to sleep whenever (and if ever) a more competent governing body comes along to fix what the current regime broke.
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