Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

Man and I thought those jobs were going to college student unions leaders.

what "jobs"? these people are volunteering out of the goodness of their hearts

also volunteering: the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, appointed to the Biden-Harris transition team for Veterans Affairs.

in response, an open letter has been published detailing Marston’s lack of experience in improving the lives of veterans, and arguing that her cooperation and unwillingness to stop collaboration with law enforcement, as well as the CARE/CARE+ programs’ continued sweeping of local encampments and policing the “sitting, sleeping, eating, and possessing personal belongings in public space,” should disqualify a candidate to serve within Veteran’s Affairs on the national level.

“Under Marston’s leadership, unhoused veterans in Los Angeles have been subject to criminalization, inhumane sweeps and displacement, and a severe lack of resources,” one of the authors told KNOCK.LA.

Well, we can't let investors see that kind of thing, sic. Are you against smart development solutions?

can't we just leave the screenwriter of Point Break to come up with solutions to Los Angeles homelessness?

Joe Biden:

Donald Trump is the problem with our immigration policy. He's using family separation as a weapon against desperate people seeking safety and a better life.

We need to defeat Donald Trump. #DemDebate

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 1, 2019

also Joe Biden: appoints Cecilia Muñoz to his transition team, who as a top adviser to Obama on immigration affairs, defended family separation to PBS.

Ahhh. Feel that return to normalcy? Such a relief.

(Perhaps this person has been quietly lobbying Biden behind the scenes, for most of the last nine years, to be placed in an advisory position where she can campaign against the law, instead of one where she defends the law, and he is thrilled to now be able to answer this call.)

It's so cool, living in a oligarchic necro-state of exclusion that so many people seem to think still bears resemblance to a democracy!

Ahhh. Feel that return to normalcy? Such a relief.

Joe Biden:

This morning, parents all across the West — already worried about their kids being indoors because of COVID-19 — are now also waking up worried about their kids being outside.

We need a president who takes climate change seriously.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 15, 2020

Also Joe Biden: appoints Rep. Cedric Richmond, as a reward for being national co-chair to his presidential campaign, to lead the White House Office of Public Engagement, where he is “expected to serve as a liaison with the business community and climate change activists.”

Richmond's hiring was lauded by South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the most senior Black Democrat in the House and one of Biden's key allies during the 2020 campaign. "I think everybody knows I've been pushing him for this administration forever," Clyburn said. "I think it's very good for both the administration and him."

Daily Poster:

During his 10 years in Congress, Richmond has received roughly $341,000 from donors in the oil and gas industry — the 5th highest total among House Democrats. That includes corporate political action committee donations of $50,000 from Entergy, an electric and natural gas utility; $40,000 from ExxonMobil; and $10,000 apiece from oil companies Chevron, Phillips 66 and Valero Energy.

Richmond has raked in that money while representing a congressional district that is home to 7 of the 10 most air-polluted census tracts in the country.

Richmond has repeatedly broken with his party on major climate and environmental votes. During the climate crisis that has battered his home state of Louisiana, Richmond has joined with Republicans to vote to increase fossil fuel exports and promote pipeline development. He also voted against Democratic legislation to place pollution limits on fracking — and he voted for GOP legislation to limit the Obama administration’s authority to more stringently regulate the practice.

At least we don’t have to worry about him poaching Jay Inslee then!

author David Sirota

Richmond is an evil fuck, a perfect example of someone who will gladly let people die just to crow about bringing jobs to an area.

Nothing says Liberal Boomer Restoration like hiring the Chieftains for the inauguration.

https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/joe-biden-irish-band-chieftains-inauguration?fbclid=IwAR0vlhuZCumMUD9S1MUl796Rx6sVXFbjl5ZkJZJ7vIzSEw7fTZI0daoJaG8#.X7StviDKDFR.facebook

Biden is Irish FYI

IRish eyes are bidening

He'll be staying clear of Van Morrison, though, who'll be playing at Trump's anti-inaugeration.

Oh I know he's Irish. It just feels very on the nose, demographically.

Does he own an Enya CD y/n

Fun fact: his name was originally J. O'Biden

pretty sure you're not allowed to be President unless you're American, someone should let Trump know the election is invalid

Who’s more American, the Teutonic Scot or the Irishman?

The moment when @NickBryantNY asked @JoeBiden for a quick word.

He replied with a smile, “The BBC? I’m Irish.” #PresidentElect #Election2020 pic.twitter.com/gjsLCxmlLq

— Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) November 7, 2020

guys have you heard? joe biden is irish

pretty kewl

love identities they are so human

― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, November 19, 2020 6:29 AM (fourteen minutes ago)

I don't know if you've met white Americans, but I regret to inform you that Joseph Biden Jr. is not the first of them to assume that having an ancestor born in Country X ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YEARS AGO, who migrated to the US at age ten, confers upon them both ethnicity and citizenship of X.

to be fair to Biden, that was only one hundred and two years before he was born, so it feels more recent to him

I mean, it truly is insane to think that electing a Catholic to the presidency was 'radical' 60 years ago, or that my grandmother never liked her daughter-in-law (my mom) because she came from an immigrant Polish Catholic family. But that's the reality that a lot of these old people grew up in, and sadly, it seems to be the one that they still live in.

pretty common for people of joe biden's age to have grown up in areas where there were still delineated immigrant communities/areas. he probably did attend the "irish" catholic schools and church. i'm sure saying "i'm irish" can actually be traced back to something real in his experience. it probably means nothing to most people younger than 55 now. in this context, "i'm irish" was a joke. i'll grant you that it's definitely a joke for old ass americans.

Scranton-on-Shannon

My mother-in-law comes from a Polish neighborhood in Oil City Pa.. Most people of her grandparents' generation died in Poland; most people of her parents' generation were born in Poland and spoke only Polish. Most people of her generation were bilingual, and interpreted for their parents as necessary. They went to different schools from their English-speaking peers, shopped in different stores, and got Polish-language newspapers.

There are shop signs in that neighborhood that are still in Polish (as there are still in, for example, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.)

I won't necessarily say that's the same thing as Biden's jokey aside, but we sometimes forget how entrenched immigrant identities are in some ostensibly American communities.

I mean, it truly is insane to think that electing a Catholic to the presidency was 'radical' 60 years ago

It kind of still is, no? Considering that one was the first, and was killed, and Biden is the first since, making a total of 2 from 46 in over two centuries. Black men have held office for three times longer than Catholics.

Rum, Romanism, and Red Socks.

in support of this amazing moment for catholics #coexist

xp. I mean Biden actually played up the "I'm Irish, I'm a catholic" stuff because it would make him more appealing (to catholic whites, the majority of whom vote republican) while jfk had to say "I am not the catholic candidate for presidency" so it's not really the same situation

but "I'm not Catholic" was a much big seller for (checks) every president ever. White American voters not trusting Rome is a long standing tradition.

having any religion should be a disqualifier for high office tbf

Even papacy?

having any religion should be a disqualifier for high office tbf

― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Wednesday, November 18, 2020 1:29 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok, bill

new rules duh duh duh duh

Also, 7 of 9 Supreme Court justices, thanks in part to Leonard Leo of Opus Dei.

correct me if i'm off base here but catholic used to code strongly as non-white (hand-in-hand with irish and italian descent) but .. somehow i don't think it does anymore *cough* kavanaugh *cough*

My mother-in-law comes from a Polish neighborhood in Oil City Pa.. Most people of her grandparents' generation died in Poland; most people of her parents' generation were born in Poland and spoke only Polish. Most people of her generation were bilingual, and interpreted for their parents as necessary. They went to different schools from their English-speaking peers, shopped in different stores, and got Polish-language newspapers.

There are shop signs in that neighborhood that are still in Polish (as there are still in, for example, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.)

I won't necessarily say that's the same thing as Biden's jokey aside, but we sometimes forget how entrenched immigrant identities are in some ostensibly American communities.

There are stores with signs in Polish one town over from where I live in NJ.

My grandfather once told me a story about the town in Wisconsin where his father grew up; a man from what was then Czechoslovakia moved to town and learned to speak the local language from his neighbors — he thought he was learning English, but he learned Swedish.

but "I'm not Catholic" was a much big seller for (checks) every president ever. White American voters not trusting Rome is a long standing tradition.

― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, November 18, 2020 1:23 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

more people didn't vote for Biden because part of the global cabal and he's a paedo who eats children than because he's a papist

correct me if i'm off base here but catholic used to code strongly as non-white (hand-in-hand with irish and italian descent)

This is so. Italian-Americans read as white now, but didn't necessarily read as white 100 years ago.

Which is not to say their experience was the same as Black or indigenous people, just sayin.

ok, bill

(...Clinton? search results say he was officially condemned by "his church" of Southern Baptists, but also that he attended a Methodist church while president, and I'm choosing to not click through so I can assume he was condemned for the latter and not for being a great big genial sex creep)

I cleared it up with the next post

by all accounts anti-irish and anti-italian prejudice was really bad. but people of irish and italian descent in this country have done a lot of work to rehabilitate their reputation as some of the staunchest supporters of white supremacy we have, so #cryingeagle

No argument there, map

Climb the ladder then pull it up after you