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

I missed the bus

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I can still speak a little Polish with people in Greenpoint, so I get that old-world white, particularly Catholic immigrant communities are baked into certain geographic areas to an extent.

If anything I was trying to point out that this sort of solidarity was insane 60 years ago, and seems even more insane and outdated now.

In other words, I understand the historical context pretty well. That doesn't mean it isn't objectively crazy, or that people still carrying a torch for it are outdated loons.

No disagreement, table. Just sayin it's not all cosplay like a burn dad wearing a kilt and saying he's from Clan Wallace or whatever.

*Burb dad

Nothing has convinced me how American I am more than spending some time in other countries. My essential Americanness becomes glaringly obvious against the backdrop of other places. However, I felt more at ease and 'at home' in Ireland than other countries. So, there is a certain amount of continuity of temperament and residual attitude that can persist in families over more than a century after emigration.

Sure, totally get it. I mean, most of my mom's side of the family still lives in Port Richmond, which is still a very Polish Catholic neighborhood in Philly. I go and get some babkas and nalesniki z serem most Christmas times.

Interesting thing about that, tho: as the Mexican and Central American population in the city has continued to grow, those communities have started moving into the older working class white Catholic communities. I can get a babka and then go a block or two and get very good tacos. And a few more blocks, heroin!

Gentrification is when the tacos cost more than the heroin

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speaking of big giant sex creeps

Kensington is already plenty gentrified, tbph.

classic Kensington

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Pushing for us to adopt "Irish" pls, the punctuation matters

i think i'm presuming you're thinking about a different kensington than i am

If Joe Biden is Irish, then the Kensingtons in Philadelphia, California and Maryland are all posh districts of London, it just stands to reason

If Joe Biden is Irish, then the Kensingtons in Philadelphia, California and Maryland are all posh districts of London, it just stands to reason

I have an aunt and uncle there. They're...posh.

The Kensington in Philadelphia resembles (or did, a few years ago) the experiment from THE WIRE called Hamsterdam. Just an open-air drug market and scene of absolute abjection and societal failure.

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

Erin Brockovich is feeling it:

Dare I say, I had hopes that this new administration would usher in the dawning of a new day. As picks for President-elect Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team were announced, I felt concerned and disheartened about a chemical industry insider being on the list. Are you kidding me?

Michael McCabe, a former employee of Biden and a former deputy Environmental Protection Agency administrator, later jumped ship to work as a consultant on communication strategy for DuPont during a time when the chemical company was looking to fight regulations of their star chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) also known as C8. The toxic manmade chemical is used in everything from waterproof clothes, stain-resistant textiles and food packaging to non-stick pans. The compound has been linked to lowered fertility, cancer and liver damage. The Guardian reported this week that Harvard school of public health professor Philippe Grandjean, who studies environmental health, warns that PFAS chemicals, of which PFOA is one, might reduce the efficacy of a Covid-19 vaccine.

This smells of the dawn of the same old. To quote the Who: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

It should go without saying that someone who advised DuPont on how to avoid regulations is not someone we want advising this new administration.

PFOA pollutes the blood of nearly every American and can pass from mother to unborn child in the womb. This toxic product of industry is a stable compound not easily broken down in the environment or in the human body, giving it the nickname “forever chemical”. Scientists have found it in living beings across the globe – from animals living in the depths of the sea to birds on remote islands.

The Environmental Protection Agency has set no enforceable national drinking water limits for perfluorinated chemicals, including PFOA. Tens of thousands of community drinking water systems across the country have never even tested for these contaminants.

McCabe started managing DuPont’s communications with the EPA about the toxic chemical in 2003, according to an article in the Intercept. This was the time in which DuPont faced a barrage of litigation after the company dumped 7,100 tons of PFOA-filled waste in West Virginia, which made its way into the drinking water of 100,000 people. Countless members of the community faced debilitating illnesses as a result. The legal battle with the company was turned into the film Dark Waters in 2019.

Mind you, DuPont suspected that their product was harmful since the 1960s – experiments they conducted in 1961 showed that PFOS affected the livers of dogs and rabbits. McCabe’s work inevitably contributed to staving off costly clean-up and additional regulation headaches for the company.

The science is in. Research has linked exposure to this chemical to the following illnesses: kidney and testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, pregnancy-induced hypertension and high cholesterol.

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This newly elected president says we need to listen to the science. Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider, who is controlling the message?

Lol this fucking guy

Here's the deal: Because President Trump refuses to concede and is delaying the transition, we have to fund it ourselves and need your help.

If you're able, chip in to help fund the Biden-Harris transition. https://t.co/apJMrdpoSS

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 20, 2020

lol sure whatever Joe, ask Du Pont

jfc seriously

this more than anything trump has done put me in a despair swirl today

asking for small donations, not because they need them, but because it's good for their image. and, hey, free money!

co-opting: what real ds do best.

God I'm so sick of these two already.

ask Dianne fucking Feinstein you dessicated ghoul

absolutely fucking disgusting to stack your team with lobbyists from the most destructive industries on earth, and then ask individual citizens who are suffering and will yet suffer worse under the systems those people have built to directly pay for their resources

play some hardball and subpoena that gsa lady, what are you goons so afraid of?

America, what a country!

hahaaa holy shit that is fucking bleak

God I'm so sick of these two already.

Based on available evidence, you were sick of them individually, before they were ever on a ticket together. Have you forgotten so quickly?

I have not. Seems like you've not forgotten to keep up your "tiresome jerk" stance, either, so we're even.

Sorry to hear about the terrible election result America

Still ye seem to be taking it with the usual grace x

Not a remark about this in The Guardian either. I mean, what are the activities this is paying for? Why can't Biden get the collection plate in front of Wall St.?

Based on available evidence, you were sick of them individually, before they were ever on a ticket together. Have you forgotten so quickly?

― The Solace of Fortitude (Aimless), Saturday, 21 November 2020 bookmarkflaglink

How is this different from a Trump-like scheme? Have you forgotten so quickly?

Relax ffs

There are people across Twitter right now who are PAID to write about this shit who are outraged and shocked that Joe Biden is doing exactly what every president-elect has done for at least the past thirty years. pic.twitter.com/PPbFFLz5Vy

— Mike Hoyer (@MikeHoyer3) November 20, 2020

Did those transition funds come from big donors or small?

Most of the responses I've seen have been variations of "let DuPont/Bloomberg/etc. pay for it."

I think I read that the presidential transition act capped donations at 5k though it’s kind of funny to see certain people specifically demanding a campaign go to Lockheed etc and yelling at them for doing grassroots fundraising.

testify Big Don, this is the dawning of the age of Leftarians

it’s kind of funny to see certain people specifically demanding a campaign go to Lockheed etc and yelling at them for doing grassroots fundraising.

Is it really?

I definitely feel bad for any average schmuck who sent a nickel to Joe Biden

There are obvious ways their/our lives would improve getting the GOP out of power though. Plus Biden campaign running on public option 15 dollar minimum wage etc makes that an odd thing to say tbh.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/bidens-new-transition-team-these-are-the-tech-execs-whove-signed-up/

$15 minimum wage doesn't apply if you're an "independent contractor."

True but the campaign also explicitly supported broader efforts toward allowing gig workers to access benefits associated with employee classification

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/joe-biden-has-big-plans-to-help-protect-gig-workers-but-will-he-be-able-to-enact-them-11605179235

“Big” Plans

Hahahah

Biden phrases his asking for transition money as Trump's fault. It's also bad to be asking people who might be struggling but want to see Trump gone and are upset by his set of law suits (which are laughable but have set ppl on edge) for this money.

Well yeah it’s the Trump administration’s fault that normally public funds for transition aren’t accessible this time. All the articles about the situation have mentioned that I think.

i still blame sleepy joe. if he hadn't spent so much money intrepidly organizing an unprovable national voter fraud scheme maybe he'd have more leftover to fund the transition

Biden should just a phantom transition it's not like he is going to do anything anyway.

he should blast phantom tollbooth's power toy pulling his vette into the white house driveway for the first time in forever