Editing Joe Biden

{{Infobox politician|name=Joe Biden|image=Joe Biden.png|image_size=200|birth_date=November 20, 1942|birth_place=Scranton, [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States of America|United States]]|nationality=Statesian|political_orientation=[[Imperialism]]<br>[[Neoliberalism]]|political_party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]}}

'''Joe Biden''' is the 46th and current [[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] and has been president since January 20, 2021. Previously, he was vice president under [[Barack Obama]], and he was also a senator in the [[tax haven]] state of Delaware for 36 years.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy|title=Delaware: An Onshore Tax Haven|date=2015-12-10|url=https://itep.org/delaware-an-onshore-tax-haven/|archive-date=2022-05-09}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|author=Joseph N. DiStefano|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|title=Joe Biden’s politics can be explained by Delaware’s shadowy past|date=2019-07-04|url=https://www.inquirer.com/business/joe-biden-delaware-roots-segregation-moderate-democrats-20190704.html|archive-url=https://archive.ph/Z3t5I|archive-date=2022-05-09}}</ref> As a senator, he claimed that desegregation would create a "racial jungle."<ref>{{Citation|year=1977|title=Busing of Schoolchildren|page=251|quote=Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.|title-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112104078842&view=1up&seq=255}}</ref> His anti-terrorism initiative classifies people who oppose [[capitalism]] as "[[Anarchism|anarchist]] violent extremists."<ref>{{News citation|date=2021-03-01|title=Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021|url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_0301_odni_unclass-summary-of-dve-assessment-17_march-final_508.pdf|newspaper=Office of the Director of National Intelligence}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Biden opposed the 1960s counter-cultural movement. He avoided the [[Vietnam War]] draft for medical reasons and then condemned students protesting against the war.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Jeremy Kuzmarov]]|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=Exclusive Series: Biden’s Foreign Policy History and What it Portends for his Presidency|date=2021-01-11|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/01/11/exclusive-series-bidens-foreign-policy-history-and-what-it-portends-for-his-presidency/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005151439/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/01/11/exclusive-series-bidens-foreign-policy-history-and-what-it-portends-for-his-presidency/|archive-date=2022-10-05|retrieved=2023-01-06}}</ref>

==Senate==
Biden first campaigned for the Senate in 1972. Biden supported increasing [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] funding in the 1980s after [[Jimmy Carter]] tried to cut the CIA's staff by one-third. Biden supported [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]'s bombing of [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|Libya]] and invasion of [[People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)|Grenada]].

In the 1990s, Biden supported the U.S. war against [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]]. He also supported [[Bill Clinton]]'s $1.3 billion [[Plan Colombia]], which helped the [[Republic of Colombia|Colombian]] army kill thousands of civilians while targeting supposed guerrillas.<ref name=":0" />

Biden strongly supported the [[Iraq War|U.S. invasion of Iraq]] in 2003.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=[[Benjamin Norton]]|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=In mind-blowingly hypocritical UN speech, Biden tries to rewrite history|date=2022-09-22|url=https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/22/un-speech-biden-war/|retrieved=2022-02-24}}</ref>

== Vice presidency ==
As vice president, Biden oversaw the U.S. invasions of [[Afghanistan]], [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|Libya]], [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]], and [[Republic of Yemen|Yemen]] and the bombing of [[Islamic Republic of Pakistan|Pakistan]] and [[Federal Republic of Somalia|Somalia]].<ref name=":1" />

==Presidency==
Hardly the popular favorite, Biden's victory was secured by backroom deals of ex-president Obama.<ref>{{News citation|author=Glenn Thrush|title=‘Accelerate the endgame’: How Barack Obama nudged Bernie Sanders out of the race|date=2020-04-14|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-barack-obama-bernie-sanders-democrats-20200414-tdpw52c46vgqjjevu54attf4yu-story.html}}</ref><ref>From @eshaLegal Thread: [https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1369386575176556559?s=20&t=4mb43w-AHpOedR8LyujW2g 1. Obama helps barely coherent Biden clinch the nomination.]</ref>

Biden promised to increase the national [[minimum wage]] to $15 per hour, although he admitted it would not actually happen.<ref>{{News citation|author=Natasha Korecki, Christopher Caledago|newspaper=Politico|title=Biden privately tells governors: Minimum wage hike likely isn’t happening|date=2021-02-18|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324114238/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898|archive-date=2022-03-24|retrieved=2022-05-01}}</ref><ref>From @eshaLegal Thread: [https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1369391701509480456?s=20&t=4mb43w-AHpOedR8LyujW2g 7. Fails to raise the minimum wage]</ref> He additionally promised to cancel "a minimum of $10,000" in [[student debt]] per borrower, however this has yet to come to fruition over two years later.<ref>https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1241869418981920769</ref>

Despite Biden claiming to support the [[Amazon.com, Inc.|Amazon]] union movement and unions in general<ref>{{Web citation|date=2019-10-27|author=Joe Biden|title=The Biden Plan for Strengthening Worker Organizing, Collective Bargaining, and Unions|url=https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/}}</ref> the [[National Security Agency]] (under the Biden Administration) secretly re-granted Amazon a $10 billion dollar contract<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-5-5|title=Amazon Gets Huge Contract Despite Biden’s Union Pledge|author=Matthew Cunningham-Cook & David Sirota|newspaper=The Lever|url=https://www.levernews.com/amazon-gets-huge-contract-despite-bidens-union-pledge/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.levernews.com/amazon-gets-huge-contract-despite-bidens-union-pledge/}}</ref> that was granted to Amazon in August 2021.<ref>{{Web citation|title=NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon|url=https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2021/08/nsa-awards-secret-10-billion-contract-amazon/184390/|date=2021-08-10|author=Frank Konkel|newspaper=Nextgov|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2021/08/nsa-awards-secret-10-billion-contract-amazon/184390/}}</ref>

In June of 2022, Biden appointed Andrew Briggs, an opponent to social security, to the Social Security Advisory board.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Lorie Konish|newspaper=CNBC|title=Addressing Social Security’s funding woes will take political compromise, Biden nominee to advisory board says|date=2022-08-11|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/11/changes-to-fix-social-security-to-take-compromise-says-biden-nominee.html}}</ref>

=== War crimes ===
On February 25, 2021, Biden ordered airstrikes in [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]], a country that the United States of America is not at war with, killing 22 people.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Dan De Luce, et al.|date=2021-02-25|title=Biden orders airstrikes in Syria, retaliating against Iran-backed militias|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-bombs-facilities-syria-used-iran-backed-militia-n1258912|newspaper=NBC News|retrieved=2022-02-07}}</ref>

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