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Joe Biden | |
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| Born | November 20, 1942 Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | Statesian |
Joe Biden is the 46th and current president of the United States and has been president since January 20, 2021. Previously, he had been vice president under Barack Obama. Before that, he represented the tax haven state of Delaware as a senator for 36 years.[1][2] As a senator, he claimed that desegregation would create a "racial jungle."[3] His anti-terrorism initiative classifies people who oppose capitalism as "anarchist violent extremists."[4]
2020 Presidency
Hardly the popular favorite, Biden's victory was secured by backroom deals of ex-president Obama.[5][6]
Biden promised to increase the national minimum wage to $15 per hour, although he admitted it would not actually happen.[7][8] 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.[9]
2022 Presidency
Amazon union Scandal
Despite Biden claiming to support the Amazon union movement and unions in general[10]; the National Security Agency (under the Biden Administration) secretly re-granted Amazon a $10 billion dollar contract[11] that was granted to Amazon in August 2021.[12]
War Crimes
On February 25, 2021, Biden bombed Syria, killing 22 people.[13]
References
- ↑ "Delaware: An Onshore Tax Haven" (2015-12-10). Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
- ↑ Joseph N. DiStefano (2019-07-04). "Joe Biden’s politics can be explained by Delaware’s shadowy past" The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09.
- ↑ “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.”
Busing of Schoolchildren (1977) (p. 251). - ↑ "Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021" (2021-03-01). Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
- ↑ Glenn Thrush (2020-04-14). "‘Accelerate the endgame’: How Barack Obama nudged Bernie Sanders out of the race"
- ↑ From @eshaLegal Thread: 1. Obama helps barely coherent Biden clinch the nomination.
- ↑ Natasha Korecki, Christopher Caledago (2021-02-18). "Biden privately tells governors: Minimum wage hike likely isn’t happening" Politico. Archived from the original on 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ↑ From @eshaLegal Thread: 7. Fails to raise the minimum wage
- ↑ https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1241869418981920769
- ↑ Joe Biden (2019-10-27). "The Biden Plan for Strengthening Worker Organizing, Collective Bargaining, and Unions" Archived from the original.
- ↑ Matthew Cunningham-Cook & David Sirota (2022-5-5). "Amazon Gets Huge Contract Despite Biden’s Union Pledge" The Lever. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Frank Konkel (2021-08-10). "NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon" Nextgov. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Dan De Luce, et al. (2021-02-25). "Biden orders airstrikes in Syria, retaliating against Iran-backed militias" NBC News. Retrieved 2022-02-07.