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Joe Biden | |
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| Born | November 20, 1942 (aged 81) Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | Statesian |
| Political orientation | Imperialism Neoliberalism |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942), nicknamed Genocide Joe,[1] is the 46th and current President of the 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.[2][3] As a senator, he claimed that desegregation would create a "racial jungle."[4] His anti-terrorism initiative classifies people who oppose capitalism as "anarchist violent extremists."[5]
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.[6]
Senate
Biden first campaigned for the Senate in 1972. Biden supported increasing CIA funding in the 1980s after Jimmy Carter tried to cut the CIA's staff by one-third. Biden supported Reagan's bombing of Libya and invasion of Grenada.
In the 1990s, Biden supported the U.S. war against Yugoslavia. He also supported Bill Clinton's $1.3 billion Plan Colombia, which helped the Colombian army kill thousands of civilians while targeting supposed guerrillas.[6]
Biden strongly supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.[7]
Vice presidency
As vice president, Biden oversaw the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen and the bombing of Pakistan and Somalia.[7]
Presidency
Hardly the popular favorite, Biden's victory was secured by backroom deals of ex-president Obama.[8][9]
Biden promised to increase the national minimum wage to $15 per hour, although he admitted it would not actually happen.[10][11] 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.[12]
Despite Biden claiming to support the Amazon union movement and unions in general[13] the National Security Agency (under the Biden Administration) secretly re-granted Amazon a $10 billion dollar contract[14] that was granted to Amazon in August 2021.[15]
In June of 2022, Biden appointed Andrew Briggs, an opponent to social security, to the Social Security Advisory board.[16]
War crimes
On February 25, 2021, Biden ordered airstrikes in Syria, a country that the United States of America is not at war with, killing 22 people.[17]
References
- ↑ Philip Weiss (2023-11-29). "Biden became ‘Genocide Joe’ thanks to the Israel lobby" Mondoweiss. Archived from the original on 2024-06-01.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-01-11). "Exclusive Series: Biden’s Foreign Policy History and What it Portends for his Presidency" CovertAction Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Benjamin Norton (2022-09-22). "In mind-blowingly hypocritical UN speech, Biden tries to rewrite history" Multipolarista. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lorie Konish (2022-08-11). "Addressing Social Security’s funding woes will take political compromise, Biden nominee to advisory board says" CNBC.
- ↑ Dan De Luce, et al. (2021-02-25). "Biden orders airstrikes in Syria, retaliating against Iran-backed militias" NBC News. Retrieved 2022-02-07.