• Captain Aggravated
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    6 months ago

    You know what my main problem with Joe Biden is? I’m 37, he’s what? 79? I’ve been a citizen of the United States longer than he has. He’s spent the last three generations in either congress or the white house, and the people who do that don’t live in the same reality as the rest of us. Too many of the laws outright don’t apply to them, either because there are literal exceptions or “we don’t enforce that on them.” Joe Biden doesn’t know the first fucking thing about being an American because he hasn’t ever actually done it.

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      Joe Biden doesn’t know the first fucking thing about being an American because he hasn’t ever actually done it.

      His family struggled a lot when he grew up in a blue collar town, moved so his dad could find steady work, but still were definitely middle class. Then he worked his way through college and law school.

      We can say his decades in Congress and the presidency have corrupted him, but the idea that he hasn’t ever actually been “a real American” (the way you are using it) is an outright lie.

      You know who hasn’t? The billionaire who was born with a silver spoon in their mouth, schooled with other wealthy people in NYC, then was gifted a huge amount of to start, and then spent their entire career screwing the blue collar worker to line his own pockets.

      If Biden has never been a “real American,” then how do we describe Trump’s lack of real Americaness?

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        6 months ago

        “You think Hitler’s bad, what do you call Satan?!?! Checkmate!”

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          6 months ago

          Yes, that was clearly my argument. Good reading comprehension there and not some mindless kneejerk “muh both sides” response.

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        6 months ago

        lmao his family “suffered” because his father was a fraudster that tried to get rich on scamming the US government during the war. The stories about his blue-collar roots are as real as Kim Jong Un inventing pizza.

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      You know what my main problem with Joe Biden is?

      He’s not Putin’s choice? He gave billionaires a tax increase instead of tax cut?

      Joe Biden doesn’t know the first fucking thing about being an American because he hasn’t ever actually done it.

      You mean despite being the only US Senator who rode the bus to work every day?

      Joe Biden knows way more about being an American than you seem to.

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/06/07/remarks-by-president-biden-on-democracy-and-freedom-normandy-france/

      [Remarks by President Biden on Democracy and Freedom | Normandy, France]

      Too many of the laws outright don’t apply to them

      Which specific law does not apply to Joe Biden? You simply made that up. His son was just found guilty on a charge that almost no other person in America would even be charged with.