Cunt wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:34 am
Joe wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 7:35 pm
Cunt wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 6:15 pm
Do you vote Trump then? Or 'spoil your ballot' (LOVE that euphemism!)
Neither, but I doubt you'd understand strategic voting in the US anymore than I would understand it in Canada.
Let's just say I worked to get the "best" the swamp had to offer to replace the dog that caught the car, and leave it at that.
Did you like the Biden golf story?
Don't know, it's behind a paywall.
I would say the guy dragging the country into multiple wars was the worst of the two, but to be fair, you could put congress, the senate and all of their advisors into a pail, and nearly all of them would be clamoring for one war or another.
It's why I liked mittensman. He seemed to be anti-war in his longer interview. Probably a thin scrim of polished turd with steaming politician underneath...good memes though.
Ah, yeah. Well, here's a taste.
The untold story of a brief FBI inquiry into Biden’s golf club membership
GREENVILLE, Del. — In August 2001, leaders at the exclusive Fieldstone Golf Club voted to admit a prominent new member: Sen. Joe Biden.
At the time, Biden walked a delicate line. On one hand, he campaigned as an Amtrak-riding “Middle-Class Joe” striving to make ends meet, and accurately described himself as “one of the poorest members of Congress” — reporting $221,000 in combined income with his wife that year and $360 in charitable contributions.
Yet at the same time in Delaware, Biden had deep ties with one of the wealthiest families in his small home state: the du Pont clan, founders of the international chemical company headquartered in Wilmington. Biden had recruited top staffers from the firm, served in Congress alongside a du Pont, and even bought a mansion built by the family.
Then came a new opportunity: a membership at the new golf club, which was founded by a du Pont heiress, which offered Biden access to a highflying part of Delaware society that otherwise may have been closed off to him — one that he’s continued enjoying to this day, with records showing he has visited Fieldstone at least 22 times as president, most recently playing a round and dining there in August.
But his initial entry into the club in 2001 also later raised questions for federal investigators, who had spent years probing Fieldstone and its founder, Lisa Dean Moseley, over millions of dollars in loans she gave to a local official whose help she sought getting a permit at the new golf course.
A firm controlled by Mosely had given Biden entrance to the club without the usual upfront partnership fee, according to minutes of the meeting obtained by The Washington Post, which could cost around $34,000. The minutes say her company transferred to him an “unused” ticket for entree, while noting he did have to pay membership dues and other fees.
As a result, for about one month in 2007, the FBI investigated whether Biden, then a senator, had received a monetary benefit — and whether he should have disclosed that, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the previously unreported inquiry, which went so far as to snap photos of Biden’s personal locker at the club. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an investigation. It was closed without surfacing allegations of wrongdoing by either Biden or Moseley, who died in 2016.
This previously untold story behind the investigation casts new light on how Biden has navigated his twin personas — as a penny pinching politico in a Congress full of multimillionaires, and as a striving Delawarean who spent much of his life viewing the du Ponts as privileged lodestars.
For someone raised in Delaware with Biden’s blue-collar background, “it would be quite an accomplishment” to rise into the same social circles as the du Ponts, said Joseph Hurley, a Wilmington attorney who grew up with Biden and represented Moseley.
“It’s like, ‘I’ve really arrived,’ because the du Ponts were the family, the king’s-family type thing,” he said.
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