It's The Joe Biden Appreciation Thread!!!

[AshlynCreamher]

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. born November 20, 1942 is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama and in office since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden served as a United States Senator from Delaware from 1973 until 2009.


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[trish]

Anyone know where he stands on women's rights, forced transvaginal probing and women Chancellors?

[fred41]

Creepier and too touchy feely...even for the creepy Rob Lowe.

[Ben]

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. born November 20, 1942 is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama and in office since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden served as a United States Senator from Delaware from 1973 until 2009.

All politicians are pervs -- :)

[AshlynCreamher]

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[trish]

Anyone know where he stands on men's rights, gay marriage and do police ever scream at him, "Show me your hands, Now!" ?

[AshlynCreamher]

Here's some more memorable moments of Vice President Joe Biden - Such A Inspiring Representative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMjFDfobiQ

[Stavros]

I wonder what would happen if Vice-President Biden were to meet Saint Jericho -?

[Jericho]

I wonder what would happen if Vice-President Biden were to meet Saint Jericho -?

Liar, erm, I mean lawyer, turned politician?
St. Jericho would banish him to the Isle of Mann...To be forever tormented with fiery pointy sticks shoved up his arse!

(Is it just me, or does he bare a slight resemblance to prince Charles)?

[AshlynCreamher]

07 MARCH 2015 | BY JAMES WITHERS (http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/us-vice-president-biden-repeats-support-lgbt-federal-nondiscrimination-protection070315)


US Vice President Biden repeats support for LGBT federal nondiscrimination protection





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In a Human Rights Campaign speech, the vice president of the United States chronicles the recent successes in the LGBT equality movement

The Human Rights Campaign had a special, and important, guest at its Spring Equality Convention: US Vice President Joe Biden.

The Democrat spoke to the country's largest LGBT civil rights organization yesterday, 6 March.

In the speech, Biden noted the struggle for LGBTI equality is part of the larger work for human rights.

'You have done more to liberate straight folks than you can possibly imagine,' the vice president said.

He also made a connection with the 50-year anniversary of the march on Selma, Alabama and the Stonewall Riots.

On 7 March, 1965 approximately 600 civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were attacked by police; the officers used tear gas, nightsticks, and dogs.

Four years later, in 1969, the Stonewall Riots occurred in New York City after a police raid of a gay bar.

'Although the events of Stonewall and Selma were separate movements, they were, in fact, the same movement,' Biden explained.

While acknowledging the success of the LGBT movement on open military service and marriage rights, the vice president noted there is still more to be done. especially with discrimination laws.

'We have to pass the federal non-discrimination legislation, and we need to pass it now,' Biden said.

According to the HRC, a bill will be presented to the Congress, later this spring, that 'is expected to include protections in employment, housing, public accommodations, credit, education, jury service and federal funding.'

The vice president took time to mock Republican Ben Carson. This past week, the famed neurosurgeon argued that being gay was a choice. His evidence for the theory was prison.

'It's kind of hard to fathom, isn't it,' Biden chuckled to the crowd. 'But think of the universal ridicule. That would not have happened two years ago.'

Below is a clip of Biden's speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jdvVt7C-t8

[BeardedOne]

Joe's always been a touchy-feelie kinda guy, but he did promise not to be a 'Throttlebottom' when he became VP.

[Stavros]

St. Jericho would banish him to the Isle of Mann...To be forever tormented with fiery pointy sticks shoved up his arse!


... the Isle of Man? That is harsh, cruel even.

[AshlynCreamher]

Russell bermanmar 9 2015, 6:56 am et (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/is-joe-biden-running-for-president/387115/)


Is Joe Biden Running for President?

The vice president may be an afterthought in the race for the nomination, but unlike other top Democrats, he's visited all three early primary states this year.


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There's only one prominent Democratic contender who has traveled to all three early presidential primary states so far in 2015. It's not Hillary Clinton. Nor is it Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or even Martin O'Malley.

It's Joe Biden, who may be running the most under-the-radar White House campaign of any sitting vice president in modern times. Biden made stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina last month. The appearances were all ostensibly aimed at promoting President Obama's agenda, but as the old axiom goes, no politician visits any of these states by accident, and certainly not in the calendar year before primary voters head to the polls.

The 72-year-old, generally regarded as the nation's well-meaning but goofy (and occasionally creepy) grandpa, Biden has long been considered an afterthought in the 2016 sweepstakes. The assumption: He's not crazy enough to think he could take on Hillary, his good friend and former Cabinet-mate...is he?

To hear the vice president tell it, however, that's exactly what he'll be considering over the next several months. Unlike Clinton, Biden has never been coy about his interest in seeking the presidency for the third time since 1988. Asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos in January whether he might challenge the former secretary of state, Biden replied, "Yes, there's a chance." He said he views the 2016 field as "wide open" on both sides and emphasized that he doesn't need to make a decision on the race until late in the summer. Speaking in Iowa last month, Biden also notably embraced the idea—leveled as criticism by Republicans—that the Democratic nominee in 2016 would be running for Obama's third term. "I call it sticking with what works," the vice president declared.

At the same time, Biden has made no formal moves to set up a political organization or campaign committee, hire staff and volunteers, or raise the money needed to be a viable candidate. Friends and former advisers wouldn't speak on the record about a possible Biden bid, saying the vice president told his inner circle last year that he did not want to encourage public talk about a White House candidacy for some time. His office wouldn't comment for this story, either. Yet it's clear from his travel and own remarks that Biden has not dismissed the possibility of running. His friends and allies insist the vice president is neither delusional nor is he simply positioning himself as a back-up for the Democratic Party in case Clinton forgoes the race or implodes politically.

"I can tell you without any fear of contradiction, her decision will have no impact on his," Dick Harpootlian, the former state Democratic chairman in South Carolina, told me last week. A colorful personal-injury lawyer in Columbia, Harpootlian has emerged as Clinton's chief antagonist within the party in recent weeks. When he's not telling anyone who will listen that the scandal over Hillary's secret email system will torpedo her candidacy, Harpootlian has been talking up Biden as the party's best alternative.

"This is a guy who is more knowledgeable about foreign affairs than Hillary Clinton and John Kerry put together," Harpootlian said. He pointed to Biden's proposal nearly a decade ago to partition Iraq into three parts controlled by Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. It was derided by many in the foreign policy world, including the defense secretary at the time, Robert Gates. But with the rise of ISIS, Harpootlian argued it was prescient. "Think if we had done that where we'd be today," he said. "There would be no ISIS. There would be no al-Qaeda operating in Iraq. He was ahead of his time on that, and I think everybody today agrees he was right."

In a speech to the Human Rights Campaign on Friday, Biden also touted his decision to come out in support of gay marriage before Obama in 2012, a move that annoyed the White House at the time. Clinton didn't publicly embrace marriage equality... READ MORE... (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/is-joe-biden-running-for-president/387115/)

[Jericho]

... the Isle of Man? That is harsh, cruel even.

What can I say?
I worship harsh, cruel...And sometimes, downright fukkin vengeful, goddesses! :shrug


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[trish]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/us/biden-rebukes-senate-republicans-over-letter-to-iran.html?_r=0

[dreamon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAzOIT4Ef8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxdj-ZwKNZ0

[AshlynCreamher]

Joe Biden Gaffes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAzOIT4Ef8


@ 3:20 seconds Joe say's



We want to take money and put it back in the pockets of Middle Class People - if you make 250,000 or more - you're going to pay more. You have time to be Patriotic!



I once heard someone say:
"If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he will eat for the rest of his life."


Currently our tax code is a transfer of wealth from the upper middle class to the lower middle class in the form of EBT (remember the fish a day story?) If you make more than 250k and pay 47% in taxes (that's nearly 125k) you could open a new Subway franchise that would imploy a dozen fulltime workers "but wait you have time to be patriotic!!!" Instead of creating jobs (teaching a man to fish) you can give half of your hard earned money to the government so the can (feed a man everyday)

Brilliant, just brilliant!!!

[trish]

...to the government so they can (educate the young, produce the best scientists, engineers, architects and doctors in the world, employ full time workers, service and maintain essential infrastructure). Yes...brilliant indeed. Welfare has been sharply constrained ever since Clinton's reform. Welfare has been sharply constrained ever since Clinton's reform. Nobody's eating for free (excepting a few alleged "job creators" whose offshore accounts grow while they play golf and cultivate a network of similarly wealthy and influential freeloaders). What's the alternative...trickle down? That's the system where people hold down three shit jobs on variable schedules, get no overtime pay for overtime work, and are given for their toil just enough money to buy a fish sandwich fried in grease.

[broncofan]

Simple economics says that to stimulate demand money should be in the hands of the people with the highest propensity to consume. People who earn less than 20,000 dollars a year will spend nearly all of their income whereas a person who makes a million dollars will have more than half sitting in low risk instruments. Having money in savings does not stimulate development on the supply side nor does it stimulate demand and thereby help businesses and their employees prosper.

Any sort of progressive tax system is going to be slightly re-distributive. Otherwise it would not be progressive at all. Warren Buffett said it best when he said basically that he knows not a single billionaire that has ever made a conscious decision not to develop or to invest based on a tax burden. Local tax burdens can cause a race to the bottom among competing jurisdictions, but the idea that a higher federal income rate will cause wealthy people to withhold development or investment activity is counter-intuitive.

There is simply no way to have a civilized society without some people who are at times unable to work. There is always a natural rate of unemployment, there are periods or restructuring. This is without taking into account disabilities people suffer that keep them out of the workforce in the short or long term. It would be wonderful if we could all be taught a trade and be self-sufficient, but if you think that's going to happen for 300 million people without any emergency situation ever taking a person out of the workforce temporarily or permanently you're not living on planet earth (I'm not suggesting you're an alien, a reptile or otherwise; it's an expression).

[broncofan]

but the idea that a higher federal income rate will cause wealthy people to withhold development or investment activity is counter-intuitive.

Actually, I have heard of developers only being willing to develop if they get a tax subsidy or tax credits for their development because a large project is only viable with government funding. But how close is that to the free market ideal? They are usually building something big in scale and it is considered a positive externality, like a stadium. People want sports teams and want to go to large stadiums and are okay with the government funding them.

But if something is a good investment in its own right, it does not make sense to forego investing because the profits will be taxed.

If you have a pure free market system it would eventually cannibalize itself (the customer base would reach a state of quasi serfdom). You would have such large barriers to entry in most profitable industry that the only way to make money would be to have large reserves of cash to invest. The worker would have very little bargaining power and opportunities to become an entrepreneur would be nil because of the power of economies of scale. There is also the issue of companies developing monopoly power, at which point they absolutely should be regulated because they can raise prices without suffering a commensurate loss in demand.

It's tempting to think everyone could become a fisherman (self-employed), but what if the only fish that were out there to catch required an organization of fifty people to catch? What if the fish you intended to catch had already been plucked from the waters by the thousands by industrial fishermen, leaving you, your fishing rod, and an empty pond? I absolutely believe in incentives to work and do well, but pure free market capitalism is not the American dream at all.

[dreamon]

Simple economics says that to stimulate demand money should be in the hands of the people with the highest propensity to consume. People who earn less than 20,000 dollars a year will spend nearly all of their income whereas a person who makes a million dollars will have more than half sitting in low risk instruments. Having money in savings does not stimulate development on the supply side nor does it stimulate demand and thereby help businesses and their employees prosper.

Any sort of progressive tax system is going to be slightly re-distributive. Otherwise it would not be progressive at all. Warren Buffett said it best when he said basically that he knows not a single billionaire that has ever made a conscious decision not to develop or to invest based on a tax burden. Local tax burdens can cause a race to the bottom among competing jurisdictions, but the idea that a higher federal income rate will cause wealthy people to withhold development or investment activity is counter-intuitive.

There is simply no way to have a civilized society without some people who are at times unable to work. There is always a natural rate of unemployment, there are periods or restructuring. This is without taking into account disabilities people suffer that keep them out of the workforce in the short or long term. It would be wonderful if we could all be taught a trade and be self-sufficient, but if you think that's going to happen for 300 million people without any emergency situation ever taking a person out of the workforce temporarily or permanently you're not living on planet earth (I'm not suggesting you're an alien, a reptile or otherwise; it's an expression).

Warren Buffett doesn't make decisions based on tax burdens because he makes 95% of his income in non-taxable methods.

[broncofan]

Warren Buffett doesn't make decisions based on tax burdens because he makes 95% of his income in non-taxable methods.
I don't think that's true. I think you mean he is not taxed because he doesn't liquidate his stock positions for decades. You can't be taxed in the U.S until you have a realization event; i.e. you have sold property and received the cash with which to cover your tax burden. One of the benefits of being a long-term investor is that you are not paying taxes annually because you do not realize a gain until you sell. But I don't think his positions are non-taxable (such as municipal bonds; they are merely deferred taxes, because he holds them for long periods).

The reason he says that people are not disincentivized from working is because taxes are always assessed in marginal rates. You only pay more taxes if you make more money. And you only pay taxes on net earnings, so if it is not a matter of competing jurisdictions then you are making a decision to make no money by not investing or to make significant amounts but pay taxes. I agree that large corporations may make decisions about where to have their operations based on tax rates (again if you have competing jurisdictions), but people do not decide to work less or forego profitable ventures because they pay a higher marginal rate....because their alternative is to do nothing with their capital!

[broncofan]

Warren Buffett doesn't make decisions based on tax burdens because he makes 95% of his income in non-taxable methods.
To be brief, I think almost all of his income is taxed. My understanding is just that his massive, unliquidated holdings are not classified as income.

[AshlynCreamher]

Today is the 5th anniversary of 'let's move' this years theme is: #GimmeFive challenge

Mar. 13, 2015 6:18pm Oliver Darcy (http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/03/13/a-million-arm-curls-watch-joe-biden-respond-to-michelle-obamas-gimmefive-challenge/)

'A million arm curls’: Watch Joe Biden respond to Michelle Obama’s #GimmeFive challenge

Vice President Joe Biden took part in a fun promotional video published Friday aimed at promoting first lady Michelle Obama’s #GimmeFive challenge.

While doing “calls with world leaders” the vice president is seen performing arm curls with a dumbbell.

“I do a million of these a day,” he said. “So just give me five.”

The #GimmeFive campaign is part of the first lady’s Let’s Move program which challenges individuals to list five ways they are living a healthy lifestyle.

Vice President Joe Biden pumps 'a million arm curls' in White House tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0qs5WA-4A

[AshlynCreamher]

Warren Buffett doesn't make decisions based on tax burdens because he makes 95% of his income in non-taxable methods.

Buffett himself owns 33.9% of Berkshire Hathaway and pays himself a salary equivalent to his secretary there for paying less income tax while keeping his liquid assets at a lower tax rate of 30% corporate tax Vs 47% income tax saving 17% of his total earnings :)
Owning a corp gives you the privilege of paying yourself a salary; any salary. So technically he's not doing anything wrong


Now I'm more interested in Al Sharpton $4.5 million in unpaid taxes and penalties not including Sharpton's nonprofit, which also owes $819,000

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[broncofan]

Buffett himself owns 33.9% of Berkshire Hathaway and pays himself a salary equivalent to his secretary there for paying less income tax while keeping his liquid assets at a lower tax rate of 30% corporate tax Vs 47% income tax saving 17% of his total earnings :)
Owning a corp gives you the privilege of paying yourself a salary; any salary. So technically he's not doing anything wrong

I think the main reason he doesn't pay himself a large salary is because he makes his money through investments. Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company...his core business is to buy companies in whole or in part and make money off of the increases in shareholder value. He's extremely critical of managers who get paid too much because he believes it erodes shareholder value and so he sets the same example in the holding company he runs as the companies he likes to purchase.

What would the result be if he paid himself a higher salary? He would not just be eroding the value of his 33% stake but would actually be subsidizing his own income with the stake of the other 67%. So even if he would pay a higher rate as personal income, he would be aggrandizing enough from other shareholders to make up the difference in rates.

There is also the issue of corporations being subjected to double tax. Let's say he buys coca cola with Berkshire. Berkshire would pay a corporate tax rate for coca cola when he sells it. But if he wanted to then distribute the liquid profits to himself and others as a dividend, he would also pay personal income tax. But a salary paid to himself as CEO would be an expense/deduction for the corporation and would be taxed once for him. So I don't think the low salary is a smart tax move.

[AshlynCreamher]

COLIN CAMPBELL MAR. 30, 2015, 1:17 PM (http://www.businessinsider.com/author/colin-campbell)

Watch Ted Cruz tell a nasty joke about Joe Biden


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a snarky joke about Vice President Joe Biden incorporated into his presidential campaign's stump speech.

It goes like this: "Joe Biden." That's it.

Cruz explained the zinger while speaking before a conservative New Hampshire group last Friday. Video of his speech was posted over the weekend (http://granitegrok.com/blog/2015/03/rally-ted-cruz-merrimack-nh-march-27th-conservative-business-league-nh) by the right-leaning blog Granite Grok.

"Vice President Joe Biden," Cruz said, pausing. "You know the nice thing? You don't need a punchline."

Cruz urged his audience to try his joke for themselves at a social gathering.

"The next time you go to a party, just walk up to somebody. Say, 'Vice President Joe Biden.' And close your mouth. They will crack up laughing," he promised.

Biden, who says he's looking at his own 2016 presidential bid (http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-just-gave-a-2016-speech-in-iowa-2015-2), is well known for his gaffes and social faux pas (http://www.businessinsider.com/category/joe-biden). Last month, he drew headlines by suggesting his friendship with Wilmington, Delaware, cab drivers was symbolic of his great relationship with the broader Somali-American community.

However, Cruz decided to needle Biden for suggesting warning shots from a shotgun are an effective way to defend one's home. (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/358701/flashback-biden-buy-shotgun-andrew-johnson)

"Vice President Joe Biden said, 'If anyone attacks your house, just go outside with a double-barreled shotgun and fire both barrels in the air. Now, that is very, very good advice," Cruz said, again pausing for effect, "if it so happens that you're being attacked by a flock of geese."

Update (1:54 p.m.): A Biden source told Business Insider that Cruz is already breaking his own promise (http://www.businessinsider.com/%20http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/ted-cruz-2016-negative-campaign-116486.html#ixzz3VtQ5v8Qx) to avoid negative campaigning. The source pointed to Cruz's Sunday appearance on CNN. "There may be other candidates who choose to throw rocks in my direction," Cruz said in the interview, according to Politico. "I'm not going to engage in the personal mudslinging."

Watch Cruz's full speech below. (His Biden jokes begin about 15 minutes in.)


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SEE ALSO: Joe Biden has a strange but amazing Valentine's Day message (http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-has-a-strange-but-amazing-valentines-day-message-2015-2)

[trish]

You hear the one where Ted Cruz was sneaking up onto Joe Biden's porch?

His plan was to leave a flaming bag of shit at Biden's front door.
But there was one problem. Ted brought matches and a paper bag, but he forgot the shit.

Joe shows up at the door with his shotgun...BOOM... fires it into the air and...

problem solved.

[Stavros]

Am I right in thinking that Mr Biden has a month in which to make an announcement on whether or not he going to run [sic] for the White House?

[AshlynCreamher]

By Nick Gass 3/30/15 12:08 PM EDT Updated 3/30/15 5:15 PM EDT (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/joe-biden-ted-kennedy-anecdote-116508.html)


Joe Biden remembers Teddy Kennedy with locker-room anecdote

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Vice President Joe Biden paid tribute to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy on Monday, recounting how the Massachusetts Democrat treated him “like a little brother” and became his tutor and guide when Biden arrived in the Senate.

That came with some embarrassing moments in the upper chamber’s locker room, the veep said.

Biden, speaking in Boston at the dedication of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, mentioned how Kennedy would take him into the Senate gymnasium’s locker room to meet senators, and “like in a YMCA, the men walk around the shower and the stalls with nothing on.”


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By Nick Gass 3/31/15 7:54 AM EDT Updated 3/31/15 11:05 AM EDT (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/joe-biden-ash-carter-wife-react-116541.html)


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Ash Carter: I 'laughed' at Joe Biden video

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he laughed when he saw the video of Vice President Joe Biden putting his hands on the shoulders of his wife, Stephanie, during his swearing-in ceremony last month.

“Oh, I laughed. I laughed. I laughed. They know each other extremely well, and we’re great friends with the Bidens,” he said in an interview (http://www.today.com/news/ashton-carter-defeating-isis-talks-iran-bidens-close-talking-his-2D80578405) aired Tuesday with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on the “Today” show. Carter was traveling to his high school alma mater for a speech on the future of the armed forces.

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Carter’s wife later said she was not offended by the vice president putting his hands on her shoulders and whispering in her ear, but Biden’s actions drew close scrutiny on social media and late-night talk shows.

In an interview with POLITICO last week (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/barney-frank-joe-biden-no-discipline-116360.html), former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) praised Biden but said “he can’t keep his mouth shut or his hands to himself,” adding that it has “unfortunately diminished” the public’s perception of him.

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At the end of this article on Hillary Clinton and the arguments for or against an indictment on the email case, we are told...

Biden held talks with Warren in Washington last August (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/22/joe-biden-meets-elizabeth-warren-2016) and it has been reported that he would have chosen her as his running mate if he had taken the plunge and run for president. If Clinton withdraws, that ticket could be revived.
Rich Galen, former press secretary to Vice-President Dan Quayle, says: “I think Joe Biden would be the nominee in about 25 seconds. If his son Beau hadn’t died last year, he probably would have run and he probably would have won the nomination.

“It can’t be Bernie Sanders: I don’t care what the polls say, Americans are not going to elect a democratic socialist as the president of the United States.”

DiGenova concurs: “Joe Biden would be a natural. It’s well-known in Washington that he is tanned, rested and ready.” (my bold).

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/10/hillary-clinton-emails-analysis-possible-indictment-fbi