When they lie and deceive the public and get preferential treatment because of the last name. 💯 they should

I understand you, and can relate. My dad was a Coastie, serving side by side with Navy men during WWII, in the north Atlantic He was a Sonarman, and may very well have detected the torpedo that sunk the ship he was on. No doubt he reported that incoming torpedo to The Bridge where the Captain and senior officers were. Which may have instituted evasive maneuvers. if there were such a torpedo on the way. Dunno if they have underwater flack), like warplanes have to ward off incoming misslles.. Obviously he survived. Half the crew didn't. Couple of hundred of his shipmates perished. He spoke next to nothing about his service in the war, except about how bad the food was. Chipped beef on toast, aka, shit on shingle. I didn't learn until his funeral when he died at an early age from ALS, , Some of his American Legion and VFW buddies were there at the funeral, and after a few strong drinks, they told me me this story about my Dad's service. They said he had tremendous survivor's guilt. So he was a hard drinker I think trying to bury that memory of when his ship was sunk, and so many people he knew died. He was a calm drunk, not loud, not abusive near as I can tell, never drank at work or before. Often falling asleep in his barca-lounger before ambling/stumbling off to bed. He had an honorable trade, Electrician, often Foreman, almost never out of work, and even Superintendent on big jobs, which he worked on in so. cal. when it was completely booming in the mid-late 60's through the booming 70's. In '80, after his diagnosis, and inability to work, I had to quit college, move back home, to go to work FT to help support the fam, which included my 5 years younger sister, still in HS until his SSDI came in, which took 9 months. For a known 99% fatal disease. Thanks SSA! Not. He drank throughout the whole thing, my mom didn't like it, couldn't stop it. Still mostly lucid, communicative, and ambulatory, when he died at home in his sleep. Probably heart attack, no sense doing an autopsy on somebody with a very fatal disease, no foul play. A fate better than most ALS patients, who linger in a nursing home for a couple of years, unable to communicate, and bed-ridden. Biden, whom I am not a big fan of and I voted for him of course, I'm a fair bit more lefty than he is. That's OK.

@@chucktingstad5636 my dad was a big drinker too, as was his whole family. we kids all stopped drinking in our mid-20's, understanding that alcoholism is a family disease. i've never been able to sus out their family problem though, why they drank so much. glad you found some answers with your father. my father died young too btw, but sober in AA. and thank you for telling your story, you are a good man for taking care of the family.

@@faithnelson6069 And thank you for sharing your story. Peace and love be with you and yours.

@@chucktingstad5636 thanks....have a lovely long weekend.

Alcoholism destroys families. I am in sober recovery 43 years and the only one in my family who is sober. My family was completely shattered from this disease -. Yes, it is a disease -I was not a bad person trying to get good -- I was a very sick young girl trying to get well. And I have “gotten well” living a life beyond anything I could have imagined and deeply grateful for the much older women who “had been through it” and really helped this very young version of me live a great life. Very very fortunate and blessed as I reflect on it all this morning! Enjoy the day! ✨🌞✨

In the narrative, Joe Sr is heavily influenced by his father (Joe Henry) and Joe Sr’s desire to do better than his father. I agree this is a commendable attribute; and Joe Jr (46) shares that same commendable attribute. Joe Sr’s problem is that he’s not the entrepreneur that Sheene (his mentor) was, but he was a drinker, much like Sheene was. Sheene drank his money away and apparently so did Joe Sr. But Joe Sr. got a taste of wealth with status and lived for a time in a Long Island mansion with his family, including Joe Jr. Years later, Joe Jr, according to the narrative, is a young widowed Senator raising two sons in a mansion. The problem, according to the narrative, it’s apparent Joe Jr struggled to keep a large home (a mansion with a ballroom) and had to wall off areas to cut back on the cost of winter heat. It seems that Joe Jr struggled to maintain the lifestyle his own father briefly introduced him to, yet all the while he sells himself as “middle-class Joe”. Apparently Hunter’s ex-wife was baffled at the notion the Joe Biden Jr family was middle-class when the boys (including Hunter) grew up in a mansion with a ballroom. So it seems that Joe Sr fared better than his father, Joe Henry, but sporadically and Joe Jr fared better than his father as a US Senator, Vice President, and President. No doubt that success is partly attributable to the conscious decision to avoid alcohol, which Joe Sr failed to do and ended up squandering whatever wealth occasionally fell his way. As a politician, Joe Jr became wealthy and managed to keep it, unlike his father and unlike his Sheene relatives.

I'll bet a lot of families have some sort of story like this. Abuse, addiction, divorce, criminality, religious issues, unplanned pregnancies, unidentified adoptions... Humans are messy and our families are messy. Being able to discover factual family history is recent, as is the opportunity to view it without personal and familial humiliation.

@@mjinba07 Somone tell this man not to say "right" every other sentence. So annoying I just gave up.

it's not much of an expose though is it? just look at the comments section; there are tonnes of folks effected by alcoholism.

It not his own reporting, it the story he discovered that is so compelling to him.

@@JohnnyCatFitz uhmm....yes it is his reporting ...the basis of his New Yorker mag article about which he is being intereviewed.

@@johngoodell2775 what I meant was that its the discovery that is highly interesting to him ,not his own writing of it.

Why?

I've found that big city magazines are given to occasional gossip pieces like this.

"Basically."

she hit him with one of the most loaded "does it matter" I've ever heard though. "yea yea all these details are nice but can you translate your findings into political capital please"

especially like Grant's story as well. From watching documentary's. How he was younger and all.

That’s a lie made up by thieves who are trying to smear Biden. 50 years in the spotlight and not one accusation until trump came along. You’re desperate

In problem solving under therapy, they often shine lights in dark corners of possibilities as they try to figure people's hangup. No admission, just rumor wishing.

Such a fool of yourself!

Obviously they did!

Your point, from your perfection

Troll

@@clarkpalace Look Joe is in the later stages of dementia this is elderly abuse. He poops in his pants this is embarrassing. Potus is supposed to be a strong leader not some old brain dead puppet. He belongs in a assisted living facility