WASHINGTON DC — In a move that has shocked employees around the world, Joe Biden announced today that he would be stepping out of the presidential race, making it the first time in recorded history that an ageing boomer has ever retired in order to let a younger person take their job. “Folks, I’ve had […]
I wonder why the down votes… Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?
My guess is it’s the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could’ve just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very…) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.
The blanket statement about readers ‘not being fine’ because they don’t have that kind of money also doesn’t help.
Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)