Biden Got His Catholic Irish On

While Christian Fascists Attacked Women Back in his Real Homeland

US imperialist Joe Biden’s narcisssitic, blood and soil “homecoming” trip to Ireland should have been fucking aborted.

“Like Coming Home”  

United States (US) President Joe Biden has recently returned from four days of running around Ireland having “the time of my life” and calling his trip to the Emerald Island a “homecoming.”  Here’s CNN’s take:  

“Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in the Irish language) felt like home: ‘Tá mé sa bhaile.’ The reception was more rapturous than anything he could hope for from Congress. A day later, Biden capped his four-day visit to his ancestral homeland with a serendipitous encounter and a prime-time speech to thousands that served as a forum to thread together the deeply personal – and familiar – anecdotes that have animated his political career. ‘Being here does feels like coming home. It really does. Over the years stories of this place has become part of my soul,’ Biden said during his remarks, which were preceded by Irish music and a laser light show.”

Please give me a break.

Biden’s Irish ancestors came over to the US in the wake of the racist British genocide known as “the Irish potato famine” in the 1840s. As USA TODAY breathlessly reports, “each of Biden's Irish American ancestors were ‘famine Irish.’ They came to the U.S. between 1848 and 1855 to escape the Irish Potato Famine that ravaged the country, settling mostly in Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to work in mining.” 

So, basically, the Biden “bloodline,” to use a creepy term, is 168 years removed from Ireland.

But there was Biden trapsing all over Ireland, blabbing like a doddering narcissist about his “homecoming” while visiting the counties where his great-great-great-great grandparents (I may be off by a “great” or two) were born.

“The Most Irish US President Ever”

The US media ate it up, damn-near making it sound like Biden himself is an Irish immigrant who made good and talking about how Biden is the “most Irish US president ever.”

How so?  It’s because “10 of his 16 great-great-great grandparents are from Ireland” and because, unlike John F. Kennedy (JFK), Biden was born into a working-class family – something that “Lunch Bucket Joe” he has used repeatedly to provide a populist, blue-collar veneer for a political career spent serving the corporate and financial elite.