Slightly more than half. They are born in marginally higher numbers, tend to live slightly longer, and do not have the males proclivity to die by misadventure in alarming numbers.
*listen, ik the dude who dug this up is using it for a shitty biography, but the letter does fully exist and I promise that thee President Obama will not be hurt over me posting a destiel confession meme about it*
"[President] Biden's primary point of comparison wasn't really [Franklin D.] Roosevelt; it was [Barack] Obama. By the end of their Presidency, Biden was so in sync with his boss that the pair had what the journalist Jonathan Alter described as 'secret code.' When Obama tipped back his chair in meetings, Biden took that as a cue to ask provocative questions that Obama wanted answered but didn't want to raise himself for fear of shifting the tenor of a meeting.
But Biden also chafed at the constraints of his job -- and if Obama sometimes rolled his eyes at him, he would roll his own right back. There was the tinge of class rivalry to their gibes. The lunch-pail cornball and the effete professor culturally chafing each other. Biden told a friend that Obama didn't know how to say fuck you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower."
-- Franklin Foer, on the unique dynamic of the relationship between then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama Administration, The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), available now via Penguin Press.
The other day I responded to a video that was discussing how utterly stupid Trump was. I had responded that we (America) must look like a bunch of kooks to the outside world. Man, the responses I got from people in other countries confirming what I said was accurate was an eye opener. We have become a HUGE joke thanks to this insufferable daft prick and his GOP knob heads.
#OTD Fifteen years ago, history was made. Barack Obama was sworn into office as the first Black President of the United States.
In his inaugural address, he said: “This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed; why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall; and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served in a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.”
[Image text: I want Koujaku and Noiz to be in an enemies to lovers fanfic, and at the end they fuck in front of Obama in a Starbucks and everyone including Obama claps.]
From the "People" section of TIME Magazine's February 19, 1990 issue -- on a page which included a larger story about Jenny Jones (who hadn't even started hosting her daytime talk show yet) and quick notes about Eric Clapton, Andy Rooney, and Daniel Day-Lewis:
Yeah, fine. Nobody wants to be reminded about how bad Biden is. So here's one I made about Obama. We will return to our regularly schedules programming of mocking whoever is currently in charge just as soon as democrats lose interest in my message the day after the election x.x check out @usauthoritarianism