He's all about "family"

Except, y’know, when he isn’t.

President Biden won’t acknowledge his youngest granddaughter. It turns off even some supporters.
PHILADELPHIA − Louis Snipe admires President Joe Biden. He has a much different opinion of Grandpa Joe Biden.

Snipe, a Lyft driver who spent years repairing pool tables, credits Biden for rebuilding the economy and restoring dignity to the White House.

Yet Snipe has trouble squaring his support with one of Biden's family decisions: Biden's refusal to acknowledge the existence of his 4-year-old granddaughter in Arkansas whom his son Hunter Biden fathered out of wedlock.

"If my children have children, they're my children," said Snipe, 70, himself a grandfather of five, speaking over a Curtis Mayfield jam on the radio and through a face mask to a backseat passenger. "It amazes me – I’ll put it that way.”

Biden's image as a family man who values decency and compassion is central to the political identity he has fostered over five decades in public office. But those virtues have taken a hit as Biden publicly recognizes only six grandchildren and fails to mention the girl born to Hunter Biden and 32-year-old Lunden Roberts, whom Hunter met during the peak of his well-documented battle with drug addiction.

"If that's the case, that's fine, but just admit that you have a seventh grandchild," said Beth Binns, 78, a grandmother of seven and a retired receptionist from Philadelphia who votes Republican. "You can't leave that child out in the cold. I think it's a disgrace. And he calls himself a Christian, a Catholic?”

Republican candidates have attacked the president over not acknowledging his granddaughter, suggesting it shows a lack of empathy.

Yet even among Democratic supporters in Philadelphia − a city Biden carried with more than 80% of the vote in 2020 and where he kicked off his 2020 campaign − the question doesn't sit well with all, particularly among fellow grandparents who can put themselves in the president's shoes.

Mr Family Guy finally did acknowledge the poor tyke as his granddaughter, after having been dragged kicking and screaming into it, mostly by some really godawful poll numbers.

Joe Biden finally acknowledged his 4-year-old grandchild Navy-Joan in a statement to People Magazine on Friday.

“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward,” the Bidens told People. “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy,” Biden said.

Hunter and Lunden Roberts had a brief fling in late 2017 at around the same time Hunter was dating his older brother Beau’s widow. The pair reportedly met at a strip joint in Washington, D.C. where Roberts worked under the stage name Dallas.

The entire Biden family had shunned the child since she was born the following August.

It should probably be noted that not too long ago, shunning the bastard get of an irredeemable bum produced by a random roll in the hay with some wanton HOOOER was standard practice amongst all “decent” and “upstanding" people.

Which, as far as I’m concerned, was every bit as wrong then as it is now; visiting the sins of the father upon an innocent child as if the accident of her birth was somehow her fault is just plain cruel, and should never be acceptable—not in any time, place, or circumstance. Period fucking DOT.

Hunter initially denied being the child’s father, and at one point was threatened with contempt of court over his failure to supply needed documents in the case. A DNA test was forced by a court, and even after Hunter was found to be the father, he continued to fight in court against paying child support and supplying financial records.

In January, he fought in court to bar the child from using his surname. Roberts also argued that the Biden name would open up opportunities for the girl “just like it has for other members of the Biden family,” but Biden’s lawyer argued in response that his surname would rob the child of a “peaceful existence” because it has become a lightning rod for criticism.

Joe Biden’s change of heart toward his granddaughter comes two days after a poll found a supermajority of respondents said that Biden should acknowledge the existence of his seventh grandchild.

Many Americans found it hard to stomach the First Family’s lack of support their granddaughter, especially after they omitted a Christmas stocking for Navy Joan at the White House, but included stockings for their dog and cat.

All this, mind, after Biden familia bagman Hunter had unilaterally reneged on a child-support agreement which had been in force for more than two years, which culminated in Fredo Hunter seeking a 75% reduction in his payments to the daughter whose paternity he unsuccessful tried to deny, pleading “poverty."

Hunter Biden cries poverty in trying to slash child support for 4-year-old
Hunter Biden is trying to get his child support payments for his 4-year-old love child lowered by claiming a substantial change to his “financial circumstances,” according to court documents.

President Biden’s son, 52, has asked an Arkansas judge to recalculate the child support payments he makes to Lunden Roberts, 31 — the mother of the daughter he’s never met, according to a Monday court filing obtained by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Hunter cited “a substantial material change” in his “financial circumstances, including but not limited to his income,” for the reason behind his request.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the change in Hunter’s income was.

Thankfully, the whole mishegoss was eventually cleared up and a mutually-satisfactory agreement arrived at (bold mine).

Hunter Biden settles long-running child support case in Arkansas
Under the terms of the deal, the president's son will pay monthly support until the child turns 18. He will also give the child an undisclosed number of his paintings

As part of the agreement, Biden will pay an undisclosed amount in child support until the child turns 18 and assist in setting up a college fund.

He will also give the child an undisclosed number of his paintings, which will "vary in size with a minimum size of 24 by 24," the court filing said. "The child shall select the painting," and any money from sales of the artwork will be wired to an account selected by Roberts, the filing said.

Republicans and ethics experts have been critical of Biden's recent art career, particularly because a gallery was planning to sell some of the works for up to $500,000 apiece.

The court filing says that as part of the settlement, Roberts is withdrawing her request to change the child's last name to Biden.

Biden initially denied that he was the father of the child, but a paternity test “established with scientific certainty” that he was, Roberts has said in court filings.

Basically, then, what we’re left with is a four-year-old girl whose whole life so far has consisted of an ongoing series of court battles trying to force Biden fils to admit he’s her father, and strongarming Biden pere to openly admit what everyone already knows: that he in fact has seven grandchildren, not six. Gee, wonder if that’s gonna leave any residual emotional damage?

What a guy, eh? If you ever wondered how it came to pass that Hunter is so profoundly, profligately fucked the fuck up, the answer isn’t too terribly hard to descry. Just a quick glance at his decrepit, vicious “father,” along with his greedy, grasping, overly-ambitious step-mom “Dr” Jill, makes the answer all too apparent.

Once again, we see the wisdom of the old homilies: like father, like son; as the twig is bent so grows the tree, from which the apple never falls very far, &c. The Biden Crime Syndicate are all peas from the same pod, pluperfect examples of absolutely everything wrong with this ersatz nation today.