Biden spending Thanksgiving at lavish Nantucket home

Fox Business ^ | 11/22/2023 | Chris Pandolfo

[frank ballenger]

Ha.

I feel safe and secure knowing Captain Joe is out there with his firm steady hands on the wheel of the Ship of State.

Earlier story (before recent days off)—
According to the Republican National Committee as of August 18, 2023, Biden has spent 382 days or 40% of his presidency out of office – days spent on vacation, personal business, or just regular days at one of his Delaware homes. In essence, it is an accounting of his time away from the White House.
Sep 5, 2023

[AZJeep]

Yes. And they always get a free pass from the press.
“Just enjoin the friends company!”

When judge Thomas enjoys his friends company, they are all in arms.

[GreatRoad]

LMAO! You win the interwebs today.

[blackdog]

Lisa Wolff and Mathew Graves in attendance????

[Ann Archy]

GREAT POINT!! I BET the OBAMAS will be there also!!

[antidemoncrat]

Hey, give him a break. Where else can he dine on a gold plated turkey?

[Brian Griffin]

“spending too much time on vacation”

That is simply not possible for Joe Biden.

[Brian Griffin]

Zero at least has a place with acreage for the big bucks.

I think the season ends in early September for seashore Massachusetts.

[Brian Griffin]

“13,000-square-foot home”

How much space does one really need?

[Brian Griffin]

WIKI

David Mark Rubenstein (born August 11, 1949) is an American lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist. A former government official, he is a co-founder and co-chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, a global private equity investment company based in Washington, D.C.

Rubenstein is the chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. He is the former chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2022, he became chair of the University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees. According to Forbes, Rubenstein has a net worth of US$3.2 billion as of December 2022.

Early life and education
Rubenstein grew up as an only child in a modest Jewish family in Baltimore. His father was employed by the United States Postal Service and his mother was a homemaker. He graduated from the college preparatory high school Baltimore City College, an all-male school at the time. He then attended Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1970. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.”

Rubenstein has said that he was once offered the opportunity to meet Mark Zuckerberg (and invest in Facebook) before he dropped out of Harvard but decided against it, and this is his single greatest investment regret. Rubenstein also said that he turned down a 20% stake in Amazon during the very early years of the company. He told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that if he got lucky and everything worked out he would at most be worth $300 million.

he donated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubenstein

[lightman]

So he has a pattern of poor decision making...

...obviously still continuing.

[desertsolitaire]

He SHOULD be serving dinner to our troops in Nigeria, who are there in harmsxway, for reasons I know not.

[Wallace T.]

Rubinstein is a self-made man, and has risen to the level of a junior oligarch. If you look at his fellow directors and senior staff of the Carlyle Group, you see people of a similar stripe, high achievers with strong academic backgrounds. I am confident that none of them are MAGA supporters, and are likely either liberal Democrats or moderate Republicans. (But surprisingly, Rubinstein's wife, Alice Rogoff, chaired Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.) Perhaps a few of them flirted with Objectivism while in college, but outgrew that. They are mostly white, of mixed ethnicities, with about one third women. No evidence of senior officers from a "blue blood" Northeastern WASP background. Judging by surnames, there are a few Jews, but they do not predominate. Many of the directors and senior officers have strong academic achievement records.

The Carlyle Group is more emblematic of the American ruling class than what conspiracists conceive of. Those who desire a thorough overthrow of the established order must realize institutions like the Carlyle Group are far more an obstacle than the Uniparty or even black ops run by the FBI or other Federal or nonprofit agencies.

[Liz]

No ordinary Joe: A look back at Lunchbucket Biden’s estimated
$84M in vacation stays w/ some of America’s richest people

nypost.com by Mary K. Jacob Published Nov. 22, 2023

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Biden faces backlash for unreported vacations

These billion dollar vacation escapades paint a picture of Biden indulgence — and they haven’t escaped scrutiny.

Biden has faced backlash for failing to list these stays as gifts on his financial disclosure forms, raising ethical eyebrows and drawing comparisons to the recent scrutiny of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Reports in May raised issue with three beach getaways.

These undisclosed retreats, provided by affluent and politically linked hosts, sparked allegations of circumventing transparency norms.

The criticism escalated when ethics experts like Walter Shaub and Richard Painter, with experience spanning multiple administrations, highlighted the necessity of divulging such stays.

Painter told The Post that any gratis stay, especially if the homeowner isn’t present, should be meticulously disclosed, a sentiment echoed by Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics under Obama.

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Many pics and elaborate details of the Biden’s multiple “vacations” at homes of billionaire Dems here:

https://nypost.com/2023/11/21/real-estate/joe-and-jill-biden-returning-for-thanksgiving-at-billionaire-david-rubensteins-39m-nantucket-estate/