Joe Biden is the President of the United States and, per his own testimony, a former lifeguard at Baltimore’s inner city Mempool, where he brought peace to the blocks in the 1960s. He is under the medical care of Dr. Jill Biden, the Bugleverse’s leading climate cardiologist.

Arc history

Biden’s first canon appearance was adversarial and secondhand: Senator Ted Cruz‘s proposed 17.76-megabyte block size was declared symbolic of “fighting the tyranny of Joe Biden and the Democratic party” (Ted Cruz Denounced By Core Devs, 2023-03-07).

He spoke for himself the next day, on stage in Baltimore, recounting his lifeguard years at the Mempool — “a clogged up and tough gig” — including his stare-down of local tough Cornpop (“Listen here, Cornpop, you’re not gonna mess with me or the Bitcoin blockchain”) and the children who played with his leg hairs while making low-fee, lightweight Ordinal Inscriptions before they got into the blocks. The speech trailed off incomprehensibly at intervals, which the audience attributed to chlorine fumes, and concluded with the President walking toward an ice cream stand before spotting a small child to smell (Joe Biden Brings Peace to Inner City Mempool).

irl: Joe Biden was the real 46th U.S. President. The Mempool speech remixes his genuine, oft-told stories — the 1962 Wilmington pool lifeguard job, “Corn Pop was a bad dude,” and the leg-hair riff — with the mempool (Bitcoin’s queue of unconfirmed transactions) and the early-2023 Ordinals inscription craze. The ice cream and sniffing are standard-issue Biden memes.

Appearances

In the news (2)

• Ted Cruz Denounced By Core Devs After Suggesting To Texify Bitcoin — 2023-03-07, invoked as tyranny
• Joe Biden Brings Peace to Inner City Mempool — 2023-03-08, headline subject