https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-biden-capitol-riot-trump-b3706850266109be341a2cce783931e6 President Joe Biden tore into former President Donald Trump in a speech Friday, describing his likely Republican opponent as a wannabe authoritarian who is willing to destroy a quarter-millennium of American democracy to hold on to power.
“As we begin this election year, we must be clear: Democracy is on the ballot,” Biden said at Montgomery County Community College outside of Philadelphia. “Your freedom is on the ballot.”
Though Biden has repeatedly delivered speeches warning about the threat the Trump-led Republican Party poses to democratic institutions, Friday’s speech was noteworthy for the sheer number of direct attacks on Trump, whom he has tried to avoid focusing on for the first half of his presidency. He noted the former president’s recent use of rhetoric echoing Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his expressed desire for “revenge,” and he suggested Trump was not only a threat to Americans’ voting rights but also their broader freedoms. He called his predecessor “sick” for laughing about the October 2022 attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul.
“Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America, not you,” Biden said. “Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy to put himself in power.”
Though the speech’s timing may seem obvious (it was scheduled for Saturday, the third anniversary of the U.S. Capitol attack, but was moved up because of an approaching winter storm), the location was also important. Biden contrasted the sacrifices made by Gen. George Washington’s troops at nearby Valley Forge and Washington’s decision two decades later to allow for a peaceful presidential transfer of power to Trump’s own refusal to accept his reelection defeat.
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“Donald Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election. Every one,” Biden said. “But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth: that I had won the election and he was a loser.” Trump’s campaign responded to Biden’s speech by claiming the “radical left Democrats” are the ones who pose a threat to democracy, arguing that the multiple investigations of Trump’s role in the insurrection, his handling of classified documents and his hush-money payments to a porn star were all part of a liberal plot to bring him down. “The bottom line today is that Joe Biden has given up on running an issues-based campaign for 2024,” Jason Miller, a top adviser to Trump, wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Rather than help those suffering from Bidenomics or our porous southern border, Biden plans on weaponizing government against his leading political opponent.” Biden delivered the speech even as faith in American democracy, battered by Trump’s authoritarianism, years of congressional dysfunction and decades of growing economic inequality, was at all-time lows. A recent poll from Gallup found just 28% of Americans were satisfied with the way democracy was working in the United States, a record low. Many Democrats have been eager for Biden to begin defining the 2024 race as a referendum on the choice between himself and Trump, hoping the contrast will remind voters of Trump’s deficiencies and lift Biden’s weak approval ratings. (The two men are essentially tied in public polling.) Biden’s campaign has said it hopes rhetorically raising the stakes of the election will engage tuned-out voting blocs that have drifted away from the president.
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The speech comes as Biden’s reelection message shifts from trying to sell “Bidenomics” ― a slogan that ended up being derided by Democrats and doing little to concretely improve the president’s image ― and toward a focus on Trump and the threat his authoritarian tendencies pose to the country. The campaign released a television ad touching on similar themes earlier this week. “I refuse to believe that in 2024, we Americans will choose to walk away from what has made us the greatest nation in the history of the world: freedom, liberty,” Biden said. “Democracy is still a sacred cause.”
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When did Democracy become a buzzword?
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>>1253901 Why do authoritarians like you treat Democracy as a buzzword?
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>>1253903 I think he means as opposed to democratic republic, and how just using the phrase democracy sort of cuts out or obfuscates the actual political process and possibly makes people believe that have more power than they really do.
theonedemcracy commiesitsself
>>1253898 It aint a democracy til there's an option to destroy it. like giving communism a chance to be freely voted in
if you prick us, do we not genocide?
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>>1253913 >>>1253898 (OP) democratic communism is an oxymoron aka a contradiction in terms aka nonsense.
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>>1253903 >Odormachracy Well, quit using it as a buzzword
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>>1253903 "Democracy" just means "Do what the DNC tells you or we will kill you and destroy family."
Its extortion under the guise of a fake friendliness.
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>>1253903 because boomers think democracy is the opposite of authoritarianism, so if they use the word "democracy", it can't be authoritarianism.
doesn't matter. they're dying out anyway, which is why the legacy media, unskilled professors, and president shitshimself are so assmad.
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>>1253920 >Using DNC unironically post 2016 So you're a russian shill, gotcha
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>>1253928 Does the DNC not exist anymore?
I think you need to explain your reasoning here.
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>>1253928 are the russian shills in the room with us right now?
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>>1253898 >Democracy is on the ballot not if Colorado or Maine get their way.
Has Biden been asked to weigh in on removing Trump from ballots yet? I would love to hear him go on the record saying that he thinks that his political opponent should be banned from running because the US should be a one-party state.
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>>1253928 Shut up retard.
Being unironically retarded is a competition amongst you leftfags lately on /news/
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>>1253930 >>1253941 >>1253974 The Russian shills are angry after being called out.
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>>1253987 So, no reason that using "DNC" makes one a Russian?
Makes sense. Quit the Internet, faggot.
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>>1253995 still no denial, just anger at being accurately called out
maybe mix up your talking points if they're so recognizable?
ask your supervisor for suggestions
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>>1253999 Well, it's hard to argue with those digits.
So I guess you're right.
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Donald J Trump
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>>1253898 Nobody important watched or cared.
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>>1254022 imagine only representing 20% of the country and pretending that you're anywhere near the majority.
tick tock, extinctions coming
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>>1253920 >literally the tactics of the maga party ok shill
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>>1253920 Pretty much this.
Democrats are two faced as fuck. Whatever the DNC distributes to them via propaganda they believe and follow without question.
No thoughts of their own.
Simple minds.
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>>1253898 3 years later and democrats have nothing to campaign on other than the 1/6 nothingburger. kek
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>>1254092 >jobs >wages up >inflation down >healing economy >more local oil production >weed pardons list goes on cunt, and no none of this is because of donnie dipshit.
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>>1254140 >muh economy I guess Zoomers can all afford to buy nice houses then right? And NYC isn't facing an economic crisis due to Biden's border policies
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>>1254145 you mean abbott's busing policies
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>>1254147 >Republican Human trafficking Fixed
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>>1254153 Why did democrats vote for human trafficking?
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>>1254147 >>1254153 Where did Republicans get all of these humans to traffic? Who let them into Texas?
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I vote Democrat because I believe every Texan should have a stable filled with Mexican sex slaves. USA! USA! USA!
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>>1254160 Republicans voted for sanctuary cities and to not comply with ICE?
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>>1254161 Why are Republicans engaging in human trafficking?
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>>1254163 They're not, you're just schizophrenic. Next question.
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>>1254195 that actually makes a lot of sense. thanks, i'll take my meds now.
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>>1254163 How is suing humans for your political agenda and literally lying to them and tricking them into busses to traffic them to areas where you can use those humans for political gain.
Sounds like human trafficking to me.
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>>1254200 >literally lying to them and tricking them into busses that never happened. everyone that was transported signed a waiver of consent.
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>>1254201 Even if it did happen, so what? They need to get the fuck out.
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>>1254211 >the immigrants signed them So they signed legally binding consent forms? Thanks for clarifying.
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>>1254211 Well, the people weren't legal so it doesn't matter.
Refer to their immigration papers.
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>>1254215 They were neither legally binding or consent forms, but they did sign the papers, true.
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>>1254219 The form explicitly grants consent on behalf of the signee. It became legally binding when they signed it.
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>>1254218 >so it doesn't matter Sorry but it does matter
>Tallahassee-based immigration attorney Elizabeth Ricci explains there's a "good faith argument" to be made that luring the migrants onto planes with the promise of jobs makes them crime victims. And that means they could automatically qualify for a visa, she said. >"An enticement like that, regardless of whether you sign a waiver, is fraud and that is part of the definition of human trafficking," Ricci explains. "I think that everybody on those planes has a case to legalize as a direct result of being transported by the governor." https://www.npr.org/2022/09/18/1123644692/desantis-migrants-texas-massachusetts-marthas-vineyard-legal-questions >>1254221 What don't you understand about how the forms were filled out AFTER the immigrants signed them?
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>>1254222 >What don't you understand about how the forms were filled out AFTER the immigrants signed them? Doesn't matter even if that were true. The signees agreed to a legally binding contract when they signed it. If they didn't like the terms of the agreement, they shouldn't have agreed to sign it.
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>>1254223 >>Tallahassee-based immigration attorney Elizabeth Ricci explains there's a "good faith argument" to be made that luring the migrants onto planes with the promise of jobs makes them crime victims. And that means they could automatically qualify for a visa, she said. Let that fully sink in
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>>1254225 They weren't lured onto anything. They consented to transportation.
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>>1254226 The only people in power who agree with you are Abbott and Desantis employees
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>>1254140 >war >war >more war and genocide in palestine >border, what border lmao? >nyc is worse than congo >economy fucking raped, moneyprinter go brrrr Clearly democrats in charge kek.
>>1254200 Sounds like democrats alright.
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>>1254234 Oh wait, meant to write jews.
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>>1254234 How did you get this confused?
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>>1254230 It doesn't matter who agrees or doesn't agree. Your retarded arguments had no basis and the only thing you have left is an appeal to authority, which in your case basically amounts to "Well, someone else said a thing so it must be true." Unfortunately for you, the law clearly states that an agreement made between two or more people or business entities, in which there is a promise to do something in return for a gain or advantage, is legally binding. They signed a consent form. No law was breached. End of story: cope about it.
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>>1254240 No one believes you outside of the Heritage Foundation
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>>1254284 you got BTFO, retard. you can take your L and go now.
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>>1254302 Nice try at a damage control post.