Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech
Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech
The president framed the election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding American ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.
President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.
“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”
In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.
“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
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"President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power."
dude has someone chained to chair to keep her from participating in American democracy but somehow he is a defender of democratic values
“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
we lost rights with you as president and with trump and with obama such as voting rights some are not allowed to vote and some states tell you who is going to be on the ballot or not restricting choices
jill stein said it better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein
Stein stated during the 2016 campaign that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two corporate parties" that have converged into one. Concerned by the rise of neofascism internationally and the rise of neoliberalism within the Democratic Party, she has said, "The answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of this right-wing extremism. We have known that for a long time, ever since Nazi Germany."
I figured people would've learned from the elections involving folks like Nader and Stein, but I guess here we go again.
me too
when someone says something progressive and wants to do something for the citizens everybody yells that is too far do baby steps
The conservatives do, not everyone.
Well she was pretty fucking wrong, wasn't she? Clinton didn't get into the White House and yet somehow right-wing extremism became even more of a problem.