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Joe Biden’s surprisingly controversial claim that Trump is an aberration, explained
Vox ^ | May 13, 2019 | Matthew Yglesias

Posted on 05/13/2019 5:55:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Biden launched his campaign with a claim that is, on some level, almost strikingly banal.

“I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time,” the former vice president said in his announcement video. “But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation — who we are — and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

This core sentiment that Trump is an unusual, and unusually bad, president has fueled everything from a primetime ratings boom for MSNBC to the unprecedented popular mobilization of the original Women’s March. Antipathy to Trump powered Democratic candidates to sweeping victories in the 2018 midterms and is very clearly one of the dominant political sentiments of our time. Yet Biden’s thesis statement about Trump-era politics drew surprisingly widespread criticism from left-of-center opinion leaders.

Mehdi Hasan at the Intercept wrote that “the No. 1 reason why Biden would be an utter disaster both as the Democratic nominee and as president is his belief that Donald Trump is the sole cause of the current political and constitutional crisis in the United States.” But the criticism came from circles broader than the hard left. Frances Wilkinson at Bloomberg deemed Biden to be “running against a myth about Trump,” while Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast urged Biden’s friends to “grab him by the lapels and inform him that it’s not 1973 anymore and his ‘friends’ in the Republican Party, nice fellas though they may be on a personal level, have changed.”

Peter Beinart at the Atlantic accused him of offering “a deeply unconvincing historical narrative in which Trump lands upon the American political scene from outer space.”

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Delaware; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020; biden; delaware; joebiden; peterbeinart; theatlantic; trump
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1 posted on 05/13/2019 5:55:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Sloppy Joe is going to start running around nekkid on the Campaign Trail?


2 posted on 05/13/2019 5:56:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We at the merciless meme factory are busily preparing memes to pass to President
Trump when the time comes to destroy this sick pervert.


biden nipple squeeze

3 posted on 05/13/2019 5:57:09 PM PDT by Bon mots
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President Trump would probably never tweet a tasteless meme like this - too Alinskyite for him.

But not me.

Never underestimate the power of ridicule. Rules for Radicals are my rules too when it comes to ridiculing the left.

4 posted on 05/13/2019 5:58:41 PM PDT by Bon mots
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It is very spooky that US voters actually would vote for this Ding Dong.


5 posted on 05/13/2019 6:00:13 PM PDT by jetson
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“But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he might help the citizens restore the rule of law and keep their country, and I won’t stand by and let that happen”


6 posted on 05/13/2019 6:01:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An honest politician is truly an aberration in Joe’s experience.


7 posted on 05/13/2019 6:14:40 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Gropey Joe strikes again!


8 posted on 05/13/2019 6:18:27 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Spoken like a true pedophile freak. And he thinks that HE is not aberrant?

The People elected President Trump to run political establishment freaks like Joe out of Washington D.C.

Joe is not only aberrant, he is a walking, talking abortion
who would rather kill the unborn but if they live, he wants to slip them the feel when they get to be a few years older.
Joe Biden is a genuinely sick man, according to one of his former secret service agents:

“Former Joe Biden Secret Service Agent: We Had to Protect Women From Him, ‘Weinstein Level Stuff’”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3748926/posts

Joe is an aberrant moment in time.Thank G_d President Trump is not.


9 posted on 05/13/2019 6:21:05 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Slow Joe doesn’t get to determine “who we are” nor who we’re gonna be. Asshole.


10 posted on 05/13/2019 6:30:13 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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Can anyone tell me what Joe Biden has accomplished in the Senate or as Obama's VP in the 45+ years he has been in politics except garnering a reputation for making gaffes, groping women and young girls, and being wrong on every single foreign policy issue his whole career?

This guy is the epitome of the career politician who has done nothing but suck off the taxpayers' teats for decades. He's the Hillary Clinton of the male set. No one can name one accomplishment of hers either except she has lots of experience at failure.

They say he has all the experience to be president. But what kind of experience? Being a establishment politician who has done nothing else.

11 posted on 05/13/2019 6:52:12 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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STFU pervert


12 posted on 05/13/2019 7:01:15 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Slow Joe came up with Make America Moral Again all by himself.


13 posted on 05/13/2019 9:11:41 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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OUCH! That bottom meme could kill him. OUTSTANDING!!!


14 posted on 05/13/2019 9:12:27 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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Trump clearly is an ‘aberration’ in the sense that both parties had a really good thing going, and then Trump came around and STILL refuses to be tamed by the Deep State. Hopefully we keep electing these ‘aberrations’


15 posted on 05/13/2019 9:14:11 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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OUCH! That bottom meme could kill him. OUTSTANDING!!!

I got some flack for posting that one, as some find it quite tasteless... however, look at who we are up against!

I will test the limits of class, taste and do everything I can that is peaceful and artistic in this fight.

I just thought of another one that I really like and it could go viral...

You remember the left latched on to "Grab 'em by the Pussy"????

Get this one:

🅷🅾🆃 🅾🅵 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🅷🅾🆃🅾🆂🅷🅾🅿!

16 posted on 05/13/2019 9:20:38 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Nice, that one is real...I believe.

As to the Vietnam one, if people on our side cannot deal with it, then we deserve to lose. It is THEY, the Democrats who set the rules, we can choose to not play by their rules, and lose, or we hit them back just as hard.

I’ll never forget the 2000 advertisement when they showed a pickup truck dragging a chain, to black communities. They were making an allusion to the horrific murder of James Byrd in Texas and the fact that Bush Jr. would not sign a state ‘Hate Crimes’ law...and therefore he supported the dragging death of Byrd. Of course that had nothing to do with it, but instead it was some LGBT clause that kept him from signing [the country still believed in marriage back then]. Those are the rules that the DEMOCRATS set for us - it is up to us whether to play by them, or instead choose to lose.


17 posted on 05/13/2019 9:46:25 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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Dear Gropy Joe:

We are not ‘abberants’ . We are Deplorables. The people who will defeat your candidacy. So get that straight, number one. Oh, and MAGA is our slogan, go steal someone elses.

18 posted on 05/13/2019 9:59:54 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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CreepyUncleJoe has the personality of a lifelong drunk...


19 posted on 05/13/2019 10:15:09 PM PDT by northislander
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Biden Remembers College: ‘Only Thing We Cared About Was Jobs and Panty Raids’
NN | 13-05-19 | Daniel Chaitin
Posted on 5/13/2019 5:07:31 PM by Steve1999
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3749035/posts


20 posted on 05/14/2019 1:11:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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