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Posted on 08/05/2019 6:53:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Vice President Joe Biden pushed back Monday evening on President Trump’s characterization of mental illness as the cause of an El Paso, Texas mass shooting over the weekend.
“Hatred is sick, but it's not a mental illness,” Biden said in a Monday interview on CNN. "White supremacy is wrong. But it's not mental illness."
The suspect in the shooting, which killed at least 22 people on Saturday, has been tied to a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto that was posted online just before the attack began and speaks of a Hispanic “invasion” of the U.S.
Although President Trump condemned white supremacy in remarks Monday morning, they came after he tweeted that Congress should tie any gun control measures to immigration reform. Biden criticized Trump for equating the two issues, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper “They're not immigrants doing these things. They're American citizens doing these things.”
Biden warned that as things currently stand, “the white supremacists are winning the battle” for the soul of the nation. “This is domestic terrorism,” he added.
The former vice president, whose campaign announcement blasted Trump’s response to the deadly “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., said the El Paso shooting represented another “defining moment.”
“It’s a continuation,” Biden said. “I mean, this is the president who continues to speak in ways that just are completely to everything who we are. I mean, referring to… Mexicans as rapists and talking about the rats in Baltimore. The way he talks about people.”
Biden stopped short of declaring Trump himself a white supremacist, unlike candidates including former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, whose hometown was the site of the shooting.
"Clearly his actions have done nothing to do anything other than encourage this behavior. I'm not sure what this guy believes,” Biden said.
However, Biden expressed some agreement with Trump in tying the shooting and others like it to violent video games.
“It is not healthy having these games teaching kids this dispassionate notion you can...blow their brains out,” but added, “It's not in and of itself why we have this climate."
Murderous Communists are wrong, but it’s not a mental illness.
Actually, it is.
He’s an expert on mental illness.
What is he talking about? He must be talking about the shootings that happened in Houston and Michigan.
Progressivism is.
Both of these shooters were #ProgressiveTerrorists, Joe.
Shooting up a Walmart IS crazy. I don’t really care about the reason.
I think we should demand that all these Honkys that beeotch about White Nationalism, step down and let a minority take over their jobs. Stop being hypocrites and walk your talk.
Would someone please tell that dummy to shut up?
I guess you can be sick but not ill.
While shooting up any place is prima facie crazy, I don’t think that Walmart itself makes it more crazy.
I can’t stand Walmart. If you are going to shoot up something, why not shoot up something you can’t stand.
Shooting up Cabela’s, now that would be crazy.
Or a donut shop.
Since when is prejudice against rats wrong? Has Biden adopted some PETA talking points?
You would have to have some deeply held racist beliefs, like many liberal Democrats do, to associate the rats in Baltimore with the people in Baltimore.
I think any normal person realizes that criticizing the conditions in poor neighborhoods in Baltimore that the city government could improve isn't racist, it is just a commentary on how dysfunctional a lot of Democrat controlled city governments are.
Joe MUST know, deep down, that what we’re seeing these days is the direct result of the liberals’ demand that the nation’s mental institutions be closed down in the ‘80s and ‘90s for “humanitarian” reasons, coupled with the very liberal dosages of Ritalin and Adderal fed to kids to “control” them in the ‘90s and ‘00s. Those kids are all grown up now.
More and more people seem to be coming to the understandable conclusion that what we have here is a mental health crisis of astounding proportions, but Joe is a Democrat, so he has to spout off about “white supremacy.”
White supremacy is correct and intellectually honest. But violence based on white supremacy is terrorism. There’s a clear line that cannot be crossed.
Oh? Like those white supremacists who go to Africa to help out the people? Don’t see any black org’s going there.
Instead of white supremacy, it should be white responsibility.
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