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Biden’s address was a moving piece of political theatre and a rebuke of Trump
The Guardian | Yahoo ^ | July 25, 2024 | By David Smith in Washington

Posted on 07/25/2024 5:54:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

There was 6 January 2021, and a violent coup attempt by a president desperately trying to cling to power. Then there was 24 July 2024, and a president explaining why he was giving up the most powerful job in the world.

Joe Biden’s address on Wednesday night was a moving piece of political theatre, the start of a farewell tour by “a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings” who entered politics in 1972 and made it all the way to the Oval Office. For diehard Democrats it was a case of: if you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

The speech was also a rebuke of his predecessor Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses in both word and deed. Although he never mentioned his predecessor by name, Biden laid out two radically different visions of the US presidency set to clash again in November.

In 2020, the year of a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and Trump trauma, Biden’s signature empathy born of personal tragedies made him the right man at the right time to heal hearts and defend democracy. In 2024, his time has passed. That he came to recognise it reluctantly, and decided to pass the baton, taught a lesson about the presidency that Trump will never learn.

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To: kiryandil
Did you have difficulty understanding him, too?

I tried turning up the volume and listening very carefully. Nothing worked.

41 posted on 07/25/2024 9:31:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Take Trump off ballots. Fail. Take his money. Fail. Put Him in jail. Fail. Assassinate him. Fail.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Quit reading after the first sentence.


42 posted on 07/25/2024 9:32:51 AM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just listened to Steven Crowder’s team listening live to the speech...it was hilarious.

Standard drinking game fare...drink if he says “threat to democracy” or “existential threat”, that kind of thing.

In listening to the stain of a human being Biden, it was pathetic, and frankly, embarrassing.


43 posted on 07/25/2024 9:53:39 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: TexasKamaAina

We know what they are thinking already.


44 posted on 07/25/2024 9:55:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Gaffer

That “whisper voice” is wholly creepy. Just creepy.


45 posted on 07/25/2024 9:56:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: cgbg

But the dead duck continues to rule our country?


46 posted on 07/25/2024 10:01:31 AM PDT by Leep (Still not convinced biden is alive.)
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To: Leep

The Deep State is having some fun—can they use black magic to convince the American people that Biden is alive?


47 posted on 07/25/2024 10:02:43 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone who has never worked an honest day in his life tell the world only he knows how to fix things.


48 posted on 07/25/2024 10:23:53 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: RoosterRedux
Yes, I did have trouble understanding him.

And the whisper thing was weird.

49 posted on 07/25/2024 10:30:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

50 posted on 07/25/2024 12:23:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Torahman

I stopped reading after the first sentence.🖕🏼


51 posted on 07/25/2024 2:08:16 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

There’s several artifacts.

His pinky grows a half inch in one part.

He has a strange artifact that looks like a bead that hangs just below his cufflink.

There are red unexplainable spots that appear and disappear during the broadcast.


52 posted on 07/25/2024 7:46:42 PM PDT by struggle
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To: woodbutcher1963

There’s several artifacts.

His pinky grows a half inch in one part.

He has a strange artifact that looks like a bead that hangs just below his cufflink.

There are red unexplainable spots that appear and disappear during the broadcast.


53 posted on 07/25/2024 7:46:43 PM PDT by struggle
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