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Biden: ‘Democracy survived’ Capitol riot because of police
The Associated Press ^ | October 16, 2021 | By JONATHAN LEMIRE

Posted on 10/16/2021 12:10:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Framed by the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute Saturday to fallen law enforcement officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site by declaring “because of you, democracy survived.”

Biden spoke at the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service to remember the 491 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2019 and 2020. Standing where the violent mob tried to block his own ascension to the presidency, Biden singled out the 150 officers who were injured and the five who died in the attack’s aftermath.

“Nine months ago, your brothers and sisters thwarted an unconstitutional and fundamentally un-American attack on our nation’s values and our votes. Because of you, democracy survived,” Biden said. “Because of these men and women, we avoided a catastrophe, but their heroism came at a cost to you and your families.”

Hundreds of officers and their families sat on chairs assembled on the Capitol’s west front. Some in the audience dabbed their eyes as the president drew connections with their loss and his own history of grief, including the deaths of his first wife and two children, comparing it to “losing part of your soul.”

Biden played up his working-class roots, noting that he had many childhood friends who went on to become police officers, and said he had spoken at the event many times before.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 10/16/2021 12:10:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav


2 posted on 10/16/2021 12:16:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I watched this and it was sad. Joe yelling into a microphone and as usual making it about himself. He had a son who died, he lost a wife .. puke.


3 posted on 10/16/2021 12:17:20 PM PDT by pnut22
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... honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site by declaring “because of you, democracy survived.”

What a load of crap. Where were you, Joe, when a dozen cities went up in flames at the hand of BLM and ANTIFA? Yet, you hold the Jan 6 people in jail without bail, some without access to legal representation, and still no date for a trial. Could it be you're agenda is set by terrorist groups and China? In less than a year you've managed to double the unemployment rate, double general prices, raise gas prices by 47%, raise food prices by 17%, and left $87 billion in hi-tech weapons in the hands of the enemy, yet here you are wasting time patting yourself on the back because your people put down an "insurrection". Really? But then, you don't even know who you are any more...telling the people in Pittsburgh that you were born there. You are totally incompetent.

4 posted on 10/16/2021 12:20:29 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden singled out the 150 officers who were injured and the five who died in the attack’s aftermath.

Somehow I must have missed that. All I recall is that one unarmed person was shot in the face and killed by a Capitol cop whose identity has been classified as top secret.

5 posted on 10/16/2021 12:20:55 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Democracy survived

“Democracy” was not emperiled.

6 posted on 10/16/2021 12:21:14 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never heard more crap nonsense from any U.S. President in my entire life.


7 posted on 10/16/2021 12:22:23 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democracy won’t survive Biden.

Biden Appears To Touch Child’s Nipple While Touring Daycare Center (Watch his thumb)
Rumble ^ | 10/15/2021
FR Posted on 10/16/2021, 3:06:04 PM by Az Joe

Twenty second video, slow motion. This guy loves to touch little kinds


8 posted on 10/16/2021 12:22:55 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use all: (optio. )
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Volume 11 assclown


9 posted on 10/16/2021 12:24:25 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imaginationd)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well this gave me a good chuckle. Seriously, it was nothing more then your typical protest with some patriots touring the capital. No fires, almost no damage and the only person seriously injured was a girl that was unnecessarily executed by a incompetent boob. But biden makes out like it was an attempt to overthrow the country. That right there is just funny.


10 posted on 10/16/2021 12:26:34 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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Biden: ‘Democracy survived’ Capitol riot because of police

Sure did. "Democracy", more properly described as Mob Rule did survive to Rule America where the Legal form of Government is the Constitutional Representative Republic, quite the opposite of Mob Rule.

11 posted on 10/16/2021 12:33:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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A “riot” caused by BLM and Antifa infiltrators dressed in MAGA gear, egged on by FBI instigators.

The Trump people were peaceful protestors, seeking redress over a stolen election.


12 posted on 10/16/2021 12:35:25 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democracy won’t survive Bidet.


13 posted on 10/16/2021 12:37:55 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
JONATHAN LEMIRE

Total crAPhound.

14 posted on 10/16/2021 12:41:49 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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What about when the capitol police waved them in?


15 posted on 10/16/2021 12:42:22 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democracy may not have survived Joe’s election fraud.


16 posted on 10/16/2021 12:44:01 PM PDT by devere
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More like Socialism survived.

FJB!


17 posted on 10/16/2021 12:48:10 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: devere
Democracy may not have didn't survive Joe’s election fraud.

Fixed

18 posted on 10/16/2021 12:49:25 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: beethovenfan; devere

We will have the illusion of democracy, just like Venezuela.
They still have elections, just like our last one.


19 posted on 10/16/2021 12:51:33 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I do not recall any video showing Babbit destroying property. I do recall a number of videos of Police opening and or holding open doors for protestors, which clearly nullifies any charges of trespass. In fact no one has ever made the case that Babbit committed an other act other than peaceful protesting. I know for a fact that Congressional and Senate offices have been the scene of a number of protests over the years, but I am certain that no protestor ever had deadly force use upon them. If the Constitution is to remain the law of the land and we are to retain the Liberties proscribed therein her Death must be address or they will all be lost. Nothing they have done is so blatantly criminal and as dangerous to the Constitution as the Murder of Ashli Babbit. Nothing could take down the currant corrupt regime as exposing her murder, Her execution is far easier to prove than voter fraud and far easier for people in general to understand. Right now there should peaceful and dignified on going pubic vigil being held in her honor for her sacrifice and death needs to be placed in the public conciseness as being the gross injustice it is.

For those who call Babbit’s death murder I am sorry but I disagree it was a summary execution, she was judge for the crime of Insurrection, We have heard the term used often enough and has been declared as so by those in charge including the Speaker of the House.


20 posted on 10/16/2021 1:00:53 PM PDT by Kartographer
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