Dark Brandon
Posted on 01/10/2024 5:37:15 AM PST by Heartlander
Last Friday, ahead of the anniversary of Jan. 6, President Joe Biden gave a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to kick off his 2024 campaign. His theme was that the upcoming presidential election will determine whether or not America remains a democracy because a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end democracy in America.
Politically speaking, the purpose of the speech was clear. Given that Biden has among the lowest favorability numbers ever recorded for a sitting president, he cannot make the election about his achievements.
Because he has none that warrant his reelection. In every way, he has made America a worse country.
He has terribly damaged the economy, increased an already unsustainable national debt, and changed an energy-independent and energy-exporting country into an energy-dependent and energy-importing one.
He hurt America and the world by withdrawing—and in the way he withdrew—American troops from Afghanistan. He showed that America cannot be counted on by those who depend on us. He abandoned $7 billion in weaponry, much of which is now being used by Islamic terror groups. For example, as NBC News reported, “Most of the weapons recovered so far, officials say, are from Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) or Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), both Pakistan-based militant groups that the U.S. designates as terrorist organizations.” Other weapons have ended up in Gaza, and others in Iran.
He has hurt America and Israel by enriching the Iranian regime. According to the Wall Street Journal, “The Iranian surge in oil exports since President Biden took over has brought Iran an additional $32 billion to $35 billion, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. … The cause of the Iranian windfall is clear: As part of Mr. Biden’s quiet diplomacy with Iran, the U.S. has curtailed sanctions enforcement. … Iran’s funding for Hamas ballooned in the past year to $350 million.” In addition, Biden paid Iran $6 billion to ransom five American hostages.
Why didn’t Russia invade Ukraine while Trump was president? Probably because Putin feared Trump. What foreign leader fears Biden? The only people who fear Biden are half of the American people.
He has done terrible damage to the most important freedom—freedom of speech. Among other things, his administration has worked with Big Tech before and since the 2020 election to censor political speech.
He has created the first large set of political prisoners in American history—hundreds, soon perhaps thousands, of Americans sentenced to prison for merely entering the Capitol, or for just being present on the Capitol grounds, on Jan. 6.
He has weaponized the Department of Justice against his political opponents and is overseeing the prosecution of an ex-president and political rival for the first time in American history.
From his first day in office, he has stoked racial tension in America. His inaugural address was the most hate-filled and divisive inaugural address in American history.
He has so demoralized the American military that recruitment levels are at their lowest ever.
He has promoted biological boys competing against girls in high school and college sports under the guise of “transgender rights.”
Therefore, his one route to victory is to convince Americans that Trump presents an existential threat to every core American value—democracy, freedom, and the Constitution. This is purely Orwellian. It is the Democratic Party and the rest of the Left that threaten democracy, freedom, and the Constitution.
Some excerpts from his speech:
“Today, we gather in a new year, some 246 years later, just one day before Jan. 6, a day forever shared in our memory because it was on that day that we nearly lost America—lost it all.”
What happened on Jan. 6 was shameful, foolish, and, when violent (which it overwhelmingly was not), criminal. But to say “on that day we nearly lost America—lost it all” is a lie.
“Trump’s claims about the 2020 election never could stand up in court. Trump lost 60 court cases—60.”
The statement is false because no Trump claim about the 2020 election results was ever allowed to be heard on its merits in an American courtroom.
“And since that day, more than 1,200 people have been charged for their assault on the Capitol. Nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty. Collectively, to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison.”
The vast majority of those imprisoned people engaged in no violence and did nothing more wrong than trespass.
“So, hear me clearly. I’ll say what Donald Trump won’t. Political violence is never, ever acceptable in the United States political system—never, never, never. It has no place in a democracy. None.”
That is another lie. 2020 saw a staggering amount of left-wing violence, and apparently it did have “a place in a democracy.”
“He’s threatened the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the death penalty.”
What Trump said was that the meeting of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the just-retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the Chinese government after the Capitol protests was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been death.”
That was an observation about the serious nature of Milley’s violation of diplomatic norms, not a threat to sentence Milley to death.
“This coming from a president who, when he visited a cemetery, called dead soldiers ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ Remember that?”
Even Snopes and The Washington Post concluded that there is no evidence for Trump having said that about the soldiers who died at Normandy Beach. Even John Bolton, who wrote a scathing attack on Trump after leaving office, defended Trump against this claim made by an anonymous source cited by The Atlantic. Yet Biden declares it as fact.
“America, as we begin this election year, we must be clear: Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
If democracy and freedom are on the ballot, it is because the Left, of which the Democratic Party is its political arm, threatens democracy and freedom.
But Joe Biden knows that he has the entire mainstream media and all the giant social media companies except for X, formerly Twitter, on his side. So, he can hide his record and stoke hatred for Trump and his supporters from now until November. And get away with it.
“His theme was that the upcoming presidential election will determine whether or not America remains a democracy because a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end democracy in America.
Can’t happen soon enough for me.
Restore our Republic.
Prager knocks it out of the park. Posting excerps to my FB page to drive the leftist detractors nuts.
Biden’s speeches has always been full of hate and division.
Except he’s just the puppet. He has a puppeteer.
Joe Puppet Biden is illegitimate. He was not elected by the American people. He and his coup plotter puppet masters are going to be held to account. Nothing is going to prevent the punishment headed their way.
Never forget, Vidkun Quisling was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, on 24 October 1945.
The Uniparty is turning the US into Rwanda; Hutus (leftists) versus the Tutsis (conservatives)
“Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”
It’s all about raising money for money-hungry Democrats to keep the dimwit in office.
Biden’s lies and inventions WRT J6 and “democracy” is an effective fundraising tool.
The Hill reported Biden raised a million dollars following his
J6 “celebration speech” when he desecrated Valley Forge
and dishonored the name of George Washington.
Biden got the big-buck Biden Crime Family to cough up $999,998 bucks......
and Jill threw in two dollars when Biden promised to “save democracy”.
Joe Biden is degenerate human filth.
I wonder how this worthless WHITE HOUSE bass turd and his America hater posse feel now that Melania’s mother has died. The far-left scumbags and their slave turds in the so-called “media” attacked the Trump family because Melania wasn’t at the New Year’s Party with Donald. Unlike your average “DemonRAT”, Melania loved HER mother. Thank God Melania was given a little time to spend with her mother before HE called her home. Something a RAT wouldn’t understand.
Joe Biden in a nutshell: “What did they tell you? They told me you had gone totally insane and that your methods were unsound. Are my methods unsound? I don’t see any method at all sir.”
Biden only has one speech writer Obama not hard to spot the style.
The creepy liberals at Huffington Post certainly have a thing for the macabre.
I’m sure they loved Biden’s Nazi imagery from September 1, 2022.
A good but terrifying analogy.
For that speech I think old Joe was as high on drugs as son Hunter. Joe looked glassy eyed and hyped up. No wonder Jill had to lead him by the hand off the podium and whisk him off to Delaware before he crashed.
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