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Biden's Law-and-Order Speech in Pennsylvania Was Deeply Dishonest
Newsweek ^ | 9/1/22 | JOHN R. LOTT, JR.

Posted on 09/01/2022 12:04:37 PM PDT by conservative98

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to attempt to "flip the script" on Republicans with a law-and-order campaign message. The theme of Biden's speech was that "the answer is not to defund our police departments—it's to fund our police."

Biden's speech certainly involved a lot of flipping. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden was asked whether he supported "redirect[ing] some of the funding for police into social services." At the time, he responded, "Yes, I proposed that kind of reform."

In Biden's three previous speeches on violent crime, his focus has almost exclusively been on gun control. He certainly didn't say anything pro-police in those speeches. Biden mentioned police only four times—twice in connection with enforcing gun control. And he dabbled in gun control inaccuracies on Tuesday, too, including his constant referencing of AR-style semiautomatic rifles as "weapons of war" when even the Associated Press' influential Stylebook makes clear that AR-style semiautomatic rifles are not weapons used by any military.

Adding police can be an important step in reducing crime. The $13 billion spent on hiring and training more police may be small compared to the $80 billion that Biden is going to spend on hiring 87,000 new IRS agents, but it could make a big difference if it is actually spent on hiring new officers.

But in many Democrat-controlled cities, the problem starts with the district attorneys.

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It isn't complicated why crime has increased in America in recent years. Failing to convict or incarcerate criminals, while also making policing more difficult, will inevitably lead to more crime. Biden has no idea what it means to be tough on crime.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; crime; dementiajoe; johnlott; police
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1 posted on 09/01/2022 12:04:37 PM PDT by conservative98
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It’s hard to tell if he knows that he’s lying.


2 posted on 09/01/2022 12:07:22 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98

Biden, serial liar https://t.co/Jtm0bHqTCS— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 1, 2022


3 posted on 09/01/2022 12:08:07 PM PDT by conservative98
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Biden? Law and order?

Who do they think they're kidding? The guy is allied with Antifa and BLM.

4 posted on 09/01/2022 12:08:56 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: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

5 posted on 09/01/2022 12:08:59 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: conservative98

WUT?! No way eh? 😳🤢 Wait until the soul nation screed tonight. You bad, bad conservatives.


6 posted on 09/01/2022 12:09:25 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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7 posted on 09/01/2022 12:10:32 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: conservative98

Oh, did the decrepit, insane, angry, mean old fool give a speech? I didn’t watch it. I was watching the grass grow.


8 posted on 09/01/2022 12:10:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First! Bring America back! We're being governed by fascists.)
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To: conservative98

Why are the feds funding police departments? Isn’t that the responsibility of the cities and states? Everything is not an issue for the feds to address. That is how we are losing all of our freedom.


9 posted on 09/01/2022 12:10:59 PM PDT by pas
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To: rktman

I hope he brings up Maga, Ultra Maga and/or The great Maga King.


10 posted on 09/01/2022 12:11:52 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

I keep seeing that Cotton-Diapered Joe is going to make his incendiary, divisive speech in prime time tonight so I looked up local TV listings out of curiosity. I don’t see any filthy, hate-speech disruptions on the network or satellite TV schedule.

I won’t be watching anyway. That nasty old codger makes me cringe.


11 posted on 09/01/2022 12:12:55 PM PDT by Allegra
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Biden's Law-and-Order Speech in Pennsylvania Was Deeply Dishonest

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12 posted on 09/01/2022 12:13:14 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: conservative98

From Newsweek no less.


13 posted on 09/01/2022 12:13:59 PM PDT by mware
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To: I want the USA back

Tonight is the one that is going to set off fireworks.


14 posted on 09/01/2022 12:15:39 PM PDT by mware
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To: conservative98

O.K. So Biden is dishonest. So let’s reward him with a prime time campaign spot to lie some more...sheesh


15 posted on 09/01/2022 12:17:16 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Allegra

He is cringe worthy to us, but more important he is a national security nightmare. Other world leaders and their intelligence groups watch also.


16 posted on 09/01/2022 12:21:15 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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To: conservative98
Senile Sleepy Joe Biden puppet: "For those brave right-wing Americans who say it's all about keeping Americans independent and safe, if you want to fight against a country you need an F-15. You need something a little more than a gun."

Wow, did senile Sleepy Joe's handlers actually put those words on his teleprompter screen during his teleprompter "speech" yesterday?

The desperate Democrats/RINOs have officially gone off the deep end ............... well, actually, the desperate Democrats/RINOs officially went off the deep end when they stole the 2020 Election. Obviously, the desperate Democrats/RINOs have so backed themselves into a corner that it almost seems they're now trying to intimidate and threaten Americans with "F-15s." (Could that possibly be another all-new election stealing tactic, just like their all-new free-government-money $20,000 student loan "forgiveness" program, just prior to the 2022 election.)

P.S. Talking about stolen elections, the Facebook CEO recently denied blame and instead blamed the FBI for pressuring Facebook into suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 Election. In turn, the FBI denied blame and instead blamed Facebook for suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election. That's typical Democrat/RINO finger-pointing. Well, somebody has to be blamed for the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, so based on their own public words, it seems both Facebook and the FBI are to blame (in addition to Twitter, Snapchat, the entire MSM, etc.) for suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election. And do you remember when Pfizer said in October 2020 that it will delay approval of its Covid vaccine until after the election? The desperate Democrats/RINOs have a million-and-one election-stealing tricks up their sleeve.

17 posted on 09/01/2022 12:48:29 PM PDT by gw-ington (My preferred pronouns: she, him, it, senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
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To: conservative98

Wait till tonight. I’ll wait for the rebuttals.


18 posted on 09/01/2022 1:08:09 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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…he is a national security nightmare. Other world leaders and their intelligence groups watch also.

Yes, I’m aware of that. He and the people pulling his puppet strings hate our country and are determined to destroy it.

I already know he’s going to spew a bunch of divisive and hateful lies. My watching won’t make one iota of difference.

I don’t watch a lot of TV anyway.

I’ll volunteer as a poll-watcher and I’ll vote. That has much more value than watching that nasty creep on TV.

19 posted on 09/01/2022 1:11:59 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: conservative98

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20 posted on 09/01/2022 2:13:26 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chanece favors the prepared mind.)
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