Posted on 09/02/2022 6:00:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
[TWEETS AT LINK....................]
It didn't take long after Biden finished his rancid, combative remarks in Philadelphia for the reviews of the latest divisive screed from "Mr. Unity" to come in, and they predictably were not favorable from those among the 70 million Americans he declared were hatefully working to bring about the end of democracy:
Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany · Follow Mr. Unity just gave the most divisive presidential speech I have ever seen! 7:30 PM · Sep 1, 2022
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In addition to the caustic content of Biden's message — vote for the people I say or you're a fascist — the staging was also of note, and not just the ominous red hue that bathed the sides of Independence Hall. No, the two Marines standing at attention behind the president grabbed viewers' eyes.
A producer for ABC pointed out an obvious but important truth as well:
Meanwhile, even CNN talent was unnerved by the display. Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny took issue with the staging of the Marines behind Biden for such a political speech, calling it a "break with White House traditions."
CNN's Brianna Keilar joined in the criticism as well saying the positioning of Marines behind Biden for a speech like Thursday night's "flies in the face" of the idea that America's military is "supposed to be apolitical."
Thursday night's political use of military personnel was not even Biden's first flub when it comes to protocol and existing precedent, as Guy pointed out:
Perhaps Biden's combative screed that was ironically previewed by the White House as one of unity did succeed in one way: uniting media across the partisan spectrum in its criticism of the imagery the president used to back up his words.
Marines standing at attention
were they? with hands in front?
Intimidation as a result of desperation
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Choreographed props..................
LOL piss on CNN. They helped create this, they can own some responsibility for it.
He will lose ‘points’ like water thru a sieve.................
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I’m surprised he wasn’t wearing a uniform and flanked by a uniformed Garland with some of his jackbooted thugs standing behind him.
I haven’t said this for 25 years, but I totally agree with something heard on CNN. Using marines as a backdrop was as offensive as it gets.
The President’s first name should be Richard.
Jao’s a fascist, Jim.
That is what they do in tinhorn dictatorships. Joe Biden is channeling Joe Stalin.
The COMMUNIST RED really got me. It also looks like a red hot fire resulting from him burning down the USA. The still photo really is demonic.
China doesn’t know anything about being an American.
Though they do understand a stick in the eye, and this just might be more of that.
Last name ‘Head’......................😎
I’m surprised he didn’t have an F-15 parked behind him. His handlers are slipping.
Looked like parade rest to me.
“Marines standing at attention were they? with hands in front?”
Please help the uneducated.....is that not proper?
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