Comments on: Biden’s speech last night: we had to destroy democracy to save it

By: eLocke

eLocke — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:45:59 +0000

I prefer the Kodos version:

My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

By: Ray+Van+Dune

Ray+Van+Dune — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:05:27 +0000

“Biden was paid millions to step aside.”

Sounds like a great payday for Joe, but won’t the CCP demand a refund?!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:45:55 +0000

An earlier commenter noted that the speech was sufficient given the demand for a proof of life from just a few days ago.
Does the family of a hostage upon viewing a proof of life video say: he should have combed his hair?
Those on one side celebrate him doing what is good for the party, and the other side what is good for the country. Both sides acknowledge that he is, cough, diminished. So his mumbling through a pre written speech that is nothing but a series of half hearted platitudes surprises nobody and nobody has the authority to label it as either statesmanship or drivel. It was simply Biden. Bye Joe.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:01:35 +0000

A younger man without 50 years DC experience might get away with saying “I promised to always level with you, to tell you the truth.” It wouldn’t be true. It never is, but the claim wouldn’t be as ridiculous and obscene as it is in Biden’s mouth. Still, Democrats probably liked and appreciated the speech. The point was to create an aura or halo that they could bathe in and ignore the details and lies in the speech.
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In the 19th century newspapers often referred to the Democratic Party as “the Democracy,” but they rarely claimed that Republicans were a threat to “our Democracy.”

For Leninists, and apparently for today’s Democrats, “democracy” is a result, not a means. “Democracy” means the party is in power, representing “the people” (whether the people really want to be represented by the party or not), and doing “progressive” things. A threat to “Our Democracy” is anything that threatens the party’s hold on power.

Remember Obama’s celebration of “Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall”? The civil rights movement and the women’s suffrage movements did represent advances in democracy, but now the idea is that if the progressive vanguard of the women’s or the African-American or the LGBTQ movement lose an election and their power in government is scaled back it is the end of democracy. The notion that the electorate as a whole weighs the different parties’ platforms and records and each individual makes a decision based on those is democracy, but that is something Democrats can’t countenance.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:49:03 +0000

https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1816736471576887483

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:17:32 +0000

Now that’s concentration!*

* See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2LU89KMVUg

By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:08:50 +0000

When Joe said he gave us his “word as a Biden” we were all supposed to think that meant he was being honest. What we now know is that the “word” of a Biden is meaningless. In fact, it is the guarantee of a prevarication. It is the equivalent of a used car’s salesman’s promise “as a used car salesman.” It is the whore’s promise of true love. Biden’s “word” has all the sincerety of the one night stand’s promise of respect in the morning. We have been given Biden’s “word,” and now we are all doing the proverbial walk of shame. When Biden speaks of honesty, sincerity or decency, all I can think of is Inigo Montoya’s oft-used cinematic line, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

By: Skip

Skip — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:11:22 +0000

For a long time said when they wanted to give Sundowner a offer he couldn’t refuse it was always within their power to do so.
I an just not seeing the Word Salad Chef making it past the Convention unless she gets into the Oval Office first.
I am suspecting part if the bribe was Sundowner and Jill would finish out living the dream for a few more months if he can stay upright.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 04:50:13 +0000

Without comment

https://www.minds.com/embed/1663244143805075463

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:59:00 +0000

In not 100% unrelated news, the Olympic torch parade is going to include several drag queens.