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A House Ignited: Chancellor Biden’s pre-Enabling Act Speech
I just watched this appalling speech (via C-SPAN’s YouTube) from Biden. There’s the blood-red, the Marines at parade rest, the only crowd he’s ever drawn who weren’t required to be there by the Constitution itself…
It’s chock full of divisive, angry, focused rhetoric that should be sufficient to get the next Civil War underway, but there’s plenty of a different whiff about it. This awful speech is long on Hitler Enabling Act resonance, and justification of future actions. This speech doesn’t do anything on its own, of course — instead, it prepares the battlefield for what is to come. Along the way, he (I mean they) provide reassurance to their tech-fascist partners that continued persecution of political opposition will still be green-lit.
People ask what the purpose and the method is for this speech. I think it’s to provide a whole raft of language to the administration’s agents throughout industry, media, and in their terror wings as well (Antifa, BLM, whatever’s left of Occupy, and the school boards’ enforcers). The speech in itself does nothing. It’s not actually an Enabling Act speech, but can be a precursor. What it absolutely does is enable others to exercise special “emergency” powers, but without formal justification.
The focus on elections in the speech is further instruction to the administration’s fascist partners as to the goal they must support using their powers. They are being instructed to use the phrasing in the speech to suppress any discussion about election integrity which does not parrot the Party Line — Orange Goldstein bad.
This is a surprisingly subtle speech. The read meat is bizarre. The real protein is in the subtext.
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Well, the cameras sure don’t show him killing himself.
They are primed and ready to go when the next George Floyd happens.
Do you ever get the feeling, that the leftists read dystopian fiction up side down (or backwards) ? All the villains are heroes – all the evil acts are for a good cause…. 1984 was read as a manual, and V for Vendetta as a style guide?
For the kids who don’t quite know the great reference from earlier.
And if it doesn’t happen soon enough to suit them, they can always cause it themselves.
Hope there isn’t an arrest underway the next time some hopped up woman-beater decides to OD while evading a felony.
Chauvin is a political prisoner, and the coroner knows it.
I thought that Jan 6th was the Reichstag incineration.
Hey, just asking… I see this speech was an official event paid for by the white house – not the DNC or a campaign…. Could this be a violation of the Hatch Act?
Oh, yeah. Nothing will be done about it though.
The White House investigated itself and found that it did nothing wrong.
It was a riot, and anyone in a riot deserves to be shot, but it was not an insurrection.
I guess the take-away from the POTUS speech is 1) you are a “bad person” if you don’t agree with me and my side, and 2) don’t bring a gun to a F-15 fight. OK, I got it, you don’t like me and I don’t like you, and you got bigger guns then me and you won’t be afraid to bring the full force down on my head because I deserve it. You didn’t want to do it, but you had to to save the country and get everyone back into line. I remember hearing something like this from my father as he beat the sh!t out of my mother and my siblings when he came home drunk. Been there, done that, still got the scares. Here’s the thing, Ho Chi Minh didn’t need advance warfare tech to kick the U.S. out of Vietnam, and us “deplorables” won’t need much to make life a living hell for anyone looking for a fight. Something for those who can’t see what’s going on to think about.
Hell goes both ways, I guess. We just wanted to be left alone, but since the Left never stops, we’ll all have to be miserable. Equality at last.
I’m liking arguments from both sides of this debate. The Reichstag metaphor occurred to me early on, that the extreme left would use J6 to justify overreach against all dissent and they conformed to type and did so. Then their Menshevik pals made more respectable sounding noise as cover.
On the other hand (hateful phrase) the J6 rioters were morons and deserved criminal penalties. Yes, as did the antifa commies who never saw consequences, for Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago… (Most popular early use of “anti fascist:” that wall keeping East Germany “safe” all those years). But the J6 idiots scored an own goal.
Well, maybe. Except nobody should have to fear visiting the capitol. Especially the ones who didn’t do anything, if they entered buildings at all it was because the Capitol Police held the doors open for them…
They could make a lot of hay out of a conservative shooting a pol; discredit the entire Republican party and turn people against the 2nd Amendment.
Except it always seems to be a lefty who does the shooting, even at other lefties. They can’t seem to agitate anyone on the right as much as they agitate “their own people.”
What are the standard penalties for ‘trespassing’ and ‘parading’? Cause I’m pretty sure its not being held in isolation without trial for two years, nor several years in prison for guilty verdicts.
Yep.
If you’re threatening President Trump, I think the standard penalty is being forgotten.
Those are the FBI plants, Jerry.
There’s a difference between not inflaming things when it’s a guy in a bar talking big in front of his girl, and when the tanks are already pouring over the border.
Does any of the aforementioned 14,000 hours of video show the doors being held open?
We don’t know.
Is there video of Ray Epps exhorting a crowd to go into the Capitol?
Why yes, yes there is. The same video shows the people standing around him chanting “Fed, Fed, Fed”. Not every riot instigator has to be successful to instigate a riot. Just one.
Was Ray Epps ever charged with a crime?
I wouldn’t take Adam Kinzinger’s word that water is wet.
They need to focus peoples’ attention on Jan. 6th, but not too much attention. Tricky wicket, that.
Curious as to why you didn’t show the video of the cop beating a woman in the face in the tunnel on Jan. 6, killing her.
I am very troubled by this.
So, wanting to make America great again is extremist. Who knew?
Biden has defined “the other.” The next step is their destruction . . .
That is how it works.
Cancel Culture is rehearsal for Genocide.
There are two kinds of shooters; evil conservative militia members or tragically undermedicated politically confused lone wolves.
Only a fascist would want a greater America when we could instead build it back better. I mean the difference is staggering.