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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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Some of the people behind Biden are totalitarian, some knowingly, and probably a large majority for lack of understanding. The only question I have is whether the Chinese have to do much to get the silly action or is it all gift. Do folks really think the US can be run from the top by these folks? Do they think that a politically correct military can defend the US? Or is it that China isn’t a threat? Frankly if China isn’t a threat, the top down approach by the bureaucrats, Soros fronts, and wealthy folks can be sorted out. However, China wants us out of the picture because they know they can’t sustain recent levels of growth which creates too many powerful folks who are eventually difficult to control So here we are and Congressional elections are a vital challenge. If they steal them, presidential elections will be easier so we’ll have to prepare to do what we did in 1776. I have a feeling that those who think it’s a silly irrational worry have spent little time outside of the US and have little grasp of how different the US is, was or why.
Robert Spencer at PJMedia had similar thoughts to BDB’s on Adolf Biden’s “Enabling Act” speech. Some excerpts:
“Back on March 23, 1933, before he became the world’s universal symbol for the embodiment of evil, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke before the Reichstag, urging it to pass an Enabling Act that would give him dictatorial powers. He said that this was urgently needed in light of an imminent threat to the nation. Hitler claimed that in 1918, Marxist organizations had seized power in Germany, leading to “a time of boundless misfortune for Germany, that is to say the working German Volk [people].” But he assured the Reichstag deputies that “the German Volk itself has increasingly turned away from concepts, parties, and associations which, in its eyes, are responsible for these conditions.”
“Of course, Joe hastened to assure us that he didn’t want to pitch every Republican into the gulag just yet:
But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
“That suggests what the next step will be. Will Biden and his henchmen try to force Republicans to join up with the uniparty pseudo-Republicans who allow the Democrats to implement their full hard-Left agenda, Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Adam Kinzinger and all the rest, and to denounce and repudiate Trump and any idea of making America great again? If so, what will happen to those who do not? Will they’ll be prevented from taking any Congressional seats to which they’re elected, and even arrested as enemies of “our democracy”?
“That’s what Hitler did with the Communists he blamed for Germany’s woes. In his Enabling Act speech, Hitler accused the Communists of “pillaging, arson, raids on the railway, assassination attempts, and so on–all these things are morally sanctioned by Communist theory.” ”
“Biden sounded the same notes here again, declaring that the nation was bouncing back despite the best efforts of these internal enemies to destroy it: “American manufacturing has come alive across the Heartland, and the future will be made in America — no matter what the white supremacists and the extremists say,” as if America-First patriots, whom Biden was busy smearing as white supremacists and extremists, were against American manufacturing. “I made a bet on you, the American people,” Biden continued, “and that bet is paying off. Proving that from darkness — the darkness of Charlottesville, of COVID, of gun violence, of insurrection — we can see the light. Light is now visible.”
Spencer raises an important question. This speech was not just a rank, disgusting political speech; it clearly is a precursor to something else, whether it is some Uniparty order to enforce a tyrannical order or perhaps a declaration of martial law to abrogate November’s election. Who knows? But whatever it is, it ain’t good.
This discussion has descended into a discussion of the J6 events which are not specifically germane to BDB’s original post, but I too have some comments:
• I am not an attorney and surely don’t play one on TV, but I have always found the charging of so many people at Capital with “trespassing” more than a little far fetched given the fact that numerous videos of the events that day showed at numerous locations the Capitol Police inviting in the crowd gathered outside the Capitol. How can it be “trespassing” if you and hundreds like you are invited in? The burden of proof that a crime was committed falls on the prosecution, but really to fairly prove a trespassing crime was committed in this case, one would need videos conclusively tracking the movement of anyone charged with trespassing near and into the Capitol to make sure they were not invited in as hundreds were. Of course that would also mean that the 14,000 hours of video footage would have to be released to the defense and we know we can’t have that because that would be following the rules of Due Process.
• Numerous videos that were available January 7th and 8th showed that the MAGA crowds at the Capitol Building trying to peacefully walk through the Capitol, to maintain order and in no way to incite violence. Those videos show what appear to be outside instigators climbing he walls of Capitol and/or breaking windows only to the pulled down and heckled by the MAGA crowd trying to maintain order. These videos fly in the face of the picture painted by our DOJ and the J6 Committee. Defense attorneys have identified more than 80 undercover FBI agents and others associated with the FBI allegedly trying to foment violence, along with numerous individuals associated with AntiFa or BLM that were also there to foment trouble. The fact that our government was clearly involved in some sort of false flag operation and that it has not released all the evidence at it’s disposal clearly paints a picture that in fact the “riot” if you want to call it that was in fact instigated not by the MAGA crowd but by our rogue FBI and Capitol Police in coordination with criminal elements within AntiFA and BLM. Also the worst violence of the day, if one wants to talk about violence, was the wanton murders of two unarmed female protestors by Capitol Police Officers who have never been prosecuted in a gross miscarriage of Justice. Clearly, it is our rogue FBI, DOJ and Capitol Police that should be on trial, not the largely peaceful MAGA protestors.
• Last but not least, the ridiculous abrogation of the protestors Due Process rights over and over again are extremely alarming. The behavior of the DOJ and the FBI clearly are gravely unlawful Police State tactics, which should have no home in America but unfortunately are becoming increasing common during Adolf Biden’s term .
Note that Kizinger believes that someone who was vociferously and repeatedly inciting a crowd to behave illegally did nothing wrong, whereas someone who encouraged the same crowd to behave legally and peacefully is guilty of treason. That seems to be a near-consensus view of beltway Republicans
I saw it referred to as Biden’s “Red Sermon” – and I love that framing.
I think this is correct. The only path forward that doesn’t involve bloodshed—at least it doesn’t have to and everybody knows it—is for separation. If Biden’s speech doesn’t clarify this once and for all, that there is zero in common such that we can live peacefully together under the same system, then I don’t know what it would take to convince many conservatives.
Darren Beatie has been zeroing in on this. I forget what he said, but Kinzinger’s behavior around the Ray Epps thing makes no sense. I don’t see how the deep state puts the Ray Epps thing away after the election.
The last time our nation had that sentiment, 600,000 people were killed.
He *could” have given a speech urging healing and understanding. He could have given a speech urging forgiveness instead of vengeance. He chose not to. And his base would not accept it.
Easy Bryan, Jerry’s questions can be irritating, but mostly because they are stimulating. His asking most often makes people think.
Well that is our current reality. Voting is not going to fix this. We need much bolder action.
No.
He flounced twice. Both times didn’t follow through. It is worth pointing out.
BDB, I just spent a couple of hours working on a post with a similar point, and then I saw yours. Very well put.
Post yours anyway, okay?
Oh, you did. Good.
Yes, this is an upside down world. People are calling riots with actual burning, looting, and murdering “mostly peaceful protests” and calling mostly peaceful protests — without any burning, looting or murdering –“riots”. This is completely inverted.
Yes, but mostly peaceful protests affect peasants and shopkeepers. The riot scared some royalty.
You reminded me of something. When people are standing around calling for others to do something regardless of the law, I would think that most ordinary people would think he’s crazy or a criminal. But when ordinary people first think he’s a member of the federal government, this is a rather foreign thought to me. Who’d naturally think that someone encouraging any supposedly illegal activity would be part of the government? This shows how far down into disrepute the federal government has fallen in the public’s collective mind.
You mean tear it down and build it back differently. Utopia will be “different”.
That seems like the kind of thing that people would realize somewhere in their heads, but it doesn’t surface without help.
I think we are getting better at spotting cons generally. At some point you start to get good at detecting predators, and our government(s) have become predatory.
Our “ safety” is the pretense. Overprotective mother-state forcing us into safety submission. All the while letting rampant lawlessness loose.
The years of watching Efram Zimbalist Jr. solve crimes Adam 12, Dragnet, ad infinitum of cop shows that depict law enforcement as non political and eminently trustworthy allowed these tyrants to take control and abuse the good will they had from decades of good press and good will.
Just part of the long march through the institutions, I suppose.
And every school board is a battlefield.
The leftists know it, even if the normies haven’t yet figured that out. (And did a REALLY STUPID THING by returning the same woke monsters to the school board last spring.)
But the leftists are well aware that the school board is a battlefield. The normies have conceded it because they don’t realize this is war.
Even AFTER they’ve come for our kids. What would it take?
As much exposure of their radical child-sexualization garabage as possible.
It’s having an effect.
Faster please!
I thought love was a battlefield? I get my battlespaces so easily confused.
Heartache to Heartache
But dont hit her with your best shot:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/pat-benatar-hit-me-with-your-best-shot-gun-violence-b2128676.html?amp
Thats a tough one for me. I liked the song, I thought it was about a girl playfully asking a guy to give her his best pick up line… Take his best shot… If she were to refuse to sing the song in deference to good taste – maybe that would fair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEOl38y8Nj8
Kari Lake dealt with this brilliantly in her press conference responding to Biden’s provocation. A Democrat propagandist ran the J6 line on her and she demanded that the tens of thousands of hours of video hidden by Nancy Pelosi be released so that we could get to the truth of who is really innocent and who is really guilty, perhaps including some not even charged yet.