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Biden’s Bile, or How to Guarantee a National Disaster if Republicans Don’t Act
While Joe Biden raves and rants at MAGA Republicans, who he thinks are determined to destroy our democracy (which is actually a republic), the rest of the country is taking stock of Biden’s presidency and asking the difficult question: why are we supporting this man who has led this country in such a disastrous direction? I’m becoming more convinced every day that he has sealed his own fate and that of all citizens by believing that the country will be inspired by his rhetoric, which is not only irresponsible but denigrates the very people he is supposed to be serving.
Why have I come to this conclusion?
He insists on thinking that Democrats don’t realize that his administration is responsible for all the hardships that are unfolding. Inflation has risen on his watch; the borders have been decimated with his ignoring enforcement; interest rates are rising; the food and household goods continue to be in short supply.
And how is that caused by the MAGA Republicans?
Then there are his climate change causes. Biden tells us that we will all be driving electric vehicles in 15 years, even though they are very costly; they only travel limited distances; and charging stations are still in short supply, or will be expensive to install in people’s homes. And those solar power panels for rooftops? If the roof or the panels are damaged by installation or afterward, insurance companies will likely not cover them.
And how is that caused by MAGA Republicans?
In addition, there are all the changes that Biden promised to his followers: gun control legislation; national abortion legislation (even though SCOTUS says that legislation belongs with the states); reform to the criminal justice system (although no one seems to know what that means); dealing with crime all over the country; stopping voter suppression (as Americans support voter ID laws); and dealing effectively with China and Russia.
And how are these factors caused by MAGA Republicans?
Biden is in serious trouble, and with his raging rhetoric, he’s only making his public persona worse. And yet, in his speech reminiscent of a Nazi forum, he made the following comment:
But the heart of Biden’s address was a ringing alarm bell about what he called ‘an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.’
‘MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy. No right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,” he said, striking on cultural issues Democrats believe can help them win in November.
‘They promote authoritarian leaders,’ he went on. ‘They fanned the flames of political violence.’
If we parse just this particular comment, there is no legitimate evidence that any of these outcomes have anything to do with MAGA Republicans (except perhaps January 6, when a MAGA Republican was killed by the Capitol Police). In fact, who are these MAGA Republicans?
According to the Pew Research Center, 43 percent of independents and nonaffiliated voters supported the former president, as did 4 percent of Democrats. Are we going to declare them ‘MAGA Independents’ and ‘MAGA Democrats?’ By transitioning from ‘MAGA Republicans’ to ‘Trump and his supporters,’ the scope of those who may be classified under the ill-defined ‘threat to democracy’ is widely broadened. . .
What is new is how the Biden administration is further expanding components of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism and using powerful federal agencies to target political opposition. The Democrats’ intent is clear: anyone who rejects their agenda is an enemy.
If you dissent from the narrative or oppose the radical agenda, you will be branded a ‘MAGA Republican.’ And Democrats consider ‘Maga Republicans’ to be fascists. Don’t be fooled by their doublespeak.
We’re seeing the signs that the Democrats are seeing the truth behind Biden’s hateful speech and lies:
In the end, no voters like to be attacked for their choices by those seeking votes.
Make no mistake: this isn’t the Democrats fired up and ready for war. This is the rage of the rejected and the dejected.
It is now up to the GOP to make adverts carrying excerpts of Biden’s toxic rhetoric to fire up not only GOP voters but independent voters who may not have watched the entire speech. [Italics are mine.]
Republicans can no longer sit back and watch the frightening signals that Biden is sending out. There is much more to lose than they are willing to admit, and they must act now:
There is a very real possibility that Biden will back up his threatening speech with actions. He may not round us up in ghettos (at least not in his first term) but make no mistake: He just declared war on 74 million of his fellow Americans. If Republicans don’t win big in the midterms, or if Joe Biden gets a second term, there will be no stopping the Left. Our most sacred rights—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, the right to bear arms—could go away—poof—like all that student debt he just ‘forgave.’
What is it going to take for the Republicans to speak out and tell the truth?
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Why would any Democrat vote Republican? The media and society and social media constantly tells hove evil the Republicans are, how evil Republican issues are.
If they just don’t vote at all, that could work.
I am so stealing this for my blog. Thank you!
It didn’t originate with me, but it is one of my favorites.
I’m the same way but I also see a downside. As more of their money comes from PACs, groups, and millionaires, the congressmen will pay attention to those who give them money,
All I know is that until the entire public insists we go back to pen and paper ballots, our elections will continue to be driven by fraud.
It’s not a matter of “I told you so” – it is a matter that we lone voices in the wilderness have no power.
The leadership in both parties is completely and totally disinterested in having this happen.
McConnell doesn’t care. Pelosi certainly doesn’t care.
Put together a new party which demands the needed changes, and it would be five to ten years before the new party would have garnered enough supporters to matter. And then it will be co-opted, just as has happened with many necessary political causes in days gone by.
I suppose that since I don’t have answers, I should just shut up.
About the only real solution that is available to me with regards to so many of the crises we now face is prayer.
Joe biden’s “Wage war Against the Extremeists” seems to have gone over very well. I say this from the limited ability I have of trying to test the waters of the political opposition.
The Dems wanted a rallying cry, and with the raid on Mar-a-lago, combined with the fearful notion that an entire powerful and united group of Right wing, minority-bashing extremists could overthrow the newly established world of pronouns, CRT, the tolerance of school districts that hormonalize little kids into being trans, the war on the people of Eastern Ukraine, now the Dems have that rallying cry.
The last time I talked with my Santa Rosa gf about politics, she was very very very concerned about how the biggest challenge our nation faces is White Supremecists. She said the reason I am not affected by this fear is that with my having lived in Wisconsin for several years, I was culturally innoculated into accepting it. (She states that Wisc is the current day capital of White Supremacist movement.)
I lived in Madison WI, which has to be the farthest from the ideas of White Supremicism of any college town one could name. In fact the only openly White Supremacist I have ever met was a guy handing out WS pamphlets who corralled me in a deli while I was eating lunch in Sacramento.
But she insists that there are more WS than ever before. Also: guess what? She is convinced that the movement which converted ordinary Republicans into WS’s was the Trump movement!
I see the same thinking on Twitter. Sure, some Dems will moan & groan about inflation. But they believe Russia caused it in retaliation for our involvement with The Ukraine. Most Dems are too firmly attached to how Republicans will continue to warm up the planet, advocate for the GLBT community to be put in camps, infect the human race with monkey pox by not wearing masks & getting v’ed, and all the rest of the malarkey these folks think about us human vermin.
It’s a team vote. The rest of the team will prop him up and replace him, if needed. That’s why Fetterman’s decrepitude isn’t hurting him much either.
Yes, but this is not taking into account dead voters, who are notoriously difficult to poll.
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Please don’t “shut up.” The debates and discussions still need to happen, CarolJoy. It’s just that it’s so easy to become discouraged and mired in negativity. Staying in the game is very important.
The fix is in because the left is using the system to persecute its enemies.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/18/equal-justice-they-said/
But all you have to do to stop the ultimate evil. The modern day Hitler. The largest group of white supremist that want to put all non whites back in chains and want to take away all right from non whites and women is to vote.
This is a devastating article from VDH. When all of that information is put together, it is difficult to see how we will ever see our way to justice. Still, I want to see the truth, Bryan. Everyone should read this article.
We have been progressing towards communism for decades. All we get from Republicans is a time out. Sadly, Democrats use the time outs better than we do.
Our best hope is this – commies haven’t tried this on a free and prosperous country. Oh wait, Venezuela.
Our weakness – too many think it couldn’t happen here.
Those of us who retired with regular officer commissions have that added liability they can use against us.
This is good but it leaves out the section where first couple of waves of people standing up get wiped out as well as their family and friends.
Because the other soccer moms are okay with it, too.
Consider the media they consume. Daytime television is just the same leftist pap packaged for suburban women.