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President Biden: American Vets and Police Forming White Supremacist Groups
Joe Biden and Anderson Cooper recently held a CNN town hall in Milwaukee in which Joel Berkowitz (a professor at the local University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) asked him about “…ongoing threats to our country from Americans who embrace white supremacy and conspiracies that align with it. What can your administration do to address this complex and wide-ranging problem?” Black Lives Matter spent much of the last year burning cities across America. This apparently slipped Mr. Biden’s mind, as he answered:
“It is complex, it’s wide-ranging and it’s real. You may — I got involved in politics to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan … And the most dangerous people in America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat to terror in America: domestic terror … And so I would make sure that my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks. And I would make sure that we, in fact, focus on how to deal with the rise of white supremacy … And you see what’s happening — and the studies that are beginning to be done, maybe at your university as well — about the impact of former military, former police officers, on the growth of white supremacy in some of these groups.”
So the President of the United States thinks that the greatest threat of terrorism in America is from white supremacist groups largely made up of American veterans and former police officers. He’s viciously insulting white people, members of America’s military, and police officers in a public forum. On CNN, no less. I wondered if CNN would mention such remarkable claims. So I went to their website.
On CNN’s website, one of the headlines is, “Fact Check: Biden Makes At Least Four False Statistical Claims at Town Hall.” I was impressed that they would mention his slanderous lies, but I wasn’t sure what pretend white supremacists have to do with statistics. So I read on.
The article listed four instances in which Mr. Biden lied about statistics – or at least said something that was not true. Those four inaccuracies were in his answers to questions regarding the minimum wage, undocumented workers, the Chinese workforce, and COVID vaccines. CNN did not fact-check his statements about white supremacy.
The article continues, attempting to provide context for some other lies (or incorrect things) that Mr. Biden claimed were true. But again, it did not mention the passage I quoted above.
A few questions come to my mind:
First, I wonder how many Democrat voters believe Mr. Biden’s claims of the imminent threat from former military and police forming white supremacy groups? Do they really believe that?
Next, I wonder how many of those voters have ever met a white supremacist? I’ve never met one, and I spent 20 years of my life in the mountains of east Tennessee.
I wonder if the residents of Portland and various other cities that burned for months at the hands of Black Lives Matter thought to themselves that perhaps there are threats to their cities other than white supremacists that they’ve never seen.
I wonder if Mr. Biden hesitated to brag about how he was inspired to enter public service by his dedication to civil rights. I wonder if he’s concerned that someone might challenge him on that point. I wonder if Anderson Cooper was rolling his eyes at that moment.
I wonder if Mr. Biden’s advisers took him aside after the town hall and reminded him that insulting a majority of the population is not good politics. If they didn’t remind him of that, it would almost seem as if the Democrats aren’t worried about elections anymore, for some reason.
I could go on, but I won’t. Because to me, the only question that really matters is my first one: How many Democrat voters actually believe Mr. Biden’s statement above? If it’s more than two or three percent, that’s incredible. And horrifying. And I’ll bet it’s a lot more than two or three percent. I’ll bet it’s more than half. I’ll bet it’s a lot more than half.
I really hope I’m wrong.
Because if I’m right, or even if I’m close to being right about the ‘more than half’ estimate, then we have a serious problem. Because if most Democrat voters actually believe that our military, our police, and most Republican voters are white supremacist racist terrorists, then what would those Democrat voters not do to solve the problem of, well, of me?
These people are my friends and neighbors. Is this what they think of me? If it is, then cancel culture and censorship are only the very beginning. Will they resort to violence against me and other suspected conservatives? If not, why not? If they really believe that we’re all racist terrorists, why would they not do everything possible to silence us? By any means necessary?
If I’m close to being right, this could get very ugly, very fast.
Mr. Biden may have just been performing to a liberal crowd, trying to get applause lines. He may not have meant any of what he said. But even if he didn’t, such inflammatory rhetoric is dangerous. Especially in such polarized and partisan times.
I hope that his rhetoric is simply careless, stupid, and reckless. Because if it’s not, then he’s deliberately inciting violence all over the country that he’s supposed to be uniting.
Regardless of his intentions, such rhetoric is extremely dangerous. For us all.
Lord help us.
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I’m a veteran, and just the other day I got my invitation to join a white supremacy group. I threw the pamphlet from the DNC away . . .
It’s a race now between current events and my retirement date. If I make it, I’ll getting out of Dodge and moving my lovely bride and myself to someplace where most folks still believe in our Founding Documents, somewhere out of the way with some resources where we can try to ride out the spasm that I fear is imminent. If events overtake our plans, we are just outside NYC in Murphy’s PRNJ. It’ll be … interesting.
Those will be the last statistics for awhile. Obama shut down these FBI stats.
As of right now, best bets are on Newton County, MO. (I don’t know about the “most folks” part but at least some have the right spirit…)
Now that Harris is safely established (almost said elected) as VP, we can expect to see Biden being fact-checked by the usual suspects. This will pave the way to declare him unfit for office and the real intended candidate can be coronated.
I have long been frustrated over the depiction of American white people oppressing American black people because I have known the characterization to be exaggerated. I was on a walking tour of Martha’s Vineyard years ago, and the guide said that the island had been a vacation resort for middle-class and upper-class black Americans for 150 years.
Urban area politicians and academics concoct policy based on what they see out their office windows, but that is often atypical for the rest of the country. That’s why state laws, and federal as well, so often seem surreal out in the suburbs or rural areas. This has been particularly true in our acceptance of “the racial divide.” The problems in our cities are not caused by the color of the people but by the city design, planning, and permitting departments.
I came across an interesting article on Townhall, “Larry Elder, Herschel Walker Destroy Arguments in Favor of Reparations at Congressional Hearings.” Here’s Larry Elder’s statement:
The “racial divide” has made a lot of money for the entertainment media and politicians. That’s the only reason our society is stuck on it as an issue in need of our work and attention.
In September 2019, I somewhat reluctantly purchased 19 acres and a little house and moved there because that was my wife’s goal. Now we have 4 horses, 2 dogs, a well and septic, oil heat, a generator back-up, and I brew my own beer. I harvested 3 deer this fall, and there is a trout stream up front.
I have now come to absolutely appreciate the remoteness, solitude and clear firing zones that the zombies would need to cross to reach us…
I do not want Biden declared unfit for office. He is just what they elected. I want to let it ride.
The communists that have stolen the election are dangerously trying to discredit the military and the police. That’s the story.
In answer to some of the earlier comments, yes, I have met a member of AntiFa. Despite it being Arkansas, the fact that Fayetteville is a college town necessitates a small amount of radicalism in the younger population. While doing graduate work there, I also got involved in the local music scene and produced a few local music compilations. This put me in touch with the younger crowd, and one guy in particular, the lead singer of a pretty good pop group, would always talk to me when I saw him out at the bars about what he was up to. He was one of the most active people in the Occupy Wall Street movement in Fayetteville when that was popular, and as the years went on he drifted further and further leftward. Unfortunately, this accompanied what I perceived to be his drifting further and further into mental instability, as well as drug and alcohol abuse. It was perhaps around 2015? 2016? 2017? (don’t remember exactly) that he started telling me about this AntiFa thing he was becoming involved in as a response to what they (mistakenly thought) happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson. There was a local AntiFa chapter facebook group and they had a few confrontational and very aggressive marches down Dickson Street and incidents with the local police.
He’d tell me these things because he thought I was down for the struggle. I did a good job of keeping my political views to myself to the point where he put me into his hate Donald Trump facebook group. I moved away from Fayetteville in 2018, and don’t know how active the Fayetteville AntiFa chapter is these days or their level of participation in marches, demonstrations, and property destruction in northwest Arkansas this past summer.
This “insurrectionist” has no business being president. Disgusting.
This may come as a shock to the Woke but I never asked someone who I arrested, or wrote a traffic cite who they voted for, or where they attended church. I never made assumptions about someone’s voting habits that I had to wrestle around with to make an arrest.
I didn’t call their priest, imam, rabbi, or minister for a character reference. I didn’t ask them about their educational experience, nor did I call their former sixth grade teacher to find out what kind of kid they were. I didn’t care if they were angry because their virtual girlfriend dumped them. I didn’t care if they started a hamster rescue shelter.
We can’t let the Democrats escape the import of their own pronouncements. If there’s systemic racism in the United States, that means that the institutions with power in this country are wielding it against African Americans. A vast majority of African Americans live in Democrat controlled cities and send their children to public schools run by Democrat controlled and aligned teachers’ unions. These are the very same public school teachers and unions that refuse to come back to work to teach these children, creating a lost year in their education and putting them further behind in school systems that are already failing them.
I keep a note on my phone listing the last time (if ever) various American cities had a Republican mayor:
Memphis (never), New Orleans (1872), Atlanta (1879), Milwaukee (1908), Washington DC (1910), Boston (1930), Chicago (1931), Pittsburgh (1934), Philadelphia (1952), Newark (1953), Detroit (1962), Denver (1963), San Francisco (1964), Baltimore (1967), Seattle (1969), Cincinnati (1971), Hartford, CN (1971), Minneapolis (1973), Houston (1981), Cleveland (1989), Austin (1991), Los Angeles (2001), Dallas (2011), and New York (Bloomberg changed his affiliation to an independent in 2007, but let’s be generous and say 2013 when De Blasio took over).
Who’s had more of a direct and local impact on and detrimentally affected the lives of African Americans for generation after generation than these city governments and their dysfunctional school systems? Democrats are the party of slavery, created the KKK, Jim Crow laws, filibustering the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, and the familial destruction wrought by the Great Society. When you watch Mississippi Burning (a semi-fictionalized account of an actual murder conspiracy), remember that all those KKK members, violent racists, and city/county/state government obstructionists to the FBI investigation were Democrats.
As usual, they’re projecting their racism onto everyone else. Physician heal thyself! Democrats should be punching themselves in their own faces right now, dressed in sackcloth and ashes, and begging for forgiveness.
Way to go! Senile Joe!
What a great way to insult all those Americans who really know how to use and were trained to use a weapon!
Great way to piss off a whole section of the populace you don’t want to really piss off! Law Enforcement and the Military are really gonna have your back now and enforce all those incredibly unconstitutional edicts of yours! NOT!
In a few posts ago I asked what or who were going to be the next Great Democrat/Leftie/ Progressive/Oligarch bogeyman. Well I guess we found them, as I expected, it is those terribly scary and loathsome “White Supremacists”.
Why they are the “most dangerous people in America”, so says our Commander in Thief, the man who stole the Presidency; the Senile, Crook and loathsome Traitor Joe Biden.
Exactly who are these dangerous people? Why they are the people who have kept the peace and have kept America safe all these years. Wow! I would have never guessed, except that they I know have this really terrible habit of loving America, it’s Constitutional Republic and the Rule of Law. Can’t have that. Not anymore. Not under the new Biden Police State you don’t.
The funny thing is I am having trouble Mr “President” as to how exactly we are to determine who are these terrible and incredibly dangerous “White Supremacists”? Mebbe you could give a little better idea of what they have done? What crimes have they committed? I mean it has to be real crimes not those concocted political thought crimes you accused President Trump of. Give us the real lowdown as to how we can “uncover” this dangerous threat to the Republic, and btw while you are at it, perhaps you can present all the evidence ( and I mean real evidence) of crimes committed by these terribly dangerous citizens.
Seems you’re assuming he once did….
Or just if they were consistent.
You don’t know how to determine who these people are? Don’t you know the secret handshake? Didn’t you see Brett Kananaugh’s former law clerk, sitting behind him in his confirmation hearings, giving the secret “white power hand sign”?
Geez, get with it!!!
Per the new domestic terrorism directive, anyone who criticizes the government will be deemed a white supremacist, and treated accordingly.
It’s basically a way to generate fear and mistrust of institutions that have their own independent credibility and social authority. Atomizing society breaks up trust and traditional bonds that give people a life independent of government and dominant social narratives. So riding from/through Covid to cops and the military being “racist” makes sense. It’s the easiest way to ensure a huge proportion of the population becomes reliant on government to find meaning and tell them who to be afraid of and who they can trust.
So if the different races of America are cooperative and friendly (which they are for the most part) people might think that they don’t need government to fix problems?
More specifically, in this case it will move him towards replacing the local police with a police state, which is what he suggested he wanted to do as his part in the #defund movement.
So how bad of a person am I that I am seriously thinking of embracing white supremacy? For most of my (almost) 65 years I have tried to practice race-neutral thinking.
But, in the last several years, particularly with the advent of “critical race theory” and Black Lives Matter, black activists and their allies have asserted that black people are incapable of civilized behavior (as defined by “western civilization”) and must be allowed to commit violence, that black people cannot compete on a level playing field with white people and instead must rely on bullying and threats of violence, that black people are incapable of learning basic social and other functions that yield “success” in western civilizations, and that black and white people are incapable of having a common definition of “society” in which both can live together.
If what the black activists and their allies (including Joe Biden – mr. black people are incapable of figuring out how to obtain voter identification and how to use the internet) says are true, why shouldn’t I adopt white supremacy as the reasonable response?
They say all white people are racist, no matter what we do. So why should we care what they think anymore?
I like to treat everyone equally. I would like to treat everyone in fairness and politely. But the truth is, jobs, acceptances at schools, government contracts, and almost every other perk gives preferences to certain groups.
What’s the result? When you see a person in a protected group that has any job or position at all, the natural assumption is that they got there out of preference and not from ability. Their racist preferences cause racist results, and others to assume racist conclusions.
Even in low jobs, you might assume that they are so incapable that they can’t even get something better handed to them. I don’t like to make such assumptions, but isn’t it natural?
Racist policies beget racism. That’s not an innocent result. It is intended by the most ideological and partisan of the democrats.
Me too, and especially to deny her the presidency.
In a color-blind society you wouldn’t be caught dead saying that inner-city blacks and rural IPOCs (!!! what have we come to?) couldn’t figure out how to use the internet.
Because you should not react to stupidity with equal and opposite stupidity. I too feel grated for being pigeon-holed and belittled for my lack of melanin so I can understand your frustration. But white supremacy is just another form of stupid racial collectivity that negates individual rights and virtue.
It’s BLM dipped in vanilla instead of chocolate.
Just weird. Insulted like most vets and former law enforcement types. Saw a recent post (thought it was on PowerLine but can’t find it) that there were 4 levels of “white supremacy”; believe Caucasians the superior race, actively promoting to exclude non-Caucasians from good jobs, etc. and my first thought was WTF? Had this idiot not known of the 1964 Civil Right Act? Or known that good ‘ol J. Edgar Hoover, for all this faults, effectively destroyed the KKK in the South in by 1970? But now we have QAnon. What’s that? And the Proud Boys. Never heard of them before. And will bet not one of them could pass Marine Corps fitness training. What a load of B.S.
I think that’s the plan. Biden is going to “resign” soon.
Yeah, I’ve always thought this too.
If the Left is going to be logically consistant, then:
They tell me that a homosexual is born that way, nothing to be done about it, it’s a part of him, who he really is. And therefore we must accept and celebrate him.
Same with a Trans person. He may not even have been born that way, but decided at some point to switch. And we must accept him, now her, and celebrate the wonderfulness.
Then they turn and regard me, and notice I have white skin. They immediately inform me that I am therefore unrepentantly a racist, simply because of how I was born; nothing I can do about it, it’s a done deal.
Why are they not then accepting me, and celebrating my supposed racism? If it’s natural, and I was born that way and can’t change it, how can they be so cruel?
Agreed. So let this be the last post on the topic of white supremacy ever to appear on Ricochet. My own suspicion is that the topic is just an attempt to lure conservative white people into obsessing about race instead of talking about the political issues confronting us.