Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
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.
Published in General
I have noticed the same change.
I have met a few racist over the years. Some of them were even white. Given that they tend to be few and far between. They also don’t really seem to be very shy about their point of view. Which is why I never understood the whole “dog whistle” thing the left keep saying and only they can hear.
Being liberal means never having to say you’re sorry. Get out of jail free card.
https://ricochet.com/896825/white-privilege-thy-name-is-ashley-judd/
Absolutely. Most of the racists I have known are black. And they’re very open about it and don’t ever think there’s anything even impolite about it. It’s like it’s part of the culture. “My great great great great grand daddy was a slave and it’s all your fault.”
Does she need to pee?
My recollection is she was discussing the merits of having an organ discretely hidden beneath those hands. But that was Old Think. Those aren’t important to being in the critical segment she identifies with anymore. They’re optional, so she has to apologize for her transgression.
I’m amazed at two things
1-How many people think “white supremacy” is a problem (even here on Ricochet).
2-How many people (even here on ricochet) think joe biden is harmless and it’s no big deal that someone who doesn’t know his own name is President.
Amazing.
The early race hustlers such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton showed the way and then pathetic creatures such as Ibram X. Kendi and the authors of the 1619 Project have cashed in on it. There’s a ton of money to be made on telling people that “it’s not your fault; you were doomed to a life of poverty because of those white supremacists”.
That might have been her “speech” at Trump’s inauguration when she proudly proclaimed that she was a “naaaaasty woman”. (She didn’t have to convince me.)
As I recall she was followed by Madonna who proclaimed that she wanted to blow up the White House. Funny that she wasn’t investigated for those remarks.
Because TRUUUMMP!!!!
Sad.
True, but at times I believe we’re akin to “The Boy Who Stood on the Burning Deck”.
Try as I may, I can’t forget the Kavanaugh Hearings, where one liar after another slandered a decent man. To me, those hearings were a perfect microcosm of how far the Left and an obedient media will go to take over, and ultimately destroy, our Republic.
Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas were the pioneers for this treatment ….
Biden’s fingerprints were all over the lynching.
True ‘dat…
In the Congressional Bill introduced by democrat Dick Durbin called “Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2019,” it states:
“An unclassified May 2017 joint intelligence bulletin from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security found that “white supremacist extremism poses [a] persistent threat of lethal violence,” and that White supremacists “were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016 … more than any other domestic extremist movement.”
This comes out to three “White Supremacist” homicides in the United States per year, a microscopic statistic. I’ll bet you could find that many homicides in several Chicago neighborhoods per month.
For the city of Chicago, 3 homicides is an extremely slow weekend.
Of all the people I’ve ever personally known to be racist (which is not a whole lot), every single one was a Democrat when any political leaning could be gleaned. The most flagrant one was a white homosexual who hated Black people with extreme passion and wasn’t shy about expressing it.
I get your point, but I’m just talking individual neighborhoods in Chicago vs. the whole United States.
Biden ran the lynching.
For Chicago they frequently get 3 homicides at one shooting.
Biden has never run anything in his life. Even back then it was clear that everything he did was directed by someone else. He’s simply not smart enough to think of such things. He’s not smart enough to imagine direct results, let alone long term effects. He’s a truly dumb man who thrived only because he knew how to speak other’s words with great confidence. His dementia has simply made that more clear to people who weren’t paying attention to how vacuous his life was.
Ok. He was chairman of the lynching.
Nah, he was the annoying guy that the bullies didn’t even like but would send out to collect lunch money and deliver threats.
Yeah, one of the many underreported (or maybe just not reported) stories that I’ve seen in the last few days was when he paraded over to the Pentagon and proclaimed, “The Biden Family is a Military Family”.
Of course, one of his sons did serve (honorably, if I recall). However, the other one couldn’t last a year before he was given the heave-ho because of drugs.
Whether it’s a complete lack of self awareness or, as you say, dementia, it’s cause for all of us to be uneasy.
I just saw that Anita Hill was going to be the featured speaker at some university gathering. How long before Christine Blasey Ford and Julie Swetnick start showing up as featured speakers?
I think Christine Blasey Ford has already been featured on some college thing.