In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote

Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in a rare public address.

Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran.

Reprising a line from the 2020 campaign that saw him defeat Trump and end Trump’s first presidency, Biden told the crowd at the Columbia Museum of Art on Friday that the “battle for the soul of this nation is one that’s never really over”. He simultaneously criticized Trump’s plan to introduce potentially prohibitive voting requirements ahead of the midterms.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      This is the right answer. If you are in a position if power, the consequences for your actions should be ten times more than a civilian.

      • errer@lemmy.world
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        The guy led an insurrection against our own government. The evidence was overwhelming. We’ve executed people in this country for much, much less.

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            I’m not sure why people still think the guy who, a day before he was sworn in, said “He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So, it was pretty good, it was pretty good. So, thank you to Elon” legitimately won in a free and fair election.

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    He should shut the fuck up. That fucking hump is responsible for this.

    When he took over, he immediately launched a Covid Vaccine program and an Economic Stimulus program that were both far more successful than predicted. For that, he could have landed in the top 10-15 of presidents.

    But he had to do a decent job for the rest of his presidency, which mainly included dealing with MAGA as the National Security Threat they are. He had just seen Trump launch an Insurrection. That would have been enough for him to step off the podium after being sworn in, and say “Round them ALL up, and ship them to Guantanamo for interrogation. We’ll sort them out there.”

    If he’d done that, we would have found out about the False Electors Plot, AND his Stolen Classified Documents Operation. That’s THREE separate cases of sedition and treason, and more than enough for him to get the noose.

    Rounding them up would have suppressed the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and allowed the Dems to better control the messaging going into the 2024 election.

    Instead, Biden basically checked out of the job after announcing his Covid and Stimulus programs, and stupidly appointed the most feckless Republican to be his AG, perhaps the STUPIDEST Democratic Presidential decision in modern history, who dithered and slow-walked Trump’s treason cases as long as he could, giving him a two year head start to run out the clock, which he did, successfully.

    In addition, he ignored the many warnings, many coming from the mouths of the criminals themselves, that they intended to rig the election and steal the presidency, and Biden allowed them to do it in front of the entire world, without any interference at all. And when they did, he went along with the ridiculous concept that Trump won the election “fair & square.”

    The American voters fired MAGA decisively, and expected the new Democratic administration to clean up the mess. Instead of getting justice for America, they tried to make friends with feral animals, and got eaten alive. For his weakness and cowardice, allowing MAGA to rise again, Biden’s legacy is in the toilet, and will he will be buried in the bottom 10 of all presidents.

    Biden betrayed us, and he’s lucky that he won’t be joining the MAGAs against the wall with the rest of them. He deserves the firing squad as much as any of them.

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    16 days ago

    Let’s never forget that Trump never would have been President if it wasn’t for Genocide Joe riding Israel’s coat-tails directly into hell. I hope beyond hope that he’ll be still alive to stand trial for this when things turn right again.

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      Never forget that thousands and thousands of dipshits canvassed the Internet pretending to be leftists but taking actions which led to Donald Trump destroying America forever. Fuck every single one of those cunts.

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        Yeah why blame a handful of politicians for being genocidal, when you can blame thousands of voters for not voting for genocide? It just makes sense.

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          You voted strongly for genocide. Deny it all you want. You voted for harder genocide and you begged others to as well. History will never honor your fake moralizing.

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            I’m still not American, and you’re still wrong. Voting for 99% Hitler is still an evil act, even in a two party system where the other candidate is 100% Hitler. At that point your only principled position is to take action outside of the two-party system, by voting third party - and/or, even better - beyond electoralism altogether.

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    Yeah, we know. But it’s not like Congress or SCOTUS is doing anything to stop him. Or even slow him down.

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      It’s also not like Biden did anything to stop him lol, ie pursuing prosecution more heavily or… you know… releasing the Epstein files which he also had.