President Biden isn’t bringing the heat with his tone of voice, but he is sure bringing the heat with his words.
In its own way, it’s very effective. A fiery speech, delivered in a conversational way. He speaks for about 20 minutes.
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zhena gogolia
He was fiery in Milwaukee.
Old Dan and Little Ann
It kills me that the right is nothing but, “We’re not fascists. YOU’RE the fascists!” Sick burn.
mrmoshpotato
I’ll have to watch after I’m finished with Thursday’s speech.
mrmoshpotato
@Old Dan and Little Ann: “No puppet! No puppet! You’re the puppet! You’re the puppet!”
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: That one is a keeper!
Mr. Bemused Senior
@mrmoshpotato: they really have embraced and internalized TFG.
These deals with the Devil… they never end well, do they?
Suzanne
Biden called out that heckler for being an idiot and you just KNOW that now they’re gonna be all butthurt about being called idiots.
Jim Appleton
MDGA
Make Democracy Great Again.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne:
Jim Appleton
@WaterGirl: Contrast with TFG urging hecklers to be roughed up.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim Appleton:
Yup.
Lapassionara
@Jim Appleton: My thought too. The contrast between TFG and Biden could not be more stark. One is a humane human being, the other is a pimple on the body politic.
WaterGirl
@Jim Appleton: @mrmoshpotato:
Sounds like all 3 of us had the same thought!
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@Lapassionara: Make that 4!
Jim Appleton
@Jim Appleton: I’m also pleasantly struck by the visual and audio of the diverse, sane Milwaukie audience in contrast to any iDJT rally showcasing folks cheering racist, hateful bile.
Mike in NC
Everyone is entitled to be an idiot, as the Fat Orange Clown proved for four dismal years.
WaterGirl
@Lapassionara:
Anotherlurker
I’m glad to see a fellow IATSE member represented, the grey haired gentleman sitting behind President Biden.
Lyrebird
@WaterGirl: THanks for posting that bit! I’m with you and the rest,
waves to @Jim Appleton: @mrmoshpotato: @Lapassionara:
what a contrast, and at the heart of that contrast is:
Trump likes fascism,
Biden truly supports democracy over demagoguery!
Right there in that short clip. WHat was that ad, “Prego! it’s in there” or something? He protected the idotic acting heckler from the crowd. That is leadership.
Loved the crowd response, too.
The Golux
@Lapassionara:
Minor clarification.
WaterGirl
@The Golux: Maybe we could combine my suggestion (from #16) with yours?
WaterGirl
@Lyrebird: Barack Obama used to do that, too, when someone heckled him in a crowd.
Wanderer
President Biden has accomplished so very much to improve the lives of so many. He is an impressive leader on American issues and international issues. The former guy is a raging sinkhole by comparison.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
I agree, but I wasn’t going to be as nice as Lapassionara, calling him a pimple on the body politic.
Joe is the politician that this country needs, because he is older, he is experienced, in both dealing with republicans and in being an actual democratic politician of old school, which we need now more than ever. Money has taken over politicians in many parts of the world, in it’s typical fashion. Greed is the conservative’s first and only concept of not just politics but of living. It is their main issue and has been my entire life. Early on in this country they wanted slaves so they could be greedy. They want the country, the world to support them in the manner of royalty. Fuck them. I worked for 60 damn years, being productive, working for a wage, not for other’s savings and lives, being fair and paying employees well for their time and effort, all so some shithead can live in a 30,000 sq ft mansion, or have 11 of them, while others sleep on public benches, go hungry, etc. It’s bullshit is what it is. This country makes billions, far more than enough to support 329 million citizens, but not enough to support fucking assholes who think they should get every damn dime, to do what with, horde it?
Amir Khalid
There have been people in the American media saying the USMC Band’s presence at events like this is Biden politicising the military. I don’t get the logic behind that. Could someone explain?
zhena gogolia
@Amir Khalid: They were fine with the Republican convention being held at the White House. Nuff said.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: There is no logic.
Did you know that officially the USMC band is called “The President’s Own”?
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
They are looking for anything they can complain about. But all they have is bullshit. Their entire political position is bullshit. Because they are not trying to slow down democratic policy, they are trying to overthrow the country. They are losing but notice something, as others have stated it is not just our conservative side it is a lot of the world’s conservative side. They want everything to go backwards centuries because they benefit, or at least think they do. Democracy, equality goes against every single fiber of their beings. Or at least what they think every single fiber wants. And it’s bullshit, it is about money. An actual democracy is about equality. It’s not communism where there is a small ruling class and everyone else gets squat, or it’s equivalent, it is pure conservative bullshit, that they get all the money and everyone else gets squat. We work for them so they can be rich, we work for them so they can act snooty, we work for them so they can feel superior. And a lot of the world works at least in that direction. We aren’t supposed to be that way. Shit for brains is that way, everything is his, our country secrets, our production, our lives, his pleasure, his racism is all about being superior. And every last bit of it is bullshit.
dm
@Amir Khalid: I assume the band at the political rally was a local band, not the Marine Corps band. Using the Marines for a political rally would be using the government’s money to benefit his party, which is illegal.
People did complain about Trump mis-using the White House, the Democrats just couldn’t turn it into a scandal because the Democrats don’t have a Fox News of their own. On the other hand, I doubt Republican meeping about marines standing behind Biden at Independence Hall is going to go very far, either.
prostratedragon
@dm: They were wearing the red tunics of the President’s Own. The Thursday event was entered as a Presidential speech and not a campaign one, which is one reason I think he carefully distinguished Republicans and MAGA Republicans.
Uncle Cosmo
I’m also struck by the audio – the fact, that is, that I can’t hear President Uncle Joe no matter how much I turn the audio up. (Not completely silent, but inaudible.) Not here, not on YouTube. Aaah, screw it, guess I’ll look for a transcript…