Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.
The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.
“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”
There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”
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Then America would have another Tiananmen Square to add to the MOVE bombing, Tulsa, Waco, etc.
We would instantly transport back into the 1950’s. After “animals” “thugs” gets thrown out his z league faux military supporters would be outraged and a lot of people would get killed.
It would be as huge a deal as the twintowers attack.
There would be non-stop coverage of Jan 6 on Fox News 24/7 since the day it happened, guaranteed.
How do you think MSNBC and CNN would cover it?
Honestly I’m pretty sure close to the same. At the least they’d probably call it a riot as opposed to an insurrection but it begs the question — would they do such a thing in the first place?
… But the left didn’t trespass into the Capitol; nor did they start beating cops relentlessly. Nor were their grievances as patently hollow and void as the Jan 6’ers. Nor were their actions stoked by the President, themselves. Nor were their goals as remotely fascist.
It’s a little confusing what Biden even meant. I assumed he was asking if white people were swapped out for Black people on Jan 6, and all else were equal.
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Someone lights a dumpster on fire -
“Washington DC - BURNED TO THE GROUND BY BLM!”
The Black Panthers?
Ah yes how can we forget the two dozen armed black people practicing their 2nd amendment that caused Reagan to sign a gun control law so said blacks couldn’t have guns anymore 🤣😂
According to Biden if you are black and you voted for Trump, nothing, because - “You got more questions, but I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Good point.
i don’t know, this strikes me as dirty pool, the sort that you get bitten in the ass for. I guess we’re pretending in this scenario that it wasn’t Trump who called them there and organized them in the first place? We aren’t so desperate and out of ideas - already! - as to try to pretend he would call them there and then entrap his own supporters just because of their skin colour, are we? Cuz that’s stooping pretty low and there ain’t no call for that when you’re literally running against the gutter; quite the opposite. All you gotta do is run on the facts. (Or RUN AT ALL, HILARY)
This just comes off as another white guy playing the race card on your behalf so as to get something out of it.
Besides, surely there were two or three black folk there, weren’t there? Surely! ;)
If the Jan 6 insurrection had been done by people of color, Trump would have seen to that the few survivors would be severely punished. The rest would have been dumped in a mass grave.
Seems icky to use black people as a political chip like this.
We shouldn’t talk to the association for colored people about colored people? Seems like exactly what a politician should talk to them about… politics
So you’re saying Biden shouldn’t talk about what black people’s lives are worth under Trump to the NAACP?
The Biden government and cops would’ve crushed the riots with way more force if they’d been lead by black americans. Just look at how much more violent the cops are against students protesting peacefully compared to how they straight-up helped the trump supporters into the Capitol most of the way lmfao.
What are you even talking about… “the Biden cops”…? You do realize that capitol police don’t take orders from the president?
Oh brilliant, in which case his snark about Trump doesn’t make any sense because the cops would be racist on their own terms under either president.
I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy of this guy to snark about police violence against rioters when he’s outright encouraging the crackdown that is infinitely more peaceful.
Go back to reddit if you really want to live in the pretend world where Biden is a gentle, benevolent dictator just because you’re not bothered about the people his admin is helping repress at home and abroad.
Go back to reddit if you really want to live in the pretend world where Biden is a gentle, benevolent dictator just because you’re not bothered about the people his admin is helping repress at home and abroad.
what in the world did I say that makes you think that this is my opinion? God, this place is exhausting…
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Bidengovernment and cops would’ve crushed the riots with way more force if they’d beenleadled by black americans. Just look at how much more violent the cops are against students protesting peacefully compared to how they straight-up helped the trump supporters into the Capitol most of the way lmfao.FTFY
You do realise Biden wasn’t actually president at that point, right?
Biden wasn’t president on Jan 6, 2021.
Let me give you some friendly advice – next time you want to “but both sides” something, I suggest you get basic civics correct. Otherwise it’s incredibly easy to dismiss you as a very low information voter.
Are you really that daft that you think police under trump will be more responsible and more, you know, doing their actual job of protect and serve, instead of profiling and killing?
Police across the US have been killing people at a greater rate every year under his admin, so what exactly about Biden’s glowing record on police violence is worth comparing to Trump? Not to mention he wants to hire another 100,000 more pigs.
You don’t get to gloat about how much better you are with black people when you’re no better than the guy characterising himself as some kind of American Mussolini.
The rest of you liberals can fuck off back to reddit too. You don’t get to claim victory over a fascist that your golden dementia boy is no better than. Absolutely pathetic that you act morally superior to kids dying because he’s on “your team”
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Before you leave you “but trump!!” comment, consider reopening your Reddit account because this snark about Biden being better than Trump when they both get throbbing erections for brutalised kids won’t get you nearly as far as it did on that astroturfed shithole.
I love that you think OTHERS need to go back to Reddit. With comment’s like this you’d fit right back in bb!
Also everyone say ty everyday for your ability to block people! It’s incredibly useful!
The “moral” wing of our single corporate party government out here arguing that genocide is good cause the alternative is genocide
Wow, very… Nuanced. Where to even begin?
How about this? Let’s start here:
I get your anger, and a lot of what you say is true. However, we live in reality where you sometimes have limited options, some being bad, others being worse.
Let’s see:
ALL US presidents have done a lot of shit, and in average, the US is not really a force for good in this world.
However.
I want to imagine that you understand the concept of bad, worse, worst, right?
So the US is bad for the world. Saudi Arabia is worse, China and Russia are the worst.
So Obama, I’d say, was bad. Biden is worse, trump is the worst.
What I’m (and many with me) advocating is not voting for the best, I’m advocating to vote for the least bad. Right now, it looks like you will end up either with president Biden or president Trump, like it or not. Believe me, not my choices either, but those are the cards we have been dealt.
So my question to you is: do you prefer Biden, or Trump? Do you believe that Trump will be better for the world, for the US and for you?
Trump, who famously lies and cheats to get ahead, Trump who famously said he’ll deport protesting students (don’t ask me how, it’s his idea), trump who wants police officers to be harsher and have more authority…
Because as I understand you, and please correct me if I’m wrong, you want police to be accountable and less authoritative. Trumo will do the opposite, he claims so all the time.
So with that in mind, do you want trump or Biden? If you want neither, that’s not an option, you’ll get either one of those as your president and that person WILL influence the police.
So which do you want?
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it would never have happened in the first place. if roles were reversed, there would have been adequate forces in place to prevent it from escalating.
Remember, Trump made sure to have a relatively light law enforcement presence in the capital. There were no unscalable barricades present. there was no call for the Nat Guard- despite assurances they were ready to go, and that was trump’s call.
the entire insurrection was planned by people who wanted to put trump back in the white house by any means necessary. I don’t know that it was entirely planned by trump- he’s a moron- but it was certainly done with his cooperation.
it was certainly done with his cooperation
He directed it. His stooges were very close to success though.
Yes. They were. It’s fairly scary.
And very Beerhall Putsch-ish. too bad his base doesn’t bother to learn history correctly, and that’s why we’re all doomed.
You sure about that? Seems to me his base is learning its history just fine, since they’re managing to speedrun Hitler’s rise to power even faster than Hitler did.
We’ve really got to quit underestimating the enemy and get serious about defending ourselves.
those aren’t the bulk of his base.
Most of his base are deluded into thinking he’s not actually like hitler. That he’s some how moral, and a really good guy who would never.
Most of his base are morons voting against their own interests.The orange asshole, aka the second coming of Christ (according to many who’ve partaken of his koolaid).
The tactics are what they successfully learned, and they don’t have to actually understand that he’s like Hitler in order to execute those.
Exactly: we saw precisely how it would have worked during the Black Lives Matter protests the summer before:
As far as I’m concerned, that stark dichotomy is absolute proof in and of itself (let alone the pile of other evidence) that the coup was orchestrated from the very top.
As far as I’m concerned, that stark dichotomy is absolute proof in and of itself (let alone the pile of other evidence) that the coup was orchestrated from the very top.
Absolutely.
anybody who doubts it is either complicit or has been buried under a rock for the last… decade or so.
I remember saying at the time of these were black Americans they’d have been shooting immediately. There would have been fucking Blackhawks deployed and a show of force like you’ve never seen on your life.
