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.”
In Detroit a leader of the Pro-Palestinian protesters said “This community will be the community who unseats Joe Biden. … A president who has fostered an atmosphere of hate against our community.”
Just that ignorance of Muslim and Palestinians here. The atmosphere of hate is coming from Trump and the Republicans and these people are openly supporting him. Being used by the right to help bring more prejudice and racist policies to their people. Trump gets elected and you can say goodbye to any chance of Palestinian recovery. The Israelis are not going to stop with Gaza. Once it’s secured the war with the west bank will begin.
Who cares
Are you surprised that they support the guy that banned Muslim refugees just one year into office?
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/licence-discriminate-trumps-muslim-refugee-ban
Pro-Palestinian protesters said “This community will be the community who unseats Joe Biden.
Yeah, those ranks of “protesters” are riddled with Republican/Putin operatives. If Biden is unseated, say goodbye to Palestine. Israel will have the green light to eradicate the people of Gaza.
Israel will have the green light to eradicate the people of Gaza.
Like they’ve been doing for the past 7 months?
Do you know that saying, I think it went something like:
… and just when I thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse…they got much worse
I think it could be a situation like that.
It doesn’t get worse then watching your child starve to death.
There are certain red lines where the argument for harm-reduction is just justification for evil. Genocide is one of those red lines.
Oh it’ll definitely be something like that.
Right now Israel doesn’t care if it kills civilians to get Hamas, and they’ve had to slow down their attacks several times and scaled things back because of the Biden admin.
If Trump is elected there’s literally nothing stopping Israel from just mustard gassing all of Gaza.
They haven’t slowed down in the slightest. Everything he’s done has been verbal, except for one very short time they slowed down some weapons, but even then, they’re sending them more weapons. If they’ve slowed down at all, it’s because of other countries like ones in South America cutting off trade, or South Africa starting the ICC case. If anything, the US has been running interference on behalf of Israel, vetoing resolutions against them and such in the UN.
That would essentially do far greater harm to the U.S.
Do you have a source on that?
I’d also like some sources, but I just find it highly unlikely that people who care about Palestine don’t care about all of the domestic brown Americans.
It certainly isn’t a happy choice to vote for Biden, but there’s absolutely no way I’m going to make any other choice. I remember how Trump harassed Muslims on Day 1. Harassment of all brown people, including murders and assaults, all rose under Trump. Voting for Biden is a vote to keep my extended ethnic community safe. And I intend to use that vote to pressure Biden into bitchslapping Netanyahu to stop genociding other brown people.
I can understand unhappy sentiment towards Biden. I can understand being reluctant to vote, and at this point, not wanting to vote for him. But I cannot understand “we will unseat Biden” sentiment. Someone who says that is no ally to brown Americans. Nor Palestinians, considering the wholehearted support Trump has for Netanyahu.
Palestine, Ukraine, and Taiwan sovereignty will all be eliminated under Trump.
This is cognitive dissonance from someone that wants people to support someone literally complicit in the genocide of their people.
I’ve not seen any evidence of Republicans at any rallies.
The Putin comment is just ‘anything I don’t like is Putin.’
Let me be clear. Biden and the DNC intentionally chose to forego important parts of a primary. Biden chose to be complicit in a genocide. If Biden losses, it will be his fault he lost.
If you expect to be able to supply the weapons to a government engaged in a genocide against a population that also happens to be a requisite part of your winning coalition and still have them vote for you, then you are stupid beyond description.
If you expect to be able to supply the weapons to a government engaged in a genocide against a population that also happens to be a requisite part of your winning coalition and still have them vote for you, then you are stupid beyond description.
So with Biden putting a hold on weapon shipments to Israel over concerns about the citizens of Gaza, and the Republicans passing a bill forcing the weapons to be sent to Israel, your logic says that people shouldn’t vote for Republican legislators.
Notice how the emotional propagandist completely dodged your question?
Do you even have the slightest idea who the largest voting block is? People don’t need to vote for a Republican for Biden to lose. They just have to not vote.
It’s amazing you even posted that as a response.
Sure, I would advocate for Republicans not voting for Republican legislators, if the Republican base wanted a ceasefire. But they don’t. The Republican party is afraid of their base. The Democratic party has contempt for theirs.
Also, Biden already started shipping those weapons, regardless of that vote. Holding up the weapons temporarily was an attempt to look like he was doing something, same as the floating pier was. Did you even read the link? It hasn’t passed the Senate yet.
Do you even have the slightest idea who the largest voting block is? People don’t need to vote for a Republican for Biden to lose. They just have to not vote
And who do you think is going to win then?
Come January 2025, the next president will be either Biden or Trump. The election is your one chance to say which one. Act accordingly.
Too bad that Biden chose to alienate a requisite member of his coalition.
Hold him accountable for his decisions.
He chose an action, supporting genocide, that will cost him the general, and chose not to run a primary.
Edit: I don’t understand these responses that try and imply voting is an individual moral decision. It has the same logic of blaming the consumer and individual choices for carbon based climate change instead of the people with culpability and power to change things.
Edit edit: I think at this point, unless someone dies, that Trump will be elected. To be clear, I am not voting for Trump.
Okay, so who should we vote for?
All well and good, but I would rather not suffer through another four years (or more, the way he talks) of Trump just to teach Biden a lesson. Seems a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Found the russian troll, guys
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They are likely just a useful idiot for Putin.
Fortunately, they are terrible at this.
I am an American in the PNW.
If you think everyone giving you scary truths is a Russian troll, it doesn’t allow you to recognize actual dissent.
And, to clarify things, I’m responding to a post that is scapegoating an ethnic minority that is a required part of Biden’s coalition because they likely won’t vote for the man that could have single handedly stopped the slaughter and torture of their families, but didn’t.
I responded to someone calling those people stupid.
We have reports from American doctors in hospitals in Gaza of an amputation patient that had literal maggots eating the remains of his legs that was left in that situation cause there were no resources or people to help.
We have reports from Israeli whistleblowers of Palestinians prisoners (hostages) regularly having amputations because they’d been zipped tied too long.
And yet, their family members in the US are stupid for not voting for the one man who could stop that but didn’t.
And, somehow, I’m a Russian troll for pointing out how stupid and inhumane blaming Muslim and Palestinian Americans for Biden loss is? Fuck dude, be better.
Green Day wrote an album about you
Remember when ISIS was radicallizing incels and they were literally defecting and traveling to the middle east to join up. Why. Why. Would any shady, corrupt, regime, ever give up that strategy?
Phil Ochs wrote a song about you
You should have said ‘sung’, as it is extremely apparent that you have no reading comprehension skills.
In Detroit a leader of the Pro-Palestinian protesters said “This community will be the community who unseats Joe Biden. … A president who has fostered an atmosphere of hate against our community.”
This person will be at the front of the line to have their citizenship stripped & exiled if Trump is elected.
If you don’t think Trump will do it & SCotUS will allow it, you’re a dangerous moron.
Would you care about that if Trumps opponent was providing weapons and diplomatic cover to the people exterminating your entire extended family back home?
Actually think about that before blindly answering yes.
Imagine the trauma of losing your entire family. Knowing the children suffered horribly before dying. Knowing that the ones who followed Israels movement orders starved to death.
If you can’t understand why that would cause people to hate Biden, regardless of his opponent, then you have so little human empathy that it makes you incompetent at gauging the strategic outcomes of your actions.
It also makes you a shitty human without empathy.
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LOL, no.
Bibi needs to be strung up right along side the leaders of Hamas in the Hague.
I’d just sooner kill myself than vote for the open christofascist, Trump.
And because I have more than three brain cells to rub together, I understand how FPtP voting works.
How’s that for your propaganda, clownshoes?
“You should vote your emotions” is the absolute dumbest possible take.
Also, I can empathize with someone & still be aware they are making a stupid decision.
Not voting for the person who could have single handedly stopped the slaughter of your entire family but didn’t isn’t ‘voting your emotions’
I can’t imagine anyone but a sociopath writing that.
EDIT: the stupid choice is voting for someone that wants a genocide committed. If a system is only capable of supplying two genocidiers, then it isn’t a system worth defending.
Also, putting morality aside for a moment, but nothing is stupider than assisting in the genocide of a people whom make up a required component of your coalition.
Reminder: Biden doesn’t win the swing States without Muslim support. This is a self own. Blaming anyone else for this is a case of victim blaming.
So who should we vote for again?
Not voting for the person who could have single handedly stopped the slaughter of your entire family but didn’t isn’t ‘voting your emotions’
I guess you missed when Biden attempted that & was overruled by the GOP in Congress?
Because Congress controls the purse? Slept thru Civics, did we?
BTW, we can all plainly see that you’re pulling out all the “emotional manipulation” stops here, but fortunately, you’re very, very bad at it.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/politics/house-israel-weapons-bill-vote/index.html
In particular:
The bill would prevent Biden from withholding, halting, reversing or canceling weapons transfers that have been approved by Congress from the United States to Israel, and requires any that have been withheld to be delivered to Israel within 15 days of the bill’s enactment.
It is unlikely to be taken up in the Democratic-led Senate and the White House has said that Biden would veto the bill if Congress passed it. The House vote was 224 to 187. Three Republicans voted against the measure and 16 Democrats voted for it.
Read that second paragraph again and tell me where the lie is? Why do you think the bill passed in the house, that hasn’t passed the Senate, or been signed by the president or been passed with a veto-proof majority would have any effect.
Explain what you think I said was wrong.
Slept through Civics, did we?
Jesus Christ. The only one that slept through civics and didn’t read their own posts here is you.
Congress didn’t overrule Biden. The house voted for something that hasn’t, and won’t, be able to pass the Senate. Nothing has happened here yet.
Congress controls the purse strings, yes, and the executive branch is responsible for the implementation. Biden absolutely could have told the Israelis to stop at any point, with actual consequences such as removing the fleet from the red sea, promising not to support them against Iran, stop weapons shipments that due to the Lehy law we actually are legally required to stop. All could be done by the executive.
Stop being condescending about topics you apparently know nothing about.
LOL, Reduced to “I know you are, but what am I”? Seriously?
such as removing the fleet from the red sea,
This is the fleet that just got done building the humanitarian aid pier. What a fucking brilliant idea!
The administration this month paused a shipment of large bombs on the grounds that Israel would cause heavy loss of civilian lives using the munitions in the Gaza Strip. The move also sought to discourage Israel from deepening its ground invasion in the city of Rafah, where some 1 million Palestinians are sheltering in unsafe conditions.
But Republican officials quickly came out in opposition to the decision, warning that the paused shipment would embolden Israel’s enemies in the region and weaken Israel’s hand as it seeks to rescue hostages held by Hamas.
“Israel needs these weapons to eradicate the terrorists who have vowed the destruction of Israel, and Israel needs it to protect itself and its people,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., a member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said during floor debate Thursday. “Withholding vital resources jeopardizes not only Israel’s ability to defend itself but also our national security by harming and weakening our strongest ally.”
https://rollcall.com/2024/05/16/house-passes-bill-to-require-ongoing-flow-of-weapons-to-israel/
By all means, keep up the lies. We are educating people here, whether you like it or not. 🤣🤣🤣
I guess you missed when Biden attempted that & was overruled by the GOP in Congress?
I get that you want to pretend Biden’s hands are tied when they aren’t, but that only passed the house.
“You should vote your emotions” is the absolute dumbest possible take.
People will do so anyway. Pro-genocide centrists would rather lose than take that into account.
Lose to who?
The guy that already banned Muslims from entering the country once & has plans to strip birthright citizenship & exile brown folk?
Sounds like you want the Palestinians in the USA to get to enjoy the conditions that their relatives are living in first hand.
I’m trying to talk them out of making a stupid emotional mistake that will quite literally end their everything.
And somehow, you still think you care more. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why don’t you people understand that you calling them dumb isn’t going to override the sitting President sending bombs to kill their family? Do you actually want Biden to win or do you just want to be able to gloat if he loses?
And if you disagree with them, they’ll literally claim you love genocide. I’ve seen that repeatedly. Dumbest shit ever
This timeline is “the war of the stupids”
It’s just idiot turtles all the way down.
Turtles but, instead of heads, just shit comes out both ends of the shell.
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.”
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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.
Then America would have another Tiananmen Square to add to the MOVE bombing, Tulsa, Waco, etc.
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! ;)
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?
Based
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.
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.
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 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.
You do realise Biden wasn’t actually president at that point, right?
The
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
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”
EDIT:
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?
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…
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.
Well… we know how the Biden regime acted when the capitol race riot was led by white supremacists, don’t we?
And the answer is absolutely nothing - even when they killed some of their fellow blue-lives-matter fascist brethren - in stark contrast to the way the regime is acting against student protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Good job outing yourself again, GJ - but at this stage it’s just mundane.
EXACTLY! WHY didn’t Biden do anything on JANUARY 6TH? HMM? And WHY didn’t BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA DO ANYTHING ABOUT 9/11? Checkmate Lbitards!
There are a bunch of people in prison over Jan 6. Trump is the one who wants to free them all if he wins. Lol but not lol.
Well… we know how the Biden regime acted when the capitol race riot was led by white supremacists, don’t we?
The ones they are literally still tracking down & prosecuting? Are you upset that the largest investigation ever is taking more time than you’d like?
Do you want the President to have complete and direct control of the DoJ? Do you want the DoJ to toss out all Federal Sentencing guidelines?
Do you want what you want right now, damn the future consequences?
Tell me you want a dictatorship without telling me you want a dictatorship.
PS: I don’t believe that you’re actually stupid enough to think the White House has anything to do with what is going on on college campuses, so I didn’t address that absurdity.
Just like so many short sighted people.
“I’m okay with totalitarian dictatorship if they’re doing things I like.”
The ones they are literally still tracking down & prosecuting?
You mean the white supremacist lynch mob they could have easily stopped on Jan 6th but didn’t? That one?
The ones that will be getting out once your good cop hands over to the bad cop come November?
It really seems that, no matter what suit they have in the Waffle House, the neo-nazis and the klan-boys gets to do whatever they want - and get away with it.
anything to do with what is going on on college campuses
The buck never stops with (insert current Wall Street shill peddled by the Dems here), does it liberal?
Oh you mean when trump was president? Tell me how you expect Biden to have acted on his executive authority on the day he was set to be confirmed as having won his first presidential election.
I assume you blame the 08 crash on Obama too.
Oh you mean when trump was president?
All you’re telling me is that Trump can sicc a white supremacist lynch mob on the capitol and get away with it scott free… while Biden can (supposedly) do absolutely nothing about his (yes, his) goon squads violently repressing campus protests against US policy?
What is your end-game here, liberal? How long do you think this “lesser evilism” schtick can go before it hits rock bottom?
I assume you blame the 08 crash on Obama too.
Yeah… we’re still waiting for Obama to prosecute the capitalists that crashed the economy - I guess the hundreds of billions in handouts he gave to these very same capitalists happened in order to prosecute them better, yes?
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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 🤣😂
Shut the fuck up Joe.
Today President Joe Biden said some of the most obvious shit ever, everyone loved it
Hey thats my line!
Wow you showed him, absolutely nobody on the Internet who defends racists.
Wut?
Facing an uncomfortable truth?
Yeah just the fact that im gonna vote for that asshat this fall. I don’t for a second think he actually cares about black folks.
I think he cares enough not to gas them during a peaceful protest. I can’t say as much for Trump.
Oh ok bud
Are you not aware that Trump gassed a bunch of people during a peaceful BLM protest?
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials
