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Helluva speech by President Biden

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Trickster, Sep 1, 2022.

  1. snatchmagnet

    snatchmagnet Bring On The Bacon Premium Member

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    Damnit man. I’m trying as hard as I can.
     
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  2. wgbgator

    wgbgator Premium Member

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    He actually said "semi-fascist" previously, and that wasn't about Republicans in general either. I'm pretty sure his "handlers" approved that given the qualifier of "semi" which knowing Democrats, was probably debated and agonized over for days.
     
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  3. snatchmagnet

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    We’ll that makes me feel a bit better, I’ve never hallucinated before from busch light. Lol
     
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  4. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    If you didn't watch the speech that's being discussed here, you might want to read the transcript.
     
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  5. enviroGator

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    Natty Daddy maybe....

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  6. HeyItsMe

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    Truthfully, and I can’t speak for River or any of the mods, but comparing stuff like this to Hitler and the holocaust is completely ignorant, abhorrent, and should be grounds for a banning. It’s beyond tiring and quite frankly, disgusting.
     
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  7. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    Selling fear and anger. It's what they do.
     
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  8. snatchmagnet

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    Both sides do that. If you think it’s just “the other” side that does it, than you are being naive.
     
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  9. 14serenoa

    14serenoa Living in Orange and surrounded by Seminoles... VIP Member

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    For Rupert Murdoch and the conservative news outlets, fear, anger, and division brings more eyeballs to each news cycle and increased ad revenue. Many profit from hate speech.
     
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  10. snatchmagnet

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    Just so I get this right, that’s not what Whoopi and Co do, or don lemon or any other fired hosts did?
     
  11. oaklandroadie2

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    Hey Moderator rivergator, why not in the interest of fairness you go check out what the esteemed perma-MSNBC fixture and WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson had to say about the speech...just to give you a preview he called it a wartime address.

    Anyway, Dork Brandon has already done a walkback...internal polls must be killing him.
     
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  12. wgbgator

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    All for profit media is meant to titillate, and conservative media is particularly shameless, but a for-profit media is a problem for civic society in general
     
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  13. 14serenoa

    14serenoa Living in Orange and surrounded by Seminoles... VIP Member

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    "many profit from hate speech" includes both sides...
     
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  14. 14serenoa

    14serenoa Living in Orange and surrounded by Seminoles... VIP Member

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    hard to draw a line on 'freedom of speech' unless that speech presents a clear and present danger to our republic or violates hate speech laws.
     
  15. snatchmagnet

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    Its almost like it happens on both sides.
     
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  16. G8trGr8t

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    MAGA members who advocate the violent overthrow of the elected POTUS are not regular americans. MAGA members who refuse to acknowledge all of the court findings confirming the election results are not regular american citizens. MAGA members ready to start a civil war to put their deity back in office are not regular americans. They are radical members of a group being led by an unstable narcissists who they treat as some sort of deity that can do no wrong. That is who he was talking about and they are in fact enemies of this democracy being led astray by foreign influences and out of touch with reality narcissist.
     
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  17. obgator

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    Yes, what did Eugene Robinson say:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...peech-democracy-independence-hall-maga-alarm/

    “To sound the alarm on democracy, Biden chose the perfect stage”
    “President Biden’s bold rhetoric and stagecraft in his speech Thursday night were, if anything, understated. We are in a fight to save our democratic system, and it would have been wrong to pretend the battle is not both political and partisan.”

    “Biden was right: This is an emergency. And he was right to implore the rest of us — Democrats, independents and “mainstream Republicans” — to turn back the MAGA assault on democracy with our votes.“
     
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    NYC
     
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