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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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
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    7 hours ago

    You don’t think the republicans will put liberal/progressive politicians up there the next chance they get?

    I feel like there’s a group of people on here who are trying to push us into a civil war that we can’t win and I for one am not going to take that bait.

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      Just to understand your perspective: is there anything a politician, either sitting or running, can do that would cause you to support jailing or executing them, or is the complication of them being a politician such that, in your eye, no penalty can be met for any crime they commit?

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        I’m arguing against Biden throwing Trump in jail or executing him not arguing against people or politicians facing legal consequences from the justice system.

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          I’m arguing against Biden throwing Trump in jail

          Presumably because Trump is a politician? Or is it that you believe he committed no crimes?

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              Do you believe Biden should be judge, jury, and executioner?

              Absolutely not!

              Maybe I understand your perspective better now? Is it that your opposition is to a president directly ordering someone be arrested/killed (vs directing the department of justice to administer a speedy and comprehensive trial in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice)?

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                Yes and also Trump was being investigated when he was elected and at that point they called it off until he’s a citizen again.

                I don’t know if a speedy and comprehensive trail exists you get one or the other.

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      First of all, there are no Republicans any more, that was the larval stage, before they morphed into their final form, MAGA. The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs, and should only be referred to in scholarly or historical context.

      And once were done with this, there won’t be any MAGAs. MAGA is a National Security Threat, and it’s leaders and followers are Domestic Terrorists, among many other crimes. They will not be allowed to exist any more. Germany did it with the Nazis, and we can do it with MAGA.

      The Democratic Party will be our Right Wing Party, and The Progressive Party will be the Left Wing Party.

      Finally, we will NOT be punishing MAGA for their politics, we will punish them for their many CRIMES. In the future, any politician calling for the legal punishment of their enemies for their political beliefs should be immediately removed from office and prosecuted for treason.

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        I feel like there’s a group of people on here who are trying to push us into a civil war that we can’t win and I for one am not going to take that bait.

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          MAGA is an Organized Criminal Enterprise, including organized child sex trafficking, and they cannot be allowed to influence our government and society any longer.

          That shouldn’t take a Civil War, just a solid legal system, unless it takes a Civil War to install that legal system.

          Would you rather live as a 13th Amendment Government-owned Slave under an Organized Crime government, or support a Civil War that makes America free again?

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            Would you rather live as a 13th Amendment Government-owned Slave under an Organized Crime government, or support a Civil War that makes America free again?

            Neither and no matter how many charged words or phrases you put in your comments you’re not going to get me to start agreeing with you.

            You’re talking about eighty million people in our country.