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.”
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.
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.
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.
No need to guess, just look at how Trump’s confederates treat BLM protestors and their executioners: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/14/daniel-perry-racist-comments-texas-shooting-austin-protester/
Abbott made good on his promise and pardoned Perry last week for the murder a jury found him guilty of committing.
There would be non-stop coverage of Jan 6 on Fox News 24/7 since the day it happened, guaranteed.
Someone lights a dumpster on fire -
“Washington DC - BURNED TO THE GROUND BY BLM!”
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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.
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.
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.
Palestine, Ukraine, and Taiwan sovereignty will all be eliminated under Trump.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Phil Ochs wrote a song about you
You should have said ‘sung’, as it is extremely apparent that you have no reading comprehension skills.
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.
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
Who cares
Shot a bunch of people, to start. Probably after getting some sort of military in. Who knows, after that. Martial law? Dictator for life?
I suspect there would be lots of bullets flying around and not the rubber ones
It would be as huge a deal as the twintowers attack.
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.
Then America would have another Tiananmen Square to add to the MOVE bombing, Tulsa, Waco, etc.
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.
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.
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 🤣😂
Based
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! ;)
