To be fair, US President Joe Biden makes a lot of gaffes – and that’s when he is coherent enough to work out what is being said.
In the words of the President:
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created, by the, you know the, you know – the thing.’
Yet it is this bizarre, weak, rambling puppet of a President that took to the lectern, back-lit in blood red, to engage in a 24-minute tirade against his political opposition.
For those that missed it, Biden quite literally shouted, ‘FIRE!’ in the theatre of America.
As Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire states: ‘Joe Biden has delivered the most divisive, demagogic speech in modern American history.’
He went on to say:
‘The speech was designed to attack all of his political opponents and treat them as enemies of the State. That’s what this speech was designed to do. […] The basic idea here is to raise the temperature [of American politics]. I think it’s more likely to result in acts of violence that Joe Biden is then going to use to run in 2022 and 2024. I mean, this is extraordinarily dark stuff. […] There’s a reason that satanic, demonic, and pure evil were all trending on Twitter last night.’
The text of the speech is, if possible, more shocking than the imagery of its setting. Biden got up on that podium to wage political war against the rising tide of Trump opposition. This can mean only one thing; the Democrats fear losing the next election.
‘For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not. We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. […] We can’t allow violence to be normalised in this country. It’s wrong. We each have to reject political violence with all the moral clarity and conviction this nation can muster now. We can’t let the integrity of our elections be undermined, for it is the path to chaos.’
Was he talking about the years in which the nation was besieged by Islamic terror attacks that struck at the heart of democracy? Attacks that continue with the brutal stabbing of best-selling author Salman Rushdie on a stage in New York last month?
Was he talking about the militant political movements of Marxist Black Lives Matter and Communist Antifa that burned the American flag in the streets, attacked citizens over the colour of their skin, set fire to city blocks, took whole areas hostage, robbed businesses, called for the murder of police officers, destroyed statues of historical figures – including those related to the American history Biden praised, and tried to create a racially divided community with white citizens handing reparations to black citizens?
Was he talking about the education system, riddled with dangerous activists who spend their time erasing America’s history so that it can be replaced by malicious lies designed to create a generation that hates their country enough to tear apart its institutions, do away with liberty, and cheer on a coercive, collectivist, dictatorship to save the planet?
Was he talking about the (now proven) voter fraud that was found to take place in various states that benefited the Biden election? Or even, the subversion of social media at the request of the FBI that saw Biden’s political competitor and his followers silenced thus directly interfering with the election process that installed the Democrats in the White House? He wasn’t even talking about the FBI’s Fake News creation of Russia Collusion while the illicit dealings of his son, Hunter Biden, were banned from the news cycle.
Was he talking about his regime that gifted the Taliban, a worldwide terror group, with enough military equipment to make it one of the largest armies on the planet?
Biden doesn’t appear too worried about anything that relates to his behaviour, or that of his loyal Democrat voters that were happy to engage in ‘mostly peaceful protests’ that left over $2 billion in damages to public property and killed 18 people.
Instead, Biden raised his little fists and shouted (well, slurred and coughed):
‘As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favour to pretend otherwise. So tonight I have come to this place where it all began, to speak as plainly as I can to the nation about the threats we face, about the power we have in our own hands to meet these threats. And about the incredible future that lies in front of us, if only we choose it.
‘We must never forget that “we, the people” are the true heirs to the American experiment that began more than two centuries ago.
‘We the people have burning inside of each of us, the flame of liberty.
‘A flame that lit our way through abolition, the Civil War, suffrage, the Great Depression, world wars, civil rights. That sacred flame still burns.
‘Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.’
The first thing that Biden should be asked is, what do the MAGA Republicans stand for?
When Trump was President, given the physical policies put into print, it appeared to be patriotism, world peace, a return to American manufacturing, border security, tax cuts, energy security, liberty for all classes, and an end to racist propaganda in schools.
Which makes you ask the reverse question, if Biden hates the policies of Trump so much, what do the Democrats stand for?
‘Now, I want to be very clear, very clear up front. Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know, because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.
‘But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.’
Biden has a serious problem, and that is the main complaint from MAGA Republicans is the accusation of election fraud against Biden – an accusation that has shown to have various seeds of truth, especially if we are to talk about manipulation of social media and the press.
In this respect, so-called MAGA outrage was against the crime of election fraud. No one has accused Trump of stealing an election, and yet that is what Biden is implying in the next few minutes of his speech.
This isn’t even a ‘pot calling the kettle black’ scenario. This is pot scalding the fine China for complaining after a bull was let loose on the election trail.
Hard times created by Biden.
‘And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognise the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.’
A more sober look might say that collusion between the FBI, Silicon Valley, and the Democrats has subverted democracy to the point that the citizens of America are beginning to reject Biden.
Biden cannot lean on Silicon Valley to ban Trump – he’s already banned.
Their attempts to pin Trump up on charges and stop him contesting the next election failed in a spectacular and embarrassing fashion that left even Democrat supporters concerned at the politicisation of the FBI.
Biden has nowhere left to go but to plagiarise the speeches of communist dictators and call his opposition ‘terrorists’.
‘MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fanned the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.’
It is after this point that Biden’s words become dangerous. We have, in the following paragraphs, a President all-but calling citizens to arms.
The demonising that we saw during Covid against the unvaccinated was bad – but this is the next evolution. Political leaders got away with it once, now the sentiment has been upscaled where the President casually weaponises the people against each other because he feels that his regime is failing.
‘We are not bystanders in this ongoing attack on democracy. There are far more Americans, far more Americans from every background and belief, who reject the extreme MAGA ideology than those that accept it. And folks, it’s within our power, it’s in our hands, yours and mine, to stop the assault on American democracy.’
Biden said this to one of the most heavily armed nations on Earth.
‘MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live, not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies.
‘But together, together we can choose a different path. We can choose a better path forward to the future, a future of possibility, a future to build a dream and hope, and we’re on that path moving ahead.’
While we hope that there aren’t any Americans foolish enough to take Biden up on his call to ‘protect the democracy’ – without specifying how – perhaps he did himself more harm than good.
Not only has Biden’s fascistic display become a meme that has painted him, the world over, as a dictator – instead of patriotism, the only trending hashtag about Biden on Twitter today is #PedoHitler.
Talk about a fresh PR nightmare.
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