Biden is rightly being ridiculed for this ridiculous statement, but make no mistake: beyond the silliness and hysteria is an insidious agenda. Biden’s handlers mean to stigmatize, demonize and silence all dissent from their far-left agenda. Wildly exaggerating what happened on January 6, and the concomitant “white supremacist agenda,” is in service of that agenda.
“‘What about 9/11?’ Twitter ridicules Joe Biden after he calls Capitol storming the ‘worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War’ in first address to Congress,” by Katelyn Caralle, Daily Mail, April 29, 2021:
Joe Biden said during his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening that the Capitol storming on January 6 was the ‘worst attack’ on democracy since the Civil War.
The claim immediately led to major backlash, especially from those on right-wing Twitter, who pointed to a slew of other tragedies in America between the 1860s and 2021 – like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Pearl Harbor, presidential assassinations and others.
‘January 6 was worse than 9/11? Or Pearl Harbor?’ Glenn Greenwald, a journalist and former attorney wrote in a Twitter thread.
‘Or the Oklahoma City bombing? Or the dismantling of civil liberties in the name of the Cold War and War on Terror? Or the mass surveillance program secretly and illegally implemented by NSA aimed at US citzens (sic)?’ he continued, calling the president a ‘drama queen’ for hyperbolizing the January 6 riots.
‘How about the War on Drugs, mass incarceration and Jim Crow?’ Greenwald quipped. ‘Were those worse ‘attacks on democracy’ than the 3-hour Capitol riot on Jan. 6?’
‘The assassination of JFK? The interference in domestic politics by the CIA? The list of worse attacks than Jan. 6 is endless,’ he concluded.
‘Worst attack on our Democracy since the Civil War? Not 9/11? Not Pearl Harbor???’ Trump advisor Jason Miller tweeted Wednesday.
At the top of Biden’s speech, the president lamented the situation he inherited from Donald Trump when he was inaugurated on January 20.
‘As I stand here tonight — just one day shy of the 100th day of my administration. 100 days since I took the oath of office, lifted my hand off our family Bible, and inherited a nation in crisis,’ Biden said.
He then listed: ‘The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.’
‘Now, after just 100 days, I can report to the nation: America is on the move again,’ he said, dubbing himself the fixer of all the aforementioned issues. ‘Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength.
‘Life can knock us down,’ Biden said. ‘But in America, we never stay down. In America, we always get up. And today, that’s what we’re doing: America is rising anew.’
‘After 100 Days of rescue and renewal, America is ready for takeoff,’ he continued.
‘100 days ago, America’s house was on fire. We had to act.’…
Raja says
He can afford to play with the words as he has a battery of advisers/people behind him. He has carefully phrased the word “attack on democracy” and not attack on US. He knows very well that people were and are agitated about how the election was rigged. It is sickening to see the Left use Capital Hill attack as a subterfuge. Real scums.
LB says
He (Biden) doesn’t know anything. He is senile and deteriorating daily. Everything he says is read (badly) off of a teleprompter. The ones writing his speeches are the ones in charge. This is why Robert Spencer (and pretty much anyone who isn’t willfully blind) refers to “Biden’s handlers” and not Biden himself.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Email your congressman and ask WHY a special counsel has NOT YET been appointed for Hunter’s money laundering and tax evasion investigations? ?!!
mortimer says
– 1983 United States Senate bombing 7 November 1983 United States Bomb explosion at the United States Senate motivated by United States military involvement in Lebanon and Grenada.
-1998 United States Capitol shooting 24 July 1998 United States Attack that led to the deaths of two United States Capitol Police officers. Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson were killed when Russell Eugene Weston Jr., entered the Capitol and opened fire.[11] Weston’s exact motives are unknown, but he had expressed a strong distrust of the federal government of the United States.[12] As of July 2018,[13] Weston, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, remained in a mental institution.
-September 11 attacks 11 September 2001 United States Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 with the intent of crashing it into a significant building, believed to be the U.S. Capitol; the plane failed to reach its target after the passengers rebelled and causing the hijackers to crash into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. That plane was supposed to hit either the White House or Congress.
– a bunch of trespassers at the Capitol did not destroy anything, but meekly and peacefully left the senate chamber when asked by the police. They were guilty of illegal entry and trespass.
PRCS says
A good list, Mortimer.
But disagree that bunch of trespassers was guilty–only–of illegal entry and trespass.
mortimer says
Prove it. WHERE’S YOUR LIST OF CHARGES?
No firearms were carried. Most were indeed peaceful.
They were demanding Republicans overturn the stolen election.
revereridesagain says
The worst they could be charged with was breaking some windows. One woman paid with her life for that “worst attack on democracy” according to the beady-eyed little b@$turd now infesting the office of POTUS via suspect means.
I suppose one could throw in Nancy Pe-lousy’s missing laptop or the guy who nearly made it out the door with her podium, but that hardly approaches the examples listed above by Carelle. (Wasn’t there also a multiple-victim shooting in Congress back in the 40s or 50s?)
PRCS says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-arrests-2021-04-30/
What crimes were they charged with?
More than 100 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers or employees, and 35 of those were charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon, the Department of Justice said. About 140 officers were assaulted during the attack, according to a Justice Department spokesperson.
That “they were demanding Repuplicans overturn the stolen election” isn’t the issue.
As you have a computer and internet access, you could have looked that up.
Phil Copson says
The list of charges against the rioters – (most of whom would be more accurately described as “protesters” / “demonstrators” etc – is pretty much a list of “Potemkin prosecutions” – intended to impress the on-lookers but having no substance in reality.
If you attended a demonstration outside a public building, and the security staff responded by removing barriers and opening doors – wouldn’t you go inside ?
The fact that one law-abiding citizen who did go inside the Capitol found himself on the Kafka-esque charge of “witnessing an offence” while thousands of actual rioters in cities across America were – and are being – released without charge, tells you everything you need to know about the takeover of the FBI/DOJ etc by the hard-Left.
THe comments above regarding 9/11, PEael Harbour etc, are all missing the point: The biggest assault on American democracy since the Civil War was carried out by the Democrat Party in November 2020 when they succeeded in subverting the democratic process Donald Trump and installing their puppet in the White House.
Phil Copson says
Whoops! – a few typos in there – the last para’ should read:
“The comments above regarding 9/11, Pearll Harbour etc, are all missing the point: The biggest assault on American democracy since the Civil War was carried out by the Democrat Party in November 2020 when they succeeded in subverting the democratic process, ousting the voters’ chosen candidate Donald Trump, and installing their puppet in the White House.”
fadeye@yahoo.com says
AGREED!
PRCS says
“The list of charges against the rioters – (most of whom would be more accurately described as “protesters” / “demonstrators” etc – is pretty much a list of “Potemkin prosecutions” – intended to impress the on-lookers but having no substance in reality.”
The charges, listed above, will be adjudicated in a court of law.
Mortimer had a good list, but his last point is–like yours–an opinion.
Daniel Triplett says
97% of all personal campaign contributions of DoJ (FBI) employees go to Democrat candidates. That really says it all and explains everything about who gets investigated, arrested, and indicted, and who doesn’t:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/10/26/report-97-percent-doj-employee-political-donations-went-hillary-clinton/
James Lincoln says
Daniel Triplett,
Much thanks for the link.
Kilauea says
I remember something about the British burning the White House on August 24, 1814. Do they qualify as “White Devils?”
John says
Guess sleepy Joe’s speech writers too young (and stupid) to remember Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
Keys says
Don’t forget that the protesters that day likely included groups that were there to sabotage the Trump supporters.
Nancy ‘da fridge’ Pelosi ! Having watched her operate over the past few years, the first place a search team should look for her missing laptop is in her own refrigerator in the ice cream aisle.
She ripped up Trump’s State of the Union Speech in front of the world; she paraded to the Senate with impeachment papers; she knelt “in prayer” at the Capitol Visitor Center wearing an African kente cloth scarf; she thinks George Floyd should be honored, etc., ad nauseam.
She is certainly capable of “stealing” her own laptop.
Linda Goudsmit says
When Joe Biden claims illegal entry and trespassing at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 are the worst attacks on Democracy since the Civil War, we are witnessing the worst attack on reality since the Civil War. The corrupt, globalist, China-centric puppet president, his Marxist Democrat party, and the colluding fake news media, are trying to drive America to madness—a society where people are convinced the Emperor is wearing new clothes. In the fairy tale, it is the voice of a little child that rings out the truth, “But the Emperor has nothing at all on!” What the child said was whispered from one to another and eventually the people cried out, “But he has nothing at all on!” America desperately needs that voice of truth today. We cannot defend freedom and our constitutional republic without a firm grasp on objective reality, and how the enemies of freedom are assaulting our sanity.
Andrew Blackadder says
So when Old Joe says something like, “America Is Back” does that mean he will start some more bombings of countries the vast majority of Americans couldnt find on a World Map, does this mean he waited all the way into 5 weeks of his Presidency before he bombed Syria, and yet I didnt hear much of a peep from those two wee Gay Soy Boys on CNN about the awful destruction that caused, as they are still screaming orange man bad, even though Trump is the first President to recognize Gay Marriage, but old Joe is gonna do some more bombing because all the War Machine Corporations shoved tons of money at him, so he must pay back The Masters of War.
Trump took Troops OUT of Syria, Nasty Pissoli said “We are leaving our friends behind”, no word as yet about who those “friends” are but I guess its either the Syrians, the Turks, or the Kurds, three peoples that have fought each other longer than America has even been a country, but for reasons beyond me, Nasty and her merry gang of morons want young Americans from Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas to get in the middle of a centuries old conflict…. WTF???
The Democrats and The Left need to stop calling themselves as Progressive or Liberal and call them truthfully what they are today… Regressive and Fascist…
roger Woodhouse says
Spot on Andrew
We are living through a ‘make believe’ world at the moment where it seems the ‘fake media’ is dictating just what ‘we the people’ are to believe.Untill this situation is resolved I see no way out.The ‘masses’ are unaware of the ‘hijack’of democracy that is taking place under their noses and I suspect many arent even concerned.
Terry Gain says
Reasonable people may differ, but I think the worst attack on America was the fraudulent election of Joe Biden. America is strong enough to withstand any attack from outside, but in my opinion not strong enough to withstand attacks from within which come from the top.
Raja says
My +1 Terry
Daniel Triplett says
Right. If we don’t have fair and honest elections, then we don’t have a democracy.
Giacomo Latta says
As per Biden operational procedure he had his list upside-down. The second worst attack on American democracy was 9/11. The worst was the use of government business as a personal ATM by politicians whose priority is fattening the pockets of their friends, relatives and themselves.
Crusades Were Right says
January 6th 2021…
…a date that will live in infamy…
…in the minds of Dem ol’ muck rats, anyway! lol
OLD GUY says
Biden and the Democrats are so full of S==t. How easy they forget about the men and women who have given their lives and arms and legs etc. for this country to remain free. They will put the full weight of the American government behind the ILLEGAL migrants sneaking in our country ahead of our VETERANS, active duty military and law enforcement officers.
How can you yell black lives matter when you only look at the blacks who are killed by police officers? How can you defund the police while you support breaking the law, with illegal migrants and tons of illegal drugs being allowed to cross our open borders? Sounds like the crooks are running the nut house. Open borders is like banks not having locks on the doors or vault, Makes no sense.
gravenimage says
Sane people remind Biden of 9/11 after he calls Capitol storming ‘worst attack on our democracy since Civil War’
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I guess Biden forgot that ‘some people did something’…
Naildriver says
What I haven’t seen is any evidence those who stormed the capital had any plan whatsoever, beyond mere disruption and delay of a congressional vote, and most probably didn’t even have that much in mind that over throw of the government was planned.
Venting out rage, and a belief, however false, the election was stolen hardly counts as an insurrection — or an attack on democracy in my view.
Bringing in new friendly voters to one’s party, from other countries, who are hostile toward our constitution and freedoms is.
Naildriver says
The FBI is jumping on this like the KGB and the Dems now sound like commissars … And people can see it clearly; and see the Democrat lies, and smell the stink of Biden’s, Pelosi’s, Shumer’s, Water’s, Cortez’s. etc. crap.
The attack on our democracy and Republic is still in progress with Biden’s many directives to further corrupt or thwart the will of the American people by way of importing non-American people, racists, and Muslims. When they move to pack the SCOTUS with more justices it’ll show they are worse than even the most communistic socialists and step across the line to treason.