This isn’t just pandering to the base.
The only good thing about this speech is that it didn’t have a color scheme out of V for Vendetta and didn’t feature Marines in the background. Whoever runs these things at least learned from that attempt at looking like Biden was about to declare martial law, suspend habeas corpus and make everyone read Gender Queer and How To Be An Anti-Racist at gunpoint in a gulag.
The bad news is no one cared about that speech except conservatives. They care even less about this one.
With the countdown underway, voters have made it clear that they care about the economy and crime. Anyone who finds the “threat to democracy” routine persuasive is already a solid blue voter and ActBlue donor who probably showed up for at least one D.C. protest.
This isn’t just pandering to the base, it’s pandering to the Elizabeth Warren base.
Biden’s call to “vote knowing what’s at stake and not just the policy of the moment, but institutions that have held us together as we’ve sought a more perfect union are also at stake” is an admission that his faction has lost the policy argument and doesn’t have anything else to work with.
While the delivery is laughable, the premise isn’t. Biden’s speeches may not interest voters, but they continue to push the totalitarian message that “democracy” is embodied by Democrats and threatened by Republicans, that if Dems fail to win, then the result will be the end of America.
That kind of rhetoric is typical, but under Obama and Biden, it’s been backed up by arrests, investigations, surveillance, raids, imprisonment, censorship and the whole banana republic gamut.
The same speech delivered by the leader of a free country and say Vladimir Putin or Xi sound very different because they have really different implications. Biden, once again declaring that the opposition is a collection of “dark force” that “thirst for power” and will destroy democracy is election rhetoric, but it’s also become an actionable item for the DOJ, the FBI and Big Tech firms.
Biden’s rhetoric is a threat to the republic, not because words are scary, but because his allies have shown that they employ such rhetoric as cover for imposing totalitarian realities.
tim gallagher says
I saw a bit of this speech where Biden was carrying about democracy being under threat on Sky News here in Australia and I thought what the hell is this wanker on about. The USA seems like a democracy to me and people are about to vote there. I sort of knew what the idiot was trying to imply and it seemed to me that he knows his DEmocrats are about to cop a hiding in the upcoming election, so he has to carry on with this over the top rhetoric, but I thought it was complete garbage, desperate garbage from the demented old fart.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the +1, gravenimage. It’s funny I just returned from visiting one of my left wing sisters and, although she doesn’t watch Sky News, mainly watches the left wing ABC, and so doesn’t see Biden at his demented worst, was still worried about having Biden as President and was saying that the USA seems terribly divided these days, which i had to agree with. IT’s a damned shame. It emboldens scum like Xi from China and Putin.
PRCS says
Old fart?
Hey, I represent that remark!
tim gallagher says
Good one, PRCS.I am definitely an old fart myself, PRCS, and no doubt in a literal sense. It is probably a bit of an outdated saying, I wouldn’t know the modern ones, but I have always liked it. It fits Biden. It is so weird, and dangerous, to have such a demented man as President. Sometimes I doubt whether he knows who the hell he is, where he is, or what is going on around him. It amazes me to hear him say that he will probably run again for the Presidency. Beyond delusional.
PRCS says
Dangerous, for sure.
tim gallagher says
I agree, PRCS. The doddering, weak image that Biden displays to the world certainly would be making the scum that rule China and Russia and other evil countries feel that this is the time to flex their muscles and make a move. I realise that Biden is just a puppet, but he really presents a pathetically weak image to the world.
Dave says
Projection refers to unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don’t like about yourself and attributing them to someone else.
gravenimage says
Biden’s Rhetoric is a Threat to the Republic
While the delivery is laughable, the premise isn’t. Biden’s speeches may not interest voters, but they continue to push the totalitarian message that “democracy” is embodied by Democrats and threatened by Republicans, that if Dems fail to win, then the result will be the end of America.
That kind of rhetoric is typical…
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The alarming thing is that this rhetoric hadn’t used to be typical–not at all. Of course, every candidate has always said that things will go badly for the country if their party doesn’t carry the day–but that their opponent and his party actually *threatens democracy”? This is pretty recent, and deeply disturbing stuff.
Phil Copson says
The message was really simple: “OK, Jack – here’s the deal: We’re going to steal the election – and you’re gonna suck it up. Capiche?”
somehistory says
he said it, and his henchmen are ready to enforce the *new* and not improved way of carrying out the Freedoms that were meant to make the country a better, “more perfect union,’ and they mean to ensure that those who disagree, lose every thing, including Freedom to disagree. In their evil eyes, this will make everything “more perfect.”
Kind of like, “this is gonna’ hurt me more than it does you,” while beating the “you” to a pulp.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This sounds like the dying rants of a third world tinpot dictator whose regime is about to collapse. That’s what Biden sounds like
Next Tuesday can’t come fast enough, but I have already voted in person straight ticket GOP, including for the School Board. Let’s see what Tuesday brings
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Years back, when they were reasonable and patriotic JFK type Democrats running for office, I would give them a good look – and maybe even vote for some of them.
No more.
The far-left commie Democrat party of today is totally unrecognizable.
I plan to vote straight Republican.
Wellington says
I will vote straight Republican too, James, come Tuesday, not so much because the Republican Party is terrific, which it is not, but because the other major party has become so terrible. But I am cautious because, as Stalin cynically observed, it doesn’t matter who votes but rather who counts the votes.
somehistory says
biden and crew can say anything they wish and pay no price. However, others are not allowed to have feelings, thoughts or even just refer to something another has said or done unless they don’t mind getting fired. The ball player tweeted with a link to a certain movie.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/nets-suspend-kyrie-irving-antisemitic-beliefs-rcna55606
“When he was asked whether he had antisemitic beliefs, he said: “I respect all walks of life and embrace all walks of life. That’s where I sit.”
Pressed for a yes or a no, Irving responded: “I cannot be antisemitic if I know where I come from.”
Wellington says
Biden is pathetic but he is also a danger and what he said is evidence of just how demagogic the Democratic Party has become. The Puppet-in-Chief was mouthing what he was told to say by those now in control of the Democratic Party. This is ominous to put it mildly. The danger to America comes first and foremost from a political party which has descended into tyranny and mendacity. No greater danger exists to America than the Democratic Party.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
You are, of course correct.
Biden is a very dangerous “stooge”…
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden himself is a threat to the American Republic by and through his treasonous policies.
tgusa says
Were they Marines in the video? The military has three positions, attention, parade rest (hands joined behind back) and at ease. The hands joined together in front is not military so who and what were those guys in the joetato video? The video was meant to be menacing but I’m not menaced. The fool will have to try harder cause I’m not feeling it…at all.
Scotsman48 says
I thought Obama-Biden was bad and then along came Biden-Harris to win the all time worse duo in the history of the USA… Congrats to all those antifart soy boys and black LIES matter morons for destroying what was a perfectly good working country for four years even under as he fought a lot of hoaxes and lies.
”Our country has gone to hell ”… Donald J.Trump.