President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.
“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”
In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.
“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
-> You’ll be shot in the head if you don’t eat your Brussels sprouts.
-> No, cookies and ice cream or nothing!
Life and especially politics is full of compromises. Everybody compromises on something on every vote. You know what the stakes are, and you know what the consequences of inaction are.
Unfortunately, “not Trump” IS a good enough reason, and you have the choice to come to terms with that fact before November, or during a Trump presidency/dictatorship.
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>You’re either an accelerationist that wants to see another civil war or a toddler throwing a tantrum.
false dichotomy
>“Give me a perfect progressive candidate or I’ll let fascists dismantle democracy.”
this is a straw man
Let me present a more charitable interpretation then.
“Give me a better candidate or I’ll let fascists dismantle democracy.”
Better?
no, this is still a strawman.
if you are going to argue with me, argue with what I’m saying, not some caricature you make up.
>Not voting won’t teach dems shit.
that was never the plan
Then what is the plan?
my plan is to organize and fight.
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pigeonholing isn’t legitimate discourse, it’s just a form of ad hominem
If you have a point make it, instead of just trying to score imaginary internet points by calling out logical fallacies.
>The system is bullshit but the best we can do is stave off fascism for another election,
the system is already fascist. it doesn’t matter if you vote for the architect if the crime bill and the patriot act
Sounds like the mental gymnastics people in Dictatorships, Slavery or Servitude use to justify going along with what their masters want.
Better be the master’s trusted slave than the slave that gets beatings all the time, eh?!