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Biden kicked off his rally in Columbia, South Carolina with a string of warnings about racism and hatred rising under Trump’s presidency, in an effort to win support from African-Americans Democrats in the state.
“Folks, last year, 24 states introduced or enacted at least 70 bills to curtail the right the vote. And guess what, mostly directed at ‘people of color,'” he said. “You see it. We have Jim Crow sneaking back in. No, I mean it!”
Biden pointed to the elections in Georgia and Florida in 2018, where Republican candidates beat Democrats Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum.
“Why? Because they know if everybody has an equal right to vote, guess what? They lose!” he said.
He also alluded to the 2015 racist church massacre in Charleston, after a shooter killed nine African Americans at a black church. He reminded the crowd about Obama’s speech at the funeral and his decision to sing Amazing Grace to the congregation.
“I watched my buddy Barack stand up there, I watched him talk, and he talked about we have to find that Amazing Grace,” Biden said.
He recalled that day, noting that the people in South Carolina witnessed hatred that day.
“What we’ve never seen, when we have bad folks splitting people – Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, marching, chanting hate coming out of the woods literally with their torches, coming out from under rocks, and shouting the same antisemitic bile that was shouted and spoken to in Germany in the ’30’s,” Biden said.
He said that Trump was too divisive for the country, trying to clear his way into power.
“Any problem anybody has, he said, it is ‘the other,’ it’s the black community, it’s those folks coming across the border,” Biden said referring to Trump. “It just goes on and on and frankly, I’ve had it up to here.”
Well at least he isn't telling African Americans that "they're going to put y'all back in chains" like he did in the past. This guy has came out with some pretty ridiculous racial rhetoric in the past. Ironic, since the democratic party is historically the party of slavery and segregation. Today, they are telling African Americans that they are inferior and require the democratic party to level the playing field for them, while fighting to import more illegal immigrants to take jobs and decimate the income earning potential of African American workers.
Democrats are total racist hucksters and always looking to play the people for fools.
What is he going to run on? Even higher health insurance premiums? Let’s go back to the recession, higher unemployment, and 1% growth days? Because those were fun.
I heard him talking about like your plan, keep your plan. Gee, heard that before too. The little pesky detail they forgot to mention is that you would no longer be able to afford that plan. And once you get done paying for that higher cost plan, you can’t actually use it because yup, your co pays and deductibles became prohibitive.
Or maybe he should run on the idea that if you bust your butt, you don’t have the right to live better? You should give away what someone else deems as more than what you should earn?
Here is what most forget. The rich aren’t the enemy. They pump a ton of money into the economy. Alienate them and we all lose. I promise we cannot make it on the majority earning low wages and investing nothing.
Ole Joe, his crime bill was quite an accomplishment. Put countless black Americans in jail for minor drug offenses. It also eliminated Pell Grants for prison inmates, criminalized gang membership, contained $9.7 billion in funding for new prisons, established a three-strikes provision that mandated life sentences for people with two or more prior convictions found to have committed a violent felony, and gave states incentives to lengthen sentences. These measures, many experts now say, helped give the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Today, about 2.2 million Americans are locked up in federal and state prisons and local jails, twice as many as when Mr. Clinton took office.
Sounds like someone progressives can get behind ....
Just this week he said China is a 3rd world non factor in competing with us economically.
The Average Joe didn't benefit from Tax cuts and the huge increase in the stock market.
He possibly forgot that most hard working Americans have a 401k / IRA invested in the stock market and have hugely benefited. Or that unemployment is at record low levels.
Some of the chit he says is worse than Warrens or the other D idiots. He ranks with Eric Swalwell for idiocy.
Progressives hate old white men. Joe you are out of touch, old man. Democrats have hit the recycle bin for Presidential candidates.
Joe Biden, one of the politicians that opposed desegregation of schools.
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Originally Posted by skeddy
Ole Joe, his crime bill was quite an accomplishment. Put countless black Americans in jail for minor drug offenses. It also eliminated Pell Grants for prison inmates, criminalized gang membership, contained $9.7 billion in funding for new prisons, established a three-strikes provision that mandated life sentences for people with two or more prior convictions found to have committed a violent felony, and gave states incentives to lengthen sentences. These measures, many experts now say, helped give the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Today, about 2.2 million Americans are locked up in federal and state prisons and local jails, twice as many as when Mr. Clinton took office.
Sounds like someone progressives can get behind ....
The irony is definitely strong with that one (Biden).
People in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
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