Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.
The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.
“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”
There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”
It would be as huge a deal as the twintowers attack.
Shot a bunch of people, to start. Probably after getting some sort of military in. Who knows, after that. Martial law? Dictator for life?
If the Jan 6 insurrection had been done by people of color, Trump would have seen to that the few survivors would be severely punished. The rest would have been dumped in a mass grave.
The Black Panthers?
Ah yes how can we forget the two dozen armed black people practicing their 2nd amendment that caused Reagan to sign a gun control law so said blacks couldn’t have guns anymore 🤣😂
According to Biden if you are black and you voted for Trump, nothing, because - “You got more questions, but I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
i don’t know, this strikes me as dirty pool, the sort that you get bitten in the ass for. I guess we’re pretending in this scenario that it wasn’t Trump who called them there and organized them in the first place? We aren’t so desperate and out of ideas as to try to pretend he would call them there and then entrap his own supporters just because of their skin colour, are we? Cuz that’s stooping pretty low and there ain’t no call for that when you’re literally running against the gutter; quite the opposite. All you gotta do is run on the facts. (Or RUN AT ALL, HILARY)
This just comes off as another white guy playing the race card on your behalf so as to get something out of it.
Besides, surely there were two or three black folk there, weren’t there? Surely! ;)
I remember saying at the time of these were black Americans they’d have been shooting immediately. There would have been fucking Blackhawks deployed and a show of force like you’ve never seen on your life.
Well… we know how the Biden regime acted when the capitol race riot was led by white supremacists, don’t we?
And the answer is absolutely nothing - even when they killed some of their fellow blue-lives-matter fascist brethren - in stark contrast to the way the regime is acting against student protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Good job outing yourself again, GJ - but at this stage it’s just mundane.
Well… we know how the Biden regime acted when the capitol race riot was led by white supremacists, don’t we?
The ones they are literally still tracking down & prosecuting? Are you bigly sad the largest investigation ever is taking more time than you’d like?
Do you want the President to have complete and direct control of the DoJ? Do you want the DoJ to toss out all Federal Sentencing guidelines?
Do you want what you want right now, damn the future consequences?
Tell me you want a dictatorship without telling me you want a dictatorship.
PS: I don’t believe that you’re actually stupid enough to think the White House has anything to do with what is going on on college campuses, so I didn’t address that absurdity.
Just like so many short sighted people.
“I’m okay with totalitarian dictatorship if they’re doing things I like.”
The ones they are literally still tracking down & prosecuting?
You mean the white supremacist lynch mob they could have easily stopped on Jan 6th but didn’t? That one?
The ones that will be getting out once your good cop hands over to the bad cop come November?
It really seems that, no matter what suit they have in the Waffle House, the neo-nazis and the klan-boys gets to do whatever they want - and get away with it.
anything to do with what is going on on college campuses
The buck never stops with (insert current Wall Street shill peddled by the Dems here), does it liberal?
Oh you mean when trump was president? Tell me how you expect Biden to have acted on his executive authority on the day he was set to be confirmed as having won his first presidential election.
I assume you blame the 08 crash on Obama too.
Oh you mean when trump was president?
All you’re telling me is that Trump can sicc a white supremacist lynch mob on the capitol and get away with it scott free… while Biden can (supposedly) do absolutely nothing about his (yes, his) goon squads violently repressing campus protests against US policy?
What is your end-game here, liberal? How long do you think this “lesser evilism” schtick can go before it hits rock bottom?
I assume you blame the 08 crash on Obama too.
Yeah… we’re still waiting for Obama to prosecute the capitalists that crashed the economy - I guess the hundreds of billions in handouts he gave to these very same capitalists happened in order to prosecute them better, yes?
EXACTLY! WHY didn’t Biden do anything on JANUARY 6TH? HMM? And WHY didn’t BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA DO ANYTHING ABOUT 9/11? Checkmate Lbitards!
There are a bunch of people in prison over Jan 6. Trump is the one who wants to free them all if he wins. Lol but not lol.
Seems icky to use black people as a political chip like this.
So you’re saying Biden shouldn’t talk about what black people’s lives are worth under Trump to the NAACP?
We shouldn’t talk to the association for colored people about colored people? Seems like exactly what a politician should talk to them about… politics
No need to guess, just look at how Trump’s confederates treat BLM protestors and their executioners: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/14/daniel-perry-racist-comments-texas-shooting-austin-protester/
Abbott made good on his promise and pardoned Perry last week for the murder a jury found him guilty of committing.
The court documents also revealed that Perry sent inappropriate messages to someone who claimed to be 16 years old through Kik Messenger, a communication platform that has been used to share child pornography.
"Also promise me no nudes until you are old enough to be of age,” Perry wrote, the same month he shot and killed Foster.
Before signing off, Perry wrote, “I am going to bed come up with a reason why I should be your boyfriend before I wake up.”
WTF?
Conservative poster child BTW
We would instantly transport back into the 1950’s. After “animals” “thugs” gets thrown out his z league faux military supporters would be outraged and a lot of people would get killed.
it would never have happened in the first place. if roles were reversed, there would have been adequate forces in place to prevent it from escalating.
Remember, Trump made sure to have a relatively light law enforcement presence in the capital. There were no unscalable barricades present. there was no call for the Nat Guard- despite assurances they were ready to go, and that was trump’s call.
the entire insurrection was planned by people who wanted to put trump back in the white house by any means necessary. I don’t know that it was entirely planned by trump- he’s a moron- but it was certainly done with his cooperation.
Exactly: we saw precisely how it would have worked during the Black Lives Matter protests the summer before:
As far as I’m concerned, that stark dichotomy is absolute proof in and of itself (let alone the pile of other evidence) that the coup was orchestrated from the very top.
As far as I’m concerned, that stark dichotomy is absolute proof in and of itself (let alone the pile of other evidence) that the coup was orchestrated from the very top.
Absolutely.
anybody who doubts it is either complicit or has been buried under a rock for the last… decade or so.
it was certainly done with his cooperation
He directed it. His stooges were very close to success though.
Yes. They were. It’s fairly scary.
And very Beerhall Putsch-ish. too bad his base doesn’t bother to learn history correctly, and that’s why we’re all doomed.
You sure about that? Seems to me his base is learning its history just fine, since they’re managing to speedrun Hitler’s rise to power even faster than Hitler did.
We’ve really got to quit underestimating the enemy and get serious about defending ourselves.
those aren’t the bulk of his base.
Most of his base are deluded into thinking he’s not actually like hitler. That he’s some how moral, and a really good guy who would never.
Most of his base are morons voting against their own interests.The orange asshole, aka the second coming of Christ (according to many who’ve partaken of his koolaid).
The tactics are what they successfully learned, and they don’t have to actually understand that he’s like Hitler in order to execute those.
I suspect there would be lots of bullets flying around
We’re going back to the og crowd control options, I see. If you haven’t seen the relevant forgotten weapons video, Thompson and other manufacturers used to produce birdshot shells for crowd control. Generally intended for indirect applications, but there’s nothing inherently present that would prevent you from directly firing at protestors.
Ah this sent me to a rabbit hole of the united fruit company and the banana wars. History is so cool.
How did you know I enjoy this type of stuff in the first place though, it’s not very stereotypical.
Then America would have another Tiananmen Square to add to the MOVE bombing, Tulsa, Waco, etc.
Shut the fuck up Joe.
Facing an uncomfortable truth?
Yeah just the fact that im gonna vote for that asshat this fall. I don’t for a second think he actually cares about black folks.
I think he cares enough not to gas them during a peaceful protest. I can’t say as much for Trump.
Oh ok bud
Are you not aware that Trump gassed a bunch of people during a peaceful BLM protest?
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials
Hey thats my line!
Wow you showed him, absolutely nobody on the Internet who defends racists.
Wut?
