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In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote

Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in a rare public address.

Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran.

Reprising a line from the 2020 campaign that saw him defeat Trump and end Trump’s first presidency, Biden told the crowd at the Columbia Museum of Art on Friday that the “battle for the soul of this nation is one that’s never really over”. He simultaneously criticized Trump’s plan to introduce potentially prohibitive voting requirements ahead of the midterms.

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[-] Vieric@lemmy.world 3 points 37 minutes ago

Golly, if only someone could have prevented this...

[-] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 69 points 5 hours ago

Maybe you should have done your job and had him executed for treason

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

This is the right answer. If you are in a position if power, the consequences for your actions should be ten times more than a civilian.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 15 points 3 hours ago

Do you really think allowing a president to execute their opposition will lead to anything good though?

[-] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 hour ago

People are capable of understanding context. Not that you're totally wrong, but Biden trying and executing Trump for treasonous crimes isn't the same as Putin torturing and poisoning Navalny in a Siberian prison camp.

How much stuff have the republicans already blamed democrats for?

Do you think that the MAGA base wouldn’t execute Biden for his ‘crimes’ in Ukraine?

[-] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 hour ago

How much stuff have the republicans already blamed democrats for?

A lot. But they can literally never back up any of their claims.

Do you think that the MAGA base wouldn’t execute Biden for his ‘crimes’ in Ukraine?

Desire to? Yeah, I'd assume so. They tried to overthrow the government and murder Democratic leadership once already. Be capable of? No.

My prediction is that in much the same way Italy and Germany unified after the deaths of their respective far right leaders, America would eventually move on and become more unified as well. Maga is a cult of personality with Trump as the sole proprietor. When he goes, there'd likely be a power vacuum too big to fill and the cult fractures into multiple small factions that eventually lose popularity. Mayyybe one or two starts to gain traction, but they're much easier to deal with than the inertia Maga has right now.

Seems like a pretty big bet to base on feelings.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

The guy led an insurrection against our own government. The evidence was overwhelming. We’ve executed people in this country for much, much less.

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[-] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 hours ago

considering trump has threatened to jail his oponenets, do you still think doing nothing was a good idea?

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Sometimes it just feels like I’m bashing my head against a brick wall here.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I’m bashing my head against a brick wall here.

[-] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 hours ago

"We tried nothing and were all out of ideas" is how it comes across.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 points 2 hours ago

And your statement comes across like you’re okay with the ruling party executing their opposition.

[-] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 hours ago

I'm not the one who called to execute. But I did call for biden to arrest him and throw the key away.

But the rest of the world saw y'all do nothing, and now how many people lost their lives in war. How many trans people have killed them selves since election day because of his party's anti trans bullshit.

There is a real cost to the nothing that was done. And were all paying it. The rest of the world is sick of it.

Yeah but Kamala Harris was forced upon the Democrats as the party leader. She wasn't elected democratically to lead the party. That's even worse. /s

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 2 hours ago

If he was arrested and put in jail and Americans voted him back in as they did he’d be free anyways.

[-] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

And your right back to "we tried nothing and were all out of ideas"

Edit: or release the epstine files

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