Joe Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement
Joe Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement
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The coup was holding hands on camera, almost like it wasnt a coup at all.
Wasnt he supposed to demand the nomination back?
I choked up when he walked out because I knew we were coming to the end of a generation in US politics. It is complete bs the toll that this job took out on Joe. Kamala will win and show America that a middle and bottom based economic agenda is more powerful than the politics of greed and apathy.
>Speaking clearly and energetically, Biden appeared to relish the chance to defend his record, advocate for his vice president and go on the attack against Trump. His delivery was more reminiscent of the Biden who won in 2020 than the mumbling and sometimes incoherent one-time candidate whose debate performance against Trump in June sparked the downfall of his reelection campaign.
>Biden, in his remarks, repeated his 2020 theme that “we’re in a battle for the very soul of America,” and pressed the case for why Harris and her running mate Tim Walz were best prepared to wage it.
Great speech from Biden to close out night one of the DNC.
That speech from Biden felt like one last battle cry to the party with all the energy he had left. It was great but definitely reinforced to me that stepping aside was the right move.
Ending with a poignant Nora Jones lyric “America, I gave my best to you. ” I think he may have taken a Power Nap bc Joe came out and crushed it.
How could you not respect Joe Biden having seen this moment of reflection, that he devoted his life to America?
Somebody check on Trump his dream of The Sleepy Coup has gone up in smoke.
That douche on the CNN postshow (far camera right side, ironic) calling Bidens speech a ‘miserable failure ‘ was pretty infuriating.
Rumor has it Trump was watching patiently for Joe to demand the nomination back in a fit of rage…
I especially liked the part where he hit her with a chair and declared it was all a set up and he’s taking his candidacy back. Fantastic heel turn. That might have been Monday night raw I was watching.
Good. 🫡
Biden stepped into his office with a lot on his plate. Both him and Obama were sworn into the presidency having to navigate the country through an economic crisis and oversee its recovery, and a lot of Americans don’t understand that no matter who became president in 2021, they were going to have a challenging time.
Whether Biden or Trump, inflation was going to skyrocket, whether Biden or Trump, Afghanistan was going to be a disaster, whether Biden or Trump, rising conflict in the Middle East and war in Ukraine was inevitable, and yes, whether Biden or Trump, with the ostensible end of the pandemic and eventual revoking of title 42, border encounters were guaranteed to increase.
But Biden did a better job of navigating us through it all than Trump ever could have.
While it should be noted that it was Trump who mismanaged the pandemic at every turn. It was under Trump that our national debt ballooned by nearly 40%, it was Trump’s tax cuts that disproportionately and permanently benefited the rich and corporations that cost the government an estimated trillions.
It was Trump who literally negotiated with terrorists and set a withdrawal deadline, bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table without consulting with our allies or the Afghanistan government. It was Trump who provided no plan whatsoever to the incoming administration for the withdrawal nor the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies.
It was Trump who pressured the Fed to keep interest rates low for political purposes. It was Trump’s disastrous foreign policy that escalated wars and conflict in multiple theaters. It was Trump who cozied up to dictators and emboldened Putin’s agenda.
It was Trump who instigated a trade war with China and whose tariff policies hurt Americans BIGLY.
It was Trump who failed to implement extreme border security measures that he promised to put in place. It was Trump who demanded the Republican party vote down the most stringent bipartisan immigration reform bill in recent memory, and it was also Trump who took advantage of an emergency border policy that relied solely on the existence and prevalence of COVID (while he and his followers downplayed the virus) and a global slowdown in immigration to brag about his “most secure border in history” (it wasn’t).
It was Trump and a Republican majority in the Senate that spent over $6 trillion in 2020 alone.
It was Trump who withdrew from a working nonproliferation agreement with Iran, resulting in more provocations in the region and Iran scaling up its nuclear program.
It was under Trump that crime rates skyrocketed for the first time since the 1990s, and by record levels, and it was under Biden that they began to decline again.
It was under Trump, that according to The Global Peace Index, “peacefulness” was declining around the world.
It was Trump who dropped more airstrikes than Obama within his first two years alone, and it was under Trump that the Obama era policy on reporting drone strike deaths was revoked.
It was under Trump that our country’s wars were escalated in multiple theaters. It was Trump who oversaw a massive increase in casualties in the Middle East,
It was Trump who escalated both U.S. counterterrorism activities and support for the violent Saudi-led war against the Houthis.
It was Trump who supported Putin’s greatest goal—weakening NATO—and it was Trump who sought to loosen Russian sanctions, abandon our Kurdish middle east allies and strain our western alliances.
It was Trump who almost tweeted us into a nuclear war with NK.
It was Trump who forced Congress to pass not one, but two historic war powers resolutions to try to end his support for the Yemen war and mitigate the possibility of a war with Iran after he approved the assassination Qassem Soleimani
It was under the Trump administration that the U.S. was also engaged in military conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan and more than 60 American soldiers died in hostile action.
It was Trump who cozied up to Netanyahu and formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, moving the American embassy there, and it was Trump who also formally acknowledged Israel’s annexation of Golan heights, only exacerbating tensions in the region.
It was Trump’s poorly contrived “middle east peace deal” that compromised our ability to act as peace brokers between Israelis and Palestinians.
It was also Trump who fractured this country, who emboldened countless fanatics and right wing reactionaries, who appealed to their many unfounded grievances, conspiracy theories, fringe views, and their unrivaled hate for their fellow Americans.
It was Trump who inflamed the culture wars and empowered white supremacists, neo Nazis and hate groups
It was Trump who became a useful idiot to not just the world’s autocrats and oppressors, but to self serving Republicans whose flattery and loyalty was all that was required of them.
It was also Trump who facilitated an attack on our Capitol, and it was Trump’s “big lie” that has granted Republicans the opportunity to suppress the vote and give themselves more power and control over our elections.
Yes, it was Trump who did all of these things, but it was Biden who came into office having to pick up all the pieces, and it’s been the Biden administration all this time overseeing an economic recovery that’s been closest to the strongest in the world.
It’s been the Biden admin passing infrastructure legislation and signing and sponsoring bills that are investing in our future wisely. It’s been the Biden administration having to delicately manage our inevitable involvement in multiple foreign conflicts without putting any U.S. troops on the ground. It’s been the Biden admin having to rebuild some of our strained alliances.
It’s been the Biden administration trying to throw a wrench in the GOPs decades-long agenda to redistribute wealth to the top, destroy the labor movement, and protect a tax code that unevenly benefits the rich and corporations.
And yes, it’s the Biden administration that’s helped safeguard our democracy, but if Trump wins in November, it may have amounted merely to a stop gap effort.
Say what you want about the Kennedys but I’ll be damned if this didn’t remind me of Ted Kennedy coming out and giving a rousing speech in endorsement of Obama in 2008. He had brain cancer at the time and was near the end of his life, his career, etc.
But he had one great speech left in him and he fucking gave it. I remember watching it with my grandpa before he died, and he was smiling and crying and cheering.
I know Biden isn’t dying of brain cancer or anything but it just has that same feel. Going out like a lion. Roaring.
He probably stills fain pain with the stabbing in the back he receives . Bad it was forced out and betrayed by is own party …
Uhm, OK. I thought he was going to go up and demand to be reinstated as the Democrat’s nominee, and demand to debate Trump again? Huh. Trump said it, guess he was lying.
what a patriot.. what a great speech… thank you Joe
Guys I’m starting to think that Biden isn’t actually going to crash the DNC like he’s on pay-per-view, rip the nomination belt out of Kamala’s hands, and immediately challenge trump to a re-do debate while spitting into the microphone and pointing at the camera.
“Clearly Biden was being mind controlled by the radical left!”
Biden being unable to speak at the start because of the extremely long standing ovation the convention gave plus the outpouring of love and genuine tears that flowed while he was speaking is a stark contrast to what happened in the RNC.
What an ovation! Well deserved, thank you President Biden
The greatest president, politician, and a patriot of our times (his selfless act of passing the torch whilst his own record, factually, is better than most administrations since the roaring Clinton 90s, makes him better than most)!! Thank you, Mr. President!!!! 👏
Biden really picked the worst night of his life to be sick during the debate.