12mo ago

Biden Conference on Attempted Assassination Megathread:

Sorry for the short notice on this one, it was announced this morning but I just found out now.

8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific, from the Oval Office. Biden speaking, presumably about the Trump assassination attempt.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-oval-office-address-sunday-evening-trump-shooting-rcna161790

Video here of the earlier conference, still looking for the Oval Office speech.

https://www.youtube.com/live/zhQ2SshESqA#t=42m25s

Oval Office speech here:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Qji7y15tsOE#t=1h0m10s

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- All Republicans including the guy who shot at Trump!
  
  Have Trump or allies come out to declare him a RINO yet?
  
  Doubtful he was a republican, I'm pretty convinced he was libertarian. Just saying
  Edit: Jesus, the mindless hatred. FWIW, I'm very anti Republican, but if you actually keep up with the information that has come out this dude was most likely libertarian.
  Edit 2: based on news that came out today looks like he was conservative / republican
It wasn't much of anything being said, but I'm glad he ran the list of the more prominent acts of violence coming from the right before mentioning Trump.
- Thank you for sharing the quick summary of the event!
"The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger." ~~Supreme Chancellor~~ Trump on next speech
- 'only i took a bullet for this country. you have to vote for me!'
Good to see megathreads again
- I personally hate mega threads. It fucks with front page algorithms. Sometimes I'm not even aware of large events because I didn't know there was a mega thread on a specific community that you might not see if you're just looking at your front page, depending on how late the mega thread gets to the scene. Or newer articles with additional detail revitalizing the discussion under a new post.
  I would rather comb through a couple threads, which tend to have some subtly different angles on the overall discussion.
  But I think I'm in the minority.
  
  Lemmy's "active" sort involves recent comments AFAIK, so if you're sorting by that you should see megathreads.
- Next one is coming tomorrow for the Republican Convention.
  
  Where everyone is going to pay attention. Because he's coming back from the shot.
He should have fucking LAID INTO Republicans. They've been publicly inciting political violence for nearly a decade now and THIS is the result. It's their fault and the only redeeming feature was that this was an own goal. We're all lucky they haven't attacked Democratic politicians yet.
Violent Republican rhetoric is not acceptable. If they don't stop NOW this is only the beginning. Let out Dark Brandon and let them hear the fucking truth instead of this weak "violence isn't acceptable" shit. Of course violence isn't acceptable, we're the party of "violence isn't acceptable". Republicans should stop inciting political violence and maybe this would stop. Trump has even promised a secretary of retribution and half of the list is OTHER Republicans. It's no surprise the people attacking him are other Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/trump-s-secretary-of-retribution-has-a-target-list-of-350-people-he-wants-arrested/ar-BB1pJcNU
- I mean. They fucking laughed hammer smashed face, incite violence and then blame Democrats when it's literally all their fault
Thanks for the heads-up!
"But in America, we resolve our differences in the battle box!" -POTUS
Um... yeah, Joe, that's sorta the problem right now.
Speech tl;dr: "My fellow Americans, cool your fuckin jets and play nice."
Kinda weak imo. While yes, it'd be nice if people weren't so dissatisfied with politics that they turn to violence, let's maybe address some of the things that are making people unhappy instead of just telling them to remain passive in the face of existential threats to our rights, our nation, and our planet.
Not to knock Biden specifically - this is just the state of our politics. Please do still put the Biden in the ballot (NOT battle!) box, or it gets the Nazi again.
- The man has had a stutter all his life. You making fun of a disability?
  
  The disability? No. The sentence it produced, given the context of the event that just happened? Yes.
  That said, the meat of my last post was the criticism of the message. Beyond a chuckle at "lol, battle" I don't really care that he misspoke. I do care that we're being told to just sit pretty in the midst of things like the planet burning up and the Nazis coming back. He talks about us settling our differences of opinion with civility like the opinion being discussed is whether or not pineapple is good on pizza... we got bigger fish to fry. One of those fish already had its own world war; we fried it the first time with a fuckton of violence. If violence isn't the way this time around, what's the plan? Voting is good and well: do it! I definitely will. ...but we've been voting, and the existential threats persist. He wants us to be nice and quiet. Okay... so give us a road map of how that's going to actually work.
  
  Are you responding to a different post? Go back and look again.
  
  And Trump is a sociopath, you discriminating against his disability? Biden can't carry a sentence because he's old as fuck combined with a stutter. We all know Biden is the better option, but don't be a gaslighting little bitch and pretend it isn't real.

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