Biden is inaugurated - congratulations, America!

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Gunnar wrote:
Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:19 am
Amen to that, Chap! It is extremely difficult for me to fathom how any intelligent, reasonable and moral person who listened to Trump's inaugural address could have come away from that with a high opinion of or confidence in him!
Well, let's see, Trump didn't call half the country "white supremacists" as Biden did in HIS Inaugural Address.

I actually question other people's morality who think Trump's was bad and Bidens was good.
Lofty words does not character make. Just because Bidens was in general more "eloquent" that doesn't make it truthful and good.
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leeuniverse wrote:
Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:02 am
Gunnar wrote:
Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:19 am
Amen to that, Chap! It is extremely difficult for me to fathom how any intelligent, reasonable and moral person who listened to Trump's inaugural address could have come away from that with a high opinion of or confidence in him!
Well, let's see, Trump didn't call half the country "white supremacists" as Biden did in HIS Inaugural Address.

I actually question other people's morality who think Trump's was bad and Bidens was good.
Lofty words does not character make. Just because Bidens was in general more "eloquent" that doesn't make it truthful and good.
Here is the full text of President Biden's inaugural address:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... -biden-jr/

And here is the only passage in which the words 'white supremacy' occur:
Few periods in our nation’s history have been more challenging or difficult than the one we’re in now.

A once-in-a-century virus silently stalks the country.

It’s taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II.

Millions of jobs have been lost.

Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed.

A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.

A cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear.

And now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.

To overcome these challenges – to restore the soul and to secure the future of America – requires more than words.

It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy:

Unity.
Please point to the part where President Biden tells half the country that they are white supremacists.

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leeuniverse wrote:
Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:02 am
Gunnar wrote:
Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:19 am
Amen to that, Chap! It is extremely difficult for me to fathom how any intelligent, reasonable and moral person who listened to Trump's inaugural address could have come away from that with a high opinion of or confidence in him!
Well, let's see, Trump didn't call half the country "white supremacists"
As Chap already proved, neither did Biden. Trump, on the other hand, though he might not have overtly called called half the country white supremacists, only a fool could avoid seeing that he was deliberately appealing to white supremacists and other bigots in his entire election campaigns and counting on there being just enough of them to sway the 2016 election in his favor. How tragic it is that he turned out to be right about that!
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counting on there being just enough of them to sway the election in his favor. How tragic it is that he turned out to be right about that!
Maybe they were just skeptical about those jobs making solar panels actually happening?

John Kerry just admitted that even if the US were to reduce it's emissions to 0 (which is impossible), this would do little if anything to stop anthropogenic global warming. 90% of carbon emissions come from outside the US.
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leeuniverse wrote:
Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:02 am
Gunnar wrote:
Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:19 am
Amen to that, Chap! It is extremely difficult for me to fathom how any intelligent, reasonable and moral person who listened to Trump's inaugural address could have come away from that with a high opinion of or confidence in him!
Well, let's see, Trump didn't call half the country "white supremacists" as Biden did in HIS Inaugural Address.

I actually question other people's morality who think Trump's was bad and Bidens was good.
Lofty words does not character make. Just because Bidens was in general more "eloquent" that doesn't make it truthful and good.
President Biden wrote:And now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
Let's get this straight. You believe this statement is a declaration that applied to half the country? Please. Explain this claim.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:41 pm
90% of carbon emissions come from outside the US.
Gosh, you make a good case that there should be some sort of international climate accord. Or something.
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lee wrote:No country on the planet allows Mail-in Voting entirely because of how easy it is to commit fraud
Why would we go through all that trouble to falsify ballots when we have a back-end connection to the voting machines themselves, and we can can flip as many votes as we like?
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Why would we go through all that trouble to falsify ballots when we have a back-end connection to the voting machines themselves, and we can can flip as many votes as we like?
I thought you'd be busy making urgent phone calls to RobinHood to tell the company to stop allowing these deplorable commoners to purchase stock in Game Stop. I guess you've finished up and found time to post.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:57 pm
Why would we go through all that trouble to falsify ballots when we have a back-end connection to the voting machines themselves, and we can can flip as many votes as we like?
I thought you'd be busy making urgent phone calls to RobinHood to tell the company to stop allowing these deplorable commoners to purchase stock in Game Stop. I guess you've finished up and found time to post.
That completely irrelevant response looked a bit desperate, ajax. Actually, why don't you deal with the question Gadianton raised?
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