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Biden says Trump 'emboldened white supremacists'
Associated Press ^ | Aug 27, 2017 11:03 AM EDT

Posted on 08/27/2017 11:07:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

[[Biden says Trump ‘emboldened white supremacists’]]

Robert Byrd perhaps?


21 posted on 08/28/2017 12:31:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: chris37

Yes.

He’s the Lord Of The Thugs.


22 posted on 08/28/2017 1:10:24 AM PDT by Salamander (I'm on the wrong side of Heaven and the righteous side of Hell...)
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To: Frank_2001

How about the sequential explosions visible running down both towers as they collapsed? How about the perfect, controlled demolition of WTC 7, which was hit by nothing?


23 posted on 08/28/2017 1:46:54 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Olog-hai
Biden wrote: “Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate.”

Er, Joe, as dumb as you are, surely even you must know that "those who would oppose their venom and hate" are led by organizations who have been calling for the violent overthrow of the American government long before Trump came on the scene. They are groups and individuals aligned with YOUR former boss and his ilk.

To begin, let me start with this...

President Trump, Aug. 14, 2017:

“Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/14/politics/trump-condemns-charlottesville-attackers/index.html
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With that said, here’s a Wikipedia piece that will likely be “revised” at some point by some lefty editor, if it hasn't been already...

I've bold highlighted FIVE members of the coalition, as I will hope to shine some additional light on them.

From Wikipedia:

Re: "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville

“Groups counterprotesting included representatives from the [*]National Council of Churches,[49] Black Lives Matter,[50] Anti-Racist Action,[51] Antifa,[3] the Democratic Socialists of America,[52] the Workers World Party,[53] the Revolutionary Communist Party,[54] Redneck Revolt,[55] the Industrial Workers of the World,[56][57] the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council,[58] and Showing Up for Racial Justice.[51][59][60]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Counterprotestors

Backup link (scroll down to "CounterProtesters")
https://web.archive.org/web/20170820191647/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
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[*]National Council of Churches

By Jacob Laksin
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
2005

Since its founding in 1950, the New York City-based National Council of Churches (NCC) has remained faithful to the legacy of its predecessor, the Communist front-group known as the Federal Council of Churches, which the NCC absorbed in 1950. At one time an unabashed apostle of the Communist cause, the NCC has today recast itself as a leading representative of the so-called religious Left.

Adhering to what it has described as “liberation theology”—that is, Marxist ideology disguised as Christianity—the NCC lays claim to a membership of 36 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christian denominations, and some 50 million members in over 140,000 congregations. ...”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/nccexpandedagenasactivities.html

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And now...

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The following is from ANTIFA’s website, New York City chapter...

About us
Antifascists and Anticapitalists!

https://nycantifa.wordpress.com/about-us/
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With the red and black anarchist flag symbols they appear to be anarco-syndicalists, a combination of communist and anarchist.

Again from their website...(notice the promotion of violence in their website banner)


Antifa International

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Anarcho-syndicalism


A common Anarcho-Syndicalist flag.

In the early 20th century, anarcho-syndicalism arose as a distinct school of thought within anarchism.[78] With greater focus on the labour movement than previous forms of anarchism, syndicalism posits radical trade unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by the workers.

Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Important principles include workers' solidarity, direct action (such as general strikes and workplace recuperations), and workers' self-management. This is compatible with other branches of anarchism, and anarcho-syndicalists often subscribe to anarchist communist or collectivist anarchist economic systems.[79] Its advocates propose labour organization as a means to create the foundations of a non-hierarchical anarchist society within the current system and bring about social revolution.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100613155646/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Anarchist_schools_of_thought#Anarchist_communism

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YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star, and anarcho-syndicalist red and black, on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY

I just recently realized that YouTube has since deleted this Bill Ayers/Bill O'Reily video.

However, here's another link to it...

O'Reilly Producer Attempts interview with Bill Ayers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jUXpKOV9Ns
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Bill Ayers: "I considered myself partly an anarchist then and I consider myself partly an anarchist now. I mean, I'm as much an anarchist as I am a Marxist which is to say I find a lot of the ideas in anarchism appealing."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443241,00.html

Backup link...

https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/10/22/ayers-audio-could-detail-what-obama-knew.html

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Antifa International

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For what it's worth... (I report, you decide)

Victory night, 2008!

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Michelle Obama on the night of her husband's 2008 election victory
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"The raised fist (also known as the clenched fist) is a salute and logo most often used by left-wing activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance."

https://web.archive.org/web/20091111002409/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist

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The Revolutionary Communist Party launches its latest front group
Mission: Bring down the Trump/Pence administration (as if it actually were "fascist")

-- by ETL

The Revolutionary Communist Party, this past Feb, launched a new front group called "Refuse Fascism".

The group's organizer/spokesperson, Sunsara Taylor, has been with the Revolutionary Communist Party for over a decade.

She's been on Fox News a number of times over the years, including with Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Never once did either of them confront her with the fact of her belonging to the Revolutionary Communist Party, an organization which openly advocates the violent overthrow of the US government, or that the group she was on to represent was a front for the RCP. She of course would never come right out and say it, although she did at least once appear on Fox News wearing a Revolutionary Communist Party "Youth Brigade" t-shirt (like the one pictured below). Hannity's only response? "What's that you're wearing"?, as though neither he nor his dopey research staff had a clue. I haven't yet been able to find a screen cap of that appearance. The RCP Youth Brigade is a particularly slimy division of the RCP that targets young naive college and even high school kids, usually via some fake front group.

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In any case, in February of this year (2017) she was on Fox News again, this time discussing a "Refuse Fascism" Trump-Pence protest in New York City. Prior to my watching the video I had stated that I would have bet my last dollar that Tucker wouldn't mention the RCP, as neither Hannity nor O'Reilly did when she appeared on their shows. Well, turned out I was right. Not a friggin word about it. I don't know what sort of idiots they hire there to do the research, but they absolutely suck at it.

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Tucker Carlson WRECKS Sunsara Taylor "Don't like Trump? What are you going to do about it?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTNw0fDfWk

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Click and read this Wiki piece quick before some commie edits it...

“Sunsara Taylor is a Maoist[1] who is a leader within several different groups including the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, Refuse Fascism, World Can’t Wait, and Stop Patriarchy. She has been a vocal opponent of abortion regulation, pornography, Donald Trump, and George W. Bush.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsara_Taylor

When/if they do alter it, it's backed up here...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170815233112/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsara_Taylor

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Mission Statement

This is the plan of Refuse Fascism. Millions need to understand and act on this urgently. It provides the education and wake up call needed now.

Sign The Call
Download PDF Flier in English
Download PDF Flier in Spanish
View List of Signers
Leer en Español
Teach-In Video

https://refusefascism.org/the-call-to-action-drive-out-the-trumppence-regime/

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Contact:

Email: info@refusefascism.org
Phone: 917-407-1286
Mailing Address:
RefuseFascism.org
305 West Broadway #185 New York NY 10013
Twitter: @refusefascism
Facebook: Facebook.com/RefuseFascism
Instagram: RefuseFascism
YouTube

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Here is a link to the home page for the Revolutionary Communist Party.
There you can find a link to this latest front group, “Refuse Fascism: Drive Out The Trump-Pence Regime”, plus a whole lot more.

http://revcom.us/

Direct link here:
http://revcom.us/a/478/call-to-action-refuse-fascism-en.html

“revcom”.
Again, the “Rev” is for Revolutionary, “Com”, Communist

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RCP spokesperson, Sunsara Taylor, reading from their communist-anarchist playbook. The founder and top boss of the Revolutionary Communist Party is a nut job/moron named Bob Avakian. RCP members worship at his feet as if he were a god. It's sort of like a Jonestown thing.

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Here's a photo of the schmuck...

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Carl Dix is a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and spokesperson for "Refuse Fascism". The RCP have been around for decades. They, like Bill Ayers' Weather Underground terrorist group, stem from the radical Students For A Democratic Society (SDS). The RCP openly advocates the violent overthrow of the US government.

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Longtime RCP leader and spokesman Carl Dix being arrested yet again (my caption -ETL)

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Re: the 1992 Rodney King riots...

"During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

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Here is a link to his (Carl Dix) Twitter page, where he provides updates, and various other info on current events, in case you want to monitor their activities.

https://twitter.com/carl_dix

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You may recall the group "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime" during the GWB days (see above photos of Revolutionary Communist Party spokesperson Sunsara Taylor). I posted about them here on FR many times. Well, they (WCW) were created by the RCP as well. The full name of this latest group of theirs is actually "Refuse Fascism: Drive Out the Trump-Pence Regime".

The Revolutionary Communist Party openly calls for an armed revolution to overthrow the US government. They are also an organizer for the fake, so-called "Black Lives Matter" movement. See below.

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Who Is Doing the Community Organizing for Black Lives Matter Spectacle?

by Dave Blount, June 5, 2015 [during Obama administration]

Not many Black Lives Matter morons would have the initiative to get a poster printed. But it's no mystery where they get the signs that they jab in the air as they chant "What do we want? Dead cops!" The supplier is printed right across the bottom: revcom.us .

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'Rev' is for revolutionary.
'Com' is for communist
.

Revcom.us bills itself as "the voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA." The explicit objective is to overthrow our constitutional republic and replace it with an oligarchical collectivist dictatorship along the lines of North Korea and the Soviet Union.

Why would advocates of a communist police state agitate against the police? Because as leftists used to admit openly, the issue is never the issue.. This isn't about the police, any more than it is about blacks. It is about destabilizing the system so as to create opportunities to weaken it and eventually overthrow it.

That's what community organizing boils down to. These people have taken over the executive branch of the federal government; why would they stop there?

The next hill they take will be federal control of local police. After that, things will start to get scary.

http://moonbattery.com/?p=54033

Backup link

https://web.archive.org/web/20170820210427/http://moonbattery.com/?p=54033
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us):

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm

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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
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"The RCP upheld the 1992 sometimes-violent unrest in Los Angeles and nationally as a "rebellion" in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts.

Then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates alleged that the RCP was involved in the "riots".

Los Angeles has long been one of the RCP's larger and more active branches.

William "Mobile" Shaw was a local leader who recently passed and received public commendation from the party."

https://web.archive.org/web/20080528005530/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA
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"Refuse Fascism" ("--Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime") (founder/) organizer (RCP) had nothing but praise for this statue of mass-murderer Mao Tse-tung (back in 2008)...

RevCom.us ^
| October 19, 2008 | Li Onesto

Posted on 8/24/2017, 9:28:40 AM by ETL

Revolution #145, October 19, 2008

“Art and China’s Revolution”
at the Asia Society Museum

An Unofficial Guide to the Exhibit

by Li Onesto

Take the 68th Street subway exit on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and walk over to Park Avenue. Two blocks north, on the street divider in the middle of four lanes of heavy traffic, a 10-foot-high steel sculpture of a Mao jacket greets you. Then on the building to the right is a big banner with a drawing of Mao Tsetung surrounded by images of workers, soldiers and youth marching with red flags, Red Books and rifles. This is the outside introduction to a new exhibit at the Asia Society Museum titled: “Art and China’s Revolution.”

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In the next couple of months, tens of thousands of drivers will zoom past the huge Mao jacket, prompting many to do a double take. It will jog some people’s memories back to the ’60s when millions of people around the world, including here in the United States, looked to socialist China as a truly liberating society. For some it might bring to mind Andy Warhol’s pop-art image of Mao, which you occasionally still see on t-shirts and greeting cards.

After being bombarded by decades of being told that “communism is dead,” most people who drive or walk by will probably consider these artistic references as icons of “the failure of socialism.” But for those who actually go through the revolving glass doors of the museum and see the exhibit, this can be an opportunity to examine and think more about what Mao and the Cultural Revolution and socialism are really all about—and to look at, and reconsider, the “accepted wisdom” on the effect this historic struggle had on art and artists; and in turn, the role art and artists played in this historic struggle. ..."

Much more at link below.

http://revcom.us/a/145/art_revolution_china-en.html

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Same organization (RevCom.us) put out this regarding the recent controversies...

Keep in mind as you're reading that Mao Zedong murdered many millions more people than did the National Socialist/Nazi Hitler regime, by a factor of at least three.

Take Down the Confederate Monuments—and Shut Down the White-Supremacist Fascists!

May 17, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

Around 100 racists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the night of Saturday, May 13. They railed against the city’s plans to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee—who led a war to defend and expand the enslavement of Black people—from a public park. The crowd carried torches that evoked a KKK lynch mob, and chanted “We [white people] will not be replaced” and “Blood and Soil” (a slogan from the Nazi German regime that carried out the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews and millions of other people in the mid-20th century). ..."

http://revcom.us/a/491/take-down-the-confederate-monuments-en.html

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Another major player in the recent protests is the group, "Redneck Revolt"...

Quite a sophisticated website they have. Membership groups across the country.

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Anyway, after a few minutes digging around their website I found this...

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https://www.redneckrevolt.org/principles

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Redneck Revolt: armed leftists confront White Nationalists in Charlottesville

August 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The armed far right and far left agree on tactics of intolerance

 By Nate Thayer

August 18, 2017

“Let’s put the RED back in redneck,” is the slogan of Redneck Revolt, a rapidly expanding nationwide network of gun-toting leftists who confront White Nationalists at public demonstrations.

“The Left is getting armed again and I am honored to be a part of that,” said Mitchell Lewis of the Silver Valley chapter of Redneck Revolt in Davidson County, North Carolina who was in Charlottesville, Virginia carrying an AR-15 rifle against White Nationalist protestors.

At least five chapters of Redneck Revolt, heavily armed with AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and other weapons, were at the “Unite the Right” demonstration last weekend in Charlottesville.

Armed Redneck Revolt members in Charlottesville, VA at the ‘Unite the Right’ White Nationalist protest August 12. Second from right is Mitchell Lewis of the Silver Valley, North Carolina chapter of Redneck Revolt. Photo Edu Bayer/NYT

source:

http://www.nate-thayer.com/redneck-revolt-armed-leftists-confront-white-nationalists-in-charlottesville/

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24 posted on 08/28/2017 2:26:32 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: VideoDoctor
Joe Biden EMBOLDENS stupid people.

Many of whom, are self loathing stupid people. 😀🇵🇭

25 posted on 08/28/2017 2:30:00 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: VideoDoctor
Joe Biden EMBOLDENS stupid people.

More to the point, Joe Biden *EMBOLDENS REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST-ANARCHISTS WHO CALL FOR THE ARMED OVERTHROW OF THE US GOVERNMENT*.

26 posted on 08/28/2017 2:38:14 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Olog-hai
Biden wrote: “Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate.”







27 posted on 08/28/2017 2:52:50 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BigEdLB

Joe was wasted when he made that video.


28 posted on 08/28/2017 2:53:23 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

That only adds to the point that Joe isn’t wrapped too tight. That he’s out in left field somewhere.


29 posted on 08/28/2017 2:55:36 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: All; Olog-hai
Here’s some background on Joe Biden’s career as a senator, from David Horowitz’s DiscoverTheNetworks/FrontPageMag.com...

(there’s lots more at the link)


“Shortly after he was first elected to the Senate, Biden voted against funding to help the South Vietnamese government stave off its North Vietnamese Communist invaders. This vote, which was in line with the votes of most in Congress’ new Democrat majority, paved the way for the ultimate fall of Saigon (in April 1975) and the subsequent mass slaughter of Indochinese peasants.

Biden became a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January 1975, and of the Senate Judiciary Committee two years later.

On June 17, 1977, Biden married schoolteacher Jill Tracy Jacobs.

In 1979 Senator Biden shared President Jimmy Carter’s belief that the fall of the Shah in Iran and the advent of Ayatollah Khomeini’s rule represented progress for human rights in that country. Throughout the ensuing 444-day hostage crisis, during which Khomeini’s extremist acolytes routinely paraded the blindfolded American captives in front of television cameras and threatened them with execution, Biden opposed strong action against the mullahs and called for dialogue.

Throughout the 1980s, Biden opposed President Ronald Reagan’s proactive means of dealing with the Soviet Union. Biden instead favored détente — which, in practice, meant Western subsidies that would have enabled the moribund USSR to remain solvent much longer than it ultimately did. He also opposed Reagan’s effort to fund the Contras, an anti-Communist rebel group in Nicaragua.

Biden was a leading critic of the Reagan defense buildup, specifically vis a vis the MX missile, the B-l bomber, and the Trident submarine. He criticized Reagan for his “continued adherence” to the goal of developing a missile defense system known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, calling the President’s insistence on the measure “one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.”

Biden first ran for U.S. President in 1987. He was considered a strong contender for the Democratic Party’s nomination, but in April of that year controversy descended on Biden’s campaign when he told several lies about his academic record in law school.

In an April 3, 1987 appearance on C-SPAN, a questioner asked Biden about his law school grades. In response, an angry Biden looked at his questioner and said, “I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do.”

He then stated that he had gone “to law school on a full academic scholarship — the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship”; that he had “ended up in the top half” of his law school class; and that he had “graduated with three degrees from college.”

But each of those claims proved to be untrue. In reality, Biden had: (a) earned only two college degrees — in history and political science — at the University of Delaware in Newark, where he graduated only 506th in a class of 688; (b) attended law school on a half scholarship that was based on financial need; and (c) eventually graduated 76th in a law-school class of 85. “I exaggerate when I’m angry,” Biden would later concede, “but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.”

Then, in August 1987 Biden plagiarized a portion of a speech made by British politician Neil Kinnock. Before long, revelations surfaced that Biden also had plagiarized extensive portions of an article in law school and consequently had received a grade of “F” for the course. (He eventually was permitted to retake the course, and the failure was removed from his transcript.)

As a result of these embarrassing examples of dishonesty, Biden withdrew from the presidential campaign on September 23, 1987 and resumed his duties as a U.S. Senator.

Following is an overview of Biden’s policy positions and his voting record on key pieces of legislation during his years in the Senate.

Education

Senator Biden received a 91 percent rating from the National Education Association (NEA), indicating that more than nine-tenths of his votes were satisfactory to America’s largest labor union, which has contributed massive sums of money to Democratic Party candidates. Like the NEA, Biden opposes merit pay for teachers and a voucher system that would permit parents to redirect a portion of their tax dollars away from the public schools and toward private-school tuition for their children. He voted “No” on a voucher proposal in 1997.

Environment

Biden believes that global warming is caused by industrial and automotive pollution, and that broad and immediate action must be taken to curb its effects. In 2007 he co-sponsored the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, perhaps the most stringent climate bill in the history of the Senate. Labeling the U.S. as the world’s “largest emitter of greenhouse gases,” the bill sought to implement a cap-and-trade system requiring the U.S. to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Biden also has called for the raising of fuel-economy standards for automobiles to an average of 40 miles per gallon by 2017.

During a September 2008 vice presidential debate against his Republican opponent Sarah Palin, Biden said: “I think it [climate change] is manmade. It’s clearly manmade. If you don’t understand what the cause is, you cannot come up with a solution.”

Missile Defense

On July 31, 2007, Biden said:

“In 2001, Bush’s new foreign affairs team were so intent on going ahead with Reagan’s Star Wars missile defense shield that they were willing to pull out of earlier arms control treaties to get there, inviting, in my view, another arms race. The missile defense system seemed to be the perfect metaphor for the neoisolationist policy. Let’s arm the heavens, they were saying, and protect the US, the rest of the world be damned.

The [Bush] administration had said they were willing to walk away from the decades-old ABM Treaty in order to unilaterally develop and deploy the missile defense system, and now they were putting real money behind it. They were willing to put tens of billions of dollars into the Maginot line in the sky that could quite likely set off another arms race, while cutting funding for a program to help Russia destroy its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons before they got into the hands of terrorists.”

On December 13, 2007, Biden said:

“[We should] cut somewhere in the order of $20 billion a year out of the military for special programs, from Star Wars, to a new atomic weapon, to the F-22, to the Nimitz-Class Destroyer. You can save $350 billion. That would allow me to do everything I want to do — my priorities on education, health care and the environment — and still bring down the deficit by $150 billion.”

In 2008, Pete Wehner wrote in the Wall Street Journal:

“Throughout his career, Mr. Biden has consistently opposed modernization of our strategic nuclear forces. He was a fierce opponent of Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.

Mr. Biden voted against funding SDI, saying [as noted above], ‘The president’s continued adherence to [SDI] constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.’

Mr. Biden has remained a consistent critic of missile defense and even opposed the U.S. dropping out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty after the collapse of the Soviet Union (which was the co-signatory to the ABM Treaty) and the end of the Cold War.”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2342

30 posted on 08/28/2017 3:07:15 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Olog-hai
He said Trump has “emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support.” …

Biden is a white supremacist because he supports abortion.

In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost 4 times that of white women.

Biden is providing more than comfort and support; he supports funding of racist abortion clinics.

31 posted on 08/28/2017 3:13:04 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Olog-hai
Well, Joe, do you think Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, and so many more on your side of the aisle are not fanning the flames of racism and emboldening Antifa, BLM, and others with their comments? Didn't we just have a shooting in Washington by a leftist who specifically targeted Republicans - and almost took the life of Congressman Scalise?
32 posted on 08/28/2017 3:24:27 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Olog-hai

Is this the “Taliban are our friends” Biden?


33 posted on 08/28/2017 3:30:37 AM PDT by piasa
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To: genghis
......this doesnt make the top 100 things crazy joe has ever said....or did....

"Dam, cant even feel my own knee....gotta cut down on the vodka."

34 posted on 08/28/2017 3:56:47 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: Olog-hai

Why make such an asinine statement Biden? It does nothing but further divide an already hostile nation. As a former vice president he should be working to calm the nerves and bring people together.


35 posted on 08/28/2017 4:10:00 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Olog-hai

Biden has emboldened idiots, morons and imbeciles.


36 posted on 08/28/2017 4:17:06 AM PDT by euram
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To: Dilbert San Diego

0bama has embolden perverts, illegals and black extremists


37 posted on 08/28/2017 4:18:03 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Olog-hai

Biden was


38 posted on 08/28/2017 4:24:59 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Olog-hai
Republicans are White Supremest Racists. Who knew?
39 posted on 08/28/2017 4:31:39 AM PDT by bray
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like old Joe is A-OK with the Antifa crowd. What a shock, eh?


40 posted on 08/28/2017 4:41:09 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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