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Posted on 11/02/2022 7:30:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Joe Biden wanted to give a stirring speech to rouse Americans to angry purpose about the threats to democracy represented by “election deniers” running for office across the country. He was, according to CNN’s reporting, spurred to action by the horrible attack last week on the husband of the speaker of the House, which Biden believes is a direct result of Donald Trump’s effect on the United States over the past seven years.
So … that’s what he wanted. But, as the great philosopher Mick Jagger once said, you can’t always get what you want.
The address he delivered Wednesday night wasn’t a forceful speech. It was a forceless speech. Biden didn’t appeal passionately to the better angels of our nature because there was no energy behind his words.
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Keep him away from any hammers.
He’s back in Delaware by now. Where he belongs.
Delaware State?
Did anyone watch? I distinctly recall him saying he was a “uniter” when he was installed in office. That lasted 5 minutes, continued on until present day. Even made a threatening Dark Brandon speech a couple months ago, trying to intimidate and ostracize half the county, that would have made Mussolini blush.
Biden has never been able to deliver a stirring speech, slurring perhaps.
Oh well, I was busy tonight anyways re-arranging my bookshelves.
He’ll be looking for someone to try the hammer fetish with.
Do they still have that dog?
Donald Trump caused Paul Pelosi to go gay and start picking up whacked-out Castro District rentboys?
I was busy rearranging my tool box.
Too many hammers.
😂😂
Joelogic.
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Of course, the article contained the requisite hits on Trump while explaining why FJB’s “speech” fell flat.
Still, I learned something. The author called FjB’s speech a “Ciceronian jerimiad”. What the heck is that?
From: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-jeremiad-1691203
A jeremiad is a speech or literary work expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom. Adjective: jeremiadic.
Pronunciation: jer-eh-MY-ad
The term is derived from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, author of the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Lamentations. The Book of Jeremiah details the prophesied downfall of the Kingdom of Judah as a consequence of breaking the covenant with God. Historically, the kingdom did fall to Babylon between 589 and 586 BCE, and the Book of Lamentations mourns the fall and what it describes as the reasons for it.
Jeremiads are not solely tied to religion, although they often are. For instance, Puritans favored this writing style. African-American rhetoric also developed an offshoot of the jeremiad to express the need for reform. In contemporary writing, it’s typically a negative term applied to writing that is overly moralistic and pessimistic.
Wow.
Not a billboard from around my area.
What would have happened if his audience went wild over his charismatic presence and stirring speech and started breaking house and store windows and pulling Republicans out of cars to beat them to death on the street? (As after the election if they lose.)
He wishes they would at least stay awake.
We have a couple here in Phoenix at heavily travelled portions of the interstates (I-10 & I17). Report is that there is at least one in Atlanta GA on I-85.
Constitutional Republic.
But if you try, sometimes, you get what you need.
Thanks for the billboard post.
The great essay in 2017:
The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.
Kurt Schlichter
Feb 06, 2017
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