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In reply to the discussion: I wish Biden would not go to Inauguration. [View all]
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,465 posts)45. President Biden is a class act
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Meiselas: You’re going to be at the inauguration?
Biden: Of course I am. The only president ever to avoid an inauguration is the guy about to be inaugurated.
Meiselas: He obviously did not make the transition easy for you—that would be putting it as delicately as I can. You’ve made the transition smooth. You’ve invited him to the White House. How do you square that with his rhetoric, what he’s done, what he’s threatened? To invite him here, sit with him in the Oval [Office], smile—how do you do that, and why?
Biden: Because it’s who we are as a nation. It’s how we’re supposed to be…
Biden: Of course I am. The only president ever to avoid an inauguration is the guy about to be inaugurated.
Meiselas: He obviously did not make the transition easy for you—that would be putting it as delicately as I can. You’ve made the transition smooth. You’ve invited him to the White House. How do you square that with his rhetoric, what he’s done, what he’s threatened? To invite him here, sit with him in the Oval [Office], smile—how do you do that, and why?
Biden: Because it’s who we are as a nation. It’s how we’re supposed to be…
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Biden should refuse to leave. Trump will put the entire world in danger. call it an official act, apparently the SC is
Meadowoak
Dec 2024
#51
Please stop saying that shit. Stop conceding. That's what they want. Fuck them.
themaguffin
Dec 2024
#7
I wonder if the Dems can figure out a list of people in jail that tRump hates and give them
Maraya1969
Dec 2024
#49
We have to make a show of civility during the peaceful transition to fascist dictatorship.
Crunchy Frog
Dec 2024
#32
Biden will do what Trump was not man enough to do:::: attend his successor's inauguration.
keithbvadu2
Dec 2024
#44