BIDEN STATEMENT, just released, on the impeachment vote

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

[mcar]

1. Kick

[Iliyah]

2. K & R . . .

As the United States of America.

[sfstaxprep]

3. Joe Biden Thinks We're Still A Democracy & Republic

I've got a news flash for him.

[Timewas]

5. Totally

Complete and total loss, the entire political process in this country has become an unfunny joke. A complete and utter failure.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Agree with this and the one you responded to. We are, sadly, in a very different time

and a very dangerous one

[NameAlreadyTaken]

4. We'll never be united.

That's a pipe dream that needs to be woken up from.

[Progressive Jones]

24. To be honest, there are people here I have no desire to be united with. Sad, isn't it?

That's how it is now. I don't want certain people in this nation having anything to do with our government,
or making public policy in any way. I see them as enemies of the United States.

They're an existential threat to democracy.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

32. Totally agree with that

[BootinUp]

6. Thank you, Mr. President. nt

[BannonsLiver]

8. Wow people in the thread already turning on Biden

It’s been a hot minute I guess.

[choie]

9. Just because one disagrees with Biden's tatement

and belief in "unity"with traitors doesn't mean one is turning on him.

[tiredtoo]

18. Ditto EOM

[Blue_true]

23. Sometimes the only way to move ahead to a brighter future is to turn the other cheek.

It doesn’t lead to a perfect country or world, but the alternative is worse.

Sometimes when I think about the confederates in the Civil War, my more base impulse is to wish that Lincoln or Union Generals had hung every rebel leader and military officer, as well as sympathizers. There would have been lots of blood, but I am not sure that killing that many people would have led to a better country.

I am an African American, born and raised southerner. I was too young to remember separate drinking fountains, but the schools in my state did not integrate until something like 1971 and only after a federal Judge had given the state an ultimatum, and even then officials dragged their feet. So I have a sense of what White recalcitrance looks like and believe me, the Capitol riot on Jan 6 was White recalcitrance to change personified. But I also know that a young Black woman is one of the lead architects of one of the vaccines that are in use here and worldwide. I know that I have no resistance to my business and that the business of a business owning brother relies almost exclusively on White customers for profitability. So our past has had a lot of darkness in it, but I believe that there are somethings from that past that we can correct, but there comes a point when we must look to the future and hold people accountable for anti-social acts. I believe that President Biden realizes that we will survive our future only if we are united, so he seems to be spending calories to make that happen, and I believe that is a worthwhile goal.

[NJCher]

25. All good points, blue_true

Did people notice that this statement is the opposite of what trump would do?

It’s all about others. It is not all about the person writing it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. I believe President Joe Biden is the right man in the right place ...

But I remember that while Martin Luther King, Jr was leading peaceful protests to awaken the nation to injustice and hypocrisy, Malcom X, the Black Panthers, and the Deacons for Defense and Justice were showing some evil bastards the alternative to peaceful change.

In order to have a good garden, you have to deal with invasive weeds. We need to use lawful measures to deal with the weeds before the garden is lost.

Unity is a goal. It's not a means.

[StarfishSaver]

21. Yup

[Bettie]

22. No one is turning on him

just some of us see different things in this than he does.

I'll wait and see how he feels when they begin blocking everything with the filibuster.

Because they will. And, since Manchin and Sinema have indicated that they are entirely supportive of that behavior they know that there is no downside to doing it.

What we learned today is that there are no rules, no laws, no curbs on Republican behavior. They can literally do anything they want to in a consequence-free environment.

[NJCher]

26. Right now yes

Right now is not forever.

[Joinfortmill]

11. Love Joe

[niyad]

12. KNR

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. K&R

[peggysue2]

14. Bravo, President Biden!

For telling the truth about Donald Trump's responsibility and continuing to lift the spirits of a weary Nation. This is a task we must undertake together--shoulder-to-shoulder--with men and women of good will and a faith that things can and will get better.

Removing Donald Trump was Step 1. Now the real work begins.

[Wounded Bear]

15. K&R...nt

[MontanaMama]

16. THAT is our President.

[tiredtoo]

17. Until I hear similar words from the republiQans

I plan on doing everything legal to eliminate them from political office. Not time to be nice yet, maybe never.

[lastlib]

33. I do NOT play nice with fascists. Ever. Period.

Until they are obliterated from our land, I will be an enemy to the party that tolerates them.

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. Easier said that done, I fear. But it MUST be done.

The world cannot abide an America ruled by a capricious, corrupt madman. It would fall apart.

[Hulk]

20. Don't turn on fox if you want to hope for unity in the land.

I torture myself by turning in to such defiantly destructive and divisive voices as ingraham, vannity, carlson, gutfield, watters, faulkner...and a slew of lesser personalities on that disgusting network. Their mission is to tear down and mock everything President Biden and his administration attempt to do in order to heal this country. They spew hatred and fear, and they want their cult remnants and hateful audience of lemmings to see AOC and the other progressive Democrats as threats to "their amuriKKKa". It's just sad that they are allowed to spew such misinformation and hatred, but they hide behind the First Amendment, Freedom of hate Speech.

This country will linger in pain and be divided so long as these deplorable propagandists are permitted to spew their propaganda to the ignorant and frightened ears.

[pazzyanne]

29. Kudos to you for checking out Fox!

I have tried on many occasions, but do not have the fortitude to last more than a few seconds. 3 seconds into my excursion in and I am

[Hekate]

27. Thank you, Mr President

❤️

[pazzyanne]

28. I love our new president!!!

Joe was available to be the president as the most important time in our nation's history! He has the skills, and more importantly, the heart to lead this nation out of the darkness and evil of the past 4 years. He has chosen talented and experienced people to help him. He respects scientists and other experts. AND, I will love him forever for choosing Kamala Harris as his VP!!!

[Bayard]

30. Every day

I think about what would have happened to us if Biden had lost.....

[Qutzupalotl]

34. and not the Unites States.