Mr Biden’s speech is his first major campaign event of the 2024 election season

Mr Biden’s speech is his first major campaign event of the 2024 election season

President Joe Biden marked the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol by warning that the issue of American democracy will be “what the 2024 election is all about,” as he runs against former president Donald Trump once more.

Mr Biden, who spoke near the Valley Forge historical site where George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped during the winter of 1777 and 1778, told attendees that they were there “to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause?”

“This isn’t rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time,” he said.

Mr Biden said his speech, his first major event of the 2024 election season, was “deadly serious,” and about a topic that needed to be raised at the outset of his campaign.

  • Diva (she/her)
    28·
    11 months ago

    I don’t really need to do anything beyond the cadre work I’m already doing lol. Our government doesn’t need my help to collapse to infighting. Why would I need to do anything when our own politicians are already going down the most self-destructive path I could possibly envision, short of literally starting a nuclear war?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      21·
      11 months ago

      The why would be because you aren’t a narcissist and care about other people’s lives.

      I’m not so sure you’re not a narcissist.

      • Diva (she/her)
        23·
        11 months ago

        Are you just trying to insult me or was there a point buried somewhere in there?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          21·
          11 months ago

          You’re the one implying you’ll enjoy seeing mass deaths. That’s what the total collapse you’re gleefully hoping for will result in.

          • Diva (she/her)
            22·
            11 months ago

            Where did I imply that? The US is a world historic evil, its end would be a mercy for the rest of the world. I certainly don’t want a nuclear war.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              11·
              11 months ago

              Right here:

              My plan is we elect Joe Biden, he provokes world war 3 while maintaining a peacetime economy, the economy collapses, biden loses to trump (who then dies of Ozempic side effects) and a civil war is fought by patriots attempting to get his running mate George Santos into the white house. The survivors get to fight in the water wars 20 years later.

              Or is this a magical World War 3 with fairies and unicorns where no one dies?

              • Diva (she/her)
                22·
                11 months ago

                you cannot be so obtuse that you’ve never heard of gallows humor

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  11 months ago

                  I’m not seeing the humor. I guess you accusing me of supporting Palestinian genocide was another example of that sort of humor?

                  • Diva (she/her)
                    22·
                    11 months ago

                    gallows humor isn’t meant for the executioners to relate to