In prime-time address, Biden warns of election-year rhetoric, saying 'it's time to cool it down'

Democrats two days ago, and three days ago, and last month, and last year, and every day for the past 8 years:

"Trump is a Nazi! He'll be worse than Hitler! He's a threat to democracy! His supporters are dangerous ideologues! We have to stop him! We can't let him become president again!"

Democrats since yesterday:

"Geez, we're glad he's okay. But you Trump supporters need to tone down your rhetoric."

“Joe Biden just gave an Oval Office address in which…

He called Trump “Former Trump”

Compared the assassination attempt to January 6th and the FBI-involved kidnapping plot against Gretchen Whitmer

Told people to go to the “battle box” instead of the ballot box”

 political passions can run high but “we must never descend into violence.” 

I fully agree, but when Trump ramps the passion up as far as he can, in a country like the US, with so many guns, violence unfortunately can happen. Will the Secret Service do weapons checks before Trump rallies, or will Trump say let hem bring their guns and will Trump's supporters bring weapons to the next rallies hoping to be a 'good guy with a gun' because they don't trust the police to do their job.

The polarization in the US today is largely Trump's creation:

https://pt.icct.nl/sites/default/files/import/pdf/nacos-et-al.pdf

“Violence has never been the answer, whether it's a violent mob attacking the Capitol on January 6, or a brutal attack on the spouse of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or intimidation of election officials, or the kidnapping plot against a sitting governor, or the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.”

all the stuff my team wants to incessantly complain about first and then oh yeah, whatever happened to Trump too, let’s move on now!

To be honest, I was alarmed -- but not quite "shocked" -- that an attempt was made on President Trump's life.

After all, eight years of a constant stream of the most vile, disgusting, invective vitriol ever hurled at an American politician was (let's face it) bound to incite & fuel an assassination attempt against him sooner or later.

That's why, sorry not sorry, these calls from Biden and the left to "tone down the rhetoric" seem so hollow.

I do want to believe that Biden's calls for toning-down are sincere. But after eight years of everything from Trump being called Hitler to two-big "celebrities" holding images of his severed head ... again, Biden's words now seem to be just that.

Just words.

Empty, virtue-signaling words.

Biden now:

"It's time to cool the rhetoric down."

Biden only two weeks ago:

"Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. That is not hyperbole. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He is literally a threat to the America that we stand for."

And that's one of the milder things that the Left has said about Trump.

So I just find it so hollow and empty that the Left is calling for "cooling down" now, after more than eight years of the most disgusting, vitriolic, and even potentially violence-inciting rhetoric against Trump that one can imagine.

Until yesterday, I was actually 50/50 on whether to vote for Trump or not.

As of yesterday, though, he definitely gets my vote.

That the chaos that is US politics, continues to spill out over the whole world, is a black mark for true democracy everywhere.

The shooting was shocking - politicians should be able to publicly express their views without fear of death - and tragically an innocent man was killed.

Those blaming anti-Trump rhetoric as the cause of the incident are way too short-sighted in their blinkered analogies. The mocking, defiling, disparaging sensationalist propaganda spewing from the other side is no less hateful.

All are signs of a broken system. A system that has been in decline for decades. rusting in it's own belt of decay, that no-one was willing to take steps to reform for fear of being seen by the crowds as "Anti." Anti- Left, Anti-Right, Anti-Good, Anti-Business, Anti-Christ, Anti-Peace, Anti-Freedom, Anti-Poor, Anti-Rich..........Anti-Everything!

That it could come to this - preached to the world as the Great Land of the Free for decades - falls upon all US citizens to acknowledge the calamitous rabbit hole spiral downwards and seek reason, trust and compromise as a means to escape.

Prayers, Martyrs, Guns, Belligerence, False hopes et al won't cut it.

Biden on X (formerly Twitter), June 28:

"Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for."

Cool down the rhetoric, eh?

Left: Trump is literally Hitler, we need to eliminate him. Put him in the Bullseye. Threat to our country. Existential threat to democracy. Evil. Extreme MAGA. MAGA extremists.

Calling it for what it is (except for the "literally Hitler" line, which Biden has not said). It's not made-up phony baloney like Trump does.

No presidential candidate has every had such divisive and incendiary rhetoric as Donald Trump. Here's a sample from the moments before he was shot in the ear. This kind of stuff is CONSTANT from this clown:

*And we got to bring our country back to health, because our country is going to hell, if you haven't noticed. Millions and millions of people are pouring in from prisons and from mental institutions. We're going to stop it. We're going to get it stopped. We're going to bring them back, as he said. We're going to bring them back.*

*We're going to defeat Crooked Joe Biden and laughing Kamala Harris.*

*I tell you what, we did fantastically in 2016. We did much better in 2020. You know we did much better, and it was rigged. It was a rigged deal.*

*We're going to make it... And it's not easy because we have *millions and millions of people in our country that shouldn't be here, dangerous people.

"Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for."

That's not incendiary. It's true. He tried to overturn the 2020 election results.

Trump: hardly even speaks for 11 days, returns after not being imprisoned as Dems had scheduled, gets shot.

first the shooter was a registered republican, No matter how hard Maga try to blame democrats, 8yrs of Trump lies , insinuating violence against those that dont agree with him , even in his own party.

Trump was hiding for 10 days from the effects of project 2025, a fascist manifesto which mentions Trumpism over 300 times, 140 of the people involved in it worked for Trump or have dealings with him. Even the leader stated that their agenda will remain bloodless if the left choose too.

As for toning down lets see if Trump leads by example, do you think hell stop attacking people calling them names , laughing at their misfortune. yeah unlikely. If he refuses then why should the dems stop calling him out. If the roles were reversed do you think Trump would disown the violence, unlikely he embraces it. just like he laughed at Pelosis attempted murder

As of yesterday, though, he definitely gets my vote.

Why? Because he got his ear shot?

“It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye”. Biden will never live this down.

The left: well all our inciteful violent rhetoric is “true”. Don’t blame us!

while butwhaddabout everything Trump says that is also true is “violent rhetoric”

never gonna change, are you?

guess we need to humiliate and defeat Biden (and you) at the “battle” box that Joe so eloquently spoke of.

Biden on X (formerly Twitter), June 28:

*"Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for."*

Cool down the rhetoric, eh?

Disgusting, isnt it.

first the shooter was a registered republican,

I am a registered Democrat. Means nothing.

you just saw the tens of thousands of Democrats who disingenuously registered as Republicans to meddle in the Republican primaries didn’t you?

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio):

"The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination."

Sen. Tim Scott R-South Carolina):

"This was an assassination attempt aided and abetted by the radical Left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat to democracy, fascists, or worse.”

you just saw the tens of thousands of Democrats who disingenuously registered as Republicans to meddle in the Republican primaries didn’t you?

You pretend as if all Republicans actually like Trump, some people aren't so soft they bend their views like Nikki Haley or Rubio

i hate to admit it, but we all know that the election is over already after yesterday incident. Nothing can stop Trump for being the POTUS now

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:

“President Biden himself said in recent days, ‘It’s time to put a bulls' eye on Trump.’ I know he didn’t mean what is being implied there, but that kind of language on either side should be called out."

Joe Biden’s own wife just called Trump “evil” within the last week.

Trump got shot he has every right to be angry if he chooses. It appears so far he will take this opportunity to promote peace and unity instead.

let’s see if Joe can tone down the violent rhetoric from his own mouth and in his own home before even considering he can control his voters and his party.

And just stating the obvious, even after what happened Trump is still going to have support for guns, only in America a kid fresh out of high school is thinking to do something that deadly and crazy

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio):

"The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination."

Ironic.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-once-thought-trump-could-become-americas-hitler-2022-4

*“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a*hole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?” Vance writes in the message.

“We can do this,” Biden pleaded, saying the nation was founded on a democracy that gave reason and balance a chance to prevail over brute force. “American democracy — where arguments are made in good faith. American democracy — where the rule of law is respected. Where decency, dignity, fair play aren’t just quaint notions, they’re living, breathing realities.”

I have disagreed with Biden policy wise but this is some classic American idealism.

Far different from Trump's America as hellhole rhetoric.

@Blacklabel

He would out of respect of what happened but all stuff said last week was because everyone knows project 2025 is Trumps thing no matter how much he denies it. And there is still people in this world that want to support it because it doesn't affect them negatively

By the way, after George Floyd died, massive and destructive riots broke out immediately in cities all over America, and soon in other countries.

After the attempt on Trump's life ... there hasn't been a single "MAGA riot" anywhere.

Just my two cents with regard to which side of the ideological aisle needs to work more on their "cooling down" skills.

You pretend as if all Republicans actually like Trump, some people aren't so soft they bend their views like Nikki Haley or Rubio

no, registered Democrats changed their registrations on Election Day to vote in Republican primaries then changed them back to vote Democrat in November.

To the crowd chanting in mantra mode that "the shooter was a Republican":

First, he donated money to an undeniably Democrat political effort called the “Progressive Turnout Project.”

Second, his home state of Pennsylvania doesn't have open primaries. That means you have to be a registered Republican to vote in Republican primaries there.

And many Democrats in Pennsylvania actually registered as Republicans this past primary season -- so that they could vote against Trump in the primary.

Facts matter. They really do.

, registered Democrats changed their registrations on Election Day to vote in Republican primaries then changed them back to vote Democrat in November.

and vice versa, Trump was a registered democrat prior to 2015 he also donated to democrat candidates.

people change their affiliations for better or worse

I fully agree, but when Trump ramps the passion up as far as he can,

The Dems are good at that as well.

in a country like the US, with so many guns, violence unfortunately can happen.

So who got shot? How many conservatives got their guns and went after liberals to hunt them down?

Will the Secret Service do weapons checks before Trump rallies, or will Trump say let hem bring their guns and will Trump's supporters bring weapons to the next rallies hoping to be a 'good guy with a gun' because they don't trust the police to do their job.

Trump has nothing to do with it, but Cheatle does. Let me see….

She wants to focus on Diversity Hires and a “Goal” of 30% of agents to be women by 2030.

If they perform like they did yesterday, expect People to be killed. DEI is going to injure or kill a lot of people.

Joe Biden’s own wife just called Trump “evil” 

Trump called Pelosi a sick puppy , psycho on multiple occasions.

please spare me the maga fake outrage. what goes around comes around.

The attempt on Trump's life was not made due to Democrats' rhetoric. The shooter was a young Republican.

By the way, after George Floyd died, massive and destructive riots broke out immediately in cities all over America, and soon in other countries.

George Floyd was killed by a policeman, an agent of the state, using a murderous level force against him in a way which is all too common to racial minorities (in particular) in the US. All George Floyd did was have a fake banknote. Its probably the most minor case of fraud in the entire country and he was executed for it.

If it comes out the Trump's shooter was an agent of the state, then I would imagine there will be riots and it will serve the state right.

and vice versa, Trump was a registered democrat prior to 2015 he also donated to democrat candidates.

But he wasn’t trying to change the outcome of an election, he just realized at the time that his worldview and social policies don’t align with the Democrats

people change their affiliations for better or worse

Yeah, but it’s highly suspicious when you donate heavily to one party and their surrogates.

Trump called Pelosi a sick puppy , psycho on multiple occasions.

Yes, because she impeached him twice, pushed to not fund the wall and not allow the police to quell the summer riots of 2020. So yes, he did with more than a dozen valid reasons

people change their affiliations for better or worse

so it does mean noting that the shooter was a “registered” Republican, thanks.

Oh and did Pelosi get shot?

Trump did.

Trump got shot he has every right to be angry if he chooses. It appears so far he will take this opportunity to promote peace and unity instead.

ok let make a friendly bet, which candidate starts attacking their opponents first.

Biden has disowned the violence from day 1. Lets see if Trump can bring unity, LOL ah sorry

people change their affiliations for better or worse

so it does mean notHing that the shooter was a “registered” Republican thanks. 

But he did donate money to progressive Democrats, seems that’s a more accurate reflection of a viewpoint.

Biden has disowned the violence from day 1. Lets see if Trump can bring unity, LOL ah sorry

Uh-huh…go on other social media outlets and read what people think about that.

Former Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, recently declared on MSNBC that Trump is more dangerous than Hitler and Mussolini.

And she's not even CLOSE to being the only one on the Left pushing this message.

Numerous assassination attempts were made on Hitler and Mussolini. If any of those attempts had succeeded, the assassin would be regarded as a hero today.

So if Trump is cast as being worse than them ... well, whether intended or not, the message is being sent that violence against him would be justified. If not even heroic.

Meanwhile, the "MAGA crowd" hasn't started one riot or even so much as set one building on fire in response to the attempt on Trump's life.

Tells us which side really needs to cool things down.

"Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for."

I'll wait for you on the right to find the violent threat in Biden's words- while you ignore the fact that the shooter was a conservative. Added to that, why don't you take responsibility for the torrent of inflammatory statements trump and his minions make on a daily basis? Disingenuous drivel.

As of yesterday, though, he definitely gets my vote.

say maga daily, face it independents arent going to suddenly change their minds about Trump, its gone far past that. cant win elections without them and no Trump doesnt have their support. 4 months is an eternity in politics

By the way, after George Floyd died, massive and destructive riots broke out immediately in cities all over America, and soon in other countries.

After the attempt on Trump's life ... there hasn't been a single "MAGA riot" anywhere.

Trump is alive, George Floyd is not. Trump also gives threats of violence often, I could understand better if Trump didn't say half the violent stuff he does say but he's being docile for now but later we will see how he reacts when he loses again this time

Biden has disowned the violence from day 1.

has he though?

hint: he has not.

will he now? Unlikely cause he has nothing else to get re-elected with except the violence and the rhetoric.

you notice he didn’t take any ownership in his speech and just rattled off all the common left victimhood cases and then oh yeah, Trump’s assassination attempt at the very end.

he never says, we need to tone it down- and I will. We need to lower the temperature- starting with ME.

Zero ownership or commitment.

say maga daily, face it independents arent going to suddenly change their minds about Trump, its gone far past that. cant win elections without them and no Trump doesnt have their support. 4 months is an eternity in politics

Yeah, uh…about that….

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-election-polls-independents-1916364

Oh and did Pelosi get shot?

Nancy wasnt home, her husband was , a Trump crazy used a hammer on Pelosi husbands head, fracturing his skull, the police were luckily there to stop him from swinging twice. he the lunatic was charged with attempted murder. You make it sound like being killed by a bullet is worse than being killed by a hammer.

so it does mean noting that the shooter was a “registered” Republican, thanks.

no it means his affiliation at the time of his crime was republican. None of his prior history shows he was some crazed far left lunatic. which is what maga is insinuating. Maga just can understand that it not just liberals that dislike Trump

Yeah, but it’s highly suspicious when you donate heavily to one party and their surrogates

who donated heavily the shooter?, $15 donation at 17yrs old is hardly suspicious, cant even vote at that age.

fact remains the shooter wasnt a left wing nutjob, if anything he leans right. funny how the majority of lone wolfs are republicans or right leaning

Nancy wasnt home, her husband was , a Trump crazy used a hammer on Pelosi husbands head, fracturing his skull, the police were luckily there to stop him from swinging twice. he the lunatic was charged with attempted murder. You make it sound like being killed by a bullet is worse than being killed by a hammer.

Never experienced neither.

no it means his affiliation at the time of his crime was republican.

But he was a heavy Dem voter to some of the most radical leftist organizations ActBlue, you kidding me? Daily Kos, just to name a few. NO real conservative will even think of being in the same room with people that that and I have been a conservative all my life, I’ve known people that were center right, and far right, but I have never met anyone that was a conservative, or a Republican that voted for liberal causes, never.

None of his prior history shows he was some crazed far left lunatic.

The money trail does.

people change their affiliations for better or worse

Yeah, but it’s highly suspicious when you donate heavily to one party and their surrogates.

Wow. If $15 is big money, I feel sorry about the impoverished state you must be in.

Facts matter. They really do.

facts do matter, no matter how hard maga try to make it there is so far zero evidence that the shooter was a left wing operative, employed by the state. the most likely scenario is he was just a republican fed up with Trump. so back off the conspiracies until you have evidence to back your claims.

whats next the election was stolen? oh thats right also zero evidence provided in court to prove otherwise

‘We Are Not Enemies:’ President Biden's Address From the Oval Office 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4CZDxT0cZQ

I posted above to "opinion" thread above without realising.

I agree with President Biden whole heartedly, it is very difficult to ignore President Biden struggling to follow the teleprompter.

If the shooter had been a registered Democrat the Trump supporters would be all over that.

If the shooter had been a registered Democrat the Trump supporters would be all over that.

They still are.

bass4funk

If the shooter had been a registered Democrat the Trump supporters would be all over that.

They still are.

Not on this forum which is the only one I read.

Not on this forum which is the only one I read.

Yeah, I get it, but that’s irrelevant to the broader scheme that’s surrounding this.