Biden chokes up while talking about deceased son and Trump's disparaging remarks about service members
Biden chokes up while talking about deceased son and Trump's disparaging remarks about service members
“That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle,” he said, referring to Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan, who both served in the military.
“That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle,” he said, referring to Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan, who both served in the military
President Joe Biden choked up Wednesday talking about the military service of his family members and former President Donald Trump's disparaging remarks about service members.
“They asked [Trump] to go visit American gravesites. He said, 'No.' He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all 'suckers' and 'losers,'” Biden told a crowd of union workers. “I’m not making that up. The staff who were with him acknowledge it today. Suckers and losers.”
He paused for a moment and added, “That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle.” Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan both served in the military before Trump took office.
Biden's comments referred to Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris for the centennial of the end of World War I, when he declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers” and fallen soldiers at the U.S. cemetery “losers.”
Any service member who supports Trump is indeed a "sucker and loser". You pretty much have to be to that that kind of abuse and still support him.
138Just any poor to middle class who supports Trump is a sucker and loser, including the service members. The only people supporting him who aren't suckers are deeply sociopathic.
21The cemetery in question is in France and exclusively for Americans who died in The Great War (WW1). None of those men knew or supported Donald Trump, as he was not born for another 30 years.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Holy shit this comment section is a dumpster fire.
54I should have headed your warning. I have less faith in the Lemmy community after having read through these comments.
11a) *heeded b) The trolls are trying to grind you down, to drive you away from those of like mind, to polarize you, to make you hate people you don't know, and to eventually make you hate people you do know. They are evil. And they fucking suck. Please do not let them win. Do not lose faith in your fellow man/woman/heartbeat.
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I'm going in sir!
7Holy fucking clown world Batman!
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23It's bots, farms, and propaganda. They flood comment sections with bad takes and/or downvotes to try to drive away real discussion. 1) it gets people to engage and waste their time arguing with someone that has no intention of being sensible 2) others who are interested in the post might get driven away from the comment section
But it's good to see users keeping up real discussion despite the garbage, just got to wade through it sometimes.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
He paused for a moment and added, “That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle.” Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan both served in the military before Trump took office.
Biden's comments referred to Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris for the centennial of the end of World War I, when he declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers” and fallen soldiers at the U.S. cemetery “losers.”
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly confirmed last year that Trump privately made the remarks, which The Atlantic first reported.
“Joe Biden is repeating an old and tired lie about President Trump to deflect from the fact that he has is the weakest Commander in Chief in history,” national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Biden has often cited Trump's 2018 remarks, but Wednesday was the first time he had tied them directly to his son and his uncle.
Biden, who was in Pittsburgh for the second stop of a three-city tour of Pennsylvania, said he was reminded of Trump’s comments about service members while he was visiting a war memorial in Scranton.
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6Why tf are they referring to that hack karoline leavett as national press secretary?
0Imagine dying for the military lmao.
-28Imagine living in a country where some people's only way out is to sign up to die for their country. Now imagine there's someone making fun of them for it.
33Was homeless at 17 for the better part of 2 years. Tried to kill myself with inhalants many times. Found out the service was taking in meat shields like they were going out of style. Watched thousands die in Iraq and still deal with the guilt and self-destructiveness today. It is getting better, good people found me and chose to love me.
There's a part of me that does not disagree with the comment, I honestly wanted to die in that place. But it's so disrespectful to say, and you nailed it.
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Pieces of shit like you are who we should be sending out ahead of the real soldiers to look for mines.
-4Removed, civility. Do not attack other users.
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Yall are gross
-30Who gives a shit, stop sending money to Israel.
-47Well obviously you do or you would not have commented
6I assume they care about biden's support of genocide, not him using his son and the position of commander in chief to score political points.
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Fuck you biden, you piece of shit. Your dumb son chose to go all the way to another country in the name of imperialism. Those 30,000+ Palestinians you helped slaughter didn't get to choose. Downvote if you love genocide and going to other countries to kill people.
-96You know, if you "biden bad" people are trying to convince us you're not right wing agent provacateurs, you're doing a terrible job. Mocking someone for being sad their son died is just about the Trumpiest thing I can imagine.
I know, I know, it's very difficult for you to resist the urge to be cruel, but you have to pretend to be a good person if you want to convince liberals to vote 3rd party.
51I'm not mocking biden for his son dying, I'm calling biden a piece of shit for supporting genocide. He speaks highly of the commander in chief position, as a position that is deserved or not, but I'd say him impotently going along with israel's genocide means he doesn't deserve the position either. I called his son dumb because choosing to join the military to fight in the Iraq invasion was dumb when he obviously didn't come from a poor family and thus didn't even need to do this due to a lack of job opportunities.
You finger wag about cruelty and being a good person while defending a supporter of genocide. I know you can't view the world as anything other than red vs blue, but I never said anything about who to vote for. Full disclosure, I vote for democratic party candidates down the ballot every single election, I've never voted for a republican in my life. However, this doesn't matter to you because as long as anyone doesn't toe the party line 200%, then your reading comprehension goes out the window and you make up a million assumptions, gallantly fighting a strawman.
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Over 1,000,000 Iraqis died in the war Bidens son valiantly slaughtered in.
Why do we respect state sanctioned murderers lives yet disregard the victims of imperialism?
-114So easy to find bad actors these days, they pretty much all just scream “I am only here to argue”
21This one is pretty consistently low quality. I doubt they're being remunerated for this work
9Instigating trolling, repeatedly, isn't a good look. Banned for 24 bours, content removed. Do better.
7You’re right.
Soldiers are the good guys ™, the invasion of Iraq was just, and Guantánamo Bay was an act of patriotic duty.
Please, tell me why anyone should respect these “just following orders” soldiers?
Why do we get to wash away the crimes they committed to honour and respect them?
Should we show respect for the dead Nazi or Japanese soldiers during WW2?
Do you people all have short term memories or are you deliberately forgetting the war crimes and how needlessly fucked up the US led invasion of Iraq was?
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You're absolutely right in general.
But:
- He's the president of the US. Of course he'd focus on US life/death
- He's discussing his son/uncle, which is a personal connection.
Humans are generally very good at personally relating to things, but poor at global relations
19source for those numbers?
-6Hey that's not fair. They also raped, pillaged and tortured Iraqis in that war
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"They asked [Trump] to go visit American gravesites. He said, 'No.' He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all 'suckers' and 'losers,'
Extremely rare Donnie W
-136Biden's use of his son's death for political gain is gross.
-142God forbid someone be sad tbat their son died
63His son was a service member, you know, the ones that trump disparaged.
57Unlike Trump, who totally would but has no family members that deserve praise. He still does though, tried to get out of court due to Baron graduating.
23The closest he can get is telling Howard Stern how much he wants to bang his daughter
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The use of his sons death by the opposition party is even more horrendous in my opinion. Imagine having such little ammunition (against someone who is definitely not immune to critisizm) that you have to attack the mans dead son. Fucking deplorable
21He's immune to factual criticism, because righties live and die in their own fantasy land; where bad is good (as long as they're doing it).
3can you show any examples of such? I've never heard anyone but Biden mention Beau.
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You're one of the people that got angry and offended at MrBeast for making a Youtube video about giving 1000 people the ability to see again, aren't you?
5Why would you assume that? I think it's great that he's using his money to improve others lives. Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.
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