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.

  • Flying Squid
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    16 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)
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      -16 months ago

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

      • Flying Squid
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        16 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)
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          06 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
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            06 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?

              • Flying Squid
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                06 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?

                  • Flying Squid
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                    06 months ago

                    Please show evidence that I am an “executioner.” Unless that is also a lie.