Great speech by Biden last night. The contrast between him and Trump is incredible. Many elections are about choosing between the two sides of the same coin, but this one is more like choosing between a rafflesia or lily of the valley for your garden. Or this, basically:

Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."

Reporter: "George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same."

Trump: "George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down -- excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?"

Reporter: "I do love Thomas Jefferson."

Trump: "Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?

"So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly."

Joe Biden:

Remember seeing those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists coming out of the fields with lighted torches? Veins bulging? Spewing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the ‘30s?

Remember the violent clash that ensued between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it?

Remember what the president said?

There were quote, "very fine people on both sides.”

It was a wake-up call for us as a country.

And for me, a call to action. At that moment, I knew I'd have to run. My father taught us that silence was complicity. And I could not remain silent or complicit.

At the time, I said we were in a battle for the soul of this nation.

It was a fine speech, especially compared to Kamala’s which didn’t register in my opinion, but still with the thousand times over debunked “very fine people on both sides”?

That quote continues to say he was referring to the people protesting the statue removal, not the Nazis.

Yeah that's my point. It is a direct quote yet Trump people still say it didn't happen.

The tiki-torch carrying people in the Charlottesville march chanted: "Jews/You will not replace us.", "One nation, one people, end immigration.", "Peace will not divide us.", "Blood and soil."





Don't both-side this. Neo-Nazism needs a resounding, no-but's condemnation. The current president failed miserably to do just that. I hope the people marching will eventually realize these immoral ideas that they chanted could lead to harmful actions.

That wasn’t being chanted when the event started! Maybe Trump is wrong for sympathizing with the confederate statue removal protesters, but that’s clearly who he was referring to in his quote, not the neo nazis, who he condemned.

If not all liberal protesters at the event were violent antifa members, surely we can be nuanced enough to see not everyone at that event was a neo nazi.

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The majority of the people marching in Charlottesville that night were carrying torches and chanting slogans inspired by Nazis.

Earlier today:


Democrat politicians: I will not discourage any rioting because they are Biden supporters and we need their votes. Make sure anyone arrested get released with no bail so they can vote for Biden,