Joe Biden sat down with Lester Holt of NBC for what he believed would be a ball meeting. Otherwise, Holt actually imitated a blogger and asked questions that made Biden angry, defensive, and snippy.
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” I guess I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda”, the chief executive said.
” Yeah, the word was’ bull ‘s-eye,'” Holt pointed out.
At that point, Biden nearly said that using the term “bullseye” was a blunder. Practically, but not quite. ” It was a mistake to use the wor — I did n’t say crosshairs, I meant bullseye, I meant focus on him, focus on what he’s doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate”, Biden said.
So, using a word that means pretty much exactly the same thing as” crosshairs” is OK because he really did n’t mean” crosshairs”.
” Appearance, I’m not the man that said’ I want to become a tyrant on day one.’ I’m not the person who resisted accepting the poll results. I’m not the guy who said that he would n’t accept the outcome of this election automatically”.
Why should it matter if Trump declares himself a despot “on moment one”? Every judge in the country may punish him if he tries it because it is against the law. Liberals, however, are making the mistake of thinking Trump meant it and that it is still a chance.
Biden claims that he used “bullseye” to identify “focus”. However, Holt made a point about how Biden’s statement might have sparked violence:” Have you taken a step up and done some soul-searching on things you might have said that might incite people who are no balanced?”
” How do you talk about the danger to politics, which is true, when a president says things like he says? Would you simply refrain from speaking out because it might inspire someone? Trump shot up.
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Well, yeah. That’s the normal that Democrats apply to Republicans. All Sarah Palin did was place sights on a congressional district image when she was accused of inciting the killing of Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011.  ,
In the discussion with Holt, Biden appeared to blame Trump for the killing.
Biden also took care to blame him for escalating political speech in the US, not to mention how glad he is that Trump was never seriously hurt in the shooting.
He in certain pointed – as he often does – toward his remarks after the march of White nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and his rejection of the benefits of the 2020 election that led to the 2021 rebellion at the Capitol.
” Appearance. There’s so much violence today. … There’s no position at all for murder in politics in America. Nothing. Zero. And we’ve reached the point where it’s become overly commonplace”, Biden said. ” No executions, but to talk about, for instance, January 6, the attack on the Capitol”.
Both factors calling for “lowering the heat” is level hypocrisy. It’s just another street of harm. Democrats responded right away when Trump said on Monday that his court cases should be dropped, saying that he could n’t even be civil for 24 hours.
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The fact is, calls for “unity” in the midst of a political campaign ARE “boilerplate social speech”, according to  , Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Very few individuals, in any newspaper, professional chamber, or political strategy right now, have direct experience with something like this, Muhammad said on Monday on Boston Public Radio. When it comes to,” What do you actually say?,” we are a little in unknown waters.
Muhammad argued that political murder in the United States has become more common, with this death test only one recent example. But today’s calling for politeness, he argued, seem more like chin company instead of officials committing to working with their peers who they” vehemently disagree” with.
He claimed that” sometimes we alternative calls for unity and civility for the effort put forth to actually transact different ideas in a democracy.”
Calling out the other part for breaking the politeness agreement is more socially advantageous than being, say, civil to oneself. That’s the truth in 21st-century America.
