President Joe Biden returned to a favorite tactic during a rabble-rousing speech to Democratic party loyalists in Philadelphia, assailing America first Republicans in the House of Representatives who he accused of trying to destroy his mythical vibrant economy.
The demagogue in chief whipped out shovels of bloody red meat to an enthusiastic crowd that turned out for the 2023 Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting on Friday where they reveled in his angry denunciations of loyal Americans who oppose the authoritarian party’s extreme agenda.
After boasting about his economic record despite the crushing burden of inflation that has decimated American household budgets, Biden turned his fire on those who oppose his ruinous policies, painting them as an enemy within who would threaten his miraculous handling of the economy.
“But now, the extreme MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives have made it clear they intend to put it all at risk. They intend to destroy it,” Biden raged as the rabid party apparatchiks booed and hissed like the mob engaging in the “Two Minutes Hate” from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
“No, I’m — not a joke. When I — look, you may remember when, during the off-year election, I started talking about MAGA Republicans and democracy. And a lot of you thought, ‘What the hell is he talking about? Why isn’t he talking about A, B, C, or D specific issue?’” Biden continued, feeding the crowd’s hatred of pro-America conservatives.
“Well, guess what? They intend to destroy the pri- — this is not your father’s Republican Party. No, really, think about it. These aren’t conservatives. These aren’t conservatives. These are disruptive people. They intend to destroy the progress we made,” he said, hammering home the idea that those who are loyal to the country are the true enemy as if he were pushing the buttons of party enthusiasts in an early 1930s German beer hall.
“Folks, as I said, this is not your father’s Republican Party. Just take a look what’s — they’re doing. They campaigned on fiscal responsibility, but the first bill to pass the House of Representatives added $114 billion to the deficit. The first one,” Biden continued. “They introduced another bill to limit the President’s authority over the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because they’re mad I used that authority to lower gas prices by $1.50 a gallon. Period,” distorting his draining off the nation’s vital oil reserves to benefit Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
“Look, they introduced a bill — you think I’m cra- — when I said this stuff in the off year, people looked at me like I was nuts. They’re nuts. I’m not the one …,” he said as the crowd expressed it enthusiasm with laugher.
“They introduced a bill that will eliminate the IRS and replace it with a 30 percent national sales tax, Biden said to more boos as he tapped into the animal passions of the crowd who he had eating out of his hand.
“Oh, no. You heard me: 30 percent national sales tax. Think about that. That means 30 percent on groceries, gasoline, clothing, school supplies, medicine, big-ticket items like rent and cars. Shifting the entire burden to the working class and middle class of America. It’s not going to happen. I’m going to veto the sucker if it ever got to me,” the cunning career politician added.
“I know the Republicans ran on inflation last election. I didn’t know they were trying to make it worse,” he jibed as the audience roared with laughter.
“And, of course, as they always do, they still want to cut taxes on the wealthiest and biggest corporations,” he declared to more boos and an inaudible shout from an audience member that elicited more laughter from the mob.
During Biden’s latest diatribe in Philly, his loving party cheerleaders changed “four more years, four more years,” a nightmarish scenario for an America that is already on the ropes.
Biden had previously railed against “MAGA Republicans” while speaking in the City of Brotherly Love in his infamous “soul of a nation” address last September, angrily delivered in blood red lighting with U.S. Marines standing in the background, an ominous setting for a dark speech in a propaganda spectacle reminiscent of a Leni Riefenstahl film.
Despite his campaign promises to be a man of unity and a president of all of the country, Biden has spent his two years in office attacking tens of millions of people who don’t bend the knee to him with strident, despicable, dehumanizing rhetoric, all but formally accusing supporters of former President Donald J. Trump of being enemies of the state in his Independence Hall tirade, a new low for an American leader.
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” declared dear leader in possibly the darkest and most divisive speech by a U.S. president in the nation’s history. “But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
