In two speeches that were a toxic mix of hysteria, downright lies, and ridiculous exaggerations, dementia-addled President Biden and his India-first sidekick, Vice President Kamala Harris, told the world that the the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol a year ago today threatened the very existence of the country.
The mostly peaceful protesters assaulted the Constitution, Biden said.
They assaulted the “will of the people.”
They held the American people at knifepoint … at the “throat.”
More egregiously, former President Trump and the GOP want to “suppress the vote.”
The mostly peaceful protest on January 6 last year was the gravest threat to the nation’s safety and security since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Harris said. It was akin to the 9/11 terror attacks.
The question isn’t whether Biden and Harris lied, but whether any two politicians have lied with such impunity.
Biden’s Bilge
“Democracy was attacked — simply attacked,” Biden said:
The will of the people was under assault. The Constitution — our Constitution — faced the gravest of threats.
Outnumbered and in the face of a brutal attack, the Capitol Police, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard, and other brave law enforcement officials saved the rule of law.
Our democracy held. We the people endured. And we the people prevailed.
For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol.
President Trump did no such thing, but demonizing Trump and his supporters was the order of the day.
After a few words about Abraham Lincoln and Clio, the Greek muse of history, Biden cited the Bible’s admonition that “the truth will make us free.”
The Bible also says “thou shalt not murder,” an injunction the pro-abortion president has apparently missed in all his scripture studies. But leave that aside. Biden regaled listeners with his rendition of what happened on January 6, 2021.
Biden called what he described “the God’s truth,” then detailed the acts of the few violent protesters, some of them leftist agitators.
“This wasn’t a group of tourists,” Biden continued. “This was an armed insurrection.”
In fact, the FBI did not recover any firearms from the mostly peaceful protesters or the few who turned violent, as the words “armed insurrection” suggest.
But “we must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie,” Biden continued:
And here is the truth: The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He’s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interests as more important than his country’s interests and America’s interests, and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution.
He can’t accept he lost, even though that’s what 93 United States senators, his own Attorney General, his own Vice President, governors and state officials in every battleground state have all said: He lost.
That’s what 81 million of you did as you voted for a new way forward.
He has done what no president in American history — the history of this country — has ever, ever done: He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people.
And so, at this moment, we must decide: What kind of nation are we going to be?
Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?
Five years ago, Biden wasn’t worried about “political violence” or those who “refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people.” On January 20, 2017, communist rioters rampaged through Washington, D.C., burning and pillaging. Congressmen challenged Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
Nor were Biden and Harris worried when enraged protesters swarmed into the Hart Senate Office building during the confirmation proceedings of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. They were unmoved when those protesters pounded on the doors of the Supreme Court building, and disrupted his confirmation hearings and vote on the Senate floor.
Those facts aside, the upshot of the speech was that a few violent cranks — again, partly instigated by leftist provocateurs — actually threatened to overthrow the government, a patently ridiculous claim.
“Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America — at American democracy,” Biden said:
They didn’t come here out of patriotism or principle. They came here in rage — not in service of America, but rather in service of one man.
Those who incited the mob — the real plotters — who were desperate to deny the certification of the election and defy the will of the voters.
Having denounced the “Big Lies” from Trump and his supporters, Biden blatantly lied about GOP efforts to ensure ballot security with Voter ID.
“Right now, in state after state, new laws are being written — not to protect the vote, but to deny it; not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it; not to strengthen or protect our democracy, but because the former president lost,” Biden said:
Instead of looking at the election results from 2020 and saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes, the former president and his supporters have decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections.
It’s wrong. It’s undemocratic. And frankly, it’s un-American.
Harris Harangue
The brief introductory from Harris, who will likely go down as the most insignificant vice president in history, will be remembered for one thing. A mostly peaceful protest that got out of hand, she claimed, reminded one of events in which thousands were killed or murdered.
“Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them — where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault,” Harris said. “Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021.”
For the record:
- 2,403 Americans died during the attack on Pearl Harbor
- 2,977 died on 9/11
- Three people died on January 6, 2021, all Trump supporters.
Harris called Biden a “public servant with the character and fortitude to meet this moment, a leader whose life’s work has been moving our nation toward that more perfect union.”
For the record:
When Harris ran against Biden for the Democrat nomination, she all but called him a racist. She also said she believed that he sexually assaulted former Senate aide Tara Read.
