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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 07:26 AM Sep 2022

Biden seeks to separate 'mainstream' Republicans from 'Trumpies' in Wisconsin speech


you go Joe!





Biden seeks to separate 'mainstream' Republicans from 'Trumpies' in Wisconsin speech

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/05/biden-mainstream-republicans-trump-wisconsin-00054829

“The extreme MAGA Republicans have chosen to go backwards. …Together we can and must choose a different path forward," President Joe Biden said at a Labor Day event.


By Olivia Olander 09/05/2022 03:02 PM EDT

President Joe Biden continued to add texture Monday to a recent string of criticisms against “MAGA Republicans,” the right-most wing of the party that he’s sought to distinguish from the more moderate, “mainstream” GOP.

“I want to be very clear up front: Not every Republican is a MAGA Republican,” Biden said at a Labor Day event in Wisconsin. “Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology. I know because I’ve been able to work with mainstream Republicans in my whole career.”

However, he continued: “The extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. But together we can — and we must — choose a different path forward.”

The comments came after a series of appearances in recent days, in which the president has campaigned forcefully against the most “extreme” segments of the GOP. In the most pointed remark, he called former President Donald Trump’s philosophy “semi-fascism” at an event for Democratic donors late last month........................

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President Joe Biden speaks during an event at Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sept. 5, 2022. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo
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Biden seeks to separate 'mainstream' Republicans from 'Trumpies' in Wisconsin speech (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2022 OP
I beiieve it's working ...... Lovie777 Sep 2022 #1
It's a simple choice really. Do you want Democrats Walleye Sep 2022 #2
I feel like hes helping republicans find somewhere else to go, I don't think we should be helping th Heather MC Sep 2022 #3
To me it's like pro-abortion Catholics who nonetheless still fund the Church's antiabortion efforts NullTuples Sep 2022 #4
It is to all our benefit if the GOP sheds Trumpism. NH Ethylene Sep 2022 #5
I know we want to think that Donald Trump is the reason all this is happening Heather MC Sep 2022 #8
The Republican Party is not going to be destroyed. NH Ethylene Sep 2022 #12
I agree! Heather MC Sep 2022 #13
You can't speechify someone out of a cult. G2theD Sep 2022 #17
We all know of the separation. It's no secret. LakeArenal Sep 2022 #6
Just let StrkSrviver Sep 2022 #9
One of those two are women. All women are pissed. LakeArenal Sep 2022 #10
Probably StrkSrviver Sep 2022 #11
This the only prob I have with Joe, he is still wedded to childfreebychoice Sep 2022 #7
Where are these "Mainstream" Repukes? maxsolomon Sep 2022 #14
Mainstream republicans, and maga republicans, are the same people Heather MC Sep 2022 #15
Keep attacking the MAGAts in Congress KS Toronado Sep 2022 #16

Lovie777

(12,272 posts)
1. I beiieve it's working ......
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 07:58 AM
Sep 2022

Abortion, student loans, et al.

Also let the public know what the GQP is going to do with SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. Also let it be known that the GQP will force seniors to work until they die.

Walleye

(31,028 posts)
2. It's a simple choice really. Do you want Democrats
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 08:28 AM
Sep 2022

Who are going to work tirelessly to pass legislation that will improve the lives of millions of Americans. Or do you want Republicans who are going to work with fanatic energy in the cause of vengeance and vindication for their supreme leader? Do they really want Kevin McCarthy to represent them as speaker of the house?

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
3. I feel like hes helping republicans find somewhere else to go, I don't think we should be helping th
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 09:51 AM
Sep 2022

They dug this whole for themselves, Let them keep digging until oblivion.

There aren't 2 Republican parties there's just one, and they walk in lockstep with Donald Trump.

Even if he manages to siphon off a few Non trump die hard's the fact of the matter is they've maintained loyalty to this man since 2015. Let them go down with him

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
4. To me it's like pro-abortion Catholics who nonetheless still fund the Church's antiabortion efforts
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 11:06 AM
Sep 2022

...every week when the collection basket is passed. But then they feel they get to say "but I disagree" and think that it absolves them.

NH Ethylene

(30,813 posts)
5. It is to all our benefit if the GOP sheds Trumpism.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 11:17 AM
Sep 2022

It's better for the country. And it is MUCH better for Dems in the midterms if Republican voters reject extremist candidates that have been put forth in favor of moderate Democrats.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
8. I know we want to think that Donald Trump is the reason all this is happening
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 02:04 PM
Sep 2022

Donald Trump didn't exist when the tea turds created created themselves
Donald Trump didn't exist when Jerry falwell created the moral majority and carved out the one issue voter over abortion back in the eighties

The way the Republican party is today is the way they evolved to be or devolved to be as it were
They are on the path they chose for themselves common we should just let them die because that's where they're headed.

They rejected the vaccine they die at a rate of 90%
They actively fight to take away our free will and that's not Donald Trump, that is just the Republican party. The supreme port those 6 justices it's justices they were put there by a Republican party that wanted to control us, sure they used Donald Trump to get those justices to the Supreme Court but let's be honest Mitch mcconnell created that Supreme Court not Donald Trump not Donald Trump. And Mitch mcconnell is a GOP Standard that Joe Biden thinks we should go back to.

I say allow Donald Trump to completely destroy their Republican party we do not need a 2 party system if one of the parties only wants to control us, and destroy democracy.

The Republican party chose to render themselves useless in a 2022 society

Why hang on to that garbage?
Just because we've been told we need a 2 party system. If there are not 2 functioning parties what's the point?.

And to be honest having a choice between 2 parties should be decided at the ballad Box. 80 million of us decided we don't want the Republican party anymore.

We are the majority of this country, the minority party the republicans are dying off because they decided not to get vaccinated.

And their ideas are archaic.

Old ideas are best left in the past, the Republican party is not a party of our future. And therefore the democrats should stop trying to save it.

NH Ethylene

(30,813 posts)
12. The Republican Party is not going to be destroyed.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 07:07 PM
Sep 2022

We've been saying it is destroying itself for years. But until a couple of months ago, they were favored to take back the House! After everything that has happened! And sentiment could easily shift again.

If we are to survive as a democracy, our choice should not be between a good candidate and a monster, because sometimes that monster will win.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
13. I agree!
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 07:09 PM
Sep 2022

It would be nice if the Republican party was actually worth choosing At the ballot Box.

It would be nice to think wow they are 2 great candidates this is tough

G2theD

(593 posts)
17. You can't speechify someone out of a cult.
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 06:11 PM
Sep 2022

MAGA Republicans are not republicans, they are Christofascists. They are deep in a cult of personality and they live in a separate reality from people not in the cult.

It’s actually horrifying how deep down the babbitt hole they are.
They only understand raw power just like their savior, the Kumquat Kolored Krook (KKK).

The only thing we can do short of individually having them deprogrammed is take their political power away.

That is why we need a blue tsunami in every state in the “union’.
If we can keep the house and expand the senate enough to nullify Manchin snd Sinema, and if we can get the Mussolini Messiah in prison for life (5-10 years should do it) the only choice they have left is civil war.

Let them fight the police and national guard and invoke the insurrection act if necessary.

LakeArenal

(28,819 posts)
6. We all know of the separation. It's no secret.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 11:30 AM
Sep 2022

Biden is just pointing out the chasm. Be on one side or the other. There’s no middle. MAGAts drew that line themselves.

 

StrkSrviver

(85 posts)
9. Just let
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 05:48 PM
Sep 2022

TFG keep calling normal people Republicans RINOS and let his big mouth do the work. All he has to do is piss 2 out of 100 of them off and we hold the House.

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
7. This the only prob I have with Joe, he is still wedded to
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 01:15 PM
Sep 2022

The Goldwater, dirksen, javits, brooks type rethugs. They are dead, literally and figuratively. This the party of t*, these ppl want us blacks to the back of bus, gays in jail or mental hospitals, women with no vote, and chained to stoves, as breeders. Grave error to pretend otherwise

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
14. Where are these "Mainstream" Repukes?
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 07:39 PM
Sep 2022

I get why Biden's framing it this way, but 74 million Repukes voted for an Authoritarian Sociopath 2 years ago because "Socialist" Democrats are trying to destroy America and literally eat babies.

Detached from reality is the GQP Mainstream.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
15. Mainstream republicans, and maga republicans, are the same people
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 09:43 PM
Sep 2022

The entire Republican party is hot garbage trash.
Mitch mc Connell would be considered a mainstream Republican. The Supreme Court we currently have was created created and carved out by Mitch mcconnell
Not sure why mainstream Republican would be preferable to anything else they call Republican

KS Toronado

(17,248 posts)
16. Keep attacking the MAGAts in Congress
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 01:10 AM
Sep 2022

every chance you get Biden, will help in the midterms. All Democrats running for election should
follow Joe's lead. The results might surprise us.

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