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BumRushDaShow

(142,213 posts)
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 12:58 PM Nov 11

Biden on Veterans Day calls for US to 'come together as a nation'

Source: ABC News

November 11, 2024, 12:23 PM


President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris observed Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday in what was their first appearance together since last week’s election.

The two participated in a full honor wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before Biden made remarks at the Memorial Amphitheater.

“This is the last time I will stand here at Arlington as commander in chief,” Biden said. “It's been the greatest honor of my life to lead you, to serve you, to care for you, to defend you, just as you defended us.”

Biden, who began by quoting President Abraham Lincoln, said this is the moment to "come together as a nation." "The world is dependent on each of you and all of us, all of you, to keep honoring the women and the men and the families of borne, the battle," he said. "To keep protecting everything they fought for. To keep striving to heal our nation's wounds. To keep perfecting our union."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-veterans-day-calls-us-nation/story?id=115728512

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Biden on Veterans Day calls for US to 'come together as a nation' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 11 OP
LOL!! nt SoCalDavidS Nov 11 #1
Sorry, Joe. You tried the best you could, but that ship has sailed. Ocelot II Nov 11 #2
So is Biden telling us to succumb to the fascist man? jrthin Nov 11 #3
No; I think he's just such an old-school institutionalist Ocelot II Nov 11 #8
Good on him. Unfortunatety, I can't be optimistic seeing jrthin Nov 11 #13
oh, Joe... FirstLight Nov 11 #4
My feeling exactly. HUAJIAO Nov 11 #12
I'm kind of a hard pass on coming together with that half the country. Autumn Nov 11 #5
I will be fine the further they f'n stay away. gordianot Nov 11 #6
And on the next episode of Conversations With Myself BeyondGeography Nov 11 #7
Now we know exactly what we are. Ocelot II Nov 11 #28
Sigh. /nt spudspud Nov 11 #9
Nope. Not doing that again. travelingthrulife Nov 11 #10
Nah johnp3907 Nov 11 #11
No. It is that simple, no. SamKnause Nov 11 #14
Me thinks he'd have done better simply thanking veterans for their service. groundloop Nov 11 #15
I'm not playing nice with traitors, rapists, felons, and assorted Greybnk48 Nov 11 #16
Nope, I feel a strong urge to resist every fucking thing this asshole even thinks of doing. Magoo48 Nov 11 #17
Sorry but that ain't happening! Initech Nov 11 #18
Whatever. n/t flvegan Nov 11 #19
I love ya President Biden...you will go down in history as one of most consequential...but NO cannot unite with PortTack Nov 11 #20
He has a good heart. But, no. Wingus Dingus Nov 11 #21
He does. GoodRaisin Nov 12 #32
Aw. How quaint. Nt RussBLib Nov 11 #22
Damn, I'm tired of see this, screw those republican, republianmushroom Nov 11 #23
With all due respect Joe... EarthFirst Nov 11 #24
This is war. The Grand Illuminist Nov 11 #25
In all his years in politics, Joe Biden never ... Tarzanrock Nov 11 #26
Oh he knows... BumRushDaShow Nov 11 #27
No fucking way. alarimer Nov 11 #29
Post removed Post removed Nov 11 #30
No way Sequoia Nov 11 #31

Ocelot II

(120,813 posts)
2. Sorry, Joe. You tried the best you could, but that ship has sailed.
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:00 PM
Nov 11

The masts have disappeared below the horizon, and the ship is off on its way to terra incognita. Here there be dragons.

jrthin

(4,964 posts)
3. So is Biden telling us to succumb to the fascist man?
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:02 PM
Nov 11

Now that tsf is elected he's no longer fascist? Asking for a friend.

Ocelot II

(120,813 posts)
8. No; I think he's just such an old-school institutionalist
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:14 PM
Nov 11

that he hasn't been able yet to wrap his head around how far we've fallen. He doesn't think we'll succumb because he still thinks "we're better than that," not having grokked to the fact that we're not. Maybe he never will, and I kind of hope he never does and can hold onto that optimism for the time he has left.

jrthin

(4,964 posts)
13. Good on him. Unfortunatety, I can't be optimistic seeing
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:56 PM
Nov 11

the people that tsf is putting in his cabinet, starting with Steven Miller. Further, half the country voted for tsf. What concrete proof does Biden have to show that "we're better than that."' I guess my point is, I am tired of being gaslighted and I want the dem. leadership to stop it.

FirstLight

(14,079 posts)
4. oh, Joe...
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:02 PM
Nov 11

I'm sorry, but NO.

The days of coming together and politics of statesman are over. I wish you could see that and take some drastic measures before they move in. I wish you could tap into that scrappy scranton fighter one last time for our sake, and leave them a nice FUCK YOU as you walk out the door.
Issue some Exec Orders to preserve the EPA, Dept of ED, Social Security... SOMETHING...

But I am just a pissed off citizen. You are the one who has "immunity" for the next couple months....USE it!

Autumn

(46,280 posts)
5. I'm kind of a hard pass on coming together with that half the country.
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:02 PM
Nov 11

Every politician and wealthy person is going to be just fine. We liberals? Maybe not so fine.

BeyondGeography

(40,013 posts)
7. And on the next episode of Conversations With Myself
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:06 PM
Nov 11

Joe Biden explains that, “We are the United States of America – there's nothing we can't do if we do it together. We just have to remember who we are.”

travelingthrulife

(679 posts)
10. Nope. Not doing that again.
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:19 PM
Nov 11

Find out how Putin, Elon and Traitor Trump manipulated all these votes and maybe we can talk about compromising with these malignant monsters.

SamKnause

(13,802 posts)
14. No. It is that simple, no.
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 02:02 PM
Nov 11

I have nothing in common with a trump voter.

I have nothing in common with Nazis.

I have nothing in common with racists.

I have nothing in common with misogynists.

I have nothing in common with Christian Nationalists.

I have nothing in common with White Supremacists.

I have nothing in common with people who take away women's rights.

I have nothing in common with people who hate on LGBTQ people.

I have nothing in common with hateful vile people.

I have nothing in common with habitual liars.

I have nothing in common with people who don't believe in science.

I have nothing in common with people who don't believe climate change is real.

I have nothing in common with the I got mine fuck you crowd.

groundloop

(12,260 posts)
15. Me thinks he'd have done better simply thanking veterans for their service.
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 02:05 PM
Nov 11

I'm in no fucking mood to "come together" with any trumpist morons.

Greybnk48

(10,390 posts)
16. I'm not playing nice with traitors, rapists, felons, and assorted
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 02:10 PM
Nov 11

pedophiles and lowlifes. Not going to happen.

PortTack

(34,642 posts)
20. I love ya President Biden...you will go down in history as one of most consequential...but NO cannot unite with
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 02:43 PM
Nov 11

An amoral pack of hyenas hungry for the blood of women, the poor and disabled.

republianmushroom

(17,612 posts)
23. Damn, I'm tired of see this, screw those republican,
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 04:15 PM
Nov 11

we have turned the other cheek often enough, only to be slapped a second time.

To bad your AG wasn't up to the task that awaited him.

Sorry Joe, not me, no more.

EarthFirst

(3,149 posts)
24. With all due respect Joe...
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 04:39 PM
Nov 11

Hell fucking NO!

You go play paddy cake with racist fascists…I’m all fucking set with that.

Tarzanrock

(456 posts)
26. In all his years in politics, Joe Biden never ...
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 05:33 PM
Nov 11

... groked the "fact" that he was dealing with Fascists and Nazis. Biden was always too busy crying at funerals and consoling people and hand holding instead of fighting the Fascists and the Nazis here on our own soil. Biden never understood that you cannot appease a Fascist nor a Nazi nor can you "unify" the country be giving in to them or to their political demands.

BumRushDaShow

(142,213 posts)
27. Oh he knows...
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 05:45 PM
Nov 11

Remember he had a political life BEFORE he was in the Executive Branch, including as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (among other Chair positions) -


Joseph Biden (right) sits opposite Andrei Gromyko, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, during negotiations in Moscow in 1988 to ratify the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. Photograph: TASS/Getty Images

alarimer

(16,574 posts)
29. No fucking way.
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 05:50 PM
Nov 11

This is the problem with Democrats as a whole. Not enough anger, not enough venom. I want vengeance, not someone telling me to make nice.

I get that he feels he has to say this. But it is completely fucking tone deaf and useless. Why should we? These people are fucking monsters.

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Sequoia

(12,534 posts)
31. No way
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 06:17 PM
Nov 11

Too many brainwashed cultists in family. Since president 45, no visiting little ones whom I might influence with California liberal ideas. "You can't go home again", said Thomas Wolfe.

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