Poll: Most U.S. Republicans reject ‘MAGA’ label

“Overall, 42% of Republicans embraces the “MAGA” label while 58% disavow the term, according to a new poll.”

Most people complaining about the speech didn’t bother to watch it or are lying about what Joe Biden said. Here is a transcript of the speech courtest of REV.COM – REV does an awesome job creating transcripts of speeches and other events.

President Biden Delivers a Primetime Speech on 9/01/22

Here is what he SAID:

“But as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault.
… and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise, so tonight I’ve come to this place where it all began to speak as plainly as I can to the nation about the threats we face, about the power we have in our own hands to meet these threats, and about the incredible future that lies in front of us, if only we choose it.”

Our Democracy IS under attack!

Biden DID NOT attack ALL Republicans

“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

Now, I want to be very clear, very clear up front. Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans, but there’s 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.”

THIS:

The “Not every Republican” part. Biden went on to say…

“President Biden: (10:25)
These are hard things, but I’m an American president, not a president of red America or blue America, but of all America. And I believe it’s my duty, my duty to level with you, to tell the truth, no matter how difficult, no matter how painful, and here, in my view, is what is true.

MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they’re working right now as I speak, in state after state, to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.”

Again, he is speaking about MAGA Republicans. Not the Liz Cheneys and Adam Kinzingers. He goes on to say…

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.

They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th, brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they’re looking at them as Patriots, and they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they’re determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people. That’s why respected conservatives like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans “a clear and present danger to our democracy”.”

Our Capitol was attacked.

MAGA Republicans are trying to cover that up

Donald Trump and some GOP members tried to overturn our election with Fake Electors

“But while the threat to American democracy is real, I want to say as clearly as we can, we are not powerless in the face of these threats. We are not bystanders in this ongoing attack on democracy. There are far more Americans, far more Americans, from every background and belief who reject the extreme MAGA ideology than those that accept it.”

Biden is calling out MAGA Republicans. Not ALL Republicans.

“MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies. But together, together we can choose a different path. We can choose a better path forward to the future, a future of possibility, a future to build and dream and hope. And we’re on that path, moving ahead.”

Lies?

The BIG LIE

Lies?

Joe Biden is calling balls and strikes. Telling the truth. Here he calls out Republicans that are NOT MAGA Republicans to do more. As a GOPer myself from 1978 until Kasich dropped out I do to.

We’re all called by duty and conscious to confront extremists who put their own pursuit of power above all else. Democrats, Independents, Mainstream Republicans, we must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than Maggie Republicans are to destroying American democracy. We, the people, will not let anyone or anything tear us apart. Today, there are dangers around us we cannot allow to prevail. We hear you’ve heard it; more and more talk about violence as an acceptable political tool in this country. It’s not. It can never be an acceptable tool. So, I want to say this plain and simple: There is no place for political violence in America. Period. None ever.

You saw law enforcement brutally attacked on January 6th. We’ve seen election officials, poll workers, many of them volunteers of both parties, subject to intimidation and death threats. And can you believe it? FBI agents just doing their job as directed, facing threats to their own lives from their own fellow citizens. On top of that, there are public figures today, yesterday, and the day before predicting and all, but calling for mass violence and riot in streets. This is inflammatory. It’s dangerous. It’s against the rule of law, and we, the people, must say, “This is not who we are.”

Ladies and gentlemen, we can’t be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American. We’re incompatible. We can’t allow violence to be normalized in this country. It’s wrong. We each have to reject political violence with all the moral clarity and conviction this nation can muster. Now, we can’t let the integrity of our elections be undermined for that is a path to chaos. Look, I know politics can be fierce, and mean, and nasty in America. I get it. I believe in the give and take of politics, in disagreement, and debate, and dissent. We’re a big complicated country, but democracy endures only if we, the people, respect the guardrails of the republic. Only if we, the people, accept the results of free and fair elections. Only if we, the people, see politics not as total war, but mediation of our differences. Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election. Either they win, or they were cheated. And that’s where the Maggie Republicans are today.”

I want my GOP back!

Biden is calling out MAGA Republicans for intentionally lying

“Throughout our history, America’s often made the greatest progress coming out of some of our darkest moments like your hearing that bullhorn. I believe we can and must do that again, and we are. Maggie Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies, lies toll for profit and power. But I see a different America. An America with an unlimited future. An America that’s about to take off. I hope you see it as well. Just look around.”

Biden is addressing MAGA Republicans

“The MAGA Republican’s believe that for them to succeed everyone else has to fail. They believe America not like I believe about America. I believe America’s big enough for all of us to succeed, and that is the nation we’re building, a nation where no one is left behind. I ran for present because I believe we’re in a battle for the soul of this nation. I still believe that to be true. I believe the soul is the breath, the life, and the essence of who we are, the soul is what makes us us.”

Biden closed with this:

“Our task is to make our nation free and fair, just and strong, noble and whole, and this work is the work of democracy. The work of this generation is the work of our time, for all time, we can’t afford to leave anyone on the sidelines. We need everyone to do their part, so speak up, speak out, get engaged, vote, vote, vote.

And if we do our duty, if we do our duty in 2022 and beyond, then ages still to come will say we, all of us here, we kept the faith, we preserved democracy, we heeded not our worst instincts, but our better angels, and we proved that for all its imperfections, America is still the beacon to the world, an ideal to be realized, a promise to be kept. There’s nothing more important, nothing more sacred, nothing more American. That’s our soul, that’s who we truly are, and that’s who must, we must always be.

I have no doubt, none, that this is who we will be, and that we’ll come together as a nation that will secure our democracy, that for the next 200 years we’ll have what we had the past 200 years, the greatest nation on the face of the earth, we just need to remember who we are. We are the United States of America, the United States of America, and may God protect our nation, and may God protect all those who stand watch over our democracy. God bless you all, democracy, thank you.”