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Nov 29, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Last night #JoeBiden gave a speech in Denver: a few quotes:
-This month in local elections, "The American people voted to protect the fundamental freedoms, like the right to choose. They voted to protect democracy. They voted against the extremism of our opponents."
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2/#Biden
-"Democrats up & down the ticket ran on our record. They're proud of that Biden-Harris agenda...each of the people who won this off-year election cited the record they ran on. And it's a winning election."
-"the only reason there's a ban on #abortion --"
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3/#Biden
-"...& the circumstances in many places is because of #DonaldTrump ."
-New #Democrat election victories are, "just because the #Republican friends found out the power of women in America. Well, Donald Trump is about to find out about the power of women in 2024."
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4/#Biden
-#DonaldTrump announced his latest idea...He said he wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act...There are 40 million people in America today who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. His plan is to throw every one of them off that."
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5/#Biden
-He's in Cong. #LaurenBoebert district, where, "We're going to a wind energy company that plans to invest an additional $200 million to expand the facility in Colorado, double its production, add 850 new jobs -- good-paying jobs.
But the congresswoman..."
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6/#Biden
-"...along with every single one of her #Republican colleagues, voted against the law I signed that made these investments possible. And then she voted to repeal it, and she called it a massive failure...And she went on and voted against the Bipartisan..."
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7/#Biden
-"...Infrastructure Law. She called it garbage. It’s building bridges, roads, Internet, et cetera. And she called it a scam."
-"One of the ways that we paid for our investments & cut the debt by $7 billion -- is by making corporations pay their fair share..."
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8/#Biden
-"...Remember back in 2020, there were 55 corporations in the Fortune 500 corporate world that made $40 billion in profit who didn’t pay a single penny in tax. But by making sure they pay that 15 percent minimum tax, we paid for everything that we've proposed."
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9/#Biden
-"We had 750 billionaires b4 the #pandemic . You know what their tax rate is? Eight percent...That's wrong. That's why I'm proposing a billionaire minimum tax...at just 25%. That's a hell of a lot less than all of you pay."
-"I’m tired of trickle-down economics."
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10/#Biden
-"I guarantee that no one making less than $400,000 a year would pay a penny more -- in federal taxes -- as long as I was President of the United States."
-"Our democracy is at stake...because the same man who proclaims himself to be a proud election denier.."
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11/#Biden
-"...the same man who is promising pardons for the January 6th insurrectionists, the same man who said, and I quote, he wants to terminate -- quote, 'termination of all rules, regulations, articles, & even [those] found in the Constitution.' He means it."
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12/#Biden
-#Trump "intends to use the presidency for he says, 'revenge & retribution.' It's a President of the United States saying those things...And on more than one occasion, he's made a joke about the assault on Paul #Pelosi , Speaker Pelosi’s husband, with a hammer.."
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13/#Biden
-"...to the head trying to kill him. Well, guess what? If you can joke about that, you really have no business being anywhere near the presidency...we’ve never talked this way b4 in American politics...And there's no place in America for political violence..."
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14/#Biden
-"...under any circumstances. None, zero, ever."
-"#Trump said if he returned to office, he would go after all those who oppose him, root out what he called the 'vermin' in America...These are his quotes. That's a specific phrase with a specific meaning..."
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15/#Biden
-"That goes to the language we heard in Germany in the ‘30s. #Trump also talked about, quote, 'the blood of our country is being poisoned,' end of quote. God Almighty."
-"Folks, we just can't fall numb to #Trump & the threats he poses. #DonaldTrump & the..."
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16/#Biden
-"...extreme MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy as we know it."
-"When I look at America, I see the strongest economy in the world, an America that's once again leading the world in foreign policy. #DonaldTrump sees an angry, dark..."
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17/#Biden
-"...dismal, divided future of America, but I don't. Folks, I mean this from the bottom my heart: I've never been more optimistic about America...Like I said, we just have to remember who we are." Image

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He reads from printed text on the podium.
"This is the Golden Age of America." Image
2/ His remarks open by listing his accomplishments domestically since taking office. "In my first term I built the best economy in the history of the world...and this time it's even better."
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Says the U.S. was a laughing stock, but not anymore. My administration has negotiated one historic trade agreement after another."
I have ended 7 un-endable wars. I ended 7 wars. " Cambodia/Thailand, Congo/Rwanda, Armenia/Azerbaijian, Albania/Kosovo.
"And I did it in just 7 months. There's never been anything like it."
The UN "did nothing. I never even received a phone call from the U-N."Image
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Canadian PM Mark Carney is addressing the Council on Foreign Relations right now. He opened by describing the very positive relationship Canada and the US shared -- until now.
And looking at Trump impacts on the global geopolitical landscape.
"So, what do we do about it? We think we can thrive for three reasons"
1.) we have what the world wants:
- energy
- we are top % in world's critical minerals
- we are a leading developer of AI and quantum talent
- we have sophisticated pension funds and investors
- we have a govt that can act decisively
2.) Our public square is loud, diverse and free
3.) We recognize what's going on. A rupture. Sharp change.
- build strength at home, cut taxes, increased X-province trade, doubling defense spending, especially in AI
- defend out values
- build alliances abroad
- diverse trade agreements, espec. w/EU
- joining SAFE -- EU defense
- comprehensive approach w/Mexico trade
- we are largest contributor per capita to Ukraine
- support 2-state solution in ME
- forming buyers' clubs for REEs & critical minerals

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Carney/2
"Old Multilateralism" -- how we used to work.
Now, substantial change underway, espec. for REEs, essential minerals, energy.
When you think about Canada, think of a strong soveriegn nation.
We understand what's going on. We have the resources the world needs. We're a reliable partner...with any part of the world.
Carney/3
LIVE now Carney is talking on stage w/CFR Pres. Froman
Q - 2/3rds Canadian population lives w/in 100 km of US border -- how much can you reorient economy?
Carney: 1st, recog. the need to do it. To be masters in our own house.
Don't want to look at Truth Social daily to see changes in US poilicy
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On Friday, when most of America wasn't paying attention, heading out for the holidays, Trump signed an Exec Order transferring ALL control over foreign aid from State to OMB.
This will destroy American overseas programs. Here's why (MORE)whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
2/US programs for everything from #famine relief & #HIV care to safe pregnancy efforts & building electricity grids have won America friends in the world & saved 100s of millions of lives. They were nested in the State Dept so our diplomats on the ground can oversee them.
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3/ By moving foreign aid out of State & into OMB, programs for saving starving children, rescuing families from catastrophes, teaching kids to read, stopping epidemics -- ALL of that now falls under the control of Russell Vought.
Who is Vought?
MOREtrumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/people/russell…Image
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As #JoeBiden hunkered down in Delaware & Party leaders scrambled to figure out how #Democrats can win the election, I kept thinking of March 31, 1968. On that day the White House put out word of a mysterious speech LBJ would give from the Oval Office.
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In a world without Internet or 24-hour news cycles the buzz in Washington about the event failed to reach the American people until that night. America assumed LBJ’s address would be about the widening war in Vietnam. On live television, a very haggard-looking LBJ began:
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3/
"Good evening, my fellow Americans:
Tonight, I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world."
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When a society attacks its toiling scientists, ranking the opinions of quacks, religions & charlatans above those of scientific insight and discovery, it is a sorrowful time.
Scientists who have been persecuted for their work...
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-Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī or Rhazes of Baghdad (860 - 932 AD) beaten into blindness for introducing medical advances from non-Arab countries
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-Michael Servetus (1511-1553) made discoveries in blood circulation. Burned at the stake by Calvin in Geneva
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