“Imagine a gentleman and you will have imagined everything that he was not”
-H.L. Mencken
Former Vice President Joe Biden spent the weekend pandering to an enthusiastic audience at an event for the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the USA where he was sure to whip shovelfuls of bloody red meat to the crowd.
Wisely deciding to skip the conclave of socialist loons at the California Democratic Party Convention where the frontrunner would have likely faced a hostile audience, Biden instead chose to speak before The Human Rights Campaign in the key battleground state of Ohio.
Showing once again that he is a panderer extraordinaire, Sleepy Joe assured the key identity group that he felt their pain and once elected, he would make the championing of the LGBTQ agenda one of the top priorities of his administration.
It was the same standard stemwinder that Biden has given to audiences of other critical demographics and his speechwriters only need to slightly alter the wording so as to best suit the particular identity group that he happens to be speaking to on any given day.
But Biden also resorted to the slimy and dishonest art of the smear against President Trump who he blamed for the senseless and tragic murders of five black transgenders this year.
Joe Biden speaks in Columbus, OH: "We've already had five, just this year, we've already had five black transgender women killed violently in 2019. It's outrageous. It must, it must, it must end. And the fastest way to end it is end the Trump administration." pic.twitter.com/RwC3AwxCNS
— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2019
Via The Associated Press:
Biden made no mention of his rivals, with his go-it-alone itinerary and his message signifying his burgeoning confidence at his position atop the pack of 24 presidential hopefuls.
Campaigning in a Midwest battleground is no surprise for Biden. One of the prevailing arguments for his candidacy is that his moderate, deal-making, “Middle Class Joe” brand offers Democrats their best shot to win back the industrial belt that Trump wrested from the party in 2016.
Yet the HRC event offered both Biden and his audience a chance to go beyond that simplified framing of the 2020 landscape.
“The thing that gets overlooked when the story is written about Ohio and the Midwest is that we’re incredibly diverse,” said Shawn Copeland, HRC’s Ohio director.
Copeland said HRC has identified about 1.8 million “equality voters” in Ohio, including 400,000 LGBTQ citizens, plus their family members, friends and other allies. Trump got 2.84 million Ohio votes to Hillary Clinton’s 2.4 million in 2016.
Biden, meanwhile, used the forum to underscore his long alliance with HRC and LGBTQ activists — a key to Biden’s contention that he’s more progressive than the party’s left flank acknowledges.
The former vice president visibly enjoyed recalling the 2012 presidential campaign when he announced his support for same-sex marriage before his boss, President Barack Obama, had done so.
Biden recalled that most political observers “thought I had just committed this gigantic blunder.” He said he’d let Obama know beforehand what might be coming. “I told the president if asked, I was not going to be quiet.”
The rest of his remarks were less jovial, as Biden lamented the widespread discrimination that still exists in the U.S. and abroad. Noting recent killings of black transgender women, he roared: “It’s outrageous. It must, it must, it must end. The fastest way to end it is to end the Trump administration.”
He lowered his voice as he listed the percentage of LGBTQ children and teens who attempt or consider suicide. “I don’t have to tell you how hard it is for these kids, because many of you were these kids,” he said, “the terror in your heart as you spoke your truth.”
Biden is a typical dishonest career politician who has never held a real job in his life so by his very nature he is dishonest but this sort of disgusting language is so beyond the pale that one has to wonder how low that he is willing to go to poison minds with lies about Trump.
