Mr Biden’s speech is his first major campaign event of the 2024 election season

President Joe Biden marked the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol by warning that the issue of American democracy will be “what the 2024 election is all about,” as he runs against former president Donald Trump once more.

Mr Biden, who spoke near the Valley Forge historical site where George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped during the winter of 1777 and 1778, told attendees that they were there “to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause?”

“This isn’t rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time,” he said.

Mr Biden said his speech, his first major event of the 2024 election season, was “deadly serious,” and about a topic that needed to be raised at the outset of his campaign.

  • Diva (she/her)
    link
    fedilink
    -46 months ago

    Yeah, it’s got more to do with the difference between monumental restraint and an intentional genocide.

    • Flying Squid
      link
      fedilink
      26 months ago

      I’m sorry… did you just praise Russia for its restraint after it invaded Ukraine unprovoked?

      • Diva (she/her)
        link
        fedilink
        06 months ago

        Considering they have killed fewer civilians in 2 years than “Israel” in 3 months? yes

        • Flying Squid
          link
          fedilink
          16 months ago

          And yet they still killed a shit ton of people. Why doesn’t that matter to you?

          • Diva (she/her)
            link
            fedilink
            06 months ago

            It does, but as a resident of the US I would like the “harm reduction” government I have to stop literally funding and using our military to protect a genocide

            • Flying Squid
              link
              fedilink
              16 months ago

              And so you praise Putin. Gotcha. Not surprising from someone who is gleefully cheering on mass murder in this thread.

                • Flying Squid
                  link
                  fedilink
                  16 months ago

                  oh alpha nerd

                  Didn’t you just get upset at me ‘insulting’ you when I did no such thing?