{"id":17524,"date":"2022-09-01T21:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2022-09-01T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:01:29","slug":"biden-to-save-americas-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/01\/biden-to-save-americas-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to Save America&#8217;s Soul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17527\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House-800x442.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House-800x442.png 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House-150x83.png 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-01-at-20-59-15-Live-The-White-House.png 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s speech in Philadelphia was mostly recycled riffs, most of which were inaccurate or overheated the first time around.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my live commentary via Twitter &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden calling for hope and political unity. Last week he denounced Republicans for &quot;semi-fascism.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565494986514251779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How do Biden supporters reconcile his &quot;Rule of Law&quot; invocations with his dictatorial decrees, many of which have been smacked down by federal judges &amp; the Supreme Court?  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bidenspeech?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bidenspeech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565499336259244034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the PHiladelphia audience wasn&#39;t full of bootlickers, they would burst out laughing every time Biden invokes &quot;the Rule of Law.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565494177219203080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden speech &#8211; Closed Captions keeps referring to &quot;Maggie Republicans.&quot; Makes as much sense as Biden&#39;s spiel<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565491731054956544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden keeps invoking \u201crule of law.\u201d  One year ago, Biden went primetime for his Vaccine Mandate speech &#8211; a dictatorial decree that got smashed by the Supreme Court (mostly)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565492904164032513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden heaved all this lofty language as if the last 18+ month of his power grabs and illegal decrees never happened<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565497284502196224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#39;s speech starts soon. I&#39;m on the edge of my chair waiting to hear &quot;inflection point.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1565486667229794304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden&#8217;s speech in Philadelphia was mostly recycled riffs, most of which were inaccurate or overheated the first time around.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my live commentary via Twitter &#8211; Biden calling for hope and political unity. 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