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Joe Biden

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Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States, having taken office on January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Vice President under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. Biden has focused on various key issues during his presidency, including economic recovery, healthcare, and climate change. His administration has emphasized 'Bidenomics,' which aims to address inflation and promote economic growth.

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Aug 6, 2019

The Crime Bill did some good things, but it also had some unintended consequences that we need to address.

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Aug 5, 2019

Millennials have a message for the Joe Biden generation, hurry up and die.

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Aug 4, 2019

We choose hope over fear, you know, unity over division, and maybe most importantly, truth over lies.

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Aug 4, 2019

We got to let him know who we are, man. Even his supporters know who he is. They have no illusions about the basic fun character traits.

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Aug 4, 2019

You shouldn't be able to buy certain weapons, because they have no rational other than.

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Aug 4, 2019

America is an idea. It's an idea. It's bigger than any damn ocean, more powerful than any army.

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Aug 4, 2019

You can't define what an American is based on ethnicity, on race, on religion, on background.

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Aug 4, 2019

A president should speak to everybody, everybody. The base should be Democrats, Republicans, independents across the board. That's not who he is.

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Aug 4, 2019

We have to take on the gun manufacturers, as well as the NRA. All they're interested in is selling a weapon, not about safety.

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Aug 4, 2019

You can, we did that in our administration, act by executive order, on 30 different executive orders.

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Aug 4, 2019

What I would do is -- I would try to -- I would institute a national buyback program and I would move it in the direction to making sure that that in fact is what we try to do, get them off the street.

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Aug 4, 2019

Look, why don't we call this for what it is? This is pure and simple white nationalism, terrorism. It's domestic terrorism, period.

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Aug 4, 2019

By the way, I've always argue that there should be people who are denied the ability to have weapons if they have a mental illness.

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Aug 4, 2019

Hatred is not necessarily -- it's sick but it's not a mental illness. To confuse that with a certifiable mental illness -- white supremacy is wrong. White nationalism is wrong.

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Aug 4, 2019

Let's go make sure that we in fact do not allow what I was able to do once with Dianne Feinstein's help eliminate the ability to have an assault weapon.

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Aug 4, 2019

There's no question that his rhetoric contributed to at a minimum, at a minimum of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another.

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Aug 4, 2019

This is a president who has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson.

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Aug 4, 2019

Clearly, his actions have done nothing to do anything other than encourage this kind of behavior.

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Aug 4, 2019

I mean, this -- this is white nationalism. This is -- this is -- this is -- this is terrorism of a different sort but it's still terrorism.

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Aug 4, 2019

This is -- this is a president who continues to speak in ways that just are completely contrary to everything who we are.

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Aug 4, 2019

The white supremacists are winning the battle. This is -- this is domestic terrorism.

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Aug 4, 2019

Bingo. You're right if you have an assault weapon. The fact of the matter is, they should be illegal, period.

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Aug 4, 2019

It matters the stories of these people for the public to understand that this is not just a statistic. This is -- this is who we are, who they are. I mean, it's a -- it really is about, you know, reweaving that social fabric that holds the…

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