Biden: ‘You Can’t Define America. I Defy You To Tell Me What Constitutes An American. You Can’t Do I

[mystery-ak]

Biden: ‘You Can’t Define America. I Defy You To Tell Me What Constitutes An American. You Can’t Do It.’
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Jul 2, 2021   DailyWire.com

President Joe Biden raised eyebrows with a remark that he made on Friday at a naturalization ceremony with essential workers and military service members, saying that there was no set standard of what constitutes an American.

“I’ve often said that America is the only nation in the world founded on an idea,” Biden said. “Every other nation in the world is founded on the basis of either that — geography or ethnicity or religion. You can define every — almost everyone else based on those characteristics, but you can’t define America. I defy you to tell me what constitutes an American. You can’t do it. We’re an incredibly diverse democracy.”

“But there is one thing that does define us a country: We were founded on an idea that, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [and women] are created equal…endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty, [and] the pursuit of Happiness,'” he added. “It sounds corny to Americans, as we learn this in grade school and high school. We’ve never fully lived up to it, but we’ve never, ever, ever walked away from it. Every generation opens that aperture a little bit wider.”

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[catfish1957]

Someone pinch me.  I must be asleep, and am dreaming that an ultimate idiot is POTUS.

[libertybele]

Someone pinch me.  I must be asleep, and am dreaming that an ultimate idiot is POTUS.

Ok, Joe. Call me. I'll tell you what an American is.  By the way Joe, you just ain't American enough!

[Wingnut]

Last time he tried....he failed.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”

[dfwgator]

It's certainly not you, Joe.

[Absalom]

Politicians are coarse and vulgar morons, at their core.
As such, they should avoid ideas, their mortal enemy.
Someone alert Bozo Biden.
Defining nationality begins w/geography followed by history.
Defining America/Americans begins w/England which
provided our heritage/legacy, a reality.

[catfish1957]

Politicians are coarse and vulgar morons, at their core.
As such, they should avoid ideas, their mortal enemy.
Someone alert Bozo Biden.
Defining nationality begins w/geography followed by history.
Defining America/Americans begins w/England which
provided our heritage/legacy, a reality.

Someone Slap me.  I agree with Ab.

[Wingnut]

Someone Slap me.  I agree with Ab.

Someone hacked his TBR account. 

[skeeter]

Striking just the right note leading up to the July 4th weekend. Dumbass.

[catfish1957]

Striking just the right note leading up to the July 4th weekend. Dumbass.

Right up there with announcing we are withdrawing from Afghanistan September 11th this year.

[skeeter]

Right up there with announcing we are withdrawing from Afghanistan September 11th this year.

hard to believe it’s not intentional.

Not on China Joe’s part, mind you. He has no clue.

[roamer_1]

This is just like those who say you cannot define Conservatism...
Always an excuse to justify something awful and opposite...

[skeeter]

This is just like those who say you cannot define Conservatism...
Always an excuse to justify something awful and opposite...

A lot of that going around. There was a lot of definitions, rationalizations and justifications used to excuse the administration we have in place today.

[roamer_1]

A lot of that going around. There was a lot of definitions, rationalizations and justifications used to excuse the administration we have in place today.

And the one before that
And the one before that
And the one before that...
 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Note to help Joe:  These are not Americans

[mountaineer]

It sounds corny to Americans, as we learn this in grade school and high school.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution do not sound corny. They sound magnificent and divinely inspired to me, you old sack of slobber.

 The problem is that today's grade school and high school students don't learn anything about them except that they were created by slave-holding old white men.

[skeeter]

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution do not sound corny. They sound magnificent and divinely inspired to me, you old sack of slobber.

 The problem is that today's grade school and high school students don't learn anything about them except that they were created by slave-holding old white men.

Magnificent, divinely inspired and definitive, ie not open to interpretation. Unlike so much of the rest of contemporary political jargon.

[jmyrlefuller]

OK, Mr. President.

What constitutes an American?

- Born in the United States AND subject to its jurisdiction. (14th Amendment, 1st Clause)
- OR -
- Conforming to the Rule of Naturalization set forth by Congress. (Article I, Section 8, 3rd Clause)
- OR -
- Whosoever the 13 original states at the time of the Constitution's drafting may see fit. (Article I, Section 9, 1st Clause)

It's all in the Constitution he swore to serve and protect.

[Hoodat]

These are the same people who denigrate American Exceptionalism.

[DCPatriot]

Note to help Joe:  These are not Americans

But the sad reality, IMO, is that no American military unit(s) of the same size as the Chinese in the photo would be able to duplicate the precision in which they march/move in synchronization.

Second exhibit B would be the Beijing Olympics Pre-Lighting of the torch to begin the games.  Haven't seen anything comparable before or since.

We had better have an orbital laser weapon that can destroy entire cities...or we're dead meat.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

But the sad reality, IMO, is that no American military unit(s) of the same size as the Chinese in the photo would be able to duplicate the precision in which they march/move in synchronization.

Second exhibit B would be the Beijing Olympics Pre-Lighting of the torch to begin the games.  Haven't seen anything comparable before or since.

We had better have an orbital laser weapon that can destroy entire cities...or we're dead meat.

Just a sampling of what we are up against.

How the Chinese have developed a way to have tanks cross a river in 30 minutes

https://i.imgur.com/ScIH8im.mp4

[DCPatriot]

Just a sampling of what we are up against.

How the Chinese have developed a way to have tanks cross a river in 30 minutes

https://i.imgur.com/ScIH8im.mp4

@IsailedawayfromFR

YIKES!! 

[skeeter]

Just a sampling of what we are up against.

How the Chinese have developed a way to have tanks cross a river in 30 minutes

https://i.imgur.com/ScIH8im.mp4

Oh yeah? Well, we've developed maternity flight suits.

[DCPatriot]

Oh yeah? Well, we've developed maternity flight suits.

 

[Wingnut]

Note to help Joe:  These are not Americans

C'mon man. you can tell they are not American's by looking at them.....  Not a fat over-weight one in the whole lot!  Look at all the money the Chinese save on uniforms.  They only make them in one size.