Joe Biden likens Ted Cruz to Nazi propagandist Goebbels for helping Trump spread 'big lie'

[CountAllVotes]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In extraordinarily sharp remarks Friday, President-elect Joe Biden compared Sen. Ted Cruz to Hitler’s propaganda master in the way he peddled Donald Trump’s “big lie” about election fraud, though Biden stopped short of blaming Cruz for the riot by a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol as many Texas Democrats have done.

The Texas Republican led an attempt in the Senate to block congressional certification of Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, insisting that widespread doubts about the legitimacy of the election demanded an emergency investigation to allay public concerns. Wednesday’s riot, which left one Capitol Police officer and four other people dead, delayed the formal count of the electoral votes.

Biden invoked Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, recalling his exaggeration of civilian deaths in the firebombing of Dresden, repeated by newspapers around the world. Goebbels maintained that the bigger the lie, and the more it was repeated, the more likely that it would be believed.

Biden noted that Cruz, like Trump, had spent weeks questioning the legality and accuracy of balloting in a half dozen states, despite an utter lack of evidence.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/01/08/biden-likens-ted-cruz-to-nazi-propagandist-goebbels-for-helping-trump-spread-big-lie-about-election-fraud/

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Now this is MY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN!!!!

[Midnight Writer]

1. I think even the Republicans want to get rid of Cruz, esp. since Gov. Abbott will name replacement.

[BlueIdaho]

3. Republicans see Cruz as an enormous self important ass.

If he got run over in front of the capital building - they wouldn’t even call 911.

[yaesu]

2. Maybe we can include enough money in the next stimulus bill to bribe Canada to take him back?

[electric_blue68]

5. Ripped From Future Headlines!

•A Sleepy Ted Cruz Found In Canadian Forest After Being Kidnapped When Canadian Authorities Informed

•Canadian Mounties Seen Dragging Sen Cruz Back Into The USA

•Locals Protest!


(Forest idea suddenly popped up on remembering a photo showing Northern US Forest and Southern Canadian Forest separated by a ?20 open space for miles)

[NCjack]

32. Yeah! Canadians know that Ted is a snake.

[electric_blue68]

36. Oh no, don't insult snakes!

[Hiawatha Pete]

15. Nope, border's closed - sorry n/t

[onetexan]

37. Canadias hate hi & dot wat him back

Who wants a POS?

[2naSalit]

4. He needs to return to Cuba...

Guantanamo to be exact.

[sandensea]

8. +1

He should take Narco Rubio with him.

[2naSalit]

11. He's on the list.

I would like to see all of the criminals from this shitshow end up in gitmo, it's big enough for all of them and they won;t have idiots protesting outside the gates and they won't be able to get there. Perfect place for them.

[sandensea]

16. As Bush was fond of saying: They hate us for our democracy, our freedom

He meant Middle-Easterners of course - but there's nothing worse than sedition from within government, is there.

[diane in sf]

38. How many of these are the ones who celebrated July 4th in Moscow with Putin? Johnson is the

Only one I know for sure.

[2naSalit]

20. LOL!

Thanks! I saw that earlier today but it was in the same thread as Honky Kong and I got distracted. I love this, though.

[2naSalit]

22. I would think that would NOT be a good thing for Canada, which I love dearly.

The best place for all of them is gitmo. That way their fans can't find them.

[Hiawatha Pete]

24. Couldn't agree more! Entertainment to be provided by Donnie singing Jailhouse Rock to his cellmates

"Number 45 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see"

[CountAllVotes]

25. ...

[Hiawatha Pete]

27. Right from the fascist playbook...

along with:



What's scary is they taught us history in school, yet so many fell & continue to fall for right wing propaganda in the form of soundbites, slogans and bumper stickers. And this is a worldwide problem, not just in America.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back at Cruz After He Criticizes Biden's Reference to Nazis

New York Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez responded to Texas Senator Ted Cruz's complaints about President-elect Joe Biden's references to Nazis in a pair of tweets Saturday, calling for Cruz to resign in the wake of the deadly Capitol riot.

Cruz quote-tweeted a Washington Post reporter who had written about a remark that Biden had made at a press conference on Saturday. Biden responded to a reporter who asked if Cruz or Senator Josh Hawley should resign. The president-elect said they should be beaten next time they run.

Both Cruz and Hawley have experienced backlash for their challenge to the certification of Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden's victory prior to the mob assault on the Capitol, which left five people dead. Cruz and Hawley condemned the riot as they are under scrutiny for trying to overturn the election results.

Biden said that the senators were "part of the big lie" and shared an anecdote about Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, exaggerating the number of people killed in the firebombing of Dresden and the papers printed it.

Link to tweet

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-fires-back-at-cruz-after-he-criticizes-biden-s-reference-to-nazis/ar-BB1cC0Lk?li=BBorjTa

[Yeehah]

43. The Democratic party needs more fighters like AOC

The time for playing patty-cake with republican fascists is long gone.

[Biophilic]

7. You go Joe. You are right on. nt

[William769]

9. K&R.

[Traildogbob]

13. NEver leave out Hawley

He is STILL pushing the lies.

[William769]

14. He's in rabid red country though.

Senate needs to deal with him.

[Traildogbob]

18. You are correct

But his donors, mentor and hometown paper is raising a little hell about him,

[birdographer]

29. Hawley is the smart trump

and needs to be stopped now before he goes any further. He wants to be a cult leader and have thousands of morons at his beck and call. And then be a dictator. This is a very, very bad man. Could someone please just...oh, well, you know. But now, or soon.

[Traildogbob]

30. Ditto dat

[blue-wave]

10. From Joe Biden's lips

straight to my ears!!! Hey Joe, push whoever you must to impeach the seditious traitor NOW!!!!

[SunSeeker]

12. K & R

[SheltieLover]

19. K&R!

Ty, Mr. President!

[dalton99a]

23. Most excellent.

[StarryNite]

26. Yes!

It would sure be a shame if Cruz came to the same ending as Goebbels.

[birdographer]

28. Trump follows Goebbels playbook word for word

I seriously doubt he knows he is doing it, that would require some actual reading. But his constant projection (blame others for that which you are guilty) and repeating a lie so that it magically becomes accepted as truth, are, as far as I recall, Goebbels teachings. They love their Nazi ways. it worked for Hitler and they assumed it would work for them.

[burrowowl]

35. Goebbels playbook was taken from one of the first advertising books written in America.

I think Biden should have taken a better example than the fire bombing of Dresden, Kristallnacht or other examples would have been better. My French teacher in high school was in the last fire bombing carried out in Royan France. These bombings created fire tornados.

[Roy Rolling]

31. Cruz, Hawley are Culpable

But “the big lie” is that liberals/Democrats are enemies of society.

Election fraud scams is a small lie.

The big lie of Nazis was that Jews were the enemies of society, I wouldn’t compare election fraud to that level of evil.

[CountAllVotes]

40. Right!

This time around it is We The People that are the enemies of society!

I do not believe the BIG LIE do you?

[Hekate]

33. KnR

[slumcamper]

34. Good, but unless this truth is repeated ten-thousand-fold, less than 1% hear it.

[CountAllVotes]

41. Dump et al. Nazis

Nothing new in my book! Nothing new at all!

NAZIS = anyone that believes the BIG LIE!

[bucolic_frolic]

42. Biden understands what is happening, and knows the roots of this cult

We are in for rough times. The Bund spawned great-grandchildren.

[Blue Owl]

44. K&R