McCarthy to call on Biden to apologize after 'semi-fascism' remark

[Joe Nation]

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Source: CNN

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is set to take on President Joe Biden in a prebuttal speech on Thursday ahead of a prime-time address later in the evening from the President.

As part of the speech, McCarthy is expected to focus in on remarks from Biden last week in which he labeled the philosophy that underpins former President Donald Trump and those who have stood by him as "like semi-facism."

While the President's remarks focused on Trump and his supporters' ideology, McCarthy will call on Biden to apologize for calling some Americans fascists when he gives his speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to a source familiar with the minority leader's speech.
"What we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy," Biden recently told a group of Democratic donors at a private home in Maryland.

"It's not just Trump," he went on, "it's the entire philosophy that underpins the -- I'm going to say something: It's like semi-fascism."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speech-biden/index.html

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. He absolutely should.

He should apologize for using the term “semi”. They’re full on fascists.

[ColinC]

6. I could see dark brandon doing that, too!

[no_hypocrisy]

11. + one million

"I'm sorry. I should have said fascists. My bad."

[agingdem]

12. Quasi-fascists...better, Kev???

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. Absolutely! Rs fell in the semi trap! Now Biden can explain to nation in prime time why only semi!

You asked, we answer!

[patphil]

23. Full fledged, farting and belching facists.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

[grumpyduck]

2. Good luck with that.

Biden's just taking a page from your playbook, shithead.

[LenaBaby61]

35. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Sky Jewels]

3. Says the piece of shit who helped try to overthrow democracy

and install an authoritarian dictator for life.

[Marthe48]

4. sit down and shut up, kev

The only inaccuracy in PRESIDENT BIDEN'S comments are that he said semi. r's are complete fascists and should be tried for treason, just for a start.

[TheRealNorth]

5. To paraphrase the Ukranians.....

Russian Stooge.....Go fuck yourself.

[William Seger]

7. It's only "semi" because the GOP is still confined by the system

When they get control, they can fix that problem and go straight up fascism.

[nycbos]

8. What time is the speech tonight.

[bsiebs]

18. 8PM Eastern time.... from Philadelphia

[Rebl2]

9. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Right. If anything president Biden should call the fascist.

[Docreed2003]

10. Wonder if they would ever consider apologizing for

Calling us "socialists and communists and pedophile groomers"

[Traildogbob]

20. Baby killers

Fetus eaters, comes outta MTG and Booberts pie holes daily. Fuck you McCarthy you treasonous traitor tot, trump ass boil. Damnit there are so many faces I wanna………..I’ve never been like this.
God that prick is a prick.

[SharonClark]

24. Well said.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Maga Fascists.

There. Fixed it for you, McWhiney. Happy now?

[jls4561]

14. Hey Kevin-if the swastika fits.....

[Midnight Writer]

15. Good. Joe should list the specific ways the Republicans are moving towards fascism and then

make sure the conversation is public.

Keeping this in the news cycle is not a winner for Republicans.

[Botany]

16. Fuck you Kevin you knew about Trump & Russia in 2016

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

and you push CRT too

"Critical Race Theory goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. taught us—to not judge others by the color of their skin," McCarthy wrote alongside the clip from the show. "The Left is trying to take America backward."

https://www.newsweek.com/bernice-king-responds-kevin-mccarthy-critical-race-theory-crt-1609132

[PortTack]

17. F..k NO!!

[IcyPeas]

21. Don Lemon: The former President talked shit about everybody including other presidents.. now....

Lemon: The former President talked shit about everybody including other presidents, members of his own party, probably you, and now everybody— all of the sudden they got the vapors about one statement that Biden made..

Link to tweet

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. When every Republican in the House

Apologizes for calling us communists and socialists.

And since they have been doing that for decades, they can wait that long for an apology.

And while we're at it:

It's Democratic Party, not Democrat Party.

[FoxNewsSucks]

25. I hope he calls them fascists again.

And brings up the facts in post 16 above - McCarthy knew all about MF45 & Putin, and covered for him. Still covers for him and that's what Biden should say.

Let those republicon pieces of shit squeal like the pigs that they are.

[LiberalFighter]

26. I hope Biden makes a snide remark about McCarthy unhappiness about facism.

[texasfiddler]

27. The semi-truth hurts.

He should just drop the semi.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. No "semi" about it.

MAGA GOP are Fascists.

[Gore1FL]

29. He is sorry that so many in the GOP support fascism, but he can't apologize for it. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Biden laughed Paul Ryan off the stage

I sense McCarthy will be next

[Historic NY]

31. Kevin can wait until he's finsihed with a grand jury to explain his Jan 6th to present actions

[cstanleytech]

32. And make the same mistake Hillary made when she apologized for being honest about

the Republican party having deplorables?

[ananda]

33. Just double down on it. They are definitely fascist.

!!!

[spudspud]

34. "Nuts!"

Should be his response.

[kwolf68]

36. So typical

I remember some years ago I think it was Dick Durbin who made some sort of remark equating some Repuke to fascists. Not totally sure. And of course, Durbin rolled out an apology after all the right wing poutrage.

Yet their entire cottage industry relies on calling us Marxists and Communists. They do it every day, 24/7. These people can go piss up a rope. They WRONGLY paint us as communists, yet of course they are pissed Biden is calling out their fascist tendencies. I mean FFS, what was 1/6 if not a fascist movement to install an authoritarian dictator? Fascists!!!

[sarcasmo]

37. Apologize for telling the truth, only the GOP.

[rustysgurl]

38. What a bunch of malarkey! n/t

[sdfernando]

39. Of course!

Biden to McCarthy: i'm sorry you're a semi-fascist.

[Wonder Why]

40. He's half right.

It's not like semi-fascism. It's full fascism.

[hadEnuf]

41. Nope, no apology.

Dems are regularly called Communists, Leftists, Marxists, Soviets, Maoists, Socialists, National Socialists (aka, Nazis), Fascists and every other name in the book by Republicans, all while we have been the driving force against those very things for the last 75+ years.

Mr. McCarthy, you can go fuck yourself.

[catbyte]

42. Hey, Kevin, take your faux-outrage apology "demand," fold it in 5 corners,

and stick it where the sun don't shine.

[AllaN01Bear]

43. first neo. then semi. if it waddles like a duck, its a duck

[BlueIdaho]

44. Fuck you - you traitor!

Kevin should be behind bars.

[Mike Nelson]

45. Well...

... Kevin probably finds the mild name-calling shocking - his Republican friends never attach the "semi-" when they almost daily hurl similar and worse words.

[Omaha Steve]

46. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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