Who said it? Joe Biden or Famous Dictator? 

Last night Joe Biden gave a bone chilling speech calling to basically criminalize support of his number one political opponent, Donald Trump. 

In honor of this extremely unifying oration (I mean…if you’re only allowed to think one thing then everyone is unified) – we’re going to see if you can tell if it was Joe Biden who said it or a famous dictator from history. References to specific countries and parties have been removed to make the game more fun. Key at bottom of the page.

1. WHO SAID: 

Tonight, I’ve come to this place where it all began to speak as plainly as I can to the nation about the threats we face, about the power we have in our own hands to meet these threats and about the incredible future that lies in front of us, if only we choose it.

2. WHO SAID: 

Thus [our ideas] arose which has overcome individualism, but not by cutting down individual capacities or individual initiative, only by asserting that the common interest is superior to individual liberty and the initiative of the individual. This common interest regulates and orders, if necessary, curtails, but also commands.

3. WHO SAID: 

And here, in my view, is what is true: [they] do not respect the [laws of the land]. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they’re working right now as I speak…to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.

4. WHO SAID: 

The task before us is the most difficult which has faced [us] in living memory. But we all have unbounded confidence, for we believe in our nation and in its eternal values. Farmers, workers, and the middle class must unite to contribute the bricks wherewith to build [back our nation]. [I] will therefore regard it as its first and supreme task to restore to the people unity of mind and will. It will preserve and defend the foundations on which the strength of our nation rests. 

5. WHO SAID: 

If [they] disarm, well and good. If [they] refuses to disarm, we shall disarm [them] ourselves

6. WHO SAID: 

I will not stand by and watch — I will not — the will of the people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence-free claims of fraud. I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. 

7. WHO SAID: 

 [He] wants… to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with [their values]. 

8. WHO SAID: 

Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. [My political opponent] and [his supporters] represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.

9. WHO SAID: 

[My opponent and his followers are] functionaries who threaten the security of the state…  It has become clear that it is not viable to leave these people free, as they continue to make trouble and disturb the peace.  We have adopted this measure, undeterred by paltry scruples, in the conviction that our action will help to restore calm to our country and is in the best interests of our people.

10. WHO SAID: 

[We are] a crucial and heroic battle… on which the destiny of the nation and its people rests. The enemy is among us today, using agents to destabilize the country, the security of its citizens. They (the enemy) wanted to deprive the people of their national decision… but they were astonished to see these proud people, who confronted their plans and defeated them. 

Answer key: 

1. Biden 
2. Hitler
3. Biden
4. Hitler
5. Stalin
6. Biden
7. Gaddafi
8. Biden
9. Himmler
10. Al-Assad