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Biden: “There’s Nothing We Can Do” to Slow Covid
Shortly before the election, candidate Joe Biden proclaimed, “I’m going to shut down the virus, not the country.” Two days after inauguration, he’s updated his message: “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”
Nothing we can do. That means the lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures are all for naught. The scientific miracle of producing a vaccine in less than a year is meaningless. After all, that’s what “nothing we can do” means.
Instead, he wants to massively increase our $27 trillion national debt by bailing out profligate blue states and pouring money into teachers’ unions. We can change the trajectory of spending, but not in the direction we need.
President Biden urges Congress to pass more COVID relief:
“There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” pic.twitter.com/BmogfKwwSg
— The Recount (@therecount) January 22, 2021
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We can always impeach Trump again.
Xi Biden suddenly can’t just lie his way around the issues.
But it was all worth it! ™
Why not? He’s still alive isn’t he?
All you have to do is use Science. Science!
But his tweets were mean!
Biden’s equivalent of Bill Clinton in 1993, after going through the ’92 campaign telling everyone he wasn’t going to raise taxes, saying in his first nationally-televised address that, gosh-darn it, he’s done everything he could, but he just can’t figure out a way to fix things without raising taxes.
No surprise for anyone actually paying attention on either side of the aisle (though the ones who knew on the left didn’t care that Joe was lying). Possibly a surprise to some voters who bought into the belief that Donald Trump was messing everything up, and things would be put right again once he left office. Thursday’s claim to CNN that the Trump Administration had ‘no plan’ to distributed the vaccines was probably leaked deliberately to set up Friday’s new narrative, though Team Biden may have been taken aback by the fact that most other news outlets didn’t buy it, and Fauci blew up the claim later on Thursday, including during an interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN.
And everybody who said this crap will all be over when Biden gets seated says, “Aha!”
Not even the Magic Tranny? Not “Dr. Jill Biden”?
All hope is lost.
Jane Pauly can always do a fluff piece on Biden, the way she did for Kamela’s husband. Then he could rise to the occasion.
She is good at fluffing like that.
Biden’s statement is not really a dodge about competent planning and execution of some sort of new public health measures or accelerated/broadened approach to administering vaccines.
Well, OK — it is *partly* such a dodge: An accelerated/broadened approach to lowering expectations and the achievement bar in managing the pandemic; to say nothing of papering over the comprehensive devastation wrought in Blue State citizens’ lives thanks to the tyrannical rampages their governors have been on for nigh on a year.
But at base, Biden’s statement here is aimed at prepping the battlespace for his *actual* First-100-Days priority initiative:
Codifying amnesty — and perhaps a path to pretty much guaranteed citizenship on an even more accelerated timetable than the 8 years he tentatively floated the other day — for all illegal aliens presently in the US, at minimum; de jure open borders if he thinks he can go for all the marbles.
In Biden’s mind (don’t laugh) and presumably the minds of his advisers (ditto), saying of the pandemic that there’s nothing that can really impact its “trajectory” (a term useful for its political ambiguity) during the coming 3 months (just coincidentally corresponding to that talismanic First 100 Days) provides *cover* for an immediate post-inauguration pivot to this wild-eyed stampede to fling open the gates of ICE‘s detention centers and US southern border crossings.
”Nothing we can do about a pandemic that was Trump’s responsibility to prevent and smother in the first place — a responsibility he fumbled, of course, because racists gonna racist. So, while we claim credit for an already entirely functional Federal pandemic response plan and infrastructure bequeathed to us by our white supremacist predecessor — by falsely asserting that we’re having to draft a plan and build that infrastructure ourselves from scratch — let’s justify our (cough) November 3rd mandate (or was it November 4th?) by accentuating the positive and avoiding yet another plagiarism charge. Let’s expand the number of people who qualify for Unity!…”
Moreover, since money is fungible in Swampworld, the nominally “necessitated-by-COVID” stimulus funds poured into the black hole of Blue State bailouts will become tacit justification for Biden’s amnesty-plus stampede:
In the logic of Swampworld, the states will now magically become transformed into healthily operating paragons of fiscally stable and simultaneously compassionate governance — sufficiently strengthened and ready for the influx of new citizens springing out of the shadows.
So, for instance, battalions of fully-funded MSW’s will keep the streets safe (especially from the repercussions of skyrocketing black unemployment), and divisions of richly-comped public school system “educators” will expertly slot America’s youth into all the identitarian categories required for propagating the client-population relationship paradigm that the President’s* political-corporate ecosystem requires for its own perpetuation.
In the worldview that sees the above as offering upside worth having and rewards meriting the requisite investment of political capital, pandemic response beyond status quo risks magnifying results accountability.
No worries either way, as explained in this Powerline post about the Cadaver Synod, which Wikipedia describes as:
After Formosus’s body washed up on the banks of the Tiber for the final time, (I think he was buried, dug up, and drowned several times after he died the first time), he acquired quite a following and was believed to have performed several miracles. The public turned against his once-removed successor as pope, Stephen VI*, and he was thrown into prison, where he was strangled a few months later.
*Formosus’s immediate successor, Boniface VI (who’d been defrocked twice early in his career) was elected Pope at the age of almost 90, and served for only fifteen days, after which, depending who you believe, he either died of gout or was forcibly “removed” from the papacy and from life in order to make way for Stephen. Two years later, Boniface’s own Papacy was declared null and void.
Lord. I find myself hoping that history doesn’t actually repeat, but can’t help noticing that it rhymes a lot.
Well, that would obviously fix the virus.
Why not? And who dares bring it up, knowing full well any person with such audacity will be canceled, doxxed, and be visited by mobs with bullhorns and spray paint?
Go for the new high score! Three-peach!!!!
Xiden – : “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”
Nor do they really want to. It’s too useful. It’s the catch-all excuse for all the government spending and control of the economy and the population the Left has ever dreamed of. Rewards for friends. Punishment for enemies. All under cover of pandemic necessity.
Translation: Masks, lockdowns, and travel restrictions forever . . .
I have said for awhile, masks forever and basement lockdowns in our basement in our burkhas. Who needs to work unless you can do it from a computer?
See also Oliver Cromwell.
With the restoration of the monarchy by Charles II, Cromwell and 2 other Roundheads were exhumed, hung and then decapitated.
That taught them a lesson they’ll never forget . . .
Its a relief. Actually that was my biggest fear of a Biden Presidency, we would all become UK, Canada or God forbid California. His Mask Order is pretty much been de-facto policy with a few exceptions. So its not that big of a change.
He is doing what we have done since Bush. Spend like Drunken Sailors on a 30 year Bing. Just means the great depression we will have to have will be even worse and bring down the world economy even more.
The real treasure was the friends we made along the way.