Talk about a bunch of nitpicks. Pick one and let’s talk about it if you want, but seriously this is trivial stuff.
Any errors or lies feed into the Republican narrative of Biden’s equivalency, or even inferiority, to his predecessor, and that ain’t good.
Whatever Biden does or doesn’t do, whether well or badly, it will feed into the Republicans’ narrative. The way he breathes and the fact that he breathes feeds their narrative. Fuck it and them.
Here ya go: How, if at all, would any of the other 2020 Dem candidates be doing better than President Biden?
I like what Beau of the Fifth Column has said about Biden. He was very much just “anyone but Trump” before, but he admits he’s surprised that Biden actually seems to be doing more, and trying out progressive ideas.
I mean, he’s actually trying to get us out of the Middle East, working reforming the immigration system, and his bill includes stuff that could increase take home pay of US workers up to 50%.
And that includes seeing how effective “reaching out” to Mitch was during the Obama years. Thanks to Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris, he’s got some wiggle room.
I think Obama learned the lessons of Obama’s first term. The time for centrism and bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake was in the late 1990s, when there was sustained prosperity and a relatively stable geopolitical situation; it’s not during a massive recession or unemployment crisis, particularly during a pandemic.
But seriously, this is some penny ante stuff.
He said 65%, when it’s 62.5%. He said experts said this, but some other experts said something else. Semantic quibble over what “you all” means. He said that they were silent, when they were actually lying. Castigating for not using a per capita number even though the per capita number isn’t relevant. Quibble on what it means to die in a war, and even then, only undercuts his claim by a small percent.
They certainly read a fair amount into his speech, made assumptions, and then strawmanned the assumptions that they made. The only factual claim that he was wrong on was the 62.5% vs 65%, and that’s a pretty minor complaint.
I mean, seriously, this isn’t an example of fact checking, this is an example of CNN putting out clickbait.
Especially not when those he is expected to reach out to would rather the country fail than Biden succeed.
Let’s face it. There’s one way that Joe will NEVER measure up to trumpy:
It is their métier. You have to stick to what you know; for CNN, that is punditry and spin.
Stranger
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please,” author Mark Twain once said.
Distorting facts has been all the rage for a Biden administration that was billed from the beginning as the most honest team assembled since the days of George Washington. The falsifications came to a loud head during the president’s scripted address to the nation on Thursday night, which the Washington Post described as “heavy on emotion and hope, but light on facts.” The New York Times said Biden “exaggerated elements of the coronavirus pandemic,” among other things.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/543107-the-media-fact-checkers-finally-come-for-joe-biden
It’s good to see that political spin has returned to normal parameters.
Oh, The Hill: the rag that pays Krystal Ball to repeatedly accuse Elizabeth Warren of being a corporate shill and tool of investment banks. That’s basically the progressive counterpart to OANN.
Stranger
Yeah, baby.
Gittin’ 'er done.
President Biden said on Thursday that his administration would reach its initial goal of administering 100 million shots of the COVID-19 vaccines well ahead of his initial 100-day benchmark.
Biden said that the goal of 100 million shots would be achieved on Friday, which will be 58 days into his presidency.
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:: steeples fingers ::
Excellent.
So how do we think the Administration’s doing on the migrants surge at the southern border? Of course Republicans are making it out to be an unholy tide of COVID-infected refugees overrunning the border, but even DHS says that unauthorized crossings are on pace to hit a 20 year high. Detention facilities are at or exceeding their capacity.
This is Biden’s and Democrats big test on what a humane border policy would look like. What should be done?
More of the same, as well as a concerted diplomatic effort to discourage refugee travel through Central America, and a crash program to build safe, humane detention centers.
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