President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered a searing message to Americans fighting fatigue from the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, urging the U.S. to not give up the fight. Biden promised his administration will be unrelenting in its battle against a virus that has largely spun out of control as infection rates surge around the country and as his soon-to-be predecessor seems largely resigned to continue politicizing the virus.
Countdown to the right having a meltdown over Biden’s presumptuousness in giving a speech that should have been given by a POTUS. The fact that the one we have has never, in four years, ever given a speech that was meant to offer hope and to call on us to turn to what Lincoln would have called “the better angels of our nature” will not be an issue. He hasn’t given such a speech because he only thinks of himself.
And I try not to quibble with word choice when I’m off the clock, but " Biden’s words buffeted by a hopeful spirit…"? Perhaps they were “buttressed by a hopeful spirit” or “addressed a country buffeted by a year of challenges and turmoil”?
The US can have only one president at a time and, for the past four years, Trump hasn’t chosen to do the job.
We should not waste time being concerned with how the current occupant responds to this. Rather than being concerned with what Trump will do, he needs to fear what will happen to him, once out of office. It is clear that he is too busy covering his own tracks to be concerned with doing the duties of the office. I hope that nothing gets in the way of the individual states who were venues for his crimes investigating and exposing (and, hopefully, prosecuting) him to their full ability.
Mr. Biden… would it be too much to ask to show trump how a leader sets up a national plan to fight a presently out of control virus? And how the experts at CDC (if any are left that is) do it?
trump has sat on his fat slovenly pimpled ass since last January when we knew a problem was on the horizon. It was in January that the Chinese had discovered the genomic sequence of covid. We knew…trump knew and he did nothing. NOTHING AT ALL. If that is not criminal I do not know what is. @libthinker, Biden needs to move now, right the fuck now, on this pandemic. trump is a waste of time and effort. Let him play golf and scratch his ass. Until 1/20/21 when he gets indicted and faces the music. Sorry but I am feeling mean and unforgiving at the moment.
The “war against the virus” would have been a shit-ton easier if Satan’s Avatar hadn’t dismantled our public health infrastructure, fired many first-responder epidemiologists both domestic and abroad, and done his fucking job.
Over one quarter million Americans (and rising!) are dead thanks to Satan’s Avatar. Fuck him.
Have we ever had a president who spoke with so much emotion? I’m hoping his sincerity and sheer niceness will be able to cut through the brainwashing that 40% of the country has about Democrats.
We have not lost the war against the virus because there are many who do wear masks and many who actually do isolate (work from home or “hunker down”). If none of these actions had been taken, we easily could have had 2 MILLION dead right now.
Not a single one of these necessary defensive actions was supported by Satan’s Avatar. In fact, he actively worked against them. He turned wearing a mask into a political statement. He tried his damnedest to halt all acts of isolation. He even slowed down testing. He wanted to get everyone back to work. Satan’s Avatar is a short-sighted fool at best. It takes a real penny-wise and pound-foolish idiot to bankrupt casinos. He is a “fucking moron.”
I understand the argument to get everyone back to work so the economy doesn’t collapse, but I would also mention that if no one practices the necessary defensive tactics and many more do die, then the economy will collapse much more deeply and for a much longer period of time. The only people who profit are the grave diggers.
The people you can thank for only a quarter million dead are the governors who did their job correctly. I am thinking about the actions that were taken early in the first wave by Governor Cuomo. He shut down New York and once they had the virus propagating much more slowly, he started opening back up.
You can always tell when the camera operator has little clue about how to play guitar. They don’t show the fretting hand, which does most of the real work, but focus much more on the picking hand.
It always blew me away how Jimi, a left-handed guitarist, played a right-handed Fender guitar. The cutaways on a right-handed Fender make higher-note playing problematic for a left-handed guitarist; much easier for a left-handed player on a left-handed Fender.
Remarkable guitarist and the creator of a whole new genre.
If you didn’t listen to the speech today I suggest you do.
It was lovely.
More importantly it is what leaders are supposed to sound like in challenging times for the nation.
