… and other head-scratchers from Biden’s presser.
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Glutton for punishment, I watched all 2-hours of Biden’s press conference …
Here are a few more of my takeaways…
> Biden redefined “invasion”, coining a new phrase “minor (territorial) incursions” … which many observers interpreted as green-lighting Putin to breach the Ukraine border.
Shades of the domestic version: “mostly peaceful protests” that cause billions of dollars of damage without prosecution.
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> Biden praised U.S. technology and science (with no shout-out for Trump’s Op Warp Speed) for fast development of covid vaccines … but added that he (Biden) did the hard part: “getting shots into arms”.
Further, he said that his highest Covid priority for a return to normalcy is to vaccinate the rest of the world
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> He condemned GOP senators for voting as a bloc … because they’re afraid of retribution by Trump.
On the split screen, Dems were threatening to primary Manchin & Sinema for breaking with the Dem bloc on the filibuster and BBB.
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> He warned that the 2022 mid-terms might be illegitimate if his voting rights bill isn’t passed.
Moments earlier, he touted the record-setting voter turnout in 2020 … non-sequitur?
Isn’t it wrong to question the legitimacy of elections?
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> He asserted that retail shelves are 89% full … only down 1% from a year ago
Generalizing from our past week of shopping: no bread, milk or produce on the shelves, empty sections of OTC cold and flu medicines and, of course, no covid test kits.
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> He conceded that he might have been a month late igniting the push for in-home covid tests … who would have known?
Vanity Fair reported that in January 2021, the incoming Biden Administration was “handed” a national rapid-testing strategy … positioning rapid testing as the most powerful tool to reduce transmission and case counts.
Then, on October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts presented the Biden administration with a detailed strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing … by putting rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission.
Hmm…
Who would have known?
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