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There's something familiar about Biden's proudly announced coronavirus plan

2020-03-14

[AMERICANTHINKER] In old movies, before movies became overtly political, Hollywood writers were adept at creating utterly meaningless speeches for their political characters. These speeches sounded good but meant nothing. Think of a whole speech filled with various iterations of the line from Toy Story ‐ "To infinity and beyond" ‐ which seems aspirational but is actually nonsense. Much the same can be said about Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
's grand announcement that he has a plan to combat the coronavirus

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Hidden behind his banal platitudes was something more disturbing: when Biden moved on from criticizing Trump's actions for minimizing the coronavirus's impact, he offered a plan that's essentially a carbon copy of everything Trump has already said or done. Either Biden has become more of a dullard than anyone realized, which is worrisome, or he thinks the American people are incredibly stupid, which is insulting.

A subdued Biden, his head swinging rhythmically from one TelePrompter to another, portentously announced that the coronavirus requires a national response. He said people have to change their behaviors, wash hands, self-quarantine, and stop hugging and hand-shaking. He promised to put Americans' health and safety first.

Stop me if you've heard this before...

Oh, you have? You're correct. It's precisely (a) what Trump has been saying and (b) what everybody else has been saying.

But wait! There's more.

Biden announced that he has a committee of experts advising him and that he will "lead by science." It's unclear what he thinks the alternative is. Magic? The Black Arts?

Biden then moved in for the kill, like an old dog gumming a worn out chew toy:

Downplaying it, being overly dismissive, or spreading misinformation is only going to hurt us and further advantage the spread of the disease. But neither should we panic or fall back on xenophobia. Labeling COVID-19 a foreign virus does not displace the accountability for the misjudgments that have been taken thus far by the Trump administration.

Posted by:Fred

#1 Biden's strong suit is plagiarism.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-03-14 16:32

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