Maryland GOP governor applauds Biden after prime-time COVID-19 address https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...raises-biden-after-primetime-covid-19-address Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) applauded President Biden on Thursday after his prime-time televised address regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and his administration's continuing vaccine effort. In a tweet following the president's speech, Hogan thanked Biden for adopting recommendations that answered his calls to increase manufacturing and supply of the COVID-19 vaccine around the country. "I applaud President Biden for adopting several of our recommendations to increase the production of vaccines. We are prepared to administer every vaccine that the federal government can deliver. We are all in this together, and we will end this pandemic together," Hogan said. During his speech Thursday night, Biden touted the administration's efforts to ramp up production and distribution of the coronavirus vaccines. The president also announced that he is calling for states to make all adults eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by May 1. In a second tweet Hogan, whose wife Yumi Hogan is Korean American, thanked the president for speaking out against a rising tide of hate crimes and violence experienced by Asian Americans across the U.S. "Our family greatly appreciates the president's comments condemning the awful rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans. It truly is 'un-American and it must stop,'" he tweeted, referencing a quote from Biden's address. His comments come just days after a recent spate of attacks targeting Asian Americans in California; police arrested a suspect on Tuesday after an elderly Asian American man was shoved to the ground and robbed. A Buddhist temple in the state was also struck by vandalism this month. On Thursday night, Biden condemned the "vicious hate crimes" against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, stating, "It's wrong. It's un-American. And it must stop." Hogan, centrist Republican, was one of just a few GOP elected officials to come out in support of former President Trump's impeachment following the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol. "I think there’s no question that America would be better off if the president would resign or be removed from office and if Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States, would conduct a peaceful transition of power over the next 13 days until President [Joe] Biden is sworn in,” Hogan said in January, a day after the riot.
I've been hearing the new "tan suits" controversies from fox et.al about Biden not giving press conferences. Bitch, like y'all forgot Donnie never addressed the nation unless surrounded by his cult. Joe's been busy rescinding 4 yrs of executive orders, scrapping the MAGA agenda, and shutting COVID down. Y'all should be praising high energy Joe for working, not golfing or prepping for speeches.
7 takeaways from Joe Biden's prime-time Covid-19 speech https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/politics/joe-biden-speech-takeaways/index.html President Joe Biden marked a year since the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the country with his first prime-time address -- a speech in which he mixed hard numbers on vaccine distribution with appeals to unity and a deep-seated belief in the power of America to overcome any challenge. My takeaways from Biden's speech, which ran just over 20 minutes, are below. They're in no other order than the order that I jotted them down while watching the speech. 1. Donald Trump dug the hole: Biden didn't mention his predecessor by name, but especially in the early moments of his speech, it was very clear that the current President lays much of the blame for the country's struggles with the coronavirus pandemic at the feet of the last President. "A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for days, weeks, then months," Biden said at one point. "That led to more deaths, more infections, more stress and more loneliness." At another point, Biden pulled out his mask and expressed amazement that it had been turned into some sort of political statement. 2. The return of empathy: Biden made a single gesture in the speech that demonstrated the empathy he operates with vis a vis the lives lost to this pandemic. He pulled a card out of his jacket pocket -- which he said he keeps with him wherever he goes -- and read off the exact, up-to-date number of Americans who have died from the coronavirus. (That number is more than 527,000.) Yes, of course, Biden did that for dramatic effect. But it worked. And it drove home the idea that this is a leader who keeps those who have died from the pandemic close to his heart -- literally. It also provided a not-so-subtle contrast with Trump's overt politicization of the virus and those who succumbed to it. 3. At war with the virus: In the language he chose -- and the comparisons he made -- Biden clearly wanted to make Americans understand that we are at war with Covid-19. He said the country was on "war footing." He noted that Covid-19 had now killed more Americans than World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. Even in quoting "Farewell to Arms" -- "many are strong in the broken places" -- Biden was invoking Ernest Hemingway's novel about World War I. The message was clear: This isn't an enemy like the United States is used to battling. But it is an enemy nonetheless, and the need for sacrifice and unity is as great as it was when America was fighting the Axis powers. 4. Truth matters: Again, per No. 1, Trump wasn't mentioned by name in this speech, but he was all over it. "We know what we need to do to beat this virus; tell the truth, follow the science, work together," Biden said at one point, a direct rebuke to Trump's rejection of facts and science about the coronavirus during the course of the 2020 campaign. "You're owed nothing less than the truth," Biden said at another point. And even while sounding a mostly optimistic note about a return to normal -- more on that below -- Biden was open and transparent that things could go sideways, that variants of the virus are out there, and that if proper mitigation practices were not followed we could be in for another surge. 5. U-N-I-T-Y: In the most remarkable moment of the night, the President of the United States stared into the camera lens and told the American people, "I need you." Then he said it again: "I need you." (The Washington Post's Scott Wilson called it the "most memorable and unusual appeal in prime-time presidential speech making.") Time and again in the speech, Biden talked about the power of the "we" in overcoming Covid-19. He talked about the need to find a "common purpose." He said that "beating this virus and getting back to normal depends on national unity." And that "I need every American to do their part." The idea of America coming together to do this stood in stark contrast to the Trump presidency, in which the 45th President sought -- on the coronavirus to immigration to race -- to emphasize what divides us rather than our common humanity. "This is the United States of America and there's nothing we can't do when we do it together," Biden said in the closing moments of his speech. 6. Circle July 4: Biden said that by Independence Day, "there's a good chance ... you'll be able to get together and have a cookout or a BBQ in your backyard." Never did hanging out in my backyard with a few friends on a likely sweltering summer day in DC sound better! As NBC's Craig Melvin noted: "Well it seems July 4th, Independence Day, takes on new meaning. It's a marker now." That's exactly right. July 4 is now the day -- or around the day -- when the country will begin to return to some semblance of normal, at least according to Biden. Now he needs to make good on that pledge or have the date hung around his neck like a political anchor -- a la Trump's ridiculous pledge that we would start to return to normal on Easter Sunday 2020. 7. "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things": That line -- spoken by Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) to Red (Morgan Freeman) in "The Shawshank Redemption" kept popping into my head throughout Biden's speech. (Maybe it's because "Shawshank" was trending on Twitter around the same time Biden spoke!) Biden used his speech, yes, to detail the losses we have suffered -- singularly and collectively -- from Covid-19. But he also pointed toward a hopeful future that was within our grasp as long as we continued to work together. "There is hope and light and better days ahead," Biden said near the end of the address -- and the image that popped into my mind was Red walking on that beach in Zihuatanejo as Andy works on his boat. What a beautiful moment.
Joe, said four times that- due to the vaccine- we would all be able to get together and be out there celebrating Independence Day. That's bullshit. No way any of his followers celebrate Independence Day. They cancelled that long ago. Get with the program Joe.
Now that you've read the decidedly positive review, here is a not-so-positive review. ------------------------ 'Obey!' - Biden Outlines Post-Pandemic Dystopia In "Dark & Hopeless" First Address President Joe Biden delivered his first prime-time address last night since the beginning of his 'unity' reign. However, out of the gate, he took a shot at his predecessor, seemingly blaming Trump for the spread of COVID-19. “A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked,” Biden said, apparently forgetting that he called then-President Trump xenophobic for quickly imposing a ban on travel into the United States. LibertyNation's Graham Noble warns, one sentence from Biden’s speech should terrify Americans: “We will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated.” Not the CDC, not the science, but the government will tell you what you can and cannot do if you're not willing to be Big Pharma's guinea pigs. And that message was clear as the rest of the speech was basically variation of the theme: “please, please, please, get vaccinated because it is your duty as Americans,” Simply put, "obey" America and some of those freedoms your founders bequeathed unto you will be returned... Conrad Black, National Interest Editor, was even less charitable, calling Biden's speech a "complete and total failure": President Joe Biden's first address to the nation was at least coherent, as he spoke directly to the teleprompter and his diction was comprehensible. But it was repetitive and ungracious and lugubrious. He was incapable of giving the slightest credit to his predecessor, although President Donald Trump is almost solely responsible for advancing the vaccine timetable more than anyone could have hoped for. Trump was roundly condemned by the Democratic media last May for predicting a virus before year-end, but it was in fact distributed starting on December 11, and on Inauguration Day, one million vaccinations were effected in the United States for the first time. President Biden speaks frequently and presumably with sincerity about his goal of national unity. His comparative invisibility, somnolent manner, and reluctance to interact even with the docile national political media (which conducted his campaign for him last year), assure a cooler temperature and calmer political atmosphere than was possible in the pyrotechnics and abrasions of the Trump era. This phenomenon is reflected in the heavy declines in viewership of the news channels-over 40 percent on CNN, similar drops on MSNBC, and rather less than that on Fox News. Trump was the great newsmaker, both for those who loved and those who hated him, and the few people in between, and his departure, as it was intended to do by those who voted against him, has made the U.S. a more serene country politically. But since nearly 48 percent of American voters supported President Trump, national unity will not now be advanced by implicitly denigrating him and failing to give him any credit where any informed person recognizes he deserves some. National unity will not be achieved by defining it as the near-half of the electorate that voted for the ex-president renouncing their expressed political preferences and embracing what they voted against four months ago. President Biden also demonstrated his and his party's dependence upon the coronavirus pandemic for the achievement of office and their conduct in office. For someone unfamiliar with the statistical facts, his remarks on Thursday night could have been taken as the struggle of America to liberate itself from an almost universal plague that had throttled the nation, vastly increased mortality rates among the whole population, and threatened the lives of every American. Everyone was to listen to Dr. Tony Fauci, who has more often been proved incorrect than accurate in his wishes and predictions and has faced in all four directions on almost every issue associated with the pandemic, except for his unceasing advocacy of shutdowns, which have proved a disaster that probably did more harm than good to the mental and physical health of the population of the United States, as in other countries. If everyone masks up, continues to behave like a species of frightened moles, then said Mr. Biden, perhaps small gatherings at home on July 4 may be possible. Doubtless, the gas-lit, Democratic echo-chamber of the national political media will hail this as the greatest address of its kind since Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chat on the banking system in March 1933. But I suspect that the polls will reveal that the public was unimpressed by the president’s dreary recitation of the dark and hopeless night that he pretends to be lifting. Most Americans know by now that 99.997 percent of healthy Americans below the age of 65 survive Covid-19 if contracted. There is also the fact that 94.6 percent of healthy Americans above the age of 65 survive it and that 80 percent of those who do not survive it sadly have other ailments. We should also note it is rarely clear which is the effective cause of death, that it has only slightly moved the rate of fatalities in the country, that the average age of coronavirus death is the same as the national life expectancy (78), and that there is no excuse or need for wearing masks out-of-doors or for keeping schools closed. Nor is the president’s appearance reassuring. He has a sickly pallor, is underweight, and quavers at times. Everyone will wish him good health and long life, but his appearance and manner on Thursday night will not incite confidence that he is likely to enjoy them. President Biden is oddly dyspeptic and downcast for someone who used to proclaim his ability and temptation to beat his chief opponent (Trump, who looks like Tarzan in comparison), to a pulp. Given that the country is approaching 100 million vaccinations and the incidence of death and of hospitalization for the virus is sharply declining and herd immunity approaches apace with a complete vaccination program, he should have been much more optimistic and upbeat, captured the spirit of springtime, disarmed the scores of millions of Trump supporters with a kind word on the subject which the whole nation can agree with: thanksgiving at the decline of the coronavirus and the approach of the end of the crisis. I do not agree with those who are overly critical of his naming his one major legislative accomplishment the Covid relief bill, even though 90 percent of it was just good old-fashioned pump-priming and log-rolling, backscratching of failed Obama programs and misgoverned blue states. From 1942 on, FDR called almost every bill on every subject a measure to assist veterans of the armed forces. But setting off around the country with the vice president “and the first lady and first gentleman” to tout the munificence of this bill, while blissfully ignoring the monstrous crisis on the southern border for which this president is exclusively responsible and whose existence he denies, is unlikely to impress the American public any more than, I suspect, the country appreciated his wan bloviations of Thursday night. Finally, here are AmericanThinker.com's Andrea Widburg's highlights (or lowlights): 1. Biden was more alert than he’s been in many months. Given how frail and confused Biden’s been lately, well, let’s just say his verve was suspicious. Even his eyes, which are usually tightly squinted as he struggles to stay alert and read his teleprompter, were wide open, almost scarily so. Still, he got visibly tired near the end, slurring his words and seeming lost. 2. The speech was both bizarre and boring. Despite the teleprompter, it wandered hither and yon, without ever touching clearly on a single point. It was a grim, depressing speech about a miserable year that probably won’t get better even with a vaccine because we must all remain scared and isolated. 3. Biden kept saying that he was going to tell the truth. He quoted a woman he allegedly met who told him her heart’s desire: “‘I just want the truth. The truth. Just tell me the truth.’” “Tell the truth,” Biden said again. “My fellow Americans,” he said, you’re owed nothing less than the truth.” Later, he added, “I will tell you the truth.” And then he said, “In the coming weeks and months, I’ll be traveling along with the first lady” and a whole host of others, “to tell you the truth.” Do you know who says things like that? Someone who’s lying. 4. Biden dragged in, almost randomly, the fact that there is a rash of attacks on Asians of late: “Vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans who have been attacked, harassed, blamed, and scapegoated.” What he was implying is that people have been so maddened by Trump (whose name Biden never once mentioned) saying that the Wuhan virus originated in China, that it drove maddened white supremacists to attack Asians. As best as I can tell, the attacks against Asians come almost entirely from the Black community – and, more than that, from a segment of the Black community that is not in sympathy with Trump and is therefore unlikely to be influenced by him. What nobody on the left admits is that Blacks have long been hostile to Asians. 5. Biden opened with a nasty swipe at Trump: “A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for days, weeks, then months.” This was not the truth. In fact, on January 31, Trump stopped travel from China, something every Democrat, from Biden on down, attacked as “xenophobic.” By early March, Trump had swung into action, partnering with the private sector to produce masks, ventilators, pop-up hospitals – and vaccines. 6. Speaking of vaccines, one of the nastiest things about Biden’s speech was his repeated emphasis on how spectacularly his administration had acted with regard to producing and distributing vaccines. This ignored entirely that it was Trump who supercharged their production and distribution. The entire speech was a perfect of example of damnatio memorieae – that is, the cancellation of Trump’s memory as if he never existed. Trump must have been given a heads-up that Biden would do this for he sent out the following email message on Thursday: I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful “shot” for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers! 7. The main thrust of the speech was that everyone must get the vaccine (the wonderful Biden vaccine). However, Biden conceded that even with the vaccine, masks and social distancing must continue. Even with everyone vaccinated, by July 4, maybe we can gather with small groups outdoors. In other words, even as we’re all pumped full of a vaccine, nothing will change. But we should trust Biden and remember that we’re all in this together. 8. Here’s the scariest thing Biden said, although he slipped it in so quickly many may not have noticed (emphasis mine): “Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated to lessen the confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get vaccinated.” The vaccine, rather than freeing us, will bring us even more tightly under government control as the federal government mandates what can and cannot do. 9. When he’d finished reading the teleprompter, Biden ignored a reporter’s shouted question, turned around, and tottered back down that long, empty hall.
How nice... it's an article from Russian propaganda outlet, Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/political...pandemic-dystopia-dark-hopeless-first-address No wonder... you didn't place the source url in clear text as per normal internet posting standards. What a fine Conpiracy-Pseudoscience outlet Zero Hedge is--- whose owners proudly proclaim their support for Russia https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/ "In a quote from the above New Yorker article they summarize the political stance of the blog, which Lokey told Bloomberg is: “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”"
too funny. Attack the source, not the comments. Again. And the link was in the title, as it always is. "Internet Posting Standards". LOL!! Where are these "standards" at, can I see? is it something like APA writing standards? Also, multiple external sources (and their opinions) were quoted. Anyone who has followed ZH knows exactly where they are from and what they are about. And its not Russia.
The content is crap. So piss-poor that it is not even worth addressing. When a blog post criticizes the president for how he left the lectern then it is really not worth discussing the nonsense pushed in the blog post.
So then don't read it. But I don't give a shit what you think. If anything, you're a bell weather for what people should NOT pay attention to. Your post about the speech was practically masturbation. Where are these "Internet Posting Standards" you quoted?
Q: When is Joe Dementia going to give a Press Conference and take questions? A: Probably never, as he would make himself look like an old fool who belongs in a HOME.