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May he have a quick and full recovery.
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Fact Check: Joe Biden Spreads Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines at CNN Town Hall
Related. These people are committed to the narrative no matter what:
“…Skepticism is a bedrock principle of journalism. “If your mother says she loves you, go check it out,” the old adage goes. So is full disclosure (“the more information the better”) and transparency (“Always tell readers how you kno what you know”).
The board that oversees journalism’s most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize, and many of America’s most prestigious news outlets violated all three of those values this week.
This disquieting episode began on Monday when the board released a short statement saying that, “In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign – submissions that jointly won the 2018 National Reporting prize.”
The board said it had commissioned two “independent reviews” of the contested coverage, which “converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes. The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting stand.”…”
The U.S. Open confirms Novak Djokovic will not be able to play in the tournament next month unless he is fully vaccinated.
U.S. Open said that while it does not have its own vaccination mandate in place for players, it will respect the U.S. government’s position regarding travel into the country for unvaccinated non-U.S. citizens.
Effectively rules the Wimbledon champion out for the tournament, which begins on August 29.
BREAKING: Capitol Police release photo of handcuffs used on AOC pic.twitter.com/xNOuHwpKDZ
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 19, 2022
AOC arrested
Meme by @johnhackerla & @drefanzor pic.twitter.com/NpLZZozMpM
— john (@johnhackerla) July 19, 2022
Shit is tragic. That big-bootied Latinx chick had two all to herself smh
— KB Goldtooth (@Goldentoothed) July 20, 2022
BREAKING NEWS. New image of media darling AOC being wrongfully arrested by Capital Police has come in. pic.twitter.com/ybmpdjSVBd
— Eric Anderson (@LordKrono2031) July 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/cekoul_celina/status/1549992638316789760
Joe Biden's massive motorcade of gas guzzling SUVs arrives ahead of his speech on climate change pic.twitter.com/w8tWCaxN3o
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 20, 2022
“…Just 32% of those answering the poll, which has a margin of error of +/-2.5 percentage points, said they support Biden’s climate change policy even if it means higher energy prices. But a far larger majority of 57% answered in the negative. They either said they disagreed with his policies and want more and cheaper energy (41%), or don’t think climate change should be a U.S. policy priority (10%), or don’t even believe that the climate is changing (6%)…”
Biden can’t even pronounce the word climate anymore.
Who needs to follow the normal rules of government, when you can simply declare an emergency, grant yourself emergency powers and rule by decree?
Biden’s next emergency:
If Neptune’s orbit moves 0.1%, it could destabilize the solar system
🚨BREAKING: Tanks have been deployed on on the streets of China to protect the banks — Due to the Henan branch of the Bank of China declaring that people's SAVINGS in their branch are now 'INVESTMENT PRODUCTS’ and can't be withdrawn (WallstreetSilver)
— HeadlineHunter!🚨U.S. (@HHunter_US) July 20, 2022
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1549844332575956999
Racist Democrat calls Mayra Flores ‘Miss Frijoles’
Holy freaking tacos!
New Quinnipiac Poll shows Hispanic approval of Biden at a scant 19%.
Much lower than other demographic groups. #BadHombres have had it with Biden, Inflation, street crime, and open borders. pic.twitter.com/omAAyPQTNr
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) July 20, 2022
“…Nineteen months into his first term as president, Joe Biden appears to be the lamest of lame ducks. The rapidity and completeness of his political collapse is unprecedented in my long life as an observer of such things, and possibly in our history. It’s as if the death scene that wrapped up an elaborate plot happened 15 minutes into the movie. What on earth can we expect for next two hours? Similarly, with Biden disappearing into a tar pit of irrelevance, the next two-plus years until the 2024 presidential election present an uncertain and inscrutable aspect.
The array of disasters accumulated by Biden in less than two years is impressive: defeat and humiliation in Afghanistan; the outbreak of war in Europe; spiking inflation and energy costs; a sputtering economy; a resurgent pandemic; supply chain disruptions of essential goods like baby formula. The response to each crisis has followed a recurring pattern. Ignorance and denial come first. A few comic pratfalls later, the rhetoric turns to panicked scapegoating. The essential duty of government, which is fixing the situation, gets skipped altogether.
Such impotence is, in large part, a function of the astounding levels of unreality and policy incoherence that afflict decision-making in the administration. I defy anyone to explain how Biden believes U.S. interests are engaged in the Ukraine-Russia war, or what he thinks about the not-inconsequential matter of energy extraction and supply.
A sullen public has judged the president’s performance and found it wanting. According to one poll, a remarkable 71 percent say that he should not run for a second term. In the same poll, an equally remarkable 62 percent think that “Biden is too old to be President.” Biden’s popularity ranges between 36 and 41 percent—but he has been plummeting for months and has yet to touch bottom. He is perceived as a leader who does nothing well: His “approval on management of issues is weak across the board,” proclaims a recent Harvard/Harris poll. Adding horror to injury, Donald Trump, arch-fiend to the Democratic faithful, handily defeats Biden in many matchup polls (see here and here).
The numbers are devastating and almost certainly fatal. Furthermore, they reflect, in my opinion, a just assessment of President Biden. He was, in his prime, an empty suit, a hanger-on whose chief ambition for decades had been to cling to the top of the pyramid—and he is today diminished by the usual ravages of age. This means that, unlike Reagan or Truman, he can’t tap into some iron principle or a defiant character to save himself from catastrophe. Never much of a political force, Biden is now done.
He is himself dimly aware of his premature burial. Like many persons of a certain age confronted with a circumstance they can’t quite comprehend, he has responded with fits of anger. Articles in Politico and NBC News portray a president railing at White House staff for correcting his misstatements, at prominent Democrats for presuming to test the waters as 2024 presidential hopefuls and at the general public for saddling him with those humiliating opinion polls. He has blasted the Supreme Court for what he called its “outrageous behavior” and mocked reporters for asking uncomfortable questions (“You sound like a Republican”).
At times he resembles a new-age version of broken old King Lear, forsaken in the heath, screaming imprecations at the storm. Here is Biden on the Fourth of July, a day usually reserved for inspirational bromides timed before millions of hamburgers hit the grill: “Liberty is under assault, assault both here and abroad. In recent days, there has been reason to think this country is moving backwards, that freedom has been reduced, that rights we assumed were protected are no longer.”
Of course, this is Washington, D.C., not Shakespearean tragedy. The protagonist never really goes mad or dies—but there will be talk of firing his staff…”
