Posted on 03/12/2021 4:06:09 AM PST by Liz
In his primetime address on the pandemic’s first anniversary, Biden told Americans that if they do their part there's a possibility they can gather with friends and family members for barbecues by Independence Day.
But in a nation deeply divided over how people should conduct their lives amidst COVID-19, the president's remarks quickly came under scrutiny amid the ongoing debate between advocates of a more robust nanny state versus those who are eager to return to pre-Covid normalcy.
"This is a free people, this is a free country, how dare you tell us who we can spend the Fourth of July with," conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News program not long after Biden had concluded his speech.
"He can wait for Independence Day to meet his three best friends on the White House lawn but most of us aren't living that way," author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson said during an interview on Carlson's program.
"It was a bizarro speech ... in this bizarro world where we're all still desperately afraid of the coronavirus, where cases haven't fallen 90% since January and hospitalizations 70%, where, you know, we know exactly who's at risk from this and how most of us are at very, very low to no risk from this," Berenson said.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) also characterized the speech as "bizarre." "Does Biden know about all the states already opened?" Rep. Taylor Greene tweeted.
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
Nice comeback.....
On Thursday night, a masked Biden tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most bizarre presidential address
in American history.*snip* Given how frail and confused Biden’s been lately, in no particular order, here are the points that struck me:
<><> Biden was more alert than he’s been in many months.
<><> well, let’s just say his verve was suspicious.
<><> his eyes, usually tightly squinted as he struggles to stay alert and read his teleprompter, were wide open, almost scarily so.*snip*
The Biden 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. 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I was shocked to find that my state has been closed all this time ...
Just where have I been shopping and eating out and seeing my neighbors children go off to school every day and attending church with hundreds of others and embracing my grandchildren ???
Must be an alternative planet/state because Emperor Joe has the scoop on things all so called ‘pandemic’...
Do something about it, I’m so sick of whining. Leave the basements, and keyboards and.smartphones and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. but no the bread and circuses will continue because little timmy has soccer practice and the mortgage has to be paid and that BMW has a lease on it. Until patriots are ready to walk away from all that and get in a real fight with arms all that’s going to happen is a lot of belly aching. The smart ones are planing to expat or hoarding real money as in silver, gold and platinum not worthless fiat currency with the printing presses running 24/7 that new 1.9 trillion is not going to help your paper currency or imaginary numbers in a corporations “bank”
Yeah, it's amazing (cough) how much Joe knows. Betcha even he is surprised at his knowledge....when he reads his script. (/s)
They don’t want to give up control. Or don’t realize they have already lost it for most. There are still a smaller % that still listen to them and fauci. When this is over I bet fauci will try to stay in the news.
I may be retiring to Tennessee due to your remarks.
...and lead, and water. The brave ones, IF ANY, are planning to stand their ground.
Pelosi is setting the stage for more COVID-19 stimulus spending ahead of the final vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
The Biden stimulus plan is poised to be the third major coronavirus economic rescue bill that Congress has passed at a combined cost of $5 trillion since the pandemic began. The previous bills passed under former President Donald Trump include the $2.2 trillion CARES Act in March of 2020 and a $900 billion stimulus bill in December of 2020.
There were three other smaller-scale coronavirus stimulus bills that Congress passed during Trump’s term as well.
Congress provided temporary weekly federal unemployment payments Congress during the pandemic. A weekly federal benefit of $300 will be paid on top of state jobless benefits in the Biden bill through Sept. 6. Recipients will also be able to receive a tax waiver on $10,200 of unemployment payments.
In February, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the deficit for FY2021 would be $2.3 trillion, but that estimate did not include the fiscal impact of the Biden stimulus bill. In FY2020, the deficit reached a record $3.1 trillion, driven by coronavirus stimulus spending. The national debt has topped $28 trillion for the first time, according to Treasury Department data.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation estimates that the current $28 trillion debt represents $84,681 per person in the U.S.
Is there a Cancel Pool yet? I expect TC is the favorite.
We will stand our ground along with our neighbors. We’ve had the very sober conversation about our odds of success, but we’ve come to the conclusion that the old yarn about dying on your feet is preferable to the very real possibility of a dystopian novel coming true in the near future. A religious people do not fear death.
That’s why Fauci smiles even when he’s delivering bad news — he loves the level of authority he’s been granted, and he is totally abusing it.
AND THIS-—Bungle Biden promised a transparent administration but is providing little regarding the massive flood at the border.
When Circle-girl Psaki was challenged on the matter, she pawned it off on DHS, declaring, “It’s not our program.”
This is an astounding statement.....the Biden White House cant be bothered informing we, the people?
Psaki’s “go ask them” is the height of ignorance.....and arrogance.
DHS operates directly under the Executive Branch w/ Biden’s hand-picked secretary in charge.
It is most specifically a WH program, especially since fully 25% of Biden’s signed E/O’s dealt w/ immigration.
For the White House spox to have no input from one of its own agencies on such a crucial matter is alarming.
More evidence that Biden is AWOL—— secretly ensconced in Delaware making deals for the parasitic Bidens.
Big time using it. And the media is allowing it. Flip flopping on the mask issue. If it was a Republican then they would have blamed him for thousands of deaths over not wearing masks. Trump events were super spreaders. Lol. They think we don’t see what they are doing. And fauci is getting paid more than the president. Highest paid government. We are paying this clown.
Time to fire his @$$ and replace him with 3 immigrants “more motivated” at half the price.
What did you expect from a memory care applicant? 😣
I am going to do whatever I want to. I ignore this fake elected buffoon. He has no right to demand what we can and cannot do.
Go to hell Joe and take those Obama commies down with you.
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