Posted on 10/22/2021 4:51:26 AM PDT by sevinufnine
President Joe Biden said police officers and emergency workers who refuse COVID-19 vaccination should stay home or be fired, as he answered questions during a CNN town hall on Thursday evening. 'Yes and yes,' he said to a thunderous round of applause. 'By the way, I waited until July, to talk about mandating, because I tried everything else possible. Mandates are working.' He also ridiculed people who said mandates infringed their freedom. But he also defended his stance on vaccine mandates in uncompromising terms. A series of mandates for federal workers and for companies with more than 100 staff triggered angry protests and reports of people being fired or resigning in protest. 'Two things that concern me,' he said. 'One, are those who just try to make this a political issue - freedom. "I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID." Come on!'
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This IMO is insane:
President Biden said that he would ‘absolutely’ consider sending in the National Guard to help alleviate the supply chain crisis, even by driving trucks.
‘The answer is yes,’ the president said during the CNN town hall after being asked whether he would send in the guard to alleviate supply chain issues that are leading to product shortages and rampant inflation.
‘Absolutely, positively,’ he added.
Asked if he would consider sending in the guard to drive trucks, the president said: ‘Yes, if we can’t increase the number of truckers.’
Biden said his first goal was ‘to get the ports up and running,’ before he would call up the guard.
Haulage companies are offering six-figure salaries and $15,000 sign-on bonuses while struggling to attract 80,000 new drivers who are needed to relieve the nation’s supply crisis.
Killing jobs is NOT the way to go and totally unnecessary.
Biden has given just 10 interviews in his first nine months in office, falling well short of his two immediate predecessors Donald Trump and Barack Obama who had done 57 and 131, according to Mark Knoller, a former CBS News White House correspondent who maintains a tally.
And the pace of those interviews has slowed - five came in Biden’s first two months in office.
Critics within his own party see a siege mentality in a president even as he reaches a crucial moment in steering his massive spending plans through Congress.
‘The guy has always been a gaffe machine. He loves talking but the people around him want to keep him under wraps,’ said a Democratic strategist who asked speak on background in order to freely discuss White House strategy.
‘This is one way to do it but you lose a bit of what makes Joe tick.’
"I have the power to kill you with my jab." Submit!
White House officials play down the significance of interviews, pointing out that the president has frequently taken a handful of questions from reporters attending events.
But that gives him the ability to pick and choose what he answers, say presidential observers, and allow him to simply walk away when he wants to.
Thursday’s town hall will be held before an invited audience.
‘Joe Biden can sometimes get off message so putting him in unscripted environments might not be the best way of Joe Biden communicating,’ Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons told The Hill. Even so Biden himself has joked about the way his aides prefer him not to get chatty.
‘I’m not suppose to take any questions,’ he said, during a visit to FEMA headquarters in August, ‘but go ahead.’
On that occasion he quickly brushed off a question about trouble in Afghanistan and walked away from reporters.
In May, he took a couple of questions after a COVID-19 update but said: ‘I’m not supposed to be answering all these questions.’
White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that was how officials wanted him to play it.
‘This is not something we recommend,’ she told David Axelrod, the former Obama adviser, during an interview for his podcast.
‘In fact, a lot of times we say, “Don’t take questions.”’
Republicans have used Biden’s lack of interviews against him, saying the president lacks stamina or mental energy to fulfil the duties of the office. Some have dubbed him ‘Sleepy Joe.’
They are trying to resurrect the dead Biden and all he’s has is the COVID pandemic division game. His Marist supporters are eating it up.
We intend to keep our freedoms, Joe.
Believe me all CDL truck driver schools are booked solid.
Yup.
“We intend to keep our freedoms, Joe.”
To our current administration, apparently our “freedoms” are what they tell us we can have, or not have :(
Dr. Jill must have gotten hold of Powell’s medical records and shared them with the moron.
“”I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.” Come on!’”
He overlooks one key crucial point; the vaccine will not keep you from spreading Covid. Biden is an idiot
“Then he criticized what he called ‘misinformation’ about the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell that focused on the fact he was fully vaccinated”
I must wonder how many people fully vaccinated Colin Powell infected before dying.
We are so over-regulated it’s hard to recognize America anymore.
Biden is an idiot.
Yeseree Bob. That he is. Also, as anyone with an IQ of at least 1 knows the vaccine doesn’t prevent you from getting COVID again, OR from dying from it.
probably what the intent is- get the first responders fired over this, then allow the country to descend into anarchy, then ask the UN to step in with peace keeping forces.
I want to stress this quote from the article:
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that was how officials wanted him (Biden) to play it (referring to his not taking questions). ‘This is not something we recommend,’ she told David Axelrod. ‘In fact, a lot of times we say, “Don’t take questions.”’
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Anyone here want to take a wild guess what Trump would have told his advisors had they dared suggest he not take the questions he want to take? (I’m guessing the famous YOU’RE FIRED line may come into play :)
Joe and his whole administration grow more loathsome by the day - and they started out at the bottom of the barrel.
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