Posted on 09/20/2022 12:05:03 PM PDT by george76
Joe Biden got in a lot of trouble for his disastrous “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley.
Even though it was probably one of the most softball interviews that you’re ever going to see on “60 Minutes,” Biden still stepped into trouble with his remarks. The White House immediately had to walk back his remarks about Taiwan — that U.S. troops would be deployed if China attacked the island nation.
But among the other remarks that got him in trouble was his declaration that “the pandemic is over.”
That infuriated some of the people on the left for whom masking and being locked down has become a religion that they can’t let go of. It got a lot of eyes from those on the right as well because if the pandemic is over, then what’s the legal justification for any of the mandates, not to mention the enormous student loan bailout that is being foisted upon the American taxpayers? Biden was using the “emergency” as a justification for that.
Now the White House is walking back that claim. An administration official told CNN that Biden’s comments “do not mark a change in policy toward the administration’s handling of the virus, and there are no plans to lift the Public Health Emergency.” The emergency is still declared through Oct. 13.
Other officials like Surgeon General Vivek Murthy contradicted Biden.
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The powers that be wouldn’t let Biden declare it over. It says everything about who is in charge and it isn’t Biden, as many people noted
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So who is in charge here if something he says in such a definitive way has to be walked back? This throws him under the bus big time.
In addition to not being in charge, it once again shows that Biden can’t even keep straight what he’s supposed to be saying as the front man.
A lot of Americans take comfort in being scared. It’s a pathetic way to live, but I can see it playing out around me.
Fourteenth Row Joe jumped the gun again. That’s okay. His mainstream “media” will cover for his stupid mistakes.
Obama’s in charge. This is Obama’s third term.
Same thing happed all the time in Obama’s first two administrations, always having to clean up after Biden’s screw ups.
The Democrat Party left legal justification behind a long time ago.
Who'd he get "in a lot of trouble" with?
Lock downs were a gift to Big Business designed to kill mom & pop restaurants and other small businesses .. Marxists always want to destroy the Kulak class
The news is not being helpful - when Trump was president, you always know how many people died of COVID that day.
Well, is he, or is he not the president?
As I’ve said for decades, anyone can be president if times are good and they keep their comments vague. But when have times been good for a solid four years? Every president gets his trying moment. And with biden, those moments are actually CAUSED by his incompetence. But he’s senile. It is his handlers that need to be held accountable.
“A lot of Americans take comfort in being scared.”
I think it’s subtly different than that. They are scared one way or another, but by putting their faith in masks, lockdowns, “public health officials”, “the Science”, etc, they believe they can control the thing that they fear.
It’s not realistic, since you can’t control an invisible respiratory virus that is already spread through the whole population. But they don’t care about reality, only about how they feel. So these things become totems, security blankets, to help them convince themselves that they have some degree of control over the uncontrollable thing that they are irrationally afraid of. Like a nightlight to keep the monsters under your bed at bay.
No Pandemic = No Emergency = No Emergency Powers = No Executive Orders = No Vote Buying = No Democrat controlled Congress.............................
So sad that this great nation has deteriorated so much! Pisses me off that I gave a few years of my life protecting her! For what? For purple headed democrats! Go ahead America, elect more democrats! Might as well sell it all!!!!!
Aw, c’mon man! There are just too many COVID deaths to count, doncha know. THAT is why ‘we’ (the demonrat socialists) must retain control over any aspect of your life that ‘we’ can! COVID causes glow-bull warming and glow-bull warming causes COVID. LOCKDOWNS FOR EVERYONE! </sarc>
Softball interview? hah! more like ‘can you spot the bad edits?” Hard to believe that crap was shown in public. pure garbage. and brandon was even worse!
Obama, to whom he still reports.
No, Biden's just the figurehead. Obama's running the show.
Trump can’t declassify documents and Biden cannot declare the pandemic over.
That is what the left wants.
Obviously he forgot the midterms are coming up.
Marko
“A lot of Americans take comfort in being scared...”
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Worrying makes them feel they are
accomplishing something.
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