Those lights that just burn out of the Lincoln Memorial all over the Reflecting Pool – it’s as if Joe Biden’s arms are almost an extension of acceptance into America. This was a time when the new President came to the city and kind of called the country in this moment of remembrance, stretching out his arms. ‘
Believe it or not, those were the real words of CNN political director David Chalian ‘reporting’ on Joe Biden’s appearance at a light show on the Washington DC National Mall on the eve of his founding.
The British Conservatives have long fought against the ‘BBC bias’ and the ‘left-wing media’, but honestly…
Biden and his new administration, which has been on display over the past week or so from the American smug, self-righteous, holy smug news agency, are unstoppable, self-sustaining fare. North Korea ‘s’ Dear Leader ‘fake broadcasts sound like today’ s Radio Four program. So what, you might say?
The Biden team said they had a full accident and had to build a vaccine circulation system from scratch.
Who cares if the media is a little more than the top? The journalists and broadcasters were tainted by Trump, so it is no surprise that they are lamenting the peace and quiet of the incoming administration.
There is certainly some truth to that. But a healthy democracy needs dubious, smart media to hold the powerful to account, and right now the American media is about as desperate as a four – year – old child sitting on Santa ‘s lap and as happy as a feather duster.
Take the fastest crisis facing America, just like in the UK: the spread of the vaccine. The media has retaliated Biden’s objections and promises without examining the facts.
Biden’s team said they had a complete accident and had to build a vaccine circulation system from scratch. But if it was a disaster, how are the vaccines available at all?
Trump’s Operation Warp Speed brought them to fruition in an unprecedented time. Before Biden was founded, more than 16 million Americans had the first sight – the highest in the world and the second highest per capita in any major country, just behind Britain.
Those lights that just burn out of the Lincoln Memorial across the Reflecting Pool – it’s as if Joe Biden’s arms are almost extended to accept America
We all know that politicians use spinning for political gain but Biden promised to be just with people about the virus. So it was incredibly deceptive for him to promise 100 million vaccines in his first 100 days when that would in fact mean slowing down the pace set by Trump. America made more than a million vaccines every day the week before Biden was inaugurated as President.
JUST last week, Biden announced the purchase of an additional 200 million vaccines. But those were already on the way as part of the treaties negotiated with Trump.
Similarly, the new administration let us know that the President intended to call a wartime measure – the Defense Representation Act – to force companies to increase vaccine supply.
But again, Trump had already done so and business sources told the New York Times there was no chance of going any further.
There is a clear pattern that is already emerging: a huge gap between President Biden ‘s words and his actions.
Prior to the election, he promised to operate within the constraints of America’s constitutional ‘checks and balances’, respecting the fact that Congress, not the President, has the right to make laws.
In October, he told ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos ‘I have this weird idea that we are a democracy … there are things you can’t do with an order of action unless you are a dictator. We need consensus’.
What happened to that? In his first two days in office, Biden issued 17 action orders, compared to Trump’s and Obama’s two in the same period.
Biden’s record is now higher than any President in history at this stage of tenure. Moreover, his orders represent dramatic shifts to the Left in major and controversial policy areas such as immigration, the environment and crime.
The whole point of American scrutiny and balance is to prevent the government from becoming too big, too powerful and too centralized. But Biden and his Democratic allies in Congress act as if they have won a landslide majority in a parliamentary system where they have unchecked power.
That’s not just a back-up version of a mediocre campaign promise – to reverse the ‘democratic norms’ they accused Trump of not weakening. There is a risk of further tensions in an already dangerously divided country. For the fact that Biden did not win most of a landslide – he was nowhere near that. Trump got more votes than any President running for re-election in American history.
In fact, Biden won more. But in the main battlefields where the election was decided, its margin of influence was just over 40,000 votes – in a country of more than 330 million people. It is of no use for the Democrats to point out that Biden has won an extra million in total. That’s because the largest and most populous states like California and New York are very Democratic, so fewer Republicans there bother to vote.
If the primary election were truly based on popular opinion, Trump’s overall number would have been much higher: there are far more Republicans in California than Democrats in such a state (firmly Republican) Wyoming.
Biden ‘s election campaign did not give him any sort of mandate to scrap policy change. For most of last year, it was barely in the public eye. Prior to the limited pandemic events he was able to attend in person, his preventative demonstrations advocated the rapid promotion of senility. The media from the tight-fitting TV studio in the basement of his Delaware home didn’t look attractive.
To the extent that Biden had a message of any kind, it was simply: ‘I am not Trump and I will bring the country together again. ‘
But now that he’s in the White House, Biden seems to be doing the opposite. It’s true that its energy level seems to be consistent with the pre-selection version – its fans take it out for a few minutes a day to sign action commands for the cameras and to suppress ideas before he can put his foot in it.
But the material is completely different from what was promised – not only in Biden’s election campaign but even in his opening speech with the theme of national unity.
Instead of taking steps to unite the country, Biden pushed forward with a very sarcastic wokery from day one, forcing schools to allow biological men to compete in girls ’sports, for example.
Instead of trying to open up the economy as he promised, he wants to spend trillions of dollars on coronavirus trusts that will encourage Democrat-run state regulators to keep businesses closed longer, which he said. despite the evidence that locks have no greater effect on the spread of the virus than less severe measures such as masks and social distance.
Instead of urging schools to reopen immediately, based on the clear scientific fact – and knowledge in other countries – that it is perfectly safe to do so, Biden prefers teachers’ unions who are major contributors to Democratic campaigns and have the power to focus not on reopening schools but renaming them to conform to the latest liberal zealotry. And perhaps, dangerously, Biden makes no effort to reach out to the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump; take their concerns seriously; to address the reasons they supported Trump in the first place.
In fact, he seems to be going out of his way to do the opposite: rubbing his nose in the narrow loss of their hero.
You see it in Biden ‘s policy choices – that the building of Trump’ s border wall must be stopped, even if it is something he himself, along with all mainstream Democrats (including Hillary Clinton) support until the moment Trump started talking about it.
And even more encouraging, announcing an immigration plan that would encourage just the kind of unregulated low-wage economic migration that has reduced employment and opportunity for many blue-collar workers for years.
But perhaps the place where you see this righteousness clearly in traditional policy is only in the cold excavation of disagreement that has been the most remarkable – and frightening – feature of the first days of Biden’s administration in the role.
Left-backed tech giants have effectively protested to keep reserved voices silent – especially Trump himself, of course.
They’ve even shut down businesses, such as Parler’s micro-blogging site that once offered refuge from the growing Silicon Valley censorship.
All of this represents a very powerful collection.
Glenn Greenwald – a former Guardian and famous for his role in bringing the publications of former CIA operative Edward Snowden to the world – argues that there is every real powerhouse in American life in the hands of people whose worldview is fundamentally opposed by democracy.
These include the media, Silicon Valley, the cultural industry, corporate America, the enduring bureaucracy, the intelligence equipment, the arms-industry center and, of course, the federal government in Washington.
Prior to last November’s election, one of the most common arguments against Joe Biden was that he would be too soft on China, that he would return to the founding residence turned by Trump.
Little did anyone think that, in such a short space of time, millions of Americans who had committed the ‘crime’ would start to be afraid to vote the wrong way that Biden’s administration should not be too close to China but America itself goes with anxiety. close to the authoritarian society of China.