Biden lied. A few times.
"I know it's been hard. I truly know. As I've told you before, I carry a card in my pocket with the number of Americans who have died from COVID to date. It's on the back of my schedule. As of now, total deaths in America, 527,726. That's more deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and 9/11 combined."
So.....is he just gonna keep saying this until it's true? We have a loonngg way to go still. No one is gonna call this out?
"A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence." No. A year ago, less than a week after the first case was reported to the president, he assembled a team of experts and created a Coronavirus Taskforce that immediately began pursuing a multi-level response, that included travel bans, quarantines, testing expansion and the mobilization of resources. Rather than silence, there was controversy as the president attempted to address a problem and the Democrats accused him of Xenaphobia and went to Chinatown.
"Denials for days, weeks, months." No. The same exact message that came from the CDC and the WHO. That we had cases, that the risk to Americans was considered low, that they seemed to be under control, but that it was possible that we could see real hardship. In January and February. Meanwhile, we were acting and by march had cut red tape, mobilized resources, worked with the private sector to address PPE shortages, which under Trump turned into surpluses, expanded testing, accelerated work on vaccines and medicines, bolstered our medical workforce, set up new facilities, increased pandemic funding and on and on and on. Meanwhile, Democrats like Cuomo were putting Covid patients into nursing homes, fighting FDA authorization for drugs Trump asked to have fast-tracked and trying to scare people away from vaccines. And that last one includes Biden himself.
"While it was different for everyone, we all lost something -- a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. But in the loss, we saw how much there was to gain in appreciation, respect, and gratitude. Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do."
But that isn't what you guys did, is it? You demonized President Trump at every turn. You demonized conservatives. You found the bad in everything. When Trump spoke of having "hope" he was denounced for giving people "false hope." When he said he hoped the virus might be gone by spring, the Democrats gnashed their teeth. When he told Woodward, to avoid causing panic, he liked playing up positive news regarding the virus, he was accused of treason among other things. Respect? Gratitude? Where on earth was any of that? Appreciation?
Your party supported hate, violence, division and opposition throughout the last four years. It did everything it could to stop Trump from getting anything done. It wasted time on impeachments it knew would go nowhere. It launched hearings that relied on falsified evidence and gossip.
Federal buildings, workers and officers were targeted with violence for periods of more than 100 days at a time. In Minneapolis, the 3rd precinct was burnt down and police were sent fleeing. All over the country, innocent people had their homes and businesses burnt down because of anger your party supported and exxacerbated.
Rather than finding "light" anywhere, he has demonized everyone who shows so much as a hint of opposition. He decided not to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday, for crying out loud. Who on earth is supposed to believe this? Oh. I forgot. Your base.
