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Rocknation

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1. TPM: "(Trump has) been aided...by the Washington Post and New York Times,
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 03:47 PM
Mar 2021

Last edited Fri Nov 5, 2021, 02:42 PM - Edit history (9)

both of which have run articles this week arguing that the speed-up in the vaccine rollout under President Biden only builds off of a plan put into place by Trump...contend(ing) that Trump is right: he had a plan to distribute the vaccine that Biden was lucky enough to inherit."
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But wait -- there's more:

Biden's big COVID bill proves a lot of his critics wrong

A new book...about Joe Biden's campaign for president is called Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, which seems...(an) unnecessarily disparaging title...I haven't read the book but early reviews focus on the fact that nobody, even Biden's former boss Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton...thought he had a chance...

I don't know if the Democratic electorate had some sort of collective instinct or...as the title of the book implies, (it was) just a matter of luck, but...Biden, with his years of experience and what felt like calm, compassionate wisdom, rose to the top of the field and eventual victory...

So what is this all about -- the followup to Dr. Seuss-Gate as a weapon of mass media deflection? I suppose that Trump was "lucky" enough to have won the presidency without winning the popular vote in 2016. More people DID vote AGAINST Trump than for him, however -- and the same thing not only happened again in 2020, but by a margin twice as wide.

I suppose Biden WAS "lucky" that Trump DIDN'T inflate his popularity with his big lies, race-baiting, despotic management style, possible dementia -- oh, and escorting a half-million-casualty pandemic across the country. Which MIGHT explain why there were 26 million MORE voters in 2020 than in 2016, and why Biden was "lucky" enough that nearly sixty per cent of them sided with him...





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