Oh and obviously this wasn’t an isolated incident. We had lots of this so we’re turning this into a mini 🧵
My head is still spinning from the speed and violence of this about face from @JoeBiden.
This one didn’t age well.
And really looks suspect in retrospect
Hmmm.
So does this mean you’ll be taking responsibility, @JoeBiden? You are the president now, after all, and the number of daily deaths has tripled since you tweeted this.
Might also be a good time for the outlets who helped out a shine on Biden’s plan to revisit that coverage.
@JoeBiden promised us better. We were told - over and over again, in no uncertain terms - that the Biden team was going to turn the coronavirus pandemic around.
Today, they told us that wasn’t true. We’ve got a lot more examples to go. 👇
Over and over again his campaign told us they were ready from the jump to fix things.
Now that @JoeBiden is in office, apparently that’s changed.
How come?
This was the message that @JoeBiden delivered throughout the campaign.
This tone sure sounds like quitting to me, Mr. President.
Today we saw the birth & death of a coronavirus news cycle suggesting - contrary to common sense - that the Biden Admin had to “start from scratch” on a vaccine rollout since the Trump Admin had done nothing.
Curious who bought the spin? I’ve got some thoughts👇
@mj_lee broke the story today for @CNN, who has shared it countless times and mentioned it dozens of times on air, citing (you guessed it!) unnamed sources.
Only problem is, Dr. Fauci shot down the claim today at today’s press conference.
Seems he’s got a reason to know.
Of course, before the story was rejected outright by the most believable person involved in all this, lots of @CNN’s main voices jumped in about how big of a deal it was. This is what we call expectation setting.
My hot take is that what the last four years has proven is that our democracy isn’t actually fragile and is in fact substantially more sturdy and resilient than most of us thought.
My worries are far more with the social fabric of this country and less with our democracy itself.
I’ll flesh this out as a full piece at some point.