Uncle Joe is not flawless, but he does NOT do grudges. Especially when people are hurt more than governments. India needs to take a deep breath and realize that this sudden wholesale blaming of the US is the biggest #MalviyaMavalis IT cell win since the SSR distractions.
As an American, I'm doing my best to pressure the federal govt to do more. But a lot of indian anger against the US, while very understandable, is misguided.
First of all, US system is way more complex and slow moving, especially after Trump gutted almost every agency.
Sure, a lot of these controls can and should be moved. But Biden is not an "announce something on primetime news at 8 pm and let everyone figure it out at midnight" type leader. Nor is Klain. In a couple of days, I'm sure we will hear of more action and help for India.
But for all those breathing fire from their noses, let me just point out that
- US is still losing on average 1000 people a day to covid
- US is still getting 65-70K new cases daily

These of course look less dire compared to India. But US is SOOO not finished with covid.
Indians seem to think that just because US is getting vaccinated at very rapid rates, covid is finished here.
It.
Is.
Not.

The curve is flattening but still not at the X axis like in Australia or South Korea.

Indian requests are like gharcha zaala thoda, vyahyane dhaadla ghoda!
Again, not saying the US can't offer any help. We sure can. And I'm going to be doing everything I can to pressure everyone in DC I call. Just saying, india, redirect the anger towards Lok Kalyan Marg. We will take care of the white house from our side.
All the complaints and suggestions and pleas here about what the US can and should do right, I agree with. I'm on the phone right now saying the same.
But please have a sense of proportion in that. Or you're falling for the IT Cell distraction game. Even tho the US must do more!
Like a state dept friend of mine said "we are doing everything we can to change things here and start helping but really dude, Modi was doing a rally on Sunday but on Friday it's all the fault of Biden and Harris? That's some puneri naaz!"

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Ah, finally Abhishek Asthana aka greedy gobarsingh has decided to break the years long social media detente we had by QT-insulting me. And the weather is getting warm enough for me to take my gloves off. I knew this was coming since he went full fascist.
I've been meaning to share this for a while but held off because of the detente and a prior personal relationship.

Don't call him gabbbar. The unimaginative plagiarized name that characterizes his second hand identity.

Call him Abhishek Asthana.
Anytime you say "damn this gabbbar is such a sleazy sanghi", you help him continue to build his faux brand. Ever wonder why he doesn't show his face? Ponder that. He's actually a conventionally good looking guy.

He doesn't even have the originality to have his own face as a DP
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You think Republicans are going to come after him with "why aren't you exporting stuff to shithole countries?"
What exactly do these people think the countywide twitter tantrum has caused the white house other than a minor nuisance?
Other than indian Americans and a few policy junkies in the media, no one on the streets of USA is thinking about what indian twitter thinks of president biden. India holds not a single chip against him. He's trying to work like a normal president. That's it.
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Decent number of likes. Okay, let's do it at 1 pm NYC/1030 pm pune time. If you need a little break from the doom scrolling listening to some weird stories. My Spaces debut.
Sorry, 115pm/1045pm. Chores.
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And Biden knows all too well how these brown Trumps operate. They need a constant supply of bogeymen and threats to stay in power. Like Rihanna was for a while. Now this. In 48 hours it'll be some new enemy they will find. They actually serious work on 48-72 hr timelines.
In a few days, Psaki will come out and announce whatever they can spare and actually get done including exports. But by then, sanghi twitter will have created a new bogeyman and everyone will be like oh yeah.. America... Exports... Rings a bell. So last week though!
There is nothing actually positive in the country to tout on social media for about 7 years now, unless you get your rocks off at Muslims, Dalits, Sikhs, harassed regularly.
That's why the sangh parivar's social media team has to keep finding new enemies to keep the flock intact
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The win, spurred by the notoriously slippery Gaddar Poonawalla's tweet, was made possible because there indeed are legit problems with the restrictions and contracts. But they are the work of Trump & his default sociopathic approach to global politics. Whom magasanghis supported.
Not every or even most indian social media rants against Biden come from IT cell or sanghis. Many are progressive, well meaning, exhausted indians stretched to their absolute limit. *That* is the IT Cell and Poonawalla's win. Just like not every SSR warrior was a bhakt.
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An instance from 2016 India about how much even the smallest such extra cash gifts mean to India's non-elites forced to live in a "cheap labor is our competitive advantage" economy in times of crisis. Modi had declared 85% of all cash illegal overnight. India was in panic.
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My family in pune, hers in bombay, lots of things to be done in both cities. Had to make many trips between and within both cities, and neither of us have ever driven a car in India. Thankfully our usual cab for hire dude said he is okay with checks or transfers later from mom.
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