As Trump* virus is shutting down the nation, the criminal Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, Donald “the problem is fake news” Trump has demonstrated that he and his sycophant Vice-Fuhrer Pence are both not competent to manage the crisis. As they campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden gave policy speeches to demonstrate that they are competent to manage the crisis.
Former vice president Joe Biden said Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak has revealed the Trump administration’s “severe shortcomings” as he delivered remarks on a subject that has rapidly come to dominate and reshape the Democratic campaign for the White House.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also delivered remarks on the health and economic effects of the outbreak, comparing it in scale to a major war. Later Thursday afternoon, Sanders’s campaign was given a boost when he was declared the winner of last week’s Super Tuesday contest in California.
Also Thursday, the Democratic National Committee announced that it was moving a one-on-one debate Sunday between Biden and Sanders from Arizona to a television studio in the nation’s capital “out of an abundance of caution” amid the outbreak…
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I’ll let you see the speeches so you can judge which one is right. I’ll embed Joe’s speech first, because he gave it first.
Joe Biden Gives Speech On Coronavirus Pandemic
Bernie Sanders makes address about Coronavirus
So, which do you think is right?
In my view, they both are!
RESIST!!
10 Responses to “Who is right on Trump* Virus: Bernie or Joe?”
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Both sound great and presidential to me!
Thanks for getting this out here, and am sending these to friends as well.
My guess before even watching was that both would be right. Both are to the left of Bloomberg, and both have big hearts (yeah, I know Bernie is gruff, but I also know his heart is huge.) I would expect some differences in details, but I would expect both plans to be generally right. And that’s what I saw.
Something I didn’t realize (because no one talks about it, especially not Republicans) but which I learned from the documentary I posted on Nameless’s post, is that all these viruses, when they kill, kill pregnant women disproportionately. That’s not true of any other group. Some viruses kill the old disproportionately, but not all. Some kill the very young disproportionately, but not all. A few kill young adults (18-40) disproportionately. But they all kill pregnant women. So where are the anti-abortion voices in this debate? (The question is rhetorical of course.)
Either of these two could take Dumpness in a simple arm wrestle about presidentially! Hell, about humanity!
“The best helmsmen stand on shore” (Dutch proverb), which doesn’t mean that Trump would have done any better than he does now if he was just running in the preliminaries. It doesn’t surprise me that Joe and Bernie are much alike in the way they address the issue; they’re both in the left corner of the political field, aren’t they? Trump isn’t in any corner on this issue, battling the COVID-19 outbreak is all about a PR crisis, not a health crisis for him.
After much push and pull by his minions he finally declared the outbreak a national emergency. But he’s done that four times before.
His fourth national emergency was declared in a bid to fund his promised wall at the US-Mexico border without congressional approval and now the coronavirus pandemic is his fifth. Because of the first four, the last doesn’t impress the public much anymore. Trump has completely overplayed his “national emergency” hand, something neither Sanders nor Biden is hindered by.
I feel that they both are.
That either one could take on tRump.
I learn towards Sanders, but if Biden is the nominee I’ll vote for him – even if I have to hold my nose.
I certainly hope that we have learned our lesson from 2016: Get your arse to the polls and Vote Blue No Matter Who! Biden probably won’t be a great POTUS, but he sure as hell will be better than what we have now. A hundred sports stadiums could not hold all the people who would be better than His Orangeness.
Both gave excellent speeches – but I think most people feel that “Uncle Joe” is comfortable, like an old pair of slippers.
I’d like to add that Bernie convened a town hall to hear from the people about their coronavirus concerns before building his proposals and giving a speech–which means the people are more apt to feel their needs will get addressed by him, just like the exit polls say about his other policies no matter who they voted for…and apparently it was media elites in corporate media sources that decided amongst themselves that Biden was more electable (not based on any evidence)…that sounds like a meme or fake news to me of great concern since that could re-elect Trump despite this debacle.
This is to JL. The most electable should be the best person for the job. Of the two that remain, that’s Bernie. Nevertheless, the vast majority of US voters are so politically brain-dead, they are vulnerable to media propaganda. As for re-electing Trump* it’s up to us to make sure this does not happen!
Thanks and Vote Blue No Matter Who! Hugs to all!