SecondJon

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An exerpt:

“But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

A translation : the system must work how the well funded powerful people (in business and politics) want it all work, so they secretly conspire to change laws and limit what information the public can access to ensure the result they want, and this is called Fortifying The Election. Because democracy is too fragile, it must be manipulated or it may not give the rich and powerful their desired outcome.

#MediaProtectsBiden #USAElection2020 #uspol

time.com/5936036/secret-2020-e

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition…

time.com
SecondJon

Media Narrative On Coronavirus Changes So Fast You Might Get Whiplash

Excerpt : Of course, this is exactly what's happening. In the second story, the writer even acknowledges that cases have been slowly falling for the last few weeks. But for some reason, it wasn't worth reporting on until Donald Trump was out of office.

notthebee.com/article/narrativ

#uspol #COVID19 #MediaProtectsBiden

SecondJon

Let's see how the New York Times excoriates #Biden for framing himself as a wartime leader :

On Thursday, Biden released a sweeping plan that he described as a “full-scale wartime effort” to beat the pandemic by invoking the Defense Production Act to surge vaccine production and establishing federally funded vaccination sites across the country.

nypost.com/2021/01/22/bidens-c

(The Biden Harris goal falls short of hope many vaccines were already being distributed under Trump.)

Here's what they said and #Trump :

The option, which he has brazenly pushed in recent days, is to cast himself as a “wartime president” who looks in charge of a nation under siege while his likely Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is largely out of sight hunkered down in Delaware. This gambit, however, requires a rewriting of history — Mr. Trump’s muted approach to the virus early on — and it’s far from clear if many voters will accept the idea of him as a wartime leader.

nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/poli

#uspol #MediaProtectsBiden

Biden’s 1M shots-a-day COVID-19 ‘goal’ was already reached — by Trump

President Biden’s “wartime effort” goal to vaccinate…

nypost.com
SecondJon

@Lonestar @EarlThePearls

#Trump DID say it, and was excoriated for it. #Biden is simply echoing Trump's "it is what it is" statement.

But when Biden says the same thing, it's a non story. When Trump said it, it was a reason he shouldn't be president.

Here's about Trump :

The president told Axios's Jonathan Swan that the COVID-19 pandemic is "under control as much as you can control it" in the U.S.
"They are dying, that's true. And you have - it is what it is," Trump said. "But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. It's under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague."

The interview was recorded last Tuesday, before the coronavirus-related death toll in the U.S. surpassed 150,000. The current death toll reached more than 155,000 as of Tuesday morning, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. currently has a seven-day average of 1,069 deaths per day, according to New York Times data.
At times, the interview turned combative as Swan pointed out the data Trump was referencing measured death as a proportion of cases instead of as a proportion of the population.

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tr

#uspol #COVID19 #MediaProtectsBiden

Trump on coronavirus death toll: 'It is what it is'

President Trump said the coronavirus death toll "is…

www.msn.com
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