SO-- JOE BIDEN

Four years ago, I posted SO-- DONALD TRUMP, so I may as well do the same for the new President-elect.

For the present I don't have a ton of stuff to say about this dull career politician, but here's something I just posted on a political forum regarding his probable reception by the MSM (mainstream media).

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I think MSM will continue to promote all this bushwah about how "empathetic" Biden is for the next few months at least. The media giants almost have to do so, because they spent the better part of four years complaining that Trump lowered the political discourse etc. 

However, even though the MSM will let Joe skate by on such matters as his son's dubious activities and Joe's fealty to China, there's one thing that they can't and won't ignore during Joe's tenure, and that's Covid.

Covid has become the lifeblood of the MSM industry, and it's not going to go away peacefully just because Joe Biden is the new Prez. There's a slight possibility that Trump's vaccine will be ready to go by the time Joe takes office, but even that is unlikely to eliminate Covid right away. The MSM will still have to continue reporting on daily Covid infections, albeit maybe not deaths, because the first concern of these MSM businesses is to get viewers to watch, and Covid reports make them watch. 

I imagine some of them will spin things in Joe's favor for a while, playing up his alleged niceness and probity. But infections will in all likelihood continue to mount, and when they do, it will increasingly difficult for the news people to make Joe look as squeaky-clean as they've been doing thus far.