Whenever things aren’t going so hot under Biden’s watch, the White House schedules a ‘major’ speech in response, and the media act like it means something.
If there’s one thing this White House is actually good at, it’s stalling. Granted, that’s a pretty easy thing to do when it can count on the media’s tried and true assistance. President Joe Biden is scheduled to give another one of his earnest-sounding speeches on Thursday, once again about COVID and vaccines. If you’ve been watching CNN (hahaha), you might have heard that this speech will be major. “Biden faces hard truths of the pandemic ahead of major speech,” CNN’s Stephen Collinson said on Sep.9 “President Biden will be delivering what’s being described as a major speech tomorrow,” said CNN’s Kate Bolduan the day before. “Biden set to deliver major speech on next phase of pandemic response, sources say,” wrote CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Veronica Stracqualursi on Sep.7. The White House is billing Biden’s coming speech as an outline for his “robust plan to stop the spread of the Delta variant and boost COVID-19 vaccinations.” Biden will reportedly advocate for vaccination requirements from private businesses, announce a vaccination mandate for federal government workers, and probably say some stuff about more testing and other things that in more than a year did nothing to prevent us from experiencing yet our fourth and current surge of Wuhan virus infections.
