S*** the President Says – 10/26/2020

Ladies and gentlemen, our president visited our fair city last week. Sure, he uttered crazy things into TV cameras all across the country like he always does, but when he comes to Erie we’re going to focus on that. Behold, then, the following s*** from our president’s Erie address:

“[The election is] a choice between our plan to kill the virus or Biden’s plan to kill the American dream, and that’s what he’d be doing.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Whoa, President Trump saved his plan to kill the virus for our ears first! This is great. What do you think is the plan?

“Get your Governor to open up Pennsylvania. Get your Governor to open it up.”

Uh oh. This is not a plan to kill the virus at all. This is a plan to surrender to the virus.

“I’m working to make the antibody treatment that I received available to anybody that needs it free and it’s getting very close to getting approved.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Now our president is in favor of free medicine? Like, socialized medicine? I’m doubtful, but at least this is the start of some plan. What else?

“We will have 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year. Maybe sooner than that, maybe substantially before.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Fact check: false. So, our three part plan is (1) rampant spread of the virus, (2) empty promises of socialism, and (3) rushing a vaccine before it’s ready. Hard to believe this guy’s gone bankrupt.

“And Joe Biden will ban fracking and abolish Pennsylvania in it. How many times did he say your fracking and mining industries will be outlawed, exiled, eradicated, and totally extinguished.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Zero. Biden has said this zero times.

“And you know it because it’s not up to Sleepy Joe, he’s gonzo. It’s up to the others and his party.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Wait a minute. Do we know Biden’s going to ban fracking because he keeps saying it (he doesn’t), or because other people will force him into it against his will? Both of these things can’t be true.

“Joe Biden has pledged repeatedly to ban fracking, right? You’ve all heard it. Have you heard it?”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Now we’re back to the original claim – that Biden openly wants to ban fracking. I’ve never heard Biden say this. I’ve heard our president keep insisting he heard it, but I’ve also heard him insist Ted Cruz’s dad shot JFK. This is important, so let’s take some time to set this record straight: Biden has proposed banning new leases on federal land. That makes up about 10% of all U.S. fracking, and wouldn’t affect existing federal leases, of which there are many. “But Ted,” you’ll say, “what about the debate later in the week when Biden pledged to transition out of the oil industry? Isn’t that proof that Trump was right?” No. Transitioning out of the oil industry is what George W. Bush proposed in his 2006 State of the Union, and you’ll note that the industry hasn’t been “outlawed/exiled/eradicated/totally extinguished” yet. Having a long-term plan is good because oil is non-renewable. Wantonly flushing the lifeblood of our economy down the toilet next year is not on the table from either party.

“Joe Biden has made a corrupt bargain exchange for his party’s nomination. He’s handed control of his party over to socialists. I added another word, communists, Marxists, left-wing extremists, and they’re full of hate and rage and scorn for the middle class and for everybody.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

If you’re keeping score, we’ve now gone from (1) Joe Biden continually insists he’ll ban fracking, to (2) okay he doesn’t but others will force his hand, back to (3) Biden insists, and back again to (4) the socialists/communists/Marxists/Canadians will make him do it. This is head-spinning incoherence considering his own socialist proposal just minutes earlier.

“To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning, if Biden was elected, he will wipe out your energy industry…Just like he wiped out your steel industry and I brought it back. I brought it back.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

Donald Trump did not bring back the U.S. steel industry.

“If I don’t sound like a Washington politician, it’s because I’m not a politician.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

To me, the problem isn’t that our president “doesn’t sound like a politician.” It’s that he doesn’t sound like an adult. I just want an adult.

“And if I don’t always play by the rules of the Washington establishment, it’s because I was elected to fight for you and nobody has ever fought for you harder than I have.”

10/20/2020 Trump rally in Erie, PA.

You see? When Donald Trump asked the Ukrainian president to announce an investigation into Joe Biden in exchange for U.S. military equipment – trading U.S. foreign policy for a personal favor – that was for us. When he spent an entire year of his term at his golf clubs (more time away than any other modern president), that was for us! When he hired a secret foreign agent of Turkey as his national security adviser, cut his own taxes, and injected himself into every conversation about every topic from whether Russia attacked us to how we should protest injustice – that was for us! News flash: none of this was for us. Never will be. It can be over soon enough, if we all just do our part on or before November 3rd. Don’t be silent.

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That’s our report for this week. Be sure to check out the links for more info on any particular topic and, as always, thanks for reading.