Reality and fantasy clash over Thanksgiving in Trump and Biden


The unity that President-elect Joe Biden called for in a speech on Wednesday sounds like a distant dream compared to the situation in Washington, where Trump sinks into his bunker. The president is simultaneously denying his election defeat and urging loyalists to fight. And the federal government and Congress are effectively AWOL, leaving millions of Americans to defend themselves amid medical and economic catastrophe.

In this bizarre barrier between Biden’s victory and Trump’s departure, the lame-duck president and his entourage have, surprisingly, noted different paths.

Trump to give wings to the presidency wrapped around the axis of his deceptive bidding, which is returning from his grip with each passing day. He walks the church between complaints and pipe dreams, without any thought for destruction in his path. Biden, operating in the world as it exists, plans to wait for the government. And in the two days since the Trump-appointed transition formal transition was allowed to begin, Biden’s team has begun investigating the corrosion and bots of the institutions that acquired them.

Biden’s reality and Trump’s ideas collided on the eve of Thanksgiving.

First came the news that weekly job claims had reached 778,000 – three times their epidemic average. Trump, meanwhile, simply called for plans to attend the Charlton Circus, called by his attorney, Rudy Juliana, a voter fraud “hearing” by a Pennsylvania Republican in Gatsby – again – who tested positive for the coronavirus. Giuli will return anyway and Trump will call, his voices will be heard being pressed through the speakerphone to the microphone.
The president attacked the courts, which unanimously rejected his outlawed claims, Democrats with even more blatant absurd lies, and – whose outcome was difficult to say – to overturn the election results. A few hours later, he pardoned his loyalist Michael Flynn, soon acting national security adviser, who had accused the FBI of lying about the conversation with the then-Russian ambassador.

After that, Trump invited Pennsylvania Republicans to a West Wing meeting at the White House, two sources told CNN. The president met with two prominent Michigan G.O.P. State legislators, who visited Washington last week and hoped to get more fuel for their baseless claims of electoral fraud, said it was a lie. But he found nothing, and Republicans quickly issued a statement confirming the truth – that they had “not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan.”

Remove galaxies

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In Delaware, about 120 miles from the Gatsbyberg vessel and many psychic galaxies away, Biden gave a good call for caution and resolution in the face of a spiraling crisis.

“I know the country is fed up with the fierce fighting. But we need to remember that we are not fighting with each other but with the virus. Not with each other,” Biden said. “This is the moment where we need to steel our spines, redouble our efforts and get ourselves back into the fight.”

As he did during the campaign, Biden mourned the loss of his first wife and infant daughter in 1972, and his son died of brain cancer just over five years ago – to reassure mourning Americans.

“It’s really hard to handle,” Biden said of the “empty chair” where a loved one once sat, about the amazing sight. “It’s hard to say thank you. It’s hard to look forward, and it’s so hard to hope. I understand. I will think and pray for each of you this Thanksgiving.”

Earlier in the day, Future First Lady Jill Biden was spotted unloading bags at a food bank in Reloboth Beach, Delaware, where Bidens is on vacation. Huge challenges faced by many people through small gestures, their lives ruined financially by the epidemic, who have temporarily turned to increasingly degraded service-oriented organizations to satisfy basic needs.

And Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Crisis released a long-running article“Our food banks across the country are struggling to keep up with demand due to Covid-1. Know that when @Jobiden and I are in the White House, we will fight food insecurity and face this crisis.”

“No one in America should go hungry,” he added.

A Washington Post survey of Census Bureau data in late October and early November found that food insecurity was growing at an alarming rate. One in 8 Americans said they ate without eating during the past week, which increased to 6 in in households with children.
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Kelly O’Connell, CEO of Lakeview Pantry in Chicago, described the painful scenes as hard-affected families come to help, for the very first time.

Describing a family of four who had exhausted their savings, O’Connell spoke to CNN’s Brooke Baldwin about feelings of shame that often come with asking for help.

“They came to us to be able to put food on this Thanksgiving table,” he said. “One of the parents stopped in the car because they were a little embarrassed about how they get food. And, so it’s really tough.”

Growing lines outside food banks have become a bitter hallmark of this sad season.

Congress is still stuck on a relief package

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On the horizon: more pain. An estimated 12 million people will lose the extended unemployment benefits provided by the federal relief package passed back in March. The prospects for a second round of federal stimulus in the near future seem vague. There are several weeks of government funding deadlines, which could give legislators the opportunity to budget some new aid. But the excitement of the Democratic-backed House first passed in May, then updated in early October, it is sluggish.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to take it, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has so far refused to consider the small, piecemeal law. The stalemate has increasingly deprived American workers and put entire industries on edge.

The absence of a centralized, organized figure in the White House has also begun to worry about procedures for the distribution of coronavirus vaccines. In the mirror of the chaos this spring, when local leaders were left to bid against each other for ventilators and personal protective devices, a top Illinois state health official said the federal government had already said it could not meet the initial request of ,000 400,000. Dosage.

“We’re still waiting to see the answers, and we can understand why, but it looks like the initial allocation will be ready to go out – the numbers have dropped,” said Dr. Ngozi Ezike of CNN’s Nia- Said Malika Henderson. “So as a result, all states will get less money.”

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Washington was tied in a knot and the coronavirus spread at a record rate, with the Mayo Clinic, the country’s most popular healthcare provider, announcing that staff were being brought in from outside the state and telling retirees to return to work fighting the virus. In Minnesota.

As of 10 p.m. Wednesday, Johns Hopkins University reported 178,752 new cases nationwide and 2,207 deaths. That’s after more than 2,100 Covid-19-related deaths on Tuesday, the highest single-day number since May. Public health experts worry that millions of people traveling on Thursday will provoke a second wave of transition to spend time indoors and with family without security.

A former White House medical team adviser, Dr. “She’s probably the mother of all supersprider events,” Jonathan Rainer told CNN this week.

In the shadow of these grim statistics and alarming warnings, the White House issued an announcement from the president, “serving and sacrificing” first responders, medical professionals, essential workers, neighbors and countless other patriots.

He then encouraged behavior that put everyone at greater risk.

“I encourage all Americans to come together,” Trump said, in homes and places of worship, to thank God for our many blessings. “

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