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Jim Jordan CONFRONTED: Did Joe Biden Win the Election?
Jim Jordan has been one of the Republican congresspeople pushing the “big lie” conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. During a recent congressional hearing on voting access, Jordan was confronted by Democratic Representative Joseph Morelle about whether or not Joe Biden won the 2020 race fair and square. Morelle said to Jordan, “I also find it curiouser and curiouser that you would use 2020 data on election participation when you won’t even acknowledge the outcome of the same election.” Jordan quipped back, “I’ve acknowledged the outcome.” Morelle followed up by asking, “have you? Did Joe Biden win this election? There was no fraud, you’re prepared to say that?” Finally, Jordan made the slippery move of saying Biden is “the President of the United States” without directly answering Morelle’s question about whether Biden won the election fairly.
Jordan and his right-wing allies have chosen this route whenever confronted about Biden having won the election. They know at this point not to outright say the Democrats stole it from Trump, as that can get them deplatformed and cause them to lose their access to privileged society. These conservatives also know they have to play into the far right narrative about a “stolen election” in order to reach the good graces of their Trump-supporting voter base and the big man himself. What results is the delegitimizing of our electoral institutions and the tricking of some portion of the American people into thinking maybe Biden didn’t actually win. As Morelle pointed out in his exchange with Jordan, the consequences of this playacting can be deadly, as we saw during the Capitol riots on January 6th. Morelle wrapped up by saying Biden is president now because Congress ultimately ignored the demands of Trump, Jordan, and their followers and counted the electoral votes as cast after the dust settled on January 6th.
Fox News LOL: Was Vaccine Approval Rushed?
Yesterday, the US Food and Drug Administration announced full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine. Previously, the Pfizer vaccine was approved only under an emergency use authorization. Now that there has been enough time since the original clinical trials, and tens of millions of Americans having taken the vaccines with only occasional, rare reports of complications, the FDA felt confident enough to give the vaccine full approval. The same go-ahead will probably come for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in the coming months. The announcement from the FDA is significant, as it will make businesses and government agencies feel more comfortable about requiring their employees and customers take the vaccine. The Pentagon has already announced that taking the vaccine will soon become a requirement for all servicemembers. The news is also significant because in polls, vaccine skeptics have reported that the number one thing that would convince them to get the vaccine is full FDA approval. Whether or not these vaccine hesitant individuals will actually stick to that remains to be seen, but it would not be surprising to see an uptick in vaccination rates based off this news in the coming weeks.
From yesterday’s show:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Standing Ovation for Biden "Impeachment"
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been going around the country holding large fundraising events and she really knows how to rile up her Trump-supporting base. Greene announced during a recent mini-rally that she will be filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, which prompted the audience to give her a standing ovation. Greene plans to levy three articles: one for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, one for illegal immigration, and one for the extension of the COVID eviction moratorium. What Greene’s supporters seem to not understand is that these articles of impeachment will go nowhere, since Democrats control the House of Representatives and there’s no chance Nancy Pelosi will choose to bring them to a vote. This is not the first time Greene has tried to impeach Joe Biden. One day after the new president took office, she tried impeaching Biden for abuse of power over allowing his son Hunter to work for a Ukrainian energy company while he was vice president. This is simply a ploy by Greene to help her fundraise, but it may actually be working among her gullible supporters who think her plan to remove Biden could actually work.
More on the show:
--Tom Standage, Deputy Director of the Economist and author of the book "A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car, What Comes Next," joins David to discuss the history and future of transportation technology and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/2WmoN89
-The FDA fully approves the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
--The Pentagon will act immediately on the FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinate and will require all 1.3 million servicemembers to be vaccinated
--COVID vaccine requirements and mandates rapidly increase in the aftermath of the FDA's full approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
--Fox News host Tucker Carlson hosts right wing figure Jason Whitlock, and they both agree that the American left wing is "Satanic"
--The Eggman leaves a voicemail congratulating the show on 16 years and praising the recent guest hosts, Jesse Dollemore and Farron Cousins
--On the Bonus Show: Arizona "audit" results delayed due to COVID illness, Alex Jones says maybe Trump is a "dumbass," solar power briefly surpasses coal power in Australia, much more...
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