5 September 2020

Speechwriter

In the last couple of weeks, the narcissist who currently occupies The White House has stolen a march on Joe Biden. He has cunningly put the pre-election focus on law and order, claiming that he is tough on criminality. Ironically, on his watch, there have been riots in the streets of several American cities. The cracks in American society have threatened to become yawning fissures.and yet the 45th president has sought to blame all of this on Democrats. It's like a magician's trick - twisting the truth so outrageously. An illusion. He can't even bring himself to say the names of George Floyd, Jacob Blake or Breonna Taylor.

If I were a speechwriter for Joe Biden, I would put these words in his mouth:-

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"Okay guys. Over the last couple of weeks we have allowed Trump to rant about law and order. If I might be so bold, today I would like to switch the focus to something else, something that has touched every American household, something that is very much still with us, something that Trump doesn't want to talk about - COVID 19. Yeah. Let's talk about that. It's important. COVID 19.

Under the presidency of Donald John Trump, 200,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. I will say that again, slowly, two hundred thousand! That's about the same as the entire population of Salt Lake City, Utah. And it has happened on Trump's watch.

Don't get me wrong everybody. I am not saying that Trump is responsible for the virus. He did not bring it to The United States but what I am saying is that his response to it has been cavalier and heartless. Throughout the pandemic he has tried to brush it away as if it was an irritating insect or something. The guy even takes pride in not wearing a mask and his most ardent supporters follow his lead

Like a lowlife racist he has referred to COVID 19 as "the kung fu virus" or "The Chinese virus" instead of taking responsibility, leading by example, marshalling our people, our scientists, mayors and health professionals to defeat this terrible enemy. I will say it again my friends - 200,000 have died. Far more than should have died in our great country.

The president downplays COVID 19 all the time but it has happened on his watch. No wonder he doesn't want to talk about it. No wonder he tried to hijack the agenda - trying to manipulate questions of law and order to his advantage. He knows that he has got some serious questions to answer about the coronavirus. 200,000 - the same size as Amarillo, Texas or Huntington Beach, California.

Throughout the months that this virus has been with us, the president has tried to dismiss it, downplay it, pretend it is not there. He has made up lies about it. Many lies. Fake stuff. Fake. He even said we might be able to tackle it with strong disinfectant and bright light! I ask you. What kind of a leader says something like that? It is just plain stupid. Stupid and wrong.

The first responsibility of any American president is to protect our people. We are not "losers" nor "suckers", we are proud American citizens. So I say to our media people - Next time you get a chance to quiz the president don't let him blind you, turning the election agenda back to the issue of law and order. Ask him questions about coronavirus and how he has addressed it. You owe it to the 200,000 who have gone. May they rest in peace."

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Mr Biden then bares his pearly white teeth and with one arm around Mrs Jill Biden he uses the other to wave to those assembled and to the vast television audience. They leave the stage.
"How'd I do honey?" asks Mr Biden.
"You were brilliant Joe!" replies Mrs Biden. "Who on earth wrote that speech?"
"Oh just some English guy. Now let's go for pizza."

25 comments:

  1. Good post YP. I thought Ireland and England had poor leaders. America is even worse. Joe is too old and Donald Duck causes division.

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    1. The leader of Tuvalu is okay. He's called Kausea Natano. I would rather have Mrs Northsider as the PM of Great Britain and not the blonde clown we have unfortunately been lumbered with. You can be the Taoiseach of Ireland - Free plant cuttings for everyone! Build more Lidls! No beer tax!

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    2. Wetherspoon's on every corner. Can I be Minister for Allotments, Smallholdings and Prog Rock?

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    3. Only if the new Taoiseach approves.

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  2. Great speech Mr Pudding. Let's hope Joe's people are reading your blog. Have you read the article "The Unraveling of America" by Wade Davis?. You can read it in Rolling Stone magazine or find it on his Blog Daviswade.com
    I've also recently discovered Randy Rainbow.

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    1. Thanks for the heads up on that article Adele. However, I do not require any Randy Rainbow tablets.

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  3. When people in the U.K. who should know made the prediction that 6,000,000 Americans would die of COVID-19 if no measures were taken, President Trump closed the borders to China and Europe. Yes, 200,000 is 200,000 too many, but it is a far cry from 6,000,000 (population of Yorkshire). At the time, Mr. Biden called Mr. Trump xenophobic.

    In the 1918 pandemic, between 500,000 and 850,000 are estimated to have died in the U.S., and 250,000 in the U.K. -- yet President Woodrow Wilson is held in high esteem, especially among Democrats. I doubt very much that you think the quarter-million deaths in your country should be laid at the feet of King George V.

    Just trying to give some perspective to your post.

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    1. Who on earth predicted that six million Americans would die? I never heard that before. The figure seems crazy.

      Worldwide the flu epidemic of 1918 was clearly far more virulent than COVID19.

      In my head I was just giving Mr Biden a way of fighting back against the Trump election machine.

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    2. Neal, I searched and searched and found the report I remembered. It was from Imperial College, London in early March. However, I must have hallucinated about the six million figure as the report predicted 2.2 million U.S. deaths from COVID-19 "if there was no pharmaceutical intervention". That is still slightly more than ten times the number of deaths we have experienced to date, although some are now predicting 450,000 to 500,000 total.

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    3. Already America's death toll for COVID19 is more than double the number of Americans who died in Korea and Vietnam put together. So sad and many of those deaths could have been prevented by wiser leadership.

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  4. Unfortunately, it is quite obvious that logic and truth hold no sway with a great many Americans right now. And that is the tragedy.

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    1. Maybe. But I believe that there are good, decent Americans in the middle ground whose judgement will be fair and level-headed. They are the ones who will boot The Orange Thing out.

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  5. Does law and order include inciting people to vote twice? Is it law and order to advocate excluding amputees from veterans military parades because nobody want to see them?

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    1. In Trump's morality your points are fake Tasker. Fake. Fake points.

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  6. Good speech writing. Are you sure you didn't send that to Joe Biden a few months ago? I have heard Joe relate much if not all of your points in speeches he has given. Wise minds think alike.

    Honestly, I am very frightened about our coming election. Trump winning four years ago had to be one of the biggest shocks of my life. Something was not right about that election. Whatever allowed that to happen then has only gotten worse since then. What will happen to our country if he does win again? This is the most important election in our country's history.

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    1. And that is about the only right thing that Trump has ever said. What a terrible attitude he has to the military and he a guy who dodged the draft with false tales of "bone spurs".

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  7. Yorkshire Pudding for President.

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    1. Like Joe Biden, I need a feisty lady as my running mate!

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  8. Okay that English guy has his info sorted out.

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  9. November will be interesting

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  10. Reason and logic rarely stir the heart.

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    1. You should put that in "The Wise Sayings of Mr Edwards". I was going to say Graham the Grouse - inspired by Eddie the Eagle.

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  11. And Trump would then turn right around and say "Biden is an agent for the BRITISH!"

    (Of course Trump is an agent for the Russians, but never mind.)

    Honestly, I feel like politics is so unhinged these days that it's hard to believe anybody. I certainly DON'T believe Q-Anon, though. I still have some brain cells left!

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