Pour a Drink, Grab a Seat: We're Liveblogging Biden's First Press Conference

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It was impossible for me to watch that and not think of Leonid Brezhnev, which in turn brings up "It's the End Of the World As We Know It."

But I don't, as the song says, feel fine. 

That was an awkward close.

So that happened.

"They have to posture for a while" - for the next two years at least.

Well. That was not good. 

A Senate investigation in 2014 found parents were complicit in labor trafficking their children on this side of the border so remittances got sent home. This is such emotional garbage. Yelling for emphasis again. 

If I was on Biden's comms team, that moment when he wandered away from the podium would have been TERRIFYING. 

What. Is. He. Doing? Where. Is. He. Going?

He's rambling again.

Still?

So, in the middle of a pandemic that Biden assures us is raging, HHS and FEMA are being diverted to the border. 

The Trump admin did cheek swab DNA. This is not new and not time-consuming. 

Last question: That will bring us right up to the one-hour mark.

As I wrote on this morning's Insanity Wrap, he can be good for the first hour, then rapidly declines over the next 30 minutes.

But I might need to revise that down to the first 30 minutes.

Thank God. Last question. 

So, on the subject of capping oil wells. I used to work for an agency that does that. It's not federal. That tends to be a state responsibility. Feds sometimes pay for it. But states handle it. 

For whatever that's worth. 

0.5 inches of sea-level increase as estimated by the IPCC in the next 100 years. This is not a crisis. This is just tedious to listen to.

Remember how entertaining and lively Trump's press conferences were?

This is...not that. 

Is he talking about oil wells? Seriously?

FFS.

Did Biden really just say we can pay union guys just as much to cap a well as to dig one?

Does he really have zero clue how wealth is created?

Never mind, I already know the answer but wish I didn't.

Another failed "shovel ready" jobs canard. Do you know that the permitting and approval process for most infrastructure projects is at least three years? They employ more lawyers than union workers. That is why Obama's "shovel ready" jobs never materialized.