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China Joe made a few patronizing calls for unity, but, his speech was mostly highly partisan. And kinda gross

Pollak: Biden’s Phlegmatic, Divisive Speech Burns Bridges to Trump’s America

President-elect Joe Biden delivered an angry, partisan speech Monday evening upon being voted the winner of the 2020 election by the Electoral College.

Biden did not just acknowledge victory; he taunted his defeated opponent, President Donald Trump. Rather than celebrate the result and reach out to Trump and his supporters, Biden — coughing up phlegm throughout his speech — attempted to rub salt in the wound, continuing to argue the case after he had already won it.

Biden seemed annoyed that Trump had contested the results at all. He has no right to be offended.

Biden was one of the Obama administration officials who “unmasked” Michael Flynn, as part of an effort undermine the incoming administration. On the campaign trail in 2019, Biden agreed eagerly with a voter who called Trump an “illegitimate president.” He called Trump a Nazi sympathizer and compared him to Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler. Biden has never apologized for that.

In his speech, Biden declared that the election was “free and fair” — a dubious claim, which I have disputed elsewhere. He  expects Americans to overlook a year of political violence, almost entirely by the left; unprecedented censorship by the mainstream media and Big Tech to cover up stories damaging to Biden’s political prospects; a debate commission stacked against Trump; and — most of all — a shift to vote-by-mail that was often pushed by Democrats over Republican objections.

There really was nothing of substance that could be considered “reaching across the aisle” included in the speech

Coughing and spluttering, Biden went on an extended rant against Trump’s effort to challenge the election results in court. There was no need to do that. The fact that the Electoral College voted the way it had was evidence enough that Trump’s legal efforts had failed.

Yeah, it is rather nasty, and rather shocking that his handlers would let him speak in such a condition.

At the end of his petulant address, Biden called on Americans to “unite and heal.” But evidently he expects unity and healing to flow in one direction.

Biden is, and always has been, one of the most divisive politicians in America. He is personally to blame for the fact that Supreme Court confirmations are fights to the death, for example.

Pollock goes on to say that Biden burned bridges. But, hey, Democrats set the stage with their Russia Russia Russia stuff, saying that the “campaign to impeach Trump has begun” on inauguration day 2017 without even giving him a chance, all the opinion pieces on hoping Trump fails and resisting Trump, 4 years of unhinged “resistance”,  and, you know the rest. I wonder if resistance will suddenly be unfashionable, that it will suddenly be un-patriotic, now that China Joe is sure to be installed as, to use the word Dems used for George W. Bush, pResident?