Mainstream Media Realizes Biden's Presidency Really Was 'Damn Good'
And yet, the 'it's baked in' strategy gifted Trump yet again with a free pass before the election.
Ten times a day in the run-up to the election, I must of heard the expression, “Well, it’s baked in with Trump.” While I intuitively understood the expression, given that English is my native language, I couldn’t understand why those seemingly meaningless words contained the power to silence so many people. My Google searches of the expression never satisfied me; now here we are, one week away from a second Trump inauguration. Is this, too, “baked in?”
What amazed me most about the use of the phrase was that each time the so-called “experts” on television — or YouTube channels — uttered those words, the people on the screen discussing Trump’s lack of qualifications for the presidency would fall silent, shake their heads in agreement and move on to the next topic, leaving viewers at home again uninformed about how dangerously incompetent Trump is. There was an ingrained expectation that the facts, figures, and realities of Trump’s first four years were public knowledge, so there was no reason for the pundits to rehash any of them. “People already understand all of this, so let’s just move on to the next topic and criticize Biden and Kamala Harris instead.”
“Well, Trump, you know, in four years never failed miserably on passing anything for infrastructure…but this is all ‘baked in’ and people don’t care. They accept him as is.”
Boom! Discussion of Trump’s utter incompetence and inability to govern, mostly because he can’t remove his ego from absolutely every problem in the nation, meaning every solution must be run through a pro-Trump filter, ends and the panel of “experts,” like the hyper PC and usually-clueless Abby Phillip, move onto more detailed and often negative discussions of the vice president.
Trump’s criminal mismanagement during COVID, which some experts say led to the unnecessary deaths of nearly half a million people, was never analyzed by anyone in the mainstream media. “Let’s talk about COVID, Abby.”
“Wait a minute, people get that he was bad on COVID. It’s baked in.”
Heads nod. The discussion ends, and they move on. If anyone tries to push the topic and thrust their hands into the pie, Abby and the CNN producers shut them down.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris received no credit for their successful COVID pandemic management and recovery from the economic collapse. All the media did was latch on to the MAGA and Trump talking points about immigration and focus on Biden’s failures on that front. Why couldn’t they have said the same thing for Biden?
“Biden’s immigration policies have been, well, you know…it’s baked in.”
The cover given to Trump’s criminality and incompetence was always given the free pass of that phrase, and now, with one week left before America’s dissent into fascism commences, the mainstream media has woken up to praise Joe Biden.
There is praise coming in about the economy.
Biden said 16.6 million new jobs were created, adding that it was “most of any single presidential term in history.”
“I believe the economy I’m leaving is the best in the world and stronger than ever for all Americans,” Biden said. “So I think that’s we have. We’ll see what the next president does.”
U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in December. The unemployment rate fell from 4.2% to 4.1% as the labor market ended the year on a solid footing, reinforcing views that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unchanged this month (Greatest Presidency for Job Growth in History).
The MSM is appreciating that despite all the good Biden and Harris did for Americans, the lack of gratitude is perplexing.
A small town that voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Donald Trump may not seem like an ideal place for President Joe Biden to hold up as a jewel of his economic legacy. But as the president prepares to leave office, the White House is looking to communities like this former textile town outside Greensboro to validate the “Bidenomics” agenda that voters soundly rejected in November.
As construction cranes rise above Liberty and dozens of other Trump-friendly towns, the White House is grappling with the reality that the trillions injected into the economy by Biden’s policies did little to boost his party. With Trump set to return to the White House after campaigning against Biden’s economy — and the inflation that many Americans have come to associate with it — the president’s economic legacy, and that of his party, is in the hands of those who will only see benefits years or decades after he leaves office (Biden’s Agenda Had a Big Impact).
The economy has been called “great!”
Under the Biden administration, real GDP rose 12.6 percent, rightly cheered in the report as “a historically robust expansion” that repeatedly defied forecasts. Since the pandemic, economic growth in the US has far outpaced that of our peer nations. Business investment is up; unemployment is low (Chicago Booth Review).
The media is also heaping praise on the Biden administration for their public health successes. Joe Biden is leaving America healthier, with a greater percentage of Americans insured than ever in our history. Experts estimate that the Biden administration’s mass vaccination program during COVID saved millions of lives — had Trump won, that would have been millions more dead.
The positive media attention being directed toward the president as his last week in the White House begins is a lot, but way too late to do any good. The failure of the MSM and its use of a hackneyed term to stifle intellectual thought and objective analysis extended the nightmare that began in 2015 on 5th Avenue in Manhattan.
Starting on January 20th, 2025, we become the ingredients for the new Trump pie. It’s hard to comprehend.
Maybe this week's late praise will help those pundits sleep at night. They won't pay the price that most of America will for the next four years, but they've already sold their souls.