OrangeVerse LVI: Warp Speed Poetry

The president had an Operation Warp Speed gathering today, where he spoke about the efforts to bring COVID vaccines to the US and to the rest of the world, and he also talked about other aspects of the country's handling of the pandemic. 

And, after talking about how we are leading the effort to get vaccines out, not just to America but the rest of the world,  he signed an executive order declaring that Americans would be prioritized over the rest of the world when it comes to distributing the vaccines.  No members of the Biden Transition team were invited, or present.

You can read about how the official stuff played out in the link above, including the obligatory mention of the 'China virus,' because we haven't heard that one in a while, I guess. Meanwhile, I'm going to find the poetry in the president's words once he got to taking questions. Take a look at his responses to questions about his message to the American people and the hardship people will feel over the Christmas holiday, which led to the discussion about case volume and testing; about his own large Christmas parties; and about not including the Biden team in the event.

Yeah, well

CDC puts out their guidelines

 and they’re very important guidelines, 

but I think this: I think that the vaccine was our goal.

That was number one

because that was the way — 

that was the way it ends. 

Plus, you do have an immunity.

You develop immunity

over a period of time,

 and I hear we’re close to 15 percent.

 I’m hearing that, 

and that is terrific.

That’s a very powerful vaccine in itself. 

And just tremendous progress has been made.

 

Reasons, the Reasons that We Hear

One of the reasons we do

show so many - and I say this,

and I’ve been saying it for a long time -

so many cases is because of the fact that we

have 200 million tests.  And you take-

I think India is actually in second place

with just a fraction of that number.

So we’re many times greater than the second country,

and India has 1.4 billion people where –

our testing program has been incredible.

 

But Wait, There’s More

And we actually are also

coming out with new tests

very shortly that will make the

process even easier, and

you won’t need doctors

necessarily to do the test.

So we have some incredible tests

coming out in a very short

period of time.

 

Behavior Modeling

Well, they’re Christmas

parties. And frankly we’ve

reduced the number very

substantially as you know.

And I see a lot of people

at the parties wearing masks.

I mean I would say that

I look out at the audience

at those parties, and we have

a lot of people wearing masks

and I think that’s a good thing.

 

Where Are the Transitioners?

Well, we’re going to have to see

who the next administration is –

because we won in those swing states,

and there was terrible things that went on.

So we’re going to have to see

who the next administration is.

But whichever the next administration is

will really benefit by what we’ve been

able to do with this incredible science,

the doctors - all of the people that came up –

the lab technicians.

The work - the work that’s been

done is incredible, and it will

be incredible for the next administration.

And hopefully the next administration

will be the Trump administration,

because you can’t steal hundreds

of thousands of votes. You can’t

have fraud and deception and all

of the things that they did, and

then slightly win a swing state.

And you just have to look at the

numbers. Look at what’s been on tape.

Look at all the corruption.

And we’ll see. You can’t

win an election like that. 

So hopefully

the next administration will be

the Trump administration,

a continuation - which has led us

to the highest stock markets we’ve

ever had, the best employment

numbers we’ve ever had,

a rebuilt military.

If you look at - the tax reductions

are the greatest in history;

the regulation reductions,

the greatest in history.

It leads us to Space Force,

which nobody thought

was possible. All of the

 things we’ve done. And

we were rewarded

with a victory.

Now, let’s see whether

or not somebody has the courage –

whether it’s a legislator or legislatures,

or whether it’s a justice of the

Supreme Court or a number of justices

of the Supreme Court. Let’s see

if they have the courage to do

what everybody in this

country knows is right.

I received almost 75 million

votes, the highest number of votes

in the history of our country

for a sitting President –

12 million more than the 63 million

we received four years ago.

President Obama received 3 million less

in his second term, and he won

easily. I received 12 million more,

which, by the way, is a record.

Twelve million more.

And they say that when the numbers

came out - and the numbers came through

machines. And all of those ballots

were taken away and added.

All you have to do is turn on

your local television set and

you’ll see what happened with

thousands of ballots coming

 out from under tables - with all

of the terrible things you saw.

All you have to do is take a look.

And if somebody has the courage, I

know who the next administration will be.

And I’ll tell you what: Life will be much easier

for this country because of what we’ve done

right now and because of a lot

of the people in this room.

The job you’ve done on the vaccine,

together with a lot of others,

has been a modern-day

miracle, and it’s really been

acknowledged as such.

And I want to thank you.

I want to give you my love,

and I want to give you my thanks

because you’re very special people.

And now, good luck.

You distribute that,

General, and really set records.

Okay? Set records,

 just like we’ve been doing

for four years.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you.