July 27, 2022

"When my predecessor got COVID, he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center. He was severely ill."

"Thankfully, he recovered. When I got COVID, I worked from upstairs in the White House...the difference is vaccinations, of course."

92 comments:

Earnest Prole said...

In other news, water is wet.

wendybar said...

THANKS to your predecessor!!!! YOU did nothing.

Rollo said...

Idiot. The current strains are weaker.
Those vaccines were developed when your predecessor was in charge, and they didn't prevent you from getting COVID like you said they would, and nobody really believes you were actually working very much.

Howard said...

Biden was cured by ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. The biggest cover-up since the 2020 stolen election

Duke Dan said...

Or could be a weaker variant of the virus. Just sayin.

Crimso said...

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

M Jordan said...

Biden’s loathing of Trump is off the charts. But I wonder why? Why does a certain class have such a visceral hatred of Trump? I think it’s because he calls their bluff every step of the way. His business success exposes their hollow careers. His bluntness exposes their passive-aggressiveness. His supposed vulgarity in taste exposes their exact same Philistinism which they try to hide.

n.n said...

When millions, billions of people were infected and developed Covid-19/20/21/22, without non-sterilizing therapeutic treatments... Aside from planned parent/hood, nosocomial infections, and fecal transmission... Cargo cult science with excess present, and probable forward-looking consequences (e.g. mutagenic, immunodeficiency, sterility, mutagenic).

madAsHell said...

Is this what the teleprompter told him??

I can't believe some of the petty, nonsense statements coming from Biden, and Harris. The sad part is Biden/Harris appear to be referencing notes while making perfectly inane comments.

Chris said...

What a fucking liar he is.

PM said...

ANYTHING to refer to Trump.
btw, Joe, what did that boogaloo-lover's heli ride cost hardworking Americans?

Mark said...

"He was severely ill"

Not the way I remember it.

Not that truth was ever a consideration for Joe Biden.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Excuse Moi Pedo Peter, ahem...you're not supposed to be politicizing and one-upping using covid.

That's Birx's and Fauci's job.

Caroline said...

The mask if off on Covid. Better health outcomes are due to weaker virulence. Covid doesn’t care if you were vaccinated. Most of the recent cases of vaxxed Covid in my circle had it much worse than I did, un vaxxed. The truth is the vaccine will not keep you from getting infected. It will not keep you from infecting others. There was never a greater lie than “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” I’m telling y’a, there is something lingering and creepy about the symptoms that occur in vaccinated people.

Carol said...

Trump couldn't help it of course but it's still a nice flex.

TFG was a weak loser! Lol

WK said...

Maybe his predecessor had a team more concerned about keeping him healthy. Biden gets “take 2 paxlovid and call me in the morning”.

Michael K said...


Blogger Howard said...

Biden was cured by ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. The biggest cover-up since the 2020 stolen election.


Well, he could have been but the fascists in charge prevent it. Of course the virus has evolved but you can't be expected to know that.

Gusty Winds said...

Blogger Duke Dan said...
Or could be a weaker variant of the virus. Just sayin.

You're right. That's exactly what it is. The bigger lie is that the "vaccine" helped him at all. They were developed for the original Alpha variant. They don't do anything against Delta or Omicron.

1) Does Biden even know he's lying? 2) Is this just another attempt to vilify those of us who resisted taking the experimental, ineffective shot...and tell us were in for another season of death? Or, 3) Do Pfizer and Moderna want their $$$ and the mRNA needs to be broadly mandated unnecessarily on America's children?

This President and his administration have no bottom.

Breezy said...

Hey Joe, can we talk to your doctor, please? We have a few questions….

Owen said...

What Rollo said. Different disease entirely.

I knew Joe was a moron but he didn’t have to rub it in —or try to treat us like morons. Sad.

Inga said...

“Or could be a weaker variant of the virus. Just sayin.”

Biden had BA5 which is more virulent than the other Omicron variants. Delta, which was the predominant variant from last summer reportedly was the most virulent. The Covid vaccine actually was more effective against Delta.

Gusty Winds said...

Is Biden trying to accuse Trump of being and "anti-vaxxer"? Trump is pushing the mRNA as one of his great accomplishments. Trump LOVES the "vaccine".

Ron DeSantis on the other hand...knows it's all bullshit.

TRISTRAM said...

So even the ‘No mean tweets’ justification for Biden is failing.

Martin said...

Or you got a 3rd generation mutation of the virus that is much more mild.

farmgirl said...

Maybe he didn’t have Covid to begin w/.

rcocean said...

Whatever Brandon.

TrespassersW said...

"....the difference is vaccinations, of course."

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The difference (which is not as great as Joe's exaggerated retelling implies) could be due to many factors. But y'all knew that.

Dave Begley said...

Why doesn't Biden just shut the fuck up? America hates him. He's illegitimate. And a dunce. And corrupt.

Robert Cook said...

Mark said:

"'He was severely ill'

"Not the way I remember it."


Because they kept confidential the degree to which Trump was ill with COVID.

"Not that truth was ever a consideration for Joe Biden."

Hahahaha! As if Trump has ever had the slightest regard for truth!

Jim at said...

the difference is vaccinations, of course."

I am beyond tired of this shit. No one can claim to know if vaccines made a difference because everybody has a different response to covid. Every body. Different.

I know people completely unvaxxed who've had covid with little or no symptoms. I also know people fully vaxxed and boosted who've been flat on their backs for a week with covid.

Just. Stop.

lawyapalooza said...

He's not wrong.

Static Ping said...

Per usual, the definition of a vaccine has been changed to support the narrative.

I think the COVID shots are generally beneficial for those that need them, but they are oversold. First, they are not vaccines. Vaccines prevent disease. The shots usually provide some protection, but you can still get sick. Second, they have been obsessed upon such as demanding that everyone get them, when only certain groups should be getting them, and they have been used as a cudgel to block all other forms of treatment, many of which have been highly effective when properly used. Third, these vaccines are for the original strain of the thing, so they are not going to be nearly as effective at what we have now.

But then again this is Biden, a man who was always an idiot and a bully, and now is senile.

lawyapalooza said...

You cultists are amazing. TFG was in very grave danger. He had to be hospitalized and given oxygen, along with (at the time) experimental treatment-- note: not ivermectin... The denial of literally anything that reflects poorly on him is something to behold.

Drago said...

robert cook: "Hahahaha! As if Trump has ever had the slightest regard for truth!"

Marxists are always the best arbiters of who is truthful and who is not.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

What a dick. He insinuates Trump is anti-vaccine, which is not true. Just like his glory-hogging the credit for getting the vaccine, Biden has to try and puff himself up in comparison to Trump.

C'mon Joe! When Trump was President gas was under $3 here in California, the food supply chains were fine and inflation was at historical lows. Do better.

Gusty Winds said...

Last week Biden's physician gave a press conference and said Biden was going well, eating, and then added, "he even showed me his plate"...like you would ask a two year old to do before you applaud and say "oh...you're getting soooo big!!!"

There is probably a little "look, I'm stronger that Trump".

Big difference is when Trump recovered from the Alpha variant so quickly, and stepped out on the balcony of the White House and removed his mask, he sent a signal that COVID could be survived, and we needed to back to our normal lives. The LAST thing Biden and the Democrats want is for us to return to our pre-2020 non-COVID existence. It gives them power and control.

Not only is Biden going after people like me who took zero mRNA shots, he is also going after those that have not participated in the boosters. If you only took one or two doses, according to these idiots you are no longer "fully vaccinated".

We welcome you to the club. Grab a beer.

Danno said...

What Rollo and Begley said. Biden's only claim to fame is he served as the co-instigator of the attempted high-tech lynching of a very qualified black Supreme Court nominee. For which the blacks in America should revile him.

H. Gillham said...

Boring, Biden. Just boring.

Achilles said...

Robert Cook said...

Hahahaha! As if Trump has ever had the slightest regard for truth!

Another stupid baseless statement of nothing with absolutely no support from a below average thinker.

Achilles said...

Trump was vaccinated too though.

Biden is just a stupid piece of shit.

Everyone that supports Biden is a stupid piece of shit.

Have fun with your redefinitions of "Recession" you dumb fucks. We all know that Biden fucked the economy up and you are going to get destroyed in November.

Quaestor said...

Goddamn is he STUPID. Or, more precisely, Biden's speech writers are goddamn STUPID.

Leland said...

For a man that just had cancer before covid; I wouldn't be messing with karma.

Also, Trump was quarantined per NIH guidelines. The helicopter was the easiest way to get him there. Biden put more people at risk. But, it is a Trumpian type comment from Biden, so fair play.

JK Brown said...

I'm not sure this was the best video to create for all the video reaction comment sites.

Joe, you got COVID when none but your Democrats consider COVID a bad risk.

Quaestor said...

He's not wrong.

You're not right, lawyapalooza. The difference can be many things besides vaccinations. Let's see if you're clever enough to list a few.

Readering said...

I like Biden. Hope he retires at the end of his term.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

C'mon Cook: As if Trump has ever had the slightest regard for truth!

This is such weak sauce so far into Brandon's reign of terror. A year ago he said everyone agreed the inflation was transitory. That wasn't true. Was it a lie?

Or was it closer to being bluster and fluff, the thing for which Trump was famous, although your ilk prefer the hard edgy definition lie when talking Trump. Definitions are always shifting with your kind. If exaggeration is a lie, then apply it to the current occupant too. If a partial truth is a lie, then apply that to the current occupant. If using superlatives in place of specific numbers is a lie then apply that to the current occupant. That you and most self-professed liberals and progressives claim some special exalted status for Trump's lack of precision is just another lie you tell yourselves.

RoseAnne said...

It's Wednesday. He couldn't go to his beach house again until he was healthy.

Now, he can leave on Thursday and spend a long weekend there.

And the press still won't get a chance to speak with his Doctor and ask questions because now he is testing negative.

Win-Win for his team.

Mark said...

"Not that truth was ever a consideration for Joe Biden."

Hahahaha! As if Trump has ever had the slightest regard for truth!

That is what is called an admission that Biden has always been a pathological liar.

Amadeus 48 said...

As is well known, the evolutionary cycle of respiratory viruses is that variants become more contagious and less deadly over time. Joe caught COVID that was later in the cycle and therefore less deadly. He is a beneficiary of viral evolution.

Also, the vaccines were developed under Trump's Operation Warpspeed. Did Joe thank Trump? No. That would be too classy for Joe.

Robert Cook said...

Mark said:

"'He was severely ill'

"Not the way I remember it."


Because they kept confidential the degree to which Trump was ill with COVID.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html

(I have reposted with the link pasted here, as the hyperlink in my previous post isn't working.)

What's emanating from your penumbra said...

Does this administration EVER just shoot straight? They are pathetic and deserve no respect.

Temujin said...

First of all, when Trump got Covid, it was still COVID. It was killing people. Biden's covid is more annoying than dangerous, and I'm not sure if it's Biden that's annoying or hearing about the virus, but...

On the last week of the campaign before the election, Trump was jetting across the country all day and night, doing multiple campaign rallies in far away states before tens of thousands and thousands more who could not get in, millions more on TV. Doing 3+ hours at each event without the teleprompter, driving home the point that his voters were more enthusiastically engaged by far, his work had not been dismissed by the nation, and that millions were hoping for more.

Biden was put in his basement on that last week, not doing any campaigning, offering a few staged, scripted murmurs some mornings before his caregivers put a 'lid' on his appearances, typically before 10am, lest he say something from his own mind. The week prior, 50 or so people showed up for one of his final 'rallies', showing the world just how enthusiastically the Democrats felt about their candidate.

Yeah. I still wonder about those election sites shutting down around 11pm that night. I still can't shake the feeling that this entire thing was scripted, right down to the final totals. Sorry. I got off track.

Amadeus 48 said...

"Why doesn't Biden just shut the fuck up? America hates him. He's illegitimate. And a dunce. And corrupt."

Because there are Robert Cooks out there ready to twist all of the above to fit their narrative. What is their narrative? Orange man bad.

Richard said...

"When my predecessor got Covid"

It appears that Trump has reached "He Who Shall Not Be Named" status.

Amadeus 48 said...

By the way, I am a Pfizer shareholder. I can't thank the Federal government enough for lining my pockets with their half-truths and big wallet. Everyone of you should get vaccinated.

Rent seeking? Moi?

You bet.

Michael K said...

My preference in Biden speeches is the one where he does not blink, even once. Sort of the Zombie look. I wonder what drugs he is on? No wonder the White House doc is missing in action.

RMc said...

Because they kept confidential the degree to which Trump was ill with COVID.

Well, gee, Cookie, if the NYT says it, it must be true...!

Jersey Fled said...

Sheesh, Inga. Who told you BA.5 is more virulent than Delta? The same people who told you that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary?

narciso said...

the vacccine his own vice president wouldn't take, which was sold as preventing infection, yes tell me another one shambling,

Skeptical Voter said...

Biden does run his mouth doesn't he? Aside from that, I don't think he's running the country---nor is he capable of it.

Josephbleau said...

Beiden got COVID and he recovered faster! And he didn't go to the hospital like fing Trump, so Trump is a pussy for going to the hospital! You know we hate Trump, you know.

Buckwheathikes said...

The problem with Joe Biden politically is that he's an ahole. Nobody likes him. Democrats don't even like him.

Nobody likes an ahole. Especially one like him who always thinks he's right when he isn't. You all have that friend who always thinks he's right, and he's never right, and he's just so full of himself he's unbearable at parties.

That's Joe Biden. Nobody invites Joe Biden to a party.

Original Mike said...

"Because they kept confidential the degree to which Trump was ill with COVID."

I'm sorry Robert, but the New York Times has less than zero credibility when it comes to reporting on Trump.

I'm assuming you know, just to pick one example, that Russian Collusion was a pack of Hillary-generated, FBI-enabled lies. It's hard to imagine that the NYT didn't know that early on, yet they reported otherwise for years. There is no reason to accept their word on the degree of Trump's bout of Covid.

Kevin said...

As if Trump has ever had the slightest regard for truth!

Heh. I remember when people used to post here that TDS was a myth.

Kevin said...

Has Biden, like Trump, made his doctors available to the press for questioning?

Or is his team afraid they might be asked about all the medications he's currently taking?

CWJ said...

"I like Biden." Seriously, why?

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

I was out of town. Is Biden dead yet? No? dang.

tastid212 said...

Joe Biden is really turning into The Incredible Shrinking President - right before our eyes. Sad.

jg said...

Deeply stupid or dishonest: Trump is obese, strain is different, treatment protocols are better (https://maximumtruth.substack.com/p/how-to-get-paxlovid-quickly - Paxlovid).
However, 'vaccinations' in my personal experience ("we all got the same covid strain, who is suffering more") moderate symptoms perhaps by half - no more.
The more interesting thing to say about the 'vaccinations' is that nearly everyone in Biden's circle had them and also got covid.

Mason G said...

"Everyone that supports Biden is a stupid piece of shit."

This comparison is an insult to shit.

Just sayin'.

Aggie said...

If they were both vaccinated, then how is it that 'the difference is vaccinations, of course" ? That is the opposite of a truthful statement - of course.

Gusty Winds said...

Blogger Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
...Brandon's reign of terror.

You win the thread Mike. Who'll Stop the Reign?

Drago said...

Readering: "I like Biden. Hope he retires at the end of his term."

It appears democraticals in general like groomers and adult males who shower with their adolescent daughters.

Several of these democraticals at Althouse, gadfly, Inga and victoria from Pasadena, have gone so far as to call it perfectly "normal".

So, yeah. You like Biden.

Yancey Ward said...

Trump wasn't that sick with COVID either- I don't give a fuck what The NYTimes tries to claim otherwise, Cook. The proof I am right is how quickly Trump was back at the White House and on the campaign trail. The trip to Walter Reed was an overreaction (or, maybe, an attempt to derail his campaign by less than loyal medical staff), but an understandable one given how much more deadly the alpha strain was versus those of today.

Biden is welcome to play it this way since Trump was mocking him the other day with tongue in cheek. It is fair play.

However Biden, or whoever wrote what was on the teleprompter, has set themselves up in a way that his staff is surely too stupid to understand. If Biden gets sick a second time with COVID, a real possibility and likely to happen at some point in the next 6 months, today's video will be come back to haunt his staff and the Democrats, and Trump will be ready to pounce.

Bob B said...

Why won't the media tell us how Biden's cancer is progressing? I think this is a coverup.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Doing Trump, to do a Trump take down says there was not much substance to the charge Trump was not "presidential".

Change my mind.

Inga said...

“Who told you BA.5 is more virulent than Delta?”

Reading comprehension issues? I said BA5 was more virulent than the original Omicron and it’s variants. I DID NOT say that BA5 was more virulent than Delta.

phantommut said...

This President and his administration have no bottom.

According to one definition they do, and by that definition it would be the establishment media.

RoseAnne said...

Temujin
Yeah. I still wonder about those election sites shutting down around 11pm that night. I still can't shake the feeling that this entire thing was scripted, right down to the final totals.

I agree. I have never seen a single instance before; to have multiple sites do it at exactly the same time was odd to say the least.

farmgirl said...

… and at the end of the day, shit washes of. W/a washcloth.

Biden is very unkind to people. When he called that woman a dog-faced pony soldier? I’m still pissed.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

Interesting textual cut by CSPAN and Althouse, the sentence continues, “but also three new tools…”

It’s so un-Trump-like for Biden to credit the vaccines - probably why Althouse blogged this. Both the vaccines and the new tools are the product of Bug Pharma. Can we knock off the blood feud long enough to give Big Pharma a round of applause? Capitalism enhanced by injections of public money from both Presidents.

LilyBart said...

Biden is a childish jerk.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...

Caligula said...

"When my predecessor got COVID, he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center. He was severely ill. Thankfully, he recovered. When I got COVID, I worked from upstairs in the White House...the difference is vaccinations, of course."


--> After the fact, therefore because of the fact? That's some great logic you've got there.
Why, I saw a black cat yesterday, and today I fell off a ladder! Musta been the cat ...

Paul said...

So Joe went to a doctor at the WH?

When I went in for a checkup the Dr. had to ask me a whole bunch of questions (a Social Security thing) so as to check my mental health.. which was quite fine.

Did they check Joe's mental health? And if it was found to be deficient, would the Dr. be libel for letting a senile nitwit be POTUS???

MikeR said...

Uh, anecdotal evidence.

walter said...

Yeah, that's also how 2 yr old flu vax works.
Ignore that the current variant favors the multi-jabbed.
Fucking dope.
Not too late for his Pax induced "rebound".

walter said...

Run a tox screen on him for horse paste.

farmgirl said...

I’m going Hmmmmm.

JAORE said...

Tough guy, that Joe Biden.
Ask him. He'll tell you.
No joke.

Christopher B said...

What Yancey Ward said. Cookie, Inga, Readering, and Left Bank all sound like COVID-cure-truthers trying to insinuate, as Biden did, that Trump was deathly ill when he spent less than three days in Walter Reed and resumed fairly normal activities (over the protests of various doctors) by 11 October, ten days after getting back positive test results on 1 October.

NPR's Trump COVID timeline

And Inga, that word salad you dumped out regarding COVID variants is ridiculous. Omicron, the dominant strain in the US since late 2021 and likely the one Biden got, is generally described as more infectious but far less deadly per case than either the Alpha or Delta variants.

Inga said...

“And Inga, that word salad you dumped out regarding COVID variants is ridiculous. Omicron, the dominant strain in the US since late 2021 and likely the one Biden got, is generally described as more infectious but far less deadly per case than either the Alpha or Delta variants.”

BA5 IS a variant of Omicron, sheesh you people are dumb. I said that BA5 was more virulent than the original Omicron. I said that Delta which was not an Omicron variant was the most virulent. How much clearer can I make it for you?