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B c political analyst, Steve Benon had a wonderful piece this week on nbc news.com, where he
talked about the fact that Republicans to this very day are still actually trying to
blame Joe Biden for all the horrible things that happened during Donald Trump's administration.
Leading that pack, as Ben and points out, is Marjorie Taylor Green, who recently said,
uh, , you did all of that during your communist covid shutdowns, don't, you don't
do it again to the American people.
Joe, um, president Biden was not the president during the lockdowns.
He was not the president of the United States when we entered Covid.
He was not president of the United States when different states across the country decided
to implement their own different rules about how to handle the pandemic.
Joe Biden is responsible for exactly zero pieces of that, mostly because he wasn't in
office at the time.
But Marjorie Taylor Green is still out there pushing that phony narrative that somehow
those lockdowns, which never really existed are Joe Biden's fault.
God bless it, as she's not the only one.
Benon continues.
Representative Lauren Boberg of Colorado blamed the Democratic president for Covid related
school closures in 2020, which again was a year that Biden spent on the campaign trail,
not in the Oval Office.
It also wasn't too long ago when former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also
pointed to crime data from 2020 to blame Biden for the US murder rate.
Apparently unaware that it was her former boss who was president at the time.
So Biden's responsible for the Covid lockdowns before he was president.
He's responsible for the murder rate from a year that he was not President .
And then of course, you have representative Ronnie Jackson of Texas, for example, who
recently blamed Biden for paying people to stay home in 2020, referring to a law that
Donald Trump signed the year before Biden took office.
Oh, and Marbury Taylor Green of, of course, blamed Biden for a woman's, uh, two sons who
died from an overdose in the year 2020 again before Biden was president.
So they're these Republicans who all love Donald Trump.
By the way.
I think that's important to point out.
They see the horrible things that Trump did, and they're like, well, we can't say Trump
did it, but we have to hate these things, so let's just rearrange the calendars of our
brains and pretend that Biden was president during that time.
Yeah, that works out great.
But Benon goes a step further because it's not just that Republicans are blaming Biden
for all the horrible things that Trump did.
This is actually a decades long Republican strategy to blame Democrats for bad things
that Republican
Presidents did.
Let me read this, the conservative penant for reassessing blame, reassigning blame is
not new.
Recalling a poll found that nearly a third of Louisiana Republicans, a third blamed Obama
for the dreadful federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
Of course, in reality, Katrina made landfall in August of 2005, and Obama was inaugurated
in January of 2009.
, they also, according to polls, blamed Obama for the financial crash of 2007,
2008, even though he didn't come into office until 2009.
So this is kind of how Republicans operate.
Like, oh no, something horrible happened and we're in charge.
Let's just say somebody else did it.
And the problem is, as those polls show, Republicans believe it, how are we this dumb?
How are we this painfully incompetently stupid as a country?
And yes, I have to lump us all into that, even though I know we are not.
But we're a part of the same country these folks are, and they are bringing down the
collective IQ because they hate Democrats so much that they're willing to believe in
an alternative reality where all of the bad things that Republicans did were somehow secretly,
possibly through time travel actually done by Democrats.