Joe Biden believes if he yells at Americans about COVID, they'll forget about Afghanistan.

And the Biden administration continues to downplay the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.

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unleash itself, Joe Biden has decided it is time to distract. He tried this last week.

Late last week, the president of the United States had a press conference about COVID.

And then he also had a press conference about the build back better agenda and all of this stuff. And everybody was like, well, aren't there like 10 to 15,000 Americans who are still stuck in Afghanistan? He's like, I don't want to talk about that. We're not going to talk about anything. And then he fell asleep. Well, he's still trying to do this. Hey, the idea is that we are going to focus on COVID because he likes

talking about COVID better than he likes talking about Afghanistan, which, by the way,

does show you what an unbelievable disaster Afghanistan is, because COVID ain't great.

COVID in the United States right now is a problem. COVID continues to roll out across the country.

The daily case count continues to be in the 100,000 range in the

United States. The daily death count in the United States is continuing to rise right now. It's around

1,000 a day, 800 a day, depends on which day you're looking at. It's already started to peak in a lot of

states, and we'll get to that in a moment. But Joe Biden would rather talk about this stuff because he is hopeful that he can yell at you about COVID and scare you about COVID and get you back to yelling at Rhonda Santis rather than talking about the fact that he precipitously pulled out from Afghanistan leaving the entire country in the hands of the Taliban, revivifying Al-Qaeda, revivifying ISIS, and simultaneously preventing thousands of Americans from

leaving. He would rather you not talk about that, so he'd rather talk about COVID. That's how

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