My Jandek Plague Journal: 4/19/20 "The Living End"

"bet you don’t know/What you been working for/Maybe I got a clue/I been working for you." In an interview with The New Yorker, Jason Stanley says the administration "seems to be basing his reelection campaign on a nationalist propaganda war against China." The same day I read this I see the Biden ad blaming the administration's failed pandemic response on their deference to China. The ad highlights Biden's moments of blaming China for the pandemic, much like the administration's insistence on calling it "the Chinese virus." So Biden has moved from refusing to criticize the President during the pandemic to joining the President in blaming the pandemic on China. Still no stated plan for Medicare for All or the kind of nationwide free testing that's required to combat a public health disaster. But are any of us surprised? We saw his boss for eight years say "Single-payer is off the table." We know what Biden's priorities are. -4/19/20. "The Living End" from The Living End (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)