The president announced Friday that the U.S. would be instituting a travel ban for foreign nationals from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.
The reason? A new variant of COVID-19 called omicron has surfaced, showing up in those places.
Because our society seems determined to render the Babylon Bee obsolete, the variant’s name is brought to you by wokeness.
Officials at the World Health Organization skipped two letters of the Greek alphabet. According to The Telegraph, the officials skipped the letter Xi in order to avoid stigmatizing China.
So now that the health geniuses have settled on a politically correct name for the variant, the Biden administration is working on keeping the non-stigmatizing variant out of the country.
As always, “Jill’s Husband” is off to a shaky start. The ban doesn’t even go into effect until Monday. Like Joe Biden, omicron takes the weekends off. Hey, listen — I don’t make the science, I just follow it.
Besides the asinine implementation of the ban, what will be even harder for the president to explain is why said bans are no longer considered xenophobic.
In February 2020, then-candidate/basement dweller Joe Biden tweeted, “Trump further diminished the U.S. in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. This new ‘African Ban,’ is designed to make it harder for black and brown people to immigrate to the United States. It’s a disgrace, and we cannot let him succeed.”
His then-running-mate Kamala Harris echoed this sentiment and wrote, “Trump’s extended un-American travel ban undermines our nation’s core values. It is clearly driven by hate, not security.”
Implementing a travel ban is racist, xenophobic and hateful if your name is Donald Trump. However, if your name is Brandon, your decision will be met with zero outrage from bleeding-heart liberals in the media like Jim Acosta and Yamiche Alcindor. None of these performative journalists would claim Biden is a racist for merely trying to protect the American people from a dangerous virus. That kind of hyper-partisan derangement was reserved for President Mean Tweets.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has “evolved” on this issue too. Baker, who never failed to express his disappointment in Trump, now believes Biden is making the “right move” by banning travel from eight countries.
However, in April 2020, when Trump signed an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration due to COVID-19, the “Republican” governor was flabbergasted. He said, “I’m opposed to the decision that the president made. I’m opposed to the order. It doesn’t make any sense and I don’t think it makes us any safer.”
I guess the efficacy of travel bans, like the safeness of vaccines, is directly dependent on who is president.
Of course, Biden will not have to explain to the teleprompter in the fake White House/game show set that he is a race-baiting hypocrite.
At this point, Joe will not even take questions from the reporters on his pre-approved list. Sorry, “AP Zeke Miller” or “ABC Mary” — even your softball questions are too risky for the commander-in-chief.
Jen Psaki, the White House Semantics Secretary, will have to answer for Joe’s U-turn when Fox News’ Peter Doocy inevitably asks her about it.
The exchange will probably go something like this: She will condescendingly tell Peter that “context is important” and that we don’t need to “dumb this down for the American people.”
After she is done smugly nodding her way through a non-answer about how Joe Biden is “listening to the experts,” the relief reporters will save her by moving on to other, more important topics. They’ll bring her attention back to vital issues like Biden’s Christmas plans or what gift he plans on getting Jilly Bean this year.
Joe Biden took time away from his busy Thanksgiving weekend on Nantucket, which was full of tree lightings, chocolate chip ice cream, and phone calls with Al Roker, in order to release a statement about the omicron.
Is that why the ban starts on Monday? Perhaps Biden negotiated a deal with omicron and asked it to hold off until he finishes his long weekend at billionaire Dave Rubenstein’s multi-million-dollar estate.
If there is one thing we’ve learned over the last ten months, it is that President PTO never lets a holiday weekend go to waste.
