The Biden 'crisis' crisis isn't yet a crisis

[DonViejo]

Philip Bump 1 hr ago

It’s probably useful to Republicans to refer to any of the various travails the country faces as a “crisis” for no other reason than that it annoys the Biden administration. When, for example, a surge of minors at the border led to difficulty in managing the influx, the situation was quickly cast as a “crisis” — earning frustrated complaints about efforts to get into “right-wing-driven arguments about word choice.” (This effort was undercut somewhat by Biden having offhandedly called it a crisis.)

Since then, it seems as if everything that emerges is somehow described using that term. From July through October of last year, for example, Fox News hosts or guests referred to a “crisis” on 1,874 occasions. From February through Wednesday, they did so 7,283 times — nearly four times as often.


Or here: The summary by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) of the Biden administration to date.

So many crises! A veritable crisis of crises. And yet.

Take that “gas crisis.” It’s a reference to the ransomware attack on a private-sector pipeline that runs through a number of Southeastern states. The crisis that followed was driven heavily by people panic-buying more gasoline than they needed, spurring dystopian warnings from the government about not filling plastic bags with gasoline and melted gasoline-filled Hummers.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-biden-e2-80-98crisis-e2-80-99-crisis-isn-e2-80-99t-yet-a-crisis/ar-BB1gJjNJ

[Make7]

1. If there truly was a crisis, Ted Cruz would be in Cancún. ( n/t )

[Wounded Bear]

2. The only crisis is how much trouble repubs are having making something stick...