As Twitchy reported earlier Wednesday, CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart tried to shame President Trump by noting that another day had passed without Trump leaving the White House and paying a visit to an emergency room to chat with doctors and nurses and first responders … who probably don’t need the president and his secret service detail hanging around right now.
We know why the president’s sticking to the White House, but what’s Joe Biden’s excuse? A few members of Congress decided to self-quarantine because they’d possibly been in contact with someone who had contracted the coronavirus, but we haven’t heard anything from the Biden camp. He’s really giving his new home TV studio a workout, and on Wednesday night, he decided to hold a “virtual happy hour” on YouTube especially for younger voters.
Bo Erickson from CBS News noted that Biden was pulling in about 2,800 simultaneous viewers, and then added the cryptic hashtag, #lit.
.@JoeBiden wrapping up his first virtual happy hour w/young Americans. There were about 2800 simultaneous viewers throughout the chat. #lit
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) March 25, 2020
Was it lit?
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2800 is bupkis. Very much not #lit, Mr. Totally Objective Journalist. https://t.co/PTVgYQAbsI
— Kersnuffle Actual? (@shoshido) March 26, 2020
that's extremely low
— victim of capitalism (@joshieecs) March 25, 2020
2800? Are you missing a couple zeros?
— citizen uprising (@cit_uprising) March 25, 2020
There is a guy living on the beach that streams himself catching dirt crabs that gets 3k
— In the time of corona (@SeePvnk) March 25, 2020
sounds so much better than happy hour with creepy Joe
— elsa starr (@ms_estarr) March 26, 2020
Fortnite streamers get more viewers than Biden
— Elle! Bae! ? (@elle_bae) March 25, 2020
I could Twitch stream my kid playing Mario Kart and do better numbers. https://t.co/htS76AUliE
— wesinjapan (@wesinjapan) March 26, 2020
I'm basically nobody and I'm like ninety percent sure I could pull better numbers than that if I tried. https://t.co/wq6gPEe4I7
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) March 25, 2020
We only watch for the bloopers sorry
— lefty lucie ? (@venti_depresso) March 25, 2020
At the same time I was streaming the President on Youtube.
187k viewers. On one Youtube channel. There were several channels showing it, each with similar numbers.— Birch Sterling (@birchsterling) March 25, 2020
I actually watched most of it, less tech issues than previous stuff. But man he goes off in the weeds on nonsense.
— ?The Witty Wombat ? (@DaWittyWombat) March 25, 2020
It was like watching someone play jenga with their mouth.
— Gideon? (@meremaids) March 25, 2020
I watched. A lot of the comments were fairly critical.
— Bread N’ Roses ?☮️ (@yeahgood_okay) March 26, 2020
How many of those 2,800 were Bernie Sanders supporters who just showed up to troll him in the comments?
They had to disable the comments because most people were not in fact ridin with Biden pic.twitter.com/kLgbNte3er
— Lorraine (@CrimsonGash) March 26, 2020
As of this writing, the YouTube archive of Biden’s “lit” happy hour has 555 thumbs up and 1,400 thumbs down.
I was hate watching it, and I'm far from the only one.
— Ichi (@fuzzy_justice) March 25, 2020
like 20 of them were a chat I was in and we were making fun of the whole thing
— the tiger woods of gamers (@Fire_Badger) March 26, 2020
That. Is. Pathetic.
I've done periscopes with 10X those numbers! https://t.co/uXdYzmjGVw
— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphylive) March 25, 2020
that is genuinely sad as heck
also note that this "chat" did not allow user comments/actual chat
— Pure Malarkey (@puremalarkey) March 26, 2020
Over at Biden HQ right now pic.twitter.com/C4M1d9yNzs
— The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) March 25, 2020
Imagine having the promotional force of the largest politician party in the country behind you and not even managing to hit the viewership of a small local news station. https://t.co/KhIDEPo5G0
— Bernard Lomax (@BernieLomaxCEO) March 26, 2020
And this is with a lot of college-age kids stuck at home because their semesters have been canceled or moved to streaming services.
That's embarssingly low.
— Eric Wallace (@EricWallace117) March 25, 2020
Really?
4.5 million followers gets you that low of a number?
411k followers for @ScottAdamsSays and he doubles that every day just using his iPad.
And @JoeBiden is literally the presidential front runner for the Democrats.
2020 is going to be a #TrumpLandslide
— Mark Schneider (@subschneider) March 25, 2020
I thought this tweet was intended to be sarcastic until I started reading the responses. That’s just over 50 or so young people per state. That’s not lit that’s pitiful.
— Bernie Babe ? (@caltron01) March 26, 2020
Never ever do #lit again
— Shane Ram – #NotMeUs will win ? (@Smoove_1090) March 26, 2020
Pretty sure the words Joe Biden and Lit have never been used before in the history of mankind.
Did the robot voice of Joe sound realistic enough?
— Brian Schmidt (@BrianSchmidt9) March 26, 2020
You could see for yourself over on YouTube, or just wait an hour or so for the blooper reel to hit social media.
Related:
'Something is wrong': Evidence mounts that Joe Biden is not even remotely equipped to run for president [videos] https://t.co/CzQ8VBq79X
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 25, 2020
