The wise and totally unbiased editors at The Economist actually published the following headline:

"Unlike Donald Trump, Joe Biden will seek China's help with global problems such as climate change or COVID-19 treatments."

Take a moment to let that sink in. Really savor it. Take off your media goggles for a second and reignite those old memory banks, and muse awhile with me as we try to understand how this article possibly made it to print.

If you're confused, you're not alone. Some on Twitter legitimately thought this could be a Babylon Bee headline.

I can assure you, dear reader, that this is not, in fact, the Bee. This is, in fact, Not the Bee. Let's unpack this top-notch headline together, shall we?

• First, notice the subtle, tiny jab at President Trump that's in the headline. It's really small, so you might have missed it.
• Second, note that The Economist is talking about China, which everyone knows is the best, most moral, and most free nation ever in human history.
• Third, note the specific policies The Economist focuses on. Are they discussing Biden's policies on Trump's trade tariffs, which were a legitimate criticism posed by people on both sides of the political aisle? Are they discussing how Biden will calm the tensions over oil-rich waters off the coasts of multiple nations in the region? Nope. They are focusing specifically on COVID-19 and climate change, because China is well known for its help stopping the 'Rona and its clean air and unpolluted waterways!
• Finally, note how they are describing Biden's posture. He's not going to challenge China or hold them accountable. He's going to seek their help. I assume this involves groveling, begging, and weeping for mercy. There's nothing like capitulating to a totalitarian country that enslaves millions of religious minorities in re-education and labor camps while moaning about how bad your own free republic is!

Just imagine if Joe Biden had won the presidency in the '80s, when he was just 20 years into his life-long career living off our tax dollars:

"Unlike Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden will seek the Soviet Union's help with global problems such as climate change or COVID-19 treatments."

Or, imagine that we go a little further back, presumably to when Biden was a little chap and Hitler was sweeping over Europe.

"Unlike Churchill, Joe Biden will seek the Third Reich's help with global problems such as climate change or COVID-19 treatments."

See, because we're talking about issues like climate change, it doesn't matter who we're in bed with (especially when the new Commander-in-Chief has been getting kickbacks from said totalitarian government for years, amiright??!)

I'll stop with the headline, because the article itself is just a writer salivating over the idea of Sleepy Joe – that incoherent guy who has been wrong on every foreign policy decision of the last 50 years – somehow being more effective at dealing with the world's foremost Orwellian police state than Donald Trump.

Before I go, however, I fixed the headline for the editors over at The Economist: