Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread.
This is probably one of the most important speeches Biden can give this year. He has to come across as “Present”, not just “President”.
This will set the tone for the campaign the rest of the year and will be second only to the Democratic Convention speech in August for visibility.
Watch it live here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/
Or through your favorite news source.
The Republican response will be delivered by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236338784/katie-britt-alabama-republican-biden-state-of-the-union
Very good speech!
Full transcript is here:
https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/
Republican response from Katie Britt here:
I encourage you to watch the video and not just read the transcript. Reading it doesn’t carry just how breathless and borderline weepy her delivery is.
Bet he moves to the right to try to get Haley voters.
They don’t need a reason, just an excuse.
The sun came up this morning. It’s a clear sign that we need to move to the right.
I was going to make a joke about James Caville seeing his shadow…
But even that neoliberals crypt keeper who a year ago blamed “wokeness” for destroying the Democratic party has been ringing alarm bells for a while that it doesn’t look like Biden can win.
And for the first time in 30 years, the DNC stopped listening to him…
It’s like some fucked up monkey paw thing.
They’ve taken everything that nut job has said as gossipal for decades, and the second he’s right he’s out.
I don’t know where else to post this, so here goes
I’m sad that Obama never adopted the “-nomics” moniker that Reagan and Biden have. Obamanomics just rolls off the tongue
Obama didn’t have to rip off a failed actor who had Alzheimer’s most of his presidency…
This year both candidates are giving it a go.
Fun fact:
The early signs of Reagan’s Alzheimer’s was pretty much the same things Biden and trump have been doing. Mixing up words/places/times and drifting off, before coming back to their old selves.
But it doesn’t get better. Everytime the “old self” sticks around less and the confusion comes back faster. It’s a 100% natural part of aging that we’ll all be lucky to live long enough for it to happen to us.
Our brains can’t work forever.
And Reagan was only 69 when he took office, 12 years younger than Biden is now…
Dude is sharp, it’s no comparison really between Biden and the “look having nuclear guy”. Im done giving the people “worried” about Bidens mind the time of day.
He’s had a couple of mis-speaks but that’s because he’s going too fast (!)
His stutter and mispeaks are not off-putting to me at all. He is obviously mentally fit, this isn’t how someone with mental deficiencies sounds.
Look he’s old. I completely agree it’s a concern for >70% of Americans. Both are geriatrics with clear issues.
But one is morally sound. The other is not. One has smart cabinet members and advisors. The other has his fucking kids in a blatant act of nepotism and crooks.
So I get in my car, and i’m listening to the beat on MSNBC, and a reporter is saying that she was talking with a bunch of young voters, especially young black voters.
Basically, they think that they’ve already been through a Trump presidency, and it’s not gonna be any different from the first time. Oh boy, could they not be more wrong. Apparently, they haven’t heard about project 2025, or they think it’s nothing big that 20,000 fascists are itching to take over government roles in the next Trump White House.
Maybe Biden should have done some shit the first two years instead of “looking into things” until right before midterms.
Then after losing the House, saying it was too late to do anything.
People didn’t elect Joe Biden so he could spend 2 years looking into how to undo the damage of trump.
And Biden failed at that.
Now he’s telling us that this time will be different. Historically, this is what makes 1 term presidents.
So how should he have “done some shit the first two years”?
You mean like:
The American Rescue Plan
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
The largest gun safety bill in 30 years
The CHIPS and Science Act
The Inflation Reduction Act
and support for Ukraine so they can fight off the orks that directly impacts our economy by giving Ukraine old weapons that would have rotted in wearhouses and resupply with new ones providing high paying jobs to American workers.
Stuff like that?
I ain’t writing an essay to talk about the whole list at once.
The American Rescue Plan
Oh yeah, that thing that’s the reason American inflation is higher than comparable countries?
https://www.vox.com/23036340/biden-american-rescue-plan-inflation
The authors don’t mince words about why they think that is, writing: “Estimates suggest that fiscal support measures designed to counteract the severity of the pandemic’s economic effect may have contributed to this divergence by raising inflation about 3 percentage points by the end of 2021.”
That is: The US did a lot more stimulus than these other countries, and now it’s seeing a lot more core inflation. And the stimulus that most stands out is Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — because it was enacted after more than $3 trillion had already been spent to stimulate the economy under Trump, with one big chunk of that being approved just three months prior.
“We put gasoline on the fire. That’s basically what the ARP did. It was almost written as if we didn’t just pass a trillion-dollar stimulus in December,” said Goldwein.
Also…
You know only a tiny little slice went to working class Americans right?
Like, everyone got the $1400, even Bill Gates. But a lot went to people, companies, and states that just didn’t need it.
That article is really good, and somebody got paid to write it.
So go read that, soak it up.
And then, if it’s not too late, I honestly wouldn’t mind getting into that infrastructure bill. That’s a doozy, and if you’re bragging about, there’s a lot you don’t know.
But let’s be honest, this comment and that article are more than most would read.
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Did you try reading the whole article for more info?
Or did you really think those three paragraphs was the whole thing without clicking the link?
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Well, you could have read the article and gotten a great explanation…
Instead you choose to hurl insults, weird how often the people blindly supporting Biden do that.
Have a nice life bud, life’s to short for that type of discourse about something so serious.
I ain’t writing an essay to talk about the whole list at once.
Bruh.
If you’re going to claim nothing happened in the past two years and someone gives you a laundry list of milestones and events, you can’t just say “eh I don’t feel like writing an essay on it”. Either explain why none of them count, or concede the argument. As it is, your argument is incredibly weak since you’re barely addressing their point.
Also,
That article is really good, and somebody got paid to write it… So go read that, soak it up.
But let’s be honest, this comment and that article are more than most would read.
Bruh. What.
If you aren’t going to write a proper response, don’t bemoan that people aren’t reading shit.
I mean, I said that…
Went over the first on the list…
Then said:
And then, if it’s not too late, I honestly wouldn’t mind getting into that infrastructure bill.
Because that was the next thing on the list…
Did you notice how that person never replied?
someone gives you a laundry list
It’s known as a gish gallop.
None of them pass scrutiny alone, but it would take a lot of effort to disprove all of them at once. Especially when the likely result is the person latches on to a small part of a source you quoted and refuses to read the actual source that goes in depth and was written by a professional
So what do you want, Trump?
I want Biden to smarten the fuck up while there’s still time to beat trump, and the DNC to learn their lesson about shoving unpopular conservative candidates down our throats.
But I don’t think it will happen.
I always wanted every state to have delegates for the primary, I thought that was a low bar too.
So excuse me if, like most Dem voters, I’m kind of pissed about it.
It’s just dumb campaign promises that he cannot and will not deliver on. If he could do any of this he would have already done it
That’s why he said, “Give me a congress that will work with me.” Its not just the president. You need to get people into office who will do these things.
…
Did you forget the Georgia runoffs?
Biden got elected because he claimed he could get Senate republicans to vote with Dems.
After the GA runoffs, we end up with a 50/50 senate with the VP as tiebreaker. And the House.
For two years.
And Biden literally said he couldn’t change anyone’s mind so it would be a waste of time if he tried.
That happened.
Recently.
So, how much does Biden need in 2028?
And why isn’t he out there campaigning for himself and down ballot races?
Manchin and Sinema say, “Hi!”
No change to the fillabster means shit gets stalled.
Elect people who will shitcan the fillabster.
So, how much does Biden need in 2028?
You think the result would be different with 52 Ds?
There’s a lot more people that will vote against progress in office. But they’re not all going to say it if they don’t have to.
But the point is Biden said he could work with a Republican majority. And wouldn’t try to change Manchin and Sinemas minds when they’re his own party.
He literally made statements that he couldn’t so he wouldn’t try.
Elect people who will shitcan the fillabster.
We do that by replacing incumbents. We need primaries to do that, and we have to fight against a shit ton of donor money, but we can do it.
As long as we keep having primaries. NH is already out of that…
It’s what could get done if Republicans got the fuck out of the way.
I really wish Biden would’ve turned around to Mike Johnson when he was talking about January 6th and ask, “what’s the matter with you, man? Why aren’t you clapping? So you support a fascist takeover? Of course you do…”
Also turn around and say, 'it’s this man here who is blocking aid to Ukraine while women and children die in Ukraine"
Dude, he was squirming hard in that chair lmao.
Love it, but I say twist the blade lol.
