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.
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…
It’s not just a good speech for Biden, this is the best SOTU I’ve ever heard.
Aaaaand here’s the Republican response…
2 sentences in and she sounds like she’s going to cry.
Her: “I’m a mom”
Her constituents: “Rub it in, why dontcha?”
Holy crap this rebuttal is just… Bad. Especially given what it’s following.
And fundamentally false… She’s attacking Biden on the border, when she herself helped write the border bill and VOTED IT DOWN because Trump told her to.
Also the optics are especially bad after he literally just called them out on that. “Pretty sure you guys can read right?” Or whatever he said was classic.
Classic and brutal:
"I’m told my predecessor called Republicans in Congress and demanded they block the bill. He feels it would be a political win for me and a political loser for him.
It’s not about him or me.
It’d be a winner for America!
My Republican friends you owe it to the American people to get this bill done.
We need to act.
And if my predecessor is watching instead of playing politics and pressuring members of Congress to block this bill, join me in telling Congress to pass it!
We can do it together. But here’s what I will not do.
I will not demonize immigrants saying they “poison the blood of our country” as he said in his own words.
I will not separate families.
I will not ban people from America because of their faith.
Unlike my predecessor, on my first day in office I introduced a comprehensive plan to fix our immigration system, secure the border, and provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and so much more.
Because unlike my predecessor, I know who we are as Americans.
We are the only nation in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new.
Home to Native Americans whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years. Home to people from every place on Earth.
Some came freely.
Some chained by force.
Some when famine struck, like my ancestral family in Ireland.
Some to flee persecution.
Some to chase dreams that are impossible anywhere but here in America.
That’s America, where we all come from somewhere, but we are all Americans.
We can fight about the border, or we can fix it. I’m ready to fix it.
Send me the border bill now!"
Her backdrop set is literally a kitchen…
I can’t believe he still has energy to mingle after that.
Why wouldn’t he?
Talking at that pace and intensity for that long is tiring for anyone NOT 81 years old.
I used to deliver a keynote to 3-400 people, twice a month as part of corporate onboarding.
Absolutely this.
Obviously my experience was not as high stakes as a SOTU, but it was fucking exhausting. I knew the content well enough that I could deliver it in my sleep and actively did so when I was sick, hungover, generally tired and (usually) just okay.
Regardless of my initial state, I was at my tether after 90 minutes of being “switched on” and engaged. I am not an octogenarian.
That was with the benefit of delivering repeated content. Biden doesn’t deliver this same speech twice a month. I’m sure he practiced but it’s still a big ask regardless of age.
He always does this, and it pisses the Secret Service off to no end lol
I would imagine they don’t need quite the same alertness that you’d have in public - should be a secure area with known people (granted, I wouldn’t want him alone with Gaetz or MTG)
All he’d need is a pocket of oats and a skin mag to control those two.
MTG: Go fuck yourself! You’re gonna feel the wrath of… (sniff, sniff)
Biden: (offering a handful of oats) You hungry?
MTG: (vigorous munching) Neiiiiiigh
Biden: There there, looks like somebody just had a grumbly tummy (brushes her mane)
MTG: Whinnie!
Gaetz: (crushing an adderall and a viagra into a can of Red Bull, all while resembling Butthead) [incoherent mumbling]
I don’t know why I wrote this and I could press delete, but sharing is caring.
This has to be a flash animation.
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.
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
Don’t feed the troll.
I disagree with the logic of complaining about inflation then suggesting all of the money should’ve been distributed to individuals.
This is more of an emotional argument than logical…
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?
Considering the literal hundreds of other poorly reasoned comments you make on here…
Biden was never a progressive president. He wasn’t running on anything close to a progressive platform. I’m not sure why in this, or literally a hundred of your other comments here that get responded to by others, is still a surprise.
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.
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.
Maybe I am dumb but… I am genuinely starting to think many people are fundamentally incapable of imagining complex, abstract potential outcomes (like allowing Trump back in office).
I always assumed envisioning such things was easy, instant, and obvious for nearly everyone.
Several years ago I started noticing a couple of people make decisions that to me seemed insane and later they were surprised by the outcome that I saw coming a mile away.
And I started wondering, could this ability to imagine how things will turn out be much rarer than I ever imagined?
I genuinely don’t know for sure. Not like I have a ton of conversations with different people let alone ones about cognitive abilities lol.
Like, I didn’t even realize some people can’t see images in their heads or don’t have an inner monologue (think by “talking to themselves” using language) until fairly recently and I’m in my 50s.
Surely anyone can imagine some vague idea of what happens if they jump in front of a speeding bus. That’s simple. Surely you can at least conceptualize that you’ll be run into and injured or killed. Maybe even imagine it with some internal video of your body being run over by giant bus tires or being flung from the impact and landing in a crumbled bleeding mess. Nothing complicated there.
But is it actually impossible for some to imagine the many ways Trump and the Project 2025 people are going to fuck up everything?
That would certainly explain the bafflingly cavalier reactions to cybersecurity vulnerabilities I’ve seen over the years. Or the shrugging off of egregious privacy issues.
And I started wondering, could this ability to imagine how things will turn out be much rarer than I ever imagined?
Yes - it is. As someone with ADHD and in my mid 30’s now, i have wondered the same thing quite often, because a lot of times solutions to complex problems seem extremely easy to me, where people around me are absolutely baffled by me calling a solution very simple and easy.
I started wondering the same thing a few years back and came to the conclusion: Most people don’t care. I’ve had quite a few very recent discussions about various issues about consumers needing to be more educated and able to make decisions on what they buy. Every time i bring this up, i realize that even these simple things are too much for most people.
As someone with ADHD and in my mid 30’s now, i have wondered the same thing quite often, because a lot of times solutions to complex problems seem extremely easy to me, where people around me are absolutely baffled by me calling a solution very simple and easy.
Coincidentally, I too, have ADHD. Oftentimes, I can envision the general shape of somewhat complex solutions. And either they don’t see it as simple, don’t understand it, don’t understand the point, or can’t see it at all. Now sure, sometimes I come up with idiotic ideas that make no sense once I know more. But not always.
I have found it is easy for some of us to get spun up about the sorts of things you mention. Like “omg how can you use Windows 11 with all the ads and whatever”. The kind of stuff we rant about on Lemmy. And yeah I think people don’t care a lot.
Sometimes it is because they have other more pressing priorities. I’ve had to learn that well in my infosec career. It is easy for me to fixate on something important to me. But if a person is just trying to get through the day (I mean, let’s be honest, I am struggling to do that), raising a kid, paying the bills, and so forth, then they have better things to do than fret about an OS and try to find time to learn Linux or cough up the fortune required to buy a Mac or whatever.
Sometimes they can’t seem to forsee the potential consequences. Either they just are incapable–my original point above–or, in some cases, they don’t have any practice imagining what bad people could try if they wanted to. Maybe due to ADHD and anxiety I had a lot of practice imagining bad outcomes. (Maybe that’s an evolutionary advantage of ADHD lol). I suspect about half my team has ADHD and I think that’s common in the industry lol.
Nice to find someone with similar experiences! Helps to know I’m not crazy or at least not crazy alone 🤪
Coincidentally, I too, have ADHD. Oftentimes, I can envision the general shape of somewhat complex solutions. And either they don’t see it as simple, don’t understand it, don’t understand the point, or can’t see it at all. Now sure, sometimes I come up with idiotic ideas that make no sense once I know more. But not always.
Ha! I know what you mean :D I do too^^
I have found it is easy for some of us to get spun up about the sorts of things you mention. Like “omg how can you use Windows 11 with all the ads and whatever”. The kind of stuff we rant about on Lemmy. And yeah I think people don’t care a lot.
Yeah…there are lot’s of things i get spun up :D
Sometimes it is because they have other more pressing priorities. I’ve had to learn that well in my infosec career. It is easy for me to fixate on something important to me. But if a person is just trying to get through the day (I mean, let’s be honest, I am struggling to do that), raising a kid, paying the bills, and so forth, then they have better things to do than fret about an OS and try to find time to learn Linux or cough up the fortune required to buy a Mac or whatever.
Same lessons in Infrastructure (although, i have to admit i’m not trying to get through the day, i’ve had a lot of help throughout the years to get a grip on my ADHD except some occasional very heavy distractibility and chaotic thoughts)…but i still except some very basic 1+1…sometimes even that is too much asked. I mean, if you can click a damn start menu on Windows, i can expect you to click it on Linux as well, even if the Icon is a little different, it’s still only a damn menu! ;)
Sometimes they can’t seem to forsee the potential consequences. Either they just are incapable–my original point above–or, in some cases, they don’t have any practice imagining what bad people could try if they wanted to. Maybe due to ADHD and anxiety I had a lot of practice imagining bad outcomes. (Maybe that’s an evolutionary advantage of ADHD lol). I suspect about half my team has ADHD and I think that’s common in the industry lol.
Personally, i think my Star Trek addiction helped me a lot in those terms, because i always try to imagine the best possible outcome first and then go down the rabbit hole and tell myself “Well, there’s still a chance!”. Which is also why i try to imagine that in most people, there’s still some good left (there are exceptions…Trump and his cronies being some) - but i agree with you, that most people have lost the ability to just “imagine”. Personally, i also think that’s why the overall state is not that great, because with loosing the ability to imagine things, people also lost the ability to dream. Problem solving, imagining and dreaming are all things that are heavily interconnected and interwoven. I also am of the firm believe, that one advantage of ADHD is that the ability to shape our imagining “as we go”, because “we” can flip between numerous possible outcomes pretty damn fast. And so on. Just a little tip: Try to imagine more “good” outcomes as well - just in case ;)
Nice to find someone with similar experiences! Helps to know I’m not crazy or at least not crazy alone 🤪
Same :) And no - you are not crazy and you are not crazy alone :D
Interesting about Star Trek as a way to deal with anxiety about bad outcomes :). My Trek love helps me too but more with giving me a nearly imperceptible glimmer of hope for humanity.
(I wasn’t sure if I was a true Trekkie but now that I’ve been catching up on all the post-Voyager shows I guess I must be because I love all of it… I mean I even found things to like about ST V, so… Lol). Anyway …
But yeah you may be onto something about people either losing the ability—or maybe the will—to dream of something better. Once you get discouraged enough, it is hard to bother dreaming.
If you spend enough time online steeped in endless doomerism, with no talk of action or organization or anything, learned helplessness inevitably sets in. Sort of by definition, you stop dreaming. Which is why my recent Trek binges have been so helpful.
I should add that meds and introspection have helped a lot with the anxiety and imagining the worst outcomes. Now I do it without getting twisted up in knots and it serves me vs the other way around. But I could still stand to imagine good outcomes more often.
Anyway I appreciate the dialog! You’re a good egg. :) Hope to run into you again in the Lemmyverse before long.
You bring up an interesting question, and it’s something I noticed in my own life, but for me I always related it to confidence/optimism.
I’m naturally very anxious, and I think ahead because I worry a lot and I need to have some control of my future or to at least feel like I do by having as much information as I can. Stability has always lacked in my life, and still does, so I know confidence and optimism are in very short supply for me.
I think more confident/optimistic people tend to be more relaxed about the future because of their natural tendency to believe they’ll be ok and therefore the things around them should be fine.
That’s an interesting insight. I, too, tend to be anxious about negative outcomes and I think that comes from bad experiences due to ADHD and maybe childhood stuff. Idk.
Normalcy bias certainly is a thing. So is paranoia. I tend toward the latter lol. But have come to see that outcomes almost always land somewhere between, “eh, it will be fine,” and, “omg we’re doomed.” And usually they wind up slightly more toward the “fine” side of things.
If y’all didn’t see Biden’s reaction to Marjorie when he walked in, you NEED to see it! I laughed so hard! Even she tried not to laugh.
Any chance of a non-x link?
Here you go https://youtube.com/shorts/KHKMzVpnyuM
Thnx!
The look that says “Wow! Y’all come in the SAME clown car or just you?” 🤡
It was all great. Until that Israel section. Absolutely no hint of why Gaza needs a fucking dock. And still blindly taking Israel’s negotiating position which isn’t going to obliterate our credibility as a negotiator at all. It certainly isn’t realistic. This isn’t a bank robbery. Those hostages are going to be released after Israel demonstrates good behavior, not for a temporary cease fire.
Bibi is going to hate this part:
"As we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution.
I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel and the only American president to visit Israel in wartime.
There is no other path that guarantees Israel’s security and democracy.
There is no other path that guarantees Palestinians can live with peace and dignity.
There is no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia."
For those who might have missed Bibi’s position:
Oh yeah. I just wish there was even a hint of a recognition that Israel is not willing to have a two state solution.
I don’t think it’s ENTIRELY Israel. Definitely Bibi and Likud.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/israel-right-wing-netanyahu-palestinian-authority/
Eh, it’s as much Israel as Biden sending weapons is the US.
If nothing else, he’s proven he still has some endurance left. This is a long speech.
Stamina
Which is weird because it did not FEEL long.
Really good speeches never do.
Say what you want about Katie Britt, but she did deliver the biggest laugh of the night…
https://twitter.com/tomorrowventure/status/1765952347451130127?t=LZYJ3mF-a_d-3Ssgum4lrQ
Perfect
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 pacing is way off and he’s rushing. Not waiting for the applause to finish.
Yup, because he knows slow or paced = “old”.
He’s absolutely killing it, and you know it.
Congratulations, he can read empty promises that multiple speech writers wrote for him on a teleprompter.
Better than just stealing the speech from the previous guys wife.
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.
Yep. Watching this, anyone who claims he’s mentally unfit is a fucking liar, and you can immediately dismiss anything else they have to say.
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.
Biden has also had a stutter his whole life. It’s not new.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/politics/joe-biden-stutter/index.html
He is absolutely going to destroy Trump in the debates. It’s gonna be like Prime Tyson vs Marvis Frazier. 30 seconds and it’s over.
How long until Donnie boy starts trying to dodge the debates because of “these corrupt political sham trials” and his fanatical followers lap it up?
This is why I hope he’ll commit to a lot more engagements like late shows and whistle stop tours. When he’s out talking he reinforces that he’s still got it together… while Trump… well he’s clearly losing it.
Oh is he going to finish with the Dean “RAAAAAHHHHH!”
I’m sorry this was such a good speech that it clearly hurt your feefees.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It was entertaining but I don’t care if it was “good” or not. These are always empty promises. He’ll get a boost in the polls for a few days, the media will say he was “presidential”, and the American people will still be struggling to keep a roof over their head and afford groceries.
But hey, the Blue team owned the Red team for a night! Zing!
I genuinely am curious where you’re living that everyone’s having a hard time putting a roof over their head. The stats simply don’t match this narrative in the overwhelming majority of areas in the US.
This outrageous hyperbole that you repeat day-in and day-out is just unproductive and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone wanting meaningful political discussion here.
Commenting the same things over and over on a political forum isn’t going to change anything.
I’m in the Los Angeles area. Studios are going for $2,400+
What was that fool yelling lol.
Also I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone get kicked out of the State of the Union lmao
It sounded something similar to free marine, I am waiting for better response too
Free Palestine?
I’m seeing contradictory reporting, but the consensus is he’s a Gold Star Dad who lost his kid in the Afghani evacuation, and was arrested for the interruption.
“Remember Abbey Gate! US Marines!”
Abbey Gate is a reference to a 2021 suicide bombing during the evacuation of Afghanistan.
The protestor was handcuffed and arrested after being escorted out by security from the House gallery as seen in a photo shared with USA TODAY.
“Abbey Gate!” Steve Nikoui yelled down at the president. “Second Battalion, First Marines!”
Capitol Police escorted Nikoui, 51, out of the chamber around 10:15 p.m. and took him into custody.
He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding Congress, a misdemeanor that typically results in the offender’s release after paying a $50 fine.
Nikoui’s son, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021.
Nikoui’s son, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021.
The botched withdrawl that Trump signed us up for and forced down bidens throat, so he could be blamed for anything that happened whether he honored the agreement or renegged on it.*
same reason trump signed that bill that would cut taxes until Bidens term, where they raise.
I’m seeing contradictory reporting, but the consensus is he’s a Gold Star Dad who lost his kid in the Afghani evacuation, and was arrested for the interruption.
“Remember Abbey Gate! US Marines!”
Abbey Gate is a reference to a 2021 suicide bombing during the evacuation of Afghanistan.
The protestor was handcuffed and arrested after being escorted out by security from the House gallery as seen in a photo shared with USA TODAY.
“Abbey Gate!” Steve Nikoui yelled down at the president. “Second Battalion, First Marines!”
Capitol Police escorted Nikoui, 51, out of the chamber around 10:15 p.m. and took him into custody.
He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding Congress, a misdemeanor that typically results in the offender’s release after paying a $50 fine.
Nikoui’s son, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021.
Wow! He is not pulling any punches lmao. Mike is squirming in his chair behind him.
In my mind, the best bit was at the very end… it’s not about the age of the candidate, it’s about the age of the ideas, and fear and hate are some of the oldest ideas of mankind.
"My fellow Americans, the issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are, it’s how old our ideas are.
Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas.
But you can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back.
To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future of what America can and should be. "
Biden’s ideas are pretty ancient themselves. But he’s not wrong. Fuck anyone who vilifies the poor and minorities. Biden likely won’t accomplish much to reduce poverty or help the average person. But he likely won’t make any of that demonstrably worse ether. And honestly he’s been way better than many imagined he would. Shitty Israel policy not withstanding. Thank goodness he’s finally taking small steps to balance out his fuck ups.
I have some big hopes for 2028 if we’re still holding elections. Hopefully some fresh young blood will be ready to run. Like Ocasio-Cortez after almost a decade in the house. But to get there I can’t deny Biden is the path forward for now.
God damn. What an ending. Thats some legacy shit right there.
Biden had been saying awesome stuff since the 80s. Look up his 80s stuff. Inspiring.
I still prefer Sanders, though.
Listening to him work the floor now, he knows everyone and has something to tell them about the thing they care about. Its impressive.
It’s almost like he’s been doing this for a while and has experience. Such a breath of fresh air after four years of that other guy.
Before this speech, I wondered how he’d deal with the predictable topics he’d be attacked on. I didn’t expect him to be the one to bring them all up himself. Baller move.
He’s baiting them to shout out so he can smack them back down, and they’re dumb enough to keep falling for it.
Pretty good way to show that he’s mentally sharp and on top of it. Republicans just destroyed their own talking point.
Over and over and over again! Those clips are going to get played on repeat.
