Reviews are in: Biden knocked it out of the park

[Uncle J]

President Biden's State of the Union speech is getting rave reviews ("fiery", "defiant", "electrifying") while the Republican response is being panned as bizarre, creepy, and cringeworthy.

Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery State of the Union address

President Joe Biden delivered a fiery speech fit for an election year with enormously high stakes and a divided electorate.

www.cnbc.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765945119331500071

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There was a moment that I thought captured the difference between MAGA world and the real world quite well. A Republican tried to heckle President Biden by yelling "lies" and he responded with "look at the facts, I know you know how to read".

As I've been saying, to most of us facts matter...but not so much in MAGA world.

After the speech, Republicans quickly left the building...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765944270953816311

...while President Biden stayed and chatted with colleagues well into the night.

Biden chatted for so long after State of the Union, the lights went down

Then we have the Republican response, delivered by Rep. Senator Katie Britt...

Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’

The 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star but her kitchen table speech did not land well even in her own party

www.theguardian.com

Republican Katie Britt’s SOTU rebuttal is the butt of the joke

‘Seriously, the Katie Britt response is scary as s***. This is like a sci-fi movie. This is Handmaid’s Tale coming to life,’ one person posted on X

www.the-independent.com

Republicans Torch Their Own “Creepy” State of the Union Response

Alabama Senator Katie Britt gave a truly bizarre SOTU rebuttal—and even other Republicans are baffled by it.

newrepublic.com

 

[Uncle J]

Biden’s State of the Union made Republicans squirm on Ukraine, immigration

Shortly after launching into his State of the Union address on Thursday night, President Biden served notice he was about to drive some wedges into the Republican Party.

“If anybody in this room thinks [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will stop in Ukraine, I assure you he will not,” Biden said.

Seated behind him was House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), in his first State of the Union in that role. He nodded slightly in apparent approval.

When Biden called for providing Ukraine weaponry, Johnson again nodded, ultimately offering some applause.

Biden added: “My message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away.”

Johnson again nodded and clapped gently.

What some might not have realized in that moment is that each of Biden’s statements closely echoed how Johnson has, at times, talked about Ukraine. But Johnson is the man standing in the way of a bipartisan Senate bill that got 70 votes and would send another $60 billion to Ukraine.

And the reason for Johnson’s stance is clear: the large segment of his conference that declined to join in his apparent approval of Biden’s statements during Thursday’s speech.

This was a key theme of Biden’s State of the Union address. He repeatedly focused on stances with strong public backing — 6 in 10 Americans support continuing to help Ukraine — that Republicans are divided over or oppose. And he often got very divided and uncertain responses from that side of the aisle.

Perhaps the biggest example was immigration, at which point things started getting contentious.

When Biden hailed the bipartisan border security bill that Republicans ultimately killed last month as being historically tough, many Republicans jeered.

“Oh, you don’t like that bill, huh?” Biden responded, a big smile growing on his face. “That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill? I’ll be darned. That’s amazing.”

He had a point. The bill was negotiated by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and hailed by some big-name Republicans as a great deal that probably wouldn’t be on the table again. But that was before the party decided to kill it amid former president Donald Trump’s opposition. Some GOP officials acknowledged their party had chosen 2024 election politics over securing the border.

As Biden went on to describe the details of how the bill would firm the border up, Lankford could be seen mouthing that his summary was “true.”

The story was similar on other issues.

 

[Uncle J]

 

[Uncle J]

“No reason to elect” Republicans - Digby's Hullabaloo

More Reaction To Biden's SOTU Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President (2020, via Flickr; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED). Simon

digbysblog.net

The core arguments Republicans make against Biden furthered evaporated last night. The economy is strong not weak. Inflation is down not rising. Crime and murder rates are plummeting not raging. All forms of domestic energy production are setting records and we are more energy independent today than in decades - there is no war on energy. Democrats are trying to bring order to the border, Republicans want to keep it chaotic. The “Biden crime family” narrative turns out to be a Russian operation laundered by traitorous Republicans. And now we saw a President strong, vigorous, powerful not old and frail. They have nothing. They have no argument. There is no reason to elect them. All that is left for them now is the madness of the orange man, more degraded, extreme and dangerous, a serial criminal and betrayer of the country, an historic embarrassment for America, and for the once proud party of Lincoln and Reagan.

 

[Uncle J]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765961752871604452

 

[Corn Pop]

Biden gave a spech at the capital and there was a fence put up around the premises for Biden, yet not at the southern border for Americans.

 

[Riven]

President Biden's State of the Union speech is getting rave reviews ("fiery", "defiant", "electrifying") while the Republican response is being panned as bizarre, creepy, and cringeworthy.

Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery State of the Union address

President Joe Biden delivered a fiery speech fit for an election year with enormously high stakes and a divided electorate.

www.cnbc.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765945119331500071

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765944224724181033

There was a moment that I thought captured the difference between MAGA world and the real world quite well. A Republican tried to heckle President Biden by yelling "lies" and he responded with "look at the facts, I know you know how to read".

As I've been saying, to most of us facts matter...but not so much in MAGA world.

After the speech, Republicans quickly left the building...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765944270953816311

...while President Biden stayed and chatted with colleagues well into the night.

Biden chatted for so long after State of the Union, the lights went down

Then we have the Republican response, delivered by Rep. Senator Katie Britt...

Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’

The 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star but her kitchen table speech did not land well even in her own party

www.theguardian.com

Republican Katie Britt’s SOTU rebuttal is the butt of the joke

‘Seriously, the Katie Britt response is scary as s***. This is like a sci-fi movie. This is Handmaid’s Tale coming to life,’ one person posted on X

www.the-independent.com

Republicans Torch Their Own “Creepy” State of the Union Response

Alabama Senator Katie Britt gave a truly bizarre SOTU rebuttal—and even other Republicans are baffled by it.

newrepublic.com

 

[Consecrated Life]

“No reason to elect” Republicans - Digby's Hullabaloo

More Reaction To Biden's SOTU Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President (2020, via Flickr; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED). Simon

digbysblog.net

The core arguments Republicans make against Biden furthered evaporated last night. The economy is strong not weak.

Maybe he can drop leaflets of this great "firey" good news to the all time greatest number of legal Americans sleeping & dying on the sidewalks of America under his watch ?


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation...all-time-high-heres-why-it-continues-to-climb

Chronic homelessness is at an all-time high. ​

Dec 22, 2023 ... Data from the 2023 point-in-time count show that around one-third of all people experiencing homelessness nationwide are chronically ...

This while billions in taxpayer dollars are spent to give deluxe accommodations to illegal immigrant violators of our laws , coming here live off of taxpayer dollars to the detriment of actual Americans dying on our streets in record numbers.

 

[Uncle J]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1766237522613395928

 

[Uncle J]

 

[Uncle J]

During the Republican response speech, Sen. Britt told the story of a 12 year old who was the victim of human trafficking and was repeatedly raped, and wrapped up the story with "We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it".

One problem....as horrific as the story is, all of the events occurred in Mexico (and not near the border) during the W. Bush administration (2004-2008). A reporter actually went and found the woman and she confirmed that Britt very much misrepresented her story.

Once again, in some circles facts and accuracy matter. In other circles....not so much.

 

[Consecrated Life]

If only Abraham Lincoln's great, great, great , grand daughter :
" Lincoln,,, Lincoln Reily " (Biden) ,
was alive to see that the president is just as sharp as a marble as he was shamed into butchering her name.


https://www.secrant.com/rant/sec-football/lincoln-riley-getting-a-shoutout-from-biden-tonight/112545631/

Lincoln Riley Getting a Shoutout from Biden Tonight | SEC Rant​

 

[Uncle J]

State of the Union fuels Biden's biggest fundraising day of campaign

President Biden's State of the Union address fueled his campaign's most lucrative fundraising day since he launched his bid for re-election, according to a campaign official.

 

[Consecrated Life]

State of the Union fuels Biden's biggest fundraising day of campaign

President Biden's State of the Union address fueled his campaign's most lucrative fundraising day since he launched his bid for re-election, according to a campaign official.

It's just to bad that " Lincoln Reily " (Biden) is not alive to contribute to him now that there is indisputable evidence that Joe is back to his old dementia addled self.
Slaughtering her name even as he holds the actual correct spelling of it in his hand.

Biden calls murdered jogger 'LINCOLN Riley' - Daily Mail​

2 days ago ... President Joe Biden mispronounced Laken Riley's name, calling her 'Lincoln' as he held up a pin with her name given to him by Rep.

 

[Riven]

Oh, no. He called them illegals and now his supporters are upset. Lol.

 

[Uncle J]

Oh, no. He called them illegals and now his supporters are upset. Lol.

Well yeah, because people who show up at the border and request asylum are not "illegals"; they are following the law.

 

[Uncle J]

 

[Uncle J]

You had to know this was coming. And they got Scarlett Johansson!

 

[Riven]

Well yeah, because people who show up at the border and request asylum are not "illegals"; they are following the law.

The man who murdered Laken Riley was an illegal alien that should have been deported. Biden apologized because he's a weak old man.

 

[Uncle J]

The man who murdered Laken Riley was an illegal alien that should have been deported. Biden apologized because he's a weak old man.

According to news reports, he arrived in the US legally with his wife. Therefore it is incorrect to refer to him as an "illegal alien". Facts matter dude.