Biden Did Himself No Favors With Angry, Partisan State of the Union

[seafoam1 3,477]

Spot on. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-did-himself-no-favors-with-angry-partisan-state-of-the-union-opinion/ar-BB1jIy5Y?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=33fd79d2dfb14ecca199fe6a78cf7d21&ei=10

 

State of the Union addresses have long been dull, pro forma affairs. Loud cheers resound, offering the pretense of unity over division. Policy disagreements are buried under unifying values. The leader soberly rattles off platitudes about achievements and aspirations, often illusory. The union's "state" is always "strong," and the nation's "best days" invariably "lie ahead."

No longer. President Joe Biden's third and very possibly last State of the Union address descended from this act of staid but dignified statesmanship to what Democrats think they need to shore up his increasingly doubtful reelection bid. In his 67-minute address, reportedly the result of months of intense preparation, Biden was bitter and angry, delivering many of his lines in the loud and cranky tone of a frustrated family patriarch who commands no respect, marshals no enthusiasm, and fears his legacy will spill down a drain of derision. It was not "presidential" by any stretch. It was hysterical and vulgar, desperate and cheap.

Long gone was the "unifier" of those few halcyon days in early 2021, when the newly inaugurated Biden peered out from the armed camp that Washington, D.C., had become to promise he would pursue a moderate course to settle divisions and curb the vitriolic partisanship of former president Donald J. Trump's term.

Now Biden is a hyperpartisan, blaming the Republicans—who control neither the presidency nor the Senate nor the Washington bureaucracy—for all of his many problems, from Ukraine to border control to tax policy. He broke firm and laudable precedent to take a swipe at the Supreme Court, the Justices of which attended the speech but by tradition registered no reaction to it, for overturning Roe v. Wade, even though the result has been a pro-choice surge in state abortion referendums and the election of Democrats in several important races. Biden claimed Republicans would cut entitlements to fund a tax cut for the rich despite the Republican House majority's failure to act on entitlements at any time during his presidency. He countered with his own plan to introduce yet more punitive taxation on "wealthy" Americans.

We heard surprisingly little about Biden's supposed "achievements," which his loyalists—and those who benefit from his increasingly obvious cognitive decline—tout with nauseating regularity despite all evidence to the contrary and in the face of massive popular disappointment. Instead, the president lashed out, once again broad brushing half the country as authoritarian fascist enemies of democracy on par with the Nazis, the Confederacy, and Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Biden has largely avoided mentioning Trump throughout his presidency—perhaps a wise move. Trump currently outclasses him in opinion polls on virtually every issue, as well as in general competence, physical and mental ability, and, according to almost all recent surveys, the popular vote in the all-but-certain rematch that awaits us in November.

But as Biden gets cagier and undoubtedly more worried about his dubious reelection prospects, he simply cannot ignore Trump. Although Biden never said his name (unlike Laken—or, as Biden mispronounced it, "Lincoln"—Riley, a nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant on Biden's watch) in the speech, he referred to his "predecessor," "the former Republican president," 13 times. There can be no doubt that as November approaches, the race will become increasingly brutal, personal, and negative—characteristics that, Democratic strategists may wish to note, heavily favored Trump in 2016.

Comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt, a trope to which his flatterers never tire of resorting, struck another point about Biden. With a coterie of Washington politicos and a congressional Democratic Party either convinced of, or willing to play along with, the illusion of the incumbent's soundness and importance, there is now less chance than ever that he will be replaced as the Democratic candidate, as some have speculated. Given his grumpy demeanor, that is probably good news for the Trump camp. Either way, Thursday's State of the Union did nothing to convince the 82 percent of Americans who believe Biden is simply too old for the presidency to change their minds.

[Voltaire 5,505]

Biden got through that speech intact. He spent over an hour telling us his priorities, tried to sell us on his accomplishments, and didn't look in over his head while doing so. 

He has had plenty of clueless moments but the SOTU wasn't one. The tread is thin on the tires, but they've not fallen off. IMO, his one major gaffe I noticed was telling us that people can buy cheaper prescription drugs in Moscow.

[seafoam1 3,477]

26 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Biden got through that speech intact. He spent over an hour telling us his priorities, tried to sell us on his accomplishments, and didn't look in over his head while doing so. 

He has had plenty of clueless moments but the SOTU wasn't one. The tread is thin on the tires, but they've not fallen off. IMO, his one major gaffe I noticed was telling us that people can buy cheaper prescription drugs in Moscow.

It was not a state of the union. It was a shot up biden piss and moan fest. That in itself was a major gaffe. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,982]

The black and Latino vote are crucial in this election. I don’t think they cared for being yelled at by an old white man. 

[Voltaire 5,505]

8 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

It was not a state of the union. It was a shot up biden piss and moan fest. That in itself was a major gaffe. 

Dems around here were thrilled by his performance, as well they should be, he spent over an hour in front of the cameras and didn't look incompetent. This should quiet down any remaining speculation to replace him.

[seafoam1 3,477]

Just now, Voltaire said:

Dems around here were thrilled by his performance, as well they should be, he spent over an hour in front of the cameras and didn't look incompetent. This should quiet down any remaining speculation to replace him.

It was all incompetent. He was flat out out of control. The guy was on something and enraged. And no matter what happened the dems would love it. They love ranting about Trump incessantly. That doesn't mean shlt when it come to the state of the union . It's the state of the liberal on tic tock.  They know the truth about his declined mental state and all they care about is getting weekend at bernies part two come November. 

 

[BeachGuy23 642]

Peafoam rage posting and replying to himself all night long.

Strong strong life boyo.

[seafoam1 3,477]

7 minutes ago, BeachGuy23 said:

Peafoam rage posting and replying to himself all night long.

Strong strong life boyo.

pimpledoosh rage posting in light of the truth.

First thing when he wakes up in the morning.

[RLLD 4,275]

I see this as a missed opportunity, I am not sure he helped himself as much as he could have.

[Tree of Knowledge 2,209]

Grandpa Simpson yelling at clouds was a favorite of mine, so I thought it was good.  

[Mike Hunt 315]

 

32 minutes ago, RLLD said:

I see this as a missed opportunity, I am not sure he helped himself as much as he could have.

 

  This was a not a SOTU speech, it was a campaign speech.

Came off as a grumpy old man in a very divisive speech.  First 3 minutes instead of focusing on what he wants to do he blasted the SCOTUS, and his opposition. Biden has never been good at speeches, but the constant yelling made it unwatchable, maybe it is because he is hard of hearing, but his delivery was very annoying.

[RLLD 4,275]

7 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

 

 

  This was a not a SOTU speech, it was a campaign speech.

Came off as a grumpy old man in a very divisive speech.  First 3 minutes instead of focusing on what he wants to do he blasted the SCOTUS, and his opposition. Biden has never been good at speeches, but the constant yelling made it unwatchable, maybe it is because he is hard of hearing, but his delivery was very annoying.

Agree completely.  This was purely a campaign speech.

His anger that people do not like him was at least a small moment of likely truth from him, but I suggest it was at least 50% driven by his handlers who are actually running the white house as well, who are a group of people who hate this nation.

[seafoam1 3,477]

13 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

 

 

  This was a not a SOTU speech, it was a campaign speech.

Came off as a grumpy old man in a very divisive speech.  First 3 minutes instead of focusing on what he wants to do he blasted the SCOTUS, and his opposition. Biden has never been good at speeches, but the constant yelling made it unwatchable, maybe it is because he is hard of hearing, but his delivery was very annoying.

And all the liberals are celebrating is that he didn't fall down and/or die of stroke. NOTHING else. Because there was nothing else to celebrate. 

[MDC 7,998]

Republicans do don’t like the Democrat POTUS’s SOTU. Shocking. I wonder if Democrats didn’t like Trump’s SOTUs?

[RLLD 4,275]

1 minute ago, MDC said:

Republicans do don’t like the Democrat POTUS’s SOTU. Shocking. I wonder if Democrats didn’t like Trump’s SOTUs?

It was just a small number of Republicans though, so we dont worry about it....right?   I thought he did a MUCH better job than I thought he would.

[MDC 7,998]

5 minutes ago, RLLD said:

It was just a small number of Republicans though, so we dont worry about it....right?   I thought he did a MUCH better job than I thought he would.

That’s the downside to Republicans setting the bar so low on Sleepy Joe. Especially since their own elderly candidate is a lunatic. 

[Baker Boy 1,710]

SOTU = GET OFF MY LAWN!

 

[RLLD 4,275]

3 minutes ago, MDC said:

That’s the downside to Republicans setting the bar so low on Sleepy Joe. Especially since their own elderly candidate is a lunatic. 

I think that is a fair point.  The bar was set low.  He easily exceeded what they attempt to portray him as being. 

[MDC 7,998]

Just now, RLLD said:

I think that is a fair point.  The bar was set low.  He easily exceeded what they attempt to portray him as being. 

They did the same thing during the debates last time. He’s old, doddering, dementia etc. Then Trump got on stage and took a one-way trip to Crazytown in prime time.

GOP may want to dial it back a little. 

[seafoam1 3,477]

 

President Joe Biden has always been a mean, self-serving, demagogic hack. Now he's a mean, self-serving, demagogic hack with clear cognitive issues, an extreme hatred for half of the country, a willingness to weaponize his government against his political opponents, and an easy fluency with lies. All of these dangerous elements were on obvious display during his malicious State of the Union address.

Biden came off as an unstable, disturbed man who used a speech meant to be a unifying discussion on the state of the country as a launching pad for his re-election campaign, complete with vicious attacks on his predecessor and general election opponent, President Trump, and the tens of millions of Americans who support him. A ferocious attack on America First, the speech was also a tone-deaf celebration of Biden's historically catastrophic record.

It was reminiscent of his September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, which was marked by a deep red, almost demonic backdrop and dark threats about going to war with "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans [who] represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." That unhinged language was resurrected in his State of the Union, reminding us that he has no intention of changing his destructive policy or rhetorical direction.

In keeping with his America Last approach, Biden strolled in a half hour late, forgot to wait for his formal introduction and then began with a clarion call for billions of dollars more—not for America's borders, but to defend Ukraine's borders. His choice to start with Ukraine was a deliberate slap in the face to all Americans who care about the profound damage he is inflicting here at home. It's supposed to be a State of the Union address, not a State of Ukraine address.

He then used Ukraine to smear Trump once again as some sort of Putin stooge while railing against him for the January 6 Capitol riot. See? he seemed to imply. All dictators are alike! It was a disgusting attack not just on Trump but on all of his supporters, whom he assailed as "insurrectionists."

Perhaps the most egregious moment came when Biden raised Laken Riley, a promising young Georgia nursing student bludgeoned to death by an illegal alien who had entered the country via Biden's wide open southern border. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, wearing a shirt honoring Riley, demanded that Biden "say her name." Biden then proceeded to call the murdered woman "Lincoln Riley," which was more insulting than if he had not mentioned her at all. Imagine if he had screwed up George Floyd's name? His disgusting display was compounded when he blamed Republicans for his own cataclysm at the border, which he could reverse today if he wanted to. But he doesn't want to, because flooding the country with illegals and erasing our borders is his plan.

Biden's remarks about the Israel-Hamas war were equally atrocious. As members of the Hamas caucus in his own party, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush, wore Palestinian keffiyehs and held up signs calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Biden reprimanded Israel and proposed building a "pier" to facilitate humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, while assuring us that no Americans would be endangered. His slobbering pandering to the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas radicals in his party was pathetic and perilous to Israel and regional security.

Biden then attempted to tout his disastrous economic policies by telling massive whoppers such as, "My administration cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion." In fact, since Biden became president, the baseline deficit has grown by nearly $6 trillion. He also continued the Obama-Biden class warfare, heralding, "We will make the rich pay their fair share." According to Biden's own IRS, the top 1 percent of U.S. taxpayers now pay an all-time record high of 46 percent of all taxes. And perhaps his biggest economic lie of all: "I inherited an economy [from Trump] that was on the brink..." By January 2021, Trump handed Biden the fastest economic recovery from any crisis on record, with 33 percent growth in the third quarter of 2020 and 4.1 percent in the 4th quarter. Inflation was at a low 1.4 percent and gas was $2.39 per gallon. It was a true Trump post-COVID boom, which Biden and the Democrats promptly and deliberately squandered in pursuit of astronomical spending that drives suffocating inflation. Snickers bars are smaller for the same price because of your out of control spending, President Biden.

And then, of course, there was the delivery. In a presidential speech, there is a place for righteous anger, but it must be used sparingly and judiciously. Biden was angry throughout the address; there was no modulation or thoughtful application of emotion. He and his handlers believe his consistent rage will equate to competence, when the exact opposite is true. His one manic, irritable speed reinforced the image of a demented old man incapable of doing the job.

The entire speech was a disgraceful spectacle, unworthy of our great nation. But there was one silver lining: It made the American people miss Trump, his strong leadership and booming economy, enforced border and world peace.

After Biden's debacle, we can't wait to put Trump back in the White House.

[RLLD 4,275]

9 minutes ago, MDC said:

They did the same thing during the debates last time. He’s old, doddering, dementia etc. Then Trump got on stage and took a one-way trip to Crazytown in prime time.

GOP may want to dial it back a little. 

This has merit

[seafoam1 3,477]

24 minutes ago, MDC said:

They did the same thing during the debates last time. He’s old, doddering, dementia etc. Then Trump got on stage and took a one-way trip to Crazytown in prime time.

GOP may want to dial it back a little. 

creepy joe has dementia. 

Trump does not. He's abrasive and hurts your feelers. 

Now go have a good cry like all you good little liberals normally do. 

[MDC 7,998]

23 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

creepy joe has dementia. 

Trump does not. He's abrasive and hurts your feelers. 

Now go have a good cry like all you good little liberals normally do. 

I’m giving you advice. The GOP overplayed their hand with the Biden dementia stuff. Any time he sounds lucid in public it’s a win. And Trump is obviously barking mad in addition to being fat and old. You may want to learn from the 2020 blowout loss. 

[thegeneral 3,699]

58 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Trump does not. He's abrasive and hurts your feelers.

You are crying this whole thread about how mean Joe was during his speech. Poor fella.

Suck it up, buttercup.

[seafoam1 3,477]

12 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

You are crying this whole thread about how mean Joe was during his speech. Poor fella.

Suck it up, buttercup.

No. I said joe was spastic and angry and out of control. 

Face it generalpimpledoosh, your TDS is causing you severe pain day in and day out. You and your liberal pvssy friends are so weak. Pathetic. 

Now move along snowflake. 

[seafoam1 3,477]

48 minutes ago, MDC said:

I’m giving you advice. 

 

[thegeneral 3,699]

1 hour ago, seafoam1 said:

No. I said joe was spastic and angry and out of control. 

Face it generalpimpledoosh, your TDS is causing you severe pain day in and day out. You and your liberal pvssy friends are so weak. Pathetic. 

Now move along snowflake. 

Your lack of self awareness never fails to amaze

[MDC 7,998]

1 hour ago, seafoam1 said:

No. I said joe was spastic and angry and out of control. 

Hello Mr. Pot!  

[seafoam1 3,477]

18 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

 

Your lack of self awareness never fails to amaze. 

[thegeneral 3,699]

It’s ok, Peefoam. Normal human communication isn’t for everyone.

[seafoam1 3,477]

6 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

It’s ok, Peefoam. Normal human communication isn’t for everyone.

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I I got hairy legs.

And-and-and-and-and in the summer the hair turns blonde.

And the kids, they would rub their hands down my legs to straighten the hair out and-and-and and they would watch the hair curl back up in the sun.

And I knew about cockroaches.

And I knew about kids jumpin in my lap.

And I LOVED kids jumpin in my lap

[Tree of Knowledge 2,209]

Seems like America agrees with @seafoam1

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/nolte-post-sotu-poll-bidens-approval-rating-drops-trumps-lead-grows/

[seafoam1 3,477]

10 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

Seems like America agrees with @seafoam1

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/nolte-post-sotu-poll-bidens-approval-rating-drops-trumps-lead-grows/

The biden cult takes a beating again. 

[TBayXXXVII 2,677]

Polls are stupid.  The only one that matters is the one in November.

[TBayXXXVII 2,677]

4 hours ago, MDC said:

I’m giving you advice. The GOP overplayed their hand with the Biden dementia stuff. Any time he sounds lucid in public it’s a win. And Trump is obviously barking mad in addition to being fat and old. You may want to learn from the 2020 blowout loss. 

What does it tell the country when the DOJ says that Biden isn't mentally stable?