President Joe Biden delivered a combination speech on Thursday — campaign speech and state of the union speech.
“If I was smart I would go home now,” said Biden, 81, launching into what may be his possibly last State of the Union. Then he went into the Dark Biden mode, ripping into all who disagree with him, particularly Donald Trump.
He started out by comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt taking on Hitler. He dumped on Trump numerous times. He took on the free market. He took on the food industry. He took on credit card companies. He took on the size of Snickers bars before he even talked about the border. But much of it was unintelligible.
“He’s speed shouting,” commented Tim Murtaugh, a political adviser. In fact, there are 77 exclamation points in the speech, as it was sent out.
He talked about Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
“This #SOTU has attacked American families, the Supreme Court, American corporations that aren’t union, the unborn, Conservatives and more. Who has he championed? China and Russia,” said Rick Whitbeck, Alaska director of Power The Future.
Biden called for lower drug prices, higher salaries for teachers. He called for millionaires to pay their fair share of taxes, as he ignored his son’s scam against the federal Treasury.
Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns, the Department of Justice said in its indictment.
Biden badgered the Republicans in the room, mocked conservatives, threatened the entire Supreme Court, whose members sat silently staring at him, and was applauded by Democrats repeatedly, while Republicans sat stoically.
When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia yelled at him to say the name of the woman murdered by an illegal alien, he responded, “Lincoln Riley,” mangling the name of the slain woman, which was Laken Riley. “Lincoln Riley” started trending on X/Twitter immediately.
“The good news is this will be President Biden’s last State of Union Rant,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham.
“If I keep yelling at them, maybe they won’t notice that I’ve gone bat sh*@ crazy,” said Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
Read the speech at the White House link.
Alaska Republican congressional candidate Nick Begich had an immediate reaction: “JoeBiden proved tonight once again: he cannot speak precisely, he cannot think clearly, he cannot lead rationally. He needs to be defeated in November. It’s time to put the people of America first. It’s time to make the bold decisions that will secure the future of our nation. It’s time to return @realDonaldTrump to the White House.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan prepared remarks in advance of the speech:
