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:

https://www.britt.senate.gov/press-releases/u-s-senator-katie-britt-responds-to-president-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/

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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    729·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
      323·
      8 months ago

      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?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        729·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
          201·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            321·
            8 months ago

            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

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            313·
            8 months ago

            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?

              • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                310·
                8 months ago

                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.

        • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org
          41·
          8 months ago

          Your article is two years old and provides a mountain of speculation about economics that didn’t pan out in reality. Seriously, check it out, inflation in the US peaked lower than the UK or EU, and has trended below them consistently through today.

          Go ahead and argue about the relative stability of more insular economies like Japan and China, but the Fed did exactly what they set out to do, and they did it more effectively than other comparable central banks.

          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.

          Objectively, verifiably false. Single taxpayers under $75k, couples under $150k. Bill Gates didn’t benefit. Maybe you’re thinking of the stimulus that Trump signed that blindly handed out thousands of dollars to businesses with little to no accountability?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        612·
        8 months ago

        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.