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Angry Old Man Screams At Americans | Ep. 1664

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	Joe Biden gives an endless State of the Union address in which he lies repeatedly and yells at Americans about how democracy is finished unless we spend endless amounts of money and the media predictably gush.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	So, last night is one of the worst events in American life.
	The State of the Union address.
	Yes, I hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
	Doesn't matter who the president is.
	I've said a thousand times, I despise the State of the Union address.
	It's a monarchic institution that has nothing to do with the actual constitutional mandate for a State of the Union statement.
	He could have signed a letter and been done with it.
	Instead, we sat through an old man yelling at clouds for an hour.
	If you missed the speech last night, I'm going to give you the real brief version right now.
	All you have to do, just to relive it, head on over to your local old age home, find a slightly deranged geriatric, and let him yell at you about airline fees for about an hour.
	That's pretty much what it was last night.
	Now, there was always some drama.
	You had some Republicans in the chamber who were yelling at the president.
	You had Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, who seemed to be wearing a Cruella de Vil coat, yelling at the president of the United States.
	She was actually carrying a balloon beforehand.
	You had Kyrsten Sinema, who's dressed up like Big Bird.
	There were some theatrics that were involved.
	Mitt Romney, before the speech, went over to George Santos and told him he didn't belong in the chamber, and then went and clapped with all the Democrats.
	It was just... Everyone is stupid, and everything is stupid, and I am never more cynical than I am the morning after the State of the Union address, especially given the fact that the media praised this thing to the skies.
	Apparently Joe Biden was unbelievable, according to our genius members of the Praetorian Guard media.
	He did an amazing job.
	I will let you judge, however, for yourself how the President of the United States did.
	So they shot him full of amphetamines or something, and then he came on stage.
	And as you can see, he's looking all weird.
	He's looking a lot older than he did even when he took office.
	He's 80 years old now.
	If he were to run for and win re-election, he would be 86 years old in his last year in office, which is really, really old.
	And he is not, like, a good 80.
	He is a not amazing 80.
	I know a lot of 80-year-olds who are in better shape than Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden showed it last night.
	There was an attempt to, again, maintain that the bar is so low that if he crosses it, like, if he speaks basic English without botching it too much, that this is a big win for him.
	Anyway, he starts off this speech by botching a joke about Chuck Schumer.
	And it was kind of downhill from there.
	Here we go.
	Congratulations to Chuck Schumer.
	Another, uh, you know, another term is Senate Minority Leader.
	You know, I think you, uh, only this time you have a slightly bigger majority, Mr. Leader.
	You're the Majority Leader.
	About that much bigger?
	Well, I tell you what.
	I tell you what, that is not good.
	So you have Chuck Schumer cracking his Joker grin, and you have Joe Biden wandering through cornfields, and Kamala Harris sitting in the background like, man.
	The chances that he keels over the middle of the speech are not insignificant.
	Kamala's like, maybe I'll become president tonight.
	She was pretty excited last night.
	So, the speech broke down into a few parts.
	Part one was, what an amazing job Joe Biden has done.
	And nobody actually believes this.
	By the polling data, he's still in the low 40s in terms of approval rating.
	People are very skeptical about the state of the economy.
	He told a bunch of whoppers right here.
	He made claims without context.
	And the Democrats all stood up and cheered, of course.
	So he began by touting his economic record.
	And here, the lies just began.
	And they really didn't stop the whole way.
	Two years ago, the economy was reeling.
	I stand here tonight, after we've created, with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs.
	More jobs created in two years than any president's created in four years.
	And two years ago, COVID had shut down, our businesses were closed, our schools were robbed of so much, and today, COVID no longer controls our lives.
	Okay, so, again, the number of lies packed into that fairly short segment, I mean, that is about a 25-second clip.
	The number of lies there?
	A lot.
	So, number one, he says, two years ago, our economy was reeling.
	Well, actually, actually, Two years ago was February of 2021.
	The recovery had already begun by February of 2021.
	And when he says that he has created a record 12 million new jobs, he, of course, is ignoring the fact that we had the greatest artificially induced economic coma of all time in 2020.
	And so if you look at a chart of employment destruction and creation, what it looks like is employment is going like this under Trump and then bam, it falls directly off the table.
	And then In the last months of the Trump presidency, it spikes back up and it's going right back toward the line where it was before and then it sort of levels off.
	And so we're missing all these jobs between where we could have been if Joe Biden weren't a terrible economic president and where we are.
	But he says he's responsible for all the job creation from something he had nothing to do with.
	Well, I really dislike it when presidents declare, of either party by the way, that they create jobs.
	No, you don't.
	You don't.
	I don't see you hiring all 300 of our employees here at Daily Wire.
	We created those jobs, and really, our consumers created those jobs.
	You had nothing to do with it.
	All you do is siphon off a bunch of money from us and from our consumers.
	That's what you do.
	You steal the money from the people, and then you give it to your favorite political causes.
	So don't pretend that the government is a quote-unquote job creator.
	The government can be a job killer, but it takes actual individual human beings to create jobs.
	I hate that shortish dick.
	That's not the only lie there either.
	Then he says, two years ago, COVID shut down our businesses and closed our schools and robbed it.
	Well, it didn't do it by itself, dude.
	I mean, to be fair, you did that thing.
	Twas thee.
	It's an absurdity that all these people who are responsible for shutting down the economy are now claiming that they had nothing to do with any of it.
	It's just bizarrely magical.
	COVID just, did you know that COVID shut down our entire economy?
	Because I remember government actors, where I was living in California, literally saying you could not go into your place of work.
	So a lot of lies just in the first couple of minutes of Joe Biden's speech.
	We're gonna continue with that in just one second.
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	Okay, so Joe Biden is going through his great achievements.
	His great achievements apparently include being alive and things happening, right?
	Because that's what happened when the jobs were created again.
	And also, apparently, saving democracy, right?
	This is one that gives him self-credit for.
	He keeps talking.
	This is his shtick.
	He did this during the election cycle.
	He did it post the election cycle.
	This notion that his presidency stood between America and the abyss, that American democracy has been in serious danger for the last several years because a bunch of droogs decided that they were going to run into the Capitol building and get themselves arrested.
	He did that routine again last night.
	He's going to continue doing this until he's no longer president.
	Years ago, democracy faced its greatest threats in the Civil War, and today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken.
	Okay, how many words did he slur in that particular clip?
	Let us count the ways.
	Democracy.
	Are you guys fans of democracy?
	I'm a fan of democracy.
	How about you?
	Essentially, this speech, and it was more than an hour, was one long word punctuated by, come on, man, and then random yelling at Republicans.
	So that was good.
	He then explained how he thought the 2022 election went.
	Apparently, the clear message from the 2022 election is bipartisanship.
	And this is one of these schticks that Biden really does that's grating as all hell.
	He says, I'm a bipartisan guy.
	I like working across the other side of the aisle.
	Also, all of my opponents are responsible for Paul Pelosi being hit in the head with a hammer.
	He literally said that at the end of the speech.
	But we'll get to that in a moment.
	Here's Joe Biden talking about how the message is we all have to work together.
	Also, my Republican opponents are the worst people on earth.
	I think the people sent us a clear message.
	Fighting for the sake of fighting.
	Power for the sake of power.
	Conflict for the sake of conflict gets us nowhere.
	That's always been my vision of our country, and I know it's many of yours.
	To restore the soul of this nation.
	This old doof is not restoring the soul of anything.
	I'm really sick of the religious language that is placed around politics.
	It makes me kind of nauseous.
	You used to get this with Barack Obama also.
	You remember Michelle Obama said that Barack Obama was going to restore the soul of our nation, but apparently it has to be done repeatedly.
	Apparently we all have exorcised, we have to exorcise our demons every so often with a democratic president.
	So Barack Obama was going to restore the soul of the nation, and then apparently Donald Trump stole the soul or something, and now Joe Biden is back here.
	If you think this corrupt old politician is going to save the soul of the nation, you have another think coming.
	It is very, very silly, and it's insulting, and again, it's a substitute of politics for religion, which is in and of itself blasphemous.
	And then he got to inflation, and of course he's going to claim that he's done a great job on inflation.
	He'd done this clip five.
	Inflation has been a global problem because the pandemic disrupted our supply chains and Putin's unfair and brutal war in Ukraine disrupted energy supplies as well as food supplies, blocking all that grain in Ukraine.
	But we're better positioned than any country on earth right now.
	But we have more to do.
	But here at home, inflation is coming down.
	Yeah, this is inspiring, inspiring words from a very, very shouty president of the United States.
	Again, everything bad that happens is an extraneous event.
	And everything good that happens is Joe Biden's massive accomplishment.
	So it doesn't matter that inflation preceded the war in Ukraine.
	It doesn't matter that Joe Biden accelerated the inflation by pouring money on the giant gas fire of inflation.
	It doesn't matter that inflation rates is coming down.
	Inflation is still in December at 6.5%.
	We aim for 2% from the Federal Reserve.
	So that means that it is approximately 325% higher than it should be normally.
	So just really well done there.
	But Joe Biden has a solution.
	Then we get into Section 2 of the speech.
	So Section 1 is all of my massive accomplishments, and everybody's looking around going, what?
	And then we get to Section 2 of the speech.
	Since he's done such an amazing job, and since the American public failed to put Republicans in charge of the Senate, largely because Republicans decided to raid the local homeless shelter for candidates, Joe Biden believes that he now has a mandate to, wait for it, wait for it, spend more money.
	Yes, you didn't see that coming, did you?
	Joe Biden, the greatest spender in American history, wants to spend more money.
	So he laid out a wish list of things that he wishes to spend money on.
	And the answer is pretty much everything.
	Because as you know, folks, when you got a $32 trillion national debt, When your debt-to-GDP ratio is now running at 125, 130%, what we need to do, clearly, is spend more.
	When we have inflation raging at 6.5%, what we need is to spend more money.
	I mean, any genius will tell you this, even if his hair plugs, which are now falling out, even if they've grown directly into his brainstem.
	Here is the President of the United States, and he's going to tell you about all the different ways he's going to spend money that he either creates from thin air to inflate the currency, or that he's going to seize from you.
	And when we do these projects, And again, I get criticized for this, but I make no excuses for it.
	What was that?
	We're going to buy American.
	We're going to buy American.
	We're going to buy Aminu.
	Yeah.
	And it's totally, it's totally consistent with international trade rules.
	Why America has been the law since 1933, but for too long, past administrations, Democrat and Republican, have fought to get around it.
	Not anymore.
	Tonight, I'm announcing new standards that require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.
	Yeah!
	Expensive stuff!
	You pay for it, my friends!
	Woo!
	So, let me explain something about the autarky-driven nature of what he's talking about.
	You get to pay for all that.
	When he says, buy American, what he essentially means is that we should spend more money as taxpayers for things, quote-unquote, made in America, and it'll cost you.
	You're the one who's gonna have to pay.
	He's not paying for anything.
	He doesn't pay for things.
	He's a government bureaucrat who's been on the dole for the last 60 years of his life.
	Come on.
	Come on.
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	Okay, speaking of things that he wants to spend money on, he was touting the Inflation Reduction Act, was the president of the United States, slurring his words all the way through.
	And we'll get to the media reaction afterward.
	It is amazing how many people in the media, whose professional job it is to look good on TV and say words in coherent fashion, We're able to pretend that Joe Biden was articulate last night.
	He could not get through a sentence without stumbling all over himself like one of the three stooges in a studio laden with banana peels.
	But apparently he did an amazing job.
	Here he was explaining that the Inflation Reduction Act has been a massive boon.
	What are you going to get money to pay for those medical bills?
	Are you going to have to sell the house or try to get a second mortgage on it?
	I get it.
	No you don't.
	I get it.
	With the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law, we're taking on powerful interest to bring healthcare costs down so you can sleep better at night.
	And my favorite thing about the speech is where he proclaims that he's bringing costs down while bringing you historically high inflation, like 40-year highs in inflation.
	Of course, he had time to rip on Big Pharma, which is a laugh.
	As Candace Owens pointed out last night on our backstage, no one has made Big Pharma richer than a man who attempted to literally force 80 million people in the United States to vaccinate against their will.
	Pfizer is very, very wealthy because President Joe Biden exists.
	Here we go.
	Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars, four to five hundred dollars a month, making record profits.
	Not anymore.
	And now what he's actually talking about here is he's trying to make the case that basically we should use the power of the federal government to crack down on the prices that are charged by the pharmaceutical companies for their drugs.
	Now, here's the problem with that.
	All the other countries on earth with state-run systems bargain with the drug companies in order to drive the price down.
	They can only do that because we pay high prices.
	They are free riders.
	What we actually should do is if we're going to declare a trade war, this is one area where we actually should.
	We should force other countries to pay what the drugs are worth because what's happening right now is that essentially because we pay them more money through the private markets, all the big pharma companies are located in the United States.
	That is the reason.
	All medical development on planet Earth, essentially, is done in the United States, and that is for a reason.
	There are trade-offs in policy.
	This is one of them.
	You could get cheaper drugs from Big Pharma.
	Also, R&D would absolutely stop, and you just would not have new drugs.
	This is the bargain that people are cutting.
	But put policy aside, again, this guy saying that he wishes to impoverish Big Pharma is a joke.
	He has made Big Pharma richer than any president in American history, so far as I'm aware.
	But he didn't just tout the Inflation Reduction Act because it was going after Big Pharma, supposedly.
	Also, he says we're tackling climate.
	Yay!
	Folks, are you excited?
	Because we have endless money, obviously.
	There's always more money.
	Look, the Inflation Reduction Act is also the most significant investment ever in climate change.
	Ever.
	Lower utility bill.
	Creating American jobs.
	Leading the world to a clean energy future.
	I've visited the devastating aftermath of record floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires.
	From Arizona to Mexico, all the way up to the Canadian border.
	More timber has been burned than I've observed from helicopters than the entire state of Missouri.
	And we don't have global warming?
	Not a problem.
	More timber has been bombed in the same city as I live in Canada.
	He is an amazing, amazing person.
	Amazing.
	More timber has been burned that I've observed from helicopters than the entire state of Missouri?
	How long was he on that helicopter for?
	Also, they're saying it's not global.
	Yes, I'm saying that's not global warming.
	They said that's really crappy forestry policy in the state of California, particularly.
	They left all of the dead brush out there to burn.
	This has been a longstanding problem in the state of California.
	But there you go.
	Joe Biden, he's an amazing dude.
	Also, we're going to be spending money on electric vehicle charging stations.
	So you're saying to yourself, I can't afford gas, and this doof wants to spend money to build electric vehicle charging stations to benefit people who can afford Teslas.
	Now listen, works for me, I own a Tesla.
	However, I'm not looking for a subsidy from the President of the United States on this What he's really attempting to do, of course, is to pay union members, right?
	All the unions.
	The most corrupt bargain in American politics that nobody talks about is the fact that public sector unions, working with the federal government, are constantly getting giveaways from the taxpayer and then negotiating with the very people they help elect.
	It is open corruption.
	And Joe Biden is one of the most corrupt people in American politics.
	So here he was last night bragging about how it is vital that we create 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations that you cannot plug your car into because if you're like most Americans, you don't have an electric car.
	But we will be paying a bunch of union members who will then spend their union dues on reelecting Joe Biden.
	We're going to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations installed across the country by tens of thousands of IBW workers.
	We're helping families save more than $1,000 a year with tax credits to purchase electric vehicles and efficient appliances, energy efficient appliances.
	So I'm just going to remind you, he says he's going to give you back $1,000 a year on your electric car.
	The base price for certain models of Tesla is $94,000.
	The Model S is $95,000.
	$4,000. The Model S is $95,000. The Model Y, I'm looking at their website right now, is $55,000, the Model Y. So, yeah, I mean, that's great, Joe.
	I'm excited.
	Just very, very exciting stuff there from the president of the United States.
	The Model 3 is $54,000, but you can save $1,000 because Joe Biden is going to give you a tax credit.
	And all of this ties into the climate crisis.
	Again, the government always needs a new crisis.
	So COVID is not a crisis anymore, according to the President of the United States.
	Sure, he is still using that as leverage in order to try to relieve student loan debt unconstitutionally, but it's not a crisis anymore.
	We need a new crisis.
	The new crisis, of course, is going to be that it's warm outside, guys, and it's going to get a little warmer over the course of the next hundred years.
	So you should freak out.
	Freak out, everybody.
	Here is Joseph R. Biden.
	Climate crisis doesn't care if you're in a red or blue state.
	It's an existential threat.
	We have an obligation, not to ourselves, but to our children and grandchildren to confront it.
	I'm proud of how America, at last, is stepping up to the challenge.
	We're still going to need oil and gas for a while.
	But guess what?
	No, we do.
	But there's so much more to do.
	We're going to need oil and gas for a little while.
	This line would come back to bite him later in the speech, in one of the most hilarious and dramatic moments of the speech.
	We'll get to that momentarily.
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	Okay, so...
	Joe Biden gets through his climate change, big spending nonsense, and then he gets to taxes.
	So how's he going to pay for all this?
	The answer, of course, is that he's going to yell at the rich people again and pretend they don't pay their fair share of taxes.
	Now, let me explain to you.
	Rich people don't only pay their fair share of taxes.
	They pay literally everyone's taxes.
	57% of households in the United States pay no income tax.
	That does not sound fair to me.
	I have been at nearly every income bracket in American public life.
	And I can tell you this, I pay way the hell more taxes now than I did 15 years ago when I was in a much lower income tax bracket.
	Joe Biden proclaiming that people who are wealthy don't pay their fair share is sort of like proclaiming that the morbidly obese do not pay their fair share in terms of food.
	They really, really do.
	Okay, it turns out that the people who earn the most also pay the most in taxes, and they pay a disproportionate share in taxes.
	The percentage of money that the most wealthy in our society own compared to the amount of taxes that they pay.
	When you're talking about earned income, we're not talking about their assets that they already paid taxes on and then translate into real estate or stock or something.
	Wildly disproportionate.
	They pay more than they actually earn in terms of percentage taxes versus percentage of the income earned from the economy.
	But he's going to keep proclaiming forever and always that the rich aren't paying their fair share because if Joe Biden never told the truth about taxes, which is to pay for all of his garbage, you, like the normal middle class person, or you, the person at the bottom end of the spectrum, you're going to have to increase your taxes.
	If he ever said that, everybody would immediately dismiss him.
	By the way, the only person in American public life who's actually honest enough to say this on the left is Bernie Sanders.
	Bernie will be like, yeah, it's true.
	We're going to have to tax you.
	You'll make $30,000 a year.
	We need a 60% tax rate on you.
	It's the only way we can pay for all this.
	At least he's honest.
	Joe Biden's a liar, so here we go.
	No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a school teacher or firefighter.
	I mean it.
	Think about it.
	Think about it.
	No, no, no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a school teacher.
	No billionaire is paying a lower tax rate than a school teacher or firefighter.
	You're categorizing the income differently.
	They're billionaires who don't actually earn an income.
	They put all their money in their assets.
	Those assets, things like their stock, they're not actually earning money from the stock.
	The stock has not been sold, so the capital gain has not been realized.
	When it is, they will pay a capital gains tax.
	And he said last night, quote, I think a lot of you at home agree with me, our present tax system is simply unfair.
	Well, I agree with you on that.
	He says, the idea that in 2020, 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes, that's simply not fair.
	What metrics are you using?
	A increased stock price does not mean that they realized a profit.
	That is not the same thing.
	It's all ridiculous.
	And I think the most ridiculous thing, and this is really funny, is he started ripping on Big Oil, and then he got caught in the middle of one of his lies, like literally in the middle of the speech.
	And this is where the speech started to get actually mildly interesting and spicy.
	And this is because members of the crowd started laughing at him.
	He started to sort of play with the crowd.
	So the Republicans in the audience, Kevin McCarthy had told them beforehand, shut up, like don't do this.
	And many of them simply ignored him.
	And the reason that many of them simply ignored him is because the Republicans have a serious collective action problem, obviously.
	The incentives are misaligned.
	Democrats would like for Republicans to yell during the State of the Union address, specifically so that the media can claim that Joe Biden and Democrats are being victimized by the evil, terrible, out-of-control Republicans.
	This is one of their narratives.
	They can't really run on their amazing records.
	What they're going to run on is Republicans are out of control and crazy.
	So Democrats would like for Republicans to yell at them.
	Republicans, like Ken McCarthy would like for Republicans not to yell at Joe Biden because they figure, okay, it's just a speech.
	It'll be over in an hour and then everyone will forget about it.
	But Joe Biden will be able to cut commercials off of yelling Republicans for a while.
	But if you are a Republican congressperson, the way that you get more famous and the way that you raise more money is by being the person who yells at Joe Biden during a speech.
	So you have a serious collective action problem inside the Republican Party, where you have certain people for whom it is in their interest to yell at Joe Biden, and then the general party not super interested in yelling at Joe Biden.
	There was some of that last night.
	For my part, I don't care if anybody yells at Joe Biden.
	I really don't.
	I think our whole State of the Union malarkey, as Joe Biden might put it, our whole sort of pomp and circumstance, you can never say a word as the president spews lies over and over and over.
	I think it's stupid.
	I'd rather have this be like parliamentary question time in the UK where everybody just yells at the Prime Minister.
	It would be much more interesting and satisfying, frankly.
	But we did get a little bit of that last night.
	So here was Joe Biden going after big oil and then tacitly admitting the reason why the oil companies are not building new refineries is because of him.
	Have you noticed big oil just reported its profits, record profits?
	Last year they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis.
	I think it's outrageous.
	Why?
	They invested too little of that profit to increase domestic production.
	And when I talked to a couple of them, they said, we're afraid you're going to shut down all the oil refineries anyway, so why should we invest in them?
	I said, we're going to need oil for at least another decade.
	And that's going to exceed and beyond that.
	We're going to need it.
	And everybody laughs at him.
	All the Republicans laugh at him.
	Like, open laughter.
	Because, you know how long it takes to build an oil refinery?
	And license an oil refinery?
	So what?
	You're supposed to sink hundreds of millions of dollars into building oil refineries that'll take seven years to build, and then, three years later, your friends are gonna shut it down?
	First of all, we're gonna need oil a lot longer than that.
	This is just stupid.
	But, when Joe Biden says things like this, he's admitting the reason that they're not doing the thing is because of him.
	But he's a doddering fool, so of course he's admitting that.
	Okay, then the lies just continue to pace.
	His fiscal lies.
	He suggested that his administration has cut the deficit.
	This is not true.
	It is not true by any stretch of the imagination.
	In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than 1.7 trillion dollars.
	No, it has not.
	The largest deficit reduction in American history.
	No.
	Under the previous administration, The American deficit went up four years in a row.
	OK, the deficit went up in absolute terms, meaning that the debt went up.
	OK, here's if you look at a chart of the American deficit, here's what it looks like year on year.
	So you go from like 2016 to that 2012.
	It goes like this.
	Right, steps up, up, up, up, up.
	Then in 2020, because of COVID, it jumps really, really high because everybody just blew out the spending.
	And in 2021, when this duke took office, it went down a little bit from 2020, but it was still record highs in terms of the amount of debt that we were racking up.
	And then in 2022, it went down from 2021, but it was still way higher than the deficit was in, say, 2019.
	Right, if you actually just remove 2020 and 2021, the COVID years, it is the highest deficit we have ever run.
	But he's saying it's a reduction because we didn't spend as much as we did in 2020-2021, when COVID was a thing.
	So it's just, it's lying with statistics.
	And as a famous person once said, there are lies, there are damn lies in their statistics, and Joe Biden is fluent in all three of those things.
	And this all led the way for he wants to spend as much money as you can possibly spend without any fight on the deficit ceiling.
	This is what he wants.
	And this led him to lie about things.
	I mean, open lies.
	And again, this is where it started to get kind of spicy in the room.
	Republicans were yelling at him because he was accusing them of a thing they are not going to do.
	Namely, negotiate over Social Security and Medicare over the debt ceiling.
	They're not doing this.
	Kevin McCarthy has already said they're not doing this.
	But Joe Biden lied about it in the room.
	Then he had to walk back his lies in real time because he was lying in the room.
	Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage.
	I get it.
	Unless I agree to their economic plans.
	All of you at home should know what those plans are.
	Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.
	I'm not saying it's the majority.
	Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office.
	I'll give you a copy.
	I'll give you a copy of the proposal.
	That means Congress doesn't vote.
	Well, I'm glad to see you.
	I tell you, I enjoy conversion.
	You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away.
	Other Republicans say, I'm not saying it's the majority of you.
	I don't even think it's even a significant...
	But it's being proposed by individuals.
	I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you.
	Look, folks, the idea is that we're not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don't respond.
	So, folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now.
	Everybody said that Social Security and Medicare was not going to be part of the debt ceiling negotiation.
	Now, I will point out here that we are cruising for a bruising on Social Security and Medicare.
	And this is the highest form of demagoguery.
	The easiest thing in American public life, seriously, for a politician is to say I'm not going to touch this massive entitlement program that will bankrupt the country.
	And if you do touch it, then you should be politically electrocuted.
	There's a reason why entitlement programs have long been considered the third rail of American politics.
	But let me just remind you that if Social Security and Medicare are not reformed, Brian Reidel from the Manhattan Institute points this out.
	There will be a 15.3% payroll tax rising to 25% plus a value-added tax rising to 20% over the next few decades.
	That's what it would take to pay for the Congressional Budget Office's rosiest scenario.
	So a vast tax increase.
	There will be cuts in benefits.
	There will be changes in the retirement age.
	All those things are going to happen simply because circumstance will dictate that those things happen.
	But everybody in the room is going to cheer for themselves right now because nobody actually has the stones to do the hard thing.
	Now, should Republicans negotiate with Joe Biden over this?
	Of course they should not because it's not going to happen.
	It would be stupid politics to do that.
	But Joe Biden is lying.
	I mean, when he says that there's a widespread Republican sentiment that they're going to sunset Medicare or Social Security for the debt ceiling negotiations, he is just lying to you.
	It is not true.
	And so when everybody yells at him, Republicans are getting a lot of flack for this.
	But Joe Biden had to walk it back in real time.
	So at least credit to those Republicans for doing that much.
	As we'll see, it got a little bit worse later.
	They were yelling at him about fentanyl and blaming him for deaths on fentanyl.
	I don't think that's smart politics.
	Again, I don't care if people yell at Joe Biden during a speech.
	I'm fine with politicians taking it right on the chin from each other.
	In fact, more.
	I like more of that.
	But in terms of sort of the smart politics of it, not super smart.
	We'll get to that in a moment.
	Plus, we'll get to Joe Biden, who apparently cares a lot about baggage fees, but not so much about the rising threat of China.
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	Okay, so once Joe Biden got past the debt ceiling stuff, we got sort of a grab bag of policies.
	And this is what most State of the Union addresses turn into, to be fair to our no-longer-with-it presidents of the United States.
	It just turned into him picking random apples off the policy tree.
	So he spent a bizarre amount of time on junk fees.
	He spent more time on junk fees, like baggage fees from your airline.
	He spent more time on that than he did on China, which seems like a misprioritization.
	I mean, I've noticed that he's spending an enormous amount of time on very small things and avoiding a lot of the big elephants in the room.
	So here he was yesterday going on and on about junk fees, which is a weird speech.
	You got an old dementia ridden human being yelling at you about junk fees and baggage fees.
	If I wanted to listen to my grandfather shout about baggage fees, I could just go over to the local old age home.
	I mean, what in the world?
	I know how unfair it feels when a company overcharges you and gets away with it.
	Not anymore.
	We've written a bill to stop it all.
	It's called the Junk Fee Prevention Act.
	We're gonna ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill.
	Baggage fees are bad enough.
	Airlines can't treat your child like a piece of baggage.
	Americans are tired of being, we're tired of being played for suckers.
	We're tired of being blamed for suckers.
	They can't treat your child like a piece of baggage.
	You should kill your child in the womb.
	That's not bad.
	There's airlines, and they take your kids, and they put them in a suitcase.
	They throw them in the bottom of the airliners, bouncing around in there, and it's bad.
	They come out the other end, and baggage handler is sniffing your panties and sniffing your child, which is in your baggage.
	We don't get a lot of that anymore.
	Junk-free prevention moogle.
	Yeah!
	And Kamala Harris is like, yes, Mr. President.
	Yes, it's yes.
	And then he paid homage to the greatest doctor of all and the true president of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden.
	How dare you suggest she's not a real doctor?
	She's the most doctor-y doctor who ever doctored.
	I mean, sure, she can't actually do anything if you're sick, but here we go.
	Jill, my wife, who teaches full-time.
	No, she doesn't.
	Has an expression.
	Hope I get it right, kid.
	Any nation that out-educates us is going to out-compete us.
	Any nation that out-educates is going to out-compete us.
	Folks, we all know 12 years of education is not enough to win the economic competition of the 21st century.
	We want to have the best educated workforce.
	Let's finish the job by providing access to preschool for 3 and 4 years old.
	Yes, amazing idea.
	Our education system is garbage from K through 12.
	Let's add two more years of garbage education.
	And let's mess up all of our higher education as well by forcing equity on them.
	Great idea, Joe.
	Genius stuff.
	And of course, we have money for this.
	There's always money for this.
	He got to COVID as well.
	And again, it is amazing to me how he treats COVID as a magical thing that just sort of happened to his administration, as opposed to him botching nearly every area of COVID policy.
	It is policy to botch.
	Here we go with him ignoring the fact that he is not responsible for any of the things he is about to say that are good.
	And he is responsible for most of the things he's about to say that are bad.
	In the midst of the COVID crisis, when schools were closed.
	Why were they closed?
	And we were shutting down everything.
	Let's recognize how far we came in the fight against the pandemic itself.
	While the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people and the ingenuity of medicine, we've broken the COVID grip on us.
	COVID deaths are down by 90%.
	We've saved millions of lives and opened up We opened our country back up, and soon we'll end the public health emergency.
	You didn't open the country back up.
	It took you until, like, May of this year to declare the public health emergency over.
	If it had been up to them, they would have kept the country shut down pretty much forever.
	It was only when the eventuality of Americans being sick of staying in their homes began to rear its ugly head that Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats had to actually toe the line.
	He also blamed, by the way, COVID for the spike in violent crime.
	It had nothing to do with his entire party embracing the idea that the police are evil.
	And as we'll get to in just a moment, he actually once again embraced the idea that police are evil.
	Apparently it was just COVID.
	When a virus hits, people just go and murder people.
	Did you know that?
	It has nothing to do with bad government policy.
	It has nothing to do with allowing rioters to run amok in the streets in the name of quote-unquote racial justice.
	It has to do with people getting sick and dying of COVID when they're 80 years old.
	Now, I know that you might be missing the correlation here, like any rational human being.
	Joe Biden isn't missing the correlation.
	According to him, crime spiked in 2020 because of COVID.
	It had nothing to do with giant protests that enervated police departments around the country and led to a massive spike in murder rates that continued into 2021 and 2022 under his presidency.
	COVID left its scars, like the spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.
	We have an obligation to make sure all people are safe.
	Public safety depends on public trust, as all of us know.
	But too often, that trust is violated.
	Okay, so according to Joe Biden, it was all COVID policy that led to the spike in crime.
	Had nothing to do with the anti-police stuff that he's been pushing.
	By the way, he did push a bunch of anti-police stuff last night.
	He had the Tyree Nichols family join him at the State of the Union.
	Again, one of the things I hate most about the State of the Union is it was started by Ronald Reagan.
	At the time, it was supposed to be sort of a fresh thing to spice up the State of the Union address, which is he would call up to the balcony and be like, Give a hand to Bob.
	Bob's great.
	I mean, Bob started his own small business and he's doing an amazing job.
	Hand for Bob!
	Everyone would cheer.
	It was great.
	And now, it's let me bring my litany of victims who I can use as props for my political point of view.
	So you brought the family of Tyree Nichols, a black man killed in a confrontation.
	And when I say confrontation, I mean they were literally holding his hands behind his back and punching him by five black police officers.
	But according to Joe Biden, that's about race.
	Of course, of course.
	Because it is always about race.
	It does not matter that this story is not a racial story.
	It is a race story, according to Joe Biden.
	And it's also a racial police story, according to Joe Biden.
	The police are bad.
	The police are a problem.
	The police need to be blamed, broad writ, for bad actions by certain people in certain cities.
	That's what needs to happen.
	Also, it's COVID's fault that the crime rate is going up.
	Here was Joe Biden, who was taking advantage of the truly tragic death of a person, Beat to death, it seems, by the cops, to pretend that it's all about racism.
	And then give us the talk.
	Join us tonight are the parents of Tyree Nichols.
	Welcome.
	We had to bury Tyree last week.
	As many of you personally know, there's no word to describe the heartache or grief of losing a child.
	But imagine, imagine if you lost that child at the hands of the law.
	Imagine having to worry whether your son or daughter came home from walking down the street, playing in the park, or just driving a car.
	That's what happens when cops shoot people randomly.
	I've never had to have the talk.
	The talk that brown and black parents have had to have with their children.
	Beau, Hunter, Ashton, my children.
	I never had to have the talk with them.
	I never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away.
	Don't reach for your license.
	Keep your hands on the steering wheel.
	The police are all racist, guys.
	Imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got in a car.
	Okay, there are 40 million black Americans in this country.
	And the number of black Americans who are shot while unarmed in the United States every year is maybe two dozen on the high end.
	If you are deeply worried every time you get in a car that you're going to get shot by a cop, you are misprioritizing your worries.
	You are statistically inaccurate in your worries.
	By the way, I was under the impression that pretty much everybody like in driver's ed is told how to handle it when a cop pulls you over.
	You keep your hands on the steering wheel.
	You don't reach for the glove compartment because there might be a gun in there and cops have to be on their guard, for example.
	I was given that talk by my parents and I was like a middle to upper middle class Jewish kid.
	In any case, the notion that this has no impact on crime rates, when you just rip the cops, broadly speaking, and you keep suggesting that the mistrust between populations and the cops is justified, is of course wrong and bad, but Joe Biden did that last night.
	He did tend to backload in this speech, I will say, the more controversial portions of the speech.
	He filled up the middle of the speech with all this garbage about junk fees and resort fees, because I know that's top of mind for you, is that resort fee that you were charged on the vacation you couldn't go to this year because of his inflation.
	But he backloaded a bunch of the more controversial stuff he called for gun control.
	When he got to the border, then we got another one of these confrontations between Joe Biden and the rest of Congress.
	So here he was complaining about border policy and suggesting the only way to solve the border policy is for mass legalization of illegal immigrants to take place, which of course is not really the problem.
	The big problem is that you left the border wide open, you doof.
	But American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts.
	If we don't pass my comprehensive immigration reform, we at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border.
	And a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, those on temporary status, farm workers, essential workers.
	By the way, if Joe Biden put up a bill tomorrow to fund the Border Patrol, that would pass unanimously if Democrats could get off their hands.
	But of course, that's not what he's proposing at all.
	During this portion of the speech, by the way, Joe Biden also started talking about, you know, deaths from fentanyl.
	And he was yelled at for that.
	He was yelled at because Republicans are like, dude, when you're talking about deaths from fentanyl, that's because of your border policy.
	Deaths from fentanyl have spiked because you left a wide open border and you have drug mules who are packing that stuff across the border.
	So this was a moment where a couple Republicans yelled at him, suggesting that a specific fentanyl death, Joe Biden is to blame for that.
	I'm not a huge fan of that kind of politics because I don't think that you can link any single death to the policies of the President of the United States.
	However, if you're saying that the increase in fentanyl overdoses in the United States is due in large part to his border policies, that part's true.
	Here is Joe Biden on fentanyl and Republicans yelling at him.
	Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.
	They're shouting border.
	You got it.
	It's your fault.
	Somebody shouted, it's your fault.
	Well, I mean, that part is true.
	I mean, if you leave the border wide open and then fentanyl is pouring across it, it is kind of your fault.
	I've noticed that this border crisis has not existed under any other president to this magnitude.
	The media, as we'll see, were very exercised about this part, where Republicans got mad and yelled it at Joe Biden.
	Okay, but the biggest applause line of the night, if you were a Democrat, came when he said he wants to kill more babies.
	There's so much grandstanding in these State of the Union addresses, it really is pathetic.
	Part of that grandstanding involves claiming that Republicans are going to pass a bill to ban all abortions in the United States in a Congress where they do not control the Senate.
	And then they're going to send it to a Democratic president.
	It ain't gonna happen.
	Joe Biden grandstanded on it, of course.
	Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v. Wade and protect Roe v. Wade.
	Give every woman a constant right.
	The Vice President and I are doing everything to protect access to reproductive health care and safeguard patient safety.
	Yeah, that's wonderful.
	The biggest cheers of the night for more dead babies.
	Really solid stuff.
	Joe Biden also, again, he backloaded a lot of the controversial stuff, figuring people would tune out.
	But he also talked about the trans kids, right?
	Trans kids, they're everywhere.
	And it's all biological.
	It is not a social contagion in any way, shape, or form, despite the fact that pretty much all the trans kids are popping up in very blue enclaves, in very blue areas.
	Apparently, it's a problem affecting all of us.
	And if we can't trans the kids, man, what is America even for, says Joe Biden.
	Let's also pass the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.
	What is a transgender young person?
	Again, I want him to explain how a five-year-old is transgender.
	Please explain to me how a five-year-old boy is actually a girl.
	Explain the biology, Joe.
	Explain how it works.
	He can't, of course.
	It's all propagandistic nonsense.
	Okay, then he came to foreign policy.
	Don't worry, guys, we're getting close to the end, kind of.
	Kind of.
	He got to foreign policy.
	And this part was pretty galling, considering the fact that we spent the last week watching a giant Chinese spy balloon flow directly across the continental United States, like all the way from Montana, over the entire continental United States, across South Carolina, and then it gets shot down over the ocean.
	Joe Biden tried to play that as though he is doing an amazing job confronting China.
	Which would come as a shock to pretty much everyone who watched a giant Chinese spy balloon fly across the entirety of the continental United States while we did nothing about it.
	So here is Joe Biden, clip 28, talking about how the People's Republic of China is really on the run, which again, no, they are not.
	Before I came to office, the story was about how the People's Republic of China was increasing its power and America was failing in the world.
	Not anymore.
	We made clear, and I made clear in my personal conversations, which have been many, with President Xi, that we seek competition, not conflict.
	But make no mistake about it.
	As we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country, and we did.
	We were so strong, we shot down a balloon.
	A big ol' balloon.
	And then he started really shouting.
	Now, I don't know if the drugs finally kicked in and he took them too close to time and finally, like, or he got overstimulated by all the shiny lights that were in the room, or what exactly happened here.
	But he just started randomly yelling.
	It was super weird.
	Here was an old man yelling at clouds for you.
	Autocracy's grown weaker, not stronger.
	Name me a world leader who changed places with Xi Jinping.
	Name me one!
	Name me one!
	What?
	What?
	The actual F?
	Name?
	Name me one!
	Name me one!
	Do it!
	Wrong.
	Punch it in the mouth!
	Dog face punch!
	Name me one!
	Okay, so I could name you probably a hundred world leaders who would change places with Xi Jinping.
	He is, in fact, the dictatorial, authoritarian leader of a country with extraordinary world power, a huge economy, and a billion people over whom he presides.
	I could name you many world leaders who would change places with Xi Jinping.
	But Joe Biden is a weird old man.
	I mean, he's a really weird old guy.
	So, all right.
	Finally, we get to the conclusion of his speech.
	And the conclusion of his speech, this great unifying precedent, so unifying, so bipartisan, is you hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer, didn't you?
	It was you.
	Now, you may have thought that it was some weird homeless drunk guy who was a career nudist, high on drugs.
	And you may have thought, well, isn't the problem there that there's a huge crime and drug problem in Nancy Pelosi's city?
	Wrong you are.
	It was you.
	I don't know if you have an alibi for that night.
	I don't know what you thought you were having Dinner with your kids, putting them to bed, maybe doing a little bit of work, sitting on the TV watching some TV with the wife, sitting on the couch watching some TV with the wife.
	Yeah, that's what you thought you were doing that night.
	In actuality, you were breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home and hitting Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.
	You.
	Yes, you.
	And the reason you were doing it is because you voted for Trump, didn't you?
	You, you Trump voters, you MAGA MAGGOT MAGA MOOGA MAGA SUPER ULTRA MAGA DOOPER SUPER POOPER SCOOPER MAGA.
	It was you!
	You took a ball-peen hammer and you smashed old Paul directly in the grave.
	Like, what is this?
	What is this?
	So he gets to the end of the speech, and after being like, I'm bipartisan, we all work together to spend more money than God has ever created, because that's the United States and the soul of America!
	And no!
	And he finishes up by explaining that you, yes, you, Bill, I'm talking to you right now, it was thee who smashed Paul Pelosi in the head.
	Oh, God, here we go.
	The last few years, our democracy has been threatened and attacked, put at risk, put to the test in this very room on January the 6th.
	And then, just a few months ago, an unhinged, big lie assailed and unleashed a political violence at the home of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, using the very same language the insurrectionists used as they stalked these halls and chanted on January 6th.
	Here tonight in this chamber is a man who bears the scars of that brutal attack, but is as tough and as strong and as resilient as they get.
	My friend, Paul Pelosi.
	Paul, stand up.
	So you thought you had nothing to do with that, and then it was a crazy guy, high on drugs, who hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.
	It turns out it was you.
	And also it was Donald Trump.
	Does Donald Trump actually have an alibi for that night?
	Or is a giant orange man smashing Paul Pelosi in the head with a ballpoint hammer?
	Is that what he's got?
	This is just shades of his Philadelphia speech, where democracy is a threat, which is why you have to leave the old man in charge, spend all the money, and take more authoritarian control over your daily life.
	That is the important thing.
	He concluded with a call for an end to political violence in the nation.
	No mention, by the way, of all the attacks on pro-life facilities all over the United States.
	No mention of the threats to the members of the Supreme Court, which were essentially greenlit by his own White House press secretary, who's like, oh, well, if people just protest outside the houses of Supreme Court justice, what could be the problem?
	No mention of any of that.
	He stands for peace and justice, does the President of the United States.
	We must all speak out.
	There's no place for political violence in America.
	We have to protect the right to vote, not suppress the fundamental right.
	Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people.
	We have to uphold the rule of law and restore trust in our institutions of democracy.
	We must give hate and extremism, in any form, no safe harbor.
	And Ilhan Omar is sitting there clapping.
	The hypocrisy, the gaslighting in these speeches is beyond compare.
	Okay.
	All of this brings us to our treasured media.
	So, you knew it was coming.
	The media declared this.
	You've heard a lot of the speech at this point, right?
	I've played you many minutes of this geriatric fool yelling at the clouds and at you and talking about junk fees and baggage fees and shooting down Chinese balloons and Paul Pelosi's head and all the rest of this.
	And did you find it inspiring?
	I mean, just straight up, Republican, Democrat, Independent.
	Did you listen to that?
	And you're like, my God, that man is a sterling orator.
	He's the modern day Demosthenes.
	He has all of the qualities of Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan.
	And Winston Churchill rolled into one in terms of his verbal approach.
	The dexterity, the fluency, just astonishing.
	Is that what you were thinking when you listened to this man slur one long word?
	Speak an entire speech as though he had potatoes that had been mashed in his mouth?
	As he babbled nonsensically and then had to back off his point in the middle of the speech?
	Is that what you got?
	Well, that's what our media got from him.
	Our media, who are high on their own farts, they locked themselves in the car and they farted their way through this entire speech.
	And then really enjoyed the smell.
	They were just gushing, just gushing.
	So over on CNN, Chris Wallace and Jake Tapper, they were like, this was an amazing speech.
	It was just, I mean, have you ever seen a speech like that?
	It was, it was incredible.
	It was inspiring.
	It was, it was just, it reminded you of the best of America.
	Saying the state of our union is strong, he was feisty, he was combative, at times even responsive to the crowd, his second State of the Union Address.
	The President was heckled quite often and quite rudely by many of the same House Republicans who made the Speaker's life so difficult a month ago when we were sitting here.
	And what everybody's going to remember, what all the clips are going to be tomorrow morning on the news, are of that moment when the president, I don't know that you could say he baited or provoked them, but he certainly was very happy when he got the response he got from Republicans.
	Oh, it was amazing.
	I mean, they were so rude.
	They were so terrible.
	So rude, so terrible.
	This man gave a speech in front of a blood-red Independence Hall declaring half the American population extremist enemies of the Republic.
	So forgive me if people saying that he was lying when he was lying does not get me exorcised.
	Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer said, it was the best speech I ever saw Joe Biden give.
	Now granted, that is a very low bar, but here is Wolf Blitzer.
	And we're up here on Capitol Hill right now.
	Casey Hunt and Caitlin Collins are with me.
	You know, Caitlin, I've heard President Biden, going back to his 36 years in the U.S.
	Senate, deliver a lot of speeches over the years.
	I've covered him for many, many years.
	I've gotten to know him a bit.
	I think this was the best speech I have ever heard him deliver.
	He was passionate.
	It was extremely well-written.
	He clearly had practiced it.
	And he delivered a powerful message to the American people.
	As Wolf Blitzer.
	So, you know, last night on our Backstage Live, we had a little hand puppet made from a paper bag of Joe Biden's face that we did some jokes with and I manipulated.
	And, you know, I had my hand in the paper bag.
	Well, I mean, that was unusual because normally it's the legacy media that has its head up Joe Biden's ass.
	And Wolf Blitzer really brought that energy.
	So did Joy Reid last night.
	Joy Reid was just gushing.
	She was like, oh, so inspiring.
	I have to say, these people are good actors.
	They're good at pretending.
	I could not pretend this way.
	I could certainly not pretend.
	If a Republican spoke this poorly, I could not pretend they did an amazing job.
	Here is Joe Biden's apparently greatest cheerleader, Joy Reid.
	It's literally brilliant speechcraft, honestly.
	Brilliant speechcraft.
	Brilliant.
	He uses Joe Biden's sort of natural pugnacious, sort of light-hearted pugnaciousness to his advantage and to their extreme disadvantage.
	The things they're howling at are not arguable.
	Rick Scott not only proposed sunsetting Social Security, he wrote it down and put it forward.
	Guys, he's the president.
	What did you think he was going to do?
	Start crying?
	He was like, don't write that down and publish it.
	But he was like, no, I'm going to go on Fox News and defend it.
	So he's right on the fact.
	He literally said, OK, fine, offer your plan.
	He starts riffing with them.
	And as you said, Chris, they're literally arguing with the only guy with a microphone.
	And he held that stage.
	This was Biden, I think, at his best.
	He was so good.
	I mean, he helped guys.
	He's the president.
	What did you think he was going to start crying, like run away?
	It was it was wow.
	It's a magic moment.
	Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow, who is back from, I don't even know where she's been, Rachel Maddow, or was she Chris Hayes?
	It's hard for me to tell.
	They live one pair of glasses on the desk over at MSNBC and then the various anchors trade them.
	Here is Rachel Maddow saying it was filled with pace and energy.
	That man had his insure today, did he?
	was long in word count, but it was delivered with a lot of energy and a lot of pace and a combativeness and sort of liveliness that I'm not sure that I've ever seen in this particular type of presidential address.
	Oh wow, I'm just inspiring.
	Are you inspired?
	You're feeling inspired?
	So the media today are going to be about how he's going to get a balance, get a big boost off of it.
	No, he won't.
	He won't.
	People seven minutes from now are not going to remember the State of the Union address.
	Now, what the media are really going to focus on are not, they're not going to focus on Biden's performance.
	They're going to focus on the pugnacity of his opposition.
	They're going to focus on the fact that Republicans were yelling at him.
	And so Joe Scarborough led the way this morning over on MSNBC.
	He was saying, Republicans are so terrible, they couldn't even stand up for how amazing Joe Biden is.
	They couldn't even.
	The dumbest game in the State of the Union politics is who stood up for what?
	Who cares?
	Cares!
	It's stupid!
	It's all stu- Joe Scarborough.
	And Republicans can't cheer about having the supply chain start in America.
	Republicans can't cheer, Gene, about bringing manufacturing jobs home.
	And the one that I thought was the craziest thing in the world was when Biden just set it up, like every great politician does.
	Let me tell you something.
	When things go bad in America, we come out of it stronger.
	And to hell with the rest of the world.
	They think we're weak.
	Let me tell you, American democracy is stronger and more resilient than ever.
	Boom.
	Everybody stands up.
	No, they don't.
	Republicans could not stand up for the greatness of America.
	They stayed seated.
	You're so boring.
	Meanwhile, CNN's Caitlin Collins, she says that she confronted a GOP representative on, do you think it was okay to yell at Joe Biden?
	I mean, that was, guys, we have to have civility.
	Civility is the thing.
	I mean, sure, he's calling you all essentially responsible for the attempted murder of the Speaker of the House's husband.
	But, I mean, you guys were yelling at him.
	The president was talking about fentanyl and what a problem that is in this country, which I think anyone would acknowledge.
	A Republican from Tennessee, one of your colleagues, Andy Ogles, shouted at the president after he was talking about a father whose daughter had died as a result of fentanyl, shouted, it's your fault, at the president.
	Say what you will about the heckling last night.
	Some people thought it was lively and added to it.
	But in that moment, was that appropriate?
	Was that appropriate?
	What I need to hear is about appropriateness from Caitlin Collins sitting next to Don Lemon, the least appropriate anchor in American public life.
	So, will there be any real fallout from this?
	Not really.
	Actually, the person who did the best last night was Sarah Huckabee Sanders, so her Republican response last night was actually quite good.
	It's very rare that you see a Republican response that's any good, and I thought that Sarah did actually a really nice job with the Republican response.
	And while you reap the consequences of their failures, the Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day.
	Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace.
	But we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn't start and never wanted to fight.
	Every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols.
	All while big government colludes with big tech to strip away the most American thing there is.
	Your freedom of speech.
	That's not normal.
	It's crazy.
	And it's wrong.
	Make no mistake.
	Republicans will not surrender this fight.
	We will lead with courage and do what's right, not what's politically correct or convenient.
	By the way, there is a new generation of Republican leaders who are rising, and they are going to be a real threat to Joe Biden and his Democratic dominance right now.
	It's going to be people like Sarah Sanders.
	It's going to be people like Ron DeSantis.
	It's going to be people like Tim Scott.
	There's a whole generation of new Republican leaders who are going to be much better at this than I think some of the older Republican leaders have been.
	Okay, I'm in a really bad mood, so we're not going to do any things that I like today.
	We're just going to do a few things that I hate.
	So, Thing I Hate No.
	1.
	So, my friend Joe Rogan yesterday, or a couple of days ago, he had on Sagar Anjani and Crystal Ball.
	They are the hosts of Breaking Points, which is a political podcast, which is a fun listen.
	It's an interesting work to listen.
	Crystal Ball was doing a full-scale defense of Ilhan Omar being a raging Jew-hater.
	And Joe Rogan, being Joe, was riffing.
	And as he was riffing, he just sort of dumped out an idea about Jews that is At the very least, not good.
	Because I'm friends with Joe, I'm going to chalk this up to Joe just riffing.
	There are a couple of ways to interpret what he is saying right here.
	Suffice it to say that the meme that Jews are into money, like disproportionately into money, like Jews love the money, that is anti-Semitic.
	Okay, if you say Jews love money more than other people love money, I'm going to need some evidence on that score, number one.
	Number two, It is, in fact, an anti-Jewish statement to suggest that Jews have a particular love for the mullah because they are corrupt or terrible or whatever.
	That all ties into... So, here was the bit that went viral yesterday from Joe's show.
	...next to Ilyan Omar, where she's apologizing for talking about it's all about the Benjamins.
	Yeah.
	Which is just about money.
	She's talking about money.
	She shouldn't have apologized.
	I mean, I'll go ahead and say it.
	That's not an anti-Semitic statement.
	I don't think that is.
	It's about, the Benjamins are money.
	You know, the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous.
	Listen.
	That's like saying Italians aren't into pizza.
	It's f***ing stupid.
	Listen.
	Okay, so there are a couple ways to read that, right?
	One is the anti-Semitic way, which is Jews are disproportionately into money, right?
	And the Italians are into pizza, like, Italians are disproportionately into pizza, Jews are into money, or Italians invented pizza, Jews invented money, like, the Jews are in control of world finance.
	That's one way to read it.
	The other way to read that is that what he is saying is that Jews like money like everybody else likes money, Italians like pizza like everybody else likes pizza.
	Okay, that is one way to read it.
	I'll leave it up to you which one you think is more accurate.
	However, to pretend that that's actually what Ilhan Omar was saying it's not true, okay?
	Ilhan Omar, when she said it's all about the Benjamins, she was specifically referring to American support for Israel and the suggestion was that AIPAC was paying members of Congress using Jew money in order to get people to support Israel.
	That was the suggestion from the all about the Benjamins tweet.
	Okay, so this obviously has gone viral.
	I know Joe well.
	Joe's not an anti-Semite.
	That statement is not good.
	And, you know, I assume that if I called Joe up, he would say that he meant the second thing, not the first thing.
	That's what I will assume from that.
	Because, again, I know Joe.
	Okay.
	Other things that I hate.
	So there's been this story about a Twitch star who apparently was now being, her face was essentially grafted onto AI pornography.
	So as a not fan of pornography, as a person who thinks that pornography is one of the scourges of Western public life, I have a lot of sympathy for this person.
	So her name is QT Cinderella, that's what she calls herself.
	Her real name is Blair.
	And she was a victim of deepfake porn.
	So people pasted her face onto a pre-existing adult video to make it look like she was appearing in the pornography.
	And people were making fun of her because she was emotional about this.
	Here is what she sounded like.
	If you are able to look at women who are not selling themselves or benefiting off of being seen sexually, they're not benefiting, they're not selling it, they're not platforming it themselves.
	If you are able to look at that, You are the problem.
	You see women as an object.
	You should not be okay doing that.
	And it should not be a part of my job to have to pay money to get this stuff taken down.
	It should not be part of my job to be harassed, to see pictures of me nude spread around.
	It should not be something that is found on the internet.
	It shouldn't be.
	That shouldn't be a part of my job.
	And the fact that it is, is exhausting.
	And to the person that made that website, I'm going to f***ing sue you.
	This is what it looks like to feel violated.
	This is what it looks like to feel taken advantage of.
	Okay, so people are making fun of her.
	I saw some on the right, some on the left, people making fun of her.
	My sympathies are all with her.
	Yes, she was exploited.
	Yes, she was violated.
	Yes, there is something deeply wrong with taking a person's face and posting it on another person's naked body and then pretending that person engaged in pornography.
	But there is something that our culture refuses to say here, and that is that pornography is bad.
	It is bad for the person who is actively consenting to the pornography.
	It's bad for the person who is utilizing the pornography.
	It's bad for the person like this person who is caught apparently in the crossfire having nothing to do with pornography.
	But you can say it is bad for people to make pornography and to consume pornography.
	It's okay to say that.
	On a moral level, it is a bad thing.
	Pornography is not a net positive for society.
	It is not a net neutral for society.
	It teaches men to treat women as sex objects.
	Obviously, this is the case.
	And whether women consent to it or not, it is still wrong, by the way.
	It's particularly wrong for her because she says, I didn't even consent to be part of this and now you're treating me as a sex object by pasting my face onto nudes of somebody else.
	And she's totally right about that.
	But we can also add, That even if she had consented to it, which she did not, it would still be wrong.
	It is bad for the soul.
	Human beings are not supposed to see each other that way, ideally, which is why we used to confine sexual activity to marriage and commitment and love.
	And now we no longer do.
	And the wages of that are an incredibly destructive culture that catches innocent people, like this person, in the crossfire.
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