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Feb. 8, 2023 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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The State Of The Union Watch Along - Reality Rants With Jason Bermas
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We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad, worse than bad.
They're crazy. Silence!
The great and powerful Oz knows why you have come.
You've got to say, I'm a human being!
Goddammit! My life has value!
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!
Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men.
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
Yeah, thank you. You're beautiful.
I love you. Yes.
You're beautiful.
Thank you.
Ha ha.
It's show time!
And now, Reality Rant with Jason Burmess.
And who loves you?
And who do you love?
Boom! We're here, and they're bringing in Zombie J as we speak.
This is the watch-along.
There's great people coming down the aisles, like Tony Blinken, huh?
And let's get the volume up.
We're doing it. We're doing it live.
Let me know how the levels are, guys.
Hopefully you can hear me over the clapping.
Oh, there's Jenny Yellen!
She's done great things for her economy.
You're going to hear some great stuff.
We're going to hear it.
Here we come. Yeah!
Merrick Garland coming down the line.
He's a great person. Woo!
Johnny Nonsense in the house.
Johnny Nonsense in the house.
Let's thumbs this up.
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Oh, there's the bootlicker himself.
Pete Buttigieg.
There he is. Pete Buttigieg.
Everybody loves him. Kamala Embarris.
She's been talking it up with McCartney for some time now.
This is it. It's no holds barred.
I'm going to try not to chime in as much as possible.
Just give you the gravy, the biscuits, the wheels.
Personally, I'd love to be on a gravy train with biscuit wheels, but you're watching Criminals Incorporated make their way down the aisle in their nice little smiles and their nice little suits.
This is it! These are nothing more than mid-level minions.
These are bureaucrats that have risen to the top because they will shake any hand, take any donation, and lead you down any agenda, whether or not it's actually good for the country, or it's really on behalf of what a global Collectivist agenda.
All the way down the line to regiment.
Every single thing you do.
Everything. Everything.
Track trace database on steroids, under the skin, internet of body style.
We are here live.
We went live a little early.
You know, Dr.
Jill Biden. The doctor was in and I was just like, you know what?
Let's do it.
We don't... There it is.
Kristen Sinema, huh?
Kristen Sinema, folks.
It looks like she's at the prom.
Or not quite the prom, maybe a winner ball.
She's the hot new independent.
Hot new independent on the circuit after being won.
Picked by Bilderberg this year.
Gonna bridge the gap.
Right? We're going to try to make that person into a superstar.
Watch that person be a dark horse for who they try to install next.
No one's really disgust her.
Kind of had this quiet rise.
Checks a lot of boxes.
You know what I'm saying? Come on.
Here we go. Oh man, everybody's so happy.
By the way, we've got a crew down the way.
You could bet that.
You got Paul Pelosi in the house.
And by the way, attack on Paul Pelosi, horrendous.
No one's endorsing that.
Clearly that man was mentally ill.
But we've already discussed that in length for a numerous amount of reasons.
I've said this, crazy exists.
And you gotta wonder not only what medications that guy might have been on, but other types of drugs as well.
We're not gonna take them out of the mix.
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By the way, periodically, guys, we will go to your chats.
How about that? So throw in what you think is going on.
Let's actually go to some chats right now while we're waiting.
They're there, and then there's your chats.
Look at that! Burma's Zoom, man!
God bless you, brother. God bless you.
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Got a few coffees today. I want to reach out and thank those that are supporting that way.
Obviously, the Rockfin stuff.
Rockfin stuff, you know, we're still putting stuff on Rockfin that you're really not seeing anywhere else, including the Making of the Nonsense and the Madness stuff.
I'm doing that tomorrow as well.
I'm going to put up some past episodes of that that haven't made their way over there.
Also, the stuff that's too spicy for YouTube.
Hopefully, hopefully the State of the Union's not going to be too spicy for YouTube.
Right? We're hearing the crowd in the backdrop.
Steady Hoyer I'm looking at right now.
Janet Yellen is tiny.
Boo Boo. Hello, coming from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
What's this one? What's this right here?
Wear yellow banana cinema.
Yep. Very banana yellow.
I like that yellow. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know why you wear it.
I do know why you wear it at the state of the UK, right?
You're a brand now.
The Purple Party. Y'all, please check out Shredding the Absolute Takedown of Elon Musk by Jason Burmas, Ryan Christian, Whitney Webb, James Corbett, and Derek Rose, who's incredibly valuable and entertaining.
I'm glad that you were entertained.
That's something that there's a piece of on YouTube, but there you go.
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Don't worry. We're going to let Zombie J try to speak.
You gotta wonder what they've got him on right now.
I'm sure he's on all sorts of vitamins.
Vitamins. We get a hundred thumbs up.
Come on, we're moving this along. We're gonna try to make this as entertaining and as non painful as possible.
We got more people coming down the aisle here.
Oh, is that the gavel?
Are we ready to go?
Yes, we are. There he is.
There's the man himself. Let's get started.
the President of the United States!
Oh man, they got a lot of spray-on makeup on him, man.
They got a ton. Oh, here it comes.
It's Handshake Gel. We're not giving him a wide berth, by the way.
They're going to make sure he's going to be able to walk down, not fall down.
They're trying. Look at that.
Literally half a step away every time.
Look at this guy. Half a step away.
Remember, he can't fall.
He's not allowed to fall.
You can't have him fall.
Anything but falling. Oh, boy.
I mean, I want to say, there's Schumer, huh?
Schum, Schum. Chuckie Schumer.
Oh, there he is. Oh, he's getting a little kiss.
He wants to get in there. How you doing, darling?
Hey, Uncle Joe's back.
Uncle Joe's in the house.
Here we go. It's the State of the Union.
Get those thumbs up, everybody.
Thumbs it up, subscribe, and share.
Oh yeah. Oh boy, how you doing?
Yeah, there we go. That's a very, very, very, very, very dangerous man.
And at one point, he was extremely capable and corrupt as Joey B the gangster.
I do like McCarthy's face.
I'll give him that. I'll give him that.
That is right. I'm looking into the thing.
And Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Is that ever going to get old?
I don't think it can. I think it's relevant.
I think it's something we should probably discuss.
Apparently corn poppies wasn't very good.
So they're still leaving them.
So they're still leaving them.
They're only about half a step away.
There's some sparklers.
I don't know if that gives cinema a run for her money, but maybe a little bit, huh?
There it goes. I mean, just think about it, guys.
These are the people that are supposed to represent America.
We want to talk about, quote-unquote, perversing.
Look how old these mother truckers are.
Seriously, take a look around.
I don't care what color they are, etc.
etc. Look how old they are.
So disconnected.
And that's not to pick on my elderly audience.
But look at these people.
Talk about out of touch.
What, there's no capable 30 to 45 year olds?
Or just a handful of them?
They're the up and comers at the party?
I mean, my God! Here's Kavanaugh.
There's the protege of Karl Rove himself!
Hard time!
Hard time!
By the way, the links are down below.
We're live, 8 a.m.
Monday through Thursday. I think the shows have been powerful.
I think last night's Extra, which wasn't really mixed martial mindset because John was away, we've got to talk about when works.
I'd almost like to do like a Thursday or Friday show with John.
That way, we could lay down a lot more MMA. And take some picks.
Maybe even do some real-time wagering.
No, that's the new thing.
All right. That's right.
81! He's the 81 million vote man!
There he is! Yeah!
Party time Joe. Joey B back in the house.
This ain't your grandpappy's, Joey B. This is Xanazamajay.
I mean, like I said, straight from the nap.
They got him right on the toilet beforehand.
Showered him up. Sprayed it all together.
Gave him his vitamins.
Hey, congratulations, Kevin.
It's great to see you. It's great to see you, Kevin.
Let's do it. Yeah, here we go.
State of the Union! Oh boy.
Go get him, Joe!
The cartoon we live in is about to begin, folks.
Buckle up. Up!
Up! It's frozen!
It's frozen. Of course it's frozen.
I need you to thumbs it up, subscribe, and share, everybody.
Don't worry. We're going to make sure that we, in fact, do get back on this immediately.
Okay? Up!
And man, down!
But that's okay. We've got...
A backup. Thumbs it up.
Subscribe and share.
I promise we will not be missing any of the Joey B. We're gonna get it.
We're gonna do it. We got it.
Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, our first lady and second gentleman.
Good to see you guys up there.
Members of Congress.
Applause.
Well, there's Pelosi.
Not quite the high definition we had.
By the way, Chief Justice, I may need a court order.
She gets to go to the game next week.
I have to stay home.
Got to work something out here.
Members of the cabinet, leaders of our military, Chief Justice, Associate Justice, and retired Justice of the Supreme Court, and to you, my fellow Americans.
You know, I start tonight by congratulating 118th Congress and the new Speaker of the
House, Kevin McCarthy.
We're going with this one, folks.
Get that one out.
We're bringing it back. Everybody's so happy.
He loves McCarthy. Isn't that great?
Boom.
Oh, it's raucous.
Speaker, I don't want to ruin your reputation, but I look forward to working with you.
laughter you
I want to congratulate the new leader of the House Democrats, the first African-American
minority leader in history, Hakeem Jeffries.
Oh, they got him hyped up.
Thank you.
He's already strung a couple stances together, guys.
It's happening. He won in spite of the fact that I campaigned for him.
Congratulations to the longest serving leader in the history of the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell.
Warrior Mitch. Yeah, get them out.
These people, get all those guys out of there.
You know, another term as Senate Minority Leader, you know, I think you, this time you have a slightly bigger majority, Mr.
Leader, and you're a majority leader.
About that much bigger?
Well, I tell you what.
I want to give special recognition to someone who I think is going to be considered the greatest speaker in the history of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
What planet are we on?
Recognized as the greatest speaker of all time, Nancy the Pelosi.
Does anybody believe that?
I mean, does anybody believe that?
The story of America is a story of progress and resilience, of always moving forward, of never ever giving up.
It's a story unique among all nations.
We're the only country that has emerged from every crisis we've ever entered stronger than we got into it.
Why? Look, folks, that's what we're doing again.
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 because of you all, because of the American people.
Two years ago...
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.
And two years ago, democracy faced its greatest threat to the Civil War.
And today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken.
Barely got out that Civil War sentence, which is ridiculous, by the way.
Barely got it out.
I mean, two sentences in a row are going to be tough.
When world leaders ask me to define America, and they do, believe it or not, I can define it in one word, and I mean this, possibilities.
We don't think anything is beyond our capacity.
Everything is a possibility.
You know, we're often told that Democrats and Republicans can't work together.
But over the past two years, we've proved the cynics and naysayers wrong.
Yes, we disagreed plenty.
And yes, there were times when Democrats went alone.
But time and again, Democrats and Republicans came together.
Came together to defend a stronger and safer Europe.
We came together to pass once-in-a-generation infrastructure law, building bridges connecting our nation and our people.
We came together to pass the most significant law ever, helping victims expose the toxic burn pits.
And in fact...
How are you going to put your nonsense infrastructure bill that, you know, again, it shows you the uniparty.
It's disgusting. And you see McCarthy waited for everybody to get up there.
They had to stand up for the burn pit stuff.
I signed over 300 bipartisan pieces of legislation since becoming president.
From reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, the Electoral Count Reform Act, the Respect for Marriage Act that protects the right to marry the person you love.
And to my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there's no reason we can't work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well.
I think Oh, boy.
I mean, this is built for Joe.
He doesn't have to do more than two sentences.
But 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.
Then why are we in Ukraine? To restore the soul of this nation, to rebuild the backbone of America, America's middle class, and to unite the country.
We've been sent here to finish the job, in my view.
For decades, the middle class has been hollowed out.
By you. And not one administration, but for a long time.
Too many good-paying manufacturing jobs move overseas.
Just admitted it. Factories closed down.
Once thriving cities and towns that many of you represent became shadows of what they used to be.
Along the way, something else we lost.
Pride. Our sense of self-worth.
I ran for president to fundamentally change things, to make sure our economy works for everyone, so we can all feel that pride in what we do.
To build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down.
Because when the middle class does well, the poor have a ladder up, and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
I mean, again, he just admitted that he helped hollow out the middle class.
He's part of an eight-year administration.
You always kid me for always quoting my dad, but my dad used to say, Joey, a job's about a lot more than a paycheck.
Oh boy, I hear this one all the time.
You really would say this. It's about a lot more than a paycheck.
It's about your dignity.
It's about respect.
It's about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, honey, it's going to be okay and mean it.
Well, folks. He loves that one.
So let's look at the results. We're not finished yet by any stretch of the imagination, but unemployment rate is at 3.4%, a 50-year low.
A near-record...
A near-record unemployment...
A near-record unemployment for black and Hispanic workers.
We've already created, your help, 800,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs, the fastest growth in 40 years.
It's unreal that he could say near-record unemployment when record was under the previous administration.
Where is it written that America can't lead the world in manufacturing?
And I don't know where that's written.
For too many decades, we imported projects and exported jobs.
Now, thanks to what you've all done, we're exporting American products and creating American jobs.
On what planet?
Folks! Folks!
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.
Can't barely speak. But we're in a better position than any country on Earth right now.
But we have more to do.
But here at home, inflation is coming down.
Here at home, gas prices are down $1.50 from their peak.
Food inflation is coming down.
Not fast enough, but coming down.
Inflation has fallen every month for the last six months, while take-home pay has gone up.
Lie. Not true.
Additionally, over the last two years, a record 10 million Americans applied to start new businesses.
10 million. And by the way, every time...
Yeah, you destroyed a lot of other people's businesses.
Every time someone starts a small business is an act of hope.
And Madam Vice President, I want to thank you for leading that effort to ensure the small businesses have access to capital.
And the historic laws we enacted that are going to just come into being.
Standing here last year, I shared with you a story of American genius and possibilities.
Semiconductors, small computer chips the size of a fingerprint that power everything, from cell phones to automobiles and so much more.
These chips were invented in America.
Let's get that straight. They were invented in America.
Joe Biden had nothing to do with that.
We used to make 40% of the world's chips.
In the last several decades, we lost our edge.
We're down to only producing 10%.
We all saw what happened during the pandemic when chip factories shut down overseas.
Today's automobiles need 3,000 chips each of those automobiles.
But American automobiles couldn't make enough cars because there weren't enough chips.
Car prices went up.
People got laid off.
So did everything from refrigerators to cell phones.
We can never let that happen again.
This is a guise for automation.
That's why we came together to pass the bipartisan Chips and Science Act.
He has no idea what that act is, but again, this is automation.
They want a multitude of these quote-unquote transistor chips.
Because they're bringing in robotization in the fourth industrial revolution.
I know I've been criticized for saying this, but I'm not changing my view.
We're going to make sure the supply chain for America begins in America.
The supply chain begins in America.
Do you believe that?
We've already created it. We've already created it.
800,000 new manufacturing jobs without this law, before the law kicks in.
With this new law, we're going to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs across the country.
And I mean all across the country.
Throughout not just the coast, but through the middle of the country as well.
That's going to come from companies that have announced more than $300 billion in investment in American manufacturing over the next few years.
Outside of Columbus, Ohio, Intel is building the semiconductor factories on 1,000 acres, literally a field of dreams.
It's going to create 10,000 jobs, that one investment, 7,000 construction jobs, 3,000 jobs in those factories once they're finished.
They call them factories.
Jobs paying an average of $130,000 a year, and many do not require a college degree.
So let me just explain what's going on here.
We're going across the country to build transistors and robotization to automate you out.
Because we work together, these jobs where people don't have to leave home to search for opportunity.
It's just getting started.
Think about the new homes, the small businesses, the medium-sized businesses.
So much more that's going to be needed to support those 3,000 permanent jobs and the factories that are going to be built.
Talk to mayors and governors, Democrats and Republicans, and they'll tell you what this means for their communities.
We're seeing these field of dreams transform to the heartland.
But to maintain the strongest economy in the world, we need the best infrastructure in the world.
Again, not an infrastructure bill, a climate hoax bill.
He admitted this.
He just, he talked about it at the Global Fund.
We used to be number one in the world in infrastructure.
We've sunk to 13th in the world.
The United States of America, 13th in the world in infrastructure, modern infrastructure.
But now we're coming back because we came together and passed the bipartisan infrastructure law.
the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eishower's interstate highway system.
And folks, already we've funded over 20,000 projects, including major airports from Boston
to Atlanta to Portland.
Projects that are going to put thousands of people to work rebuilding our highways, our bridges, our railroads, our tunnels, ports, airports, clean water, high-speed internet, all across America.
Urban, rural, tribal.
And folks, we're just getting started.
We're just getting started.
Look at the cackle monster behind him.
I have my Republican friends who voted for the law.
And my Republican friends who voted against it as well.
But I still get asked to fund the projects in those districts as well.
But don't worry. I promised I'd be a president for all Americans.
We'll fund these projects.
And I'll see you at the groundbreaking.
Look at that. Oh yeah.
That's Joey B. That's not Zombie J. They gave me some serious vitamin action.
Oh no, we got more sparkles.
Sparkle Shell. Projects like Brent Sprint Bridge in Kentucky over the Ohio River.
Built 60 years ago.
Badly needed repairs.
One of the nation's most congested freight routes.
Carrying $2 billion worth of freight every single day across the Ohio River.
And folks, we've been talking about fiction for decades, but we're really finally going to get it done.
I went there last month with Democrats and Republicans and from both states to deliver a commitment of $1.6 billion for this project.
And while I was there, I met a young woman named Sarah who's here tonight.
I don't know where Sarah is. Where is Sarah?
Get Sarah up here. Sarah, how are you?
Oh, she sparkles. Well, Sarah, for 30 years, for 30 years, I learned she told me she'd been a proud member of the Ironworkers Local 44 known as Known as the Cowboys in the Sky.
The Cowboys in the Sky.
The folks who built, built Cincinnati's skyline.
Sarah said she can't wait to be 10 stories above the Ohio River building that new bridge.
God bless her. That's pride.
And that's what we're also building.
We're building back pride.
Look, we're also replacing poisonous lead pipes that go into 10 million homes in America.
400,000 school and childcare centers.
So every child in America, every child in America can drink the water instead of having permanent damage to their brain.
Look, we're making sure...
Because he cares so much about permanent brain damage, I'm sure.
...that every community...
Every community in America has access to affordable high-speed Internet.
No parent should have to drive by McDonald's parking lot to help them do their phone work online with their kids, which many thousands were doing across the country.
And when we do these projects, and again, I get criticized for this, but I make no excuses for it, we're going to buy America.
We're going to buy America.
Folks, I mean, cartoon world this year.
It's big time. It's totally consistent with international trade rules.
Buy 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 require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.
Made in America.
Now that sounds good on its surface, but let me just say something.
We'll see, number one.
Lumber, glass, drywall, fiber optic cable.
And on my watch, American roads, bridges, and American highways are going to be made with American products as well.
We'll see. Folks, my economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten.
So many of you listening to me tonight, I know you feel it.
So many of you felt like you've just simply been forgotten.
Amid the academic upheaval of the past four decades, too many people have been left behind and treated like they're invisible.
Maybe that's you watching from home.
Remember the jobs that went away.
You remember them, don't you?
The folks at home remember them.
You wonder whether the path even exists anymore for your children to get ahead without having to move away.
Well, that's why I get that.
That's why we're building an economy where no one's left behind.
Jobs are coming back.
Pride is coming back.
Because choices we made in the last several years.
You know, this is my view of blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives at home.
For example, to many of you, Laying in bed at night like my dad did.
Oh boy. Staring at the ceiling wondering what in god names happens if your spouse gets cancer, or your child gets deadly ill, or something happens to you.
What are you going to have? Are you getting money to pay for those medical bills?
Or are you going to have to sell the house or try to get a second mortgage on it?
I get it. I get it.
With the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law, We're taking on powerful interests to bring healthcare costs down.
I don't believe that. So you can sleep better at night.
Lies. With more security.
Not true. You know, we pay more for prescription drugs than any nation in the world.
And he's helped do that. You said it again.
For a long time. We pay more for prescription drugs than any major nation on earth.
For example, one in ten Americans has diabetes.
Many of you in this chamber do.
And in the audience. But every day, millions need insulin to control their diabetes so they can literally stay alive.
Insulin has been around for over 100 years.
The guy who invented it didn't even patent it because he wanted it to be available for everyone.
It cost the drug companies roughly $10 a vial to make that insulin.
Packaging and all, you may get up to $13.
But Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars.
Four to five hundred dollars a month.
Is he gonna tell you he beat Big Pharma?
Record profits.
Not anymore!
Not anymore! I mean, he's told us he's beaten Big Pharma.
I don't see it. They seem to be making a lot of money.
Is that Bernie in the mask?
Old Burn Dog still in the mask?
Over on that side? So many things that we did are only now coming to fruition.
We said we were doing this and we said we passed the law to do it, but people didn't know because the law didn't take effect until January 1 of this year.
We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare.
People are just finding out.
I'm sure you're getting the same calls I'm getting.
Look, there are millions of other Americans who do not or are not on Medicare, including 200,000 young people with type 1 diabetes and need this insulin to stay alive.
Let's finish the job this time.
Let's cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35.
I would love that, actually, among other things.
Oh, it's good. Whoever wrote this is good.
Oh, we got him. There's Romney.
Romney loves it. Woo! Yeah!
And Big Farm is still going to do very well, I promise y'all.
I promise you they're going to do very well.
This law also caps and won't even go into effect until 2025.
Costs, out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare at a maximum of $2,000 a year.
You don't have to pay more than $2,000 a year, no matter how much your drug costs are.
Because you know why? You all know it.
You say you beat Big Pharma?
Like many of my family have cancer.
You know the drugs can range from $10,000, $11,000, $14,000, $15,000 for the cancer drugs.
If drug prices rise faster than inflation, drug companies are going to have to pay Medicare back the difference.
We're finally giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices.
Bringing down prescription drug costs doesn't just save seniors money.
It cuts the federal deficit by billions of dollars.
By hundreds of billions of dollars.
Because these prescription drugs are drugs purchased by Medicare to keep their commitment to the seniors.
Well, guess what? Instead of paying four or five hundred bucks a month, you're paying 15.
That's a lot of savings for the federal government.
And by the way, why wouldn't we want that?
Now some members here are threatening, and I know it's not an official party position, so I'm not going to exaggerate, but certainly to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.
Yeah. As my coach.
Let's repeal it. It's okay.
That's fair. Yeah.
Yeah. As my football coach used to say, lots of luck in your senior year.
Yeah. Make no mistake.
If you try anything to raise the cost of receiving jobs, I will veto it.
Look at that threat.
You gotta love that.
Look at that threat.
That's lovely. That's the highlight.
I'm pleased to say that more Americans have health insurers now than ever in history.
A record 16 million people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act.
And thanks Thanks to the law I signed last year, saving millions, they're saving $800 a year on their premiums.
And by the way, that law was written, and the benefit expires in 2025.
So my plea to some of you, at least in this audience, let's finish the job and make these savings permanent.
Expand coverage on Medicaid.
Oh, there's the clown outfit.
The rising star.
Look, the Inflation Reduction Act is also the most significant investment ever in climate change.
Ever. Lower utility bills.
Creating American jobs, leading the world to a clean energy future.
I visited the devastating aftermath of record floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires from Arizona to New Mexico to all the way up to the Canadian border.
Yeah, Joe knows. More timber has been burned that I've observed from helicopters than the entire state of Missouri.
And we don't have global warming?
Not a problem. In addition to emergency recovery from Puerto Rico to Florida to Idaho, we're rebuilding for the long term.
Not prevent them?
They're going to try to cut We're helping families save more than a thousand dollars a year with tax credits to purchase electric vehicles and efficient appliances, energy efficient appliances, historic conservation efforts to be responsible stewards of our land.
Let's face reality.
He's fading. The climate crisis doesn't care if you're in a red or blue state.
There is no climate crisis.
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.
You can't speak. 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've got to finish the job.
We pay for these investments in our future by finally making the wealthiest and biggest corporations begin to pay their fair share.
I wish that were true.
I wish that were true. I wish it were true.
I'm a capitalist, but pay your fair share.
I think a lot of you at home, a lot of you at home agree with me and many people that you know.
The tax system is not fair.
It is not fair.
You help rig it!
Like, this is a guy that was in Senate.
He was Joey B, Delaware, full of corruption and money laundering.
That in 2020, 55 of the largest corporations in America, the Fortune 500, made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal taxes?
Zero? Folks, it's simply not fair.
Oh, Grandma oatmeal got excited.
Billion dollar companies have to pay a minimum of 15%.
God love them. 15%.
That's less than a nurse pays.
Let me be crystal clear.
I said at the very beginning, under my plans, as long as I'm president, nobody earning less
than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in taxes.
Nobody, not one penny.
Do you believe that?
Well, let's finish the job!
Let's finish the job!
Come on, folks! We have to reward work, not just wealth.
Pass my proposal for the billionaire minimum tax.
You know, there's a thousand billionaires in America.
It's up from about 600 in the beginning of the term.
But no billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher or firefighter.
I mean it. Think about it.
Let's get 200 thumbs up, huh, for those billionaires.
And by the way, I wish they would fix the tax system.
It is set up to stomp on our necks.
But he's not going to fix it.
That's not real. I'm enthusiastic about that, but think about it.
Think about it. 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 talk to a couple of them, they say, we're afraid you're going to shut down all the oil wells and 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 beyond that.
Production. If they had, in fact, invested in the production to keep gas prices down, instead, they use the record profits to buy back their own stock.
Rewarding the CEOs and shareholders.
Corporations ought to do the right thing.
That's why I propose...
Just like politicians....attacks on corporate stock buybacks and encourage long-term investments.
They'll still make considerable profit.
Let's finish the job and close the loophole to allow very wealthy to avoid paying their taxes.
Instead of cutting the number of audits for wealthy taxpayers, I just signed a law to reduce the deficit by $114 billion by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats.
That's being fiscally responsible.
Joe Manchin looking very confused.
My administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion, the largest deficit reduction in American history.
Under the previous administration, the American deficit went up four years in a row because those record deficits no present added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor.
Nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one.
They're the facts. Check it out.
They're the facts. Check it out.
Check it out. Well, at the end, yeah, at the end of the administration during 2020, COVID, they just started printing money like crazy.
They did the right thing. They lifted the debt ceiling three times without preconditions or crisis.
They paid American bills to prevent an economic disaster in the country.
See there, he's admitting that's what happened.
Tonight I'm asking the Congress to follow suit.
They did this. Let's commit here tonight that the full faith and credit in the United States of America will never, ever be questioned.
So my, many of, some of my Republican friends...
Fading....want to take the economy hostage.
I get it. They had them on the good vitamins, though.
Unless they had greater 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 a majority. Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office.
I'll give you a copy of the proposal.
That means Congress doesn't vote.
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 a 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.
I mean, this is wild at this point.
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.
Mike Lee, very confused on what's going on right now.
Mike Lee will have a lot to say after this.
This is the buzz right here.
So folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?
All right.
We got unanimity.
Social Security and Medicare are lifeline for millions of seniors.
Americans have to pay into them from the very first paycheck they started.
So tonight, let's all agree, and we apparently are, let's stand up for seniors.
Stand up and show them.
We will not cut Social Security.
We will not cut Medicare.
Those benefits belong to the American people.
They earned it. And if anyone tries to cut Social Security, which apparently no one's going to do, and if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I'll stop them.
I'll veto it. I'm not going to allow them to take away, be taken away.
Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
But apparently it's not going to be a problem.
Next month, when I offer my fiscal plan, I ask my Republican friends to lay down their plan as well.
I really mean it.
Let's sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together.
Let's do that. I can tell you.
The plan I'm going to show is going to cut the deficit by another $2 trillion.
And it won't cut a single bit of Medicare or Social Security.
In fact, we're going to extend the Medicare Trust Fund for at least two decades, because that's going to be the next argument.
How do we keep it solvent, right?
Well, we'll not raise tax on anyone making under 400 grand, but We'll pay for it the way we talked about, by making sure that the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.
I'll believe it when I see it, guys.
Do you believe any of that?
Does anybody believe that?
They're not just taking advantage of the tax code.
They're taking advantage of you, the American consumer.
Here's my message to all of you out there.
I have your back. We're already preventing Americans from receiving surprise medical bills, stopping $1 billion surprise bills per month so far.
We're protecting Seniors' life savings by cracking down in nursing homes that commit fraud, endanger patient safety, prescribe drugs that are not needed.
Millions of Americans can now save thousands of dollars because they can finally get a hearing aid over-the-counter without a prescription.
What's that got to do with corrupt nursing homes?
Is that even real?
Like, that they're going after them?
It's exploitation.
Last year, I cracked down with the help of many of you on foreign shipping companies that were making you pay higher prices for every good coming into the country.
I signed a bipartisan bill to cut shipping costs by 90%, helping American farmers, businessmen, and consumers.
Let's finish the job.
Pass the bipartisan legislation to strengthen antitrust enforcement and prevent big online platforms from giving their own products an unfair advantage.
I mean, he's going 40 plus minutes right now, guys.
He's starting to stutter and stammer a little more.
Yeah, we're at the tail end where he's telling us we're going to stop smoking.
Your administration is also taking on junk fees.
Those hidden surcharges too many companies use to make you pay more.
For example, we're making airlines show you the full ticket price up front.
Refund your money if your flight is cancelled or delayed.
We reduce exorbitant bank overdrafts by saving consumers more than $1 billion a year.
We're cutting credit card late fees by 75% from $30 to $8.
Look, junk fees may not matter to the very wealthy, but they matter to most other folks in homes like the one I grew up in, like many of you did.
They add up to hundreds of dollars a month.
They make it harder for you to pay your bills or afford that family trip.
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 going to ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill.
Those fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren't even resorts.
The idea that cable, internet, and cell phone companies can charge you $200 or more if you decide to switch to another provider.
Give me a break.
We can stop service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events and make companies disclose all the fees up front.
And we'll prohibit airlines from charging $50 roundtrip for family just to be able to sit together.
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.
So pass.
This is the curveball, folks.
So companies stop ripping us off for too long.
I wonder what's going to be in that bill. But not anymore.
Not anymore. We're beginning to restore the dignity of work.
For example, I should have known this, but I didn't until two years ago.
30 million workers have to sign non-compete agreements for the jobs they take.
30 million. So a cashier at a burger place can't walk across town and take the same job at another burger place and make a few bucks more.
It just changed. But they just changed it because we exposed it.
That was part of the deal, guys.
Look it up. But not anymore.
We're banning those agreements so companies have to compete for workers and pay them what
they're worth.
And I must tell you, this is bound to get a response from my friends on my left with
the right.
Bye.
I'm so sick and tired of companies breaking the law by preventing workers from organizing.
Pass the PRO Act!
Because business has a right, workers have a right to form a union.
Let's guarantee all workers have a living wage.
Let's make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family medical leave, affordable childcare, That's going to enable millions of more people to go and stay at work.
And let's restore the full child tax credit, which gave tens of millions of parents some breathing room and cut child poverty in half to the lowest level in history.
And by the way, when we do all these things, we increase productivity.
We increase economic growth.
So let's finish the job and get more families access to affordable, quality housing.
Let's get seniors who want to stay in their homes, the care they need to do so.
Let's give more breathing room to millions of family caregivers looking after their loved ones.
Pass my plan so we get seniors and people with disabilities the home care and services they need.
And support the workers who are doing God's work.
These plans are fully paid for and we can afford to do them.
Restoring the dignity of work means making education an affordable ticket to the middle class.
You know, when we made public education, 12 years of it, universal in the last century, we made the best educated, best paid, we became the best educated, best paid nation in the world.
But the rest of the world's caught up.
It's caught up. Jill, my wife, who teaches full time, has an expression.
I 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.
If you want to have the best-educated workforce, let's finish the job.
These people have demonstrated...
...but providing access to preschool for three and four years old.
Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from.
Let's give public school teachers a raise.
Oh, that one always gets it.
Oh! People that work 180 days a year, and that's not to knock good teachers.
But come on. Come on.
We're making progress.
By reducing student debt, increasing Pell Grants for working and middle-class families.
Let's finish the job and connect students to career opportunities starting in high school.
Oh look at that, Jon Favreau.
Oh no, that's not Jon Favreau, I'm sorry.
The best career training in America in addition to being a pathway to a four-year degree.
Let's offer every American a path to a good career, whether they go to college or not.
I mean, we've seen that.
That's worked out for my generation with their college degrees.
Folks, in the midst of the COVID crisis, when schools were 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 our country.
We opened our country back up.
And soon we'll end the public health emergency.
But that's called a public health emergency.
But we'll remember the toll and pain that's never going to go away.
More than a million Americans lost their lives to COVID. A million.
Families grieving. Children orphaned, empty chairs at the dining room table constantly reminding you that she used to sit there.
Remembering them, we remain vigilant.
We still need to monitor dozens of variants and support new vaccines and treatments.
So Congress needs to fund these efforts and keep America safe.
And as we emerge from this crisis stronger, We've also got to double down on prosecuting criminals who stole relief money meant to keep workers in small businesses.
Oh, boy! Get ready for some selective enforcement.
Oh, look at that! There's a little smirkle from Merrick Garland.
Yeah. They put that big carrot out there on the stick while they shut everything down.
People took the hush money. Before I came to office, you remember, during that campaign, the big issue was about inspector generals.
Who would protect taxpayers' dollars who were sidelined.
They were fired.
Many people said we don't need them.
And fraud became rampant.
Last year, I told you the watchdogs are back.
Since then, since then, we've recovered billions of taxpayers' dollars.
Now let's triple the anti-fraud strike force going after these criminals, double the statute of limitations on these crimes, and crack down on identity fraud by criminal syndicates stealing billions of dollars, billions of dollars from the American people.
Wow, they want to double statute of limitations to selectively enforce crimes?
For every dollar we put into fighting fraud, the tax earners get back at least 10 times as much.
It matters. It matters.
Dangerous. Look, 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.
Joining us tonight are the parents of Tyree Nichols.
Welcome. I had to bury Tyree last week.
As many of you personally know, there's no words 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.
Most of us in here I've never had to have the talk, the talk that brown and black parents have had to have with their children.
Bo, Hunter, Ashlyn, 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.
Imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got in a car.
Here's what Tyree's mother shared with me when I spoke to her, when I asked her how she finds the courage to carry on and speak out.
With the faith of God, she said her son was, quote, a beautiful soul and something good will come of this.
Imagine how much courage and courage that takes.
It's up to us, to all of us.
We all want the same thing.
Neighborhoods free of violence, law enforcement who earns the community's trust.
Just as every cop when they pin on that badge in the morning has a right to be able to go home at night, so does everybody else out there.
Our children have a right to come home safely.
Well, maybe we should better fund the police.
Equal protection under the law is a covenant.
It is, but again, you can't have out-of-control officers that are unaccountable in unmarked units.
Police officers put their lives on the line every single night and day.
And we know we ask them in many cases to do too much to be counselors, social workers, psychologists responding to drug overdoses, mental health crises, and so much more.
In one sense, we ask much too much of them.
I know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people, the vast majority.
They risk. And they risk their lives every time they put that shield on.
But what happened to Tyree in Memphis happens too often.
We have to do better.
Give law enforcement the real training they need.
Hold them to higher standards.
Help them succeed in keeping us safe.
We also need more first responders and professionals to address the growing mental health and substance abuse challenges.
More resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime.
More community intervention programs.
More investment in housing, education, and job training.
He's working on an hour right now, guys.
All this to help prevent violence in the first place.
When police officers Where police departments violate the public trust, they must be held accountable.
With the support...
With the support of the families of victims...
Civil rights groups and law enforcement.
I signed an executive order for all federal officers banning chokeholds, restricting no-knock warrants, and other key elements of the George Floyd Act.
Let's commit ourselves to make the words of Tyler's mom true.
Something good must come from this.
Something good.
And all of us.
All of us. Folks, it's difficult, but it's simple.
All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this moment.
We can't turn away.
Let's do what we know in our hearts.
We need to do. Let's come together to finish the job on police reform.
Do something.
Do something. That was the plea of parents who lost their children in Uvalde.
I met with every one of them.
Oh boy. Do something about gun violence.
Thank God. What about...
Thank God we did.
What about the big pharma that all these people are on, Joe?
And we're talking about now shootings.
Oh. That includes things like...
That the majority of responsible gun owners already support.
Enhanced background checks for 18 to 21 years old.
Red flag laws keeping guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others.
But we know our work is not done.
Oh, I bet. Joining us tonight is Brandon Say, a 26-year-old hero.
Brandon put his college dreams on hold to be at his mom's side.
His mom's side when she was dying from cancer.
And Brandon...
Another Brandon, you see.
Brandon on Brandon.
Lots of Brandon. Brandon now works in the dance studio, started by his grandparents.
And two weeks ago, during the Lunar New Year celebrations, he heard the studio door close, and he saw a man standing there pointing a semi-automatic pistol at him.
He thought he was going to die, but he thought about the people inside.
In that instant, he found the courage to act and wrestled a semi-automatic pistol away from the gunman who had already killed 11 people in another dance studio.
11. He saved lives.
It's time we do the same.
Banned assault weapons now!
Banned them now!
Wonderful all.
I led the fight to do that in 1994.
Thank you.
Thank you.
In 10 years, that ban was law and mass shootings went down.
After we let it expire in the Republican administration, mass shootings tripled.
Let's finish the job and ban these assault weapons.
And let's also come together on immigration.
make it a bipartisan issue once again.
We now have a record number of personnel working to secure the border,
arresting 8,000 human smugglers, seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last
several months.
I mean, here comes more inversions of reality.
We watched a new border plan last month. Unlawful migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97% as a consequence of that.
But American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts.
If we don't pass my comprehensive immigration reform, let 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.
Here in the People's House, it's our duty to protect all the people's rights and freedoms.
Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v.
Wade and protect Roe v.
Wade. Give every woman a council right.
The Vice President and I are doing everything.
To protect access to reproductive health care and safeguard patient safety.
While already more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans.
Make no mistake about it.
If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it.
But let's also pass Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Going after the kids. This is it.
This is the agenda. There's Sinema.
She's on that agenda. Let's remember the world's watching.
I spoke from this chamber one year ago, just days after Vladimir Putin unleashed his brutal attack against Ukraine.
A murderous assault evoking images of death and destruction Europe suffered in World War II. Putin's invasion has been a test for the ages.
Here we go. A test for America.
A test for the world.
Would we stand for the most basic of principles?
Will we stand for sovereignty?
Will we stand for the right of people to live free of tyranny?
Will we stand for the defense of democracy?
For such defense matters to us because it keeps peace and prevents open season on would-be aggressive and threatens our prosperity.
Oh, Tony Blinken, there he is.
One year later, we know the answer.
You know, all those Republicans, all those punks too, they're all punks.
And together, we did what America always does at our best.
We led. We united NATO. We built a global coalition.
We stood against Putin's aggression.
We stood with the Ukrainian people tonight.
We're once again joined by the Ukrainians ambassador to the United States.
She represents not just her nation, but the courage of her people.
Ambassador, Our ambassador is here.
We're in the support of your country.
Falling off the rails.
We can all take a look at you. It's going south.
It's going south.
Everybody's going to clap.
See, the Republicans are going to take part in the first two.
We love war.
We love war.
People are dying.
We're supposed to ignore.
Our nation is working for more freedom, more dignity, more peace.
Not just in Europe, but everywhere.
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. What?
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 I will make no apologies That we're investing to make America stronger.
Investing in American innovation and industries will define the future that China intends to be dominating.
Investing in our alliances and working with our allies to protect advanced technologies so they will not be used against us.
Modernizing our military to safeguard stability and deter aggression.
Today, we're in the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world.
Anyone else in the world.
And I'm committed.
Millie the traitor. There he is.
Good old Millie. Lots of great people, folks.
Committed to work with China where we can advance American interests and benefit the world.
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. It's a clown world.
It's a cartoon show. Can we get 250, 300 thumbs up?
Let's go, guys. Let's get the thumbs up.
When in the competition should unite all of us?
We face serious challenges across the world.
But in the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker.
Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.
Name me a world leader who changed places with Xi Jinping.
Name me one! Name me one!
America's rallying the world to meet those challenges, from climate to global health, to food insecurity, to terrorism, to territorial aggression.
Allies are stepping up, spending more, and doing more.
Look, the bridges were forming between partners in the Pacific and those in the Atlantic, and those who bet against America are learning how wrong they are.
It's never, ever been a good bet to bet against America.
Never. I mean, come on.
Am I watching it again?
That's like comic book writing.
Talk about vapid Johnny nonsense betting against America.
USA! USA! I mean, come on.
No! No!
When I came to office, most assured that bipartisanship assumed was impossible.
But never believed it.
That's why a year ago I offered a unity agenda to the nation as I stood here.
We made real progress together.
We passed a law making it easy for doctors to prescribe effective treatments for opioid addiction.
We passed the gun safety law making historic investments in mental health.
We launched the ARPA-8 drive for breakthrough in the fights against cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, and so much more.
We passed the Heath Robinson Pact Act, named after the late Iraq War veteran's story about
exposure to toxic burn pits I shared here last year.
I understand something about those burn pits, but there's so much more to do.
We can do it together.
Joining us tonight is a father named Doug from Newton, New Hampshire.
He wrote Jill, my wife, a letter, and me as well, about his courageous daughter, Courtney.
A contagious laugh, his sister's best friend, her sister's best friend.
He shared a story all too familiar to millions of Americans and many of you in the audience.
Courtney discovered pills in high school.
It spiraled into addiction and eventually death from a fentanyl overdose.
She was just 20 years old.
Describing the last eight years without her, Doug said, there's no worse pain.
Yet their family has turned pain to purpose, working to end the stigma and change laws.
He told us he wants to start a journey toward American recovery.
Doug, we're with you.
Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.
You got it.
Gates is telling him it's his fault.
Jeez. MTG. So let's launch a major surge to stop fentanyl production and the sale and trafficking with more drug detection machines, inspection cargo, stop pills and powder at the border.
Working with curries like FedEx to inspect more packages.
Oh, if FedEx expect more packages.
No, they're going to crack down on us.
Especially for our children. When millions of young people are struggling with bullying, violence, trauma, we owe them greater access to mental health care at their schools.
We must finally hold social media companies accountable for experimenting or doing running children for profit.
Experimenting or running, doing children for profit.
You could barely get that out.
From collecting personal data on our kids and teenagers online.
Fan targeted advertising of children and impose stricter limits on the personal data that companies collect on all of us.
Third, let's do more to keep this nation's one fully sacred obligation to equip those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home.
Job training, job placement for veterans and their spouses as they come to return to civilian life.
Helping veterans afford the rent because no one should be homeless in America, especially someone who served the country.
I mean, we are in total inversion of reality here.
Totally. They want to drug your kids.
They want the border open.
They want to be able to search you unlawfully and go into FedEx packages.
Dennis McDonough is here at the VA. We had a first real discussion when I asked him to take the job.
I'm glad he did. We were losing up to 25 veterans a day on suicide.
Now we're losing 17 a day to the silent scourge of suicide.
17 veterans a day are committing suicide.
More than all the people being killed in the wars.
Folks, VA is doing everything it can, including expanding mental health screening, proven programs that recruits veterans to help other veterans understand what they're going through, get them the help they need.
We got to do more.
And fourth, last year Jill and I reignited the cancer moonshot.
That I was able to start with President Obama asked me to lead our administration on this issue.
Eugenics City is what that is.
I'm going to have to cut the cancer death rates at least by 50% in the next 25 years.
Turn more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases.
Provide more support for patients and their families.
It's personal to so many of us, so many of us in this audience.
Joining us are Morris and Candice An Irishman and a daughter of immigrants from Panama.
They met and fell in love in New York City and got married in the same chapel Jill and I got married in New York City.
Kindred spirits. He wrote us a letter about his little daughter Ava, and I saw her just before I came over.
She was just a year old when she was diagnosed with rare kidney disease, cancer.
After 26 blood transfusions, 11 rounds of radiation, 8 rounds of chemo, one kidney removed, given a 5% survival rate.
He wrote how in the darkest moments he thought, if she goes, I can't stay.
Many of you have been through that as well.
Jill and I understand that like so many of you.
He read Jill's book describing our family's cancer journey and how we tried to steal moments of joy where we could with both.
For them, that glimmer of joy was the half-smile of their baby girl.
It meant everything to them. They never gave up hope.
Little Ava never gave up hope.
She turns four next month.
They just found out Ava's beating the odds, is on her way to being cured of cancer.
And she's watching from the White House tonight, and she's not asleep already.
There's the smile. They always play on the heartstrings.
Obviously, we want children to live.
Obviously, we want children to live.
Let this be a truly American moment that rallies the country and the world together and prove that we can still do big things.
Twenty years ago, under the leadership of President Bush and countless advocates and champions, he undertook a bipartisan effort through PEPFAR to transform the global fight against HIV-AIDS. It's been a huge success.
He thought big. He thought large.
He moved. I believe we can do the same thing with cancer.
Scary, if true, if you know the real HIV-AIDS story.
Scary, if true. There's Banu!
I'm Banu! Once and for all.
Folks, there's one reason why we've been able to do all of these things.
Our democracy itself.
It's the most fundamental thing of all.
With democracy, everything's possible.
Without it, nothing is.
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.
For decades, it has been.
And then, just a few months ago, an unhinged big lie assail and unleashed the 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 the 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 Stanley. Such a heinous act should have never happened.
We must all speak out.
There's no place for political violence in America.
The guy was a crazy person.
We must 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.
Democracy must not be a partisan issue.
It's an American issue.
Every generation of Americans has faced a moment where they haven't been called to protect our democracy, defend it, stand up for it.
And this is our moment.
My fellow Americans, we meet tonight at an inflection point, one of those moments that only a few generations ever face, where the direction We now take is going to decide the course of this nation for decades to come.
We're not bystanders of history.
We're not powerless before the forces that confront us.
It's within our power of we the people.
We're facing the test of our time.
We have to be the nation we've always been at our best, optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking.
A nation that embraces light over dark, hope over fear, unity over dreams, and stability over chaos.
We have to see each other not as enemies, but as fellow Americans.
We're good people.
The only nation in the world built on an idea.
The only one.
Other nations are defined by geography, ethnicity, Thank you.
But we're the only nation based on an idea that all of us, every one of us, is created equal in the image of God.
A nation that stands as a beacon of the world.
A nation in a new age of possibilities.
So I've come to fulfill my constitutional obligation to report in the State of the Union.
And here's my report.
Because the soul of this nation is strong, because the backbone of this nation is strong, because the people of this nation are strong, the State of the Union is strong.
Struggle bus at the end there.
But you know, overall they had them on the good vitamins.
That's all you can say. Let's thumbs it up.
Let's get 350 thumbs up if we can, guys.
Can we do it? Can we get 350?
I know it's been struggling to watch.
It's been tough. A lot of lies have been said.
Zombie J is a tough watch.
No doubt. I'm not new to this place.
I stand here tonight having served as long as about any one of you have ever served here.
But I've never been more optimistic about our future, about the future of America.
It's just to remember who we are.
We're the United States of America, and there's nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together.
God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.
Thank you. Oh boy.
We have been listening to President Biden's State of the Union.
And there it is.
We're going to turn off the audio.
Tough watch for some, for many.
There he is over there, but he's moving and grooving.
It's a big moment for Joe.
Handshake Joe. Look, could have struggled a lot more.
Spoke over an hour.
Asking where he's going, of course, but now they've got a handle on him.
Look, obviously I think the vast majority of what he discussed, there's Warnock recently installed, was nothing more than Imagination Land.
Hey, congratulations. I didn't think I was going to make it either, but boy, we're rigging them, huh?
Yeah! Woo!
Woo! Alright guys, I gotta be up bright and early.
I still gotta make the thumbnail for tomorrow morning.
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