A Partisan Speech full of Red Herrings.
I will admit that I didn’t watch the State of the Union, but I did read a transcript online. I really have no desire to see Biden, just like I have no desire to see an elderly woman naked. To see him shuffle, to hear his shrill voice, to see him squint while reading a teleprompter. To see the lines on his forehead, which I surmise is the damage done by years of Botox. Oh, thank God for the Transcript!
There are certain people that I do want to, or have to know what they said, but I hate having to look at them. One example, other than Biden, the old Meet the Press host, Chuck Todd. I am not sure why, but I had a great aversion to having to see his face or listen to his voice. Fortunately, I found a way to get a transcript of his show.
But I do realize that the speech, all state of the union speeches are historic, so I read what Biden’s handlers typed into a teleprompter for him to read.
First, it has to be the most partisan state of the union speeches ever given. He mentioned his opponent in the upcoming election. I doubt that has ever happened before. For example, I vaguely remember George H.W. Bush’s last state of the union in 1992. I don’t believe he mentioned his opponent, Governor Bill Clinton. Did Carter Mention Reagan in his 1979 State of the union speech? I doubt it.
Biden mentioned abortion, which is now post Roe, and therefore it is a state issue. Anyone that wants an abortion as late as they want can already get that in lots of blue states. Honestly, it is not an issue. It is a false fear.
Biden’s speech was filled with silly political talking points such as, “Look, I’m a Capitalist. If you want to make a million bucks – great! Just pay your fair share in taxes.”
This very line, verbatim, I have heard for 30 years, it has been debunked, the rich pay more than their fair share, but such a line is good politics.
As an example of corporate greed, Biden is a populist, he uses a term “shrinkflation.” Where did they come up with such nonsense?
He and Senator Casey of Pennsylvania are pushing a conspiracy theory that corporations are stealing from people, because as they see it, corporations are greedy.
The theory of “shrinkflation”, The corporation sells a consumer a smaller bag of say chips, but it charges the same price. Well, that’s inflation. I agree it is a form of theft, but inflation is not caused by corporations it is caused by government. In a capitalist economy all prices are clearance prices. If a company is over charging its customers, they will go out of business.
What is the alternative to “shrinkflation”? Well, the company can sell you the same amount of chips at a higher price. Is there any such thing as shrinkflation? No. It’s inflation and if you don’t want that then you should oppose Biden’s economic policies.
Biden said we must stand up the Putin. The main reasons that Putin has survived sanctions is the high price of natural gas. We could reverse Biden’s energy polices, such as his pause on LNG, and bring down the price of natural gas. This could cripple Putin. That would be a great way of standing up to Putin.
But Biden’s idea of standing up to Putin is for us to continue to send money to Ukraine. And subsidize what is a stalemate and could be for years. How many billions of dollars are we going to sink into the Ukraine? He didn’t say?
Biden continued to take credit for “cutting the deficit.” In 2020, because to the pandemic, we shut down the economy and sent out thousand dollar checks to everyone. Obviously, this threw the budget out of whack, this should not be considered a baseline. But Biden wants to compare his spending to that year. Thoroughly dishonest.
The rest of the speech is full of this type of dishonesty.
On a personal note. My apologies that have not written much this week. I am working on a book. It’s my sequel to my novel. I will keep you updated. And try to write more columns.
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I see it as a lack of understanding and intelligence to watch any State of The Union speech these days. Nothing but far out lies. Just open your eyes and you can see the state of the union if you really want to. It was hilarious to see news clips of Biden afterward saying something about him and Netanyahu having a come to Jesus talk with an open mic. All he really needs to do is tell Netanyahu either get out of Gaza, or no more money or US military support. My understanding is that Israel does not recognize Jesus as the Son of God, and Netanyahu himself is secular. If the US were to just leak that they are considering resuming the nuclear talks with Iran, Israel would take the hint.
The person who gave the response afterward? She was childish to me, or seemed to be acting like she was talking down to little children. Was she AI generated? I could not stomach but a few minutes as it was a joke. I cannot see me ever supporting any lawyer, (Sen. Britt), whose husband is a lobbyist, for any elected office. Period. To me, that is unethical just like SCOTUS justices accepting legalized bribes in the form of vacations, book deals, tuition, and more, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each from their billionaire friends who have cases before the court. Congress will likely not ever correct that situation. Why not you ask? Likely because SCOTUS would retaliate by leaking information about members of Congress who do the same thing!
And another thing, I would guess the main reason Congress can no longer pass a budget is because of the lobbyists, with their checkbooks.
No doubt money is flying everywhere in congress at budget time in order to control who does and does not get their share of the deficit loot from the budget. Perhaps the best way to get any budget passed now would be for Congress itself to hire K St. street lobbyists and give them money to have K St. lobby Congress itself. In other words, Congress would be paying to have itself lobbied by K St. in order to pass a budget. All legal, of course.
Best Wishes!
It is interesting that the attacks on Senator Britt are really an attack on marriage, family and motherhood. I see so many young women in their late 20s and early 30s bemoaning their loneliness and economic situation, yet they still can’t admit that feminism has failed them. The single life of Murphy Brown was a fake – the reality is far more difficult
The day after the SOTU, the price of gold hit an all-time record high. Gold has been an historic measure of faith in government and that is why FDR and, unfortunately, Nixon tried to sidestep its importance. Well you can only hide the truth for so long and here is gold now signaling a no-confidence vote on the Biden administration and America in general. Keep watching the gold signals.
The Federal Reserve causes inflation when it covers massive deficit spending by increasing the money supply. That hurts everyone, especially those who have saved and see their savings devalued, the poor, and those on fixed incomes like retirees.
Then the Fed raises interest rates to slow the inflation it caused. That slows economic growth. Bad for everyone.
We need to:
1. End the Fed.
2. Return to a stable gold-based currency.