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Tonight, we as a nation will be listening to the State of the Union address.
I’d like, preemptively, to give a rebuttal as a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Montana.
You may hear that the state of the union is strong.
- But did you know that we are living in
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never been in greater doubt? - Did you know that basic American infrastructure is falling apart at the seams, and needs real investment? You may hear that the unemployment rate is at a low 3.5%. - But did you know that the unemployment rate, during this Administration, has only
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gone down by 1.3% (from an already low 4.8%)? - Did you know that, in the prior Administration (under a Democrat), the unemployment rate went down by 5.4% (from 10.2%)? - Did you know that jobs without any benefits count the same as jobs with benefits, and that the percentage of
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jobs without any benefits is rapidly rising? - Did you know that the Administration supports curtailing basic food assistance for low-income individuals? - Did you know that farm bankruptcies have spiked? You may hear that the stock market is at an all-time high. - But did you
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know that part of that boost is because of corporate stock buybacks and dividend yield increases that artificially prop up share prices? - Did you know that, in order to drive the market upward, the U.S. government just ran a record $1 Trillion deficit, burdening future
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generations of Americans? - Did you know that the top 10% wealthiest in America own 84% of the stock market? - Did you know that half of all Americans own no stock at all, in any form? - Did you know that foreign investors own 20% of the U.S. stock market? You may hear that ISIS
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has been defeated in Iraq and Syria and the terrorist al-Baghdadi was killed. - But did you know that the successful war against ISIS was started under the prior Administration (specifically, with the campaign in Mosul)? - Did you know that President Trump abandoned our Kurdish
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allies in northern Syria, allowing 1,000 ISIS fighters to escape back into the population? - Did you know that the Administration has curried favor with and protected Mohammad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, which supplied 15 of 19 9/11 hijackers and continues, however indirectly, to
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fund radical madrassas throughout the world? You may hear that the U.S. is respected in the world, again. - But did you know that our democratic allies have never trusted America less, and that the world believes America is more a threat to peace than China or Russia? - Did you
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know that American policy towards North Atlantic Treaty Organization is as Russia would like it to be? - Did you know that the Administration has a cozier relationship with authoritarian regimes like Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia than with many nations that value freedom?
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- Did you know that America has refused to lead by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords and Iran Nuclear Deal? - Did you know that the Administration has given legitimacy to North Korea, which represses its people and has nuclear ballistic missiles? You may hear that
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minorities and women are doing wonderful. - But did you know that the Administration supports taking away Choice from women? - Did you know that the Administration supports separating children from their mothers at the southern border? - Did you know that the Administration
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supports voter suppression? You may hear about Space Force. - But did you know that America, already, spends more on its military than the budgets of the next ten largest militaries in the world, combined?
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You may hear that everything’s amazing, and, of course, great again. But the foundation, constitution, and fabric of our country has never been more fissured and unsustainable, and we must elect better people into office.
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