Now we get to the "America First" portion of Biden's speech.
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Biden's lines bashing "trickle down" economics are themselves old enough to collect Social Security. Expect him to start talking next about a Cross of Gold.
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This sounds like the Democrats' SOTU response 38 years ago. Which was delivered by Joe Biden.
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"America will not back out from our commitments." [Speechwriter inserts several paragraphs transitioning to abandoning Afghanistan]
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If you had "escalation" as a word that Biden would be unable to pronounce without stopping the speech, drink.
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...and here we have the abandonment of Afghanistan.
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Unsurprisingly, Biden's call for passing the Democrats' police bill does not even vaguely approach describing what the bill actually does.
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Biden talks about legislation against hate crimes against Asian Americans, does not mention Democrats voting against a bill to bar discrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions.
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Biden says the WH flag has been flying at half mast (staff, actually) for shootings, but has it not been flying that way for the pandemic?
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Biden says we have "seen daily bloodshed" for two decades from weapons banned in the 1994 'assault weapons' ban. Not remotely factual.
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Biden argues that Americans could not own combat rifles at the time when those rifles were used in the Revolutionary War by...um....
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Now, Biden turns to nation-building in Central America to address the "root causes" of immigration - sure, that will happen quickly.
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Biden working through the designed-as-soaring conclusion of this speech like an old man sending back soup in a deli.
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"You and I, not some force in a distant capital," says man who has been in Washington since 1973.
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Biden, who has been vaccinated, elbow-bumps Pelosi (who has been vaccinated and is wearing a mask) and Harris (who has been vaccinated and is wearing a mask) as if they were lepers he was terrified of touching.
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