“I've ordered more pills than anyone in the world has” – Joe Biden
“I know some are talking about 'living with Covid-19,'” Biden says. “Tonight – I say that we will never just accept living with COVID-19.”
“We will continue to combat the virus as we do other diseases. And because this is a virus that mutates and spreads, we will stay on guard.”
Biden is now boasting that Covid-19 cases are down. Yes, Mr. President, this is what happens when the super-contagious Omicron variant burns its way through the country all winter long, and everyone has built up antibodies from vaccines or from catching the virus.
Without missing a beat, Biden goes from claiming his agenda will fight inflation to calling for a $15 minimum wage.
Only takes Biden three tries to pronounce “normal”
Biden calls to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and to extend the child tax credit, a proposal that does not have uniform support even among Democrats.
Counterpoint: Let's do absolutely none of this.
It was absurd when White House officials perpetuated the absurd idea that Build Back Better would reduce inflation. But now Biden is using the belly of his State of the Union speech to rebrand his failed agenda, which he can no longer refer to as Built Back Better, as an inflation fighting bill. He also claimed claims his plan reduces deficits, but CBO found it added $160 billion to deficits.
Biden again knocks the Trump administration: “The previous Administration not only ballooned the deficit with tax cuts for the very wealthy and corporations, it undermined the watchdogs whose job was to keep pandemic relief funds from being wasted.”
He claims the “watchdogs are back” and announces the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic-related fraud.
This speech makes a lot more sense if you assume that Biden began it by saying, “for the next hour, let's assume that we have no Constitution and no debt, and that words are able to change objective reality.”