Biden calls on Congress to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act to help the U.S. “level the playing field with China and other competitors.”
On a day when the world watched a Holocaust memorial get blown up in the name of de-Nazification, it feels tiresome and provincial to spend so much time talking about ensuring that the steel in highway guardrails is made in America.
Biden calls the infrastructure bill “the single biggest investment in history,” which is…not likely to be a good one.
There is nobody in America who is more sentient than a sea cucumber who believes that the number of jobs that were created or restored since Biden became president means anything useful whatsoever.
Biden takes a shot at the Trump administration: “Unlike the $2 Trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration that benefitted the top 1 percent of Americans, the American Rescue Plan helped working people—and left no one behind.”
Biden mentions the perils of inflation, and then he starts to sell the piece of legislation that made inflation considerably worse.
Biden switches after twelve minutes to discussing the United States. All the air goes out of the room.
Lots of national flags here, all of them Ukrainian.
Ten minutes in, Nancy Pelosi has exhausted all of her available facial expressions.
With his commitment to weighing Ukrainians in pounds, rather than kilograms, Biden at least confirms that he is committed to the imperial system.