Unmentioned in tonight's State of the Union Address by President Joe Biden: Iran, North Korea, Israel, monkeypox, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or baby formula.
Random side note, but Mitt Romney appears to have had some strong words for George Santos in a tense aside prior to the speech.
This was an economically populist speech that shows Biden is thinking towards his re-election campaign. He spent roughly a minute on social issues, buzzed rapidly through foreign policy, more or less pretended that progressives in his party don't exist. But the silences said a lot. He is still capable of only the most arch-partisan framing of voting, political violence, and violent crime.
On CNN, the first takeaway is about certain House Republicans heckling the president and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempting to shush them. Way to go, guys.
Biden's apparent belief that we are a nation which is not defined by “geography” makes sense, in light of his border policies
10:22 pm, Biden finally delivers the “State of the Union is strong” line
The President of the United States is a disingenuous senescent fool; he should not, however, have to 'excel at crowdwork' in order to ward off hecklers during a State of the Union address. This isn't the Laff Factory at 2:00am.
President Biden wraps up his remarks at 10:21 p.m. Eastern. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, LeBron James has 3 points in the first quarter of a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, closing in on the NBA's all-time career scoring record.
Biden, who falsely called Georgia's voting laws “Jim Crow 2.0” now begs that “democracy should not be a partisan issue.”
@dmclaughlin Or the massive surge in attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers.