IMO: Sleepy Joe looked about as good as he could up there. His brain left his body a couple of times but nothing that couldn’t be papered over, no McConnell freezes etc.
Overall the speech was the same liberal pablum we’ve been receiving for the last 20 years. He cited Reagan positively lol.
Biggest flop imo was he went hard right on the border, at one point calling for the president to have the ability to shut the border down if the number of migrants gets too large. At one point he talked about some girl who was killed by “an illegal.” Very bad look overall.
He also called for a two state solution which I guess has been the official policy or whatever for a while now. They’re going to build a temporary pier to land aid in Gaza. Time will tell how that goes. It will take a few weeks to build, many will starve by then, and there still need to be roads etc for aid to actually reach people.
Other topics covered that I can remember is a bunch of Lucy football shit; banning assault rifles and high capacity magazines, lowering prescription drug prices, protecting roe, raising the minimum wage and increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations— you know, all the type of shit the dems could have done while in full control of the government but didn’t because manchin or the parliamentarian or whatever the fuck.
At any rate I think what he needed was to go out there and talk for an hour without having his brain leak out of his ears. Mission accomplished.
Whats your take?
Biden is such a fucking worm. In the speech he said that Hamas murdered 1200 innocent Israelis, of course also repeating unsubstantiated SA claims, and we all know about Israel's bombing of the festival, but even on its face this is flat-out wrong, as Israel itself in its memorial lists has shown a decent sum were active IDF members. The two-state "solution" would be progress, but it is clearly only rhetoric, as shown by the U.S.'s repeated vote at the UN against the "Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine," where nearly every other country has voted in favor. When Biden talked about how sad he was about the Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza I almost got a burst aneurysm, and my god who the fuck is buying this "humanitarian aid" bullshit? Apparently many people as he got a lot of cheers for that.
At the end of the day it's all vapid nonsense; I loved that he in the same breath condemned "China's unfair economic practices" (funny coming from the U.S. obviously) and assured Americans that they would keep their "advanced technology" from being used in China. My favorite part was actually the GOP response, it's as if they were paid off to make Biden look competent and sane. Such obvious emotional manipulation, complaints about drug cartels as a proof of why the border must be shut down (despite these cartels only existing because of U.S. government support), deranged "See See Pee propaganda brainwashing might conquer America" (if only) fantasies, and a brainrotted Hitlerite historical account of the U.S.
Best GOP Quote: "Never forget, we’re steeped in the blood of patriots who overthrew the most powerful empire in the world [??]. We walk in the footsteps of pioneers who tamed the wild. We now carry forward the same flame of freedom as the liberators of an oppressed Europe. We draw courage from those who bent the moral arc of the universe. And when we gaze upon the heavens, never forget that our DNA contains the same ingenuity that put man on the Moon."
Best Biden Quote: "For years, all I’ve heard from my Republican friends and so many others is China’s on the rise and America is falling behind. They’ve got it backward. America is rising. We have the best economy in the world."