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?
I am convinced that Biden has a free pass on cracking down brown immigration now that the destruction of Europe has begun. This policy change would accommodate an influx of white European immigrants over the coming 1-2 decades as both skilled and unskilled European labor look for opportunities overseas as their own countries descend into fascism.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that:
This is likely an underestimation as the true scale of the destruction of European economy has not even reached public consciousness yet. This could compound when the effects of brain drain began to be felt in Europe, triggering an even bigger wave of emigration. Where are they going to end up? Of course, most of them will end up in the US.
Clearly, a lot of immigrant labor will be needed to sustain the US empire’s GDP, but this time, the immigrants will be white Europeans fleeing their deindustrialized countries, willing to work for lower pay and competing with domestic American workers. The US has no need to rely on brown immigrants from Latin America any longer.
Biden has achieved in 3 years what the Republicans have failed to accomplish in decades.
I doubt those same Europeans are going to be holding up the agricultural sector the same way brown immigrants from Latin America will. The white Europeans will be competing with Indian and Chinese immigrants for the same fields. Very few of them will be picking grapes for pennies.
Europe is going to have to go through a lot more for their citizens to be as desperate as ours to do the work our diaspora takes on.