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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Biden vows to check Russian aggression, fight inflation in his 1st State of the Union address
By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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finally rich
Empty promises from empty suits. Name one american honestly happy with this administration (apart of "not having the other guy"). Cant understand how millions of people could vote for a guy who talked and acted like a professional dinosaur during his entire campaign. Too much hand gestures choreographed with meaningless words that say absolutely nothing. Just look at the picture above. And how about the VP that cant stop talking with her eyebrows? What a circus. Hopefully americans can vote for someone more competent in 2024
mz16
Biden: “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people”
I mean, probably not.
stormcrow
Thank goodness Biden is the U.S.!President and not the Putin loving former guy.
Nator
There were only 2 choices. A normal but boring politician or a crazy extremist guy. Is it that surprising that most people went for the normal boring politician?
bass4funk
Agreed, nothing about ramping up energy independency, fracking, keystone pipeline ending covid mandates, ensuring that we will do whatever it takes to help the Ukrainian people by sending them more aid and weapons, pushing for more tax cuts, less on identity politics and wokeness. Once the Republicans retake the House this guy has the choice of moving to the center and working with Republicans and giving up on his more radical proposals for the nation or he can push on as a lame duck and be obliterated in 2024
finally rich
Sure, but Biden's trial period has expired. In the current circumstances, would you still vote for this guy and keep him for the full 8 years?
mrtinjp
There were only 2 choices. A normal but boring politician or a crazy extremist guy.
Ohh no..there were many rational choices in both the parties..but for whatever reason's they are not the final choices, and as such are not allowed to lead.
2020hindsights
Thank GOD that Biden is president when this crisis happened. Trump would have done absolutely nothing. Biden has united NATO and the EU to counter Putin and together they have enacted the strongest sanctions Russia has ever seen.
And to those who will say, Putin wouldn't have invaded under Trump, sure, you could be right. Trump was breaking up NATO well enough that Putin may not want to cause him any trouble. ;-)
UChosePoorly
Proud of our President and his administration!
UChosePoorly
Would he have your vote if he did this?
Sh1mon M4sada
Mr Biden, you can't achieve your objectives by targeting Russia alone, you must include Chinaxas well.
China has activated its currency swap facility with Russia, China is running Russia's settlement through its own system AND through SWIFT, and China is not releasing strategic oil reserves, it wants to help Russia hurt free countries.
Russia = China = repression.
The Avenger
NATO and democracies throughout the world are more united today than they have been in 5 years. There's absolutely nothing the republican party can offer that would further unite global democracy.
Blacklabel
GUNS
ECONOMY
He tends to repeat the same lies over and over. The media even covers up his lies as a "premature statement" because it may or may not happen someday.
bass4funk
Precisely! This administration is completely incognito when it comes to understanding dangers of China, Russia and all of our other adversaries. As long as they can drone on about climate and renewable energy they think that will stop these dictatorial leaders right in their tracks. The midterms can’t come soon enough.
Ok and then do what? Putin is closing in and the honeymoon of NATO is going to do what to stop him?
Yeah, there is, start fracking, increase Oil productions, reopen the Keystone pipeline, send AC-10s, more javelin missiles, RPG launchers, do it and do it immediately. So yeah, there’s a lot they would do to change the circumstances of this invasion.
Express sister
Weren't you calling Biden a sabre-rattling warmonger just a couple of weeks ago?
Blacklabel
AP fact check of the Biden speech.
https://apnews.com/article/state-of-the-union-address-fact-check-db71cb899a6235748be83a49c342d195
Blacklabel
BIDEN on the infrastructure bill: “The single biggest investment in history was a bipartisan effort.”
THE FACTS: No, it wasn’t that historic.
Ouch, AP suddenly got harsh for some reason.
bass4funk
It was almost completed, so reopen and resume construction on it.
Ukraine have pilots.
No, this President is.
fxgai
This guy said that Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore, but now he says he’s gonna fight inflation. Hmmmm.
Blacklabel
BIDEN: "You can't build a wall high enough to keep out a uh ah um a vaccine the vaccine can STOP the spread of these diseases."
Ummmm huh?
dagon
reopen the Keystone pipeline, send AC-10s,
The Keystone pipeline, which Native Americans say is poisoning them.
And using A-10 Thunderbolts? Or Ac-130 Spectres to mow down the Russian convoys and start WW3?
“Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Ukrainian people," Biden said. "He will never extinguish their love of freedom. He will never weaken the resolve of the free world.”
Your statements are more toothless than Biden's.
Rep Lauren Boebert, R-Colo, left, and Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga, right, scream "Build the Wall" as President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address
A lot of empty rhetoric from Biden, but the response from the other side was much more hideous.
bass4funk
Still a lot, finish it. Show the Republicans and the world you really want to help your people and Western Europe, but he won’t. Not surprised.
Ukrainians have that. This is the 21st century.
Same here.
PTownsend
Hopefully someone more competent in the far right's minds will not be Trump again, who showed in his failed time in the WH demonstrated his ability to further divide the country, ignore most social and environmental problems while lowering taxes for his fellow billionaires, and showing what a pal he was with the Butcher of Moscow, the male Trump called smart because he was taking control over a country, for as Trump the realtor said ,a few dollars in sanctions. Will Trump try to buy Greenland again? Maybe sell Alaska back to Russia. Trump once again has the support of the global masters of oil, gas and the petrochemical industries. People in Texas and Russia back Trump because as Trump's pal Hollywood Steve Bannon claimed Trump is not woke and does not like LGBTQ. Or was that just another attempt by Trump to get more support from extreme right Evangelicals, a huge part of his base.
Tom San
True. On top of that, a few NATO countries use Russian warplanes that Ukraine pilots are familiar with, so not that much training is required to fly them, contrary to what "someone else" is saying.
bass4funk
Trump is our nominee, DeSantis would be second. No more establishment Republican neocons.
So the country is united? Want to rethink that one there….
THIS IS THE PROBLEM AND THIS IS WHAT IS KILLING SO MANY Ukrainians, the reluctance to go after our own natural energy and fossil fuel reserves and without fuel, you lose any war automatically and the left just don’t get that and this is why Putin has all the leverage. Increase energy independence and put Putin out to greener pasture.
snowymountainhell
Good point. A well-worn, comfy chair and dual monitors doesn’t make one “Top Gun” either.
PTownsend
Trump thrives on division, he knows the best way to maintain his fear loving base is to create more enemies, real and imagined, he can get them to hate and fear, while promising to protect them, as he plays golf, several times a week at one of his resorts and charges the US taxpayers for doing so.
Will Trump commit to leaving the White House if he receives fewer votes again. Or will he once more get one of his extreme right goon squads to try to overthrow the election, or will he do a Lukashenko and call in his pal the Butcher of Russia to protect him. Extreme right movements are the scourge of this century, just like they were last century. There should be no place for earth for white nationalism to play a major role in the modern world, Trump is the white nationalist's current champion, backed by Trump's pal Putin, helped along by Xi and his CCP keyboard warriors pouring fuel on US fires and fanning flames. Will Trump keep his and his family's businesses in China, Bangladesh and Mexico and other nations.
Alex
If the only thing you have to pick apart about some of our current leaders is their looks, then you don't have much of a leg to stand on, do you? Plenty of politicians have their own quirks - Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, as examples, talk with their hands a lot - BIG gestures. I'll take a forward-thinking politician who talks with her eyebrows over the guy who talks with his hands to mock disabled people and welcome Putin into the White House, among other things. Thanks.
Sven Asai
I agree with that part of his speech, because he didn’t exclude himself from that analysis. lol
bass4funk
He didn’t crest Putin or Xi, but he did get nasty and in their faces.
Sources?? Naw, I figured as much. Leave the emotion and just relax.
That just made no sense whatsoever. Lol
But seriously now, do you have something to add about Biden or do you just want to bash Trump just for the sake of bashing him, you have nothing to input about the State of the Union address? Don’t know it was more than lackluster at best, but surely you have something to opine upon.
dagon
Doolittle, with your logic you should go into politics.
Schools don't teach basic history about the country's founding fathers and so forth,
Then...
Now you have people complaining about slavery, treatment of American Indians and so forth.
Yep, those were very bad. But they are basically in the past. Move on.
The conservative talking points get so mixed up and regurgitated...it would be great if the dialectic were more coherent. Bet you think CRT is an existential threat too.
JeffLee
He's done a pretty good job, I'd say. The US was the first major developed economy to rebound and grow higher than pre-covid levels. The financial markets have been strong. Half a million jobs added in January alone. Inflation? That's a global phenomenon caused by the global supply shock, caused mainly by COVID.
Biden read Putin like a book on Ukraine, foreseeing his every move. The democratic West and NATO are now speaking with a strong, single united voice -- a big change from before! . As for Afghanistan, it was messy, but we're out. Finally out of America's longest war in history. That's worth celebrating.
Because Friedman's theory on inflation is dead wrong. Real events in the real world have been disproving that. Just look at 20 years of Japan's massive money printing, coinciding with -- deflation.
prionking
This is the funniest thing I've read all week. Bravo!
PTownsend
Pandering once again to the QGOP's sizable white nationalist base, next they'll be asking the feds to fund new statues to honor Confederate soldiers and plantation owners, and to allow fracking and more mineral extraction on native lands still claiming the lands belong historically to the white settlers that helped the US government them.
bass4funk
Please elaborate. Who specifically. Don’t just hurl empty and baseless platitudes.
So what did you think of Biden’s SOTU speech?
Jimizo
If he doesn’t get back in, there are all kinds of delirious types who might have yet more appalling meltdowns talking about stolen elections and the walls closing in on Biden and the like. Others might dress up as Vikings.
That disgraced the people involved and dragged the name of the US through the mud. That should not happen again. It was a circus.
Biden is clearly showing his age and shouldn’t run again, but he is an adult and has done a reasonable job up to now.
bass4funk
REALLY? Such as??
Express sister
Yeah, she won.
Jimizo
Maybe.
I think we are on the same page. We both seem to dislike extremists.
I’m sure you’d also decry the hysterical morons who believed the election was stolen and that the walls were closing in on Biden.
That can’t be repeated either. It was a humiliation for the people involved and gave the impression the US was populated to a large degree by morons, crackpots and children.
This is an insult to the good people of that country.
ulysses
The GOP showed their lack of class today, again, mcCarthy fiddling with his phone, boebert and greene showing once again what trash really is, and Mitch sad with what is happening to his Moscow!
bass4funk
Yes
I was talking about his policies. That is the only thing that matters.
bass4funk
Pretty much the same when Trump gave his SOTU speech. At least these 3 didn’t rip up Biden’s speech
plasticmonkey
Please explain.
Do you mean that if the U.S. didn't buy fossil fuel from Russia, the U.S. would be in a better position to enter a war with Russia? Which you are against?
You mean Biden is wearing a fake schnoz?
Smooth.
Anyway, I thought Biden's speech was good enough. These SOTU speeches are always either boring or (in the case of one dumb former guy) outrageous. I'm just glad there's a fairly competent administration that's not bonkers.
Shame on Boebert and MTG.
Paustovsky
In reference to the displayed image in the article above which features Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene :-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-gestapo/
She is quite clearly mentally unstable and that is before we can consider her intellect.
Gilbert
Action speaks more than words. lol
yakyak
Biden's speech was a failure. His numbers will never go up, Americans on the left and right have already made a judgment call on his future. A lame-duck President that "hopefully" will just bide his time until he is voted out.
finally rich
he's been saying this since the debates lol
"the deaths 1000s of americans are on Trump’s hands" how much deaths during Biden and Trump again? Just curious.
Slayer
I highly doubt the Ukrainian people found any comfort in his speech.
otherworldly
Biden just turned into Trump on Manufacturing and middle-class jobs, Now he's building Semiconductors Plants and Steel Mills that Democrats said would never come back here when Trump proposed it.
u_s__reamer
That disturbing photo of the distaff dumb and dumber twins, Republican right-wing extremist harridans, gun-toting Calamity Bobert and spaced-out Gazpacho Greene shrieking off-the-wall nonsense in this solemn time of war, is worth a thousand words on the abject state of Trump's GOP.
Peter14
If NATO was smart they would realise, now is the time to confront Putin. Send your forces to the borders of NATO members and at the signal, attack Russia. Give assurances that no nukes will be used until Russia uses them, and then it is Armageddon. It can remain conventional weapons only, it is up to Russia.
Better to fight a war on your own terms at a place and time of your choosing. Russia does not expect it. Fighting on the ground of a neutral nation like Ukraine is the best NATO can hope for and with Ukraine help the Russians can be pushed back to their borders and made to negotiate a peace.
The best opportunity is right now to secure a peace that can last. leaving Ukraine to fight alone is a losing prospect.
The message to Russia would be, return to your 2014 borders and fighting will stop. Return Crimea to Ukraine and end your aggression and this stops.
Finland knows what Russia can do, it attacked them in 1939 and could do so again after it defeats an isolated Ukraine. Estonia and Latvia and Poland are also remembering what Russia is capable of.
Now is the best chance NATO will ever have to strike a blow against the autocrat Putin. It must assist Ukraine in the air and on the ground. It will bring a conclusion to this war sooner rather than later.