I heard a good amount of the SOTU address on the radio. He sounded very good, maybe the best I've ever heard him sound. Apparently he was even going off script a good amount of the time, but very few tongue stumbles. I usually don't care about this kind of thing, but I think I'm going to try to listen to the whole thing soon.

definitely outperformed my expectations. a bit of slurring here and there, frequent coughing, but overall way more with it than i expected. maintaining a steady indignance throughout basically the whole speech was a good tack.

Saturday Night Cold Open:

BIDEN [ ]
BRITT [x]

That's true, he was coughing quite a bit. Maybe more noticeable on TV than the radio.

Who's Britt?

the son of the Kansas City Chiefs head coach who just got his sentence commuted (for which he barely served any time) for maiming a child while driving drunk.

MAGA states gonna MAGA...the party of law and order!!!! .

And you think the SNL cold open tomorrow will more likely be about that guy than President Biden?

I don't get the connection with MAGA either.

I think he refer to the fact the little girl (victim) was black.

Apparently the fox talking heads thought Biden was too energetic last night. Lol.

It was fine.

All these articles acting like Biden was the second coming of MLK during this speech are also just nauseating to behold.

He didn't do anything to embarrass himself, so the right wingers gotta make **** up to nitpick.

He didn't do anything to embarrass himself, so the left wingers gotta pretend like it was the greatest oration of our time and he doesn't look a day over 35.

Just have the election, please. Let's get this over with.

Biden objectively over performed given the fairly low threshold many people had.

he didn't show significant signs of cognitive decline nor he fumbled upon simple things.

he had his takes on stuff which is what you expect from this kind of speech , and he vehemently tried to pivot to the center which was obviously correct politically given polls and an upcoming election.

I think whomever drafted the text and/or planned this speech scored a significant point for democrats.

Sorry, the answer is....



Both!

I guess 702guy had the wrong Britt.

Good Ole Joe apologizing to the murderer but not the family of the girl killed for butchering her name

Take the drugs and the teleprompter away and Joe is back at it. Now he is running for a senate position not president

No red line for Israel either Drop a loaf of bread and 10 bombs

Any actual left-winger doesn't give a flying **** about Joe Biden successfully not dying in the middle of the SOTU. We, are, however, deeply and strongly opposed to his continued direct support to the IDF and its massacre of Palestine. Don't conflate this group with center-right Democrats.

Anyway, can I get an update on when "the adults in the room" of your Republican Party are going to come together and stop Trump from winning the GOP nomination? You promised this multiple times, over multiple months. I haven't been keeping up, how's that going?

GOP "adults in the room" look at Joe's Israel misadventure and Trump's term and scoff at the amateurs. Adult In The Room Dick Cheney killed exponentially more civilians than Joe or Trump did in their combined eight years!

Terrorists with a lot of big guns are mean to terrorists with fewer, smaller guns. This angers the Marxist.

Booooooo hissssss Capitalism bad!

as expected, predicted and discussed, Biden polling numbers, albeit with some delay, replicate population feelings about the economy, and lately those are improving and so are Biden chances

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...p-economy-poll

yes proving how clueless the amercians are in many things. -> deficient public education.

the american economy is the best in the world like the past 24 months +...

this was written over summer 2023 !
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-e...h-world-2023-7
But when u know like almost 40% of the population are close to blind on facts, it isnt surprising the economy is doing bad when its "blue" regardless of anything positive.

What facts are they blind too?

I know Biden promised more Student loan forgiveness will that have to stand up to another Supreme Court ruling or like the last one a pipe dream that will never happen?

The US economy is much better than they think it is .
And since people like baham and maga think only gdp going up that matters well it’s exactly what’s been happening …

The US economy is (very) good currently under several objective, measurable definitions (unemployment especially), but quality of life for the median working American isn't as good as those objective measures would imply in other circumstances, especially for people that don't own their houses or that bought very recently.

Economic data isn't massaged nor a fraud, it's objective and presented by actual experts with a lot of credibility.

Problem is other trends are happening which are terrible for specific subsets of the population and which people usually describe as a bad economy (even if economic textbooks don't).

For example the percentage of under35, living with their parents is the highest ever.

EXAMPLE: For American normal middle class parents having your 29y old son or daughter at home can often mean being an abject failure at parenting, a disgrace, a fraud, with an incompetent and hapless adult child.

Unless the economy is SO TERRIBLE, that's the only option. So ofc you are going to think it's the economy overall, and not some very specific dynamics that, while rewarding a lot of people immensely, punish the 18-35 more than even before in history.

The fact that many 56y old are laughing every day because his fixed 3% rate mortgage payment is ridiculously low for a house that keep appreciating while his nominal income increases a lot as well, so they basically got a huge real discount on the house they bought 7, 10, 15 years ago, isn't going to help to convince the 69y old who already paid off his mortgage than his 31y old child isn't incompetent if he can't afford to buy a house even if the 69y old did at 26

My argument would be that the problem(s) you point out are a result of the constantly increasing wealth gap and that no economy fixes that sort of problem. Only when the babhabs of the world realize that trickle down economics is total b.s. and that funneling money to the top 1% isn't good for our country will these sorts of things get fixed.

How is the wealth gap causing house prices to increase more than wages ffs 65% more or less own their houses, wealth gap is a phenomenon about the top 1-10% vs the rest.

If the bezos of the world all become 10x wealthier while the rest stays the same, a studio in Boulder, CO suburbs won't change in price ffs.