So, were you like me?
Were you wondering what is this year's State of the Union going to be,
is it gonna feature lofty, rhetoric or
is it gonna be stupid as hell like everything else in American politics?
Well, you didn't even have to wait till the actual beginning of the speech to know
the tenor of the night's event because you might have seen this going around that.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was planning to bring a white balloon to
tonight's State of the Union.
Some people think that that is a topical reference to the Chinese spy balloon,
I think it's just her favorite balloon.
Anyway, that immediately became a meme probably not in ways that she
expected as AOC posted her stories.
It's giving pennywise and a lot of people made that comparison.
Let's jump ahead to, this is giving, yeah, let's privately support cuts to social
security, health care and education, but publicly deny it until we do.
Honestly, I think Pennywise could get elected in a number of different districts
across America.
But anyway, so you knew that they were gonna be stunts,
you knew that there was gonna be interruptions.
The Republican party was crass and awful and
immature like a decade ago now I mean it is thoroughly in the toilet.
So here is an example of how they responded to some of what Biden had
to say.
>> Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some Republicans want
Medicare and Social Security Sunset.
I'm not saying it's a majority,
let me give you, anybody who doubts it,
contact my office I'll give you a copy of the proposal.
That means Congress doesn't vote.
>> So look, he even says there, it's not what they're all saying, I would have gone
farther and said that many of the ones who aren't saying it would gladly vote for it.
But this is not a thing that we can debate as a country.
We've already covered Matt Gates talking about Medicaid and rand paul,
talking about literally all of them and Mike Pence,
talking about privatizing Social Security and
Go Star was talkin like there are many of them that would gladly do this.
It's been the position of the Republican Party for
literally decades since those programs were developed.
So I understand why your fifis are hurt, it's because a lot of people
are watching this and you know how wildly unpopular the things you want to do are.
But just like jeering like agitated baboons is not the answer.
The sour faces or Marjorie Greene standing up and booing and showcasing that she
bought out the world's supply of Albino Chinchila is to wrap around her neck.
That's not the answer to all of your political problems,
we have more of that by the way.
But Jayar what did you make of that?
>> This is just the approach, right?
As you said, because this is now on TV,
because finally Joe Biden calls folks out to their face.
And again, maybe another small change as you said,
maybe you would have gone further as he got into polite company goes,
I'm being polite by not naming any names.
We'll name, some names because we know them already at least the folks who pay
attention so go ahead and
name names to the folks since they like naming names all the time with you.
I don't see why the politeness has to be there.
But similarly, this is their approach similar with Roe versus Wade when that
leaked document came out about what they were gonna do come the summer and
all that.
And they said, look at these people hyperventilating over how we think we're
gonna expand this even further.
I can't believe they would say such a thing and look what happens,
expansion expansion, taking it to different levels now all the way down to
trying to make it a federal thing.
All the things they said, they wouldn't do, of course they're doing the next step
though, is to bring this right back because they will still propose it because
they will still say it in different ways maybe with a veil over the top of it.
Make sure you bring that back President Biden.
>> 100% look, Kevin McCarthy has been talking about, he doesn't want to come out
and be really open about it, but he was talking about it before the midterms.
He's been talking about it recently, like if you don't want to have to boo Joe Biden
for saying something, maybe don't support those horrendous policies.
But that wasn't the only groaning, they groaned when he pointed out that
one quarter of our entire national debt was added under Donald Trump,
they freaked out.
Boo, boo, boo yeah boo the debt boo, it's bad that it's there,
why were you voting along with his budgets that put it there?
Because you can boo but
that's not a counter argument that's what actually happened.
And again, this is not about an honest disagreement about the facts or whatever.
I'm sure many of them don't know that they're incredibly ignorant and
curious people.
But this is just about how dare you remind the American people who we actually are,
especially in areas that undercut their public attempts to rehabilitate their
image to appear to not be the absolute radicals that they are.
They find that to be really inconvenient when he effectively uses the platform that
he has because, and I'll remind all the Republicans because he beat Trump in 2020,
he gets to do that.
So maybe next time actually try to do something about the pandemic
that your failure to address will cause you to lose the presidential election.
That would be a better strategy than just whining and crying, but
there is more winding and crying let's jump to this next video.
>> Now Some members here are threatening and
I know it's not an official party position, so I'm not gonna exaggerate,
but certainly to repeal the inflation reduction act as my coach.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> That's okay, that's fair as my football
coaches to say, lots of luck in your senior year,
make no mistake if you try anything to raise
the cost of Brazilian jobs, I will veto it.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Okay, look, obviously I'm not a huge
fan of biden or whatever and I don't want to run for reelection again.
But that was pretty good, I mean, even Kevin McCarthy couldn't help but smile.
Kevin McCarthy 99% of his brain during the entire speech just said on look bored,
look bored, look bored, look bored, that's pretty good, look bored, look bored.
That's what it was all about but he had, it was a good line,
they do want to repeal the IRA they were again, in this case,
they weren't even jeering, how dare you say that?
No, they're enthusiastic about it and
while they seem to get that destroying Medicare and Social Security third rails,
they don't yet get what should be a third rail.
And we're gonna work to make it one trying to eliminate the already incredibly
limited and specific cap on insulin costs,
which only goes to those with Medicare they want to destroy that too.
They sat in that audience like making it clear that they want people to have to
spend hundreds or thousands of dollars more per month on insulin that is a wildly
unpopular position.
And so yes, good luck in your senior year Jayar what do you think?
>> It's 100%, so some of those lines and they mentioned before how Biden was
rolling through these things and got them actually to openly say also on
the Medicare and Social Security line, we don't believe in that stuff, he goes good.
So finally we have some agreement,
it's almost like every once in a while I was surprised by it too.
He's playing them a little bit here like he knows they're walking right into
these things.
I'm not sure how much this was in the script and the teleprompter or
how much he was ripping off of that.
But it was a constant reminder and they were the ones reminding people of this
over and over and over again who they really are.
It's all you have to do is let them react to things American people wildly support.
>> Yeah. >> And then watch them shake their heads
and boo and throw their thumbs down all that stuff and replay it,
then replay it and replay it then amplify it and replay it again.
Just imagine what they would do if the entire party, the democratic party was
openly say how much they hate the things America actually want and need to survive.
But as they bitch and complain about inflation and then they go,
yeah, I totally want to stop that.
What were you running on again?
Why is that red wave not really existent because they know voters are seeing
through this and I think you're getting to that.
>> Yeah, now 100%.
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