All right Francesca real quick.
What do you think the state of the union and all the responses, etcetera?
>> Okay so three good things and three bad things about, I will pick out some good
things of this speech because I think it it meant more concrete.
Okay, one of them is not concrete.
One of them is I appreciated him saying let's stop using COVID to divide us.
Let's stop politicizing it.
That's really important to continue to say.
I thought that was good to concrete things, expanding what the VA
covers when it comes to respiratory illnesses, different cancers.
That is huge.
I'm thinking of Isiah James who's running for Congress in new york.
I'm thinking of his impassioned speeches advocating on this issue.
So that is a good thing.
I hope they do that.
And I hope the VA does cover those illnesses and expands Ben.
I mean there's no reason it is absurd and
insane that the VA wouldn't cover all of the expenses related to things like that.
And then the third thing would be the going after criminals who cashed in on
the relief money.
I'm thinking of Jared Kushner.
Like that's gonna happen.
I'm also thinking of white nationalists and white supremacists and
people who stormed the capitol.
Yeah there were many of them who received PPP Loans.
Just the most absurd thing.
So I hope they do that.
I hope they do get money back or I hope they however that happens or
prosecute if they if they are indeed criminals as he said.
But then there's a bad, okay, the three things that were obviously bad never
mentioned build back better, even though he detailed the plan specifically.
So it's like, what kind of political reality are we living in?
What the hell?
It's dead in Congress?
You know that?
And this gets to who the state of the union is for, is it for
Americans who are tuning in as a lot of media and pundits say, yeah, yeah,
iy's for Americans to see are.
And how do I like my president?
I don't know.
I heard he's bad, but instead biden kept it really small.
He didn't take the opportunity to talk to Americans.
He didn't want to offend his fellow,
basically the lawmakers he's supposed to lead but cannot somehow lead them, right?
So instead what he should have done is call out, call out those republicans,
call out, even in a sly remark, call out the democrats who didn't vote for
build back better, but you can even do less.
You can just say, hey, if this is for americans and
you like all the things I've just mentioned, Hey, tell your elected,
tell your representatives, call your senator, tell him that you need this
because I know you need this like that's all you gotta do.
Put a little bit of pressure, like a little bit of fire.
You don't even have to do it.
You're talking to the people, but he wasn't able to do that at all.
And then the thing that I think is related to that is this
framing around the war in Ukraine?
I think, yes, a lot of it was good, but I think a lot of it there is
a connection to be made between the authoritarianism, the fascism,
the fear mongering that his own right wing is cheerleading in the United States.
If there's a connection to be made to that and the fascism in this country.
And you gotta make that this is how we sleepwalk into a tucker Carlson presidency
and we sleepwalk into real fascism, joe biden is not up for this task.
And it is terrifying.
So that's what I got.
I mean, 60 million barrels of oil.
Yeah guys, yeah, I'm so
glad that wars over fossil fuels are being combated with just more fossil fuel.
Like it's just, we're in the year 1991.
It's just very, very old school.
So yeah, those are my feelings.
>> No, those are excellent points.
Every one of those points was excellent.
And so the specifics you mentioned,
that were positives, good catches.
And we had not mentioned those before.
Unfortunately for politicians,
something has to be deeply personal for them to take action.
Otherwise they're on cruise control donation result, donation result, right.
And so why is he taking a specific action that we really need on veterans that have
cancer because his son was a veteran that got
cancer in the specific way that he mentioned.
So he's combating it because it's personal for me now it's a good thing and
Francesca was right to give him credit for it.
But that's why he's doing it.
Like if he had a son that was making $7.25 at minimum wage he might fight for
$15, minimum wage other than fight against it.
And that's one of the problems with Congress.
They can't relate to middle class people,
let alone poor people because they're almost all so incredibly wealthy.
So they just they don't know our lives and they can't relate to us.
And I thought it was a tale of two speeches because the first half, not half,
but about a third where he talked about foreign policy in Ukraine,
he applauded the resolve of the Ukrainians in a way that was good and effective.
And then the other two thirds when he talked about domestic policy,
he showed no resolve himself.
I mean, how is that for perfectly ironic?
>> Absolutely.
And then the other thing I was just going to say is it
was also a really Eurocentric speech on war.
I understand we're talking about Europe here, but
it was very like we're going to defend our NATO territory and this should never and
I just wait for the moment when we have a leader who can talk about war in a way
that is universal and understanding that there's a war raging in Yemen right now.
That there are wars and all across this world,
that there are people in similar situations and
instead it wasn't a human appeal, it was this is our territory, Western Europe.
And he used the word West, which I think a lot of commentators have warned yo that's
Putin's framing, he wants you to say West like and
I know it can be shorthand but it might be better to say something like democracies,
whether or not we live up to the fact that we are a democracy but right?
Like talking about democracies versus autocracies, oligarchy is etcetera.
So that was like also just talk about the human toll buddy, that's it.
I don't need you to be tough on how we're gonna defend every inch of
NATO's territory because Putin is crazy right now.
I mean like he might test you on that.
>> Yeah, I still don't know what Pelosi was doing with the hands.
>> Let's go back to the hands.
>> Because they showed it in the video and I'm like what what is this?
I don't know what this is, this is not a thing,
I've literally never seen this before.
Okay, all right, sorry.
>> Sometimes front row boy band concert.
>> Yeah, maybe even then I haven't seen it.
>> Yeah, Francesca makes a great point.
Like the the absence of any acknowledgement that other wars going is
super depressing.
There's, I'm gonna have a serious conversation.
>> But no, no.
>> We need, someone needs to photoshop fire but just like.
>> Incoming in three, two, one, boom meme.
Yeah, here's another thing I remembered.
Normally we do clips from State of the Union and then we analyze the clips
afterwards just as Francesca was talking, I realized, no, no, we forgot.
But that's because looking back on it,
there's not a single thing I would have walked out.
>> There's a little bit, I mean we could have this out.
I'm being honest, that's it.
>> That's one,
two Bowbert trying to interrupt when he's talking about dead soldiers.
She tries to have her moment.
There was a previous attempt by Marjorie Greene.
It wasn't as good.
>> Capitalism without competition, is exploitation.
>> Yeah, that was good credit on the play by play on that.
That's right. That's a good line.
>> It's a good line for a capitalist to make.
I don't think that line goes nearly far enough.
I think the exploitation is like the secret sauce of all capitalism regarding.
>> We won't get the clicks, you guys.
It's not going to get clicks.
>> [LAUGH] But there were a couple of good lines, but I don't know.
Someone's going to put together an awesome mashup of the flubs and the misstatements.
I mean granted he did say Iran that said, I started off a clip on the damage report,
the state talking about the ongoing situation in Iraq when I met Ukraine.
So it happens, it happens.
>> He did say Uranian, which I was like, that's a new one.
You're Uranians of Uranus.
>> But yeah, but also at least we didn't have to worry about him randomly
threatening nuclear war or something.
There weren't as many, there wasn't the like foreboding sense of horror of
the state of the unions that came before his presidency, that's something.
>> And he's like >> Can I just say one?
>> No, go ahead.
>> I'm just gonna Mitch McConnell into oblivion.
>> By the way, really fast Mary Animol points out he has a speech about him,
we totally understand that and I am not referencing him stuttering,
I understand that he stutters.
That is a thing I think that criticizing that makes no sense.
I'm talking about more, I think more fundamental issues with the delivery of
the speech that undercut the little substance that was actually there.
It's a good thing for you to acknowledge and I appreciate it.
>> Like for example when he was like we applaud the incredible
strength bravery and resolve of the Kardashian people,
Nancy Pelosi was like, I like that show.
>> One final thing, I just have to one final bad bucket and like it's just so
it's like one of the most painful things I think of this entire
administration, the defund the police stuff, the like the KG,
the very but yet very clear reference to defund the police.
And basically throwing the entire 2020 uprising massive
that did verifiably contribute to his win, his unprecedented win.
The energy, no one had energy going into that that election.
Except when it came to that uprising, that gave him energy, it truly did.
And throwing that entire movement under the bus by making it about one of
the many slogans come on, don't reduce this movement to that slogan and
and excuse the fact that you're not doing F all on this.
You're not even gonna talk about qualified immunity.
And yet you say, we gotta hold police accountable.
So I am so sick and and thank God that Rasheeda to leave representative to leave
said things like you can't police homelessness away and we can't,
we need care not criminalization.
Those are the words that I'm like clinging to because I am disgusted with how
democrats have taken probably the most like it's just the easiest political win,
is that it is wildly wildly popular with young people, people of color,
mind you the fastest growing voting blocks in this country.
Of course not of republicans can help it throw it under the bus and
he was no different tonight.
And it's just such a crying shame.