🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
@volkris If biden wants my support I need to see humility, apologies for his past mistakes and racism, some sense of him wanting to do better.
All Biden ever talks about is how great he is, and how much everyone who doesnt agree with him sucks (or isnt black in his own words, lol). Every time he talks he makes me want to vote for him less, not more.
volkris
The big problem with the #Biden State of the Union speech was that instead of speaking to the whole country about the whole country, it focused on speaking to his own choir about himself and his reelection.
That’s why people are criticizing it as a campaign speech.
If you’re a Biden supporter, realize that the speech did not invite non-supporters, including independents, to join in his efforts. It appealed only to those already on board, which is not productive in terms of actually getting those efforts done.
In other words, if you’re in favor of what Biden was calling for, you too should be critical that this #SOTU won’t help get those things done.
The speech seemed focused on helping nobody… except Joe Biden’s personal reelection.
volkris
@freemo Yeah, one thing I was struck by was the constant talk of himself and what he (supposedly) did, instead of what we did, or what the government did, etc. Humility would be nice, but at least he should realize that it wasn’t a moment to talk about himself.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
@volkris I think everyone is so sick of ego from Trump that it seems doubly socially naive because the last thing we want is Trump replaced with another ego driven person who makes it all about him.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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I strongly disagree with your stance. I've just watched it again.
This was one of the most inspiring presidential speeches I've ever heard.
#Biden has a clear focus of the things he wants to accomplish and the many things he has in fact accomplished, in contrast to many other nations, e.g. leading the most successful rebound of any big country, in contrast to #China and many #EU countries.
He has a completely hostile "#Republican"...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...Party, which is rife with political infighting, and at the complete beg and call of #TFG, represented by the #MAGA wing of the party.
I would not even be able to count how many times he's used the word "bipartisan" w/o using writing utensils and I remember particularly well that he emphasized that the strong state of the Union is do to "You!" I.e. the #American people.
It became very clear that he is a masterful orator and that #TFG is the "sleepy"...
volkris
@freemo well, I end up thinking that if Trump wasn’t that way then Republicans would be in a better position to call Biden out on it.
That’s the problem with this situation of having two incompetent frontrunners: they can’t hold each other in check, and both parties are worse off without that struggle making them better.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...guy suffering from bouts of #dementia, even confusing his wife and other people.
The #MAGA wing has taken over the formerly #GOP and I am quite confident that a re-elected #TFG would rename the party into #MAGA's predecessor, @AmericaFirst, paving the way for a remake of the Nazis in Madison Square Guarden.*
This is my take.
I strongly urge everyone intere7sted in #politics to listen to the professional commentary of the...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...#SOTU by #RachelMaddow and #JenPsaki:
The Rachel Maddow Show: MSNBC special prime time coverage of #President #Biden's State of the Union address.
via @getSonnet
https://i.sonnet.fm/Lngs6sj4NQdXPJB48
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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
@volkris agreed
Louis Ingenthron
@freemo @volkris Has there ever been a president elected without such an ego? I think it’s almost a prerequisite for the job. Nobody without such an ego would even think to run in the first place.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Yup, I mean, pretty much every single one other than these two had better egos than these two. At least of the ones I was alive to see. Not saying they were a paragon of humility. But these two are certainly the worst I can recall.
Louis Ingenthron
@freemo @volkris I mean, Trump, sure, especially because his ego is so unearned. But Biden doesn’t strike me as having that much more of an ego than Obama or W or Clinton. They’re all full of themselves.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
No doubt they all had egos, but yea I dont see any of them as being anywhere near bidens level of ego.. I mean the man had the nerve to say just like 2 years ago that anyone who doesnt agree with his policies doesnt even count as a black man if their black “If you dont vote for me you ain’t black”… thats a level of ego that I cant think of any candidate saying anything that comes close to that. Even Trump who would be the most ego focused candidate next to Biden, even in his case off hand I cant think of anything more ego-driven than that.
Louis Ingenthron
@freemo @volkris Didn’t he say something about being a better President for black people than Lincoln?
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Who? That is news to me.
Louis Ingenthron
@freemo @volkris I got it a bit wrong. He claimed he did more for black people than any President other than Lincoln, before immediately saying the good Lincoln did was “questionable”.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Well that at least puts him toe to toe with sleepy joe at least :)
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